Johannes Wagner

Reading file may hang if offset is greater than file duration

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I have a MP3 encoded stereo file of the following length: ``` >>> audiofile.duration(path) 3.996734693877551 ``` Reading in the full file works: ``` >>> audiofile.read(path) [[0. 0. 0. ... 0....

As far as I see the benchmark only measures how long it takes to read full files. Might be interesting to also benchmark how long it takes for a library...

Currently `oyaml.BaseLoader` is used to load the config file, which according to the [documentation](https://github.com/yaml/pyyaml/wiki/PyYAML-yaml.load(input)-Deprecation) loads everything as a string:  Although, we currently have only strings in the config file,...

Do not lock cache folder for complete database

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Once a database is completely loaded there is actually no need to lock it. But currently we need to get access to the `db.yaml file` to get this information and...

Do not publish single compressed files as archives

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Currently, we always publish media files as zip files. This makes sense for bundles and uncompressed files like WAV, but not for single compressed files like MP3, OGG, etc. In...

Check for out-of-bound segments and zero-duration files in publish()

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We should add additional security checks that check for out-of-bound segments in segmented tables and files with zero duration. Both are most likely bugs. In case the user adds such...

Upgrade existing cache version to a new version

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With large databases I sometimes do the following: 1. go to the `audb` cache and delete all table files 2. rename version folder from previous, e.g. 1.0.0, to new version,...

Use platform-dependent lock mechanism

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As discussed in https://github.com/audeering/audb/issues/201 we have switched to a soft lock mechanism as a platform-independent lock mechanism. Unfortunately, this is not always safe and we can run into dead locks...

See https://github.com/audeering/audb/pull/266#discussion_r1158622796

When loading a database with `audb.load()` we currently check the repository in which the requested version was found. Loading files from a previous version published in a different repository (which...