18 Jan
2012
18 Jan
'12
1:29 a.m.
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.
18 Jan
18 Jan
1:34 a.m.
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Alessandro Preziosi (licnep)
<lsnpreziosi(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Ardour can do this, you can audition files using the import external
audio dialog. I also do this kind of thing by turning on the
pulseaudio jack sink and using the Gnome file browser (at least in
Ubuntu Studio 11.04) and single clicking files, they will play back
right there, great way to audition files.
--
Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.brettwmccoy.com
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"In the rhythm of music a secret is hidden; If I were to divulge it,
it would overturn the world."
-- Jelaleddin Rumi
1:35 a.m.
A bit of an overkill, but you could always use Ardour's "Import to
Region List" function, which opens a file browser window from which you
can easily playback/preview sound files.
http://en.flossmanuals.net/ardour/ch022_importing-audio/
Bruno
On 01/17/2012 05:29 PM, 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.
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1:44 a.m.
Oh yea, just tried that, it's pretty awesome, better than i remembered.
I'm using qtractor lately, but that could be an option nevertheless
2012/1/18 Bruno Ruviaro <ruviaro(a)stanford.edu>du>:
A bit of an overkill, but you could always use
Ardour's "Import to Region
List" function, which opens a file browser window from which you can easily
playback/preview sound files.
http://en.flossmanuals.net/ardour/ch022_importing-audio/
Bruno
3:31 p.m.
On 01/18/2012 01:44 AM, Alessandro Preziosi (licnep) wrote:
Oh yea, just tried that, it's pretty awesome,
better than i remembered.
I'm using qtractor lately, but that could be an option nevertheless
while on qtractor, if you simply add the files from the files widget
(Files/Add Files... context-menu) you'll get the same by double-clicking
on the item.
it also works for midi files as well (ie. midi file player), but that
assumes you have connected an outsider midi instrument/sound module to
render the midi stream (eg. fluidsynth/qsynth comes to mind:)
cheers
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2:56 a.m.
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).
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.
ardour, qtractor et al are also up to the job. YMMV.
robin
4:50 p.m.
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Robin Gareus <robin(a)linuxaudio.org> wrote:
Hi Alessandro,
On Jan 18, 2012, at 2:29 AM, Alessandro Preziosi (licnep) wrote:
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.
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).
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!
8:01 a.m.
Am 18.01.2012 02:29, schrieb Alessandro Preziosi (licnep):
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
I have set mhwaveedit:
https://gna.org/projects/mhwaveedit/
to open WAV-files. It is a bit more than just a preview but absolutely
not as huge as Ardour. Starts up, shows and plays a 5min-WAV within less
than a second. And it works in multiple instances all connecting
automagically to Jack
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.
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7:05 p.m.
On 01/18/2012 02:29 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.
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Hi,
jass, http://github.com/fps/jass, is a simple sampler for jack that has
a file browser in its main window. holding ALT and selecting a sample
plays that sample.
Flo
19 Jan
19 Jan
6:12 p.m.
Thanks for the hints everybody, I'll look into jass and samplecat too,
they look interesting
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