# Audio Processing in Ruby

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/audio-processing-in-ruby/131001>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 5, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/audio-processing-in-ruby/131001 "2008-03-05T03:05:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![ben-oakes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@ben-oakes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ben-oakes)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/audio-processing-in-ruby/131001/1 "2008-03-05T03:05:26Z")

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I’m interested in doing sound processing in Ruby. I’ve found some  
good libraries for Python, but haven’t been able to find anything very  
mature for Ruby (which I would prefer to work with, since I don’t know  
Python nearly as well). Anything I’ve found on RubyForge, for  
example, is in alpha. (I did find ‘ruby/audio’ but it I haven’t had  
much luck with it so far, without any type of guide.) Can anyone  
point me to some resources? I haven’t been able to find much of  
anything via Google so far.

Thanks,

– Ben (aka divokz)

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**Author:** ![ben-oakes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@ben-oakes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ben-oakes)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 3:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/audio-processing-in-ruby/131001/2 "2008-03-05T03:34:10Z")

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Benjamin Oakes wrote:

> I’m interested in doing sound processing in Ruby. I’ve found some good  
> libraries for Python, but haven’t been able to find anything very mature  
> for Ruby (which I would prefer to work with, since I don’t know Python  
> nearly as well). Anything I’ve found on RubyForge, for example, is in  
> alpha. (I did find ‘ruby/audio’ but it I haven’t had much luck with it  
> so far, without any type of guide.) Can anyone point me to some  
> resources? I haven’t been able to find much of anything via Google so far.

You might be able to find some good libraries in Java you could use  
through JRuby. I know there are a few simple ones built into Java SE. I  
don’t know others off the top of my head though, but it’s something to  
consider.

- Charlie

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**Author:** ![ben-oakes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@ben-oakes](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ben-oakes)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 4:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/audio-processing-in-ruby/131001/3 "2008-03-05T04:49:24Z")

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Benjamin Oakes wrote:

> – Ben (aka divokz)

I’ve started a project on Google code to do some related things. The  
project is

[http://code.google.com/p/r-ruby-algo-comp-synth/](http://code.google.com/p/r-ruby-algo-comp-synth/)

and it’s mostly oriented towards algorithmic composition and synthesis  
of music. What are your use cases/requirements? Perhaps I can hook them  
into this project.