Re: [ecasound] Re: [linux-audio-user] 24 bit replacement for SOX

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 08:27:17PM +0200, Kai Vehmanen wrote: Great. Thanks Kai. I had some sort of issue with -ei being limitted to less than the full 256 times shift supported by libsamplerate. I found the limit somewhere in ecasound code (or was this inside libsamplerate itself? <scratches_head> ) and changed it in my copy. Sorry to be so vague. There was a comment somewhere in there about the shift being limitted due to glitches in the output when extreme values were used. Raising the limit accomplished my goals, but I do recall getting some lack of smoothness in the results. I haven't updated any audio stuff on my audiobox in several months and I'm at work at the moment. So, I'm not exactly sure what versions of everything i'm currently using. I've been preoccupied with building a studio space in my basement for the past month. Once I get the room in shape I'll update to the latest versions of everything and let you know if I still have any issues. On another ecasound note, but unrelated to the Subject: of this thread: I've been recording the studio construcion sounds with a python-ecasound script that randomly mixes the input of 4 microphones down to mono. I've recorded so much that I've almost maxed out my audio drive. So, the upshot of this is that I'll have to convert my pool of audio and also all of my ecasound python eci scripts to flac. According to some rough calculations doing this will let me put off buying larger drives for another 6-8 months. I know you added flac support earlier this year and I did some preliminary tests at that time. But, I ran into some issues and didn't have time to work them out so I stuck with wav files. Have you had many reports of success or problems with ecasound's flac support? Do you use it yourself? Anyway, I will necessarily need to have solid flac support in the next few months. So, that stuff will be receiving some testing on my system soon. -Eric Rz.