Possible to specify different backends?

[joereynolds]

Currently it's tied-in to PyAudio which is fine.
I'm using it with Pygame though and I don't really need the extra dependency of pyaudio just to play audio when Pygame can do that too

Thoughts?

Note to self to read up on Mix_SetPostMix
https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2_mixer/Mix_SetPostMix
https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2_mixer/Mix_HookMusic
and
pygame-community/pygame-ce#3289

[nwhitehead]

Yeah, I think pyaudio should be some sort of "optional dependency" or something like that. I'm not an expert in python packaging but I'll see what I can figure out.

Here are the backends I'm thinking about:

• pyaudio
• pygame
• sounddevice
• miniaudio
• tinyaudio

@joereynolds Any thoughts about priorities of these as backends?

[joereynolds]

No priorities from me. I've heard good things about sounddevice and obviously I'd favour pygame as the first choice because... I'm using it. I'd go with what seems to be most popular and work from there :)

[LeWolfYT]

Mix_HookMusic has potential to be used for a new backend, since it allows direct access to the mixer stream and could be used to play audio.