;-) I see you live in Pilsen where the world´s best beer is made. I´ve found this out empirically but of course need to "download" more to make it statiscally valid.
Said that, I certainly do not want to distract from the original topic of the thread (have not read it in full length yet) and although I´m "oldschool" linux I´m willing to contribute and not beeing "arrogant"; I´m just easily offended by "esoteric" claims. We already have enough of those in our world. That´s the advantage of Linux, you can look how it works, no "secrets" here and thus no need to "just believe".
Said that, I certainly do not want to distract from the original topic of the thread (have not read it in full length yet) and although I´m "oldschool" linux I´m willing to contribute and not beeing "arrogant"; I´m just easily offended by "esoteric" claims. We already have enough of those in our world. That´s the advantage of Linux, you can look how it works, no "secrets" here and thus no need to "just believe".
OMG. Using wine for such a task IMHO is definitely not the best thing to do.
About native players, I am afraid that perhaps you have not tried hard enough the best native players around. Of course no-one of them will work exactly the way you're used to. There will always be some "learning curve" before you'll feel at home with any new software once you have got used to something else.
Which ones have you tried? under which distribution/environment?
Anyway, the world is nice 'cause it's so various... it's always nice to have choices. 😀
About MPD, of course its most prominent feature is the client-server model, which is best exploited when controlling a dedicated server from one or more remote clients. But you can also use it on a single machine. Clients like GMPC are as good as many "integrated" (non client-server) players.
About native players, I am afraid that perhaps you have not tried hard enough the best native players around. Of course no-one of them will work exactly the way you're used to. There will always be some "learning curve" before you'll feel at home with any new software once you have got used to something else.
Which ones have you tried? under which distribution/environment?
Anyway, the world is nice 'cause it's so various... it's always nice to have choices. 😀
About MPD, of course its most prominent feature is the client-server model, which is best exploited when controlling a dedicated server from one or more remote clients. But you can also use it on a single machine. Clients like GMPC are as good as many "integrated" (non client-server) players.
If you say so..
About native players, I am afraid that perhaps you have not tried hard enough the best native players around. Of course no-one of them will work exactly the way you're used to. There will always be some "learning curve" before you'll feel at home with any new software once you have got used to something else.
My learning curve is not that long. I'm capable of expecting some behavior after such operations like DnD and move,copy items between multiple playlists.
This list is not going to be as short as my learning curve if try to remember what i tried since the days of we were celebrating iso9660 filesystem support just arrived to 2.0 kernel.
We are agree on this point.. This is why I'm on wine+foobar side for a while. I'm also using a simple file launcher which is a simply 'mplayer -ao alsa:device=front "$1"'. DnD works great 🙂
I'm a oldskool shaped computer user. I'm still trying to get used to windoze and menu buttons on keyboards. Please don't expect from a "file based" thinker to feel comfort while doing such client-server things in this manner.
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well, basically your sound stream will be goin' through an emulated windows sound stack/driver layer. Maybe it's not the case (we should look at the code to know), but it may even be not "bit-perfect".
so I am. Even more, I'm a command line guy. My favorite "player" is: "play <some_files>" from a bash shell. 😀
Wav header
Dear Folks
I discovered that sometime softwares (dsp, encoders, etc) add some stuffs in the header of the wavs when I go back to wav format. For instance this happens when I go from ape to wav.
There is anyway to clean the wavs, so that everything is before the DATA is 100% consistent with the wav standard?
I tried doing
but header still contains non-standard elements.
Best Wishes
Pietro
Dear Folks
I discovered that sometime softwares (dsp, encoders, etc) add some stuffs in the header of the wavs when I go back to wav format. For instance this happens when I go from ape to wav.
There is anyway to clean the wavs, so that everything is before the DATA is 100% consistent with the wav standard?
I tried doing
Code:
sox in.wav -t wav out.wavbut header still contains non-standard elements.
Best Wishes
Pietro
sox resampling to red-book
Dear all,
I'have ripped several LPs at 24bit/192Khz, and I want to make CD-RW copies to be played in my car.
From what I understood the best way to get files resampled with sox is something like this:
Am I right, or rather there is any better way (higher quality) to do it?
Pietro
Dear all,
I'have ripped several LPs at 24bit/192Khz, and I want to make CD-RW copies to be played in my car.
From what I understood the best way to get files resampled with sox is something like this:
Code:
sox -V5 input.wav -b 16 -t wav output.wav rate -v -s 44100 dither -sAm I right, or rather there is any better way (higher quality) to do it?
Pietro
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Looks ok to me. Of cause one may argue about the shape of dither, the bandwith or allowing aliasing and so on 🙂
One thing you should certainly add is -a to the dither option so sox doesn´t dither on digital silence.
One thing you should certainly add is -a to the dither option so sox doesn´t dither on digital silence.
you mean simply like this?
Code:
sox -V5 input.wav -b 16 -t wav output.wav rate -v -s 44100 dither -s -aPietro
The original wav format was later on extended to the "extended wav" format. See wavpcm at SoX - Sound eXchange | FAQ and SoX
I think wavpcm is not the standard wav, isn't it? The sox manual says:
.wavpcm: A non-standard, but widely used, variant of .wav. Some applications cannot read a standard WAV file header for PCM-encoded data with sample-size greater than 16-bits or with more than two channels, but can read a non-standard WAV header. It is likely that such applications will eventually be updated to support the standard header, but in the mean time, this SoX format can be used to create files with the non-standard header that should work with these applications. (Note that SoX will automatically detect and read WAV files with the non-standard header.)
Best Wishes
Pietro
I do not know which wavs you have. Both types have the wav suffix. You can check via sox -V your.wav -n
Code:
sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav'or
Code:
sox INFO formats: detected file format type `wav'
sox INFO wav: EXTENSIBLEIf you want standard pcm wave file, just do it via mplayer.
# mplayer -ao pcm:file=output.wav input.etc
checking file format for sure:
# file output.wav
# mplayer -ao pcm:file=output.wav input.etc
checking file format for sure:
# file output.wav
Is anyone kind enough to provide a step by step idiots guide to setup a good Linux audio system ?
I found one for Windows (very complete & idiot proof but in French) but only scattered infos on Linux from various web sites with various level of details.
I found one for Windows (very complete & idiot proof but in French) but only scattered infos on Linux from various web sites with various level of details.
An updated article you can find at www.acourate.com/freedownload/The Guide to VoyageMPD BruteFIR and JACK v01.4.pdf
Interesting - usb class 2.0 gadget driver 🙂 Can be pretty handy at times.
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Hi all,
I have bought two Infrasonic Quartet cards to replace Delte 1010LTs (desperately need the extra 10 dB SNR in ADC!). Deltas were working fine with cards synchronized through S/PDIF and using the alsa configuration from: Sound Recording with GNU/Linux - Multiple Soundcards - ICE1712/Delta 1010
Any one have experience using multiple Quartets? Similar configuration doesn't work with Brutefir, I get this "invalid argument" error from alsa as warned in the comments for that configuration file. How many channels of playback and capture should be addressed in the config? Thanks for any help!
I have bought two Infrasonic Quartet cards to replace Delte 1010LTs (desperately need the extra 10 dB SNR in ADC!). Deltas were working fine with cards synchronized through S/PDIF and using the alsa configuration from: Sound Recording with GNU/Linux - Multiple Soundcards - ICE1712/Delta 1010
Any one have experience using multiple Quartets? Similar configuration doesn't work with Brutefir, I get this "invalid argument" error from alsa as warned in the comments for that configuration file. How many channels of playback and capture should be addressed in the config? Thanks for any help!
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