Am Sat, 30.Dec.2000 um 20:55:40 +0000 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > maybe a good point to ask, what art are you making with linux right now? I use GNU/Linux since a couple of years for online/digital data of Neoism (<http://www.neoism.org>, explanations on <http://160.45.155.48/cantsin.cgi>). Although I wouldn't call it 'art', but rather 'speculation', 'mad science' or something along those lines, GNU/Linux offers some interesting technical possibilities for me - while miserably lacking others. A good example is a Neoist radio show I compiled from Neoist cassette tapes and CDs from 1981 to 2000. Since there is no real decent sound editing software for GNU/Linux, I edited the entire radio hour in xwave (and suffered through many program crashes). Since many people asked me to send them an audio CD copy, I conceived something more along my Neoist taste (which involves a lot of computer-generated writing done with self-programmed Perl scripts). I wrote a Perl script which a) generates a semi-random edit of the 28 .wav files which were the raw audio material of the radio show using the "wavcat" command line tool from the "audiocut" suite. b) generates two audio tracks by sending Neoist slogans generated by a Perl script to the "festival" speech synthesis software; then "sox" is used to resample the resulting .wav files to 44,100/44 KHz c) generates a semi-random order for the two generated speech tracks, the random edit and the original radio edit. d) generates semi-random titles for the CD and the three semi-random tracks e) uses the "wavtime" command line tool from the "audiocut" suite to retrieve the exact length of each of the four audio tracks. f) writes the CD title + number/title/length of each track into LaTeX code using some semi-random placement of headline and track index g) sends the LaTeX file through latex and dvips and prints it via lpr h) burns the four audio tracks via "cdrecord" as the first (audio) session on CD i) translates the postscript file of the cover into a pdf file and noves it into an archive directory of Neoist text files j) uses cdrecord to retrieve the sector information of the audio CD session burned previously k) uses "mkhybrid" to create an ISO image of the Neoist text archive directory (suitable for Linux, Windows and Macintosh PCs) l) writes the ISO image as the second (and final) session onto the CD which thus may be used as a hybrid audio/data CD. All this is done without user interaction; I only have to put a CDR medium into the CD writer and make sure that the printer is ready, type (as root) "generate_cd.pl" on the command line, and wait until both the cover sheet and the CD are ready. I would be surprised if the same level of automation would be possible under Windows or MacOS. Florian
