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AudioSet Strong Download

This repository contains code for downloading the AudioSet dataset. The code is provided as-is, and is not officially supported by Google. Please note that as YouTube continually updates its API, the code in this repository may become outdated and stop working in the future.

Updates in This Repository

This repository is a revised version of audioset-download, with the following major updates:

1. Updated commands to support the latest version of yt-dlp, with a particular focus on specifying the time segment to be downloaded.
2. Added functionality to download either the dataset with original 10-second-resolution labels or the 2021 temporally-strong labels.
3. Enabled support for incorporating cookies in the yt-dlp command.

Requirements

• Python 3.9 (it may work with other versions, but it has not been tested)

Installation

# Install ffmpeg
brew install ffmpeg
# Install audioset-strong-download
pip install audioset-strong-download

Usage

The following code snippet downloads the unbalanced train set, and stores it in the test directory. It only downloads the files associated with the Speech and Cart labels, and uses two parallel processes for downloading. If a file is associated to multiple labels, it will be stored only once, and associated to the first label in the list.

from audioset_strong_download import Downloader
d = Downloader(root_path='test', labels=["Speech", "Cart"], n_jobs=2, download_type='eval', dataset_ver='strong', copy_and_replicate=False)
d.download(format = 'wav')

Implementation

The main class is audioset_strong_download.Downloader. It is initialized using the following parameters:

• root_path: the path to the directory where the dataset will be downloaded.
• labels: a list of labels to download. If None, all labels will be downloaded. See weak labels and strong labels
• n_jobs: the number of parallel downloads. Default is 1.
• dataset_ver:
  • strong: temporally-strong labels (May 2021)
  • weak: original 10-second-resolution labels
• download_type: the type of download. It can be one of the following:
  • balanced_train: balanced train set (weak)
  • unbalanced_train: unbalanced train set (weak)
  • train: train set (strong)
  • eval: evaluation set (weak & strong)
• cookies: /path/to/cookies/file.txt (default: None)
• copy_and_replicate: if True if a file is associated to multiple labels, it will be copied and replicated for each label. If False, it will be associated to the first label in the list. Default is True.

The methods of the class are:

• download(format='vorbis', quality=5): downloads the dataset.
• The format can be one of the following (supported by yt-dlp --audio-format parameter):
  • vorbis: downloads the dataset in Ogg Vorbis format. This is the default.
  • wav: downloads the dataset in WAV format.
  • mp3: downloads the dataset in MP3 format.
  • m4a: downloads the dataset in M4A format.
  • flac: downloads the dataset in FLAC format.
  • opus: downloads the dataset in Opus format.
  • webm: downloads the dataset in WebM format.
  • ... and many more.
  • The quality can be an integer between 0 and 10. Default is 5.
• read_class_mapping(): reads the class mapping file. It is not used externally.
• download_file(...): downloads a single file. It is not used externally.

Cookies

Due to the large number of files in AudioSet, YouTube may block the program from accessing videos. To address this issue, you can pass cookies to yt-dlp with the following steps:

1. Run the command:

   yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser chrome --cookies cookies.txt

   This will generate a cookies.txt file in your current directory.

2. Specify the cookies file path in the Downloader() function:

   cookies = "/path/to/cookies/file.txt"

For more details, refer to the yt-dlp FAQ.