{"id":10,"date":"2008-05-15T13:46:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T12:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freesound.iua.upf.edu\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2009-02-17T13:16:15","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T12:16:15","slug":"wav2pngpy-child-of-wav2png","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"wav2png.py, son of wav2png"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I decided that for nightingale we need a new wav2png, and preferably one written in python, using the awesome python image library<\/a>. After talking a bit to Ricard<\/a> it was clear that using numpy<\/a> and audiolab<\/a> it would be a piece of cake. Well, a big piece of cake, but still. Once I got going, I went a bit overboard and decided that it would be nice to have a spectrogram of the sound as well, perhaps displayed when you move the mouse over the large image in the sound page.<\/p>\n

It took me about 2 and a half days of coding and testing to make it robust (it needs to work for 5-sample wave files and 5-million-samples wave files) and looking good. Some sensible feedback from the guys at oneDot.only<\/a> made me decide that we had to cut back on the number of colors in the waveform view. The current one looks really ugly in my opinion, so… that was changes as well. It’ll take a while for people to become accustomed to the new colors, but it makes sense to me. I threw in some vertical anti-aliasing for that extra slick look.<\/p>\n

For those who don’t know what a spectrogram is, have a look at the wikipedia entry<\/a> for it.<\/p>\n

Without further ado, I present you some results. First of all my own “test” file, a sinusoid sweep<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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and its spectrogram:<\/p>\n

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An FM percussion loop<\/a> from walkerbelm<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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and its spectrogram:<\/p>\n

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A bell sequence<\/a> from ERH<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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and its spectrogram:<\/p>\n

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You can find the full source code to generate these images in the nightingale repository ( http:\/\/github.com\/bram\/freesound\/tree\/master<\/a> ), in particular look in the directory \/freesound\/utils\/audioprocessing\/<\/p>\n

You’ll need to install python, numpy, PIL and audiolab to make it work. See above for the links.<\/p>\n

Let me know what you think!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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