librosa VS audioread

Compare librosa vs audioread and see what are their differences.

librosa

Python library for audio and music analysis (by librosa)

audioread

cross-library (GStreamer + Core Audio + MAD + FFmpeg) audio decoding for Python (by beetbox)
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librosa audioread
14 -
6,659 479
1.9% 1.5%
7.2 4.7
13 days ago about 2 months ago
Python Python
ISC License MIT License
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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.

audioread

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

mutagen - Python module for handling audio metadata

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

django-elastic-transcoder - Django + AWS Elastic Transcoder

kapre - kapre: Keras Audio Preprocessors

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).

beets - music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger

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

aubio - a library for audio and music analysis