On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Robin Gareus <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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). 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. > > 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! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
