Re: looking for a sound waveform viewer, but not audacity for reasons explained
Hi.
On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 05:24:25PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could somebody please point me to a sound waveform viewer?
>
> I'm aware of audacity, which is of course a very fine piece of
> software. But its function is more to edit than just to view. So,
> e.g., if you open a sound file, then it wants to create a project, and
> when you want to exit you have to tell it not to save the project that
> it created.
>
> I would like to just have something that shows the waveform.
>
> Ideally it would do other tasks connected with viewing, such as being
> able to zoom to the sample level, give actual data readouts [sample
> value, time, etc], and play nice with other software. So it would be
> nice, e.g., if you could pop it open at the command line and maybe
> even have it scroll to some interesting point. (It would also be nice
> if it could play the wave form, but if it can't that's no deal
> breaker.)
>
> My vague recollection is that there used to be more than a dozen such
> viewers, but i can't seem to track any down now.
What about ffmpeg + gnuplot approach?
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Create%20a%20Waveform%20Image%20from%20an%20Audio%20Stream
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