Audio Processing in Ruby

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I'm interested in doing sound processing in Ruby. I've found some good libraries for Python, but haven't been able to find anything very mature for Ruby (which I would prefer to work with, since I don't know Python nearly as well). Anything I've found on RubyForge, for example, is in alpha. (I did find 'ruby/audio' but it I haven't had much luck with it so far, without any type of guide.) Can anyone point me to some resources? I haven't been able to find much of anything via Google so far.

Thanks,

-- Ben (aka divokz)

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Benjamin Oakes wrote:

I'm interested in doing sound processing in Ruby. I've found some good libraries for Python, but haven't been able to find anything very mature for Ruby (which I would prefer to work with, since I don't know Python nearly as well). Anything I've found on RubyForge, for example, is in alpha. (I did find 'ruby/audio' but it I haven't had much luck with it so far, without any type of guide.) Can anyone point me to some resources? I haven't been able to find much of anything via Google so far.

You might be able to find some good libraries in Java you could use through JRuby. I know there are a few simple ones built into Java SE. I don't know others off the top of my head though, but it's something to consider.

- Charlie

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Benjamin Oakes wrote:

I'm interested in doing sound processing in Ruby. I've found some good libraries for Python, but haven't been able to find anything very mature for Ruby (which I would prefer to work with, since I don't know Python nearly as well). Anything I've found on RubyForge, for example, is in alpha. (I did find 'ruby/audio' but it I haven't had much luck with it so far, without any type of guide.) Can anyone point me to some resources? I haven't been able to find much of anything via Google so far.

Thanks,

-- Ben (aka divokz)

I've started a project on Google code to do some related things. The project is

http://code.google.com/p/r-ruby-algo-comp-synth/

and it's mostly oriented towards algorithmic composition and synthesis of music. What are your use cases/requirements? Perhaps I can hook them into this project.