The OpenMIC-2018 dataset is brought to you by a collaboration between Spotify and MARL@NYU. Additionally, the cost of annotation was sponsored by Spotify, whose contributions to open-source research can be found online at the developer site, engineering blog, and public GitHub.
If you use this dataset, please cite the following work:
Humphrey, Eric J., Durand, Simon, and McFee, Brian. "OpenMIC-2018: An Open Dataset for Multiple Instrument Recognition." in Proceedings of the 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR), 2018.
The dataset is made available by Spotify AB. under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. The full terms of this license are included alongside this dataset.