Example usage

Storing annotations

This section demonstrates a complete use-case of JAMS for storing estimated annotations. The example uses librosa to estimate global tempo and beat timings.

example_beat.py

The following script loads the librosa example audio clip, estimates the track duration, tempo, and beat timings, and constructs a JAMS object to store the estimations.

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#!/usr/bin/env python

import librosa
import jams


def beat_track(infile, outfile):

    # Load the audio file
    y, sr = librosa.load(infile)

    # Compute the track duration
    track_duration = librosa.get_duration(y=y, sr=sr)

    # Extract tempo and beat estimates
    tempo, beat_frames = librosa.beat.beat_track(y=y, sr=sr)

    # Convert beat frames to time
    beat_times = librosa.frames_to_time(beat_frames, sr=sr)

    # Construct a new JAMS object and annotation records
    jam = jams.JAMS()

    # Store the track duration
    jam.file_metadata.duration = track_duration

    beat_a = jams.Annotation(namespace='beat')
    beat_a.annotation_metadata = jams.AnnotationMetadata(data_source='librosa beat tracker')

    # Add beat timings to the annotation record.
    # The beat namespace does not require value or confidence fields,
    # so we can leave those blank.
    for t in beat_times:
        beat_a.append(time=t, duration=0.0)

    # Store the new annotation in the jam
    jam.annotations.append(beat_a)

    # Add tempo estimation to the annotation.
    tempo_a = jams.Annotation(namespace='tempo', time=0, duration=track_duration)
    tempo_a.annotation_metadata = jams.AnnotationMetadata(data_source='librosa tempo estimator')

    # The tempo estimate is global, so it should start at time=0 and cover the full
    # track duration.
    # If we had a likelihood score on the estimation, it could be stored in
    # `confidence`.  Since we have no competing estimates, we'll set it to 1.0.
    tempo_a.append(time=0.0,
                   duration=track_duration,
                   value=tempo,
                   confidence=1.0)

    # Store the new annotation in the jam
    jam.annotations.append(tempo_a)

    # Save to disk
    jam.save(outfile)


if __name__ == '__main__':

    infile = librosa.util.example_audio_file()
    beat_track(infile, 'output.jams')

example_beat_output.jams

The above script generates the following JAMS object.

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Evaluating annotations

The following script illustrates how to evaluate one JAMS annotation object against another using the built-in eval submodule to wrap mir_eval.

Given two jams files, say, reference.jams and estimate.jams, the script first loads them as objects (j_ref and j_est, respectively). It then uses the JAMS.search method to locate all annotations of namespace "beat". If no matching annotations are found, an empty list is returned.

In this example, we are assuming that each JAMS file contains only a single annotation of interest, so the first result is taken by indexing the results at 0. (In general, you may want to use annotation_metadata to select a specific annotation from the JAMS object, if multiple are present.)

Finally, the two annotations are compared by calling jams.eval.beat, which returns an ordered dictionary of evaluation metrics for the annotations in question.

example_eval.py

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#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import jams

from pprint import pprint

def compare_beats(f_ref, f_est):

    # f_ref contains the reference annotations
    j_ref = jams.load(f_ref)

    # f_est contains the estimated annotations
    j_est = jams.load(f_est)

    # Get the first reference beats
    beat_ref = j_ref.search(namespace='beat')[0]
    beat_est = j_est.search(namespace='beat')[0]

    # Get the scores
    return jams.eval.beat(beat_ref, beat_est)


if __name__ == '__main__':

    f_ref, f_est = sys.argv[1:]
    scores = compare_beats(f_ref, f_est)

    # Print them out
    pprint(dict(scores))

Data conversion

JAMS provides some basic functionality to help convert from flat file formats (e.g., CSV or LAB).

example_chord_import.py

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#!/usr/bin/env python

import jams
import sys


def import_chord_jams(infile, outfile):

    # import_lab returns a new jams object,
    # and a handle to the newly created annotation
    chords = jams.util.import_lab('chord', infile)

    # Infer the track duration from the end of the last annotation
    duration = max([obs.time + obs.duration for obs in chords])

    chords.time = 0
    chords.duration = duration

    # Create a jams object
    jam = jams.JAMS()
    jam.file_metadata.duration = duration
    jam.annotations.append(chords)

    # save to disk
    jam.save(outfile)


if __name__ == '__main__':

    infile, outfile = sys.argv[1:]
    import_chord_jams(infile, outfile)

chord_output.jams

Calling the above script on 01_-_I_Saw_Her_Standing_There.lab from IsoPhonics should produce the following JAMS object:

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More examples

In general, converting a dataset to JAMS format will require a bit more work to ensure that value fields conform to the specified namespace schema, but the import script above should serve as a simple starting point.

For further reference, a separate repository jams-data has been created to house conversion scripts for publicly available datasets. Note that development of converters is a work in progress, so proceed with caution!