Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>Dave Phillips wrote:
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>>LJ didn't think it worthy enough to fund a reporter's trip.
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>FWIW, LWN would have been (or would be) more than interested in coverage
>from this conference. And, yes, we can pay for it - as long as you're
>not looking to get rich. There's a lot more than just Slashdot out
>there.
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Well, we'll know who to ask next year. :)
Btw, is LWN a member of linuxaudio.org ?
Perhaps someone who attended might like to write up something for LWN
re: this year's conference ?
Best,
dp
Hi lists,
my little report on the lac-concerts and some other subjects of the lac
in Karlsruhe will be broadcasted tomorrow on SWR2 JetztMusik Magazin at 23h.
Michael
Hi all,
I have a relatively new setup with a softRAID mobo using dmraid/FC6. One of
the drives have recently began to fail so I had it replaced. However,
rebuilding raid via dmraid remains a mystery to me.
I've rebuilt the array in BIOS and that went apparently well. Still the
second drive has no partitions, yet both BIOS and dmraid report this as "ok"
which it obviously isn't. FWIW, I do hear the second drive doing some
reads/writes but I seriously doubt its integrity.
Should I simply mirror the two drives and then boot into Linux and hope that
this ought to do the trick? I am actually hoping for something more elegant.
BTW, FC6 does have some volume management tools (Gnome) but none of them
give you any options re: rebuilding of the array.
Any help is appreciated!
Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
Composition, Music Technology, CCTAD, CHCI
Virginia Tech
Dept. of Music - 0240
Blacksburg, VA 24061
(540) 231-1137
(540) 231-5034 (fax)
ico(a)vt.edu
http://www.music.vt.edu/people/faculty/bukvic/
Hi all,
due to some power renovations in the building of the TU where our server is,
the LAC 2007 site has not been reachable during the past night.
This will last till at least around 14h00 today.
I put the site up at
http://www.nescivi.nl/lac2007/
Also, any emails that were sent in this time to
lac2007(a)robin.kgw.tu-berlin.de, did not get to me.
Please resend to my gmail-address if you sent me mail there.
sincerely,
Marije Baalman
LAC2007 orga team
We are very happy to announce the CLAM 1.0 "Berlin" release while
having splendid views of the Alps in the flight to Berlin for the
Linux Audio Conference.
This release is indeed a major milestone for the project and it
opens a door to the development of exciting new features, so keep
tuned! Apart of these big changes expect also bug fixes (yes 1.0
have bugs) as we move on.
Learn about CLAM in the web: http://clam.iua.upf.edu
Last months have been very positive: many new people showed
interest and contributed in the mailing lists, CLAM got packaged
for almost every Linux distribution, and we got enormous activity
in the svn source repository. We also welcome Andreas as an active
developer and we hope that the forthcoming Google Summer of Code
will also bring new talent aboard.
These are the substantial changes from 0.98:
NetworkEditor (now in version 1.0 like the CLAM libs) let the user
embed any Ladspa plugin in the network as if it was a CLAM
processing. This combined with the fact that you already can
compile a network as a new Ladspa plugin library bringing a new
world of possibilities. Portaudio is now the common stable audio
back-end and its usability have been improved. However, jack is
still taken as the default back-end in linux and osx. The interaction
between Network and its FlowControl have been totally redesigned,
fixing many bugs related with complex network topologies. A new
FreewheelingNetworkPlayer class permits offline execution of
networks, and it comes along with a new binary for command-line
use. At users petition we've also added SMSTools related
command-line binaries. On the signal processing front, we have
added a fftw3 and experimental vowel synthesis processings.
As always, see detailed changes in the change-logs [1]
Find in the download section[2] the usual binaries for Mac OSX
(Intel and PowerPc), Windows, Linux (Debian sid, Ubuntu Edgy and
Feisty) and also new packages for Fedora Core 6 and OpenSuse.
Thanks Fernando, Toni, Paul and others for the great help with
packaging!
The CLAM team
1.
http://iua-share.upf.edu/svn/clam/trunk/CLAM/CHANGEShttp://iua-share.upf.edu/svn/clam/trunk/NetworkEditor/CHANGES
2.
http://clam.iua.upf.edu/download.html
Vamp Plugin API and SDK 1.0 released
====================================
The Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London are happy to
announce the 1.0 release of the Vamp Plugin API and software developers kit.
http://www.vamp-plugins.org/
Vamp is a plugin API for audio analysis and feature extraction plugins written
in C or C++. Its SDK features an easy-to-use set of C++ classes for plugin
and host developers, a reference host implementation, example plugins, and
documentation. It is supported across Linux, OS/X and Windows.
The Vamp plugin API is also used by the Sonic Visualiser audio visualisation
and analysis application.
http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/
The development of the Vamp plugin API and Sonic Visualiser was partially
supported by the SIMAC project (http://www.semanticaudio.org/) and the
EASAIER project (http://www.easaier.org/), with assistance from CHARM
(http://www.charm.rhul.ac.uk/).
Chris
I need to make some CDs for archiving and need to buy some blanks of the
highest quality, in the sense that data recorded on them will last the
longest time. Does anyone have any suggestions? Useful web sites?
Thanks - jon
Firstly, I'd like to apologise for acting like a total arse about this.
It wasn't originally my intention to remove the site, but then a slip of
the finger with fdisk during my Nth reinstall that day kind of put paid
to it. The site and svn repository were backed up the day before,
thanks to someone with more foresight than I.
After I took the site down I got a surprising number of emails from
people who said they quite liked using nekobee, and asking what was
happening with it. The polite "hey I liked it" emails (you know who you
are) prompted me to look at getting it back and stop acting like a dick.
I also got quite a few really nasty emails which I won't go into lest I
incite a (another) flamefest. Suffice it to say that posting "You'd
better release the source, I know where you live" and a copy of my
contact details from whois *didn't* encourage me to bring the site back
up. It did, however, get forwarded onto Strathclyde Police's Computer
Crime Division (or whatever they call themselves). You know who you
are, too.
Anyway. I don't (really really don't) have time any more to do any
audio work on computers. Maybe in a few months that will change, we'll
have to see.
In the meantime, if anyone would like to take over any of the projects
(I've got a couple of experimental things I never bothered to make
public, and a few ideas on where to take them), then please email me
off-list to discuss it.
Gordon
The Linux Audio Conference takes place this week 22-25 March, 2007. As in past
years LAC2007 will be streamed live in ogg vorbis and theora via icecast. If
you would like to watch or listen to the streams please check out the
conference wiki streaming page:
http://www.medienwissenschaft.hu-berlin.de/lawici/index.php/Live_Streaming
Information on the conference itself, including talks, abstracts, schedule and
procedings: http://www.kgw.tu-berlin.de/~lac2007/index.shtml
-LAC Stream Team
Announcing the release of Sonic Visualiser 1.0pre3, a pre-release for
the soon forthcoming Sonic Visualiser 1.0.
http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/
Sonic Visualiser is an application for viewing and analysing the
contents of music audio files. It contains advanced waveform and
spectrogram viewers, as well as editors for many sorts of audio
annotations. Besides visualisation, it can make and play selections
based on the locations of automatically detected features, seamlessly
loop playback of single or multiple noncontiguous regions, synthesise
annotations for playback, and time-stretch playback while retaining
display synchronisation.
Sonic Visualiser also makes use of the Vamp plugin API, for plugins that
extract descriptive or analytical data from audio. Vamp is an easy to
use plugin API with a comprehensive and well-commented SDK, and is now
frozen for the Vamp 1.0 release.
Sonic Visualiser is Free Software distributed under the GNU General
Public License. The 0.9 release is available now in source code form
or as binaries for Linux, OS/X, and Windows.
For more information and downloads, please see
http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/
For more information about Vamp plugins, please see
http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/vamp.html
See also the SourceForge page for this project at
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/sv1/
Sonic Visualiser was developed at the Centre for Digital Music, Queen
Mary, University of London and partially funded by the European
Commission through the SIMAC project IST-FP6-507142 and the EASAIER
project IST-FP6-033902.
Chris