[linux-audio-dev] Jackbeat : contributors needed

[Olivier Guilyardi]

Hi,

I feel like it's not a usual way to ask for contributions, but, well,
I thought I'd give it a try :

I'm the author of Jackbeat, at http://xung.org/jackbeat, and my day
job's currently eating my time. I've just released the 0.3 development
version which is a rewrite, forked from the (quite) stable 0.2 branch.

Here comes the todo list :

* Saving and loading songs is broken. This has to be rewritten :
   - implement a new song file format, based on an xml metadata format,
     with all samples stored in a subdirectory, all that packed in a tar
     archive, using libtar (http://www.feep.net/libtar). FLAC compression
     would be nice as well.
   - provide backward compatibility for jackbeat 0.2's .jab binary file
     format
* Pattern nesting. This allows using another instance of Jackbeat as a
   sample. This is called "buses" in some other software :
   - this is half-implemented
* Syscall-free IPC :
   - currently posix message queues are used to talk with the JACK thread.
     This has to be changed to a lock-free fifo.

Jackbeat do have users, and I'd really like to keep it alive. If any of you
have interest in participating in this project, especially by contributing
some code, please let me know.

About the song file format : it looks to me like this tar+xml+flac
format could be implemented as a library. Chances are that it could
be reusable in many contexts.

Regards

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   og