Linux-audio-announce December 2004

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[linux-audio-announce] MuSE 0.9.1 codename STREAMTIME

by jaromil

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 annunciazio' annunciazio'! dyne.org autoproduzioni & the FreakNet Medialab proudly present: __ __ ____ _____ ___ ___ _ | \/ |_ _/ ___|| ____| / _ \ / _ \ / | | |\/| | | | \___ \| _| | | | | (_) || | | | | | |_| |___) | |___ | |_| |\__, || | |_| |_|\__,_|____/|_____| \___(_) /_(_)_| codename STREAMTIME this is RASTA SOFTWARE, Jah Rastafari Livity bless your freedom! :: the Multiple Streaming Engine :: http://muse.dyne.org This application is being developed in the hope to provide the Free Software community a user friendly tool for network audio streaming, making life easier for indypendent free speech radios wanting to stream via http on icecast servers. MuSE is an application for mixing, encoding, and network streaming of sound: it can transmit an audio signal by mixing together sound taken from files or also network, recursively remixing more MuSE streams. MuSE can simultaneously mix up to 6 encoded audio bitstreams (from files or network, ogg, mp3, wav and other common sound formats), plus an input signal from microphone. MuSE offers an intuitive interfaces to be operated in realtime, while it can also run slick from the Unix commandline. MuSE is employed in the http://www.streamtime.org project to foster the creation of free community radios in Baghdad - the Tigris Project ==== WHAT'S NEW? This release introduces several fixes in terms of stability and operability, so everyone is recommended to upgrade! :: FIXES - - Ogg/Vorbis network streams can now be played and mixed - - Ncurses console is fixed for proper streaming operation - - Audio device handling has been rewritten - - FIFO pipes have been cleaned up - - continuous playmode and commandline encoder options have been fixed - - encoding of vorbis is now CBR and works with various samplerates :: EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES these features are introduced by this release, alltough they are not fully functional: experienced testing and contributions are very welcome! - - porting to OSX - - Jack support - - time based scheduler for radio automation - - Peer 2 peer streaming to Freedomnet/Proton ***** Supported servers: You can use MuSE to stream both MP3 or Ogg/Vorbis sound format to a broadcast server, which means that for doing an online radio you still need to setup yours, or find one that let you stream. Such servers can be seen like antennas which amplify your signal and redistribute it to listeners. there are free software implementations of such technology! the ones supported by MuSE are: - - Icecast2 - http://icecast.org - can stream OGG & MP3 - - Litestream - http://litestream.org - can stream MP3 - - Darwin - http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/streaming - - Shoutcast - http://shoutcast.com - non free, runs on win32 - - Freedomnet/Proton - ftp://ftp.dyne.org/freedomnet/proton - P2P ***** Supported players: MuSE streams via http, it doesn't uses multicast technology, nor RTP/RTSP, to have the widest possible range of compatible players. You can listen audio produced by MuSE from almost every personal computer and operating system, using one or more of the following: - - xmms - http://www.xmms.org - for GNU/Linux, *BSD, Sun, etc. - - mpg123 - http://www.mpg123.de - for various UNIX systems - - itunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes - on MacOSX - - zinf - http://www.zinf.org - on GNU/Linux and Win32 - - winamp - http://www.winamp.com - on all Win platforms - - MuSE itself! ;) and even more players: something should be also allready available for handeld devices and embedded systems as well. ***** Libraries: - - LAME (optional) Lame can be installed but is no more needed, in particular libmp3lame and the header lame.h must be properly installed. - - OGG VORBIS (optional) You can compile and install libogg and libvorbis on your machine before compiling MuSE; the configure script will recognize them and include support for decoding and mixing of .ogg files. - - GTK+ (optional) + libxml and glib if libgtk and all the related libraries are present, MuSE will compile the GTK+ graphic user interface for interactive use and additional fun. - - NCURSES (optional) if libncurses is present, MuSE will compile a text console interactive interface to be used into ASCII terminals. - - SNDFILE (optional) if libsndfile is present then you'll be able to play uncompressed sound files like wav, aiff, snd, voc, pvf, mat, au, sf etc. ***** Compile and install: - - you can get latest version of lame: (if you already have lame and libmp3lame jump to point 2, after checking that version is >3.89) with 'lame --version' or download it from www.mp3dev.org/mp3 and follow the simple instructions to get installed this wonderful GPL mp3 encoder. - - install libogg and libvorbis: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html if you don't install any of the above, MuSE will be a simple player. - - compile: cd MuSE-x.x.x ; ./configure (or try ./configure --help to have listed some compile options) ; make ; make install *** RPM and Slackware TGZ binary packages are also made available on ftp://ftp.dyne.org/muse/releases *** MuSE is also available on a couple of *NIX distributions, consult your package manager as a binary version could be already provided by it. The following distributions are known to include MuSE: FreeBSD, Gentoo, NetBSD, Debian and of course [dyne:bolic] ***** need help to run GNU/Linux? don't worry! try http://dynebolic.org liveCD distribution for radio streaming, by the same author of MuSE ***** MUCH MORE DOCUMENTATION! tutorials and manuals are available on http://muse.dyne.org <----- ***** Report bugs BUG REPORTING is REALLY APPRECIATED! BUT TAKE CARE TO DO IT WELL: please ALWAYS REPORT the muse --version you are running and possibly run the binary with gdb giving us the backtrace of the error. if you understand the above, please go to http://bugs.dyne.org and submit a BUG!!! ===== AUTHORS MuSE is copyleft (c) 2000-2004 by Denis "jaromil" Rojo MuSE's GTK+ GUI is copyleft (c) 2001-2004 by Antonino "nightolo" Radici MuSE's NCURSES GUI is copyleft (c) 2002-2004 by Luca "rubik" Profico MuSE's first GUI is copyleft (c) 2000-2001 by August Black included resampling algos are copyleft (c) 2002 by Matteo "MoP" Nastasi MuSE's scheduler included code copyleft (c) 2004 by Eugen Melinte part of the redistributed code is copyright by the respective authors, please refer to the AUTHORS file and to the supplied sourcecode for further information and to COPYING for the full license. MANY THANKS for experienced testing and documentation go to Adam, Michel (radio Lora), Doub, Aubergine and Tresnar . the following organizations had supported development: PUBLIC VOICE Lab ........ [ http://www.pvl.at ] SERVUS.AT ............... [ http://www.servus.at ] If you are part of an institution of cultural association, or even a business organization regularly employing free software, please consider to sponsor this project! it is good visibility for you and great help for us to keep on developing this tool that is freely available and widely used by radio stations across the world. ***** PLEASE SUPPORT US! This whole software was built by autonomous efforts and occasionally supported by non-profit organizations, while the development currently relies on the political believing of MuSE's authors, that there should be such a tool and it should be freely available to people willing to do online radio. :: PLEASE HELP PORTING MuSE on the OSX platform! This task is very important since there is no equivalent free software on the Arple platform that can let people stream online radio. If you can afford to donate us some money let us know, we also need new and old working hardware, especially a MAC G3 or G4 machine is needed in order to complete the OSX porting, please donate if you can! contact us on http://dyne.org/hackers_contact.php or send online donations via paypal.com to jaromil \@\ dyne.org and remember to visit the google ads on the pages, it helps ;) The MuSE development team is also avaliable to run formation courses about usage, customization and reuse/abuse of free and open source software - it offers as well support and warranty, development of software solutions and consulting. There were a number of workshops allready done around Europe on free and opensource network radio streaming by the hackers @ dyne.org if you want to organize one you're very welcome to contact us! this way you can also help us develop more free software. THANKS, a thousand flowers will blossom! == DISCLAIMER This source code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This source code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Please refer to the GNU Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Public License along with this source code; if not, write to: Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. ciao - -- jaromil, dyne.org rasta coder, http://rastasoft.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Cryptographically signed mail, see http://gnupg.org iD8DBQFBwYF8WLCC1ltubZcRAqGyAJ9EubGKBZoTIsaGD4uTQvxrRIRRCgCfb4/3 3JB1CjLWPAvvvF1PKuQbZhU= =UmSk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Patch to swh-plugins 2.4.12

by Steve Harris

http://www.plugin.org.uk/releases/0.4.12/sc4m.patch Allows the SC4 mono compressor to be built correctly. I didnt want to make a new release as its a silly 1 line mistake. - Steve

20 years

[linux-audio-announce] [Announce] jack.osc

by Rohan Drape

jack.osc is a JACK transport publication daemon Changes :: - name of project is changed from jack.clock. - names of OSC packets are changed to be more human readable. - all state notification is packed into a single OSC packet. jack.osc publishes the transport state of the local JACK server as OSC packets over a UDP connection. jack.osc allows any OSC enabled application to act as a JACK transport client, receiving sample accurate pulse stream timing data, and monitoring and initiating transport state change. A source archive and documentation are available at: <http://www.alphalink.com.au/~rd/> Regards, Rohan

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[linux-audio-announce] [Announce] midi.osc - MIDI Packet Publication Daemon

by Rohan Drape

midi.osc publishes MIDI packets on the local host MIDI system as OSC packets over a UDP connection. midi.osc allows any environment that supports OSC to act as a MIDI client, sending and receiving MIDI data, and monitoring and initiating changes to the host MIDI system. There is support for ALSA Sequencer (Linux) and CoreMidi (OSX) hosts. There are some issues with the ALSA send support, any help on this would be appreciated. A source archive and documentation are available at: <http://www.alphalink.com.au/~rd/> Regards, Rohan

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[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] swh-plugins 0.4.12

by Steve Harris

http://plugin.org.uk/releases/0.4.12/ Changes: Now builds on OSX with ./configure --enable-darwin thanks to Taybin Rutkin and Jack O'Quin. Fix for SC1 that stop it becoming unstable and make SC4 behave as if it had denormal problems thanks to Dan Mills and Joel White. Mono version of SC4 thanks to Joel White. Enjoy, Steve

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[linux-audio-announce] call for developers

by michael mayers

hi peeps, I need some linux/c++ developers to help out with the Orkid Media Engine. Its a cross platform framework with which to build multi media applications, it is based on a modified FLTK (LGPL like) license. I have over 5 years invested in this framework (nights and weekends), so I hope someone is willing to help, so I can see it grow ;> As far as linux goes, it has basic ALSA audio output support for the built in softsynth - and it has an FLTK/OpenGL (vertex and pixel shader) based UI. It also has a pretty sophisticated reflection/introspection based object system - which will come in very useful for building large scale apps. other notable features are a generalized asset filtering(conversion) mechanism, soundfont2 parser, vertex and pixel shader support (GL version needs some work), good layout for building both content editing and realtime performance. you will probably need a DX8 or DX9 class video card to use this in 3D ui mode (vertex and pixelshaders), but if you can live without the 3D hardware based UI there is nothing preventing you from using whatever UI library you want. My primary development platform is windows (just because msvc .net is the easiest development environment for me to use, since I use it at my day job). That said, there are visual slickedit for linux and Xcode for OSX projects also included. So I'm targeting cross platform - and I want feature parity on all platforms. So I need a linux developer or two to help keep the linux build going, because I cant support 4 platforms by myself (win32/linux/osx/ps2dev). the engine is located at http://www.tweakoz.com/orkid/ here is a quick link to see what it looks like (on windoze) http://www.tweakoz.com/orkid/orkid_curve_editor.jpg I dont always keep the source on the site up to date, so if anyone wants subversion access, let me know.. any help will be appreciated ! thanks, Michael T. Mayers

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[linux-audio-announce] [Fervent Software] PR: Fervent Studio to Go! Available Now!

by fervent＠ukfsn.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Announcing Fervent Studio..to go! Bootable Live CD of music software is now available to purchase! London, UK. 10th December 2004 - Fervent Software would like to announce the immediate availability of Studio..to go! - a bootable Live CD of integrated MIDI and audio sequencing, score and synthesis software for the demanding musician and composer. Studio..to go! offers one of the most sophisticated combinations of music software anywhere in a single value-for-money package. Studio..to go! runs entirely from the CD on Windows compatible 32-bit PCs and requires no installation. Combine it with a USB memory stick and you can take both studio and compositions around with you in your pocket. Because the software isnt installed and runs in its own environment you dont need to worry about compatability issues with existing software on your system. The package includes the powerful Rosegarden MUSIC sequencer and score package, the Digital Audio Workstation Ardour, the JAMin mastering tool, Hydrogen drum machine and a large selection of audio plugins and virtual instruments along with CD ripping and burning software. Studio..to go! also allows you to make use of any existing VSTs and Soundfonts that you may already have installed on your system. Fervent Studio..to go! is available from the Fervent website for 49.99GBP including postage and packing. The price includes bootable CD in mini DVD case, getting started notes, tutorials, introductions to all of the music applications included and 30 days email support and access to Fervent Forums. Fervent will make every effort to deliver to UK customers ordering before 15th December in time for Christmas. For more information and to order Studio..to go! please go to: http://www.ferventsoftware.com or email: info(a)ferventsoftware.com About Fervent Software Fervent Software Ltd is a privately owned music technology company based in the UK. It focuses on delivering high standards of usability and accessibility for music and creative software as well as advocating and participating in major Open Source software development projects. Fervent Software works with many music technology providers and educational groups to bring high quality music software within anyones reach. Studio..to go! establishes Fervent Software at the forefront of innovation and excellence in music technology. _______________________________________________ Fervent mailing list Fervent(a)ukfsn.org http://lists.ukfsn.org/mailman/listinfo/fervent

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[linux-audio-announce] free!music cd 1.0 :)

by Alexandre Prokoudine

We are happy to finally announce immediate availability of FREE!MUSIC CD that ships with a russian GNU/Linux distribution "ALT Linux Master 2.4". This CD contains Ogg Vorbis encoded music from 30 groups and individual performers in quite different styles (rock, traditional etc). According to FREE!MUSIC declaration all tracks can be copied, sold, reused in movies etc. -- whatever you like, but you always have to keep name of the authors and their contacts information, so that anyone can mail or phone them and suggest a contract or a gig etc :) English text of the declaration can be found here: http://freemusic.org.ru/content/view/5/27/ We will make this site truly multilingual as soon as Mambo 4.6 will be released. You can download the disc as ISO from here: ftp://ftp.altlinux.ru/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/ISO/FreeMusic-2-cd.iso ISO should also be avaliable from Ibiblio soon: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/altlinux/ISO/ You can browse CD contents here: ftp://ftp.altlinux.ru/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/FreeMusic/2/ All in Russian. Sorry, guys :) Alexandre

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[linux-audio-announce] Band In A Box to Lilypond and MMA!

by Alain

Hi (former;-) biab users! I'm working on a biab file converter. It reads most biab files and writes lilypond and mma output. Find a beta release under: http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~brenzala/builder.php?content=projects_biabconvert… regards Alain

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[linux-audio-announce] Pure Data/ Free and Open Source Software Workshop : London

by derek holzer

START Pure Data/ Free and Open Source Software Workshop ------------------------------------------------- VJ | Video editing | Audio editing ---------------------------------- Hosted by OpenMute, London UK - Monday 13 Dec - Tuesday 14 Dec **PD.ZILLA --- PURE DATA STOMPS THE UK!** Workshops and demos on Free and Open Source Software by Aymeric Mansoux and Derek Holzer. While many tools exist for sound, multimedia and VJ purposes, few of them are designed with the kind of open architecture that allows artists to reconfigure the tools themselves. Fewer still are free to use, share and rebuild. This workshop introduces the software combination of Pure Data, GEM and PDP/PiDiP, running on the Linux operating system, as a platform for audio, video and multimedia artists to explore. About Pure Data http://pure-data.iem.at/ Pure Data/Free and Open Source Software Workshop ------------------------------------------------ Workshop date and time: Monday 13 Dec - Tuesday 14 Dec | 10.30 (coffee) 11am start – 7pm finish. Lunch is from 1-2. Public install, date and time: Tuesday 14 Dec | 6pm Party: location/date and time to be announced, check our Wiki for updates Where: Ground Floor Hall, The Whitechapel Centre, 85 Myrdle St, London E1 1HL The workshop is fully wheelchair accessible. Please let us know if you have any other access requirements. Local travel: Tube: Whitechapel/Aldgate East, DLR: Shadwell, Bus: 25, 15, 247 Street map: http://linkme2.net/b Details forthcoming at: http://3d.openmute.org/modules/wakka/PureData Discussion forum: http://3d.openmute.org/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=15 Registration/payment: +44(0)20 7377 6949 services(a)metamute.com Cost and payment details: 50gbp. Payment can be accepted by cheque (UK clearing bank only, please make cheques payable to: Mute), Visa, Mastercard, Solo, Switch, Maestro. (Please call to make credit card payments) Payment must be made in full before the workshop starts. No concessions are available. No refunds available for cancellation or missed workshop. Places are limited so please book early. If there are no places available, we will be holding further PD workshops and there is a public (free) install session from 6pm on Tuesday 14th Dec. All equipment will be provided, though if you prefer you are invited to bring your own laptop for the duration of the workshop. The workshop team can install PD and setup your machine, but please allow sufficient space [700 Mb for dyne:bolic, or 5 Gb for full Linux installation!]. This is on top of any existing operating system (OS) and will not damage your existing OS (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, BSD, + other Unix flavours can be accommodated). **NB - Please let us know in advance if you want to bring your own machine and let us know its specifications** The program ----------- DAY ONE INTERMEDIATE: aimed towards people with some basic familiarity with computers, and who would like to increase their knowledge of Pure Data, digital audio+video and Linux. 1 Installation Clinic(workshop participants only) [HANDS-ON][1 HOUR] This block of time will be set aside for people to bring in their own PCs in order to install either the dyne:bolic or Fedora Linux/Planet CCRMA system of audio video applications. Please set aside a suitable amount of space on your hard drive! [700 Mb for dyne:bolic, or 5 Gb for full Linux installation!] 2 Meet Mr. Pure Data[HANDS-ON][3 HOURS] An introduction to simple programming using the graphical environment of PD, or Pure Data. Participants will build a simple, monophonic synthesizer which can be played from the computer keyboard, while learning some of the basic "grammar" and "vocabulary" of the PD language. Several ready-made instruments from the RRADical collection of patches for PD will also be introduced. 3 Everyone Wants to be a VJ, pt. 1[HANDS-ON][3 HOURS] An introduction to GEM, the Graphics Environment for Multimedia, which is an external library for PD which allows for the creation and manipulation of 3D objects. Participants will explore basic 3D shapes + movements, as well as mapping images and textures onto these shapes. DAY TWO INTERMEDIATE: aimed towards people with some basic familiarity with computers and Pure Data, and with an interest in making live sound and video. 1. Our Old Friend, Mr. Pure Data[HANDS-ON][3 HOURS] A higher level workshop in PD, for those who survived the introduction and are ready for more complex exercises. Here, we will cover using tables to manipulate audio samples, filters + delays, creating reusable modules of code to save you time, and integrating PD into other Linux audio applications using the Jack Audio Connection Kit. 2. Everyone Wants to be a VJ pt. 2[HANDS-ON][3 HOURS] Video mixing and processing using PDP, or Pure Data Packets, another external for PD. Aymeric will demonstrate how to create abstract video from noise, how to load Quicktime video clips from the hard drive, and how to use filters to create video effects. 3. Installation Clinic(open to the public 6pm) [HANDS-ON][1 HOUR] This block of time will be set aside for people to bring in their own PCs in order to install either the dyne:bolic or Fedora Linux/Planet CCRMA system of audio video applications. Please set aside a suitable amount of space on your hard drive! [700 Mb for dyne:bolic, or 5 Gb for full Linux installation!] Credits and thanks ------------------ Simon Yuill of http://www.yourmachines.org/ for the inspiration to put on the workshop. Raquel Perez de Eulate for help organising the event. Korona from SSBA for the venue hire. The PD.ZILLA team for being flexible in arranging the event. The event is organised by OpenMute, provider of FLOSS web tools see: http://openmute.org OpenMute is a Mute Publishing Ltd. project http://metamute.com , and supported by the Arts Council of England. END -- OpenMute – free web site, with Open Source publishing and communications tools | gallery | web pages | forum | wiki | RSS feeds | ==> Go to http://openmute.org -- -- derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl ---Oblique Strategy # 36: "Consult other sources -promising -unpromising"

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