[haskell-art] Library for simple playing of sounds?

[Iavor Diatchki]

Hello,

is there an existing Haskell library that makes it easy to play and mix
audio samples in a portable way? (with emphasis on easy and portable :-)

I've made a binding to portaudio, which works but---as far as I
understand---in order to get overlapping samples to play, I have to mix the
samples myself, which I can do, but I thought I'd check if there might be
an already existing solution so I don't have to mess with these low-level
details.

The context is that I thought that it'd be fun to add sound effects to a
small game that I wrote with some friends, so the samples will be
pre-recorded .wav files (probably quite short) but they may overlap, which
is why I need the mixing.

Ideas?

-Iavor

[Henning Thielemann]

is there an existing Haskell library that makes it easy to play and mix audio samples in a portable way?
(with emphasis on easy and portable :-)

At the first glance I wondered why _you_ ask this question, because you
have written the ALSA bindings that I maintain. :-)

Easy and portable is certainly a problem. You may try the 'sox' library
which calls the 'play' command. However this requires that the 'sox'
package is installed. It is certainly also possible to add the
functionality to the soxlib bindings.

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/sox
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/soxlib

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/sox/0.2.2.2/doc/html/Sound-Sox-Play.html

[Tristan Matthews]

Post by Iavor Diatchki
is there an existing Haskell library that makes it easy to play and mix
audio samples in a portable way?
(with emphasis on easy and portable :-)

Possibly SDL mixer (although I haven't used it personally):
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/SDL-mixer-0.6.1

At the first glance I wondered why _you_ ask this question, because you have
written the ALSA bindings that I maintain. :-)
Easy and portable is certainly a problem. You may try the 'sox' library
which calls the 'play' command. However this requires that the 'sox' package
is installed. It is certainly also possible to add the functionality to the
soxlib bindings.
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/sox
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/soxlib
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/sox/0.2.2.2/doc/html/Sound-Sox-Play.html
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[Stephen Sinclair]

It looks like Hackage also has OpenAL bindings:

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/OpenAL

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Tristan Matthews

Post by Tristan Matthews

Post by Iavor Diatchki
is there an existing Haskell library that makes it easy to play and mix
audio samples in a portable way?
(with emphasis on easy and portable :-)

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/SDL-mixer-0.6.1

At the first glance I wondered why _you_ ask this question, because you have
written the ALSA bindings that I maintain. :-)
Easy and portable is certainly a problem. You may try the 'sox' library
which calls the 'play' command. However this requires that the 'sox' package
is installed. It is certainly also possible to add the functionality to the
soxlib bindings.
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/sox
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/soxlib
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/sox/0.2.2.2/doc/html/Sound-Sox-Play.html
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