[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #47464] audioformats: a new function to get information on supported audio formats

[Carnë Draug]

URL:
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                 Summary: audioformats: a new function to get information on
supported audio formats
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: carandraug
            Submitted on: Fri 18 Mar 2016 23:48:22 GMT
                Category: Octave Function
                Severity: 1 - Wish
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

For image IO, octave has imformats which returns a struct array with
information of all supported image formats.  A similar function could exist
for audio. This would make it simple to check for support of specific audio
files.

This becomes more important now that checking for configuration values in
octave_config_info has been "demoted".

Like imformats, it could be possible to use such audioformats function to
control the audioread and audiowrite functions. In theory, a package could
register with audioformats to add support for extra formats or even replace
the existing backends for existing formats. In practice, that can be tricky
and I don't anyone that uses imformats for that.

Still, a way to query support for specific audio formats would be useful.




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