musif

Python library for Music Feature Extraction and Analysis, developed by the Didone Project.

Documentation

To read the documentation, please see the website at: https://musif.didone.eu Includes definitions for musif's functions and classes, definitions for all types of features that musif extracts, as well as example code for using musif.

You will find also two tutorials:

• A basic Tutorial, to just start using musif and extracting some features and even running some ML experiments with them.
• An Advanced Tutorial, to extract features of different corpora and create your own hooks and features.

Installation

To install the latest version of musif, just run: pip install musif which will download musif and all its necessary dependencies.

(Good practice is to update your package manager: python3 -m pip install –-upgrade pip)

music21 and jSymbolic features

Currently, musif is able to process and integrate basic music21 features.

For jSymbolic features, musif currently does not support the integration of these features, but a tutorial will be provided to manually merge them into musif's dataframe.

jSymbolic installation

Java JRE >= 8 must be installed in your OS. Download jSymbolic from https://sourceforge.net/projects/jmir/files/jSymbolic/

Important: right now music21 features are NOT guaranteed to be compatible with musif's cache system. Native musif's features work with cache system just fine.

Example

Check and run run_extraction_example.py to see a initial script for extracting xml files by using musif.

Testing and features extraction

Apart from the documentation of musif, where Tutorials and example code can be found, please feel free to clone and check this repository, where musif is used to extract features from different corpuses https://github.com/DIDONEproject/music_symbolic_features

References

1. A. Llorens, F. Simonetta, M. Serrano, and Á. Torrente, “musif: a Python package for symbolic music feature extraction,” in Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 2023.
2. F. Simonetta, A. Llorens, M. Serrano, E. García-Portugués, and Á. Torrente, “Optimizing Feature Extraction for Symbolic Music,” in Proceedings of the 24th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Milan, Nov. 2023.

Changelog

v1.2.4

• Fix on lyrics module. Implemeted error output file for error registration.

v1.2.3

• Minifix on lyrics module

v1.2.2

• Fix incompatible dependencies on ms3 and webcolors

v1.2.1

• Added some extra documentation
• Added run_extraction.py, example script for extrating features using musif
• Added erros variable on FeaturesExtractor to store files that were not procesed correctly in error_files.csv file
• fix some dependencies problems
• bug fixing on rhythm features

v1.2

• Remove musif's native support on jSymbolic features. Add notebook to extract them independently
• Improve documentation
• fix bug on previous release

v1.1.5

• fix minor bug that caused very unnecesary large memory usage

v1.1.4

• include MUSIF_ID
• bug fix in dynamic features
• include Key Signature feature
• minor bug fixes in the post-processor
• handling of errors for speciic configurations

v1.1.1 - v1.1.3

• fixed major bug with music21 automatic onversion to MIDI for jSymbolic features
• added exception handling for jSymbolic
• fixed repeats for MIDI conversion for jSymbolic
• fixed initial anacrusis

v1.1.0

• bug fixing
• improved musif parsing abilities for non-well formatted files
• added option ignore_errors for ignoring errors while parsing large datasets
• better file naming for cache
• automatically removing unpitched objects (e.g. percussion symbols)
• added max_nan_rows and max_nan_columns for better NaN handling
• MUSICXML_EXTENSION became MUSIC21_EXTENSION
• multiple windows and step size for the motion features
• added new module for music21's features
• added new module for jSymbolic's features
• CLI tool with sane defaults; CLI is able to handle all MusicXML extensions

v1.0.1

• interval became melody
• some features from rhythm were moved into melody
• improvements to the docs

v1.0.0

First Release