Subject: Re: audio editor From: Mehmet-Ali Gulbol <mag(at)ACOUSTICS.AAU.DK> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:33:54 +0200Dear Jim, First of all, thank you for pointing to this program, which I didn't know. So I just downloaded the binary pointed by this link: http:// www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/wavesurfer-1.8.3-osx.tar.gz (Mac OS X version) It simply decompressed to an executable named WaveSurfer-1.8.3 and launched. Maybe you have mistakenly downloaded the source ? Another one you might like to try is Audacity (http:// audacity.sourceforge.net/), which is multi-platform as well. It has quite many features, and is free ("as in speech"), as WaveSurfer. It works well on OS X, I've been recently editing a several hundred megabytes sound with it. Although I haven't got much experience with them, I'll also mention: - AudioXplorer (15$, Mac only): http://www.arizona-software.ch/ applications/audioxplorer/en/ - Sonogram (free & multi-platform) : http://www.dfki.de/~clauer/ programming.html The latter is not a sound editor, but might interest people working in speech processing. It has a tendency to hog my CPU, though. Best regards, Mehmet. On Jun 30, 2005, at 22:23 , beaucham wrote: > I've been looking for a good audio editor, and I'm really impressed > with the Linux binary version of WaveSurfer, a freeware product > from the Royal Institute of Technology of Stockholm. It worked > immediately after I downloaded it. Other editors seem to require > pre-installation of lots of other software before they will work. > > However, when I tried the same thing on my Mac OS X system, the > "binary" download produced a bunch of directories and files that > somehow have to be compiled, but I couldn't figure out how to > compile it. Has anyone been successful with WaveSurfer on Mac > OS X, and if so could they make the compiled binary available? > > This is also a good time to ask for other recommendations for > sound editors. Stanford's Snd, for example, looks good, but I > haven't had time to try it. > > Jim Beauchamp > Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign --- Mehmet-Ali Gulbol Research Assistant Sound Quality Research Unit Department of Acoustics Tel: +45 9635 7506 Aalborg University Fax: +45 9635 2144 Frederik Bajers Vej 7 B5 http://www.soundquality.dk DK-9220 Aalborg Ø mag(at)acoustics.dk Denmark