[LAU] [LAA] Qtractor 0.1.3 (frugal damsel) released!

[Rui Nuno Capela]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc at rncbc.org> wrote:
>> Mark Knecht wrote:
> <SNIP>
>>> Hi Rui,
>>>   You know me pretty well at this point old friend. I've just a user.
>>> Nothing more. I might be a pretty smart user, but I'm just a user.
>>>
>>>
>>  oh no. don't take me wrong. i was just in hope that Erik was listening here
>> too :)
>>
> 
> Me too!
> 
>>
>>
> <SNIP>
>>  ok. we already have the "Root note", "Beats", "Meter" and "Tempo" fields in
>> sight, which is a fair start imo.
> 
> Well, sndfile-info writes the word 'tempo' but I'm not completely
> comfortable that we know where the tempo values are. Both of the
> examples I provided say 120BPM. Unfortunately neither loop library is
> actually recorded at that tempo!
> 

that is *bad* news :( so the meta-data we get from libsndfile is bogus?

i guess we're back to square one (or is it zero?:).


>>  i'm afraid of what the "??" could mean :) and whether Erik will break or
>> change the SFC_GET_LOG_INFO output string layout on any other libsndfile
>> release ;)
>>
> 
> I'll promise you that "??" means 'I don't know, this is a place holder
> for the future', or something like that. Again, this has been at least
> 4 years since Erik and I did this because I was living in a different
> house and we bought this current house in July, 2004. That said I
> think Eirk and I had identified a list of things to at least look for
> in the files and some of what's in sndfile-info's output today is just
> that list. We still need to find things.
> 
> I feel like I could be of more help if someone trained me to use some
> tools. Are there any simple tools for looking at the contents of a
> wave file and getting just the header portion? I found hexedit but
> there's little contextual info there so I'd need to know more about
> wave formats themselves. I'd be happy to take some spare time and look
> at files to see if I can find some patterns if I can find some tools
> someone like me can use.
> 

we'll have to resort that audio files must be integral in length to ever 
get some kind of loop auto-fitting ...

cyaa
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