Hello all,
Linuxaudio.org has released its first compilation CD of music by artists
using libre software - Tux Power! Every single part of the CD was made
on Linux, including all the music, the mastering (with Jamin) and the
artwork (with Scribus).
Tracklist:
Dave Griffiths - Latiaxis
Torben Hohn - Wo sind wir
Kai Vehmanen - Traaginen runnoja
Brian Redfern - Zusa
Frank Barknecht - Invitation to the Pure Data Trigger Gang Bang
The FSB's - Babylon
Eric Devost - RagReggae
Robert Jonnsson - Norma
RachelAPP - I want some sweets
X-11 - Can't put me down
Austin Acton - One Percent
Ryan Gallagher - Departure
Michal Seta - In a vacuum
Aaron Johnson - Planetscape
J.C. Wilson - 1 of 5
Joseph Sarlo - The Scent of Vanilla
Ivica Bukvic - SlipStream Scapes V: Lullaby
Full preview versions of the tracks in Ogg Vorbis format are available
to download from:
http://linuxaudio.org/en/music/
You can also download a tarball containing all the Vorbis files and a
readme file with details of the software used by the artists featured on
the compilation:
http://linuxaudio.org/en/music/tuxpower-ogg.tar.gz
If you would like to distribute this CD, a full set of WAV files and a
PDF of insert artwork are available on request. Offers of mirrors would
be very welcome.
Cheers!
Daniel James
Hi,
I have just released the first version of SilentJack:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~njh/silentjack/
SilentJack is a silence/dead air detector for the Jack Audio
Connection Kit. It monitors the peak levels on a single JACK input
port, and checks to see if they are below a specified theshold.
SilentJack then runs a command after silence has been detected for a
given number of seconds. It then waits for the command the finish,
and waits for a grace period before detecting silence again.
Hope it is of use to someone!
nick.
I'm pleased to announce the release of Rivendell v0.9.64. Rivendell is a
full-featured Radio Automation System that is available under the GNU Public
License. From the NEWS file:
*** snip snip ***
Changes:
Waveform Visualization Optimization. Major work has been done on
decreasing the time required to open a cart in RDLibrary's Marker
Editor, for both PCM16 and MPEG formatted audio.
Bugfixes. See the ChangeLog.
Library Versions:
This version requires that, at a minimum, libradio-0.95.0 and
librhpi-0.94.4 be installed. If installing from RPM, the version of
the currently installed libraries can be determined by doing:
rpm -q libradio
rpm -q librhpi
Database Update:
As always, be sure to run RDAdmin immediately after
upgrading to allow any necessary changes to the database schema to
be applied.
*** snip snip ***
This release of Rivendell also sees the debut of RPM support for SuSE
Professional 10.0. Further information, including download links can be
found at:
http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/
Cheers!
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| Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Director of Broadcast Software Development |
| | Salem Radio Labs |
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| Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. |
| Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. |
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hi everyone!
a happy new year to all folks on the gregorian calendar, and a generic
happy next 365 days to everyone else!
the music department at columbia university are taking the list server
down for an upgrade on the coming weekend, so expect interruptions for
linux-audio-dev, linux-audio-user and linux-audio-announce. you will
probably want to keep a copy of all the mails you send over the weekend,
so that you can re-send them in case they end up in the bit bucket.
let me take this opportunity to thank douglas irving repetto for many
years of painless hosting and friendly help, and the entire music dept.
for their generous donation of iron and bandwidth. kudos, guys!
rumor has it that the new list server will be an os x machine. hopefully
this will make the lists even more user-friendly and aesthetically
pleasing than before ;)
all the best,
jörn
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: music.columbia.edu server downtime
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 16:21:13 -0500
From: douglas irving repetto <douglas(a)music.columbia.edu>
To: douglas(a)music.columbia.edu
Hello,
We will be upgrading the music.columbia.edu server this weekend.
Hopefully all of the work will be done on Saturday, but it may extend
into Sunday. music.columbia.edu will not be available during the
downtime. That means no websites will be served, no email will be
sent/delivered, no mailing lists will function, etc.
I'll send an update later this week with info about some changes that
you'll see on the new server.
Happy new year,
douglas
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http://spunk.dnsalias.org
phone://+49/201/491621
if you are a free (as in "free speech") software developer
and you happen to be travelling near my home, drop me a line
and come round for a free (as in "free beer") beer. :-D
gmidimonitor is GTK+ application that shows MIDI events.
Currently MIDI events can be received at an ALSA sequencer port only.
Support for other sources like ALSA RawMIDI port may be added in
future.
This release adds dumping of sysex data and somewhat limited MMC
decoding.
Special thanks to Katharine Manton (kayelem) for testing and feedback.
Project site:
https://gmidimonitor.bountysource.com/
Screenshot:
https://gmidimonitor.bountysource.com/FileDownload?file_id=50&inline=yes
Source tarball can be downloaded from project site, "Downloads" section
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Hi all,
driver, lib, utils, tools ALSA packages are available for
download. The list of changes is here:
http://www.alsa-project.org/changes/v1-0-11rc1--v1-0-11rc2.txt
Happy New Year 2006 to all!
Jaroslav
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Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SUSE Labs
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:: the Multiple Streaming Engine ::
http://muse.dyne.org
this is RASTA SOFTWARE
Jah Rastafari Livity bless freedom of creation
100% free software running on GNU/Linux and Apple/OSX
:: What MuSE is about?
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 interface to be operated in realtime, while
it can also run slick from the Unix commandline.
:: What's new in this release?
This release greatly improves stability and usability.
Xant hacked on MuSE thru the whole year realizing the porting to
Carbon/OSX for the Apple operating system, which is now a branch of
MuSE. Through the porting process, we discovered and fixed some
important bugs and optimized the core engine.
Now 0.9.2 backports several fixes from the current development branch,
while removing unmantained GUIs (ncurses and gtk1) and unreliable
features.
We plan to join the branches in the 0.10 release series, plus we are
planning to modularize MuSE even more and extract a library to expose
its functionalities in various languages: python, perl, ruby etc.
But the next major release will take some more time, requiring a
relevant rewrite of the MuSE core to switch to float DSP and some other
API changes, so meanwhile here is a version to which all GNU/Linux users
are encouraged to upgrade.
:: big up \o/
Thanks for the ospitality and CPU cycles for this release to:
ASCII internet werkplatz and Montevideo Artlab (Amsterdam)
Thanks for helping debug and test this release to:
Bolo and Xname (ASCII), Camilo (PS28), Fredd (SubMultimedia),
Vanilla (MovieTown), Godog (Debian), Matt Domsch, Jonathan Koren...
and all the other hackers sending feedback, patches and good vibes!
***** 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
- - various other broadcast servers streaming audio over http...
***** 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
- - mplayer - http://www.mplayerhq.hu - on all platforms
- - videolan - http://www.videolan.org - on all platforms
- - handeld devices and usb players supporting Ogg and Mp3
- - and... MuSE itself! ;)
*** BOOT A CD AND STREAM WITH MUSE
check out >>>>> http://dynebolic.org <<<<<
GNU/Linux liveCD including a complete radio studio!
***** Internals:
MuSE is written in C++ and is a multithreaded application. It reads
streams using the included libmpeg library (mp3 format) and it can
optionally link the OggVorbis library to read ogg files. For encoding
the sound into mp3 or ogg it can link either or both LAME and
OggVorbis as shared libraries. MuSE also features a user interface
using the GTK+ widget library and a console interface using ncurses.
Resampling of any input is done with bicubic interpolation to 44khz
stereo format, then channels get mixed together and encoded to the
desired quality by the selected codec.
Separate threads are running for each decoder, the mixer and the
encoders, while the flow is synced thru FIFO pipes which implement
mutex locking and avoid well race conditions.
All the functionalities of MuSE are quite well exposed thru a reusable
API, which in fact was the one used to build the GUIs on top.
Documentation for it is available on http://muse.dyne.org/codedoc
If you are interested, you are very welcome to build new MuSE
interfaces, there are still a lot of unexplored possibilities and this
engine can be a realiable backend for radio automation interfaces and
more. Get in touch with developers! join the mailinglist on
http://lists.dyne.org/muse or peek into irc.freenode.net channel #dyne
***** 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+ 2 (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.
- - 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
*** for Debian users is much simplier:
make a debian package and debian aided compilation from this source
with a simple command:
$ fakeroot debian/rules binary
this command will build debian packages for you, ready to install!
to KNOW MORE go to the website 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!!!
***** PLEASE SUPPORT US!
go here to see how >>>>>>>> http://dyne.org/donate.php <<<<<<<<
This whole software was built by autonomous efforts and occasionally
supported by non-profit organizations, while the development currently
relies on the political beliefs of MuSE's authors, that there should
be such a tool and it should be freely available to people willing to
do online radio.
If you can afford to donate us some money let us know, we also need
new and old working hardware.
THANKS, a thousand flowers will blossom!
the following organizations gave help and support for MuSE development:
SERVUS.AT ............... [ http://www.servus.at ]
PUBLIC VOICE Lab ........ [ http://www.pvl.at ]
== DISCLAIMER
MuSE is Copyleft (c) 2000-2006 by Denis "jaromil" Rojo
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.
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:
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Beta 0.19 of MMA - Musical MIDI Accompaniment - is now
available for downloading. Included in this release:
Many bug fixes, major rewrite of volume code, REPEAT
count enhancements, Lyric autochord transposition,
GOTO recognizes line numbers, MALLET works in all
tracks, and lots more!
MMA is a accompaniment generator -- it creates midi tracks
for a soloist to perform with. User supplied files contain
pattern selections, chords, and MMA directives. For full details
please visit:
http://mypage.uniserve.com/~bvdp/mma/
If you have any questions or comments, please send them
to: bvdp(a)uniserve.com
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Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
EMAIL: bvdp(a)uniserve.com
WWW: http://mypage.uniserve.com/~bvdp
JackMiniMix is a simple console based JACK client that mixes a number of stereo inputs into a single stereo output. The gains of each of the input channels can be queried and controlled by sending it OSC messages.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~njh/jackminimix/
I have also written a perl module which talks OSC to the mixer, making it very easy to control.
http://search.cpan.org/~njh/Audio-JackMiniMix/
nick.
gmidimonitor is GTK application that shows MIDI events.
Currently MIDI events can be received at an ALSA sequencer port only.
Support for other sources like ALSA RawMIDI port may be added in
future.
Version 2.0 includes lash support and some bugfixes.
Project site:
https://gmidimonitor.bountysource.com/
Screenshot:
https://gmidimonitor.bountysource.com/FileDownload?file_id=50&inline=yes
Source tarball can be downloaded from project site, "Downloads" section
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Nedko Arnaudov <GnuPG KeyID: DE1716B0>