[LAU] It's time to release The Salamander Grand Piano

[Patrick Shirkey]

On 05/16/2010 08:17 AM, Robin Gareus wrote:
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: linux-audio-user-bounces at lists.linuxaudio.org [mailto:linux-audio-
>>> user-bounces at lists.linuxaudio.org] On Behalf Of alexander
>>> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 3:42 PM
>>> To: linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org
>>> Subject: Re: [LAU] It's time to release The Salamander Grand Piano
>>>
>>> On 05/14/2010 09:47 PM, Rob wrote:
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>>>> On Friday 14 May 2010 02:20 pm, alexander wrote:
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>>>>>> http://freepats.zenvoid.org/Piano/SalamanderGrandPiano.tar.bz2
>>>>>>
>>>>>>              
>>>>> Ok, the faulty sample has been replaced, It's the same link as in the
>>>>> original post
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> Has anyone set up a torrent for this yet?  It's about a gig and a half.  If
>>>> not, I'll download it and set one up myself tonight.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for doing all this sampling.
>>>>
>>>> Rob
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Please do :)
>>>
>>> Here's a piece recorded by Nils
>>> http://www.nilsgey.de/Nils_Hammerfest_-
>>> _Walzer_No1_Recording_SalamanderPiano_Take1.ogg
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> On May 15, 2010, at 10:29 PM, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
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>> BTW, if you need a mirror for this beast, please feel free to post it on the download.linuxaudio.org
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> I've mirrored it at http://download.linuxaudio.org/lau/ for now; There's also a drum sound-font collection that was posted on LAU by
> James Stone a few years back there. Eventually a .torrent would be the best option..
>
>    


Just in case you don't know but it is technically possible to host the 
torrent on the server if you run a torrent server/app as a background 
process. This could be quite a handy method of distribution for these 
large files as the server is always on so the torrent will be always 
available.



Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd


>> Let me or Robin know if you have any questions how to do this.
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> Usually we pull via rsync provided by the authors/distributors.
> ie: you provide a rsync URL, we setup a cron job to mirror it on download.linuxaudio.org :)
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>> Ico
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> robin
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