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Changing backend for audio loading #220
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Many people use
scipy.io.wavfledue to the fact that it is widely used by many developers and that if you do however find weird errors, there is a lot of material on it, compared to other libraries likepysoundfile.And moreover, the original module itself contains the basic necessities for saving and reading wave-files. However, the reason why you mentioned that
pysoundfilewould be a good alternative is because it can deal with other wave-file formats which is sometimes unnecessary. But if a developer needs that speciality, then he would certainly turn towards this lib.This is a good idea. I'm in need of implement this so my code would be simpler and I don't need to convert to wav from flac.
soundfileis a great package and its developers are always answering issues on its repo if someone eventually have a problem.I think though that we should implement this having
soundfileas an optional dependency. @adrian-stepien can I work on that taking your previous work on #221? or do you prefer to do it? Let me know what do you think.Reacted by Rudra SekhriMy best way to go is to work with @adrian-stepien as I am still a kid. If you would like an example of a program using 'scipy', then you can check out my gist (link below) -
https://gist.github.com/rudrathegreat/e1655b641aae0aedb6837f83493e6e5d
https://gist.github.com/rudrathegreat/8470ad7b8ca6c6067214a3fa4f9980a3If you do need any help, then I will always be ready to assist you guys.
Thanks for the links. In this project we also work with scipy for audio I/O, so there is no problem with that.
Let's see if someone else have anything to add. Maybe next week I can do all the tweaks to have this working.
Cool
I am more than happy to finalise the #221. I've been away for past month, so will work on that now.
Currently
scipy.io.wavfileis being used for loading of the wav files. Alternativelypysoundfilecould be used. It would allow for:It's a relatively easy change - happy to contribute it if you agree with it.