May I make two suggestions 1) mood files -> some audio players generate these - most notably Amarok with the right plugins installed. These break up the audio files into 3 bands lows/mids/highs and display the level for each band. 2) the circular wave displays in freewheeling... These would fit into an icon preview very easily. I have some experience doing preview plugins for Dolphin if you think that would be helpful. On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 8:45 AM, renato <rennabh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 19:56:49 +0000 > djbarney <djbarney@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Thought I'd air this one to see if there's anyone already using this >> kind of thing out there. >> >> I'd become frustrated by lack of support for musicians in Linux >> window manager file managers. No default waveform/spectrogram >> support. No MIDI notation previews. No BPM or key info, etc, etc. >> >> I set up Caja to thumbnail WAV files using Sox ... see some >> screenshots on this forum thread ... >> >> http://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12514&p=55280#p55280 >> >> I'm looking at some other thumbnailers as listed on the thread. >> >> I'm thinking of doing some development of the MATE Caja file browser >> to allow better presentation of audio file waveform thumbnails as >> currently they can only be square. Maybe LAU members already know of >> someone who has done this ? No point in reinventing the wheel ... >> otherwise I'll take this to LAD. >> > > Hi, I think samplecat does some of the above. Also I've heard sox has > changed syntax between versions before, so it might break your program > in the future; others where recommending me ecasound instead... or > maybe libsndfile? > > cheers, > renato > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
