How bout an audacity port?
 

Audacity is a free open source high calibur audio editor. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Its for linux and windows, any chance of a port?

Re: How bout an audacity port?
 

I wouldn't put my hopes too high on this. Although it should be pretty easy to port, it might not run well.
On my serious desktop pc, it sometimes hangs for just a second or two (when doing things, of course). The n900, being more modest, will probably have a much harder time

Re: How bout an audacity port?
 

@MrGrim

Agreed.

Re: How bout an audacity port?
 

Your .sig seems particularly appropriate here :)

I wonder if ecasound might be possible, though - it already exists in ubuntu armel apparently ( https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/armel/ecasound )

There's no gui, but ... python, .. qt .. ;-)

Edit: just to add, has anyone noticed how aggressively google is indexing this site? I just finished this post, then thought "oh, maybe someone's done it already", so googled ecasound N900, only to find my own freshly minted post in the second position in google search results showing "1 minute ago". Scary!

Re: How bout an audacity port?
 

I'm poking at this for the hell of it. Audacity would take quite a bit of work to get its user interface to work on Maemo.

I had previously built wxwidgets2.6 for some random dependency and uploaded it to extras. But audacity 1.2.x needs wxwidgets2.4. And audacity 1.3.x needs wxwidgets2.8... So I'm building wxwidgets2.8, which seems to be going fine (it's quite large). If it succeeds, I'll upload it to the builder.

wxwidgets had "hildon" support, but only around the Nokia N770 era. There is still an --enable-hildon option to ./configure, but it looks for libhildon_gpl which is long gone.

Re: How bout an audacity port?
 

lol yeah audacity is what i use to make mp3 ringtones :)


lol yeah google is very fast ... the whole google team went to burning man festival and leave their system running by itself to show how kickass they are lol this was a few years back

Re: How bout an audacity port?
 

OK, I have it in my repo. Untested (haven't even downloaded it yet, as I'm on a lousy connection). Here's my repo line:

It's probably not very usable...

Re: How bout an audacity port?
 

I did actually get it to play, but it's not cooperating anymore. Here's a sample .audacity-data/audacity.cfg. You'll need to `mkdir /home/user/MyDocs/audacity` as well.

http://pastebin.ca/1749744

Re: How bout an audacity port?
 

This would be awsome guys!

Could you give it a modular UI like emelfm2 since audacity is quite complex for our 3.5" screen?

Re: How bout an audacity port?
 

I've been using audacity in easy-debian-chroot on my n900 for a while, it's too slow to be particularly usable for recording, but I found it somewhat helpful for doing post processing. The preferences UI is pretty much unusable however.

I've also been using ecasound in a chroot, ecasound has been very beneficial and I'd love to see it get built for fremantle.

Re: How bout an audacity port?
 

I would really like some more apps for musicians.
but I fail to see how this program can help on the N900.
apart from editing audio files that are already on the device, what do you want to record? from the mic? is the input from the 3.5 jack any good? is it stereo or mono? and if we can use this input isn't it enough to make it work in the Recorder app?

Re: How bout an audacity port?
 

You're kinda right, but it's a really cool app :)