[LAU] Sample manager?

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Sun Nov 28 21:02:19 UTC 2010


On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:24 PM,  <andersvi at notam02.no> wrote:
>
>    H> I haven't seen any other sample manager programs for Linux, but I
>    H> think I'm not the only one who uses samples and wants to manage
>    H> them (and preview them and maybe sort them with tags also).
>
> I miss such a general sound database-tool, and have been wanting to put
> something together for a while, perhaps based on emacs' org-mode.
>
> Something like what f-spot does for photos: keep pointers to diskfiles,
> hierarchical systems of tags, presenting all sorts of specialized
> collections of sounds with arbitrary combinations of tags.  Managing
> files and regions in files, exporting regionlists, collections,
> organizing, copying, linking files, creating diskfiles out of
> extracts...

ardour does more or less everything you've just mentioned (though not
"tags" in the sense of id3 tags, more arbitrary tags than that).

i'm not really suggesting it as the tool of choice for this, but just
sayin' ....

this area of operation will get some love next year.


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