ByteDance Solo Piano Audio To MIDI Transcription

ByteDance Solo Piano Audio To MIDI Transcription

Transcribes a solo piano recording into a MIDI file with ByteDance's piano transcription code. A Gradio app for pianists, arrangers and developers, running in the browser on Hugging Face.

Made by asigalov61 on Hugging Face. These notes are Mindket's, written from its Space page and README; the app's own files and license are on Hugging Face.

About

What it is: This is a Gradio app that turns a solo piano recording into MIDI, the note-by-note format that music software reads. It is built on ByteDance's piano transcription approach, with the code files in its repository. It runs on zero-a10g hardware at Hugging Face, so you can try it in a browser.

Who it suits: Pianists and arrangers who want a note file from a recording, and developers or researchers who want a working transcription demo to read.

Industry | Who uses it | How they use it | Example
Music | Pianists | Turn a practice recording into a MIDI file | Capture an improvised passage as notes
Music production | Arrangers | Start an arrangement from a played piano part | Open the MIDI file in a notation or music program
Education | Music teachers | Compare a student's playing with a note file | Check which notes were played
Research | Audio researchers | Try piano transcription on their own clips | Inspect the MIDI for a short recording

Skip it if your audio has more than a solo piano, since the app is made for solo piano.

Where to use it:

• A web browser, on the Space's page at Hugging Face
• Windows, macOS or Linux with Python, as a local copy
• The listing carries an MCP tag, but the page does not say how to use it that way

Use case | Who | What they get back
Transcribe a piano recording | Pianists and arrangers | A MIDI file of the notes
Try the model on a sample | Newcomers | A result from the bundled example recording
Study the code | Developers | Python files for the model, inference and MIDI handling

How to set it up:

• Nothing at all if you only use the online Space
• Python and pip, for a local copy
• The Python packages listed in requirements.txt
• The system packages listed in packages.txt, which Hugging Face installs with apt-get

1. Open the Space's page at Hugging Face to use it online.
2. For a local copy, install the Hugging Face hub package and download the Space.
3. Move into the new folder and install Gradio at the pinned version.
4. Install the packages from requirements.txt.
5. Start the app with Python.

pip install -U huggingface_hub
hf download asigalov61/ByteDance-Solo-Piano-Audio-to-MIDI-Transcription --repo-type space --local-dir ByteDance-Solo-Piano-Audio-to-MIDI-Transcription
cd ByteDance-Solo-Piano-Audio-to-MIDI-Transcription
pip install gradio==6.13.0
pip install -r requirements.txt
python app.py

The repository holds 16 files, including a sample recording, a sound font and several Python modules. The page does not say what a local run needs beyond the packages.

How to use it: Online, open the Space and give it a solo piano recording through the form on its page. On your own machine, run the app file and open the page Gradio serves in your browser. The page lists no other commands.

Tool | What it does
python app.py | Starts the Gradio app on your computer

Example: You upload a short solo piano recording of your own. The app transcribes it and gives you a MIDI file, which you can open in a music program to see the notes that were detected.

For newcomers and experts: If you are new, try the bundled sample recording first. It shows what a clean solo piano input looks like before you use your own file.

If you know the field, the repository holds a voice activity module for piano, inference code, a MIDI helper called TMIDIX and a sound font with a script that turns MIDI into audio. The page does not explain how these parts fit together.

Open the Space in a browser
Add a solo piano recording
The transcription model finds the notes
A MIDI file is produced

Good to know:

• License: apache-2
• Cost to run: none named, though the Space runs on zero-a10g hardware at Hugging Face
• Data it reaches: the audio you upload, and the model files it uses
• Not for: recordings with other instruments, since it is made for solo piano

On Hugging Face, 13 November 2026

• Likes: 79
• Built with: gradio
• License: apache-2.0

Links

• Space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/asigalov61/ByteDance-Solo-Piano-Audio-to-MIDI-Transcription
• Files: https://huggingface.co/spaces/asigalov61/ByteDance-Solo-Piano-Audio-to-MIDI-Transcription/tree/main

Try it

Open the Space in your browser, or copy it to your own Hugging Face account from its page. Nothing in this kit runs by itself.