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PyAlsaAudio
Author: Casper Wilstrup (cwi@aves.dk)
Maintainer: Lars Immisch (lars@ibp.de)
This package contains wrappers for accessing the ALSA api from Python. It is currently fairly complete for PCM devices, and has some support for mixers.
If you find bugs in the wrappers please open an issue in the issue tracker. Please don't send bug reports regarding ALSA specifically. There are several bugs in this api, and those should be reported to the ALSA team - not me.
This software is licensed under the PSF license - the same one used by the majority of the python distribution. Basically you can use it for anything you wish (even commercial purposes). There is no warranty whatsoever.
Installation
Note: the wrappers need the ALSA library and headers. The installation of these varies from distribution to distribution.
On Debian or Ubuntu, make sure to install linasound2-dev. On Arch,
install alsa-lib. When in doubt, search your distribution for a
package that contains libasound.so and asoundlib.h.
Naturally you also need to use a kernel with ALSA support.
To install, execute the following:
$ python setup.py build
And then as root:
$ sudo python setup.py install
Using the API
The API documentation is included in the doc subdirectory of the source distribution; it is also online on http://larsimmisch.github.io/pyalsaaudio/.
There are some example programs included with the source:
playwav.pyplays back a wav fileplaybacktest.pyplays back raw sound data read from stdinrecordtest.pycaptures sound from the microphone and writes it raw to stdout.mixertest.pycan be used to manipulate the mixers.