[LAD] LADI

Patrick Shirkey pshirkey at boosthardware.com
Tue Dec 22 20:18:19 UTC 2009


On 12/23/2009 06:57 AM, Bob Ham wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 21:15 +0100, rosea grammostola wrote:
>    
>> Bob Ham wrote:
>>      
>>> On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 16:53 +0100, Adrian Knoth wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:53:02AM +0000, Bob Ham wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>> local sessions are a subset of the functionality provided by network
>>>>> sessions
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> If you want to have network transparency inside the audio framework,
>>>> this perspective might be true.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> I do want that.
>>>        
>    
>> 1) The 'one app with plugins' group.
>>      
>    
>> 2) The people who likes to work with different, small Jack applications
>> (ams, aeolus, epichord etc.). These people are interested in a session
>> handler. But they think dbus is the wrong approach, it is to limited for
>> them, or it is not the right thing for the Linux platform in their opinion.
>>      
>    
>> 3) Group 3 is the same as group 2, BUT they have chosen dbus as
>> solution. It's the LADI group.
>>      
> As Fons noted, there is a fourth group of people who are interested in
> network-wide audio session handling, for various purposes.  This is
> actually the most important group as far as I'm concerned because their
> goals are a superset of the second and third groups' goals.
>
>    
>> We can expect that group 3 will build a session handler for us. LADI is
>> in active development and they already made some progress.
>>      
>    
>> Now I'm wondering, what can we expect from group 2?
>>      
> > From group 2 and 4, you can probably expect something.
>
> I have designs for an OSC-based system, JIZZ,


Interesting choice of name. The more times you say it the funnier it 
becomes...

What were you thinking?



Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd






> that has been mentioned as
> the successor to LASH.  It exists quite clearly in my mind.  I've also
> made some designs on paper and put them here:
>
> http://pkl.net/~node/software/lash/lash-2.jpeg
>
> Unfortunately, I don't have the time to refine the design, produce a
> protocol and implement it.  I'm currently working toward an MSc degree.
> It's possible that I may continue work on JIZZ at some point in the
> foreseeable future after completing my MSc.  It's also possible that I
> may work toward a PhD, in which case it's unlikely I'll have time to
> work on JIZZ, at least within a useful time frame.
>
> However, Florian Faber recently communicated with me privately based on
> this thread and seemed to have similar ideas to mine.  Particularly,
> using OSC over TCP and mDNS for service advertisements.  From that
> communication, it also seemed as though Florian might have the time and
> energy to produce something.  I don't know what will come of that
> though; Florian?
>
> Fons also has similar ideas (or did in the past.)  Particularly, about
> using OSC and also about focusing on the protocol rather than the
> implementation.  Fons has already commented on his own activity.
>
>    



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