You might want to put this into Pear. In any case, if you want to post the 
API just to get people's input (naming conventions of functions and so on) 
feel free to post here.

Andi

At 06:28 PM 9/7/2002 +0100, Tony Leake wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have started to write an audio api for PHP.
>
>I have written a wrapper to ecasound which is a very powerful
>audio processing library that runs on Linux and I believe several
>other *NIX's. At the simple end it will play audio files in most
>audio formats (wav, mp3, ogg-vorbis, AIFF etc) and convert files
>between any supported formats.
>
>At the higher end, ecasound can be used to create a full multi-track
>recording/mixing system in just a few lines of code.
>
>Ecasound currently has bindings for c, c++, perl and python so I
>decided to address the balance to write PHP bindings. I currently
>have this working and am testing it. It will then be possible to
>write advanced audio applications in PHP with a Gtk interface.
>
>My next stage will be to write higher level functions for simple
>tasks such as playing an MP3 file, as, like most powerful libraries,
>the ecasound interface can be cryptic at times.
>
>Further on I plan to write midi functions once I find a suitable
>library.
>
>My question is, is there any interest in bundling an audio extension
>with PHP. If not then I will run this on sourceforge as a separate
>project, but if there is I will publish my proposed api to ensure that
>it is compatible with the rest
>of PHP.
>
>Regards
>Tony Leake
>
>
>
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