sound editing tool for split/join/loop

sound editing tool for split/join/loop

[Roy-Anders Larsen]

I have been looking around for good sound tools and found that sox can do
a whole lot with sound, however there are a few things I'd like to do to
sound files that sox will not let me:
I'd like to be able to split a stereo file into two mono files (one for
left and one for right), then edit those files then join the two mono
files into a stereo file.
I'l like to set the loop in a wav file so the sound repeats itself if I
play it.
Does anyone know of any good/not so good way of doing this in linux ?

Roy

Re: sound editing tool for split/join/loop

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Roy-Anders Larsen wrote:
> 
> I have been looking around for good sound tools and found that sox can do
> a whole lot with sound, however there are a few things I'd like to do to
> sound files that sox will not let me:
> I'd like to be able to split a stereo file into two mono files (one for
> left and one for right), then edit those files then join the two mono
> files into a stereo file.
> I'l like to set the loop in a wav file so the sound repeats itself if I
> play it.
> Does anyone know of any good/not so good way of doing this in linux ?

I have just released a C library for reading and writing sound files.
Using this library, writing an application to split a multichannel
files into mono files would be trivial. Unfortunately the library does 
not yet handle looping although I plan on adding this later.

The library is availaible at:

	http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/

Hope this helps,
Erik
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