librosa: Audio and Music Signal Analysis in Python

This document describes version 0.4.0 of librosa: a Python pack- age for audio and music signal processing. At a high level, librosa provides implementations of a variety of common functions used throughout the field of music information retrieval. In this document, a brief overview of the library's functionality is provided, along with explanations of the design goals, software development practices, and notational conventions.

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  2015

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  SciPy

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  Computer Science

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  DOI 10.25080/MAJORA-7B98E3ED-003
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