NateRickard
Added in-memory audio stream and audio level event
I plan to implement an app using Plugin.AudioRecorder that will use a continuous stream of audio. I won't necessarily need to store the audio in files on disk, so I've added a MemoryStream option to Plugin.AudioRecorder. I have not changed the default behaviour of storing audio to a file, so the changes should not affect any existing users of Plugin.AudioRecorder.
I would also like my app to display a visual representation of the current audio level, so I've added an event that is invoked when the audio level is updated.
I would greatly appreciate if these changes could be added to the next release of Plugin.AudioRecorder. Thank you!
@NateRickard is it possible to merge and release this PR? For security reasons, we can't store audio as a file on the device. It would be nice if we could use this (awesome) library.
Thanks for the ping on this. I'm definitely interested in getting it merged in, but I'll have to recreate my build environment to generate the NuGet - I no longer have VS 2017 and the VS plugin I was using to properly generate the package is no longer maintained/exists for 2019. I'll try to revisit this shortly, stay tuned.
Thanks for the response. I looked a bit at this PR and discovered this solution may not work for me either. I need to make long recordings, which I want to send to a server. So a memory stream may not be the right choice. I decided to implement my own solution, where you can give a stream to the StartRecording function:
var audioRecordTask = await recorder.StartRecording (myStream);
It will write the data to the provided stream. If no stream is provided, it falls back to writing a file.
I will make a PR for this functionality by the end of the week, if that's ok. It should also cover this scenario, by giving a memorystream to the function.
I can't remember if I had to make further changes to my pull request to get it working, but I can check when I have a chance. Let me know if there are any issues.