Owing to superior performance as well as versatility, the default backend for loading audio files is now av. av is an efficient wrapper for Ffmpeg.
The refactorings involved in this update contain breaking changes as to naming and scope. Most mportantly:
av is now the default backend, and it is a mandatory dependency. Linux users please consider the av installation instructions.
The only user-visible function to load audio is torchaudio_load(). It will delegate to the default backend, or one you set with set_audio_backend().
As of this time, a supported alternative backend is tuneR.
The only user-visible function to obtain audio file information is now torchaudio_info().
cstdint in Audiofile.htorchaudio_load() has been replaced by tuneR_loader() and transform_to_tensor(). Inspired by {torchvision}.av_loader() (experimental)NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.