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librosa

librosa is a python package for music and audio analysis. It provides the building blocks necessary to create music information retrieval systems.

For a quick introduction to using librosa, please refer to the Tutorial. For a more advanced introduction which describes the package design principles, please refer to the librosa paper at SciPy 2015.

Citing librosa

If you want to cite librosa in a scholarly work, there are two ways to do it.

  • If you are using the library for your work, for the sake of reproducibility, please cite the version you used by retrieving the appropriate DOI and citation information from Zenodo:

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  • If you wish to cite librosa for its design, motivation etc., please cite the paper published at SciPy 2015. [1]