Matthias Geier

Use float64 by default?

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Currently, `np.float32` is the default data type when creating a `Stream`. This makes sense, because many audio applications use that data type and it is supported by PortAudio. On the...

Allow selecting devices by device name substrings

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In addition to numeric device IDs, it should also be possible to select devices by strings, e.g. `device="hdmi"`. I think it would be practical to use case-insensitive search, probably a...

Add a high-level interface à la playrec

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I would like to have a high level interface similar to _playrec_ (http://www.playrec.co.uk/) - but of course with a much better API! Basically it should provide: - a function to...

Similar to https://github.com/bastibe/PySoundFile/pull/102, the module name should be changed to `soundcard` and the canonical usage should become ``` Python import soundcard as sc ``` The project name should stay "PySoundCard".

Remove the blocking loop-back example from the README file

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The blocking `read()` and `write()` methods shouldn't be used together. If synchronized input and output are needed, the callback API should be used. The blocking methods may work in some...

Rename continue_flag to CONTINUE

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Same for `complete_flag` -> `COMPLETE` and `abort_flag` -> `ABORT`. I think it's much more Pythonic to use uppercase for module constants. In user code it would normally look like this:...

I wasn't aware (or I had forgotten) that PySoundCard has Sphinx documentation in `docs/`. We should keep this updated and eventually publish it on http://readthedocs.org. Therefore, we should change `README.md`...

Automatically testing the input/output of a sound card might be problematic, but we can probably "simulate" it with the "dummy" driver of JACK. With this driver no audio hardware is...

Support paNonInterleaved

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This is somehow present in the code (as `interleaved_data` flag), but it doesn't really work. The input and output pointers point to an array of channel pointers. This could be...

No wheels for Python > 3.6?

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The latest supported Python version supported by the provided wheels seems to be 3.6: https://github.com/bastibe/python-soundfile/blob/5f650bc017176424cb39ffbc544f4d80ca5179e9/setup.py#L9-L12 I'm wondering why there haven't been any complaints about that so far ... or am...