2 Feb
2004
2 Feb
'04
8:27 p.m.
On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 10:57, Chris Cannam wrote:
On Monday 02 Feb 2004 2:02 am, Marek Peteraj wrote:
Ok, let's look at your flyer:
you're using the terms "audio software" "audio editor" "Linux
audio
applications" "Linux audio software"
Let's look at your description of JACK - an audio service which routes
audio.
Now suppose i change 'audio' to 'sound', that's 'sound
service' - does
it mean it's similar to wizoo sounds?
Or even better, let's call it music service - it's going to let jack
look like a music service such as iTunes or Napster.
let's take a look at http://www.sounds-expo.co.uk/index2.php as you
suggested.
"Sounds Expo is the UK event for *musicians*, producers and *sound*
engineers."
Now let's take a look at the exhibitors:
Audio Agency
Audio Media
Audio Technica
AudioState
Focusrite Audio Engineering
TL Audio
...
...
GNU Linux Audio Centre
Guys, if you think that the term 'Linux audio' isn't so important, or
that linux sound or linux music would better suit the needs of users,
why don't you just leave www.linuxaudio.org for LinuxAudio itself.
I'd be happy to buy it from Daniel and redirect it to the LAD page.
Marek
Linux Audio.
You can't have a better promotion than having a domain name with
exactly that name - Linux Audio.
Well, you see, I'm not so convinced that it is such an obvious name as
you think.
I think the apparent obviousness of it is a projection of the fact
that as developers or engineers we mostly seem to think of what we do
as "audio". I'm not so sure that "audio" is going to be the
obvious
defining word to any user who is not an audio engineer by trade.
For example, look at the website for the Sounds Expo trade show:
http://www.sounds-expo.co.uk/index2.php
To us this is obviously an audio industry trade show, but the word
"audio" does not feature in the description on that site at all.
Similarly I have copies of the latest Sound on Sound and Future Music
magazines in front of me, and the word "audio" is nowhere on the
cover of either. All of these exclusively use words like "sound",
"recording", "music". "Audio" describes a particular
domain that has
to do with frequencies and samples: it's something that engineers use
to make music products, not something that musicians use. (The
crossover between studio engineers and home studio users does muddy
this one, of course.)
Still, to me this seems like a pretty obvious distinction -- I've been
developing Linux music software for nearly a decade now, but I'm only
tangentially a Linux audio developer. And I see the "linuxaudio.org"
consortium as having a name that suggests it's targeted at the audio
industry, or at least to developers and sound engineers, not so much
the average end user. I'm not persuaded that the musician with an
interest in music software for Linux would ever think of going to
linuxaudio.org at all.