An Extras package request.

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Sat Jan 29 01:27:37 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 17:19, Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
> Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> >On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 17:06, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> >>On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 16:27, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> >>>On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:17:51 -0600, Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
> >>>>Michael Schwendt wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>Saw it in the fedora.us queue long ago, and... it had several issues
> >>>>>apart from low priority: https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=619
> >>>>>          
> >>>>I haven't seen any of those mentioned problems when buiding the whole 
> >>>>package from source, but your mileage may vary.
> >>>>        
> >>>Well, that was end of 2003, now we have 2005. Also, packaging up the whole
> >>>thing with RPM requires a bit more than just compiling the source code.
> >>>Feel free to contribute packages for the FOX toolkit and the audio editor
> >>>you refer to. It's good to have alternatives and competition in that area.
> >>>      
> >>I already have packages available as part of the Planet CCRMA repository
> >>(for both). I don't have (yet) Fedora Extras cvs access so I can't
> >>contribute directly, but I could send spec files and/or patches if that
> >>would help. 
> >>
> >>Rezound is nice, but it has an additional (admittedly optional)
> >>dependency, the Jack Audio Connection Kit. That is one of the packages
> >>that I would eventually like to help include in FE as a _lot_ of very
> >>nice audio packages depend on Jack being available. 
> >
> >And another one I forgot about, don't know if it is already in FE:
> >http://sky.prohosting.com/oparviai/soundtouch/
> >(I also have packages for this)
> >
> Looks very interesting, but I wonder how does this differ from some 
> LADSPA plug-ins that do this?

Which plugin?

The interesting aspect of soundtouch is that it does not do just sample
rate conversion (like libsamplerate). It can do time stretching and/or
pitch shifting. A normal sample rate conversion process can change the
pitch of a signal but the length changes as well. 

-- Fernando





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