[Python-3000] audio device support

[Gregory P. Smith]

> What I'd like to see:
>
> I like the idea of having audio device support for the major operating
> systems in the standard library.
>
> But I am even more interested in a common interface for simple operations.
>
> IMO, the API should support:
>
> - stereo playback
> - stereo recording
> - different sampling rates and formats (alaw, mulaw and PCM in signed
> integers in various widths and maybe PCM in floats/doubles).
> - device selection
> - volume control
>
> Overall, I think the level of abstraction in the OSS or ALSA APIs is
> about right, coreaudio on OS X and DirectSound on Windows are overkill
> outside of niche applications.
>
> I would volunteer sample implementations for Windows, OS X and Linux
> (ALSA).
>
> - Lars


That sounds like a nice basic simple interface.  I suggest writing it up and
submitting it as a patch or even making it stand alone module with its own
distutils setup.py.  It sounds like a good idea regardless of it its
accepted into the standard library.  (clearly what we have now for python
audio is a mess :)

-gps
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