<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Oct 1, 2010, at 12:33 AM, Art Hunkins wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>My new activity, FileMix, encourages children to create their own "nature" <br>recordings to mix and process in FileMix (i.e., create "soundscapes"). Files <br>can be mono or stereo, any sample rate and duration, and most file formats. <br>The files also need to be renamed and placed in the FileMix.activity folder.<br><br>The Record activity is a natural for recording audio, and I had thought it <br>would be the appropriate vehicle. I've recently discovered that it only <br>produces Ogg Speex files, not the higher-quality Ogg Vorbis variety. <br>Unfortunately, Csound and libsndfile handle only Ogg Vorbis - not Speex. (It <br>would be very nice if Record *could* output Ogg Vorbis.)<br><br>So I turned to eToys. I find it somewhat iffy to record in eToys (on an <br>XO-1.5); sometimes it works, sometimes not. The main obstacle I face is that <br>recordings seem embedded in projects, and I don't find where/how to access <br>the recording by itself. (The sound editor, and variety of output <br>resolutions [including WAV and VORBIS] are excellent.) The documentation <br>(floss) isn't helpful here either.<br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>I am able to record and save, but to where I don't know -not, it seems, to <br>the Sound Library. The Library location is not given. It seems you can take <br>something out of it, but not put something in? (Confusing.) I very much need <br>a simpler procedure to save and transfer/relocate individual recordings.<br></div></blockquote><br><div>I'm currently working on a radio play production with Berlin based children's radio Radijojo[1].</div><div>We are planning to produce as much of the play as possible on the XO and currently are facing exactly the same problem.</div><div>Your new activity sounds pretty interesting. We considered recording with Etoys (if we find a way to access the audio files) </div>and then do the mixing with Audacity. A tool that is easier to use than Audacity would be very much appreciated though.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Staubitz</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>So, my question: can someone please explain how to get eToys sound files <br>isolated and copied to other folders, and/or which other activities might <br>meet my needs at least as well as (or better than) eToys and Record?<br><br>Art Hunkins <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Sugar-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br>http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>[1] <a href="http://www.radijojo.de/">http://www.radijojo.de/</a></div><br><br></body></html>