Audio file display waveform file

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xjgby
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Audio file display waveform file

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How to set the waveform column for displaying audio files in the searched list
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therube
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Re: Audio file display waveform file

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What is a "waveform column"?
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Re: Audio file display waveform file

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yes,In this form, there are waveform columns
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Re: Audio file display waveform file

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therube wrote: Wed Jun 12, 2024 3:36 pm What is a "waveform column"?
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Re: Audio file display waveform file

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Off the bat, I'd suspect Windows does not display waveforms?
Given that, then there would be no Property for Everything to hook into to be able to display them.

(And given that, the only way it could, would be if void added that functionality to Everything.
But given that a wavform is "dynamic"... but then like a "thumbnail", I suppose you could set a start point & length to determine what to display.

Can Windows Media Player display wavforms?

Now, if ffmpeg were used, seems something along the lines of
ffmpeg -i input.wav -filter_complex showwavespic -frames:v 1 output.png
might work.)
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Re: Audio file display waveform file

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Thank you for your reply
As I expected, png is generated for the corresponding file, but how to customize the column to display png for the corresponding file
Is there any reference description.
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Re: Audio file display waveform file

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Maybe ? (& it's beyond me), you could set up an association... that wouldn't work, would it... ?

Anyhow, if you set of associated files.

file1.wav -> file1.png
file2.wav -> file2.png
file3.wav -> file3.png

Everything can certainly find & associate one with the other.
But then, how do you pull the physical picture (.png), & cause that to display within Everything?

Can something like that be done?
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Re: Audio file display waveform file

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Everything doesn't have an option to show a custom PNG image in a column for each file.
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Re: Audio file display waveform file

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therube wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2024 4:40 pm Maybe ? (& it's beyond me), you could set up an association... that wouldn't work, would it... ?

Anyhow, if you set of associated files.

file1.wav -> file1.png
file2.wav -> file2.png
file3.wav -> file3.png

Everything can certainly find & associate one with the other.
But then, how do you pull the physical picture (.png), & cause that to display within Everything?

Can something like that be done?
Can make the file name correspond
file1.wav -> file1.png
I try to use the extension ffmpeg to generate
How can the file1.wav file column display the PNG column under the current file directory, showing file1.png
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Re: Audio file display waveform file

Post by void »

I will consider such an option.

Thank you for your suggestion.
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