No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
descript-audio-codec has 485K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 1.0.0, first published in 2023.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2023.
It is used by 17 tracked packages, including hume-tada, fish-speech and outetts.
GitHub topics include audio, audio-compression and compression-algorithm.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
20
Popularity
68
Adoption
56
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1082 days ago
Monthly downloads
485,348
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
•
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
485,348
Stars
1,832
Stars per 1k downloads
3.77
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
•
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
14,536
Month daily avg
16,178
Momentum
-10.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
•
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
MIT
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
1082 days ago
Total releases
5
Releases/year
1.6
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
•
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
12
Monthly downloads
485,348
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
49
Issue Burden
34.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
6.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
7.2K
Windows
3.8K
macOS
1.2K
Python Versions
3.12
41.2%
5.0K
3.13
35.0%
4.3K
3.11
13.1%
1.6K
3.10
10.1%
1.2K
3.14
0.6%
74
Top Countries
1.
US
6.9K
US
2.
CN
829
CN
3.
GB
380
GB
4.
IN
323
IN
5.
SG
285
SG
6.
DE
271
DE
7.
JP
222
JP
8.
KR
202
KR
9.
NL
198
NL
10.
RU
161
RU
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
June 14, 2023
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
2 years ago
Latest Version
1.0.0
Total Releases
5
Contributors
12
Open PRs
11
Archived
No
Author
Prem Seetharaman, Rithesh Kumar
Python Versions
3.7
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh