17 Sep
2004
17 Sep
'04
12:33 p.m.
Hi Andrea,
Actually it's been the decision making rather than the finding which
has been the more difficult part. I was easily able to collect the
tracks from various websites, but I guess there's around 15 hours of
music there. In the end I settled for a simple formula of one track
per artist, usually their shortest one available so that we can get a
lot of different styles on the CD.
AMD has discussed the issue of hardware sponsorship - I think we
should make a concrete proposal for that, and the AGNULA project
would be a good candidate.
But they are also interested in helping with technical liaison on
native x86_64 ports of music and audio software. AMD's Digital Media
& Entertainment division works with several film and music studios in
the US, and I'd guess that at least some of those film studios are
using Linux already, for graphics work.
Cheers
Daniel
I'm also
working with Ron Parker to compile a promotional CD
of 'made with Linux' music. I've selected 15 tracks from over
900MB of Oggs and MP3s collected from the internet, and Ron
is doing the mastering using Jamin at Mirror Image Studios. I
hoping we'll be able to get this CD distributed as a magazine
coverdisc by the end of this year.
Maybe you could do a CfM (Call for Music) on
users(a)lists.agnula.org, if you haven't already - there are a
number of people there that are doing experimentations with
doing music with GNU/Linux and Free Software On the
hardware manufacturers liaison side, I've been talking
to AMD on a regular basis, and we now have a technical
contact there for x86_64 porting issues. Please email me if
you'd like to make contact with them.
What is the technical contact actually going to bring? I mean, are
they willing to lend an x86_64 machine for testing or are they just
answering questions