Linux-audio-announce February 2008

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by Tom Szilagyi

The Aqualung development team is pleased to announce the latest release of the Aqualung music player. Aqualung is an advanced music player originally targeted at the GNU/Linux operating system, today also running on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Microsoft Windows. It plays audio CDs, internet radio streams and podcasts as well as soundfiles in just about any audio format and has the feature of inserting no gaps between adjacent tracks. The ChangeLog is included below. Please note that our website has moved to http://aqualung.factorial.hu Please update your links and bookmarks. Enjoy, Tom 2008-02-10 Tom Szilagyi <tszilagyi at users dot sourceforge dot net> * Aqualung 0.9beta9.1 http://aqualung.factorial.hu This is a bugfix, stability and performance oriented release also containing a few updates to existing functionality. By using this version, your Aqualung will be more stable, and in some cases significantly faster. All users are encouraged to upgrade. The project homepage has moved to http://aqualung.factorial.hu Please upgrade your pointers and bookmarks. Notable changes: * Playlist code refactoring for improved performance. Please note that incompatible changes have been made to the playlist format: this means that your old playlists won't be parsed, you'll have to re-create them. (NOTE: Music Store contents are unaffected. If we ever change the Music Store format in a backward-incompatible way, we will provide tools to migrate your precious store data.) * Fix threading problems that caused random crashes for some users. * Fix lurking bug that sometimes resulted in getting stuck at the beginning of a track when Sinc interpolator sample rate converters were used. * Modified the way of opening ALSA output to achieve non-exclusive driver access. * New, more versatile title string generating templates. Make sure to check the documentation. * Added option to periodically save playlist. * Several fixes concerning command line file and playlist loading, esp. with the -L flag. * Better metadata handling for external files in playlist. * Increment CDDB revision number on resubmitting an existing disc. This is essential for correcting existing CDDB entries, otherwise the CDDB server rejects the submission. The latest CVS version from http://libcddb.sf.net is required for this to work (Aqualung-Win32 is built with this version). * OpenBSD-related portability fixes. Aqualung should now compile cleanly and be fully functional OOTB on OpenBSD 4.2. * Updated German, Hungarian and Italian translations. Added Russian translation.

16 years, 7 months

CLAM 1.2 'GSoCket plugged-in release'

by dgarcia＠iua.upf.edu

We are jubilous to announce CLAM 1.2 'GSoCket plugged-in release'. We had to wait for some months to make this release as we had to redeploy the multiplatform release infrastructure [1]. Thus, the feature buffer for this release is pretty full. It incorporates both, the results of the Summer of Code [2] students work and the involvement of David and Pau with Barcelona Media Foundation Audio Research Lab[3]. We want to thank the involvement of GSoC students Hernan Hordiales[4], Bennet Kolasinsky[5], Greg Kellum[6], Andreas Calvo, Roman Goj[7] and Abe Kazemzadeh, Google Inc, and Barcelona Media audio lab members for their precious involvement in CLAM. [1] http://clam.iua.upf.edu/testfarm/ [2] http://clam.iua.upf.edu/wikis/clam/index.php/GSoC_2007 [3] http://www.barcelonamedia.org/index.php/linies/10/en [4] http://h.ordia.com.ar [5] http://bennettdoesclam.blogspot.com [6] http://gregkellum.com [7] http://ro-baczek.blogspot.com A summarized list of changes follows. See also the CHANGES files[8] for details, or the development screenshots[9] for a visual guided tour. As usual binary packages for Windows, MacOSX and several flavors of Linux are available to download. [8] http://iua-share.upf.edu/svn/clam/trunk/CLAM/CHANGES [9] http://clam.iua.upf.edu/wikis/clam/index.php/Development_screenshots Summary of changes: The most exciting feature is the new plugin system (acalvo) which enables third party algorithms to be distributed separately from the core binaries. LADSPA plugins support has been enhanced and a first iteration on FAUST[10] integration. The wiki[11] contains very nice how-to's that cover most of that. [10] http://faust.grame.fr/ [11] http://clam.iua.upf.edu/wikis/clam Most of the GSoC work come as plugins: a SMS Synthesizer (gkellum), a Voice synthesis/analysis (akazem) and some some cool guitar effects (hordia). Also not included as plugins but in the main repository several enhancements have been done on the SMS transformations (hordia) and the tonal analysis (rgoj). Some interesting work has been done on the Barcelona Media Audio Lab on having a system to simulate 3D room acoustics which can be reproduced on several exhibition systems. Some precomputed room databases are available to try. Check the wiki NetworkEditor Tutorial for more information. Regarding the applications, Network Editor incorporates new usability enhancements, a new on-line Tutorial and a new Spectrogram like view. The Annotator received Bennet Kolasinsky attention improving its the flexibility of its interface, the practical effects are multiple segmentation and low-level descriptors panes and that we are pretty close to visualization and auralization plugins. Enjoy. The CLAM Team

16 years, 7 months

wcnt-1.26.2 Released

by james jwm-art net

wcnt-1.26.2 https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=76646&package_id=256… http://wcnt.sourceforge.net (source code only) Second release of wcnt-1.26 after the pre releases... * rudimentary polyphony no, no polyphonic sequencer.... but several new modules (wcnt-1.26.1) to create polyphonic effects: trig_counter - counts and (?restricts) outputs input trigger trig_echo - echos input trigger n times trig_router - sends trigger n to auto-created output modules group_control - only runs modules when appropriate - but easy to make it in-appropriate. * fader (module) created to make easy a fade in and fade out at the start and end of the file to be written. uses either the time_map or timer (out_bar_trig/out_trig and out_bar/out_count) outputs and start and end bar parameters and extends the end by fade_out_time milliseconds. * sample_climb (module) like sample_hold, but uses the grabbed 'sample' as a target to climb to ( output += (target - output) * rate ). * inspector (wcnt-1.26.1) arkward to use module for displaying messages and values of outputs/inputs. wcnt now has over 80 modules...(81 to be precise) CHANGES: * wavfile_out (module) (wcnt-1.26.1) now has snapshot_mode parameter. adds date and time (down to the millisecond) to the filename being written. now you can edit a .wc file to your hearts content without overwriting the sounds generated. * square_wave (module) (wcnt-1.26.1) has rate parameter for adding curvature to the square_wave. works with same method as sample_climb. * user_wave (module) (wcnt-1.26.1) vertices which (via modulation) collide with previous vertices will be dropped from the waveform - as opposed to causing nasty peaks. * removed restrictions of combiner, spreader, and switcher to only allow usage of wcnt_signals. these modules can now use any module which provides the out_output output. * removed restriction of mixer module to only allow use of mix_chan modules. the mixer can now use any module which provides out_left and out_right outputs. * removed restriction of trig_switcher module to only allow use of wcnt_trigger module. trig_switcher can now use any module which provides the out_trig output (ie most of the trigger modules). RE-CODED: * (wcnt-1.26.1) many things which should not make any difference to the user, except maybe a marginal speed increase in some situations. * many more things, (synthmod changes for a start). FIXES: * dynamic module was checking for existence of wrong vertex. ------------- NOTES: * tested it as much i can by myself and without any strict regime. i will have missed something... * documentation is very much out of date now, sorry. the only thing I can offer right now is the occasional comment in the examples, and tests (directories of .wc files bundled with source code). * another version might pop-along next week perhaps. ------------- http://wcnt.sourceforge.net https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=76646&package_id=256… (source code only) wcnt-1.26.2 regards, james jwm-art net

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Linux-audio-announce February 2008