What is Marlin? Its a Sample Editor. It edits Samples. It uses GNOME and GTK+2 It looks pretty What's changed? Ermmm * We do stuff with any metadata a file may have. * Should load and save markers in wavfiles if you have a recent enough GStreamer (HEAD branch) * More paste options, and more silly features like halving selections * Hmmm... * Oh, the CD ripp^wextractor should work again, and if you have Musicbrainz installed it'll get details from there and use them in naming samples. * Markers can be added and editted and used for minor editting jobs * In the file selector there's preview details of sound samples. * Errr... * Bound to be other stuff I've forgotten (Can you tell I'm putting lots of thought into this announcement?) * Oh yeah... * It has a thumbnail of the whole sample in the overview bar now. Soundforge doesn't even do that! What does it look like? http://marlin.sourceforge.net/marlin-track-marker.png is a good screenshot. There's others kicking around that site. Some are out of date. Where can I get it? Rumour has it you can download it here http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53043 You shouldn't always believe rumours though... Can I help? Please do, I have no real clue what I'm doing. In fact as David Devant and His Spirit Wife once sang "We're making it up as we go along, humming a half remembered song. When we woke up, we thought, whats the big deal...then we remembered, this is for real". Only the first line of that really was relevant, but I thought I'd do the whole thing. People to work on docs would be nice...translators too. Testers really welcome, and audio engineers can tell me what they want Marlin to do. I'd love to have feedback. What do I need? GNOME 2.4. It'll be moving to gnome2.6 base soon, but it'll still work on 2.4 for the time being. If you want track listings in the CD ripp^wextractor then you'll need Musicbrainz. GStreamer 0.7+ is required. HEAD CVS would be preferable cos then you'll get extra stuff, but 0.7.1 should be fine if thats all you have and can't be bothered fighting Sourceforge's anoncvs stuff. Is there a website? Yes. Where is it? http://marlin.sf.net Is there a roadmap so we can see where you're heading? Yes! I spent hours making one, cos all the cool projects have one, and we want to at least give the impression we're a cool project. http://marlin.sourceforge.net/road-trip2.png Any art commissioning, just ask me. I'm great at art. You're bound to be able to tell. As usual, all donations of a) Old guitar effects b) Fender Jaguar/Telecaster guitars c) Money d) Soundcards that work with ALSA and aren't limited to 48Khz (dumb Extigy) e) bugfixes and feature patches Will be greatfully received, although, and I'm getting realistic here, not really expected. Hasta La Vista Baybee! iain -- "Things like Destiny's Child are just repressed sexuality. It happens with boys and men too. I feel embarrassed for them when I listen to Stereophonics or Coldplay. That's not music for men." -- Alec Empire