[Squeakland] Importing wav files

[subbukk]

On Saturday 22 September 2007 8:02 pm, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> > And there is no sound library tool which could reference all sounds
> > present in the Etoys sound tiles. How should such a tool be
> > implemented ? Like a book ?
>
> Maybe a parts bin with all these little tiles? Or like the object
> catalog where we have sorting and filtering options? That would be a
> nice contribution. The core developers must focus on fixing bugs and
> implement missing support now (it's only one month to First
> Deployment), but I for one welcome such improvements from others.
Squeak does not have a generic mechanism for browsing non-text collections 
like sound, video or even projects contained within an image. I like the 
catalog idea with some extensions. The browser manages a collection of tags 
each of which represent a collection. Then it could display the tag names in 
the top pane with a 'more ...' button. A selected collection tag could be 
iterated in the bottom pane. Collections could register their tags with the 
catalog browser and allow operations for iterations, icons, tiles, morphs, 
players, editors etc.

The file/directory browser is also a catalog browser except that the 
collection is generated on the fly (by a file or directory open operation) 
and transient (i.e. not saved in an image but disposed by close operation). A 
directory would be tagged collection of Morphs. A mime detector would attempt 
to match a file into an existing morph (e.g. wav, flv, mpg, .image etc.).

Any ideas to get me started? .. Subbu