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Old 15th December 2009   #2
Siem
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Originally Posted by DubStudio View Post
Anyone here know how the waveforms are generated in Soundcloud and whether its possible to do the same on one's own server? Say I have a directory of songs, is there a way to generate visible waveforms from them that I can look at in the browser, without actually downloading the tracks?
Yes, it's possible with SoX ( SoX - Sound eXchange | HomePage ). I think they used it.
You could use a PHP (or whatever) script to run this command line utility and create a picture with the waveforms or a file with some numbers to generate the waveform with in flash. ImageMagick can also help you to create the waveform picture later.
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