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Title: Ububtu - using SHN
Post by: ingsy on April 07, 2007, 08:29:46 AM

just wondering if there were any other ububtu users on ts.com?  i am a newbie and trying to figure out how to decode shn to wav.  i thought i compiled the shorten code just fine, but when i attempt to run a script i get a 'shnconv command not found' message.  i am searching the web and ububtu forums, but i figured if there are any ububtu tapers, they would have come across this before.  thanks for any help you can give.

Title: Re: Ububtu - using SHN
Post by: ingsy on April 07, 2007, 06:25:10 PM

i still can't get shn converted, but i figured out how to play them:

# sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Append follwing line to end of list:

deb http://www.rarewares.org/debian/packages/unstable ./

Title: Re: Ububtu - using SHN
Post by: eclark on April 07, 2007, 09:40:09 PM

i tried to install ubuntu last week and realized that one of my HDs is f'ed up... ugh


this should help you though. you might have to download shntool if you dont already have it. good luck, i know how frusterating linux can be at times

http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/linux-music.html#converting (http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/linux-music.html#converting)

that website also has lots of good info on it, check it out
emery

Title: Re: Ububtu - using SHN
Post by: pigiron on April 07, 2007, 10:18:40 PM

Quote from: ingsy on April 07, 2007, 08:29:46 AM

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...but when i attempt to run a script i get a 'shnconv command not found' message.
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I'm thinking that the shnconv file is not in your path... execute printenv PATH  to see what your current path list contains and compare that to where shnconv lives.

If that's the problem, then there's lot's of choices for a fix (as usual on Linux)... change the PATH in your profile, or put the full path in your script (example: /foo/shnconv), or create a link from shnconv to a directory that is in your PATH (see the ln man page), or...

but welcome to linux... keep on learning and you will be rewarded  :)

Title: Re: Ububtu - using SHN
Post by: ingsy on April 09, 2007, 09:21:24 AM

thank you both for your feedback - i am still tinkering but i hope to have it figured out soon. 

Title: Re: Ububtu - using SHN
Post by: greenone on April 09, 2007, 11:57:13 AM

Do you have shntool installed or just shorten? I'm pretty sure shnconv = shntool conv; what if you replace that in the script?

(disclaimer...not an Ubuntu user, but I did install/compile shntool on OS X before Scott created xACT)

Title: Re: Ububtu - using SHN
Post by: sml42 on April 09, 2007, 04:42:45 PM

Quote from: greenone on April 09, 2007, 11:57:13 AM

Do you have shntool installed or just shorten? I'm pretty sure shnconv = shntool conv; what if you replace that in the script?

Right. On my system, 'shnconv' is a symlink to 'shntool'.

'shntool' is a separate package to 'shorten'. Perhaps you only installed the latter?

It's been a while since I installed these, but off the top of my head I think I grabbed the source from etree (www.etree.org, right there on the front page under 'linux') and manually compiled/installed.

Hope this help!

Title: Re: Ububtu - using SHN
Post by: ingsy on April 10, 2007, 01:05:45 PM

thanks again everyone - i have both shorten and shntool.  i am going to go back to the configuration step as maybe it didn't go as smooth as i thought.  i also might have to dual boot windows for work reasons, if so then i can just use mkw. 

ubuntu is great though.  boots right up, and comes with pretty much everything you need for free.