[flac-dev] FLAC-compress data with Python

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Nouvelle Collection wrote:

> I would like to compress some data, stored in a Numpy Array (Python) with
> something like (*):
> 
> flac.compress(my_array)
> 
> without having to put data in a .wav file, without having to deal with
> containers, etc.,
> i.e. :
> *raw data in / raw data out*
> 
> Do you have an idea on how to do that with FLAC?

I am not aware of any FLAC Python bindings. However, libsndfile supports
FLAC and there is a Python/Numpy binding here:

    https://github.com/bastibe/PySoundFile

> This could be useful for audio data of course (stored in simple arrays),
> but also for other kind of sampled data : I can imagine that FLAC can be
> useful on lots of different kinds of data (mainly for those whose waveforms
> look like continuous function, like audio data), isn't it true ?

Yes, anything that is vaguely continuous sampled data can be stored in a
FLAC file.

Erik
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