Directions for Further Development

Since both audioplayer and audiorecorder classes are going to be completed before the midterm, thus effectively completing the goals outlined in the original GSoC proposal we need to come up with things to do after the midterm. I have the following suggestions:

1. Implement audioinfo, audioread and audiowrite functionality that is present in MATLAB. I can do this using libsndfile library for cross-platform audio file reading and writing. I have worked with this library before and I expect this would not be as big a task as it might seem at first.
2. Implement the timer class from MATLAB. Possibly using Boost::Thread for threading? It is needed to fully implement all the functionality in audioplayer and audiorecorder.
3. Callback based playback and recording. That is allow the user to register an Octave function to be called during the processing of each audio buffer and get it to provide the data for playback or to do something with the recorded audio.
4. Anything else you might think is a good idea to have in Octave and falls roughly within it's audio/DSP functionality.