Hi thanks for your suggestions on simple apps for simple people... >From Julien: > For just recording and checking mixer-settings, I think ecasound or > qtecasound, if you like GUIs, might be ok. Otherwise there is still ardour, > muse and the other big ones, but they contain a lot of functionality. um, sorry to be silly, but how does ecasound tell me whether my mixer levels are suitable for recording the input? don't i need something like a VU meter, ..or? > Recording mp3s: Why not just record audio-data to a raw (.raw or .cdr) file > or .wav-file and convert them afterwards? ? gosh i really wasn't clear. i'm not sure what you are suggesting, but, well, i think i'm doing that. but i need to do a bit of editing along the way. Matthijs: > Sweep is quite a nice audio editor, if not that great at working with > large sound files: thanks! it has the functionality of x-fades which is really nice, and audacity doesn't. but... hmmm... whats this about large sound files... what happens?? <worries about spending hours to have it swept and mangled> Alexandre: > > But, oh god, I installed ReZound 0.7 yesterday... It has VU meters > for both recording and playing and an EQ analyser as well. > Give it a try! i tried. it sounds perfect, but... hmmm can't yet get it to compile. it depends on a lot a lot of libs that are >versions than mine. i am still struggling (debian woody/unstable) so i'm still open for suggestions for a VU meter, or even some smart way that makes my recording levels easy to assess... Now this is a vsound (0.5) problem I've had for a while. It occurs on realmedia files. Somewhen during the stream realplayer just closes. This is what it says: cygnus:~/mars> vsound --timing -f output.wav realplay _1790918_blur_beagle_vi.ram About to start the application. The output will not be available until the application exits. /usr/bin/vsound: line 163: 1366 Aborted LD_PRELOAD="$pkglibdir/libvsound.so" "$@" Any suggestions? thanks! jane
