AudioReader

A Julia package for reading and preprocessing audio files with support for both lossless and lossy audio formats.

Provides a unified interface for loading various audio file formats into Julia, handling format detection, sample rate conversion, and channel management automatically.

This package builds upon several key Julia packages:

• FileIO.jl: Provides the file format detection and unified I/O interface

  • Gunther, S., et al. (2016). FileIO.jl. github.com/JuliaIO/FileIO.jl

• libsndfile_jll.jl: Julia bindings for libsndfile C library (lossless audio formats)

  • Erikd, E. (2021). libsndfile. libsndfile.github.io/libsndfile/
  • JLL wrapper: github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/libsndfile_jll.jl

• mpg123_jll.jl: Julia bindings for mpg123 C library (MP3 and other lossy formats)

  • Taschner, M., et al. mpg123. www.mpg123.de/
  • JLL wrapper: github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/mpg123_jll.jl

• DSP.jl: Digital signal processing for resampling operations

  • JuliaDSP contributors. DSP.jl. github.com/JuliaDSP/DSP.jl

Features

• Multi-format Support: Reads both lossless (WAV, FLAC) and lossy (MP3) audio formats
• Automatic Format Detection: Intelligently detects file format from extension and content
• Sample Rate Handling: Built-in resampling capabilities using DSP.jl
• Channel Management: Handles mono, stereo, and multi-channel audio files

Installation

using Pkg
Pkg.add("https://github.com/PasoStudio73/AudioReader.jl")

Quick Start

using Audioreader

# Load wav audiofile
audio = load("example.wav")

# Load wav file and convert it to mono
audio = load("example.wav"; mono=true)

# and normalize it
audio = load("example.wav"; mono=true, norm=true)

# Load an mp3 file and resample it to 8000kHz
audio = load("example.mp3"; sr=8000)