Folks,
In tagging my media collection, naming my files and talking on-line, i'm
unsure of how to write out the bit rate and sampling rate of files.
What is standard?
24-bit/96 khz ?
24 bit, 96khz ?
24bit/96 khz ?
or some combination of the above?
Thanks,
Bearcat
Ardour 2.8.10 is released into the wild today, primarily to fix an
annoying regression in 2.8.9:
* keyboard presses and releases are now correctly sent to Ardour
created plugin GUIs (e.g. for LADSPA plugins), making it possible to
use the keyboard to set parameter values and define preset names.
In addition, Ardour will no longer abort if your home directory is not
writable, but exits cleanly with a (hopefully) clear error message.
This bug really only affects first time users who have been playing
around with their system in an unwise fashion.
Download as usual from http://ardour.org/download
I thought very long, that it don't support JACK. But I just ran ldd, and saw a dependency on libjack.so.0. And if I try to playback when jackd is not runing, it says, that could not connect to jack server. If server is runing, it doesn't produce any signals, but silently prefers alsa. I have JACK2 and tried both with jackdbus and legacy jackd. So, what is situation?
I assume, it is undocumented and half-complete feature, but it is interesting, to have an expert opinion. I could not find any helpful information about.
I've seen some folks post their music created with linux to some sharing
sites. I have two questions:
1. What are some recommended sites?
2. Are tracks mixed end to end recorded live from a rave 15 years ago OK
to share with regard to copyright?
TBH, I don't even know who the artists or what the song titles were any
more as they're all named something generic like track01.wav. I may not
even have the vinyl any more as those thing frequently changed hands or
got traded up as the scene changed.
So I pose it to the LAU community; can I share these files legally and
if so, where? If not, I'll just keep sending CDs to people who ask.
-Scott
KDE's "amarok" media player seems to have been improved a lot; I might
even replace 'rhythmbox' with it, now that I've gone KDE....
Looking at http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/1171-Rapid-Progress-in-KDE-Multimedia.h…
I notice the following statement:
> Let me sum up why exactly this new Phonon backend is so important to us:
> Phonon-VLC is fully cross-platform, so we don't need special backends for Windows and Mac any more
> It's already far more stable than most other existing Phonon backends
> We can now focus on creating one good backend, instead of having 10 more or less broken ones
> It simply sounds awesome. I'm not sure why that is, but the sound quality is notably better than with xine
What exactly about http://gitorious.org/phonon/phonon-vlc would make
it "sound awesome" ?
Or is there a problem with Xine that would make it sound less awesome??
Also, what's the preferred KDE backend for multimedia? In "System
Settings"->Multimedia->Backend, my system has "Phonon Xine Backend" (
http://www.xinehq.de/ ) as preferred, and "Phonon GStreamer backend" (
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ ) as secondary. Is that the correct
configuration, or should I be using Phonon GStreamer backend instead?
Niels
http://nielsmayer.com
http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/KDE
see http://pulseaudio.org/raw-attachment/wiki/KDE/phonon-pulse-broken.pngwhich
allows you to select and prioritize PA/Jack/Alsa
for different audio usage contexts.... very nice way of doing things. Other
desktops might take note.
Context:
Simon Lewis' comment about KDE working well w/o pulseaudio prompted me to
switch to the KDE desktop. I think he'd already suggested I try krusader
(wish they hadn't used that name && they better not start using names with
multiple k's in em!), which to get fully working, I ended up installing half
of KDE (i'd already gotten the first half with setting up kmplayer). His
last comment finished the job and now I appear to be using KDE 4.4.2 (from
f12) outright. No more issues with
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/404340
and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-media/+bug/472961 (which
also affect fedora and gnome in general)....
excerpt from #fedora-kde:
(12:14:34 PM) npm: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445543#c20
(12:15:00 PM) npm: thanks... i'll try the startupnotify thing.
(12:24:16 PM) rdieter: fyi folks, coling asked if we could review this for
accuracy, and clarify which fedora versions apply,
http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/KDE
(12:27:48 PM) npm: rdieter -- i'll fwd link to
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/
(12:28:07 PM) npm: and thanks for reply to my comment on the bug...
(12:28:10 PM) rdieter: what's planetccrma have to do with it?
(12:28:29 PM) npm: we have issues w/ pulseaudio and a running argument about
it all the time (on LAU too)
(12:28:58 PM) npm: planetccrma distributes rpms for audio/video tools and
also a rt kernel
(12:29:23 PM) rdieter: ah, cool.
(12:29:33 PM) npm: a comment on there is actually what sent me to try KDE
(12:29:43 PM) rdieter: missed the gear switch away from talking about
startup notification. :)
(12:30:54 PM) npm: i posted
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2010-May/016881.html
(12:31:17 PM) npm: and
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2010-May/016882.htmlme…
KDE
(12:31:54 PM) npm: "On fc12 x86_64 with KDE 4.4.x and Planet CCRMA core
packages installed - a simple remove all packages except pulseaudio-libs and
pulseaudio-libs-glib2 was sufficient. On restarting KDE, KDE automatically
picked-up that the pulseaudio sound server is unavailable and asks whether
the pulseaudio configuration should be permanently removed - the answer is a
clear yes!"
Niels
http://nielsmayer.com
