The aim of this repository is to create a comprehensive, curated list of python software/tools related and used for scientific research in audio/music applications.

• Awesome Criteria
• Related lists
• Audio Related Packages
  • Read/Write
  • Transformations - General DSP
  • Feature extraction
  • Speech Processing
  • Perceptial Models - Auditory Models
  • Source Separation
  • Music Information Retrieval
  • Symbolic Music - MIDI - Musicology
  • Realtime applications
  • Web - Audio
  • Packages to access audio APIs - parsing audio datasets
  • Wrappers for Audio Plugins
  • Bindings or Wrappers for other languages
• Tutorials - Books
• Contributing
  • License

• the software is audio/music related
• the software is released under an open source license that allow contributions
• the software is useful for several (not just one) fields of research
• (optional) the software is listed on pypi (add a 📦 link to pypi)
• (optional) the software is version controlled on an open platform like
• (optional) the software runs on python 2 and python 3 (See ² python 2 only, ³ for python 3 only)

There is already PythonInMusic but it is not up to date and includes too many packages of special interest that are mostly not relevant for scientific applications. Awesome-Python is large curated list of python packages. However, the audio section is very small.

• Total number of packages: 61
• Python version compatibility:

• audiolazy 📦 - Expressive Digital Signal Processing (DSP) package for Python
• audioread 📦 - Cross-library (GStreamer + Core Audio + MAD + FFmpeg) audio decoding
• pyAV - PyAV is a Pythonic binding for FFmpeg or Libav
• (Py)Soundfile 📦 - Library based on libsndfile, CFFI, and NumPy
• pySox 📦 - Wrapper around sox
• tinytag 📦 - reading music meta data of MP3, OGG, FLAC and Wave files

• acoustics 📦 - useful tools for acousticians.
• AudioTK - DSP filter toolbox (lots of filters)
• Gammatone - Gammatone filterbank implementation
• pyFFTW 📦 - Wrapper around FFTW(3)
• NSGT² 📦 - Non-stationary gabor transform, constant-q
• MDCT 📦 - MDCT transform
• pydub 📦 - Manipulate audio with a simple and easy high level interface
• pytftb - Implementation of the MATLAB Time-Frequency Toolbox
• PyRubberband 📦 - Wrapper for rubberband to do pitch-shifting and time-stretching
• PyWavelets² 📦 - Discrete Wavelet Transform in Python
• Resampy 📦 - Sample rate conversion
• STFT 📦 - Standalone package for Short-Time Fourier Transform

• aubio 📦 - Feature extractor, written in C, python interface
• audiolazy 📦 - Realtime Audio Processing lib, general purpose
• essentia² - Music related low level and high level feature extractor, C++ based, includes Python bindings.
• muda 📦 - Musical Data Augmentation.
• python_speech_features 📦 - Common speech features for ASR
• pyYAAFE - Python bindings for YAAFE

• aeneas 📦 - Forced aligner, based on MFCC+DTW, 35+ languages
• pyAudioAnalysis² 📦 - Feature Extraction, Classification, Diarization
• py-webrtcvad 📦 - Interface to the WebRTC Voice Activity Detector
• Montreal Forced Aligner - Forced aligner, based on Kaldi (HMM), English (others can be trained).
• SIDEKIT³ 📦 - Speaker and Language recognition
• SpeechRecognition 📦 - Wrapper for several ASR engines and APIs, online and offline

• cochlea² 📦 - Inner ear models
• Brian2 📦 - Spiking neural networks simulator, includes cochlea model.
• Loudness² - Perceived loudness, includes Zwicker, Moore/Glasberg model
• Sound Field Synthesis Toolbox 📦 - Sound Field Synthesis Toolbox

• beta_ntf² - Non-Negative Tensor factorisation using PARAFAC.
• commonfate 📦 - Common Fate Model and Transform.
• NUSSL² 📦 - Various source separation algorithms + framework.
• NTFLib - Sparse Beta-Divergence Tensor Factorization.
• NIMFA 📦 - Several NMF flavors.
• pyFASST² 📦 - Wrapper for Flexible Audio Source Separation Toolbox.

• Catchy - Corpus Analysis Tools for Computational Hook Discovery
• dejavu² 📦 - Audio fingerprinting and recognition
• Madmom 📦 - MIR packages with strong focus on beat detection, onset detection and chord recognition
• mir_eval 📦 - Common scores for various MIR tasks. Also includes bss_eval implementation
• librosa 📦 - General audio and music analysis.
• rp_extract² - Rhythm Pattern music feature extractor

• Music21 📦 - Toolkit for Computer-Aided Musicology.
• Mido 📦 - Realtime MIDI wrapper.
• mingus² 📦 - Advanced music theory and notation package with MIDI file and playback support.
• Pretty-MIDI 📦 - Utility functions for handling MIDI data in a nice/intuitive way.

• PYO - Realtime audio engine similar supercollider
• python-sounddevice - another PortAudio wrapper
• (Py)Soundcard - PortAudio based realtime audio processing

• TimeSide² - Open web audio processing framework.

• beets - Music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
• dsdtools - Parse and process the demixing secrets dataset
• medleydb - Parse medleydb audio + annotations
• Soundcloud API - Wrapper around the Soundcloud API
• Youtube-Downloader - Download youtube videos (and the audio)

• VamPy Host - Interface compiled vamp plugins

• CFFI - Easily interface c libraries
• Matlab_Wrapper - Runs code in matlab and returns results to python
• pybind11 - Interface c++ code
• rpy2 - Call R from python

• Introduction to Numpy and Scipy - Highly recommended 👍
• Python Data Science Handbook - Excellent Book, look for the Tutorial notebooks
• MIR Notebooks
• From Python to Numpy
• https://github.com/spatialaudio/selected-topics-in-audio-signal-processing-exercises
• https://github.com/unpingco/Python-for-Signal-Processing
• http://dsp-nbsphinx.readthedocs.io/en/nbsphinx-experiment/index.html

Your contributions are always welcome! Please take a look at the contribution guidelines first.

I will keep some pull requests open if I'm not sure whether those libraries are awesome, you could vote for them by adding 👍 to them.