AudioMeter vs Com-Phone Story Maker
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
AudioMeter
A simple VU-style audio meter. You can choose from several formulas to allow the meter to work in low- and high-noise level enviromnents. I noticed there was no audio meter in F-Droid, so I thought I'd build one. The app offers a few ways to calculate the audio level to display: * dBFS: Decibels relative to Full Scale. * RMS: Root Mean Square. This is arguable the most correct, but it is a little insensitive at low volumes. * LogRMS: Natural log of RMS: My first attempt to even out the scale. It's a little too sensitive to noisy mics. * SqrtRMS: Squareroot of RMS: My second attempt to even out RMS: it seems to works best. * Max: Simply find the loudest bit of each sample. Most responsive, but will peg the scale on noisey places. * Avg: Simple average of the sound.
Com-Phone Story Maker
Com-Phone Story Maker helps you create multimedia narratives, combining photos, audio and text in exciting ways to tell digital stories. The app's simple interface helps you create your own photo slideshows to document your life; send to other devices running the application or play back locally; create templates; export as a movie; upload to YouTube; or, save a web version to self-publish. Each story can include any number of media frames. Each individual frame of the story can include an image or photo, up to three layered audio or music tracks, and text content. Anything in a frame can be edited at any time – for example, you can pause audio recording and then resume later, or load pictures from your media library. All elements of each frame are optional. For example, Com-Phone can also be used as an annotated photo diary, a simple audio recorder, a text and sound tool for discussion about current events, or even a multimedia survey app. A simple printable user manual is available at: https://digitaleconomytoolkit.org/manuals/com-phone.pdf. Com-Phone is completely free, with no adverts and no unnecessary permissions. The app is open source as part of the Com-Me toolkit – you can fork any of the Com-Me tools on GitHub: https://github.com/communitymedia. For more information about the Com-Me project, see: https://digitaleconomytoolkit.org.
| Feature | AudioMeter | Com-Phone Story Maker |
|---|---|---|
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later | LGPL-3.0-only |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | Media PlayerVideo | Media PlayerVideo |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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