[Numpy-discussion] Release 0.6.1 of pyaudio, renamed pyaudiolab

[David Cournapeau]

Hi There,

    A few months ago, I posted the first release of pyaudio, a python 
module to give numpy/scipy environment audio file IO capabilities (ala 
matlab wavread and co). I recently took time to update it significantly, 
and as several people showed interest in pyaudio recently, I thought 
this may interest some people here.
    The main improvements since last public annoucement:

       - renamed to pyaudiolab to avoid nameclash with other package 
pyaudio.
       - ability to seek into audio files and sync files for flushing IO 
buffers
       - matlab-like API: wavread and wavwrite
       - improvements of the API: more similar to numpy conventions, 
ability to retrieve most meta-data of a file.
       - some bug fixing (one bug was quite severe, leading to data 
corruption on ubuntu with python2.5, due to some weirdness in ubuntu 
python2.5 packaging)
       - a real documentation

    If some people manage to use it on something else than linux, I 
would happy to hear (particularly Mac OS X, which I cannot test myself).

    Cheers,

    David

                                ====== pyaudiolab ======

* WHAT FOR ?:

   The Goal of pyaudiolab is to give to a numpy/scipy environment some basic audio IO 
facilities (ala sound, wavread, wavwrite of matlab).

   With pyaudiolab, you should be able to read and write most common audio 
files from and to numpy arrays. The underlying IO operations are done 
using libsndfile from Erik Castro Lopo 
(http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/), so he is the one who did the 
hard work. As libsndfile has support for a vast number of audio files 
(including wav, aiff, but also htk, ircam, and flac, an open source 
lossless codec), pyaudiolab enables the import from and export to a fairly 
large number of file formats.

* WHERE TO GET ?:

	http://www.ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/members/david/softwares/pyaudiolab/index.html#download

	bzr archive: http://www.ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/members/david/archives/pyaudiolab/pyaudiolab.dev

# HOW TO USE ?:

	http://www.ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/members/david/softwares/pyaudiolab/index.html