pMusic 6.0.0

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B.K. Johnson · #1941 Post by **B.K. Johnson** » Tue 12 May 2015, 23:08

@zigbert
Tahrpup-6.0.2 has version of pMusic installed OOTB but I can't determne what version it is - no Help. no About, Can you help?

LazY Puppy · #1942 Post by **LazY Puppy** » Wed 13 May 2015, 01:32

Tahrpup-6.0.2 has version of pMusic installed OOTB

Mine doesn't!

Neither 6.0 nor 6.0.2.

Both have VLC as the default media/music player!

zigbert · #1943 Post by **zigbert** » Wed 13 May 2015, 09:59

If pMusic is installed it will respond and show version by this command:

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pmusic -v

zigbert · #1944 Post by **zigbert** » Thu 14 May 2015, 08:18

TahrPup users look here

mikeslr · #1945 Post by **mikeslr** » Fri 15 May 2015, 14:40

Hi All,

Another solution to Tahrpup's ffmpeg problem. See here, http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 342#821342.

Sure wish I had known about it.

Sure wish people got into the habit of communicating solutions on all relevant threads.

mikesLr

zigbert · #1946 Post by **zigbert** » Sat 16 May 2015, 09:48

albumart.org has changed, and does now require human verification. I have started the work to use amazon.com for the albumart-grabber...

zigbert · #1947 Post by **zigbert** » Sat 16 May 2015, 17:45

Version 4.6.2
See main post

Changelog
- Albumart
. . . .- amazon.com as default albumart grabber. albumart.org now requires human verify and fails.
. . . .- Manual links to albumart.org, amazon.com and albumartexchange.com

zigbert · #1948 Post by **zigbert** » Wed 27 May 2015, 13:47

A fun-project for the next major release: Sound editing of input stream.
- It allows sound-editing of either playback or export stream.
- Mostly fun, but personally, I benefit of normalizing files before I copy them to the cellphone / mp3-player

greengeek · #1949 Post by **greengeek** » Wed 27 May 2015, 19:37

zigbert wrote: I benefit of normalizing files before I copy them to the cellphone / mp3-player

Thank you for this function. I hope to give it a try. Does anybody know of a method that allows 'normalisation' that operates in two directions - by which I mean it boosts very quiet parts of a sound file, but reduces the very loud parts of the same file.

I have some tracks which contain two voices - one close to the mic (too loud as a result) and one voice far from the microphone (too quiet as a result). I can use mhwaveedit to select small portions of the track and normalise up or down as required for that segment, but it is a very manual and time consuming process to work through the whole file in this manner.

I don't know what I would call such a function - maybe "flatten" normalisation?

goingnuts · #1950 Post by **goingnuts** » Wed 27 May 2015, 19:55

greengeek: You might have a look at SoX filters.
Added:
The voice-cleanup.sh script might give a starting point.

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#!/bin/sh

# This script, as used at http://language101.com, shows using several
# effects in combination to normalise and trim voice recordings that
# may have been recorded using different microphones, with differing
# background noise etc.

SOX=../src/sox

if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
  echo "Usage: $0 infile outfile"
  exit 1
fi

$SOX "$1" "$2" \
  remix - \
  highpass 100 \
  norm \
  compand 0.05,0.2 6:-54,-90,-36,-36,-24,-24,0,-12 0 -90 0.1 \
  vad -T 0.6 -p 0.2 -t 5 \
  fade 0.1 \
  reverse \
  vad -T 0.6 -p 0.2 -t 5 \
  fade 0.1 \
  reverse \
  norm -0.5

Moat · #1951 Post by **Moat** » Wed 27 May 2015, 23:13

greengeek wrote: I don't know what I would call such a function - maybe "flatten" normalisation?

In audio dynamics, those are known as compression and limiting -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1996_ar ... ssion.html

Bob

don570 · #1952 Post by **don570** » Thu 28 May 2015, 00:41

Does anybody know of a method that allows 'normalisation' that operates in two directions - by which I mean it boosts very quiet parts of a sound file, but reduces the very loud parts of the same file.

Audacity has a feature under the 'Effects' menu heading called

Equalization

Also 'Noise reduction' effect in Audacity can get rid of a annoying background hiss in tape.
Select a small amount of the hiss, and click the 'Noise Profile' .

Then select all the audio
CMD - R to do effect again)

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Noise_Reduction

greengeek · #1953 Post by **greengeek** » Thu 28 May 2015, 10:12

Thanks for the suggestions everyone - I will start a new thread for my specific issue rather than cluttering the pMusic thread. I will post back when I have done a bit of testing and written up the new thread (so far I tested sox with goingnuts syntax and seemed to have a problem with the compand syntax. More testing to follow...)

zigbert · #1954 Post by **zigbert** » Mon 08 Jun 2015, 17:05

If there are any useful filters available in ffmpeg, I can hopefully include them into the new sound editing module. All ffmpeg audio filters can be found here. BUT, please be aware that pMusic is a music player - not an effect rack

If I got it right, the guys at ffmpeg have done some major work to convert the sox-effects to work wiith ffmpeg.

Please test and give us the syntax, and a definition what it does - I don't get all this technical stuff

ASRI Ã©ducation · Mon 08 Jun 2015, 17:19

@ zigbert
I prepare a 'puplet' based on Precise Puppy 5.7.1 and the latest woof-ce (testing).
The puplet will be available in four versions pae/NOPAE ; en/fr.
For the fr (French) version, I want to add a list of favorites to pmusic_radio (to allow quick access to most listened French radio, it will be friendly for users).

I added in the main SFS, the file /root/.pmusic/favorites
My problem: this file is overwritten at first launch of pmusic_radio (preset stations are not available to the user).
My question: how to integrate a radio list in puplet?

Note: sorry for my broken English.

Regards,

zigbert · #1956 Post by **zigbert** » Mon 08 Jun 2015, 19:50

I think this could easily be solved including the french radio stations in a favorites list (*.pmd file). These files are not overwritten by pMusic, and is available together with the 'normal' favorites. Add radio stations to the list by using the right-click menu in either the playqueue or the sourcelist (left pane). see screenie.

The *.pmd files are stored in $STORAGE_DIR/favorites_lists where $STORAGE_DIR is $HOME/.pmusic/ until user changes this in the preferences. At that time all favorites should be copied to the new location.

Hope this helps
Sigmund

zigbert · #1957 Post by **zigbert** » Tue 09 Jun 2015, 06:56

ASRI éducation
In next release you can use alternative favorites settings as you describe.
Thank you for the feedback - it makes pMusic better

Sigmund

ASRI Ã©ducation · Tue 09 Jun 2015, 15:54

zigbert wrote:ASRI éducation
In next release you can use alternative favorites settings as you describe.
Thank you for the feedback - it makes pMusic better

Merci Sigmund !

zigbert · #1959 Post by **zigbert** » Thu 11 Jun 2015, 14:31

Version 4.6.3
See main post

Changelog
- Bugfix: Store preferences values when running CD/Radio frontend.
- Bugfix: Won't play mixed playque when some tracks comes from CD-audio.
- Bugfix: Do not overwrite favorites at first run. (thanks to ASRI éducation)
- Bugfix: amazon albumart grabber search also for other stuff than music.

zigbert · #1960 Post by **zigbert** » Sun 14 Jun 2015, 18:20

Version 4.6.4
See main post

Changelog
- Bugfix: Search only for radio stations when in Radio stream frontend

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