On Friday 25 October 2002 02:18 pm, Paul Davis wrote: > >Is this really of any use? I never recorded with sweep (I use > >ecasound), but when I tried to load a 10 minute ogg file into sweep, > >it refused this because of exhausted memory. I have 256 MB, that > >should be enough for 10 minutes of sound data. So how good is sweep > >with longer soundfiles?
> i would consider a much more fundamental problem with sweep (which the > author has plans to fix at some point) is the assumption that the > audio data will fit in memory. this just isn't viable for working with > "music" rather than "audio clips". > gnoise doesn't do this, and neither does snd. i am not sure about > audacity, but i suspect it doesn't either. I regularly edit 2 hour 44.1k stereo 16bit files with Audacity. Sweep looks really really good -- but won't open that size file. Audacity has a bug in its handling of that size file, which I need to report when I have time to write it up properly, but it's something I can work around easily enough. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11
