ROSEGARDEN-4 1.0 RELEASED!
==========================
LONDON, CANNES, ETC., FEBRUARY 14th 2005 -- The Rosegarden team
are delighted to announce the 1.0 release of Rosegarden 4, an audio
and MIDI sequencer and musical notation editor for Linux.
Rosegarden is one of the most comprehensive Linux music software
projects, and is the only Linux application to offer full composition
and recording capabilities to musicians who prefer to use classical
notation.
http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/getting/http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/support/
Some of Rosegarden's features are:
o MIDI and audio playback and recording with ALSA and JACK
o Piano-roll, score, event list and track overview editors
o DSSI synth and audio effects plugin support, including
Windows VST effects and instrument support via dssi-vst
o LADSPA audio effects plugin support
o JACK transport support for synchronisation with other software
o Ability to build and run without JACK, for MIDI-only use
o Score interpretation of performance MIDI data
o Shareable device (.rgd) files to ease MIDI portability
o Triggered segments for pattern sequencing & performable ornaments
o Audio and MIDI mixers
o MIDI and Hydrogen file import
o MIDI, Csound, Lilypond and MusicXML file export
o Clear, consistent and polished user interface
o User interface translations for Russian, Spanish, German, French,
Welsh, Italian, Swedish, Estonian, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese,
as well as UK and US English
o Help documentation available substantially or entirely translated
into German, Swedish and Japanese as well as English.
Rosegarden is Free Software under the GNU General Public License.
Chris
Oggz 0.9.0 Release
------------------
liboggz is a C library providing a simple programming interface for reading
and writing Ogg files and streams. Ogg is an interleaving data container
developed by Monty at Xiph.Org, originally to support the Ogg Vorbis audio
format.
This release is available as a source tarball at:
http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/download/liboggz-0.9.0.tar.gz
New in this release:
* updates for keyframe seeking in Theora and files with Ogg Skeleton
metaheaders (http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/OggSkeleton)
* added missing header file definitions for oggz_get_granulerate()
and oggz_get_granuleshift()
* build fix for Symbian, adding missing file oggz_seek.c (Colin Ward)
* general code cleanups
Also, an addendum to the release notes for the previous version 0.8.6:
Applied patch from Erik de Castro Lopo. Now builds on MingGW:
* add pkg-config check for Ogg
* add vorbis and speex CFLAGS to various Makefile.am's
About Oggz
----------
Oggz comprises liboggz and the command-line tools oggzdump, oggzdiff,
oggzmerge and oggzrip.
liboggz supports the flexibility afforded by the Ogg file format while
presenting the following API niceties:
* Full API documentation
* Comprehensive test suite of read, write and seeking behavior.
* Developed and tested on GNU/Linux, Darwin/MacOSX, Win32 and
Symbian OS. May work on other Unix-like systems via GNU autoconf.
For Win32: nmake Makefiles, Visual Studio .NET 2003 solution files
and Visual C++ 6.0 workspace files are provided in the source
distribution.
* Strict adherence to the formatting requirements of Ogg bitstreams,
to ensure that only valid bitstreams are generated; writes can fail
if you try to write illegally structured packets.
* A simple, callback based open/read/close or open/write/close
interface to raw Ogg files.
* Writing automatically interleaves with packet queuing, and provides
callback based notification when this queue is empty
* A customisable seeking abstraction for seeking on multitrack Ogg
data. Seeking works easily and reliably on multitrack and multi-codec
streams, and can transparently parse Theora, Speex, Vorbis, FLAC,
CMML and Ogg Skeleton headers without requiring linking to those
libraries. This allows efficient use on servers and other devices
that need to parse and seek within Ogg files, but do not need to do
a full media decode.
Full documentation of the liboggz API, customization and installation,
and mux and demux examples can be read online at:
http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/html/
Tools
-----
The Oggz source tarball also contains the following command-line tools,
which are useful for debugging and testing Ogg bitstreams:
* oggzdump: Hexdump packets of an Ogg file, or revert an Ogg file
from such a hexdump.
* oggzdiff: Hexdump the packets of two Ogg files and output
differences Oggz is Free Software, available under a BSD-style
license.
* oggzmerge: Merge Ogg files together, interleaving pages in order
of presentation time.
* oggzrip: Extract one or more logical bitstreams from an Ogg file.
License
-------
Oggz is Free Software, available under a BSD style license.
More information is available online at the Oggz homepage:
http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/
enjoy :)
--
Conrad Parker
Senior Software Engineer, Continuous Media Web, CSIRO Australia
http://www.annodex.net/http://www.ict.csiro.au/cmweb/
A varied collection of LADSPA DSP plugins. http://plugin.org.uk/http://plugin.org.uk/releases/0.4.13/
Changes:
Build fix for SC4m mono compressor
Denormal fixes for SC4 mono and stereo, and lookahead limiter*
Several fixes to the multiband EQ by Sergei Steshenko
Small quality improvements for FAD and tape delays
* These are significant and highly recommended for people trying to run
JAMin on Pentium 4 machines
Enjoy,
Steve
Hi,
QjackCtl 0.2.15a has been released!
This is just a fix release, update highly recommended.
As from the change log:
- Regression from 0.2.13, of the not so stupid pseudo-mutex guards on the
connections management framework, after fixing some crash reports from
Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano and Dave Phillips (thanks!); it pays to be
such a paranoid after all :).
Check it out from the usual place:
http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net
Enjoy.
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc(a)rncbc.org
Oggz 0.8.6 Release
------------------
liboggz is a C library providing a simple programming interface for reading
and writing Ogg files and streams. Ogg is an interleaving data container
developed by Monty at Xiph.Org, originally to support the Ogg Vorbis audio
format.
This release is available as a source tarball at:
http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/download/liboggz-0.8.6.tar.gz
New in this release:
* new oggzrip tool, for ripping individual tracks from Ogg files;
by David Kuehling
* added inbuilt parsing of FLAC headers for seeking hints, by
Tobias Gehrig. This allows Ogg FLAC files to be used with oggzmerge
and similar tools.
* fixed oggzmerge binary open bug on Win32 (Colin Ward)
* updated Win32 project by Orum
* added inbuilt parsing of Ogg Skeleton and CMML binary headers
* simplified documentation related to seeking
* added oggz_{get,set}_{granulerate,granuleshift}() query functions
About Oggz
----------
Oggz comprises liboggz and the command-line tools oggzdump, oggzdiff,
oggzmerge and oggzrip.
liboggz supports the flexibility afforded by the Ogg file format while
presenting the following API niceties:
* Full API documentation.
* Comprehensive test suite of read, write and seeking behavior.
* Developed and tested on GNU/Linux, Darwin/MacOSX, Win32 and
Symbian OS. May work on other Unix-like systems via GNU autoconf.
For Win32: nmake Makefiles, Visual Studio .NET 2003 solution files
and Visual C++ 6.0 workspace files are provided in the source
distribution.
* Strict adherence to the formatting requirements of Ogg bitstreams,
to ensure that only valid bitstreams are generated; writes can fail
if you try to write illegally structured packets.
* A simple, callback based open/read/close or open/write/close
interface to raw Ogg files.
* Writing automatically interleaves with packet queuing, and provides
callback based notification when this queue is empty
* A customisable seeking abstraction for seeking on multitrack Ogg
data. Seeking works easily and reliably on multitrack and multi-codec
streams, and can transparently parse Theora, Speex, Vorbis, FLAC and
CMML headers without requiring linking to those libraries. This
allows efficient use on servers and other devices that need to parse
and seek within Ogg files, but do not need to do a full media decode.
Full documentation of the liboggz API, customization and installation,
and mux and demux examples can be read online at:
http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/html/
Tools
-----
The Oggz source tarball also contains the following command-line tools,
which are useful for debugging and testing Ogg bitstreams:
* oggzdump: Hexdump packets of an Ogg file, or revert an Ogg file
from such a hexdump.
* oggzdiff: Hexdump the packets of two Ogg files and output
differences Oggz is Free Software, available under a BSD-style
license.
* oggzmerge: Merge Ogg files together, interleaving pages in order
of presentation time.
* oggzrip: Extract one or more logical bitstreams from an Ogg file.
License
-------
Oggz is Free Software, available under a BSD style license.
More information is available online at the Oggz homepage:
http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/
enjoy :)
--
Conrad Parker
Senior Software Engineer, Continuous Media Web, CSIRO Australia
http://www.annodex.net/http://www.ict.csiro.au/cmweb/
Hi,
QjackCtl 0.2.15 has been released.
As a major new feature you are now allowed to rename (alias) the JACK/ALSA
connections client/port names to something intelligible. Another nice one
is about actual ALSA hardware device names which are now presented for
selection as a pull-down menu on the setup dialog.
Grab it from:
http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net
As taken from the change log:
- JACK/ALSA client and port name aliasing (renaming) is now an optional
feature for the connections window; all client/port aliases are saved on a
per preset basis (as proposed for Lionstracs' Mediastation).
- Server state now shown (back gain) on the system tray icon tooltip;
speaking of which, tooltips are now also featured on connections, status
and patchbay windows.
- New actual hardware device selection menu featured on setup dialog;
these new button menus are only available for the ALSA driver settings.
- Server path factory default to jackd instead of jackstart; preset setup
button icons are back.
- Fixed rare connection port item removal/disconnection dangling pointer bug.
Have fun.
--
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc(a)rncbc.org
Announcing blepvco 0.1.0:
http://home.jps.net/~musound/blepvco-0.1.0.tar.gz
blepvco is a LADSPA plugin library containing three anti-aliased,
minBLEP-based, hard-sync-capable oscillator plugins. The
oscillators are intended to be used with modular synthesis systems,
such as Alsa Modular Synth (a couple example AMS patches are
included). The three oscillators are:
Sync-Saw-VCO : Anti-aliased sawtooth oscillator with hard-sync
capability
Sync-Rect-VCO : Anti-aliased variable-width rectangle oscillator, with
sync
Sync-Tri-VCO : Anti-aliased variable-slope triangle oscillator, with
sync
Users of Fons Adriaensen's VCO-plugins will find these plugins
immediately familiar, since they borrow much of their interface code
from Fons' work -- indeed, if/when you do not need the hard-sync or
variable-slope triangle wave features of blepvco, his plugins may be
a better choice, because their CPU use is somewhat lower. Currently,
his VCO-plugins can be found at:
http://users.skynet.be/solaris/linuxaudio/
blepvco is written by Sean Bolton, and copyright (c)2005 under the
GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. Much thanks to Fons,
Daniel Werner, Tim Stilson and Julius Smith, and Eli Brandt.
Attached is a pdf containing the job announcement for Director of
Technical Support at Radio Free Asia. We use Linux and Free Software
for most of our network information systems and also for a number of
middleware applications that glue together our various proprietary audio
systems. We also have users beginning to test Audacity as a replacement
for Cool Edit. In the future I see a place for Ardour as a replacement
for our 30+ aging Orban Audicy(tm) DAWs, Audacity as a replacement for
Cool Edit, icecast/ogg-vorbis/ecasound to replace our hardware mp3
encoders for streaming and archiving and perhaps other uses of linux
audio software as well.
Address any replies to jobs(a)rfa.org
Thanks,
--
Eric Dantan Rzewnicki | Systems Engineer I
Technical Operations Division | Radio Free Asia
2025 M Street, NW | Washington, DC 20036 | 202-530-4900
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Aqualung 0.9beta4 released
http://aqualung.sf.net
I am pleased to announce the fourth public beta release of Aqualung,
a music player for GNU/Linux. Aqualung plays audio files from your
filesystem and has the feature of sample-accurate track changing (no
gaps inserted between adjacent tracks). It also supports high quality
sample rate conversion between the file and the output device, when
necessary.
Supported formats include: almost all sample-based, uncompressed files
(eg. WAV, AIFF, AU etc.), FLAC (the Free Lossless Audio Codec), Ogg
Vorbis, MPEG Audio (including the infamous MP3 format) and MOD audio
formats (MOD, S3M, XM, IT, etc.). The program can play the music
through OSS, ALSA or the JACK Audio Connection Kit.
Other features include LADSPA plugin support, multiple skin support &
state persistence via XML config files. The so-called Music Store
provided by Aqualung is an XML-based music database for arranging your
music collection.
This new release adds many new features, including file metadata
(FLAC/Vorbis/ID3) display & importing, volume calculation and playback
RVA (relative volume adjustment) support.
All users are encouraged to upgrade. Download the new version from the
project homepage: http://aqualung.sf.net
You can read the changelog below. Hope you enjoy this release.
Tom
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
2005-01-28 Tom Szilagyi <tszilagyi at users dot sourceforge dot net>
* Aqualung 0.9beta4
http://aqualung.sf.net
INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES: [none]
NEW LIBRARY DEPENDENCIES:
* liblrdf 0.4.0 is now required (was: 0.3.7)
http://lrdf.sourceforge.net
* libid3tag library required if you want ID3v2 support
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12349
MAJOR CHANGES:
* Internationalization support via gettext. German, Hungarian
and Ukrainian translations available; new translations for any
language happily accepted at any time
* Implemented read support for .m3u and .pls
playlist formats. The formats are distinguished using
file extensions (case insensitive). Now you can supply .m3u or .pls
files on the command line, or select one in the Load/Enqueue Playlist
option of the playlist window's popup menu. Aqualung does not
implement shoutcast ATM, so URLs will be simply discarded.
* new 'File info' dialog box (accessible from the Music Store and
the Playlist) displays FLAC stream metadata, Ogg Vorbis comments and
ID3v2 tags found in the soundfiles.
* playback RVA support. Aqualung has its own system for this, from
volume level calculation of files in the Music Store, to adjusting
the dynamics characteristics to your listening environment.
* Import FLAC/Vorbis/ID3v2 metadata into the Music Store via the
'File info' dialog accessed from the Music Store.
On the right side of the tag data fields, there are buttons
to import every piece of information into relevant fields
of the Music Store database.
In particular, ID3v2.4 RVA tags can be imported as manual RVA
adjustment values.
* many changes to enable displaying track lengths and RVA values
in the Playlist. You can configure the column order in the Playlist,
and displaying Lengths and RVA values can be turned off.
(Track lengths are shown on the right side, RVA is hidden by default.)
* New Settings notebook page "Playlist" for configuring the behavior of
this stuff.
* new remote option to terminate an already running instance:
the -Q or --quit option will cause the instance specified by -N, or
the 0-th instance by default, to terminate (just as if you exited it
normally).
* added support for remotely changing the volume via the --volume or
-V option. Defaults to the 0th running instance.
* major code rearrangement of Aqualung Core
(file decoder is abstracted, runnable in multiple instances at the
same time, separated in file_decoder.[ch])
* added all four basic aqualung skins (dark, default, metal, woody) to
CVS. These are automatically available after a make install from now,
no need to install them separately.
* also, the skins have been updated to match recent new dialogs & widgets
* docs update (manpage, HTML) for the beta4 release.
MINOR CHANGES:
* ./configure won't stop anymore if an optional library is missing,
unless --with-PACKAGE is applied. Closes mantis bug #16.
* Changes to the interface for adding files to the playlist
locally or remotely
* Implemented conversion from/to UTF8/locale charset. (Closes mantis
bug #7). Note: please set the environment variable G_BROKEN_FILENAMES
or G_FILENAME_ENCODING appropriately if your filesystem encoding is
not UTF8. See http://developer.gimp.org/api/2.0/glib/glib-running.html
for details.
* Starting playback of a new track via double-clicking
on it in the playlist is now allowed when another track
is being paused. (Closes bug #14)
* Implemented cue-from-paused-state functions (re: bug #15) as
suggested by SGh.
* Added check for pkg-config -exist "jack" to configure.ac.
Up till now, the ./configure script failed to detect the condition
when the jack daemon is present, but development files are not.
(As if you installed JACK from a distro, but forgot to include
the corresponding -dev package.)
* Implement trashlist object to collect and eventually
free pieces of memory that are malloc'ed in an ad-hoc
manner in different places, but need to be freed sometime.
* Use the trashlist to collect and free some memory that
was leaked until now in LADSPA plugin dialogs and the
File info dialog.
* renamed "Options" dialog to "Settings". This name better suits the
purpose of this dialog.
* minor rearrangement of "Add Artist", "Edit Artist", "Add Record",
"Edit Record", "Add Track" & "Edit Track" dialogs, hopefully for
the better.
* changed About box font to normal (Courier is not always available)
* Workaround LADSPA plugin loading bug on ReiserFS
(use the --with-brokenplfix configure option)