Re: looking for a sound waveform viewer, but not audacity for reasons explained

[Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 28 Jun 2015, Dan Hitt wrote:

> 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.

  hi Dan
  I had the same problem as you, and found a solution which may be thought as an horrible
  workaround, but works perfectly:
  I use the following script:

     #!/bin/bash
     ps -u $USER -f | egrep -v grep\|kill-aud | grep audacity | while read  NAME PROC LINE
     do
        kill -9 $PROC
     done
     rm -fr  $HOME/.audacity-data/AutoSave

   Now you have to include this script in your window manager, and can exit from
   audacity with just 2 clicks, as with file/exit

cheers,
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Pierre Frenkiel