[LAU] previewing samples - sample browser

Dan MacDonald allcoms at gmail.com
Wed Jan 18 16:50:24 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Robin Gareus <robin at linuxaudio.org> wrote:
> Hi Alessandro,
>
> On Jan 18, 2012, at 2:29 AM, Alessandro Preziosi (licnep) wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> Any idea to quickly preview audio files (using jack)? I have a huge
>> sample library (.wav mostly) and I'd love something like a file
>> browser that previews files when you click them or hover them. Is
>> there such a thing? Even if i have to open a more complex audio
>> application and just use its file browser i'd be ok with that
>> solution.
>
> nautilus (gnome file browser) auditions audio files on mouse-over (either using gstreamer or totem-audio-preview).

Yep - thats what I used to use for this but it looks like squeeze is
the last Debian to include GNOME 2.X / Nautilus as Deb Testing uses
GNOME 3 now. Apparently Konqueror had this feature in its later
revisions but its not present in Dolphin sadly.

>
> https://github.com/ayyi/Samplecat does 1 click audition, remembers/highlights /previewed/ files and
> can be used manage an archive:  wave-form display, tags, peak-level, spectral analysis,...
> samples can also be triggered via MIDI keyboard and transposed or speed-changed.
> The downside: initial import of large libraries takes quite a while; but it runs in the background.

Thanks for pointing samplecat out Robin! I'd never heard of it before
but I've just tried it and its pretty much exactly what I wanted for a
sample/audio browser - I say pretty much as its GTK and my disgust at
GNOME 3 has seen me migrating to Qt/KDE everything but I think I can
stomach the odd stray GTK app.

Whilst the hot tips and pro-Qt utterances are on the go may I
recommend qupzilla to anyone after a fast and light but feature-rich
(Qt) browser!


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