mhWaveEdit 1.4.16

4.3beta3 testers are invited to test the latest mhWaveEdit:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-4/mhwaveedit-1.4.16-1-p4.pet

And Zmixer, see my previous post.

In particular, are you able to record with mhWaveEdit? Lobster likes to record stuff, so it's a pity that recording does not seem seem to work on his hardware with ALSA 1.0.20 -- I hope that is not the common experience!

The 4.3beta3 forum feedback thread has some reports of audio problems, so we will probably need to upgrade the ALSA drivers for Puppy 4.4.
Probably stay with the same kernel version perhaps, Rerwin (and myself to a much lesser extent) has been through a long process of getting 3rd party drivers to compile with it.
Moving up to the latest in the 2.6.30.x series would be a reasonable thing to do. But then, you have to consider that there may be other 3rd party drivers compiled for 2.6.30.5, maybe by tempestuous, so there would be a big investment in staying with 2.6.30.5.
...but, this is a decision that the 4.4 coordinator would have to make.

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Comments

mhWaveEdit / Sweep
Username: dogone
I now find that both mhWaveEdit and Sweep work perfectly with my troublesome Chaintech Av710 PCI sound card. Of the two, I must say that Sweep is the far more capable and sophisticated. I'd *hate* to see Sweep dropped from 4.3. If doubt remains, let's please include both apps. "Sweep works just fine here"

sweep/mhwaveedit
Username: joe
"both worked ok for me in beta 3. I use mhwaveedit often in puppy 412 and that is my favorite between those two. joe

which one?
Username: 01micko
"Well I just tested both with a good quality dynamic mic and they both do a decent job of voice recording. Mhwaveedit is the simpler of the 2 and as such is more intuitive for someone not used to audio apps. Sweep on the other hand does have more features, good for an audiophile, (I'm with dogone! Both!). You can make a call on that assessment if you want! Zmixer works fine and is a good inclusion for it's 10k.

mhwaveedit
Username: eprv
"Works nice for me could edit MP3 files, also zmixer works well, had no problems so far, nice theme stable as always and faster than ever thank you

Sweep
Username: happypuppy
"I also vote for Sweep - it has more / better features and feels much more like a standard wave editor.

Audacity???
Username: playdayz
"is Audacity that much huger than mhwavedit and sweep? Because it strikes me as a much better audio editing program.

Audacity
Username: ttuuxxx
"I've compiled Audacity in the past and I can say it is a lot larger due to it use wxwidgets as a base. Sure its a much better audio editor but wx is too large by default for puppy. I would like to see one common wxwidgets base built for the repo. The problem occurs when we have like 8 different versions of wxwidgets floating around the forum and none of them are compatible with the next one, This is solely due to the fact that we don't have a main one in the repo. If it was to be compiled for the repo make sure it has unicode enabled, many newer wxwidget applications won't even compile without if you don't have it enabled during compiling. So to answer your question playdayz Audacity would add a min of 3.5MB compressed extra :) But on the other hand if save VLC 8.6h was recompiled again using WX+unicode and then Audacity, and you switched a few a few more other apps to wx version, it might be almost equal out. ttuuxxx

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