21 Nov
2018
21 Nov
'18
3:37 a.m.
On 11/20/2018 07:42 PM, drew Roberts wrote:
On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 4:45 PM Tim <termtech(a)rogers.com
<mailto:termtech@rogers.com>> wrote:
On 11/18/2018 03:22 AM, Will Godfrey wrote:
Yeah, the "elephant in the room", literally.
Instead of one ~40MB uncompressed audio file it's now several
~40MB audio tracks even after unused takes and so on are removed.
And there's the project 'dependencies' - plugins and so on.
RPM, Deb anyone? He he. Strange word to use with music - 'dependencies'.
I once mentioned an idea to use an actual versioning system like git
or cvs for MusE's undo/redo system and song file structure.
Users could 'share' projects like a program. It would remember
all past 'commits and pushes' to the song. Like the NON- apps family.
FLAC compression or similar might help with the storage.
Although, it makes it awkward to have to download and uncompress first.
MusE will read FLAC files and (I think) write to them again.
Not sure how other apps deal with compression.
Various projects might be scattered across the 'net.
It might be good to house them, or link to them,
on the site along with finished songs too.
Tim.
Linux Audio Music has been dormant for a very
long time, but
recently I
contacted the the person who hosted and ran it.
<snip>
I would like to suggest that contributors be strongly encouraged
to upload PROJECTS, not just finished songs.
+1,+1,+1,...
This would be far more valuable to a Linux user and would warrant
the made with Linux tag.
Users could download projects for Ardour, QTractor, MusE and so on.
They could learn not just what the finished song sounds like,
but actually how it was made and how to accomplish composition,
arrangements, mixing, engineering, and so on.
And if it gets too big... (for instance in the case of ardour and actual
multitrack audio recording) at least a "cleaned up" project with all the
unused takes removed etc. to make it a little easier to deal with.
It would be ironic that it would be called music made with
Linux and yet might only offer closed, finished songs.
Who cares what was used to make a closed, finished song?
Who purposely searches for finished songs made with Linux over
songs made with something else?
Tim.
all the best,
drew
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