About Music Analysis
Music Analysis is an MCP server published by hugohow in the AI category: integrate librosa, whisper with LLMs to analyze music audio.
The repository has 30 stars and 11 forks, with the last commit a year ago. Six months or more without a commit doesn't mean the server is broken, but check the open issues before depending on it in production.
Install
git clone https://github.com/hugohow/mcp-music-analysisThis server has no ConduID identity, so agent calls to it are not receipted. Pin the version you install and review the source before granting it credentials.
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README
MCP Music Analysis
This repository contains a Model Context Provider (MCP) that uses MCP and librosa for audio analysis on audio in local, youtube link, or audio link.
Usage with Claude Desktop
Installation
Installing via Smithery
To install Music Analysis for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:
npx -y @smithery/cli install @hugohow/mcp-music-analysis --client claude
Manual Installation
# Clone repository
git clone git@github.com:hugohow/mcp-music-analysis.git
cd mcp-music-analysis
# Create virtual environment and install
uv venv
source .venv/bin/activate # On Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate
uv pip install -e .
Usage with Claude Desktop
Locate Configuration File
The configuration file location depends on your operating system:
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macOS:
~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json -
Windows:
%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json -
Linux:
~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Add the following to your claude_desktop_config.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"music-analysis": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["-n", "mcp-music-analysis"]
}
}
}
Example Prompts
Here are some sample prompts you might use in a conversational or chat-based context once the server is running. The MCP will understand these requests and execute the relevant tools:
Can you analyze the beat of /Users/hugohow-choong/Desktop/sample-6s.mp3?
Could you give me the duration of https://download.samplelib.com/mp3/sample-15s.mp3 ?
Please compute the MFCC for this file: /path/to/another_audio.mp3
What are the spectral centroid values for /path/to/music.wav?
I'd like to know the onset times for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HFiFd9vx1c
To-Do List
- Add URL to audio file download
- Add YouTube to audio file transformation
- Experiment with multiple Python environments (testing)
- Improve installation guide
- Integrate Whisper for lyrics
- Implement a Docker solution
Author
Hugo How-Choong
README fetched from the repository 5 days ago. The original is authoritative.