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Chris@392: Sonic Visualiser
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Chris@392: Sonic Visualiser is a program for viewing and analysing the contents
Chris@392: of music audio files.
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Chris@392: With Sonic Visualiser you can:
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Chris@392:  * Load audio files in various formats (WAV/AIFF, plus Ogg and mp3
Chris@392: if compiled in) and view their waveforms
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Chris@392:  * Look at audio visualisations such as spectrogram views, with
Chris@392: interactive adjustment of display parameters
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Chris@392:  * Annotate audio data by adding labelled time points and defining
Chris@392: segments, point values and curves
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Chris@392:  * Run feature-extraction plugins to calculate annotations
Chris@392: automatically, using algorithms such as beat trackers, pitch
Chris@848: detectors and so on (see http://vamp-plugins.org/)
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Chris@392:  * Import annotation data from various text formats and MIDI files
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Chris@392:  * Play back the original audio with synthesised annotations, taking
Chris@392: care to synchronise playback with the display position
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Chris@392:  * Slow down and speed up playback and loop segments of interest,
Chris@392: including seamless looping of complex non-contiguous areas
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Chris@392:  * Export annotations and audio selections to external files.
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Chris@392: Sonic Visualiser can also be controlled remotely using the Open Sound
Chris@392: Control (OSC) protocol (if support is compiled in).
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Chris@392: Credits
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Chris@392: Sonic Visualiser was developed at the Centre for Digital Music,
Chris@392: Queen Mary, University of London.
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Chris@848:   http://c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/
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Chris@848: Sonic Visualiser was written by Chris Cannam with contributions from
Chris@848: Christian Landone, Mathieu Barthet, Dan Stowell, Jesus Corral Garcia,
Chris@848: Matthias Mauch, and Craig Sapp.
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Chris@848: Code copyright 2005-2007 Chris Cannam and copyright 2006-2014 Queen
Chris@392: Mary, University of London, except where indicated in the individual
Chris@392: source files.
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Chris@392: This work was partially funded by the European Commission through the
Chris@392: SIMAC project IST-FP6-507142 and the EASAIER project IST-FP6-033902.
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Chris@392: This work was partially funded by the Arts and Humanities Research
Chris@392: Council through its Research Centre for the History and Analysis of
Chris@392: Recorded Music (CHARM).
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Chris@392: This work was partially funded by the Engineering and Physical
Chris@848: Sciences Research Council through the OMRAS2 project EP/E017614/1, the
Chris@848: Musicology for the Masses project EP/I001832/1, and the Sound Software
Chris@848: project EP/H043101/1.
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Chris@392: Sonic Visualiser is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
Chris@392: it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
Chris@392: the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
Chris@392: your option) any later version.  See the file COPYING included with
Chris@392: this distribution for more information.
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Chris@392: Sonic Visualiser may also make use of the following libraries:
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Chris@549:  * Qt5 -- Copyright Digia Oyj, distributed under the LGPL
Chris@549:  * JACK -- Copyright Paul Davis, Jack O'Quin et al, under the LGPL
Chris@392:  * PortAudio -- Copyright Ross Bencina, Phil Burk et al, BSD license
Chris@392:  * Ogg decoder -- Copyright CSIRO Australia, BSD license
Chris@392:  * MAD mp3 decoder -- Copyright Underbit Technologies Inc, GPL
Chris@392:  * libsamplerate -- Copyright Erik de Castro Lopo, GPL
Chris@392:  * libsndfile -- Copyright Erik de Castro Lopo, LGPL
Chris@392:  * FFTW3 -- Copyright Matteo Frigo and MIT, GPL
Chris@392:  * Rubber Band -- Copyright Chris Cannam, GPL
Chris@549:  * Vamp plugin SDK -- Copyright Chris Cannam and QMUL, BSD license
Chris@392:  * LADSPA plugin SDK -- Copyright Richard Furse et al, LGPL
Chris@392:  * RtMIDI -- Copyright Gary P. Scavone, BSD license
Chris@549:  * Dataquay -- Copyright Breakfast Quay, BSD license
Chris@549:  * Sord and Serd -- Copyright David Robillard, BSD license
Chris@549:  * Redland -- Copyright Dave Beckett and the University of Bristol, LGPL/Apache license
Chris@392:  * liblo OSC library -- Copyright Steve Harris, GPL
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Chris@392: (Some distributions of Sonic Visualiser may have one or more of these
Chris@392: libraries statically linked.)  Many thanks to their authors.
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Chris@392: Compiling Sonic Visualiser
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Chris@392: If you are planning to compile Sonic Visualiser from source code,
Chris@392: please read the file INSTALL.txt.
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Chris@392: More information
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Chris@392: For more information about Sonic Visualiser, please go to
Chris@392: 
Chris@392:   http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/
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