Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Wave Editors
From: Lamar Owen (lamar.owen_AT_wgcr.org)
Date: Fri Oct 25 2002 - 23:13:04 EEST
On Friday 25 October 2002 02:18 pm, Paul Davis wrote:
> >Is this really of any use? I never recorded with sweep (I use
> >ecasound), but when I tried to load a 10 minute ogg file into sweep,
> >it refused this because of exhausted memory. I have 256 MB, that
> >should be enough for 10 minutes of sound data. So how good is sweep
> >with longer soundfiles?
> i would consider a much more fundamental problem with sweep (which the
> author has plans to fix at some point) is the assumption that the
> audio data will fit in memory. this just isn't viable for working with
> "music" rather than "audio clips".
> gnoise doesn't do this, and neither does snd. i am not sure about
> audacity, but i suspect it doesn't either.
I regularly edit 2 hour 44.1k stereo 16bit files with Audacity. Sweep looks
really really good -- but won't open that size file. Audacity has a bug in
its handling of that size file, which I need to report when I have time to
write it up properly, but it's something I can work around easily enough.
-- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11
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