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[jonny]

Finally, some trustworthy software for MP3 >> OGG uses. I just hope it can be trusted with my 3.4+ gb of music. On a related note, I just have a quick *nix newbie question - How do you transfer files from an NTFS partition to an EXT3? Is there software that can do that? Currently I have both Xp and Redhat on my dual-boot internet capable, but only Xp can access my [windows -_-] home network, so that's a no-go for file transfer.

I thought about using a bunch of CD's, but my drive has a bug and it only writes to CD-R's, which are in short supply at my house.

[savage]

There's NTFS drivers for nix, but they're read only be default. Writing would probably be quite dangerous, but I've found reading to be quite reliable. I'm positive there's a rpm for them, but I stopped using redhat/fedora ages ago, in favor of the infinitely more interesting Arch Linux. <pimp>Bleeding edge package versions, high speed i686 optimized, easy to use package system, bare bones install + packages = custom specialized system, forces you to actually learn something rather than playing in the gui</pimp>

You're a linking machine bobo!

[jonny]

Ya, I was trying to decide between Gentoo or Arch for the next distro I try. That won't be for a while, though, I still need to get some more experience with Linux. I'll try these drivers you speak of.

[Andreone]

Hi,

I've looked this promising piece of software. However, I found that to support MP3, OGG & FLAC, we have to compile the sources ourselves with the according libraries

Does anyone have such a build? Or a based project that could be reused (version 14 has been released a few days ago).
Maybe someone knows a place where such a build can be found.

Thank you

[majkinetor]

Just use AWave , it handles them all....
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[Andreone]

Thank you for AWave (I did not know it), but the features I'm the most interested in are the sound effects (mostly pitch & tempo).
I'm planning to make tools to practice music (making loops, adjusting pitch, ...) since I've found nothing already existing that meets my needs. So I'm looking for trails
Today I found bass (which is mentioned on the forum here).
It may be what I was looking for

[majkinetor]

http://puredata.org/
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/music.software.html
http://www.csounds.com/
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[Andreone]

Thank you
Thank you
Thank you

I had even no idea such frameworks was existing.
Do you have special interest in music/sound management, or this is just general culture?

[majkinetor]

I work as electronic music producer in my free time (see www.r-moth.com). Among others, those were the things I used (Nyquist just as experiment).

Csound is extremely known, it has AHK like syntax and bunch of code/insturments/projects to learn from. Its very low, kind of music assembler. PureData (or Max/Msp) is graphical thing, easier for beginers and it is ideal for creating custom audio environments (patches) for live acts and sound experimenting. Nyquist is interesting, as it uses lisp and doesnt make separation between notes and music, but you need to know Lisp (some examples come with Audacity editor).

If you are using Linux or MacOX , the best thing is Supercollider, object oriented music framework on SmallTalk language.

Whatever you choose, there is bunch of theory to know about. I consider myself as a beginner after 5 years of full day working with such things.

One good book is Computer Muisc - synthesis , composition and performance. Another, but very advanced is Csound book. You have also freeware book by author of Max/MSP and PureData, Miller Pucket, Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music with examples and tutorials in PureData (which is open source version of his commercial Max/MSP product)

But if you just want to play, grab FLStudio, extremely easy to start and hard to master.
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[Icarus]

Ok,

so whats the deal? Is there a simple command line only (not the ones that support GUI+CLI) converter that supports WAV+MP3+Flac?

Or, is there something I can add to the folder from where I am running SoX, so it will support MP3 and FLAC on all machines?

For some reason, SoX seem to natively support FLAC conversion on my machine - maybe because it is using some codecs installed by Winamp? I dont want that - I want to be able to make an encapsulated release (i.e. SoX + all dependencies)

Can anyone shed some light on this?

[wtg]

[Icarus]

Downloaded a windows binary, thanks.
it looks like it supports all the formats I need, just not sure how well. Will have to test it (couldnt find how to do VBR MP3 for instance).
The problem is, that since it supports so many formats, it is also quite heavy (>7mb).