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What I'd like to see:

I like the idea of having audio device support for the major operating

systems in the standard library.

But I am even more interested in a common interface for simple operations.

IMO, the API should support:

- stereo playback
- stereo recording
- different sampling rates and formats (alaw, mulaw and PCM in signed

integers in various widths and maybe PCM in floats/doubles).
- device selection
- volume control

Overall, I think the level of abstraction in the OSS or ALSA APIs is
about right, coreaudio on OS X and DirectSound on Windows are overkill

outside of niche applications.

I would volunteer sample implementations for Windows, OS X and Linux (ALSA).

- Lars

That sounds like a nice basic simple interface. I suggest writing it up and submitting it as a patch or even making it stand alone module with its own distutils
setup.py. It sounds like a good idea regardless of it its accepted into the standard library. (clearly what we have now for python audio is a mess :)

-gps