Installation

Please do not try to install from the .zip files provided by GitHub. Rather install either install from package (if you just want to use it) or from source (if you plan to use it for development). Whichever variant you choose, please make sure that all prerequisites are installed.

Prerequisites

To install the madmom package, you must have either Python 2.7 or Python 3.3 or newer and the following packages installed:

If you need support for audio files other than .wav with a sample rate of 44.1kHz and 16 bit depth, you need ffmpeg (avconv on Ubuntu Linux has some decoding bugs, so we advise not to use it!).

Please refer to the requirements.txt file for the minimum required versions and make sure that these modules are up to date, otherwise it can result in unexpected errors or false computations!

Install from package

The instructions given here should be used if you just want to install the package, e.g. to run the bundled programs or use some functionality for your own project. If you intend to change anything within the madmom package, please follow the steps in the next section.

The easiest way to install the package is via pip from the PyPI (Python Package Index):

pip install madmom

This includes the latest code and trained models and will install all dependencies automatically.

You might need higher privileges (use su or sudo) to install the package, model files and scripts globally. Alternatively you can install the package locally (i.e. only for you) by adding the --user argument:

pip install --user madmom

This will also install the executable programs to a common place (e.g. /usr/local/bin), which should be in your $PATH already. If you installed the package locally, the programs will be copied to a folder which might not be included in your $PATH (e.g. ~/Library/Python/2.7/bin on Mac OS X or ~/.local/bin on Ubuntu Linux, pip will tell you). Thus the programs need to be called explicitely or you can add their install path to your $PATH environment variable:

export PATH='path/to/scripts':$PATH

Install from source

If you plan to use the package as a developer, clone the Git repository:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/CPJKU/madmom.git

Since the pre-trained model/data files are not included in this repository but rather added as a Git submodule, you either have to clone the repo recursively. This is equivalent to these steps:

git clone  https://github.com/CPJKU/madmom.git
cd madmom
git submodule update --init --remote

Then you can simply install the package in development mode:

python setup.py develop --user

To run the included tests:

python setup.py test

Upgrade of existing installations

To upgrade the package, please use the same mechanism (pip vs. source) as you did for installation. If you want to change from package to source, please uninstall the package first.

Upgrade a package

Simply upgrade the package via pip:

pip install --upgrade madmom [--user]

If some of the provided programs or models changed (please refer to the CHANGELOG) you should first uninstall the package and then reinstall:

pip uninstall madmom
pip install madmom [--user]

Upgrade from source

Simply pull the latest sources:

git pull

To update the models contained in the submodule:

git submodule update

If any of the .pyx or .pxd files changed, you have to recompile the modules with Cython:

python setup.py build_ext --inplace