Linux-audio-user June 2006

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by Conor O'Tuama

Hi now :-) Here's a new tune, recorded using Ardour, hope 'tis not too offensive to the ears ! Tnx to all Linux Audio Developers/Users once again ! (off I go to clean up my Slackware installation.....long day ahead....). http://conorotuama.com/ice_on_a_wasteland.ogg -- Visit www.conorotuama.com

18 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] MOTU Traveler ! opinions !?

by cezar＠mixandgo.ro

Hello list, A friend of mine is thinking in buying a MOUT Traveler. I've looked online at it, and it seems like a great interface but I have some questions: 1. Is it supported by linux ? 2. How is it as an interface (nevermind linux support) ? 3. Other advice you might have !? Regards, Cezar

18 years, 5 months

Re: [linux-audio-user] [ANN] Aqualung 0.9beta5 released

by Sampo Savolainen

Quoting Tom Szilagyi <tomszilagyi(a)gmail.com>: > Aqualung: Music Player for GNU/Linux > > http://aqualung.sf.net > > Release 0.9beta5 > > > It is our greatest pleasure to announce the fifth official beta > release of Aqualung. Some features you'd rarely stumble upon in > other players (at least not too many of them at once): Great news! Aqualung is starting to look like a very good option for a music player. A few gripes though: a) I would like to have a notification area icon to show/hide aqualung b) There seems no easy way to import my existing collection of music. I can select individual files from one directory, but whole directories. My collection is divided into directories and subdirectories. (artist/album/track.ogg) Also, I found the metadata option a bit confusing: why doesn't aqualung use metadata (id3's, etc.) provided by the audio files automatically? I had to enable it explicitly. Just my 0.02 Sampo

18 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] Re: [ANN] Aqualung 0.9beta5 released

by Tom Szilagyi

On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 01:34:31PM +0300, Sampo Savolainen wrote: > > Great news! Aqualung is starting to look like a very good option for a music > player. Thanks. We still see a number of areas where great improvement is needed, but we couldn't wait more before a real release (many people won't use our CVS tarballs ever, even though their contents are pretty much the same). > A few gripes though: > a) I would like to have a notification area icon to show/hide aqualung > b) There seems no easy way to import my existing collection of music. > I can select individual files from one directory, but whole > directories. My collection is divided into directories and > subdirectories. (artist/album/track.ogg) These are indeed noted, and planned for the next release. > Also, I found the metadata option a bit confusing: why doesn't aqualung use > metadata (id3's, etc.) provided by the audio files automatically? I had to > enable it explicitly. The defaults may be wrong, but once you enable autodetection, the program will remember your choice. (It is off by default so metadata won't accidentally override data from the Music Store -- this area may still need refinement.) Thanks for the feedback, Tom

18 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] Aqualung Music Store Scripts

by Mark Knecht

Hi, Since there has been some traffic here about Aqualung it dawned on me that we hadn't gotten as far as talking about the Music Store. I attach two scripts that I use for scanning my OGG and FLAC directories to create Music Stores for Aqualung. My directories are created using Sound Juicer. Run the script as such: ./Aqualung-FLAC-build_xml.sh /home/mark/Audio/audio1/MusicLib >./.aqualung/music_store2.xml This is not very sophisticated but it does work. I have two Music Stores in Aqualung, one for OGG files and a second for FLAC files since I keep them on separate drives. Note that in my case Aqualung has been sensitive to things like non-UTF8 special characters in the names. It is also sensitive to things like multiple spaces in names. (It doesn't like them...) Others have had better luck. I think it's my lack of knowledge about how to properly create a Gentoo machine to do special characters. Anyway, be warned. The original script was provided by Peter Szilagyi and has served my needs just fine. There are things in the works for improving this over time, but for now this is what I use. Hope this helps, Mark

18 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] Successfully installed Aqualung, how do I use the GUI?

by Andrew Lester

I finally got aqualung installed, but it seems that typing "aqualung" into the konsole starts a text-based version of it. I hope this is not a stupid question, but how do I start the GUI? Also, how must I configure the jack soundserver and the jack output plugin for aqualung to make sure the sound is not getting re-sampled at all? And how would I set up low-latency operation?

18 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] hardware ogg player

by Peter Plessas

Hi, this is a somewhat offtopic question, but since everyone else is running around with those cool mp3-gadets, does anyone know if the usually available mp3-players can handle .ogg files? Or are there some devices that can do so? thanks for any hints, Peter

18 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] Help setting up linux for high quality music listening via JACK

by Andrew Lester

Hi, this is my first time on a mailing list, so I hope I'm doing it right. I am new to Linux, coming from windows. I need a low-latency sound interface with no resampling (ex: no software volume control, no software EQ, etc...), just like ASIO in windows. Somebody told me to look into JACK. I have an ESI Juli@ sound card, which seems to be supported under Linux. Using ALSA and xmms I can easily hear the sound quality is inferior to that of the sound quality in windows using winamp with an ASIO output plugin (and the official esi drivers). All my music is ripped in FLAC and I am using the Sennheiser HD650 headphones with a WooAudio 3 amp. I have jack installed, as well as jackd, and the jack output plugin for xmms. I have gotten basic sound out of jack by entering "jackd -d alsa" into the konsole and selecting the "jack audio connection kit" as the sound system and using the jack output plugin for xmms. However I have a feeling it is not set up properly for low-latency output with no resampling because it sounds exactly the same as ALSA, and the software volume control in xmms and in the kmix is still working. After doing some searching on google I have found that versions of JACK 0.80 and under supported ASIO, but it was removed in later versions. Do you know how I would need to set it up to get the functionality I am looking for? And are there any newer music players that support FLAC and JACK output? Thanks, Andrew

18 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] Mandriva jingle contest

by Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas

Hi all, Are there some composers reading this list, and interested in this Mandriva Linux contest? "From June, 21st to August, 20th, produce and submit the workspace session jingles for the next Mandriva Linux 2007 distribution which will be released in next September." More information here: http://corp.mandriva.com/webteam/soundsubmit/ Regards, Pedro

18 years, 5 months

[linux-audio-user] Re: Jack-asio (was Help setting up linux for high quality music listening via JACK)

by David Baron

On Thursday 29 June 2006 02:02, linux-audio-user-request(a)music.columbia.edu wrote: > > > After doing some searching on google I have found that versions > > > of JACK 0.80 and under supported ASIO, but it was removed in later > > > versions > > > > I was thinking of trying to write such a thing but do not understand > > Steinberg's code well enough. It is "non-free" which I guess is why it > > was taken out. I want it back :-) > > I don't think JACK's "ASIO mode" did what you think it did. It was just > a different method of buffer handling. > > JACK is to Linux what ASIO is to Windows. JACK already provides the > lowest latency/highest quality that the hardware can deliver. > > David: What problem are you trying to solve? Just like fst lets me run with a dll name and get jack clients for a vst plugin, I would like to cite a windows asio driver name and get jack clients for this card. Legacy hardware with no alsa support. May or may not be possible depending upon the asio vs directX mode of the windows driver.

18 years, 5 months

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Linux-audio-user June 2006