[Sugar-devel] Audacity under Sugar

Daniel Castelo dcastelo at plan.ceibal.edu.uy
Thu Jul 29 10:33:38 EDT 2010


In this page you could find a sugarized version of audacity
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/All

I dont know if this bundle has all the feature of the last audacity.

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Sean Linton <sean at lpnz.org> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I am working on a conference presentation on ICT enabled networking
> for indigenous music foundations. I have been working on some ideas
> with David Leeming who as supplied me with an XO machine while I try
> to work some things out on it.
>
> We are looking at the potential for using Audacity as a tool to help
> enable and create content for community radio stations. The idea being
> that the XO can be used to record audio an then send low latency audio
> code to the radio hub as oggs or mp3s.
>
> I have installed audacity using
>
> yum install audacity
>
> It is no problem for me to run "audacity' from the command line,
> however I am aware that OLPC developers are trying to keep the sugar
> gui.
>
> I have been also trying to find the lame libraries to enble the mp3
> export function, but have limited success adjusting the
> /etc/yum.repos.d or /etc/yum.conf files. I think I need to access the
> ubuntu multiverse? I have no problem working in .ogg format but I am
> not sure if everyone feels that way?
>
> I would be interested in using the 'sugarize' script that you wrote to
> give audacity 'activity' status, with icon, and journal compatability.
>
> Would you be able to discuss with me how to sugarize audacity, or walk
> me through your script? Audacity has options for saving files; the
> "save" function creates a file that only audacity can read (aup).
> Mp3/Wav/Au/Ogg require "export". Perhaps the *aup file would be useful
> for journal use, eg. by chmod -x ( asigning it executble status have
> it run audacity from journal?  )
>
> I have also been looking at introducing new insruments to the
> tamtam suites, ethnic instruments based on the local instruments of
> the XO distributions, eg Panpipes on Tamtam for computers in the
> Solomon Islands? Can you suggest a way to implement this?
>
>
> Sincerely
>
> Sean Linton
> Ph D Student
> Otago University
> Music Department
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