audioread VS librosa

Compare audioread vs librosa and see what are their differences.

audioread

cross-library (GStreamer + Core Audio + MAD + FFmpeg) audio decoding for Python (by beetbox)

librosa

Python library for audio and music analysis (by librosa)
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audioread librosa
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479 6,681
1.5% 2.2%
4.7 7.2
about 2 months ago 18 days ago
Python Python
MIT License ISC License
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audioread

Posts with mentions or reviews of audioread. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

librosa

Posts with mentions or reviews of librosa. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-02.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing audioread and librosa you can also consider the following projects:

pydub - Manipulate audio with a simple and easy high level interface

pyAudioAnalysis - Python Audio Analysis Library: Feature Extraction, Classification, Segmentation and Applications

mutagen - Python module for handling audio metadata

django-elastic-transcoder - Django + AWS Elastic Transcoder

essentia - C++ library for audio and music analysis, description and synthesis, including Python bindings

praatIO - A python library for working with praat, textgrids, time aligned audio transcripts, and audio files. It is primarily used for extracting features from and making manipulations on audio files given hierarchical time-aligned transcriptions (utterance > word > syllable > phone, etc).

kapre - kapre: Keras Audio Preprocessors

aeneas - aeneas is a Python/C library and a set of tools to automagically synchronize audio and text (aka forced alignment)

beets - music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger

aubio - a library for audio and music analysis