---
license: other
tags:
- karaoke
- audio
- captions
- music
- songs
pipeline_tag: audio-to-audio
---

# Karaoke Songs Long

A dataset of **long-form karaoke instrumental tracks** with auto-generated captions describing the musical characteristics of each song. This repository contains audio-to-text caption pairs for long-duration karaoke versions of popular songs.

## What it is

This dataset provides instrumental karaoke tracks (long versions — extended or full-length) paired with descriptive captions. Each caption details the genre, tempo (BPM), instrumentation, mood, and potential use cases of the audio.

## Dataset Contents

The `captions.csv` file contains the following fields:

| Field | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| `original_filename` | Original audio filename (artist - song title - karaoke version) |
| `cleaned_filename` | Cleaned/standardized filename |
| `caption` | Auto-generated textual description of the audio track |

### Included Artists (sampling)

- 50 Cent — "In Da Club" (Karaoke)
- 5 Seconds of Summer — "Amnesia", "Beside You", "Don't Stop", "Good Girls", "Heartbreak Girl", "She's Kinda Hot", "Youngblood"
- A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera — "Say Something"
- Adele — "Chasing Pavements", "Don't You Remember", "Easy On Me"
- *(and many more)*

### Caption Features

Each caption includes information about:
- **Genre**: e.g., pop rock, hip hop, indie rock, folk, electronic, soul/R&B
- **Tempo**: BPM range (e.g., 72 BPM, 84 BPM, 120 BPM, 160 BPM)
- **Time Signature**: typically 4/4
- **Instrumentation**: guitars, bass, drums, synths, piano, etc.
- **Mood/Atmosphere**: energetic, reflective, calming, introspective, uplifting
- **Use Cases**: background music, workout, documentaries, soundtracks, commercials

## Usage

This dataset is suitable for:
- **Audio captioning** and music description models
- **Text-to-audio** generation training
- **Music information retrieval** (MIR) research
- **Karaoke applications** and instrument separation
- **Audio retrieval** from natural language queries

## License

Please check the individual song copyrights and terms. This repository contains descriptive captions only; actual audio files (if present) are instrumental karaoke tracks and may be subject to additional licensing.

## Citation

```bibtex
@misc{edwixx-karaoke_songs_long,
  author = {Anurag Kanade},
  title = {karaoke_songs_long},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  journal = {Hugging Face Hub},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/edwixx/karaoke_songs_long}}
}
```