(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

As a new user, I have a few questions about this. I'm using Puppy 4. I want to install Audacity, but I'm a bit intimidated at this early stage by the process.

1. Is this beta version good and stable at this point?

2. What is twolame? Is this something that runs in the background or how and when is it used?

3. Am I correct that all I need to do is download the following .pet's and then drag the audacity icon to the desktop and off it goes?

a. the Audacity .pet
b. WxGTK
c. Jack
d. Twolame
e. libvamp 1.0
f. libsamplerate 0.1.2
g. soundtouch 1.5

4. Is there a .pet for lame?

Thanks for all this work you're doing.

Yes, it's very stable, I use it all the time and it works great. Twolame is a mp2 encoder. Lame is already installed in Puppy by default. Once you install all the dotpets you will be able to click on Audacity in the menu to start it.

Thanks for the reply. I heard that Lame is installed in Puppy, but when I try to click on the icon in usr/bin, or initrd/pup_ro2/usr/bin, there is no response at all, although they show as an executable. If I type "lame" in a command line, I get:

"LAME 32bits version3.97 (http://www.mp3dev.org/)
usage: lame [options] <infile> [outfile]" ,

(etc with a few other lines.)

I see a bunch of lib files pertaining to Lame, but maybe something is missing?

I guess I can get it another way if necessary, but it would be nice to know why it doesn't work, especially if I'm doing something wrong.

BTW, is it possible to copy and paste from a console to a browser? I tried ctrl c and v, but it didn't take.

If you click on lame nothing will happen. Lame is a command line tool only. Audacity will use the lame library that is already on your system. To copy between your browser and terminal all you need to do is highlight the text and then use the middle click on the mouse to paste.

plinej,
I see. I thought you had to run Lame like I used to in an older windows system I had. You had to get the wav file from Audacity and then run a Lame program to encode it to mp3 as I recall.
Thanks

It looks like the WxGTK thing was taken down. Any chance of putting it up somewhere else?

updated the links

Thanks!

Here is a new link for the wxgtk pet:

http://dotpups.de/puppy3/dotpups/Multim ... -2.8.7.pet

Neither of the Audacity pet links seem to work so I have remove link from Wiki (also this is quite old now). Let me know if you require it back on the wiki

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/audacity

By the way darkcity, I just installed 4.3.1 and went searching for Audacity, didn't find a working .pet (no big deal I found sweep, plus I have Audacity in Lucid), but I did find two more threads with non-existant download links:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 8428b72c9b
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... fc4f58f8ff
They're both also in the wiki.

hi

thanks for the heads up-
removed bad links from wiki

if anyone as link to audacity for Puppy 4 let us know

about Sweep, available as record tool in Qt puppies, how do you set recording to jack port (audio tapes to mp3)
Precord does it Easy. Audacity is harder to set. (not tried yet)
In fact my question is : what mean codes 0,1 1,1 ...
How to set to record without recording noise around ?

I believe the first number represents the audio card the operating system has
detected.

The second number is the source such as 'Line' or microphone input'

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If you're trying to get rid of hiss from a recording the best method
is to use the feature in audacity 'Noise removal'

Method:

1) Select a small bit of hiss in a silent section.
2) Choose 'noise removal' from the menu . Click a button 'Get Noise Profile.' in the window
that you are presented .

3) ctrl-a to select all
4) ctrl-r to remove the noise

http://www.podfeet.com/blog/recording/h ... -audacity/

well so the second number is microphone input or line. becaude untill now i was recording my speakers with audacity.
when i plug in my tape recorder, i set recording only there withalsamixer. that is perfect.you can talk, external noise is not recorded.