From: Jay Levitt <jay+news@...>
Date: 2005-11-15T19:02:34+09:00
Subject: Re: RFC: Audio

In article <20051112220548.GB13404@gandalf.wlan>, hans@fugal.net says...
> I've noticed that the frequency of questions about doing audio stuff
> with ruby is increasing. 

Ha!  He said frequency.

> My plans for this are simple: wrap libsndfile, libsamplerate, and
> possibly portaudio. Combined with ladspar, midilib, and other ruby audio
> libs that exist, this should get us well on the way.

Looks really good, and the NArray interface is simple.  What do you 
think about wrapping libmad?  

I need to write a simple utility that monitors a streaming audio server 
for silence, and pages me when it detects an outage.  Seems like all I 
need is libmad and some code to detect a bunch of zeros... perfect for a 
simple ruby script, if the bindings were there.  Ya?

Ah, but how does NArray deal with the constant resizing resulting from 
an ongoing stream?  Is there a copy each time?


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