The unusual ideas of EKO sound editor
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Conclusion
The project website is largely silent about the origin and meaning of the program name. There is a vague reference to the word "Echo." During testing, we came up with another name that we thought might be more fitting. We would call the program an "Idiosyncratic Sound Organizer."
Even though the program orients itself primarily toward other editors, it arbitrarily insists on unique settings labels. This approach cuts into the notion that the solution is innovative. The concept behind displaying multiple windows on small screens with limited resolution is particularly impractical. Although the software's behavior when files are opened is a pleasant surprise, it does not rise to the level of actual progress.
Consistency across the desktop is usually part of the design for other programs, not so for EKO. As a result, the software currently positions itself somewhere between recording tools like Gnome Sound Recorder and the mature tools for sound artists that are mentioned above. It is not clear whether EKO will make it into the latter category.
If you are not bothered by the offbeat design, and if you don't want to grapple with the umpteen possibilities and options found in KWave or Audacity, then EKO is certainly worth trying.
Infos
- EKO: http://semiletov.org/eko/
- EasyTAG: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EasyTAG
- Help on GitHub: https://github.com/psemiletov/eko/blob/master/manuals/en.html
- Copr Repository for Fedora: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mariobl/Eko/
- Source code tarball: http://semiletov.org/eko/#downloads
- Package for openSUSE: https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=multimedia%3Aapps&package=eko
- Package for ROSA: http://wiki.rosalab.com/en/index.php?title=Blog:ROSA_Planet/ROSA_Enterprise_Desktop_X2#Additional_Repositories
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