GRAMOFILE(1)

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✨ GRAMOFILE ✨

okay bestie, grab a snack and your headphones, because we're talking about gramofile — a whole lil command from the General Commands Manual 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

gramofile — literally the girl who samples and processes analog recordings 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

gramofile

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no flags, no args, no drama 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so. GramoFile is an interactive, integrated front end that lets you sample audio data from gramophone records (or honestly any similar source) and then analyse and enhance it. she's giving full studio-in-a-terminal energy 👑

and like — yes — it's text-based, but don't let that fool you, because it runs on a menu system that gives you easy access to every individual function. lowkey elegant, highkey powerful 🫶

the highlights?? bestie. let me tell you:

  • a mode for automatic detection and splitting of single tracks from a larger recording 🔥 (yes, she'll find your track boundaries for you, no cap)
  • several filters to reduce ticks and other noise in the audio data 🧚
  • an integrated help system that offers context sensitive information — so when you're lost, she's got you 💜

🌈 OTHER INFO 🌈

the official GramoFile web page is located at:

http://www.opensourcepartners.nl/~costar/gramofile

and if you want the technical tea on some of the filters, it's in the documentation that comes with GramoFile, which is usually hanging out in:

/usr/share/doc/gramofile/

so if you're the kind of girl who reads the source, that's your spot 📚✨

💀 KNOWN BUGS 💀

ngl this is my favourite section because the original man page says it with its whole chest:

this man page had better contain less marketing speak, but some actual information on use of the program.

and like... valid?? 😭 the man page is calling itself out fr fr. iconic behaviour honestly 🙈

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • GramoFile was written by J.A. Bezemer <J.A.Bezemer@ITS.TUDelft.NL>. absolute legend, we stan 💖
  • This manual page was written by Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others) 🌸

and that's the whole page bestie!! this was Version 1.6, dated 17 September 2001 — so yeah, she's a vintage queen and she's still serving 🎀✨ love that for her, periodt 💅💖

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