Manipulating WAV files

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007, Kurt Wall wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 04:08:54PM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote:
>> On 9/4/07, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I'd probably go with the sox package (plain vanilla CLI stuff).
>> >
>> 
>> Normally, I would too.  However, audacity is allowing me to cut out
>> chunks of "silence" between words, and "repair" overly high spikes of
>> sound that I can see on the screen in the wave pattern.  I can also
>> remove pops and clicks, and generally clean up the sound byte.  I
>> kinda like this GUI.  It's easy, intuitive, and imports/exports all
>> the formats I need and more (well, OK, not GSM, but all the rest).
>
>David Bandel likes a GUI? What is the temperature in Hell today?

Even I a curmudgion like me likes GUIs for a few things.

While Doug Gwynn's comment ``GUIs make simple things simple and
complex things impossible'' is spot on for many admin taskc, it's
not applicable to things that are naturally graphic.  Sound
editing certainly is easier to do when one can see the audio
activity.

I haven't used audacity yet, but somebody at a Mac group showed
it to me when we were discussing ripping vinyl to the computer,
and it certainly looked better than the Final Vinyl that came
with the iMike adapter.

Bill
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