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plinej · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1517

I wrote another gui, this time for sox. This gui will convert audio files between supported sox audio formats, mix 2 audio files, merge multiple audio files, Resample, mono/stereo conversion, & adjust amplitude.

0.2
removed the soxmix gui since Puppy doesn't have soxmix. Combined the resample/stereo gui with the audio conversion gui. If you just want to resample or convert to stereo/mono but keep the same type of file just select the output type the same as the input from the drop down boxes. Your new file will be named new-(input file name). I added some more audio formats and included ffmpeg in the scripts for the new formats.

0.3
Put the soxmix gui back in but the button will not be displayed if soxmix isn't in your $PATH. Added a gui for the 'rec' function in the sox package.

0.4
Added a gui for the sox play functions and gave the main menu a facelift

0.5
Added a gui for various sound effect options

0.6
Added a gui for applying fade in or outs to selected wav files. Added mp3 to the merge gui as long as mp3wrap is found in your $PATH. Removed the gui for audio conversion and instead made it a link to pawdiconverter since it is better.

0.7
Revised scripts to work with the new gtkdialog3 executable that will be in Puppy versions greater than 2.14. Also found a few bugs that I've fixed.
The new gtkdialog3 is here:
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-2/gtkdialog-0.7.18.pet

0.7.1
forgot to include an icon so I repackaged

0.8
updated the icons to use the stock gtk icons and made program install to /usr/local/apps/ instead of /usr/local/

0.9
fixed a couple of bugs

If you want to use all soxgui functions you'll need to install:

pawdioconverter (another gtkdialog gui to convert between audio formats):
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=736334907&t=15363

mp3wrap (small cli tool to merge mp3 files):
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=818899436&t=15496

plinej · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1517

Here's a pic of all the gui's

plinej · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1517

updated to 0.2

mmmkay · Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 22

thanks

Lobster · Posted: Tue 09 Jan 2007, 07:38 Post subject:

plinej soxgui is in 2.13 and very good too. Will you be adding the sound effect options?

It would be great to add a facility to record sound

I have been using puppys built in "wavrec"
and "wavplay" in my dogbone program which I use for recording audio "pawedcasts" in Puppy
but this is not satisfacory for general usage as the recordings have a set time.

Is there any small record/playback program in Linux that you are aware of?

Is xwave one potential?

Smile

plinej · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1517

mmmkay,

Like lobster said Soxgui is in Puppy 2.13 but if you're running an older version just download the dotpup in the first message of this thread.

lobster,

I may add some of the sound effect options to the gui. Anything in particular you use? I can probably add wavrec and wavplay to the gui too, although I've never used either of them.

Lobster · Posted: Tue 09 Jan 2007, 11:32 Post subject:

I think echo is usually a nice effect Smile

This is from dogbone

plinej · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1517

The sox package comes with the rec executable. There's no time restriction on it.

rec --help

here's an example:
rec -s w -r 44100 -c 2 test.wav

Lobster · Posted: Tue 09 Jan 2007, 14:31 Post subject:

I removed the stereo and two channels (got garbled sound)
this worked

plinej · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1517

Okay, I'll do some testing with it soon and see what I can come up with.

plinej · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1517

--edit--

disregard

plinej · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1517

Alright, I updated to 0.3 which includes a record gui utilizing the 'rec' function in the sox package. I have no microphone so I can't test it. It does appear to work and the files are created as specified and ffmpeg says they are valid files with the attributes I chose from within the gui. I didn't update the help section since over the next few days I'll probably be doing some more work trying to incorporate some of the sox sound effects into the gui. Just figured I'd throw this out there so you guys with microphones can test it out.

plinej · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1517

I just added a gui to utilize the play function of sox. I'll wait until I add some more functions before I update to 0.4. This gui will play your selected file or it will play a full directory of selected file type (from sox supported formats drop down box).

Lobster

great - the recording function works (very nicely done - simple, obvious, just works).

Tested, wav, au and ogg.

You can use the old trick of using headphones plugged into the mic socket if you have no mic. The sound will not be great but it works . . .

plinej · Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1517

0.4 is up. I haven't had time to add any of the sound effect options yet. I added the aforementioned play gui to play your sox supported audio formats (wav, ogg, mp3, & many more). I also gave the menu gui a facelift ala Nathan's Grafburn program.