# Announcing the Unofficial Pro-Audio Arch Package Repository
(Beta Phase)
## Where?
<https://arch.osamc.de/>
## What?
An actively maintained binary package repo for Arch Linux of free and
open source pro-audio software.
The repository only provides packages that are not already in the
official Arch Linux repository.
The repository is maintained and tested for both x86_64 and aarch64
(Arch Linux ARM) architectures.
## Why?
1. We are convinced that Arch Linux is currently the best free platform
for audio production and we want to help improving it further.
2. Having more up-to-date and easy to install packages of useful audio
production software is always a good thing.
3. The pro-audio packages in the `extra` and `community` package
repositories are currently maintained by only one person. We want to
distribute the workload and spread the packing expertise between
more people and decrease the "bus-factor".
4. We want to create packages, which can eventually be migrated to the
official repositories with no or minimal changes. We do not intend
to duplicate the packaging efforts from the official repos.
## How?
See the web site for instructions on how to add the repository to your
Arch System (or derivatives). The repository is also listed on the
[Unofficial user repositories] page on the Arch Wiki.
We are still stabilizing the build process and packaging conventions.
While this is going on, we consider the repository to be in a *Beta
quality stage*. We currently have around two dozen projects packaged and
ready to install and plan to add many more over time.
We try to announce important changes on IRC (`#archlinux-proaudio` on
`irc.libera.chat`) and always keep the information on the Arch Wiki page
up to date.
**Note:** *Our build process is currently not based on the official Arch
Linux `devtools`, but we adhere strictly to the Arch Packaging
guidelines and test all package builds via our CI. With the Arch
Packaging infrastructure expected to evolve significantly in the near
future, we plan to adapt our tooling to whatever the outcome of that
will be.
## Contributing
Contributions are welcome! To suggest software for inclusion in the repo
open a GitHub issue.
### PKGBUILD and CI Code Repository and Issue Tracker:
https://github.com/osam-cologne/archlinux-proaudio
### Team-Chat
Discussion and coordination of the project happens on the Sonoj Rocket
Chat instance. If you are interested in helping out or have questions or
suggestions, join the general chat room (no registration required,
English):
<https://chat.sonoj.org/channel/english>
[Unofficial user repositories]:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unofficial_user_repositories#proaudio
Ladies and Gentlemen,
hereby the Laborejo Software Suite announces a feature-release.
You can now download Agordejo in version 0.4.0
https://laborejo.org/downloads/agordejo-0.4.0.tar.gz
Signature : https://laborejo.org/downloads/agordejo-0.4.0.tar.gz.sig
All software is released under GPLv3.
Agordejo (Esperanto: 'place to set things up') is a music production session manager.
It is used to start your programs, remember their (JACK) interconnections and make
your life easier in general. It does not re-invent the wheel but instead uses the
New-Session-Manager daemon and enhances it with some tricks of its own, that always
remain 100% compatible with the original sessions.
Changelog Highlights:
* Initial startup-check for old $HOME session root vs new XDG root. (nsm 1.6.0)
* Offers to move the session files to the new location.
* Support nsmd 1.6.0 lockfiles. Older nsmd versions still work.
* On startup give a choice to connect to an already running session (nsmd 1.6.0)
* Remove internal program- and icon-database and replace with dynamic XDG based lookup.
* pyxdg >=0.27 is now a dependency https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pyxdg/
* Add a nsm-data desktop file with nsm tags and "no-display", so it can be found by Agordejo.
You can find all releases as sources here.
https://laborejo.org/downloads
Also check your distribution for packages in a few days after this announcement, please.
For more information, a multi-language user manual, build instructions
and git access please visit
https://www.laborejo.org/agordejo
P.S. New Session Manager also had a new release today:
https://jackaudio.org/news/2022/04/15/new-session-manager-v160.html
Greetings,
Laborejo Software Suite
https://www.laborejo.org
Ladies and Gentlemen, dear distribution packagers,
hereby the Laborejo Software Suite releases maintenance updates for the following programs:
Laborejo 2.0.3, Fluajho 1.7.2 and Patroneo 2.3.1
Besides some bugfixes there are two noteworhty changes:
1) They all require our new C library https://git.laborejo.org/lss/libcalfbox-lss , which was released today as well.
2) Added X-NSM-Capable=True and X-NSM-Exec to their .desktop files, so they can be found by supporting NSM GUIs.
Signed source-downloads can be found here: https://laborejo.org/downloads/
More information about the programs and full multi-language manuals can be found on the website
https://www.laborejo.org/
Greetings,
Laborejo Software Suite
Hello LAUs,
just a service message on subscribing to the ML.
I joined via the web interface [1]. It took some time for the
subscription to be effective (filled the form on March 22 – I received
the confirmation around April 4).
This message is just to point $listmaster (not sure if they received my
messages) that maybe antispam filters/ procedures are a bit too tight!
To everyone else: I am happy to be back, I recall some nice tracks
being posted to this list
—F
[1] https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev/
Hello,
I am looking for aeolus organ compilations from others (
http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/aeolus).
Do any of you know instruments/sounds created with it, or have created some
yourself? I already know the Kerry201118 from Organnery.
Thank you very much.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Christian Hofmann
Bad Nauheimer Str. 28
99947 Bad Langensalza
E-Mail: christian-hofmann(a)mailbox.org
Internet: https://christian-hofmann.eu
Hi, there!
If you enjoy linux audio and wanna help someone (and his family) leaving
Putin's Russia, this one might be interesting for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Nnr5wPxvM
Peace!
Mitsch
Hello all,
I know this might be a weird place to ask, but thought some of you may
have some insight. I'm setting up four raspberry pis for an installation
to just loop through videos on four TVs with vlc and openbox.
Do you think I could set up the image on one pi, and then clone them on
other sd cards for the other 3 pis? There should be no issues with doing
that, right?, especially since I don't plan on giving them internet
access. The pis all have the same size sd card too, making this even
easier. I think I'm just going to throw 32-bit arch linux arm one of the
pis, set one up the way I want, and then clone them for the other pis.
Thank you very much for your help and input,
Brandon Hale