Re: Gnome sound recorder

[Allann Jones <allanjos 7 gmail com>]

Hi, I think that these applications are complex a lot for a simple
operation like capture and playback of audio. I think in resources
like choice of sample rate, encoding and number of channels. Playback
of linear, a-law and mu-law audio, etc.
The Audacity, Beast and WaveSurfer
(http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/) are complex applications to be
integrated with the window manager. A application like Windows sound
recorder is simple and util. Most users don't have technical
knowledges to edit audio.



On 6/23/05, Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Allann Jones wrote:
> 
> > Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 11:59:55 -0400
> > From: Allann Jones <allanjos 7 gmail com>
> > To: gnome-multimedia gnome org
> > Subject: Gnome sound recorder
> >
> > Hi, I'm starting to develop a sound recorder for Gnome, but I think
> > that I can use the existing code in the distribution.
> 
> > I was thinking in a pure GTK+ application, but I've changed about this.
> 
> There is a general move amongst Gnome developers towards making
> applications more portable and using Gnome components in a cleanly
> seperable way.  I'm no expert but grecord has quite few remaining Gnome
> specific dependencies and ones like gnome-vfs and gnome-help should be
> relatively easy to seperate out (things like gconf might not be so easy).
> I expect patches to make Gnome Sound Recorder (grecord)  and gnome-media
> in general build as a GTK only application would be graciously accepted
> (as similar work has been accepted in the past).
> 
> > I want to contact the developers of the actual version of the sound
> > recorder to share ideas. I'm developing some audio APIs in my job, but
> > these codes isn't open source, I want to contribute with the community.
> 
> As the README file included with grecord explains the general plan was to
> create a simple sound recorder to record and play and add some simple
> sound effects.  It seems like that is something you would be interested in
> doing and also something the developers would be interested in having.
> 
> I assume you have particular reasons for choosing Gnome Sound Recorder as
> a base for you work and are already familiar with various other Open
> Source audio tools from the relatively simple Audacity, to the more
> complex tools like Beast and many others. (It is extremely unlikely that
> you would choose without checking out the alternatives first but I feel I
> should mention them just in case).
> http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
> http://beast.gtk.org/
> 
> Sincerely
> 
> Alan Horkan
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