Linux-audio-user December 2006

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[linux-audio-user] RE: [linux-audio-dev] OT: interesting angle on the NOVL-MSFT deal

by Ivica Ico Bukvic

> None of that is a concern here. The "intellectual property risk" is only > a problem in the USA because they support software patents. We don't > have that in Europe, so the "intellectual propery risk" does not exist > in Europe. There is still "copyright protection" in Europe, but Linux > has the GPL license, so that is also not a business "risk". > > James This was not posted because of copyright/IP reasons, but rather the business model that the article implies Novell may be pushing for. Ico

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[linux-audio-user] Re: Squeak (was Software suitable for children)

by David Baron

Just installed it. A very creative but frustrating package. As with too many of these things, one must be able to read and that in English (or a few European languages?). Fine print abounds in what at first looks like a very sparse UI. The program abounds with objects and widgets. Some very creative and versatile, others frustratingly crude. Graphic objects like squares cannot be resized (nothing stops one from reprogramming them and then dutifully uploading the scalable versions for others to enjoy--smalltalk was once the rage.) Smalltalk 80 is, well, 26 years old. Before Unicode so is incompatable with mutlingual keyboard choices. No Hebrew for my daughter, not in UI and cannot type it in to text objects either. Truetype fonts (newer than smalltalk80) are beatutiful but they are also Unicode based nowadays. I think most kids would enjoy trying various widgets but run out of patience doing anything more with them. Most adults would as well. A model (allbeit not an audio app) for a program sutiable for children but versatile enough to be of interest to their parents as well: Tuxpaint. This one is superb and is also in use in many schools. (Also needs more languages in the UI!)

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[linux-audio-user] OT: interesting angle on the NOVL-MSFT deal

by Ivica Ico Bukvic

http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisemac/archives/2006/12/leopard_server.ht ml Ico

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[linux-audio-user] jack things please

by we are

i have been using qjackctl 0.2.2.21 could someone suggest why the iconify button has disappered. also, is there a way that it could auto detect what sound card is plugged in and load a preset accordingly. i use both my HDSP card and the onboard ICH intel sound chip depending on where i am at or how orgainised i am. but each card needs different priority and buffer setting for jack to opperate properly. i would really like to have qjackctl startup with my window manager but due to my flux in sound device decision, i currently end up with loads of errors and jack complaing at me if the preset does not mach the device loaded. perhaps this is a suggestion if there are no current work arounds. thanks

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[linux-audio-user] [ANN] yet another linux sound wiki.

by Robin Gareus

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've started to convert the information from linux-sound.org into a distributable doku-wiki. http://linux-sound.sonologic.nl/ This is a prototype installation and experimental suggestion! Please review and comment before further development proceeds. ** content information ** it's basically a database of http://linux-sound.org chopped up into text files. I have added URLs to [external] screenshots and logos to some pages and updated or deleted a few dead links.. it's still a long way to go, but some tasks could be semi-automated (fi. searching for dead links..) I am open to suggestions on how to maintain the content. This prototype is open for editing to all registered users (email verification). I can share experiences or rewrite and improve the dokuwiki to some extend, and may contribute to content but not on a day to day basis. patches, suggestions and comments are welcome. ** design/layout look&feel ** no efforts have been taken to change the default dokuwiki look and feel. Is anyone interested in a) designing and writing a dokuwiki template b) start a discussion on aims and goals for good user interaction design c) create a wiki-page to host a design contest d) rewriting the dokuwiki template ;-) ** technical- and mirror information. ** The data set is a 20MB git repository. dokuwiki keeps it's data in txt files. I've started to put them under git version control. The idea for mirror-sites is to check out and branch their wiki while maintainers can merge information upstream. dokuwiki only requires php. The wiki itself is available as a separate git repository (incl. pre-installed plugins and config) - the independent data-set git repos should work with every dokuwiki installation. The whole system including generated-meta data is about 50 MB. more information: http://linux-sound.sonologic.nl/devel:git http://linux-sound.sonologic.nl/devel:setup #robin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFfI+seVUk8U+VK0IRAgrzAKDEF5aI9h8yZOis11v+T+GRTugL3wCfVc/z N/dkTVHWwZMWz9ca8iVnDcY= =z/Nj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[linux-audio-user] CLAM 0.95 released

by Pau Arumi

After several months without a stable release but lots of development activity, we are pleased to announce CLAM 0.95 CLAM (http://clam.iua.upf.edu) is a C++ framework for doing research and app development in audio and music. It comes with a set of applications ready-to-use. Most important in this release is NetworkEditor 0.4, with a radically reworked UI based on Qt4.2, lots of work on stability and usability, and new visual-prototyping features. You can visually prototype standalone apps (or audio plugins): Edit audio networks with NetworkEditor, then edit its UI using Qt Designer and CLAM widgets plugins. Finally, Prototyper let you run the audio network with its UI. This is better shown in this quick tutorial: http://iua-share.upf.es/wikis/clam/index.php/Network_Editor_tutorial This release comes with many new processings, mostly spectral transformations. But we want to highlight the tonal-analysis which does chords identification at real-time, and its related visualizations. This code is based on the work done by researchers at Queen Mary University (London) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). More credits are in the About box. These and many other improvements can be found in the ChangeLog: http://clam.iua.upf.edu/ChangeLog.txt This release brings new packages for Linux (Debian sid, Ubuntu edgy) and Windows installers. In Linux, you can simply add new sources to /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://clam.iua.upf.edu/download/linux-debian-sid ./ deb http://clam.iua.upf.edu/download/linux-ubuntu-edgly ./ Both Linux and Windows comes with desktop integration and several examples ready to use. Mac OSX packages will be catching up next weeks. Bug reports and any feedback is very welcomed (and needed). The CLAM team -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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: Re: [linux-audio-user] Software suitable for children

by David Baron

> > Is it just me, but we starting to see splits in Linux world ? I mean, > > these guys for Jokosher have installation notes for Ubuntu, period. > > They did not bother trying other major distros to provide adjustments > > and installation notes for, say, Fedora, Mandriva, SuSE. > > I'm sure the documentation is available for the distributions the author > of the docs is using. There's really nothing more sinister than that > going on, I'm sure. > > And nowadays, most people don't really need installation documentation. > You can just say "open your distributions package manager and select > install [insert name of application]" Jokosher is available on Debian Sid.

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[linux-audio-user] Hydrogen development ?

by Dave Phillips

Greetings: I've not checked out recent SVN sources, but watching the devel mail list I get the distinct impression that there's no internal development going on with Hydrogen. Almost all traffic on the list is concerned with translations. So, what's the story ? Is there a Hydrogen 1.0 in the works or is it a deader ? It would be a deep shame to see Hydrogen's development languish. Best, dp

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[linux-audio-user] betablocker

by Dave Griffiths

Hi all, To add to the collision of music and game cultures going on in the other thread: http://www.pawfal.org/index.php?page=BetaBlocker It's not quite a game (you control it entirely with a gamepad), it's not quite a programming language (it's based on bits of assembler, forth and redcode) and it makes not quite music :) There is a movies of it in action at piksel 2006 on that page. cheers, dave

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[linux-audio-user] Re: Attracting more Linux audio developers

by Juhana Sadeharju

>From: "Tim Howard" <tdhoward(a)gmail.com> > > It seems that there is a general sense of frustration among the >linux audio community with attracting more developers, users, etc. to >start using Linux for serious audio work. The fundamental problem is that users can buy only computers with Windows preinstalled. For years I have searched for a local advertisement about computer which comes with empty disk, or with Linux preinstalled, or with both Linux and Windows. No luck so far. People does not buy Windows -- it just comes with the computer. Microsoft also dumps down the price of the preinstalled Windows. And birds have told the computer makers get discount on Windows only if it is the only system in the computer. So, you could shorten your text from "start using Linux for serious audio work" to "start using Linux". > The thing that has been frustrating me lately is that there are >developers that are offering "free" (as in free beer) software, but >they seem to have no interest in a GPL release for Linux! (For >example, VST plugins like Ambience, GSnap, etc.) Maybe I'm just >stupid, but that doesn't make sense to me. Strange things happen when one approaches Windows users. Free mostly means ".exe". While Windows users are open-mindedly downloading and running pirated software, they are most closed-minded if they succeed to write anything by theirself. Recent finding are the user-made modifications for the games. They distribute them in very closed-minded and protective manner. For example, there are 30000 mods for Neverwinter Nights at NWVault, but people must download them one by one, manually. Downloading one module requires several mouse button presses per file. That is insane even if one only wants the best mods. Players may have patience but the modders who want a large asset library are doomed because model/item/texture mods comes in large amounts. I decided to not buy NWN nor NWN2 because I would in any case download all mods. Unfortunately I did buy Oblivion; see "tessource.net/files" :-( Imagine if Linux distributions would be downloaded in a similar manner. Any manual downloading is just waste of time. The fun starts after everything has been downloaded and installed. Perhaps GIMP would be downloaded by 90% of users, but most software would be downloaded by 0.3% of users. And people would crack when they realize that they need to download programs ran only by the Linux system itself. Next I will check if all 200,000 CC licensed photos at WikiCommons can be downloaded non-manually. Well, I think already that CC license is a work of Windows people because CC has the no-commercial and the no-derivatives versions. Is CC an attempt to windowize the people? A synonym to ".exe"? The freedom scale is this: PD, BSD, GNU, CC, EXE, $$$ Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software

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Linux-audio-user December 2006