I would like to cut MP3s uploaded to a server into 2 minute sections,
fade in the first 30 seconds, and fade out the last 30 seconds. Then I
would like to be able to overlap the various sections so that they
crossfade into each other using the 30 second fades. I can see that
mpgtx will work fine for the cutting, but what about the fading and
mixing? Are there any command-line tools to manipulate the volume of
mp3s without converting to WAV first?
thx,
derek
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"Which parts can be grouped?"
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Subject: [Reader-list] Sarai Reader 05: Bare Acts
To: reader-list(a)sarai.net
From: Monica Narula <monica(a)sarai.net>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 07:44:25 +0530
Dear All,
We are happy to announce the print and web
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The Editorial Collective, Sarai Reader Series
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Sarai READER 05: BARE ACTS
Editors: Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Jeebesh Bagchi + Geert Lovink
Guest Editor: Lawrence Liang
Sarai Reader Series Editorial Collective: Monica
Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Ravi Sundaram,
Ravi S. Vasudevan, Awadhendra Sharan, Jeebesh
Bagchi + Geert Lovink
Published by the Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies, Delhi, 2005 [cc]
Produced and Designed at the Sarai Media Lab, Delhi
ISBN 81-901429-5-X
584 pages, 14.5cm X 21cm
Paperback: Rs. 350, US$ 20, Euro 20
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Bare Acts
This year, the Sarai Reader looks at 'Acts' as
instruments of legislation, at things within and
outside the law, and at 'acts' as different ways
of 'doing' things in society and culture. Several
texts and image-essays echo and complement themes
that have emerged in earlier readers. Piracy,
borders, surveillance, claims to authority and
entitlement, the language of expertise, the legal
regulation of sexual behaviour and trespasses of
various kinds have featured prominently in
previous Readers. This collection foregrounds
these issues in a way that hopes to continue to
provoke rigorous engagement and reflection.
The 'Bare Act' is an expression used to specify
the content of law, bereft of any interpretative
gloss. In legal libraries in India and many parts
of the English-speaking world, a Bare Act is a
document that simply codifies a law without
annotation or commentary. The 'Bare Act' is
legality pared down to its textual essence. It
expresses only what the law does, and what it can
do.
The enactment of law, however, is less a matter
of reading the letter of the law, and more a
matter of augmenting or eroding the textual
foundation through the acts of interpretation,
negotiation, disputation and witnessing. The law
and practices within and outside stand in
relation to a meta legal domain that can be said
to embrace acts and actions in all their depth,
intensity and substantive generality. This too is
a stage set for the performance of 'bare acts',
of what we might call 'naked deeds' - actions
shorn of everything other than what is contained
in a verb.
The 'Bare Act' that encrypts the letter of the
law, the wire frame structure that demands the
fleshing out of interpretation, and the 'bare
act' that expresses and contains the stripped
down kernel of an act, of something that is done,
are both expressions that face each other in a
relationship of tense reflection and intimate
alterity. Bare Acts generate bare acts, and vice
versa. 'Bare Acts', the fifth Sarai Reader,
proposes to be a considered examination of this
troubled mirror image.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS OF SARAI READER 05 : BARE ACTS
PREFACE - vi
ARGUMENTS - 1
Invitation - Sarai Reader Editorial Collective - 2
Porous Legalities and Avenues of Participation - Lawrence Liang - 6
"Bolti Band (SILENCED)!" - Clifton D' Rozario - 18
Lepers, Witches and Infidels & It's a Bug's Life - Francesca da Rimini - 26
Rested - Colette Mazabrard - 39
DISPUTATIONS - 45
Of Butchers and Policemen: Law, Justice and Economies of Anxiety -
Gunalan Nadarajan - 46
Down by Law: A Critique for the 21st Century - Alexander Karschnia - 57
'New' Delhi: Fashioning an Urban Environment through Science and Law -
Awadhendra Sharan - 69
Improbablevoices.net: An Improbable Monument to
Witnessing and the Ethics of Trespass -
Sharon Daniel - 78
TRESPASSES - 95
The Discovery of the Fifth World: Stealth Countries and Logo Nations -
Daniel van der Velden, Tina Clausmeyer, Vinca Kruk, Adriaan Mellegers
(Meta Haven Project) - 96
Transcoding Sovereignty: Naked Bandit/Here, Not
Here/White Sovereign - KR + CF - 111
SMS to Passport - Vishwajyoti Ghosh - 115
The Strange Case of Qays Al Kareem - Tripta Wahi - 123
Marginalia - Kai Friese - 129
On Smugglers, Pirates and Aroma Makers - Ursula Biemann - 145
Sponge Borders - Guido Cimadomo + Pilar Martínez Ponce - 150
Notes on the Disappeared: Towards a Visual Language of Resistance -
Chitra Ganesh + Mariam Ghani - 154
Dreams and Disguises, As Usual - Raqs Media Collective - 162
HACKS - 176
Trespasses of the State: Ministering to
Theological Dilemmas through the
Copyright/Trademark - Naveeda Khan - 178
Harmony or Discord? TRIPS, China, and Overlapping
Sovereignties - Shujen Wang - 189
Innovating Piracy: The Bare Act of Stealing, and
Shaping the Future - Menso Heus - 202
Is Hacking Illegal? - Yuwei Lin + David Beer - 205
Three Proposals for a Real Democracy: Information-Sharing to a Different
Tune -
Brian Holmes - 215
Roots Culture: Free Software Vibrations "inna Babylon" - Armin Medosch - 222
ENCROACHMENTS - 241
Touts, Pirates and Ghosts - Solomon Benjamin - 242
Daily Journey - Satyajit Pande - 255
Complicating the City: Media Itineraries - Media Researchers @ Sarai - 258
Begum Samru and the Security Guard - Anand Vivek Taneja - 287
My Driving Master: A Story of Everyday Trespasses - Zainab Bawa - 297
Naye Qanoon (New Laws) - 301
ANNOTATIONS - 305
Vis-à-Visage - I. Helen Jilavu - 306
Cybermohalla Logs/Acts/Texts - CM Labs @ LNJP-DP-NM - 308
NEGOTIATIONS - 323
The Act of Leisure - Iram Ghufran + Taha Mehmood - 325
Surveillance, Performance, Self-Surveillance: Interview with Jill Magid -
Geert Lovink - 339
Living Between Laws - Ninad Pandit - 348
Negotiating Territory - Ateya Khorakiwala - 354
RECORDS - 359
Tis Hazari Diaries - Chander Nigam - 360
Bare Acts and Collective Explorations: The MKSS
Experience with the Right to Information - Preeti
Sampat + Nikhil Dey - 385
TRIALS - 397
Zimbabwe's 'New Clothes': Identity and Power
Among Displaced Farm Workers - Amy R. West +
Blair Rutherford - 398
Standardised, Packaged, Ready for Consumption - Ravi Agarwal - 412
The Act of Instruction - Jan Ritsema - 420
VIOLATIONS - 427
Womanhood Laid Bare: How Katherine Mayo and
Manoda Devi Challenged Indian Public Morality -
Alice Albinia - 428
Literature and the Limits of Law: Crime, Guilt
and Agency in Premchand's Ghaban -
Ulka S. Anjaria - 437
The Honourable Murder: The Trial of Kawas
Maneckshaw Nanavati - Aarti Sethi - 444
Judicial Extract - 454
Representing a Woman's Story: Explicit Film and
the Efficacy of Censorship in Japan - Hikari Hori
- 457
The Queer Case of Section 377 - Siddharth Narrain - 466
ASSAULTS - 471
"For God's Sake, Be Objective!" - Somnath Batabyal - 472
Another 9/11, Another Act of Terror: The 'Embedded Disorder' of the AFSPA -
A. Bimol Akoijam - 481
Warporn Warpunk! Autonomous Videopoesis in Wartime - Matteo Pasquinelli - 492
'First, Do No Harm...': Ensuring Humanitarian Military Interventions -
Bikram Jeet Batra - 500
War Cake - Linda F. Beekman - 511
DISSENSIONS - 515
The Law of the Mother: Soldiers' Mothers and the Post-Soviet Army -
Irina Aristarkhova - 516
Naked Protest and the Politics of Personalism - Isaac Souweine - 526
Analytical World Statistics Wall Chart, 2003 - Louise Kolff - 537
A Comparative Anatomy of Post-Mortem Acts - Smriti Vohra - 540
ALT/OPTION - 551
The Accidental Activist - Fredrik Svensk + Kristoffer Gansing - 552
'Our'chitecture - Jayson Claude - 559
Sex Workers' Manifesto - Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, Kolkata - 564
Bare Wiring - Sophea Lerner - 572
Notes on Contributors - 574
Image and Photo Credits - 581
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Just as an FYI...
I just matched an AMD 64 3500+ on an Abit AV8. I was originally planning to run the 64 bit release of Fedora Core 3 but found compiling music apps to be painful on the 64 bit platform.
Instead I am running the 32 bit release of Planet CCRMA Fedora Core 3 with their Edge kernel. Everything is singing beautifully with no problems in stability. As far as I can tell, the motherboard is fully supported with the stock FC3 release although I haven't tried SATA drives.
Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: Noah Roberts <roberts.noah(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2005 6:29 pm
Subject: [linux-audio-user] I was wrong (amd64)
> I was just looking at prices of the XP vs. 64 and for a 3000+ the cost
> difference is only $15 now. Of course, that doesn't take into account
> the cost of the MB but I wouldn't expect that to be a whole lot extra
> either. Even running in 32 bit mode the 64 is probably worth the
> extra few $ since you do get some goodies with it even in 32 bit mode.
>
Hi all,
I'm new to the list, so be gentle.
Trying to get a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24-Bit functioning for a
friend many many thousands of miles away. I found one moderately
useful thread archive from this list, and it seems he who wrote the
CA0106 ALSA driver module is on here.
After a lot of stuffing about I discovered that the ca0106 was needed,
not the emu10k1, much to my irritation. Eventually I upgraded the
lad's kernel from 2.6.3 to 2.6.11 but just downloading the source and
compiling it up. In addition I replaced all the ALSA user-space stuff
with version 1.0.6 packages using assorted redhat rpms, as Mandrake
appears as old as the hills re ALSA.
Now I've got the card recognised... and things seem to believe they
are playing fine. However there is no sound. The little gnomes in the
back of my head shouted "it's the volume, it's the volume.. unmute
something". However all volumes I can affect in alsamixer are now set
to maximum. The remaining controls are all read only.
What concerns me is that notable controls are missing, such as Master
Volume and PCM Out. If I saw either of those I'd feel happier. I could
attach the /etc/alsa.state file if it would assist anyone in seeing
the probably obvious.
Does anyone have an idea? Finally, if this is indeed completely the
wrong place to post this, tell me so and I shall flee. I have however
spent a long while rtfming the available sources, to little avail
beyond getting the card noticed.
Cheers,
Edward
Give It All, Zero For Rules! by Mattin
http://linkme2.net/3s
On the 13-14th of December 2004 Mute hosted a Pure Data workshop in East
London. Musician and PD abuser Mattin gives a breakdown of the themes of
the workshop, surveys some artists and artists groups using PD, and
scrutinises the relationship of free software to 'free', experimental
and improvised music.
quotes:
'I used a lot of cracked commercial software for a lot of years when
doing sound and I always got a couple of feelings out of it. One feeling
was that you get these fancy programs with these fancy user interfaces,
but at the end the more they have created this environment that's very
easy for you to use, the more they've actually determined the kind of
work you can make with it. If you look at a program like Ableton Live
which is used by probably about eighty percent of people making sound
and performing out live these days, it seems like. It's good for a very
few things, it's good for working with loops, putting effects on these
loops and sequencing them, but it pushes you in one creative direction,
it pushes you into making a certain kind of music, really it pushes you
towards German techno more than anything else.' Derek Holzer
'I smashed a G4 laptop computer one time.' Jason Forrest (aka Donna Summer)
http://linkme2.net/3s
--
derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl
---Oblique Strategy # 92:
"Intentions
-credibility of
-nobility of
-humility of"
Hi Thomas, dear List
here we go:
dmesg | grep Hammerfall:
ALSA
/usr/local/src/alsa-driver-1.0.9rc1/alsa-kernel/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c:775:
Hammerfall-DSP: wait for FIFO status <= 0 failed after 30 iterations
ALSA
/usr/local/src/alsa-driver-1.0.9rc1/alsa-kernel/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c:5059:
Hammerfall-DSP: couldn't get firmware from userspace. try using hdsploader
ALSA
/usr/local/src/alsa-driver-1.0.9rc1/alsa-kernel/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c:5066:
Hammerfall-DSP: card initialization pending : waiting for firmware
ALSA
/usr/local/src/alsa-driver-1.0.9rc1/alsa-kernel/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c:775:
Hammerfall-DSP: wait for FIFO status <= 0 failed after 30 iterations
Manually running hdsploader gives:
hdsploader - firmware loader for RME Hammerfall DSP cards
Looking for HDSP + Multiface or Digiface cards :
Card 0 : PowerMac Screamer Rev 0
Card 1 : RME Hammerfall DSP at 0xf3000000, irq 58
Upload firmware for card hw:1
Hwdep ioctl error on card hw:1 : Input/output error.
cat /proc/asound/version:
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.9rc1.
Compiled on Mar 20 2005 for kernel 2.6.11.5.
The alsa-drivers are modules, the firmware_class is a module too.
lsmod | grep hdsp:
snd_hdsp 64548 1
firmware_class 9664 1 snd_hdsp
snd_hwdep 9892 1 snd_hdsp
snd_pcm 115140 3 snd_hdsp,snd_powermac,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 9988 2 snd_hdsp,snd_pcm
snd_rawmidi 27424 2 snd_hdsp,snd_seq_midi
snd 71264 18
snd_hdsp,snd_hwdep,snd_powermac,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
The only thing i find is the "couldn't get firmware from userspace' line
as a hint.
regards,
Peter
>Hi Peter,
>
>I would need a little more information.
>Could you please post the output of 'dmesg | grep Hammerfall', and
>verify to be sure the alsa version your kernel is running
>(cat /proc/asound/version).
>Are your drivers compiled in kernel or as modules ?
>
>Thomas
--- Noah Roberts <roberts.noah(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I have only had a few problems with 64 bit mode on
> Gentoo. However,
> ardour isn't very stable in 64 bit mode. How does
> it do in 32 bit
> mode? I get crashes 80% of the time when I create
> stereo tracks.
> Usually I can open the project back up and the track
> is there, but
> sometimes it crashes on open and I have to start
> over. It also
> freezes when I close and choose "just quit" when it
> wants to save the
> project most of the time. Also, when I import wav
> files it doesn't
> usually draw the wav, I just see a straight line;
> closing the project
> and opening it again fixes that, or deleting the
> region and importing
> again works right.
A very recent version of Ardour was highly unstable.
If you're compiling source, cvs or tarball, try the
most recent release. I think there's a bad memory loop
problem in the most recent but it's much better than
the release immediately preceeding.
For anything critical I'm using beta27 until these
rough spots get worked out.
ron
> Are these things normal in 32 bit as well? For me
> these are standard
> operating procedures I have to deal with. I was
> thinking about
> switching to 32 bit mode to see if they go away and
> I have a more
> stable system.
>
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Dear list,
this is a bit complicated, due to big/little endian issues, perhaps.
I am trying to load the firmware into my hdsp pcmcia card.
I am getting the fifo timeout:
peter:~# hdsploader
hdsploader - firmware loader for RME Hammerfall DSP cards
Looking for HDSP + Multiface or Digiface cards :
Card 0 : PowerMac Screamer Rev 0
Card 1 : RME Hammerfall DSP at 0xf3000000, irq 58
Upload firmware for card hw:1
Hwdep ioctl error on card hw:1 : Input/output error.
I am using debian testing, running a 2.6.8 kernel with manually compiled
1.0.8 alsa drivers on a G3 powerpc laptop.
cardbus version is 11 (rev 0b)
the card is loadable out of osx.
i am stuck here, and don't know what to do now.
any suggestions are very welcome!
thanks,
Peter
Hello
En/na Ryan Gallagher ha escrit:
>>Hi, I have one question: are your songs under a Creative Commons License?
>>I found them very interesting material for remixes and other creations.
>>
>>
>
>I didn't read the earlier thread about copyright, but in this case I'd
>apply; Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0
>
>
>
I don't know wheter it is OT or not...
I have one dilema. What do you think it is better NonCommercial or
Commercial Creative Commons License?
I think that NonCommercial has no sense for comunity made songs. If you
use it to make something complex (that's the point of working with the
community), then if you want to ever sell your records, it seems to me
that you will never find the way to pay (or at least contact to ask
permission to) all the contributors...
On the other hand, if I release something as allowing Commercial uses I
hate the possibility of knowing that maybe one day (let's say something
stupid) M$ will use my song without paying anything to me or asking me
permission, to market one of their become-a-slave-products.
Maybe we could think of something new as "CC Attribution-NonCommercial
2.0 (contact the authors for commercial purposes but if you are a music
artist contributing to this song, feel free to use it commercially if
you add something new to it and you sell it to people who will only
listen it (not businesses using the song for other purposes)"
what do you think of it?
I raise this issue because I'm starting a musical project and I would
like to never release any work that could end like
http://www.lokitorrent.com/ when the people shares it, I would like to
use other musicians works (and I can't afford to pay them for such work
now) and I would finally like to win fairly some money making good music
(without this money I will never be able to buy decent instruments)
is it an utopia?
I was just looking at prices of the XP vs. 64 and for a 3000+ the cost
difference is only $15 now. Of course, that doesn't take into account
the cost of the MB but I wouldn't expect that to be a whole lot extra
either. Even running in 32 bit mode the 64 is probably worth the
extra few $ since you do get some goodies with it even in 32 bit mode.
