[Pythonmac-SIG] Sound advice

[Jack Jansen]

On Thursday, January 17, 2002, at 06:36  PM, Hans verschooten wrote:

> I'm trying to split a large number of sound files as soon as 
> the volume drops below a certain level. So I'm looking for a 
> way to measure the volume of the sound files. And then split 
> them to separate files. These sound files are AIFF and MP3 
> files.
>
> Does anybody have an idea if this is possible in Python, I'm 
> using the UNIX version on OS 10.1.2 at the moment.

Once you have the files in memory you can use the audioop module 
to operate on the samples reasonably efficiently. I think the 
aiff module is part of the standard distribution, but I know of 
nothing for MP3.
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