IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing Why it is interesting:
The phrase commonly refers to compressed archive files containing song libraries or software for Band-in-a-Box (BIAB) , an intelligent automatic accompaniment tool . While "rar" files themselves are just containers, they are frequently used by the BIAB community to share large MIDI and "RealTrack" datasets for music production. Download biab (1) rar
The researchers used Band-in-a-Box automation scripts (often archived in formats like .rar) to generate the Groove2Groove MIDI Dataset . They transformed simple ABC music files into high-quality BIAB styles to create a massive amount of "synthetic" musical training data. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio