High-Level Audio Editing Language?

[Drew Van Zandt]

You could write something like MySQL as a Python module, why a special
language?  I'd hate to be able to use a library like that from any other
language than Python, that would be awful.

</snark>

--DTVZ

(That should in no way be construed as dislike of Python; it's language
bigotry that is foolish.  Python is unlikely to be the best language ever
written, 10,000 years from now.)

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Arc Riley <arcriley at gmail.com> wrote:

> You could write something like that as a Python module, why a special
> language?
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Bruce Dawson <jbd at codemeta.com> wrote:
>
>> Bill McGonigle wrote:
>> > I seem to recall some audio geeks on this list.  I'm curious if
>> > anybody knows if there's a Free high-level audio editing language.
>> > I'd like something that is to audio as Perl is to strings.
>> >
>> > For example, I want to take a recorded phone call (that I've made
>> > with an asterisk script) to the local movie theater and trim it at
>> > the second DTMF tone for '2', so I can e-mail the important part.
>> >
>> > I'd like to write something like:
>> >
>> >    audiofile = <stdin>
>> >    start_time = index( audiofile, dtmf(2), 2)
>> >    newaudiofile = sub( audiofile, start_time, length(audiofile)-
>> > start_time )
>> >    print newaudiofile
>> >
>> > Dreaming?
>> >
>> > -Bill
>> >
>> Audacity provides the GUI equivalent of that.
>>
>> Unless you're merging audio tracks, editing audio tends to defy
>> scripting because you need an "ear" to listen for the pauses, pops and
>> other cutting/splicing points.
>>
>> But if you do find one, it would be great to tell everyone of it!
>>
>> --Bruce
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