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mr id	2010-11-17 , 21:21
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Originally Posted by Wonko

Coincidentally, I am currently also developing some small application which has some sound recording functionality.
Similarly to mr id I also had some sort of VU Meter as user feedback to get an optical feedback of the sound input level.

I got the first version uploaded to extras-devel yesterday.
It is called "vumeter".

what language / toolkits are you working with? We may be able to share some code or ideas.

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Wonko	2010-11-17 , 22:06
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Originally Posted by mr id

what language / toolkits are you working with?

The user interface is Qt.
The sound backend is pulseaudio.
Hence, in a nutshell, the code is a mixture of C++ and C.

Originally Posted by mr id

We may be able to share some code or ideas.

Sure, would be great.

I registered a garage project "vumeter".
I'll upload the code tomorrow.

By the way, the vumeter code may not be pretty but it is GPL so just hack in it anyway you like.

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mr id	2010-11-18 , 00:51
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Originally Posted by Wonko

The user interface is Qt.
The sound backend is pulseaudio.
Hence, in a nutshell, the code is a mixture of C++ and C.

I'm working with Vala and Gtk for the integration with GStreamer for audio stuff. have used Qt and C++ enough to find my way around.

Originally Posted by Wonko

Sure, would be great.

I registered a garage project "vumeter".
I'll upload the code tomorrow.

By the way, the vumeter code may not be pretty but it is GPL so just hack in it anyway you like.

I'll be sure to check it out. I'm waiting for approval on decibelmeter with garage and I'll put the source up as soon as it's there. I've a couple of works in progress on there already - both multitrack recorders demorecorder and fillmore (a port from a desktop app) the plan is to finish the port and then merge the two projects as they both have some different useful bits in them.

I'd be interested in knowing what the audio project is you are working on?

cheers

[edit] source code is now at https://garage.maemo.org/projects/decibelmeter/[/edit]

Last edited by mr id; 2010-11-18 at 13:55. Reason: typo

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Wonko	2010-11-18 , 13:32
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I uploaded the source code to the garage project site as well:
http://garage.maemo.org/projects/vumeter/

The other project is a simple cross platform soundboard called "StultitiaSimplex".
It is hosted on sourceforge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/stultitiasimple/
You can get more information, e.g., about the seemingly strange name, on the project web page:
http://stultitiasimple.sourceforge.net/

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TiagoTiago	2010-11-18 , 14:09
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Hm, interesting, i asked for somthing like this some days ago: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=65408 ; i'll try this one, thanx

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Wonko	2010-11-18 , 21:15
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I just uploaded version 0.0.5 to extras-devel.
This version features an analogous dB meter.
I attached screen shots of version 0.0.3 (upper) and 0.0.5 (lower) so you can see the differences.

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Last edited by Wonko; 2010-11-18 at 22:01. Reason: Upper screen shot shows version 0.0.3 not 0.0.4.

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TiagoTiago	2010-11-18 , 22:24
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Could you please take a look at my post requesting somthing similar and see if the additional features i asked for there could be incorporated in your program?

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TiagoTiago	2010-11-18 , 22:38
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Btw, if anyone want a reference for how loud things usually sound: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ressure_levels

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N900@900MHz	2010-11-19 , 10:49
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Originally Posted by Wonko

Hi,

I just discovered this thread yesterday and saw that no standalone application was there yet.
Coincidentally, I am currently also developing some small application which has some sound recording functionality.
Similarly to mr id I also had some sort of VU Meter as user feedback to get an optical feedback of the sound input level.

I got the first version uploaded to extras-devel yesterday.
It is called "vumeter".
The whole thing is pretty "hackish" as the code was "ripped" out of another software project.
Though, it should give at least some visual feedback.

Kind regards

Wonko

I tried "vu-meter" , application looks very good, this analog meter is very usefull. What are the source choices for???
The program freezes when select "source.hw1"

A few suggestions to implent in next version:
1) a icon when installed. Now there is a blue aquare.
2) meter goes to 110 dB, maybe 130 is beter.
3) display backlight goes off after a few sec. Prefer to stay on.
4) portrait mode/view support.

Further i must say this is a very intresting application!

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mr id	2010-11-19 , 10:55
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Originally Posted by N900@900MHz

What are the source choices for???
The program freezes when select "source.hw1"

sources are the various 'sound' sources your device can see. "source.hw1" should be a Bluetooth headset microphone if connected, I suspect you don't have one paired and that's why the application freezes.

In reality, if you are only interested in measuring 'environmental' sound you probably don't want to change from the default setting.