Getting gnome apps audio output work in a KDE env

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Hi,

I’m running KDE but want to get gwc (gnome wave cleaner) to play what it has loaded. After setting the audio dev to plughw:0,4 there’s no longer an error popup and the cursor starts running when pressing the play button, but there’s nothing to hear.

Any suggestion?

Kind regards
Frank

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I’ve never used gwc before. After reading your post I installed the version packaged with openSUSE-11.1. I selected “quick start” under “Help”, and I also put in /usr/bin as the path for lame. I loaded a .wav file. When I press play it will play, but it is incredibly jerky (Is that how it is supposed to work? ) But overall it does seem to be functioning.

By selecting “plug:0,4” are you trying to feed it direct from a turntable or CD player?

When I read the tutorial here gwc tutorial I think they are first copying the recording to one’s hard drive with the application “arecord” (or am I reading that incorrectly) ?

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As noted, I’ve never used it before. I noted the help function did not work well in the SuSE-GmbH packaged gwc version. There is a help page here: http://gwc.sourceforge.net/gwc_help.html

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Wow! I’m impressed.

I took a voice clip I made on my PC which, where that clip had a lot of hiss and crackle. I then used glc, and was able to remove the hiss and crackle.

Very nice !!

Thanks for pointing out this app.

I hope you have success in sorting your hiccup with it.

EDIT: I forgot to mention - I am using KDE-3.5.10 on openSUSE-11.1.

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No. I had a break in using gwc, but used it very often while digitizing my huge audio tapes collection. At that time it played everything with satisfying sound. I guess since then I’ve updated to 11.1.

I have to set to “plughw:0,4”, “plug:0,4” runs into an error like all other devs I’ve tried.

The wav’s I’m processing are already on hard disk.

Regards
Frank

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As far as I know gwc is the best free tool for that job. audacity isn’t bad in denoising, either.

Alas, I didn’t. What a bummer! It’s very laborious without that feature.

:wink: … another one reluctant to switch to that unfortunate KDE 4.x (Oh, I hear that threatening flames…)? That’s exactly the config I’m running here!