Hello,


Is oggdrop and/or oggdropXPd available for Linux? I wasn't yet able to find something .
Frontends for the oggenc/oggdec binaries which could give me the same functionality
as oggdrop/oggdropXPd do would even be enough for my needs.

David

p.s. please don't shoot me if my english sucks.

I'm afraid the short answer is no, there is no oggdrop/oggdropXPd available for linux. The whole GUI is built using windows specific code. If I get into linux at some later stage and my knowledge of programming GUIs for linux improves considerably, I may look at doing something then. So, at the moment, no, but if someone familiar with linux GUIs wants to look at it????????

Thanks for your reply. I would try to write a frontend by myself but i'm new to Linux and the only apps I ever wrote were kind of "hello world" programs . But again thanks.

David


Edit: Maybe there's something comparable to Microsofts VB for Applications available for Linux. If so chances a "programming-noob" like me could write a frontend are better.

AFAIK, Borland Kylix is such tool for Linux... you can even develop a program in Win using Delphi and then convert to Linux... Kylix now also supports C++ in addition to Pascal...

Thanks. I'm going to have a look at it. But does it really feature the relative ease of MS VBA? It's not that i think i could take some software that does all the work for me and I would only have to make some mouse klicks. On the other hand i really don't want to learn programming as in c or c++ where i probably would have to write every little piece of code myself.

David

would be cool to see oggdropxpd using wxwindows or a similar cross platform gui toolkit

The toolkit is not the main problem if you'd try to port it. The problem lies in the used Win32 API functions for the Drag'nDrop capabilities. You could try replacing them with GTK+ or QT code, though I don't know if they support "file-dropping" and even if they do you would still run in problems with different WindowManagers etc.

My suggestion would be to program an OggDrop-a-like addition to Konqueror and/or Nautilus, which uses the stanadard libaries.

dev0

I'm downloading the Kylix Trial. Does anyone know if there exists an open source equivalent? Kylix costs $249

Borland was giving away the full version of Kylix for a while there. I downloaded it. Did they stop?
layer3maniac@hotmail.com

Another choice would be very easy to use FLTK and FLUID, but you will have to write some C++ code (but that's very easy imho)

And for sure DnD is the hardest feature to implement in Linux...

I think Kylix "Open Source" is the only freely available version and it is very limited afaik...

There is a trial of the "Open Edition" available for download. If anyone wants to download it you will have to become a BDN member to get a key.

...if Drag n Drop is so hard to implement in Linux apps than it would be better to start with a version where you have to choose the files from a directory. No matter which way to go it seems to be a lot of work for such a small frontend .

Seems realistic that John33 or someone else comes up with a DnD frontend before i have compiled my first working beta version . Well for now i'll give Kylix a try and see what it takes/gets.

Just another suggestion, have u tried running it using WINE. For a "basic" program like this im sure there would be no problems accomplashing such a task.

Kristian

you're right... i should try if it works for me. but native coded apps are smarter. i didn't switch to Linux just to run my old Windows apps

I know that command line tools can seem hard at first. But when you have gotten used to them, you never want your GUI back. Here is a quick tutorial:

Start a terminal window - i.e. xterm

Change directory to your music
cd /path/to/my/music
You have tab completion, so you only have to type type the first chars. Double-click tab to get a list of matching files.

Encode all files in a directory using quality 9,0:
oggenc -q 9 *wav

vorbisgain a directory (requires the vorbisgain binary)
vorbisgain -a *ogg

Batch job: Encode all wave files in all underlying sub dirs, vorbisgain them and create flacs for burning on cd-r. Finally remove the waves on successful encoding. (requires the oggflac script). Edit oggflac to change quality from 9 to what you like.
oggflac
oggflac --noflac (don't create flacs)
oggflac --flac2ogg (convert)

Run the batch job in the background:
screen oggflac
then close the terminal window. If you want to see how it is doing, run
screen -r

If you want to encode with tags, use the batch script sonice instead. Find with google.

userXYZ:

What about Vorbix, the Linux version of WinVorbis (the best allround Vorbis frontend IMHO)?

CU

Dominic

Annuka: thanks for your HowTo for the command line. But that isn't the problem. For some tasks i prefer the xterm console too - some things can be done very fast with it. But i'm often too lazy to type the few commands needed for the small every day tasks .

For the part of coding my own frontend i can say i don't want to do this. I've called a friend minutes ago who knows about programming and he told me that the effort for a newbie like me isn't worth it. There are too much things i would have too learn and my sparetime isn't endless . But maybe i'll try just for fun

Volcano: thanks for your link. Vorbix should be able to do what i need.