Brian McFee

> @bmcfee you have an idea what would be a good example for the pescador gallery for such a splitting? What if `excerpt_gen` took a filename instead of the decoded...

> To parallelize the loading I would just split the `tracks` list by `worker_id`. How does ZMQStreamer make this easier (or faster)? I don't think these would necessarily be compatible...

Yeah, we've thought a lot about this kind of thing. There's a slightly more fundamental issue here, which is that streamers are, at the end of the day, generators, and...

I'm open to dropping `mono=True`, but probably not until after a 1.0 release. I don't think defaulting to the native sampling rate is a good idea though. Our reasoning for...

> I can only speak for myself, but to me the fact that `sr` does not default to `None` was **very** unexpected. Yes, I understand that and appreciate that position....

Closing this one out as I don't think there's much more to add here.

Sure, this would be great to have. (Especially for the 1.0 release.) It's also an enormous undertaking that I don't have time for in the short term. Help on this...

> How exhaustive are the existing tests in `tests/`? Could they be sufficient to verify that the generated typings are correct (by checking that the tests pass a type check)?...

Note: #1577 bumped our minimum python up to 1.20, so consider the numpy typing issue unblocked.

Following up on this, #1579 adds stub files (pyi) for the top-level package and submodules (anything with a `__init__.py` gets a `__init__.pyi`). While hacking this out, I also went down...