Re: [Haskell-cafe] Sound library?

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Ketil Malde wrote:

Henning Thielemann writes:

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On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Jason Bailey wrote:

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Would anyone know of packages out there for Haskell that support mp3's or ogg files?

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Do you mean realtime unpacking and playback? I'm afraid without hacking Haskell programs are too slow for that.

Really? Written in C, mpg123 can decode 50 minutes of audio in 30 seconds (tested on a 1GHz PIII) -- would a Haskell implementaion really be 100x slower?

I've written much simpler audio signal processing routines compiled by GHC which don't run in realtime on a 1GHz machine ...