[Sugar-devel] Record Activity (audio)

[Art Hunkins]

I've recently developed a 4-file mono/stereo realtime mixer/processor 
application in Csound, and it works well on the XO's and versions of SoaS. 
So I was thinking of porting it in Python to Sugar as an Activity.

One problem: currently Csound imports standard uncompressed soundfiles, and 
doesn't work with ogg. The Record Activity only outputs ogg, it seems. I 
would not consider porting my application to Sugar if Csound could handle a 
filetype that Record can output.

Question #1: what are the chances that Record can be enhanced to produce wav 
files?

Question #2: what are the chances that Record can be made to work dependably 
on Sugar .82-.88 (at least)?

With regard to question #2, I get very spotty (mixed) results for Record 
(audio), as follows:

XO-1.0: Record 59 works fine; higher versions (including 64) have major 
audio dropouts.
XO-1.5: Record 64 bad, with major dropouts; v67 is semi-OK as is v85 
(recording artifacts and occasional glitches)
Strawberry: Record 64 works fine; further upgrades don't (including v66, 
v79, v85) - *nothing (including won't save or play)*
Blueberry: v66 is semi-OK (slight artifacts, no dropouts); v64, v79 and 
v81 - *nothing*
Mirabelle: v64 not tested; otherwise same results as Blueberry

Bottom line: not encouraging. Is anyone currently working on Record?

Art Hunkins