Audacity 1.37 Beta - sound recorder / editor

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aragon · #1 Post by **aragon** » Thu 18 Jun 2009, 17:05

Home: http://audacity.sourceforge.net
Version: 1.37b

Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.

This is the actual audacity-beta compiled and packaged in 4.21. It is statically compiled against wxGTK. All necessary libs (jack, twolame, vamp, soundtouch...) are included in the sfs, so it should even run on a barebone-system.

Download: http://puppylinux.ca/tpp/aragon/ (size ~ 9 MB)

sfs-usage (from: http://www.puppylinux.com/development/p ... gement.htm):

Download any SFS file to /mnt/home (the same place as your "pup_save" personal storage file), run the BootManager (in the System menu) to select or deselect what SFS files you want to use, reboot Puppy and its ready to go.

aragon

mikeb · #2 Post by **mikeb** » Fri 19 Jun 2009, 00:19

Cheers... actually had just the binary alone running as I seemed to already have added all the dependancies

..using puppy 4.12

regards

mike

mikeb · #3 Post by **mikeb** » Fri 19 Jun 2009, 02:38

Ok I don't know how you did it but this compilation boldly goes where other wxwidget based applications fear to tread....running in puppy 2.12 AND 2.02
This relieves one big headache...one is most grateful

mike

aragon · #4 Post by **aragon** » Fri 19 Jun 2009, 07:50

hi mike,

i read some post of different apps needing different compilations of wxWidgets. As Audacity has the option to compile statically against wx, i decided that this is one of the few situations, where a static compile is useful. The result is a much larger app, but without compatibility-problems.

aragon

mikeb · #5 Post by **mikeb** » Fri 19 Jun 2009, 22:14

Just to let you know audacity looks for libFLAC++.so.6 so I symlinked to the included libFLAC.so.8 which seemed to work ok.

I seem to be suffering from an audacity bug whereby I can only record at 48000, 44100 only records about half a second...from their forum it appears to be a commonly suffered bug.(since version 1.3.4...not a compilation problem but thought I'd mention it...hard to tell if this bug is acknowledged and will get fixed in a later version.
One post mentions a ubuntu portaudio patch..not sure if that helpful. Otherwise only workarounds.

regards
mike

hanzf · #6 Post by **hanzf** » Wed 01 Jul 2009, 16:38

Thank you aragon!
I gave it a try, having problems with audacity 1.3.2 that crashes. So I installes the 1.3.7 sfs. I renamed it to Version 412. (I read here mikeb also has 4.12) (Although I think a 1.2.x Version would be more likely to help me but I don't know to get the old wxwidgets version to work).
When I now start audacity it says it can't open shared library "libsamplerate.so.0" although there is such a file in /usr/lib.
Does it have to be somewhere else?

Thanks

aragon · #7 Post by **aragon** » Thu 02 Jul 2009, 19:33

hi hanzf,

i'm on a business-trip, so can't examine it.

i've somewhere read that symlinks might not work in packages so try this workaround:

1. look, where the symlink points to
2. delete the symlink
3. create an new symlink to this file with the name of the old symlink
4. start audacity again and check if the failure still exists

aragon

hanzf · #8 Post by **hanzf** » Thu 02 Jul 2009, 22:39

Thank you aragon. I had already posted when I noticed it was a broken link. I made a new link and it works.
I had problems with audacity 1.3.2 that had been running good in the beginning but suddenly took the habit to crash on every playback.
In the audacity forum they said this was a bug in a library named "portaudio v19" and they fixed it in 1.3.7.

sketchman · #9 Post by **sketchman** » Thu 09 Jul 2009, 20:56

Link doesn't work for me.

sketchman · #10 Post by **sketchman** » Fri 10 Jul 2009, 02:22

Working now.

hellstudios · #11 Post by **hellstudios** » Sun 12 Jul 2009, 10:06

ok... uh... so basically i am new to puppy linux.... well.... linux in general... i know how to get around in the directories and i know a few terminal commands.... but in general I don't really know how to install a program other than using a .pet package.... any chance someone can step me through installing this program? I have normal intelligence.... so just the jist of it will be good.

sorry for the bump and off topicness.... }:| this is my first post and I hope I will be forgiven... and if im not then

mikeb · #12 Post by **mikeb** » Sun 12 Jul 2009, 15:06

Download any SFS file to /mnt/home (the same place as your "pup_save" personal storage file), run the BootManager (in the System menu) to select or deselect what SFS files you want to use, reboot Puppy and its ready to go.

just about sums it up..the files get added at boot...remove it and they are gone...it's a method often used for bigger programs

mike

hellstudios · #13 Post by **hellstudios** » Sun 12 Jul 2009, 23:28

Thanks dude.

edoc · #14 Post by **edoc** » Thu 03 Sep 2009, 16:38

aragon wrote: sfs-usage (from: http://www.puppylinux.com/development/p ... gement.htm):
Download any SFS file to /mnt/home (the same place as your "pup_save" personal storage file), run the BootManager (in the System menu) to select or deselect what SFS files you want to use, reboot Puppy and its ready to go.
aragon

I have my pup_save SFS in /puppy112 and BootManager is complaining that it cannot see the Audacity SFS there.

BTW: Puppy Fatdog 112 is loaded on the computer in question.

Help?

aragon · #15 Post by **aragon** » Thu 03 Sep 2009, 17:28

edoc,

you'll have to place it in the root of /mnt/home not in the subdir.

aragon

edoc · #16 Post by **edoc** » Thu 03 Sep 2009, 17:37

Do I have to relocate my pup_save.sfs also or is it OK that they are in separate locations?

Just figured it out! Amazing, I know ...

I needed to change the 421.sfs to 112.sfs to match my Puppy version.

I did not need to relocate pup_save.sfs

It shows up in the Multimedia menu but does not respond - when I run it from a terminal window I get the error about the missing libFLAC++.so.6

Mike said he

symlinked to the included libFLAC.so.8

and that worked:

Questions:

Could this be written into the app so it always does this?

What is the preferred way to make this symlink?

aragon · #17 Post by **aragon** » Thu 03 Sep 2009, 17:55

no your pup_save remains in the psubdir.

one other point is, that i don't know which version-number fatdog is using, 112? you'll have to rename the sfs accordingly. eg audacity-sta-1.37b_112.sfs.

hope that helps
aragon

edoc · #18 Post by **edoc** » Thu 03 Sep 2009, 21:52

REPHRASED:

Since libFLAC.so.6 is a dependency and is missing ...

Do I symlink the existing libFLAC.so.8, found in /usr/lib to /mnt/home or somewhere else so that Audacity sees it?

mikeb · #19 Post by **mikeb** » Thu 03 Sep 2009, 21:55

no symlink 8 and name the link as the missing 6 all in /usr/lib

mike

edoc · #20 Post by **edoc** » Thu 03 Sep 2009, 22:14

Ouch, coder-shorthand!

Let me see if I can translate to non-coder language:

I make a symlink of libFLAC.so.8 in /usr/lib to /mnt/home and change the name of the symlink to libFLAC.so.6?

Otherwise, if I take you to mean to rename libFLAC.so.8 to libFLAC.so.6 and then to symlink it I worry that some other app needing libFLAC.so.8 may fail.

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