Re: [LAU] File managers for musicians, waveform thumbnails, presentation as tightly packed spiral a'la vinyl ? (Caja, MATE)

On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 19:56:49 +0000
djbarney <djbarney@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thought I'd air this one to see if there's anyone already using this
> kind of thing out there.
>
> I'd become frustrated by lack of support for musicians in Linux
> window manager file managers. No default waveform/spectrogram
> support. No MIDI notation previews. No BPM or key info, etc, etc.
>
> I set up Caja to thumbnail WAV files using Sox ... see some
> screenshots on this forum thread ...
>
> http://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12514&p=55280#p55280
>
> I'm looking at some other thumbnailers as listed on the thread.
>
> I'm thinking of doing some development of the MATE Caja file browser
> to allow better presentation of audio file waveform thumbnails as
> currently they can only be square. Maybe LAU members already know of
> someone who has done this ? No point in reinventing the wheel ...
> otherwise I'll take this to LAD.
>

Hi, I think samplecat does some of the above. Also I've heard sox has
changed syntax between versions before, so it might break your program
in the future; others where recommending me ecasound instead... or
maybe libsndfile?

cheers,
renato
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Received on Thu Aug 14 04:15:03 2014