diff --git a/torchaudio/datasets/yesno.py b/torchaudio/datasets/yesno.py
index 7178b8332c..6d0d2c0a5f 100644
--- a/torchaudio/datasets/yesno.py
+++ b/torchaudio/datasets/yesno.py
@@ -11,23 +11,14 @@
     extract_archive,
 )
 
-URL = "http://www.openslr.org/resources/1/waves_yesno.tar.gz"
-FOLDER_IN_ARCHIVE = "waves_yesno"
-_CHECKSUMS = {
-    "http://www.openslr.org/resources/1/waves_yesno.tar.gz":
-        "962ff6e904d2df1126132ecec6978786"
-}
-
-
-def load_yesno_item(fileid: str, path: str, ext_audio: str) -> Tuple[Tensor, int, List[int]]:
-    # Read label
-    labels = [int(c) for c in fileid.split("_")]
 
-    # Read wav
-    file_audio = os.path.join(path, fileid + ext_audio)
-    waveform, sample_rate = torchaudio.load(file_audio)
-
-    return waveform, sample_rate, labels
+_RELEASE_CONFIGS = {
+    "release1": {
+        "folder_in_archive": "waves_yesno",
+        "url": "http://www.openslr.org/resources/1/waves_yesno.tar.gz",
+        "checksum": "30301975fd8c5cac4040c261c0852f57cfa8adbbad2ce78e77e4986957445f27",
+    }
+}
 
 
 class YESNO(Dataset):
@@ -43,25 +34,26 @@ class YESNO(Dataset):
             Whether to download the dataset if it is not found at root path. (default: ``False``).
     """
 
-    _ext_audio = ".wav"
-
-    def __init__(self,
-                 root: Union[str, Path],
-                 url: str = URL,
-                 folder_in_archive: str = FOLDER_IN_ARCHIVE,
-                 download: bool = False) -> None:
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        root: Union[str, Path],
+        url: str = _RELEASE_CONFIGS["release1"]["url"],
+        folder_in_archive: str = _RELEASE_CONFIGS["release1"]["folder_in_archive"],
+        download: bool = False
+    ) -> None:
 
-        # Get string representation of 'root' in case Path object is passed
-        root = os.fspath(root)
+        self._parse_filesystem(root, url, folder_in_archive, download)
 
+    def _parse_filesystem(self, root: str, url: str, folder_in_archive: str, download: bool) -> None:
+        root = Path(root)
         archive = os.path.basename(url)
-        archive = os.path.join(root, archive)
-        self._path = os.path.join(root, folder_in_archive)
+        archive = root / archive
 
+        self._path = root / folder_in_archive
         if download:
             if not os.path.isdir(self._path):
                 if not os.path.isfile(archive):
-                    checksum = _CHECKSUMS.get(url, None)
+                    checksum = _RELEASE_CONFIGS["release1"]["checksum"]
                     download_url(url, root, hash_value=checksum, hash_type="md5")
                 extract_archive(archive)
 
@@ -70,7 +62,13 @@ def __init__(self,
                 "Dataset not found. Please use `download=True` to download it."
             )
 
-        self._walker = sorted(str(p.stem) for p in Path(self._path).glob('*' + self._ext_audio))
+        self._walker = sorted(str(p.stem) for p in Path(self._path).glob("*.wav"))
+
+    def _load_item(self, fileid: str, path: str):
+        labels = [int(c) for c in fileid.split("_")]
+        file_audio = os.path.join(path, fileid + ".wav")
+        waveform, sample_rate = torchaudio.load(file_audio)
+        return waveform, sample_rate, labels
 
     def __getitem__(self, n: int) -> Tuple[Tensor, int, List[int]]:
         """Load the n-th sample from the dataset.
@@ -82,13 +80,8 @@ def __getitem__(self, n: int) -> Tuple[Tensor, int, List[int]]:
             tuple: ``(waveform, sample_rate, labels)``
         """
         fileid = self._walker[n]
-        item = load_yesno_item(fileid, self._path, self._ext_audio)
-
-        # TODO Upon deprecation, uncomment line below and remove following code
-        # return item
-
-        waveform, sample_rate, labels = item
-        return waveform, sample_rate, labels
+        item = self._load_item(fileid, self._path)
+        return item
 
     def __len__(self) -> int:
         return len(self._walker)