`AudioBuffer`s remarks, questions and some proposals

[orottier]

`AudioBuffer`s remarks, questions and some proposals

[orottier]

Hey, thanks for thinking along, it's much appreciated. I think you have summarized the three cases very well.

I fully agree with 1) The alloc/AudioBuffer should be named better to avoid confusion with the user facing AudioBuffers. alloc is a really bad mod name too. There should probably be a render mod containing the Graph, AudioProcessor and the new AudioRenderQuantum

I'm interested to hear your proposal for a distinction of 2 and 3.
In my eyes, a memory resident buffer is the buffer::AudioBuffer and anything that acts as a continuous source of audio is an Iterator<Item=AudioBuffer>.
For example, if you decode an Ogg Vorbis file, you receive chunks of audio, fitting this iterator style. Decoding a wav (currently) works sample-for-sample so we just take BUFFER_SIZEd chunks.

In any case, please let me know what you intend to refactor. We can surely work out something that is better than the current state

[b-ma]

Ok cool, thanks for your answer. What I can imagine to advance on that is:

• First, make a PR with the renaming stuff and file reorganisation, which is only refactoring and should not impact any behaviour.
• For the rest, I really think it's feasible to work on something focusing on 2. alongside the existing code and without interfering with the other modules and tests. Then, if I manage to make something work at some point, we can just discuss / amend the result, and eventually see how to integrate it properly.

Sounds like a plan?

[orottier]

Sounds good to me!