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NAME

       ecatools - audio processing utils based on ecasound

SYNOPSIS

       ecaconvert .extension file1 [ file2 ... fileN ]

       ecafixdc file1 [ file2 ... fileN ]

       ecalength file1 [ file2 ... fileN ]

       ecamonitor [host][:port]

       ecanormalize file1 [ file2 ... fileN ]

       ecaplay [-dfhklopq] [ file1 file2 ... fileN ]

       ecasignalview [ options ] [ input ] [ output ]

DESCRIPTION

       Ecatools  are  simple command line utils for audio file processing.  Each tool is designed
       to perform one specific operation. Most of the tools also support batch processing.

       ECACONVERT

       A tool for converting a set of files to a common target format.   This  target  format  is
       given as the first command line argument, and its syntax is .ext.

       ECAFIXDC

       A simple command-line tool for fixing DC-offset.

       ECALENGTH

       See the separate ecalength(1) man page.

       ECAMONITOR

       Ecamonitor  is  a  util  program  that  can be used to monitor an active ecasound session.
       Ecamonitor is able to show information about  the  current  chainsetup  such  as  list  of
       inputs, outputs, current position, effects, the engine status and numerous other things.

       By  default  ecamonitor will try to connect to IP4 address "localhost", to port "2868".  A
       different address can be specified  when  starting  ecamonitor,  for  example  "ecamonitor
       foo.mynetwork.com" or "ecamonitor foo.mynetwork.com:4500".

       To  enable  inbound  connections,  ecasound  has  to  be started with the --daemon option.
       Ecamonitor is implemented in Python using the NetECI API.

       ECANORMALIZE

       Ecanormalize is a command-line tool for  normalizing  audio  files  to  utilize  the  full
       available  sample  resolution. Ecanormalize first finds out how much the input file can be
       amplified without clipping and if there is room  for  increase,  a  static  gain  will  be
       applied to the file.

       ECAPLAY

       Ecaplay  is  a  command-line  tool  for  playing audio files. Ecaplay uses the libecasound
       engine and is thus able to handle all audio formats supported by the library.

       Files can be selected for playback either by specifying the filenames on the command-line,
       or  by  using the playlist mechanism. In playlist mode, files can be added to the playlist
       using the -q option. The -p option can then be used to play all tracks  on  the  playlist.
       Ecaplay  will  repeat  the  playlist tracks until explicitly stopped (with double Ctrl-C).
       Playlist can be flushed with -f and its contents listed with -l option.

       If not otherwise specified,  ecaplay  will  use  the  audio  output  device  specified  in
       ~/.ecasound/ecasoundrc  for  playback.  A  different  output  device  can be selected with
       ECAPLAY_OUTPUT_DEVICE shell environment variable or with the -o:output_device command-line
       option.

       Playback  can  be  stopped  at  any  time with Ctrl-C. If multiple files are played, first
       Ctrl-C will stop the current file and move on to play the next one. Issuing  Ctrl-C  twice
       (within one second), will cause ecaplay to exit.

       -d:debuglevel
              Set libecasound debug level. See ecasound(1).

       -f     Flush the playlist contents. See also options -l, -p and -q.

       -h     Print usage information and exit.

       -k:number
              Skip ’number’ of files.

       -l     List the current playlist contents to stdout. See also options -f, -p and -q.

       -o:output_device
              Use  ’output_device’  instead  of  the  default  output  device  (as  specified  in
              ~/.ecasound/ecasoundrc). Syntax is same  as  used  by  "-o"  ecasound  option  (see
              ecasound(1) man page).  This option overrides the ECAPLAY_OUTPUT_DEVICE environment
              variable (more info below).

       -p     Play tracks in the playlist (in looped mode). See also options -f, -l and -q.

       -q     Queue new tracks to the playlist. All filenames given on the command-line  will  be
              added  to  the  the  playlist.  It  is  possible  to queue new tracks while another
              instance of ecaplay is using the playlist. See also options -f, -l and -p.

              ECASIGNALVIEW

       Ecasignalview is meant for monitoring signal amplitude and peak statistics. It accepts the
       following options:

       input  The  first  option  not starting with a ’-’ is interpreted as an input string. This
              can be a device or a filename. All formats supported by libecasound  are  accepted.
              Defaults to ’/dev/dsp’.

       output Similarly to input, second option not starting with a ’-’ is interpreted as output.
              Defaults to ’null’.

       -b:buffersize
              Buffersize in sample frames. Defaults to 128.

       -c     Enable cumulative mode. Counters are not reseted after refresh.  *deprecated*

       -d     Enable debug mode.

       -f:format_string
              Specify default audio format. See ecasound(1) for details.

       -r:rate_msec
              Specify screen refresh rate in milliseconds.

       -I     Use linear scale for showing audio sample amplitude.

       -L     Use logarithmic scale for showing audio sample amplitude.

       -G, -B, -M*, -r, -z
              Ecasound options use to modify the engine behaviour, see  ecasound(1)  manpage  for
              details.

              When  ecasignalview  is  running,  the  following  keyboard commands can be used to
              control  the  operation  (requires  system  support  for  UNIX  terminal  interface
              control):

       spacebar
              Reset statistics (max-peak, avg-amplitude and clipped samples count).

       q or Q or Esc
              Quit ecasignalview.

              It is also possible to reset the max-peak and clipped-samples counters by sending a
              SIGHUP signal to  the  process  (i.e.   from  another  console:  "killall  -v  -HUP
              ecasignalview").

       More  complete  documentation  for ecasignalview can be found from "Ecasound User’s Guide"
       (see ’’http://nosignal.fi/ecasound -> Documentation’’).

ENVIRONMENT

       ECASOUND Path to the ecasound executable. Used by many ecatools.

       ECAPLAY_OUTPUT_DEVICE Device ecaplay should use for  audio  output.  Same  syntax  as  for
       ecaplay/ecasound "-o" option.

FILES

       ~/.ecasound/ecasoundrc The default ecasound resource file. See ecasoundrc(5) for details.

       ~/.ecasound/ecaplay_queue File used to store the ecaplay playlist (one track per line with
       full path).

SEE ALSO

       ecasound (1), ecalength(1), "HTML docs in the Documentation subdirectory"

AUTHOR

       Kai Vehmanen, <kvehmanen -at- eca -dot- cx <kvehmanen -at- eca -dot- cx>>

                                            12.11.2005                                ecatools(1)