On Mon, March 25, 2013 8:44 am, Stefan Stefanov wrote:
> Hi
>
> Can you suggest any console based distro optimized just for listening
> music? I don't need any sofisticated music maker software on it like
> synthesizer, filter and etc.
> May be just real-time support kernel, optimizer kernel IRQ and of
> course with JACK.
>
> I'm intending to use it as home FTP, HTTP server as well.
Just about any server is ok at streaming audio. It sounds like you are
looking at more of a server to begin with, so start with one of the
servers that come with the server apps already on it that you want. What I
don't know if where is this music coming from? Another computer? right off
the drive?
This is important, even with a lowlatency/rt kernel, if the application
you are using to listen to the music with doesn't ask for real time, there
is no need to go looking for it. Does it matter if the audio comes out of
the speakers 5 seconds later than it was played (MP3 streaming has about
this latency)? Then the OS is not important. The computer is not that
important either, anything faster than 500Mhz will probably do. For
listening (no mixing or recording), 16 bit at 48k is all you need, most
internal audio IFs will work just fine. (if it is an older ac97, don't use
44.1k)
And where is the sound going to? Speakers on the server? or are you
streaming through the network to various computers around the home?
Streaming is low cpu stuff (especially if the stream is coming from
somewhere else) , sound card may be slightly pickier.
I guess one should ask if this is more than two channels too.
The real question is what exactly are you doing with this audio wise?
--
Len Ovens
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Not this again ;)!
My apologies, but I'm searching for a distro comparable to old Arch Linux
or old Ubuntu Studio.
For another thread Gene was talking about "black magic" and indeed some
"things" are "occult" in the sense of "hidden" ;). FWIW, all ADAT channels
of my RME card, that aren't working for Linux, are working for my FreeBSD.
The Xfce menu icon of FreeBSD only, is replaced by a pentagram, for me
it's just some kind of asterisk, without any super cow powers, but perhaps
this does the magic. The next Xfce install will get the same icon ;D.
I dropped my old Arch, regarding to too many issues with the unfinished
switch to systemd.
Following the mailing list I had the impression, that the transition is
complete and that there are no serious issues any more, but trying to
install it yesterday, I suspect that mails regarding to issues simply are
rejected.
I still try to install the current Arch Linux later today, but seemingly
the transition to systemd isn't finished yet and perhaps the next wicked
transition already will be enforced in a hidden way. Just an assumption, I
don't claim that it is that way.
While my request regarding to pppoe for the install doesn't pass list
moderation, eth0 isn't up and doing it as usual doesn't work, I read rude
words about request to keep Wayland optional. It seems to be, that some
people using X anyway need to install Wayland.
Fortunately there's a German Arch Linux forum, where it's still possible
to get help, but I also need clarification in what direction Arch Linux
will go in the near future and I prefer a distro with a sane mailing list.
Debian and Ubuntu still have good mailing lists, but as for Ubuntu Studio
I have several generations installed, from 10.10 Maverick to 12.10
Quantal. The performance on my machine dramatically slows down with each
release. Quantal for some tasks already is unusable, a lot of the
non-audio desktop apps I need are buggy and this isn't an issue for my
machine, but the troubles are common, for many users.
Last time I monitored the poll the most used distros were Arch Linux and
Ubuntu Studio. Yes, that are my distros too, ok for 2012 and perhaps ok
for 2013. But how will those distros continue?
Regards,
Ralf
On Sat, March 23, 2013 9:05 am, R. Mattes wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:43:20 -0700, Len Ovens wrote
>> There is always the ugly way:
> But why so utterly complex? Just write a small script that will
> be executed by udev:
Sometimes just mentioning the most complex, ugly way of doing things gets
a response that is so much better... :)
--
Len Ovens
www.OvenWerks.net
Well, I won't be doing a presentation at LAC after all :(
I made my submission (I thought) before the cut-off, didn't think anything was
particularly odd about not getting a reply for a day or two, then went on
holiday. Came back early Sunday morning, and still no e-mails. Eventually
contacted the organisers only to find they had no record of my submission at
all, and it was now too late :((
I've no idea what went wrong, but although I'll still go as a spectator, it's
taken a bit of the shine off the event.
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
In the wake of the Bitwig demo, a LightWorks for Linux demo video was
released today:
http://youtu.be/jEJcPKD9p7A
--
Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.brettwmccoy.com
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"In the rhythm of music a secret is hidden; If I were to divulge it,
it would overturn the world."
-- Jelaleddin Rumi
On 03/23/2013 12:38 PM, Fryderyk Dziarmagowski wrote:
> Jeremy,
>
> sound like sudo is not a perfect tool for you, try
> su -l pi -c/home/pi/bin/drumpad
> instead of it.
>
> Freddy
Hello Freddy,
Thanks but unfortunately this yields the same results. Jack doesn't
start and complains that it can't run in realtime mode.
I could of course disable realtime mode but I don't want that, I need
the strict scheduling otherwise I quickly get xruns on the Raspberry Pi.
Jeremy
My name is Nicholas Schoonover and I am interested in creating a free
instrument sample library. I am in my senior year at Wayne State University
studying audio engineering. I have access to a professional studio and
basically all of the musicians in my universities orchestra, symphony
bands, jazz bands, choirs, and various small ensembles. I have talked to a
fellow student of mine who is also interested in helping out. I understand
all of the audio aspects of things, but am a little hazy on everything
else. I have a decent amount of experience for my age in recording
instrumentalists from doing audition tape work and from my schooling. I am
busy for the rest of this semester with school, internship, and job. I was
planning on starting to undergo this project over the summer when I will
have more time and the school's studio will be more available. I don't
personally use linux for much audio because I am trying to make a career
out of it, but I do use Musescore a decent amount because I find it
comparable in performance to Sibelius and Finale. Because of this, I would
love it if the sample library I create could be incorporated by Musescore.
Is there someone who is already working on a project like this who I could
help out? Any direction you could give me would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Nicholas Schoonover
On Sat, 2013-03-23 at 21:29 +0100, Ulrich-Lorenz Schlueter wrote:
> First start jackmixdesk then jackmixdesk_gtk it's a server/client
> application.
Yep, I read the message in the window. Sorry, didn't post correctly, now
I got a seg fault for jackmixdesk too.
[rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ jackmixdesk
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "./.mixdeskrc"
Document not parsed successfully.
No valid config file found, we'll create one.
Connecting to LASH...
Not sending deprecated LASH_Client_Name event
Done
Connecting to Jack...
Done
Document not parsed successfully.
No valid config file found.
LibLO server error 9904 in path (null): cannot find free port
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
---
[rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ killall jackmixdesk jackmixdesk_gtk
Got termination signal.
jackmixdesk_gtk: no process found
[rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ Quitting JackMixDesk.
killall jackmixdesk jackmixdesk_gtk
jackmixdesk: no process found
jackmixdesk_gtk: no process found
[1]+ Done jackmixdesk
[rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ jackmixdesk
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "./.mixdeskrc"
Document not parsed successfully.
No valid config file found, we'll create one.
Connecting to LASH...
Not sending deprecated LASH_Client_Name event
Done
Connecting to Jack...
Done
Document not parsed successfully.
No valid config file found.
OSC server URL: osc.udp://archlinux:16000/
[rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ jackmixdesk_gtk
Connecting to LASH...
Not sending deprecated LASH_Client_Name event
Done
Connecting to Jack...
Done
JackMixDesk_gtk
OSC server URL: osc.udp://archlinux:10079/
Another test and it runs :), but depending to the knob I move, it could
happen that other knobs do move too :(.
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