On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Peter Chubb wrote:
>
>
> Hi.
> I have some large sound files sitting on one machine
> (upstairs, where it's too hot to sit). I have a laptop downstairs,
> with an 802.11g network between them.
>
> Remote X works very well; how do I do remote sound? In particular I
> want to edit some wav files (chop off stuff before the start of the
> music, and at the end); but need to be able to hear what I'm doing on
> my laptop. Do any of the simple audio editors talk to ESD?
>
> (I use the athena widget set, BTW, so please don't suggest gnome or
> KDE apps --- I don't want to install 100M of libraries to do something
> that should be simple)
I'm not sure about any editors but XMMS worked for playing. I think you
just export ESOUND=laptop.host.name or was it ESD.. I forget it was such a
long time ago. I think you might have to adjust the config of your local
esd too (and of course firewalling if you have that). Various sound apps
have a setup option for which sound driver to use (ESD, OSS, ALSA) and
even which sound card if you have more than one.
Poor man's crude sound editor:-
dd if=sound.wav of=- bs=1024 skip=5 count=1000 | play
{repeat with different skip/count values as necessary until happy}
dd if=sound.wav of=- bs=1024 skip=5 count=1000 >cut.wav
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