audio2numpy

Description
audio2numpy load an audio file and directly ouputs the audio data as a numpy array and its sampling rate. Supports .wav, .aiff via python's standard library, and .mp3 via ffmpeg.
Installation
Using pip:
pip install audio2numpy
FFmpeg for decoding mp3
audio2numpy requires ffmpeg to decode mp3 files. You would need to install ffmpeg in order to have mp3 support.
macOS
homebrew install ffmpeg
Linux
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
Check here for other installation methods for different Linux distributions.
Windows
Usage
from audio2numpy import open_audio
fp = "./examples/word.mp3" # change to the correct path to your file accordingly
signal, sampling_rate = open_audio(fp)
Version History
0.1.2 (20.08.2019)
Add instructions to install ffmpeg if load mp3 failed with ffmpeg backend not available.
0.1.1 (14.08.2019)
Initial release.