Yaafe is an audio features extraction toolbox.
If you wonder about the Yaafe acronym, it’s just Yet Another Audio Feature Extractor.
Current version is Yaafe 0.64, released on 2011-11-07.
Yaafe may evolve in future versions, but current code is pretty stable and feature computation is already reliable. Yaafe is already used in some Music Information Retrieval systems.
Yaafe provides:
Yaafe‘s source code is released under the terms of the GNU LGPLv3 License. Yaafe source code compiles on Linux and MacOsX platforms.
Download current release: yaafe-v0.64.tgz, see changelog.
View all releases: Sourceforge project’s website
To get help with Yaafe, please use yaafe-users@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list. As project is still in progress, any feedback is welcome !
If you want to cite Yaafe in a publication, please use the following reference:
YAAFE, an Easy to Use and Efficient Audio Feature Extraction Software, B.Mathieu, S.Essid, T.Fillon, J.Prado, G.Richard, proceedings of the 11th ISMIR conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2010.
Yaafe is developed at Telecom Paristech / AAO Team. It uses several great open-source projects like Eigen, Smarc, libsndfile, mpg123, HDF5.