<p><a href="http://librosa.github.io/librosa/generated/librosa.onset.onset_detect.html#librosa.onset.onset_detect"><code>librosa.onset.onset_detect</code></a> works by finding peaks in a spectral novelty function. However, these peaks may not actually coincide with the initial rise in energy or how we perceive the beginning of a musical note.</p>
<p>The optional keyword parameter <code>backtrack=True</code> will backtrack from each peak to a preceding local minimum. Backtracking can be useful for finding segmentation points such that the onset occurs shortly after the beginning of the segment. We will use <code>backtrack=True</code> to perform onset-based segmentation of a signal.</p>
<p><a href="http://librosa.github.io/librosa/generated/librosa.onset.onset_detect.html#librosa.onset.onset_detect"><code>librosa.onset.onset_detect</code></a> works by finding peaks in a spectral novelty function. However, these peaks may not actually coincide with the initial rise in energy or how we perceive the beginning of a musical note.</p>
<p>The optional keyword parameter <code>backtrack=True</code> will backtrack from each peak to a preceding local minimum. Backtracking can be useful for finding segmentation points such that the onset occurs shortly after the beginning of the segment. We will use <code>backtrack=True</code> to perform onset-based segmentation of a signal.</p>
<p>Compute the frame indices for estimated onsets in a signal:</p>
<p>We can avoid this glitch by backtracking from the detected onsets.</p>
<p>When setting the parameter <code>backtrack=True</code>, <code>librosa.onset.onset_detect</code> will call <a href="http://librosa.github.io/librosa/generated/librosa.onset.onset_backtrack.html"><code>librosa.onset.onset_backtrack</code></a>.
For each detected onset, <code>librosa.onset.onset_backtrack</code> searches backward for a local minimum.</p>