Audio editing software - was Re: talking linux wanted

Anders Holmberg anders at pipkrokodil.se
Sat Mar 24 14:18:19 UTC 2007


HellO!
Isnt there any console based sound utilities?
I dont like all this graphic stuff.
A/nders.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Krister Ekstrom" <krister at kristersplace.ws>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 11:08 AM
Subject: Audio editing software - was Re: talking linux wanted


>
>
> Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
>>>> I also need as many audio tools as possible.
>>> I am affraid you will have to stick to Windows if you need useful audio
>>> tools that are accessible. While there are many tools for working with
>>> audio under Linux, practically none of them are accessible.
>>
>> Doesn't this depend on precisely what Jim's trying to do? For example,
>> if the graphical tools prove inaccessible, Linux has command-line
>> conversion tools for different audio formats, and command-line tools for
>> playing and burning CDs and transferring audio to bluetooth devices. Or
>> are the command-line tools actually much less accessible than I'm
>> imagining? Of course, Jim may be talking about composing music or
>> something.
>
> When it comes to ripping and burning cd/dvds there are a couple good and
> accessible graphical tools i know of. We have Gnome-baker for cd
> manipulation, Sound juicer and Grip should work for ripping even if Grip
> is a little ahem special when it comes to exact selection of tracks for
> ripping. If it's a matter of audio editing, though, i don't know of
> anything which leads me to ask if any work is made for example in Ubuntu
> for making sound editing programs work for us?
> I've seen an early version of JoKosher and that looks pretty good when
> it gets ready and then we have Ardour Ii which isn't yet released but
> it'll build on Gtk2 so it sounds promising. Ardour is a program for both
> midi and audio manipulation.
> But i wonder if there's a soundforge-like program under Linux
> accessible or not, and if it isn't accessible if it can be made 
> accessible?
> /Krister
>>
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>> Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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