[Fedora-music-list] audacity - audio editor - testers requested

[Brendan Jones]

On 02/19/2012 12:29 PM, Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
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> On Sun, 19 Feb 2012, Brendan Jones wrote:
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>> On 02/19/2012 08:02 AM, David Timms wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Following up on a scratch build from two weeks ago, the audacity project
>>> [1] is now at release candidate 1 for audacity 2.0.0 [2], and is
>>> expecting to release in another 2 weeks.
>>>
>>> I've built packages for Fedora devel [3] and RPM Fusion 16 [4].
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> Slightly different topic:
> I frequently use SoX for simple audio manipulation and conversion tasks.
> The fedora version has been compiled without - among others - MP3 support.
> I always rebuild SoX myself from the Fedora src.rpm but with several
> libraries only available from RPMfusion
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> Couldn't someone package a "sox-freeworld" for RPM Fusion, supporting
> ALL the file formats that are available in the SoX sources ?
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> After that "sox -h" would show
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> AUDIO FILE FORMATS: 8svx aif aifc aiff aiffc al amb amr-nb amr-wb anb au
> avr awb caf cdda cdr cvs cvsd cvu dat dvms f32 f4 f64 f8 fap flac fssd
> gsm gsrt hcom htk ima ircam la lpc lpc10 lu mat mat4 mat5 maud mp2 mp3
> nist ogg paf prc pvf raw s1 s16 s2 s24 s3 s32 s4 s8 sb sd2 sds sf sl smp
> snd sndfile sndr sndt sou sox sph sw txw u1 u16 u2 u24 u3 u32 u4 u8 ub
> ul uw vms voc vorbis vox w64 wav wavpcm wv wve xa xi
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> which is more than what is supported now in the Fedora version.
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Submit your package to rpmfusion bugzilla - I'm sure they'd be happy to 
have it if you are willing to maintain it. I can review it if you want.