librosa VS essentia

Compare librosa vs essentia and see what are their differences.

librosa

Python library for audio and music analysis (by librosa)

essentia

C++ library for audio and music analysis, description and synthesis, including Python bindings (by MTG)
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librosa essentia
14 2
6,681 2,685
2.2% 2.2%
7.2 9.0
17 days ago 15 days ago
Python C++
ISC License GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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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.

essentia

Posts with mentions or reviews of essentia. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-31.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

mutagen - Python module for handling audio metadata

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

kapre - kapre: Keras Audio Preprocessors

matchering - 🎚️ Open Source Audio Matching and Mastering

beets - music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger

audioFlux - A library for audio and music analysis, feature extraction.

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

eyeD3

aubio - a library for audio and music analysis