I'd really appreciate an auto-preview when browsing thru dirs with audiofiles/samples. Combined with using the "temporary panel" plugin (Sergey Puljajew) it would be t h e solution for collecting sample sets which is a common task for a lot of musicians. Because most often you have thousands of short samples to search thru. Also it makes sense for quick check of mp3 files.
Usually this function is provided by someone's audio application but doing this within TC would be much more comfortable and make this task a breeze. There are some tiny apps too (e.g. mcibrowser) but full integration into TC...that'd be killer!
So what do the TCpro's think: is there a workaround, a plugin I missed or some other comments? Thx,
majkinetor wrote:You even have plugin that can present you signal in Time domain, similar to default SoundForge environmnet.
You probably talk about "Media". Unfortunately it doesn't work too good as it shows weird results with (not really) exotic bitrates or hz settings like 24bit/96k. But any plugin I tried lacks here (or me is the error...).
It had some display problems but somebody found workaround.
When I say "Time Domain" I mean "Time vs Aplitude" representation of audio signal, because you also have "Frequency vs Amplitude" representation (spectogram).
Thank you. It's too bad it's not developed from initial release. I guess we will be very lucky if they continue to develop it. Anyway, the idea of having SoundForge visuals inside TC feels so good to me, that I will certanly develop this thing for my self if original authors don't do anything.
There are different semantic interpretations of the concept 'preview'. Is it a quick playback of things, or a view on the properties of the sound-file, textual or graphical ?
In the first case a simple F3 will do the job. One can check a whole directory by selecting the proper files, hitting F3 and skip to the next file with the 'N' key (or the 'P'revious).
Unfortunately a format like OGG isn't supported here yet.
The second option, if text, is very well produced by the content-plugin AudioInfo by Alexey Torgashin.
This graphical option of WaveView is new to me and looks promising.
Could e.g. be handy to have a quick look, if the file needs normalization, without loading a heavy editor.
I agree. It depends on what you want to do.
Also, I tend to avoid heavy editors when I have need for simple procedures, like mentioned normalisation. I am aware of the fact that at least 30% of the time I open SoundForge just to look at the graph while I listen. That's way we need plugin like WaveView.
It's good to have plugins like this, that can make simple operations in any computer field accesible throught file manager. How many times you had to wait for your king kong application to load just to do few simple things and exit. I find this phenomena waste of time.
