Re: looking for a sound waveform viewer, but not audacity for reasons explained
On Monday 29 June 2015 02:28:20 Richard Owlett wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > TIA for any leads!
> >
> > dan
>
> Unlikely what you were recalling but I would recommend investigating
> scilab, scioslab, and gnuplot
>
> They are EXPLICITLY tools rather than SOLUTIONS.
And there are the answer to the question how? He explicitly wanted a SOUND
waveform viewer, with playing the sound a bonus. I know Maths and sound are
linked, but this seems going a bit far.
Lisi
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