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Could the Pandas dependency be removed or made optional?
Description
Pandas is installed as a pip dependency of spleeter. It's adding bloat and complexity, which might not be worth it for for how little it's even used. I don't believe it's referenced at all for a typical "split a song with a pretrained model" workflow.
At a glance, it looks like it could be easily replaced in some instances (e.g. using the native csv reader instead of pd.read_csv(), or using dicts instead of dataframes). If there are places where it's really helping things though, perhaps a local import could be wrapped in a try/except, with a friendly error suggesting that the feature requires pip install pandas==x.x.x?
Thanks for considering!
Hi @rcgale, Thank you for reporting the issue. Indeed Pandas is quite a soft dependency that could be made optional or replaced. However, this is not a dependency we have had issues with and it's pretty lightweight, so it won't probably be a priority to change this but if some people have trouble with this dependency. Do you have actual issues with this dependency and spleeter?
