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

[djbarney]

On 2014-08-13 22:45, renato 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

Hi, yes saw Samplecat but could not get it to compile. Good effort but 
to be honest the interface needs some work.

So syntax changing is not a massive problem. I want to keep text 
settings files and CLI tools as, in my opinion, writing in C++ all the 
time and using libraries takes power away from the user (of course there 
are appropriate uses for coding).

DJ Barney

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