From 97dcfe3725d11bd4d2212a232c156c25810322a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Sturmfels <ben@sturm.com.au>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 19:58:32 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Work around lack of scikits.audiolab support on Python 3.

---
 docs/source/siteadmin/media-types.rst |  5 ++++-
 extlib/freesound/audioprocessing.py   | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/source/siteadmin/media-types.rst b/docs/source/siteadmin/media-types.rst
index 8f9239be..e06739ec 100644
--- a/docs/source/siteadmin/media-types.rst
+++ b/docs/source/siteadmin/media-types.rst
@@ -131,10 +131,13 @@ To install these on Debianoid systems, run::
     not compile it with alsa support. Alsa support is not necessary for the GNU
     MediaGoblin application.
 
-Then install ``scikits.audiolab`` for the spectrograms::
+If you're running Python 2, install ``scikits.audiolab`` for the spectrograms::
 
     ./bin/pip install scikits.audiolab
 
+Audio spectrograms are currently not available on Python 3, since scikits.audiolab
+does not provide Python 3 support.
+
 Add ``[[mediagoblin.media_types.audio]]`` under the ``[plugins]`` section in your
 ``mediagoblin.ini`` and restart MediaGoblin.
 
diff --git a/extlib/freesound/audioprocessing.py b/extlib/freesound/audioprocessing.py
index 7ef8d5d4..b9a96a97 100644
--- a/extlib/freesound/audioprocessing.py
+++ b/extlib/freesound/audioprocessing.py
@@ -44,6 +44,31 @@ try:
     import scikits.audiolab as audiolab
 except ImportError:
     print("WARNING: audiolab is not installed so wav2png will not work")
+
+    # Hack to prevent errors when uploading audio files. The issue is that
+    # scikits.audiolab does not support Python 3. By replacing it with a mock
+    # implementation here, we can accept audio files, but we won't get the nice
+    # waveform image.
+    import six
+    if six.PY3:
+        class MockSndfile(object):
+            def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+                self.nframes = 0
+                self.channels = 1
+                self.samplerate = 44100
+
+            def read_frames(self, *args):
+                return []
+
+            def seek(self, *args):
+                return
+
+            def close(self):
+                return
+        import unittest.mock as mock
+        audiolab = mock.Mock()
+        audiolab.Sndfile = MockSndfile
+
 import subprocess
 
 class AudioProcessingException(Exception):
-- 
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