[linux-audio-dev] Jackbeat : contributors needed

Hi, I feel like it's not a usual way to ask for contributions, but, well, I thought I'd give it a try : I'm the author of Jackbeat, at http://xung.org/jackbeat, and my day job's currently eating my time. I've just released the 0.3 development version which is a rewrite, forked from the (quite) stable 0.2 branch. Here comes the todo list : * Saving and loading songs is broken. This has to be rewritten : - implement a new song file format, based on an xml metadata format, with all samples stored in a subdirectory, all that packed in a tar archive, using libtar (http://www.feep.net/libtar). FLAC compression would be nice as well. - provide backward compatibility for jackbeat 0.2's .jab binary file format * Pattern nesting. This allows using another instance of Jackbeat as a sample. This is called "buses" in some other software : - this is half-implemented * Syscall-free IPC : - currently posix message queues are used to talk with the JACK thread. This has to be changed to a lock-free fifo. Jackbeat do have users, and I'd really like to keep it alive. If any of you have interest in participating in this project, especially by contributing some code, please let me know. About the song file format : it looks to me like this tar+xml+flac format could be implemented as a library. Chances are that it could be reusable in many contexts. Regards -- og