[LAU] A virtual LAU chillout band

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Wed Nov 14 08:45:41 EST 2007


On Tuesday 13 November 2007 11:28 pm, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 21:04 -0500, Frank Pirrone wrote:
> > Mark Constable wrote:
> > > up a bare Subversion repo that anyone is welcome to use
> > > if anyone cares to try svn out. The URL is ...
> >
> > Otherwise, being able to check out the latest alternate or additional
> > tracks and simply substitute or add them to those already on my hard
> > drive would keep the bandwidth demands reasonable.  Log or check in
> > tonight, see two new tracks there, grab them at a few megabytes apiece,
> > downloaded in a few seconds over my 20mb/sec fiber link, add something,
> > upload that and the project file in another brief upload, etc.
>
> This is a good idea but it will quickly eat up hard drive space and
> bandwidth. I can volunteer both from two different servers if needed.

I suggest talking to the Internet Archive to see if they might be interested 
in hosting such a thing.

The other people I can think of to talk to is the google code people.

They already do subversion hosting for code. perhaps they would host such a 
project(s) and give more space to it than they do for code.

Also, I keep suggesting to the ccMixter people that they do a parallel 
Free_ccMixter site that uses BY and BY-SA instead of BY and BY-NC.

If they ever decide to do that, they might be another option.
>
> Not so sure about the subversion support though. I'm interested in ideas
> for how to split the load efficiently.
>
> An social network for music creation will definitely be good for
> promoting Linux audio and open source software. Please keep us informed
> of the progress as this could be a very powerful idea if it is managed
> well.
>
> I can see a roll for the consortium in this project but we will need a
> way to make it pay for itself if it does get some momentum as the costs
> will be pretty massive on a large scale.
>
> Maybe we should be distributing via bittorrent like eletricsheep
> http://electricsheep.org
>
> Why make the server handle all the load when it can be a simple database
> engine instead.

One crazy idea I have been kicking around for a while is to supply a single as 
a live-cd ardour project that will boot and play automatically. (with effects 
and mixdown all cued up so that what you hear is the final mix as chosen by 
the cd's creator... BUT... where all the controls are sitting exposed for the 
user to muck about with.

And where a musician can mute and replace any track for a jam experience. Or 
whatever.

I could go on but will stop here until another time.

> Cheers.

all the best,

drew



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