Re: looking for a sound waveform viewer, but not audacity for reasons explained
On Tuesday 30 June 2015 21:42:16 David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Lisi Reisz (lisi.reisz@gmail.com):
> > 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.
>
> Well, it's in the list at
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Waveform_Viewers-Plotting_Large_Analog_Data which
> might be worth perusing (third hit when googling interactive waveform
> plotting )
From there:
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A situation often occurs, where the user ends up with some sort of a large
dataset that needs to be visualised and analysed. Examples of this include:
[snip]
data from statistical or mathematical analysis (using, say, R or scilab);
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That is not sound.
Lisi
PS though the page does indeed also include sound wave plotters.
> Cheers,
> David.
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