For the senior night I took the task of editing a few songs getting one from Youtube, Ubuntu has a great set of tools which let me do this. First of all the Sound Juicer automatically started when I put in the Audio CD so i could begin the ripping process. The Audacity was pretty good to trim parts of the audio files. Although it crashed a few times unexpectedly and I had to tell it the location for LAME library it worked out pretty good. It was quite easy to learn how to do this. However there still is potential for improvement of its user interface by using right click menus to perform operations. Maybe if I read a tutorial I might not feel the need for this.
There was no need for me to install countless codecs which I had to do when working with dbpoweramp on windows. Plus it was easier to use then the method I used before. I guess Automatix must have installed them for me at some earlier time. I found the sound preview feature of nautilus extremely useful here and of course Linux comes with great tools like ffmpeg and mencoder, although they are not that hard to use, I wish they had a good GUI frontend. I loved how easily ffmpeg was able to extract audio from a flv video downloaded from Youtube, although it seems fine on low volume on my PC, running it on the powerful theater speakers would show the poor sound quality, still its better than nothing.
Again I would say, Linux is awesome for sound editing, I never tried any commercial software for this and I never want to either when I can do it for free.
April 6th, 2007 at 5:58 am
Found your blog from the article “Instant Messaging through Mobile Phones”.
You sounded a very calm person.
Cheer.
April 6th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
there is a “supped-up” version of ubuntu (ubuntu ultimate edition or something) that has almost everything a person needs to do sound and media editing. For most of everything though, Nero does the trick for me.