nativeaudio

nativeaudio is a convenience package that provides a Go interface over native audio APIs.

The resultant output should be PCM s16le playable directly and also by github.com/hajimehoshi/oto and github.com/faiface/beep.

This package was inspired by the utter lack of audio decoders for AAC, which it turns out is a closed codec that Windows and macOS have bought licenses for.

Windows is implemented via the Media Foundation and macOS is implemented on AudioToolbox/AVFoundation.

Other platforms including Linux shell out to FFmpeg.

Unfortunately we can't link to FFmpeg without accepting the GPL, so we must take the performance hit of using a sub-process.

go get git.sr.ht/~jackmordaunt/nativeaudio

package main 

import "git.sr.ht/~jackmordaunt/nativeaudio"

func main() {
        nativeaudio.Play("audio.m4a")
}

TODO

• streaming API (current API is a buffered for simplicity)
• Linux: something better then shelling out to FFmpeg