Questions about Audio as DataType

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Questions about Audio as DataType #79

Closed f-brinkmann closed 1 year ago

f-brinkmann commented 1 year ago

The new AnnotaedAudio conventions introduce the new data type Audio, which made me wonder about two things

Do we need this, or could it be FIR as well?
If we need it, is Audio the best name? A FIR is also audio. Recording might be more precise.

isfmiho commented 1 year ago

Recording has the disadvantage that it might not fit in all cases. If you modify a signal on your computer and play it via headphones or loudspeakers,and also store that output on a computer, it does not need to be an actual recording. Whereas Audio does also include audio recordings. Maybe we can talk about the naming...

petibub commented 1 year ago

I agree with Michael. Recording would be a too specific type of audio. By Audio, we mean an audio signal, one could feed to a sound interface. While an impulse response can also be sent to a soubd card, it's not its primary application. We could go for Signal, but we need to distinguish between the much faster sampled audio signal and the much slowlier sampled tracking signals. So, we ended up at Audio.

Does that help?