digital transcription trial software / shareware for linux

Transcribe! project is an assistant for people who sometimes want to work out a piece of music from a recording, in order to write it out, or play it themselves, or both.
The usual technique for doing this is to copy the music to cassette and then listen repeatedly to each bit, using your ear and your brain to work out what is happening. Unless you have perfect pitch then you also need a piano or a guitar handy to check out which note is which. However, if you copy the recording to your computers hard disk as a sound file then you can use Transcribe! instead of the cassette machine and the piano.
Transcribe! offers many features aimed at making the transcription job smoother and easier, including the ability to slow down music without changing its pitch, and to analyse chords and show you what notes are present.
It is important to understand that Transcribe! does not attempt to do the whole job, processing an audio file and outputting musical notation - this would be nice, but is a currently unsolved research problem. The spectrum analysis feature is very useful for working out those hard-to-hear chords, but you must still use your ear and brain to decide which of the peaks in the spectrum are notes being played, which are merely harmonics, and which are just the result of noise and broad-spectrum instruments such as drums.
If you have never worked out even a simple piece of music by ear then Transcribe! will probably not help you (see How to Transcribe), but if you do sometimes work out recorded music by ear then Transcribe! can make the job a lot quicker and easier.
Transcribe! takes no interest in MIDI files - these already contain explicit information about what notes are to be played and when, and there are plenty of programs available which can display this information. Transcribe! deals with audio sample data files.
Transcribe! plays and records audio files but it is not an audio editor. It is capable of applying various effects to audio such as speed change, pitch change and EQ. You can save the modified audio to a new sound file if you want.
Main features:
- Depending on version, Transcribe! reads audio from many different types of audio file and audio CD. It also has a "Record" facility for recording from analog sources such as cassette or vinyl. It displays the audio waveform and allows you to scroll around, place markers for sections, measures and beats, and easily play or loop from any point.
- Loops and positions can be stored and recalled. There are many keyboard shortcuts and you can configure these as you like (in version 7). You can configure Transcribe! to respond to pedals of various types so as to keep your hands free : start and stop playback with your feet!
- There is extensive and readable help accessible from within the program.
- The "spectrum" feature displays the strength of the various pitches in any chord or note you select, in the form of a graph - a wavy line over a piano keyboard graphic. The height of the various peaks in the graph indicate the strength of the note above which the peak appears. This is not a magic bullet for analysing chords but it can be a very useful source of information.
- Transcribe! offers various audio processing effects (Slowdown, Pitch Change, EQ filtering etc) intended to help with transcribing. These effects all run in "real time" unless your machine is old & slow. This means there is no pre-processing or other waiting, the processing is performed on-the-fly while playing and you can instantly hear the effect of changes to EQ etc. For instance if you press the half-speed button while playing then playback simply continues, at half speed.
Mono/Karaoke
- This effect allows you to mix the two channels of a stereo recording together in various ways including phase-reverse, commonly known as "karaoke" as it sometimes has the effect of removing the vocal (if the vocal is panned dead-centre).
EQ
- A powerful EQ filter.
Tuning
- Adjustment to playback pitch, in cents (hundredths of a semitone) for fine tuning and also larger shifts of up to two octaves, which can for instance be useful in hearing low, murky bass parts by raising them by an octave or two.
Transposition
- Special handling for those of you who play a transposing instrument such as trumpet or saxophone.
Speed
- Speed variable from one twentieth to double speed.
- Click here for an MP3 file (373 KB) demonstrating the sound quality of slowdown-without-pitch-change. It contains 7 seconds of a guitar solo played quite fast, followed by the same at half speed. This is what you get when you press Transcribe!s half-speed button (version 7.20). I havent bothered to give lots of samples, since you can download Transcribe! for a free trial period and try it yourself.
Flyer
- Sometimes people ask me for a printed information sheet about Transcribe!. I dont distribute printed materials but here is a single-sided information sheet as a pdf (Adobe Acrobat) file which you are welcome to download and print out.

PhotoXtractor is a data recovery software for digital images. PhotoXtractor runs on most Linux and UNIX-compatible systems. The easy-to-use user interface allows even novice users to recover deleted or lost photos and files.

Gear Pro is a professional CD and DVD recording capability.
As the most comprehensive DVD/CD-Recording software package for professionals, GEAR PRO Linux incorporates the latest DVD/CD-Recordable technology for Imaging, Mission Critical Archiving, CAD/CAM and Graphics Storage, Title Development, and Pre-master Testing.
GEAR allows you easily and cost effectively store text, large data sets, software, database, audio/video files and back-up information on compact disc with full control over the formatting and mastering process. GEAR Software is pleased to announce that GEAR PRO Linux now supports IDE DVD recorders!
Main features:
- Supports all current Linux kernel releases
- Creation of CD and DVD images for all industry standard disc types including CD-Audio, CD-ROM, CD-XA, Enhanced CD, DVD-ROM, DVD-Video and DVD-Audio
- DVD mastering capabilities for both single and dual sided discs
- Physical format support for mastering DVD-5, DVD-9, DVD-10 and DVD-18
- Able to format discs using ISO9660, UDF (Universal Disc Format), Rockridge and Joliet file extensions
- Comprehensive CD and DVD recorder support for all industry standard media types including DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R dual-layer, DVD-RAM, CD-R and CD-RW
- Support for DLT, Exabyte, and DDS/DAT recording devices for creating DDP (Disc Description Protocol) master tapes
- Conversion of CD and DVD discs or projects to industry standard DDP 1.0 or 2.1 images for professional disc mastering
- Jukebox and autoloader management for in-house mastering, unattended disc replication and multi-disc recording of large data sets for disc duplication
- Batch file scripting capability allows for unattended recording or backup operations to CD and DVD
- Support for links, pipes, device special files, etc with permission and group handling
- Complete command and message-logging capability provides for documentation, post process diagnostics and improved error resolution
- Easy to use Graphical User Interface
Functionality:
- back up mission-critical data to CD and DVD media
- pre-master audio, video, software and game titles
- archive graphics, databases, email, third-party generated data files, music, digital photos and video
- Create cross-platform discs compatible with Windows, UNIX and Mac platforms
- replicate DVD and CD discs using a jukebox
- distribute documents, marketing materials, and other data on a CD or DVD
- copy non-protected DVDs and CDs
- extract content from CD and DVD
- use the media in your CD or DVD recorder for near-line incremental storage
Formatting:
- Supports all CD and DVD formats including CD-Audio, DDP, CD-ROM, CD-XA, Enhanced CD, DVD-ROM, DVD-Video and DVD-Audio
- Provides DVD mastering for single or dual layer discs
- Allows the import of DVD-Video disc images (VIDEO_TS folders) for the creation of DVD-Video titles
- Enables the creation and manipulation of all industry standard file systems and file extensions including ISO9660, UDF 1.02 to UDF 2.5, Rock Ridge and Joliet
- Fast virtual image building requiring less than 5% of the total image size to record
- Direct-to-disc recording of files to UDF volumes
Recorder Support:
- Supports all of the latest CD and DVD recordable drives as well as most legacy devices
- Supports jukeboxes and media changers
- Automatically initiates support for new recorders (automatic drive recognition) without requiring driver or configuration file updates
- Supports test writing, CD and DVD recording speed setting, C2 error checking, multi-session disc creation, disc formatting and other advanced recorder features
- Enables all recording methods including track-at-once, disc-at-once, session-at-once, raw recording and fixed and variable packet writing
- Provides the capability to extract data and audio tracks (ripping)
- Allows direct disc-to-disc CD and DVD copying

Dont give away sensitive information, valuable corporate trade secrets, business plans, personal files and letters, or traces of Internet or newsgroup activity with the old computers that you or your company resells, donates, reassigns to different departments or removes from operation.
Deleting all the files, formatting the hard disk or using the FDISK utility is not enough to stop people that will have access to the computer in the future to restore information using basic recovery programs.
East-Tec DiskSanitizer however removes all traces of data and software from the computer hard disk, by overwriting and destroying beyond recovery every sector and every bit of information.
Data is removed according with U.S. Department of Defense standards or custom user security levels. East-Tec DiskSanitizer can be operated from a floppy disk to sanitize any drive from the computer, regardless of the file system or the operating system.
After selecting the drives to sanitize and the security level, the product is ready to perform its job.
Powerful verification capabilities and full user control during the sanitizing process can provide the utmost assurance that all data has been completely removed beyond recovery. At the end of the sanitize process the product can generate a proof of correct data disposal by printing a sanitizing report or by saving it for permanent records
Main features:
- The data on drives formatted with East-Tec Sanitizer 2005 is destroyed beyond recovery using advanced wiping techniques that can stop both software and hardware tools from recovering any data.
- Meets and exceeds the U.S. Department of Defense standards for the permanent erasure of digital information.
- Works with both IDE/ATA and SCSI disk drives
- The ability to sanitize any floppy or hard disks connected to the computer, or any independent partition from a hard drive without affecting other partitions, regardless of the file system and the operating system that resides on each drive (works with FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Unix, etc.).
- Powerful verification capabilities that give the user the utmost assurance that all data has been completely removed from disk.
- Very fast wiping speeds by using direct memory access (DMA/UDMA mode) for IDE/ATA drives (where support for this mode is available)
- The ability of wiping data on several machines simultaneously by installing Sanitizer on bootable floppy, CD or DVD disks.
- The ability to maintain detailed logs of all sanitizing operations, that can be printed and saved for permanent records.
- Overall progress, average speed and estimated time indicators are available.
- Mouse support.
Advanced Features:
- Powerful command-line parameter options that allow advanced users to run the program from the command prompt, with no user interface (if desired) and create different wiping scenarios.
- Sanitizing BIOS Free feature that allows users to address the full hard disk capacity even if, on some old machines, BIOS does not support large hard drives.
- The ability to develop and use your own data-destroying algorithms, that perfectly suits your security needs.
- The ability to generate random data streams using ISAAC Pseudo-Random Number Generating algorithm.

Big Faceless Java PDF Viewer 2.11.6 functions as a versatile swing component that can display PDF documents

Big Faceless Java PDF Viewer is Intended for customers who dont require the full API, the PDF Viewer can be installed as an Applet, application or via Java Web Start, or embedded in a Swing application.

Printing, saving, text search, forms, digital signatures, and annotations are some of the many features available - the viewer can be tailored to include just the features you need, and is a cost-effective solution for those needing the features of Adobe Acrobat on a Java platform.

Essentially a cut-down version of the full PDF Library, the Java PDF Viewer is a more cost-effective solution for those who dont required API access to the main library.

Unlike its big brother, the viewer cannot create new PDFs and any edits must be made through the Swing interface. That interface is supplied with a large number of "features" (the full list is here) which can be enabled to customize the interface; ideal for distributing a limited functionality viewer as part of the

Major Features:

1. Swing component for displaying PDF documents
2. Customizable feature set includes printing, saving, search/selection, forms, bookmarks, reorderable thumbnails, annotations and more.
3. Full support for PDFs up to Acrobat 9
4. Viewer can be controlled from JavaScript
5. Applet size under 1MB
6. Localized in English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese and Chinese

Enhancements:

• All BFO warning (and debug, if enabled) messages are now logged using log4j if available, or java.util.logging.* if not.
• Large synchronization audit fixed some issues when reading from one PDF in multiple threads, particularly when using the viewer.
• Fixed problem that could result in corruption when repeatedly saving a PDF containing compressed XRef tables and multiple revisions.
• Modified AnnotationStamp so Acrobat correctly handles custom stamps, and added some new types of standard stamp.
• Added FDF.getXFDF() method, for exporting XFDF from a PDF, and added support for this to the Viewer. Fixed FDF export, broken some releases ago.
• More PDF/A related fixes, and added a number of new OutputProfile.Features.
• Fixed RichText content in text fields
• Added subsetting for CFF fonts
• Fixed error with some Windows JDKs when rasterizing JPEG images
• Fixed unusual cases of Linear & Radial shading, added preliminary support for Coons & Tensor-Product Patch shading (Type 6 & 7).
• Fixed blending, broken in previous release and resulting in opaque highlight annotations.
• Correctly handle masked images where the mask and image are different sizes, as created by Luratech products.
• Added PageExtractor.Image.getUniqueId(), to identify extracted images.
• Added PageExtractor.Image.getMetaData() and Text.getFontMetaData(), to return any embedded XMP MetaData for those items in the PDF.
• Fixed long-standing bug in CCITT.G3 2D encoding now rarely seen in very old TIFF images.
• Further fixes to handle some types of corrupt PDF
• Viewer: Page Up/Page Down/Home and End keys navigate correctly through the PDF via the Viewport ActionMap. Standard ScrollBar keybindings are overridden, previous KeyListener approach didnt work reliably and was removed.
• Viewer: Fixed missing glyphs in some fonts after a search was run.
• Viewer: PDFTool (the class run by "java -jar bfopdf.jar") has more options.
• Viewer: Stamps no longer slowly grow when clicked on due to rounding error
• Viewer: Calling DocumentPanel.redraw(page) will work as expected.
• Viewer: Dont allow JavaScript to be run on the console if no PDF is loaded
• Viewer: Fixed page jump when zoom level is changed in Column view
• Viewer: Dont fail under 1.6 when saving PDFs to filenames containing an invalid regex backreference.
• Viewer: Improved display under OS X, including addition of a Dock Icon.
• Viewer: Added keyboard shortcuts to "Open Recent" menu.
• Viewer: Thumbnail panel now scrolls to follow the current page, and renders more reliably.

Requirements: Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment