EastWestAudio
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Summary
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ewa (EastWestAudio) is an application that quickly splices together
mp3 audio files together into larger files according to user-defined
rules.  It can be run as a commandline utility or in server mode.

Documentation
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The ewa manual is available in the doc/ directory of the source
distribution.


Installation
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Ewa may installed through setuptools:
   
   easy_install ewa

or if you have unpacked the source tarball:

   easy_install .

or:

   python setup.py install

Ewa requires Python >=2.4.

See the manual for details.


Tests
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The test suite is not comprehensive, but what there is requires 
nose (the Python unit test package, not the part of your face).
To run it:

  python setup.py test

License
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Ewa is free software; for license see the file LICENSE.


Authors
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The principal author of Ewa is Jacob Smullyan, with significant
contributions from:

* Joe Hopfield
* Brian Olsen

Ewa contains code derived from mp3cat by Tom Clegg.

Ewa 0.62.2 and later includes a bundled copy of PLY by David Beazley
(LGPL license -- see http://www.dabeaz.com/ply/).


Copyright 2007 WNYC New York Public Radio.

