hc-erikd:
I originally intended to use Erik de Castro Lopo's excellent libsndfile
Thank you.
This library is far from complete. Firstly, only the wave format is implemented (and incompletely).
I really do ask you to reconsider this. Even just parsing the WAVE file format is a *HUGE* undertaking if you intend to support everything that is actually in the specs as well as handle all the horribly broken WAVE files produced by many commercial products.
Cheers, Erik
I agree with Erik. It makes more sense to bind to a recognised library, so that the developer effort isn't wasted duplicating complex functionality. Unless there's a serious robustness/safety/functionality argument to be made for doing it purely in Haskell, just write a binding instead, and move on to problems we can better apply Haskell's strengths to. -- Don