Dear pitch estimation (melody, bass) people. In these uncertain times, evaluate your uncertain algorithms properly: generalized metrics now in the *master* of #mir_eval: mir_eval.melody.evaluate(ref_time, ref_freq, est_time, est_freq, est_voicing) x.com/ismir2019/stat… Rachel Bittner

Hi all. I made a twitter bot! Follow Infinite oblique strategies for a steady feed of machine-generated "oblique strategies" to help you through your creative impasses. 1/7

Announcing: the WiMIR 3rd Annual Workshop! wimir.wordpress.com/2020/07/21/wim… @ismir2020 will be virtual, so the WiMIR Workshop will be too. To take advantage of the format, the workshop will take place over multiple weekends prior to ISMIR.

I'll be presenting in #WiMIR2020! I will give an overview of the usage of music information retrieval and more generally artificial intelligence for assisting composers and producers when making music, from both a research and an industry perspective #ISMIR2020 Spotify Research

7/ Saturday September 19: Juanjo Bosch (@spotify) will present "AI-Assisted Music Creation" Juanjo Bosch SpotifyResearch wimir.wordpress.com/2020/08/13/wim… #WiMIR2020 #WomenInMIR #WiMIRWorkshop @ismir2020 #ismir2020

Interested in AI-assisted music creation? You still have 2 days to apply! (7th Jan). linkedin.com/jobs/view/2331…

We're happy to announce the release of mirdata v.0.3.0! mirdata is an open-source Python library that provides tools for working with MIR datasets. The release includes a total of 26 dataset loaders + new documentation with tutorials and examples! mirdata.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sour…

IRMAS (Instrument recognition), Orchset (melody extraction in symphonic music), and other MTG-UPF datasets are now available in #mirdata! Thanks to all the maintainers and contributors!

Lightweight note transcription (and more), led by Rachel Bittner with Spotify Research and Spotify Engineering! Check the blog post, or just try it out in your browser: basicpitch.io Or maybe have a look at our ICASSP 2022 paper! arxiv.org/abs/2203.09893

Hey, web #engineers! Want to check out a neural network lightweight enough to run inside a browser? We open sourced the #TypeScript version of our audio-to-MIDI converter BasicPitch.io — 🎶github.com/spotify/basic-…

ATTN NERDS 🚨 VERY excited to collaborate with Spotify Engineering to introduce Basic Pitch, an online audio to MIDI converter with polyphonic & pitch bend detection that is open source (!!!) on GitHub for all you Python users. I used it to make my new track 'Virgo' - full vid on YT!

Huge shout out to the dozen+ people who were involved in this effort - including (but not limited to) Rachel Bittner Jan Van Balen Juanjo Bosch Lynn Root Shireen John Lagomarsino JP Lipata chingsung. @edvanbeinum blog.anchor.fm/updates/audio-…

Hey musician nerds, the audio-to-midi capabilities of BasicPitch.io are now available as a free VST/AU plugin for your favorite DAW!🎵 Huge thanks to Damien Ronssin + Tibor Vass for their awesome work.💚 github.com/DamRsn/NeuralN… #opensource #audiotomidi #midi #AI #ML

I'm proud to share that our team's work at Spotify Research on audio-lyric alignment by Simon Durand, Daniel Stoller, and Sebastian Ewert was awarded the best industry paper award at #ICASSP2023 . More details in 🧵

Recent paper from our lab. Congrats Josh Gardner , Simon, Daniel and Rachel Bittner for this cool work! Spotify Research

Call for research interns Spotify in London is now open! Apply by Mar. 15th, 9AM ET to join the audio intelligence team this summer! For more information and to apply: lifeatspotify.com/jobs/2024-summ…

Excited to be part of this: – Fair compensation, new revenue models – Collaboration, choice, artist–fan connection – Cool research And yes, we’re hiring! newsroom.spotify.com/2025-10-16/art…