On Thursday 10 January 2013 18:14:59 John Murphy wrote: > As far as I know there isn't anything available for Linux which has > the sole purpose of marking and cataloguing (.wav) sound file regions. > > I don't know of anything on another platform which does it either. It is not exactly what you are looking for but do you know about transcriber? http://trans.sourceforge.net/en/presentation.php "transcriber - tool to transcribe speech using text (transcriber)" "transcriber is a graphical tool that allows to segment a long speech files easily, and to transcribe the litterally spoken text, and indicate speaker turns and topics." > > I need to: > > 1) Look at and zoom in on mostly quite big wav files circa 1.3GB, You can look at and zoom in on audio files. I haven't tested how large they can be. > to find sections/regions which are particularly musical, > or informative, and mark and name them for later access. > Only a few fields of information would be necessary. > > 2) Compile a 'play list' of regions to be played, while displaying > configurable fields of the details entered. Perhaps it can serve as a base for what you want. I was doing some non-related playlist stuff (edl type stuff for hour long audio files) a while back but the details are fuzzy right now. > > That's it really, although I have some particular demands for controls > which would aid my work-flow. I've got used to using a really old Windows > program, which isn't really suitable for the job, but I manage. No JACK > ability there though of course. > > I think it needs writing, if it is not already written. Anyone know > something like that? > > Functionally; it would be a bit like a DVD authoring application and > I wondered if I should contact the authors of Bonobo or similar. Main > difference being source material could be anywhere on the file system. > Compilations could be prepared for writing to CD perhaps, but mainly - > it would be used to create compilations to play on the computer. Perhaps > Version 2 could even generate pleasant musical programs with just a few > hints from user. ;) > > I don't have time to learn programming, but I do try to support those > who can write, and I'd do so if someone was willing to write it for me/us. > > Any advice would be most appreciated, thanks. all the best, drew _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
