My home stereo is a pretty old-fashioned thing, and mostly I like it
that way -- I have a record player that's a bit older than me, a CD
player and amp about a decade old, and a couple of speakers.
Occasionally I plug in a portable mp3 player.
But I wouldn't mind adding some sort of "proper" box that can play
audio files from hard disc. I suppose I want something that looks and
operates much like a hi-fi component but that is just a PC on the
inside. It must have its own storage, and not just expect to stream
from another computer; must have a display on the front, and not just
expect to be connected to a screen; should be mains-powered and quiet;
CD-style transport buttons and some sort of selector dial on the front
would be nice, rather than requiring a remote; wireless networking
would be nice too; CD drive for ripping handy but inessential.
Questions:
0. This must exist already as a consumer product, right? Where can I buy one?
1. Can anyone point me to a small PC case that could be used to build one?
2. What would you use to play audio files (gaplessly) using a
dedicated LCD display as the user interface, on Linux?
3. Any thoughts on soundcard hardware for a device like this?
The Brennan JB7 player (http://www.brennan.co.uk/) is not far off the
sort of thing I'd like, but it has no networking (copying from USB
drives only).
This case: http://www.origenae.co.kr/en/htpc_m10.htm looks like a
smart place to start, but no controls except a hugely overspecified
remote -- obviously for home theatre rather than just audio -- and
expensive for something that isn't really ideal.
Any ideas?
Chris
JACK NetSource GUI is renamed to JACK Network Manager (jack-netmanager-gtk), since jack_netsource is only a command line front-end for jack netmanager module.
Changes:
- Name changed from jack-netsource-gui to jack-netmanager-gtk (humany name - JACK Network Manager), since jack_netsource is just a wrapper, controlling jack "netmanager" module.
- Presets support, deprecating creation of script with tray support, due to ability to reuse ordinary scripts by JACK Network Manager itself. During of preset saving name is requested and approriate script is stored in presets directory.
- Ability to start sources at LADISH rooms.
- ladish_launch is deprecated. ladish_control snewapp and rnewapp commands used instead.
- Improved desktop launcher
- New system tray icons; added application icon, unwantedly removed from 0.2.2
- Fixed help text
- Options for jack_netsource from various jack versions are stored in separated file now
- Internationalization of bash scripts through gettext
- Build system improvements: all text files are configured - e.g., instalation prefix now is working. Configured files are stored into separate build directory, which is autonomous and can be distributed. Also, uninstalation is available.
- Internationalization improvements: added update-locales script, which updates template with translations at once, and localization of bash scripts through gettext.
Note for distribution maintainers: if you place menu items for special audio software into extra submenus inside standart Audio menu, it would be nice to have JACK Network Manager item in one place with QJackNet (at least) and QJackCtl.
And create dummy jack-netsource-gui package for smooth upgrade.
Page at GTK-Apps: http://gtk-apps.org/content/show.php/JACK+Network+Manager?content=122327
Latest screenshot is third.
Does anybody know about free collection of high quality live sounds? Saying
"high quality", I mean good and short mics - tube-micamp - adc chain with
minimal or zero postprocessing. Saying "live sounds" I mean something as
simple as winecup boom, moving nail across guitar bass string wound, match
igniting, different small bells, door squeak, tree squeak, midge cheep and so
on :-)
I see, I can record all these myself, but my mics and micamp are far from be
the best.
Andrew
Hi
I have lot's of broken -dev packages (refusing to install) in my ubuntu
system:
atte@vestbjerg:~$ sudo apt-get install libgtkmm-2.4-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libgtkmm-2.4-dev: Depends: libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a (= 1:2.20.2-1) but
1:2.20.3-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.20.0) but it is not
going to be installed
Depends: libglibmm-2.4-dev (>= 2.24.0) but it is
not going to be installed
Depends: libatk1.0-dev (>= 1.12.0) but it is not
going to be installed
Depends: libcairomm-1.0-dev (>= 1.2.2) but it is
not going to be installed
Depends: libpangomm-1.4-dev (>= 2.26.0) but it is
not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
Am I doing something wrong or missing something?
--
Atte
http://atte.dkhttp://modlys.dk
Hi
A quick reminder of tomorrow's free sonic event at Access Space.
best
Jake
SONIC EVENT 1
Friday 23rd of July 2010 6.00pm - 9.00pm @ Access Space - FREE
Facebook event http://tinyurl.com/35bd76l
Performances by artists in and around the South Yorkshire region using
Open Source software and recycled technology:
Alo Allik - f(x) - an audiovisual exploration of 3-dimensional
continuous spatial functions using SuperCollider and OpenGL
http://tehis.net
Neal Spowage - Ghetto Bastard - a performance with recycled
technology: a bastardised radio cassette player utilising radio
static, interference, body resistance, acoustic feedback and
mechanical noise.
www.nealspowage.com
Monika Dutta and David Mutch - Kindle - performance premier of
new work created with Pure Data, video and live animation inspired by
climatic concerns, alternative energy and the light and vistas of
East Yorkshire's coastal region.
www.foggedfilm.org
Access Space, 3-7 Sidney St, Sheffield S1 4RG, UK
Reg. Charity 1103837
t: 0114 249 5522
w:www.access-space.org
e: jake(a)access-space.org
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council England.
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Hey All,
Thanks for the help with recording, they are on youtube!
http://www.youtube.com/user/MrLokiMissSeraphim
I've finally got VLC to work recording the videos, audio with straight
alsa, then mencoder to convert. I need to start recording them in the
correct aspect ratio for youtube though!
Next challenge, multi-track audio with ardour synced to multitrack
video and mix between the different videos of each instrument. Any
hints on an NLE?
Loki
I have now been initiated into the world of jack and qsynth and was wondering if there was a way to assign the knobs on my el cheapo M-Audio Keyrig 25 to move the corresponding knobs on the qsynth gui. Sort of a 'midi learn' function.
Hey guys!
I just discovered the Wired project. I think I've seen their site before but
looked at it just now and installed it on my Ubuntu Jaunty (they have the
9.04 deb).
What can I say?
A pity. A pity that such a promising project, with beautiful GUI and
seemingly a pretty solid workflow is dead. In fact, I am surprised that less
appealing projects get developed while such a great Reason alternative which
could solve many people's problems is just sitting there.
I poked around it, but nothing seems to work. Somewhere it is mentioned that
JACK should be supported, but it does not give me jack in the list of
devices. It does give ALSA but on my rt kernel it doesn't glitch only on the
maximum buffer (frames) setting, somewhere beyond 4000, giving a pretty
large latency, unusable basically. I tried it again and later could get
better latency though I chose same options. Needs researching.
There seems to be a piano roll, but I could not yet figure out how it works.
The drum machine works well, both samplers seem to work ok too, though what
they play does not get synced to the drum machine or maybe I just did
something wrong.
Anyway.
If I had any resources, I would put them to work on Wired. I mean, it looks
great. Even their logo is super nice. Designers behind the team were really
talented. Who thinks the way I do?
--
Louigi Verona
http://www.louigiverona.ru/
http://jtauber.com/blog/2010/07/19/czerny/
Czerny, named after Carl Czerny—the Austrian composer and piano
teacher, is a early-stage Python project for assessing the performance
of piano pieces.
The idea came when I was doing Charles-Louis Hanon's Virtuoso Pianist
exercises. My thought was that it would be nice if a program compared
my performance with the score and indicated not only mistakes, but
deviations in velocity and timing.
--
A. C. Censi
accensi [em] gmail [ponto] com
accensi [em] montreal [ponto] com [ponto] br
something arisen during development of http://github.com/jwm-art-net/BoxySeqhttp://jwm-art.net/art/audio/approaching.ogg
made 2 and a half weeks ago.
development is stalling over transport/timebase issues.
anyway i think it demonstrates some interesting and/or nice sequences
can arise from the concept of boxyseq.
once it has a graphical user interface, more sophisticated
compositions would be possible.
james.