cpal VS ht

debugging this nightmare bc its blocking my hobby project. by far the most fucked up issue ive encountered since i started rust.

There is a cross-platform audio library for Rust: cpal https://github.com/rustaudio/cpal

cpal crate should work fine for this use case, though it might be unnecessarily low-level for your use case.

I had to do something similar to this a while back. I used cpal.

Working on a live performance software that would let our band have live real-time practices over the internet. Top priority is minimum latency, so I'm trying to hook it up through ASIO. Not much luck yet. I've tried cpal, but I've run into numerous known random bugs (and some versions don't compile for me). At least I confirmed that I can push the audio through a TCP socket successfully.

With https://github.com/RustAudio/cpal you can access the microphone in a cross platform way, but you’ll get values of range [-1,1] out only. To calculate absolute decibels you would need to calibrate for your specific microphone with a known source.

source of example

you need to use a "loopback" device, as shown here - https://github.com/RustAudio/cpal/pull/478 (note, ive only tested this on windows - if its not supported on linux you could always plug your sound card output into its line-in/mic jack)

No need to use curl, make HTTP requests great again with https://github.com/ducaale/xh

Except when you actually enjoy things being fast. For example, HTTPie easily adds 0.5-1s delay to every request because it's written in Python, especially on the first invocation. xh (https://github.com/ducaale/xh), on the other hand, starts immediately because it's written in Rust. I very much like this trend.

HTTPie is great and was a big improvement for me over cURL.

However, I ended up switching to xh[1] as it's significantly faster and I prefer its output.

https://github.com/ducaale/xh

No, but unless portability is a concern or you're massively familiar with curl, you might want to consider xh. It's much more intuitive.

https://github.com/ducaale/xh

xh

wget on the other hand, automatically converts the ñ to UTF-8 hex and resolves the link perfectly.

I've searched the curl manpage and couldn't find a way to solve this. Please help.

I'm having to use `xh --curl` [1] to "fix" the links before I pass them to curl.

[1] https://github.com/ducaale/xh

Very nice, you should add xh to the User-Agents though.

While not a rewrite - one recent tool for making http requests which i quite enjoy is:

https://github.com/ducaale/xh

It's basically python httpie rewritten in rust. my only gripe is that i keep forgetting that it exists - and that "xh" is for http and "xhs" is for https.

So i frequently end up with curl anyway:)