Over a weekend after being tired of downloading samples from http://freesound.org i decided to create a tool for downloading samples directly to renoise.
I would be greatful if anyone can test it on windows or macosx as I am linux user. On two different computers everything seems to be working but who knows.
How is this working?
You open a freesound browser, type name and/or tag, define list ordering and click search.
On the list that will appear every sample has an icon. Clicking on it starts fetching sample and replaces current selected instrument with it.
I would like to add sample preview ability but dont see any posibility for it, maybe someone has a suggestion? I was thinking about putting it to sample editor and triggering play function but I cannot find proper way to do it in docs yet.
knowed issues:
you need to create $DOWNLOAD_FOLDER/Renoise directory by yourself ($USER\Download\Renoise on windows $HOME/Downloads/Renoise on linux) - (not easy to fix, I just forgot about it)
no error handling for http library (only for track donwloading)
function check_folder_existence(folder_path)
local root_folders = os.dirnames(folder_path)
local renoise_folder_present = false
local PATH_SEPARATOR = "/'
if (os.platform() == "WINDOWS") then
PATH_SEPARATOR = "\\"
end
for _ = 1, #root_folders do
if root_folders[_] == "Renoise" then
renoise_folder_present = true
break
end
end
if renoise_folder_present == false then
os.mkdir(folder_path..PATH_SEPARATOR.."Renoise")
end
end
Without the existing folder, the tool indeed seems to fire errors. When the folder exists, i donāt get results, regardless what kind of searchphrase i enter. (Simple words like kick and snare donāt bring up anything).
I think freesound integration (inteGREATion he he he^-^) is a wonderful idea and the thought of it gives my the comfortable realization that itās an idea that Iām excited about. At this point Iām going to type about my owwn personal experience with music makingā¦every once in a while-it seems cyclical-I get a hankering to make the most striking ambient music my ears have heard. One of my approaches is to go on freesound and find some long and interesting field recordings to add exotic subtleties into the mix. I understand the hard-working naysayers say āThat is cheap! You should go out and do field recording yourself!ā They never really said this to me, but I imagine they will. Anyway, that is what freesound is for! People share their recordings and seem happy when you contact them to tell them their little piece of recording found a home in your epic ambient piece. Maybe one day I will go on amazon and get a nice 100 150 dollar (Iām still american so i have to pay with dollars) field recorder and try it myself, when I do Im sure Ill share them on freesound to even out my karma a bit.
it was late when i was writing post, i wanna write it is easy to fix.
You are using windows? Ill try to start up virtualbox machine and check whats wrong there.
thanks for fix anyway
edit:
I used gf laptop and runned it on Windows 7 x64. Found one error caused by wrong filename but everything seems to be working.
I guess your @vV problem of not getting any results could be caused by freesound.org server (i will try to add some error handling for that request ASAP)
in few minutes ill upload version 0.3:
now creates folder on any os (thanks to vV suggestion)
until some request.lua issues is solved includes fixed version of request.lua for windows compatibility
Now Iām definitely not fully grasping this type of development, but to me it seems there is a way to fetch the previews from freesound.
In the Freesound API thereās a section on āSound Resourceā. And a list. And one property is āwaveform_mā, which by description contains the preview in png-format. Would this be helpful?
EDIT: Yeah. Excuse me for being thick. Now I realize you want an AUDIO preview. I was thinking a visual preview. Sorry.
Yeah, i seen it - even tried to fetch it and show it but for image to be readable i should change the samples per pages parameter and show about ~10 samples on one page.
Ill try to dig into it and maybe just adding an option for it.
typo is already fixed in 0.3
Ahh - preview - thats not what i meant. I wanted to be able to play a sample by clicking on a button, and than playing ogg preview sample, but still - adding waveform is an good idea.
So not until API supports such functionality. For now it could use curl (ive seen some lua-curl library on web) but providing a precompiled libarary for all 3 os x 2 archs is beyond my free-time possibilities .
this is the best thing iāve seen since the inventio of crispbread.
i would like to try it, can it work on a mac running 2.8?
what do i have to do to instal it?
If it adds .zip extension, simply remove it then drag the .xrnx file onto Renoise.
Only for Linux, this does not seem to be working so there you have to rename it to zip or at least unzip it and copy it to the folder inside the scripts folder, carrying the same name as the xrnx fileā¦
This is brilliant. Adding a preview function is the only thing I can think of to make it more or less perect for the job.
I had a random crash though; not sure how it happened as Iād left my computer for a minute and when I came back it was showing this message:
It might have happened because I had cancelled a download of a .wav a couple of minutes earlier. I realised after clicking the download button that the file was about 3 minutes long and I didnāt want it. I then downloaded another shorter file which worked fine, then went in the kitchen, came back, and the error was there.
and maybe just adding an option for it.