baw-audio-tools

Bioacoustics Workbench audio tools. Contains the audio, spectrogram, and caching tools for the Bioacoustics Workbench project.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'baw-audio-tools', git: 'https://github.com/QutBioacoustics/baw-audio-tools.git'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Dependencies

You may need to install some additional tools for working with audio and images, and for processing long-running tasks.

• ImageMagick is used by paperclip.
• WavPack is used to expand compressed .wv files.
• SoX is used to create spectrograms and resample audio.
• shnTool is a tool for quickly segmenting large .wav files.
• mp3splt is a tool for quickly segmenting large .mp3 files.
• ffmpeg is used for audio conversion and gathering audio file information.
• wav2png is used to generate waveform images.
• wac2wav is used to convert from .wac to .wav.
• redis is used by Resque to manage long-running tasks.

Audio tools from apt: imagemagick, wavpack, sox, shntool, mp3splt. Ffmpeg is installed from a binary, and wav2png can be built from source.

sudo apt-get install make g++ libsndfile1-dev libpng++-dev libpng12-dev libboost-program-options-dev imagemagick wavpack libsox-fmt-all sox shntool mp3splt libav-tools

Download, build and install wav2png:

cd ~/Downloads
git clone https://github.com/beschulz/wav2png.git
make -C ./wav2png/build all
sudo mv ./wav2png/bin/Linux/wav2png /usr/local/bin/

Download and install latest ffmpeg:

cd ~/Downloads
mkdir ./ffmpeg
wget -O download-ffmpeg.tar.xz http://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/releases/ffmpeg-release-64bit-static.tar.xz
tar -xf download-ffmpeg.tar.xz  -C ./ffmpeg/ --strip=1
sudo mv ./ffmpeg/ffmpeg /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg
sudo mv ./ffmpeg/ffprobe /usr/local/bin/ffprobe

Download, build, and install wac2wav:

cd ~/Downloads
wget -O wac2wavcmd-master.zip https://github.com/QutBioacoustics/wac2wavcmd/archive/master.zip
unzip wac2wavcmd-master.zip
cd wac2wavcmd-master
make
sudo cp ./wac2wavcmd /usr/local/bin/