From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: andersvi@notam02.no Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Sound in Emacs Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:02:51 +0200 Message-ID: <8762k2iov8.fsf@notam02.no> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317884716 20071 80.91.229.12 (6 Oct 2011 07:05:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 07:05:16 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 06 09:05:12 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBi12-000186-4F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:05:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35145 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBi11-00027i-De for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:05:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57724) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBi0x-00025S-OZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:05:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBi0w-0006hQ-FQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:05:07 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:36199) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBi0w-0006ex-9F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:05:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBi0t-00016T-Mg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:05:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 186.84-49-23.nextgentel.com ([84.49.23.186]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:05:03 +0200 Original-Received: from andersvi by 186.84-49-23.nextgentel.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:05:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 186.84-49-23.nextgentel.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nBuOzBiqsg8YPkS2wrUlfPOWzy4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:144600 Archived-At: L> If you're in a dired buffer, you can hit RET to see images, but L> sound files aren't as available. Wouldn't it be nice if you hit L> RET on an .mp3 file, and Emacs pops up a waveform buffer and L> starts playing the file? And you can skip around in the L> song/podcast... Possibly the closest you get atm is setting up Snd (https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/) as an inferior scheme process, and control it from emacs via existing major or minor-modes, or build further to integrate more tightly into eg. dired. Everything in Snd is controllable and accessible from a running scheme. Linking in libsndfile, which is rather x-plattform i beleive, would provide builtin access for reading (and writing) the various sound-file formats around. A project id like to get going is setting up a database type app for sound - something similar to various photo-managers - where info from a sound gets stored and managed - diskfile, region, format, tags and metadata of all sorts - - and made available through a general interface. Send a query to find certain regions from some files, and ask a running sound-editor to show them. Edit them, update metadata info, headers etc. on a set of matches (ie. add a tag or similar) etc. Ideally an interchange format (SDIF?) would make exported data usable by all sorts of clients, import into your DAW, export a region into a soundeditor and get the edited version back w. updated metadata... Emacs would be an ideal environment to access all this. -anders