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

Its for linux and windows, any chance of a 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

@MrGrim

Agreed.

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!

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.

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

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...

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

This would be awsome guys!

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

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.