audioread vs tinytag

audioread

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

tinytag

Python library for reading audio file metadata, duration of MP3, OGG, OPUS, MP4, M4A, FLAC, WMA, Wave, AIFF and a few more (by devsnd)

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audioread		tinytag
	Project
-	Mentions	2
479	Stars	665
1.5%	Growth	-
4.7	Activity	9.1
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
Python	Language	Python
MIT License	License	MIT License

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audioread

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tinytag

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I wrote a program that organizes your music library by renaming your music files based on the ID3 tag (metadata).
3 projects | /r/Python | 25 Jan 2023

They're using tinytag, which apparently is a remarkably small library.
I am trying to embed album_artist and album into metadata - Help needed
3 projects | /r/youtubedl | 1 Jul 2022

I execute a python script using the --exec method after the yt-dlp command to remove things like "Official Video" , featuring artists and other nuances using Music Metadata Filter. Do you think, turning Album Performer to blank if Album is blank is possible using a yt-dlp command argument or I am better off just doing it using a module like mutagen or tinytag inside the script?

What are some alternatives?

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

librosa - Python library for audio and music analysis

mutagen - Python module for handling audio metadata

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

eyeD3

beets - music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger

django-elastic-transcoder - Django + AWS Elastic Transcoder

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).

Prosodylab-Aligner - Python interface for forced audio alignment using HTK and SoX

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