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

[Danni Coy]

May I make two suggestions
1) mood files -> some audio players generate these - most notably
Amarok with the right plugins installed. These break up the audio
files into 3 bands lows/mids/highs and display the level for each
band.
2) the circular wave displays in freewheeling... These would fit into
an icon preview very easily.

I have some experience doing preview plugins for Dolphin if you think
that would be helpful.

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 8:45 AM, renato <rennabh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 19:56:49 +0000
> djbarney <djbarney at djbarney.org> 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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