The unusual ideas of EKO sound editor

Export

Currently, only WAV and MP3 formats are available for saving files. MP3 is generated via the Lame encoder by saving the data via:

File | Import/Export | Export to MP3

If you merely save the file, the tool automatically selects the uncompressed WAV format.

Even though the settings offer a parameter for modifying the free Vorbis codec, this format does not appear in the exporting options. Nonetheless, there is a workaround for saving data in other formats. The command line for Lame accepts plain text in the settings. This means you can simply enter another command. The entry for MP3 will continue to be displayed in the menus, but the results we achieved during testing were correct.

Regardless of the format selected, EKO does not attach any metadata to exported files. Therefore, playback programs subsequently need an external editor in order to recognize what they are dealing with. The VLC media player and the Gnome application EasyTAG [2] are well equipped to take on the task of recognition.

Help

The Help menu offers support for discovering the possibilities of this tool. The software includes documentation directly in the main window, thus concealing the opened editor. In order to look up functions, you have to switch back and forth between editor and text. It would be more practical if you could swap between support and the editor in a single window, but this does not work. Looking in the web browser is also not an option because the help text is part of the monolithic EKO binaries.

An "EKO Manual" in HTML format is available on the project's GitHub page [3].