olivecha / guitarsounds

python library to analyse guitar sounds
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Comments on documentation #36

Open cwitkowitz opened 1 year ago

cwitkowitz commented 1 year ago

In general, the provided documentation is comprehensive and sufficient to understand the API at a high-level.

However, as with the source code blocks (issue #29), the html documentation itself appears to be out of date. For instance, see the call signature of Sound.condition, which is missing parameters included in analysis.py, Sound.filter_noise, which no longer even exists in analysis.py, etc.

I am also wondering whether the parameters (:param) and returned values (:return:) are being displayed properly on the webpages.

Another major comment is that no explanation, reference, or citation is provided for many of the features and concepts employed throughout the framework. While this is probably unnecessary for concepts as ubiquitous as the FFT, other features such as envelope, time damping, and peak damping (to name a few) are not adequately explained in the documentation. This requires people who are not immediately familiar with these terms and features (such as myself) to check the code to understand what is really happening.

While not critical to fix, here are some minor spelling/language issues (not exhaustive) that I encountered throughout the code and documentation:

The API Tutorial also seems to be slightly out of date, as it makes references to aspects of the framework which no longer seem to exist, such as the filtered_signal attribute of the Sound class or the timbre plotting feature of the Plot class.

Here are some typos (not exhaustive) I found in the API Tutorial:

Furthermore, there is some inconsistency across the API Tutorial with respect to capitalization and punctuation.

Also, is there any explanation for why the bass envelope droops prior to the onset in the plot derived from the call to Sound.plot_freq_bins in the API tutorial?

olivecha commented 1 year ago
endolith commented 1 year ago

Also:

  1. The readme uses guitarsound in some places and guitarsounds in others
  2. Probably should conda activate before pip install? I think that's necessary for conda to track pip-installed packages?
  3. Typically I want the readme to show a quick example of what the package does before going into the install instructions