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soundfile

SoundFile is an audio library based on libsndfile, CFFI, and NumPy
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

soundfile has 22M monthly downloads and 841 GitHub stars. Version 0.14.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2015.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is built on top of cffi, numpy and typing-extensions. It is used by 1,427 tracked packages, including sglang, librosa and speechbrain.

Downloads
Day
950.8K
Week
6.3M
Month
22.0M
Stars
841
Forks
123
Issues
125
Version
0.14.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
70
Popularity
61
Adoption
100
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
27 days ago
Monthly downloads
21,970,366
• 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
21,970,366
Stars
841
Stars per 1k downloads
0.04
• 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
894,642
Month daily avg
732,346
Momentum
+22.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
License categories
License
BSD 3-Clause License
• 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
30 days ago
Total releases
6
Releases/year
0.6
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
37
Monthly downloads
21,970,366
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
62
 
Issue Burden
148.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
30.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 312.8K
Windows 49.4K
macOS 23.2K

Python Versions

3.12
46.2% 171.7K
3.11
22.3% 83.0K
3.10
14.2% 52.8K
3.13
12.9% 48.0K
3.14
4.4% 16.5K

Top Countries

1. US US
581.6K
2. DK DK
82.7K
3. SE SE
16.4K
4. DE DE
10.7K
5. SG SG
10.5K
6. IN IN
9.0K
7. CN CN
7.1K
8. FR FR
7.0K
9. JP JP
5.8K
10. GB GB
4.7K

Package Information

License
BSD 3-Clause License
First Release
October 21, 2015
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
4 weeks ago
Latest Version
0.14.0
Total Releases
6
Contributors
37
Open PRs
13
Archived
No
Author
Bastian Bechtold
Python Versions
3
Wheels
cp26 cp27 cp32 cp33 cp34 cp35 cp36 pp27 pp32 pp33 py2 py3
Keywords
audio libsndfile
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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