in reply to Re: OT: EQF File handling
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yeesh, everybody always wants to know what you're up to even when it's mildly embarrassing :p - and i don't think Winamp::Control is what i need. Any EQ board (even a physical one) would be sufficient for that portion of the job, winamp has the nice feature of being able to dump it's slider settings to a file, albeit unreadable (appears to be binary, ~300bytes)

i have a dream, to play my freshly recorded audio in winamp, make my EQ decisions there, save the preset, run a magical perl script that parses that EQF file and processes the audio file to write those eq changes into it (possibly via a complex SoX command)

this is a frequent activity for me. for this task, i'd prefer a minimum of GUIs (but i do want a gui to make the eq decisions, as above), and be mostly based on pipe driven commands


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Re^3: OT: EQF File handling
by grep (Monsignor) on Nov 18, 2006 at 20:05 UTC
    Ok that sorta makes more sense (though I wonder why you want to mix EQ outside of your MultiTrack app).

    From what I read you should be able to use Winamp::Control to poll WinAmp's EQ and write that out any way you want. That sounds a lot easier than reverse engineering WinAmp's file format (well unless it's XML or other easily parsed format, but you still haven't told us what the EQF file looks like).

    Though I still wonder why you wouldn't do it in your multi-track recorder, IIRC all the ones (Cakewalk, SLab) I have used (although it's been several years) you could gang(?) the channels together to stereo output and adjust EQ from there.

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