Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] The future of libsndfile
From: Erik de Castro Lopo (erikd_AT_zip.com.au)
Date: to elo 19 1999 - 17:33:33 EDT
Nicola Bernardini wrote:
>
> Today, Erik de Castro Lopo mi scrisse cio` che segue:
>
> [snip]
> EDC> Anyway, now I have explained it I am less convinced than I was. With a
> EDC> little encouragement I'll probably make a decision to change the read
> EDC> and write operations from items to frames. From a coding point of
> EDC> view its a trivial change but I'm going to try and come up with a
> EDC> way of making the change without breaking any existing apps.
>
> How about having *both* in two different calls? (my trotzkist soul
> comes out again and again :)
That was the idea I was playing around with.
> [snip]
> EDC> I have also been having some thoughts along the lines of non-destructive
> EDC> editing with edit lists etc. My conclucion was that none of the formats
> EDC> libsndfile currently supports is all that well suited to this problem.
> EDC> My idea was to make a new (or yet another) file format which would
> EDC> specifically be designed to be cross platform and allow non-destructive
> EDC> editing. It would also be possible to write a rendering routine which
> EDC> takes a file in this new format as input and mixes/renders it into one
> EDC> of the standard playback formats like WAV or AIFF. The only questions is
> EDC> whether this should be part of the library or a separte application.
>
> Let me insist. This is another layer of worms. Let's first try
> and have a nice *simple* library. It's important. Non-destructive
> editing may be done and is probably done and needed in zillion
> different ways. Let's try to implement it first in some application
> (like Mix, or the famous Juhana's editor, or whatever you like) and
> see if there are enough points in common to build a library with it.
> Please. :)
I have more than enough work cut out for myself. The new non-destructive
editing format was a long term goal. Obviously such a thing requires
a lot of thought.
Erik
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