From jrobbins at nymu.net  Wed Sep  1 08:19:14 2004
From: jrobbins at nymu.net (jrobbins at nymu.net)
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 06:19:14 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] Introducing Soundtank 1.0.0 !!
Message-ID: <50478.141.157.194.161.1094041154.squirrel@www.nymu.net>



Greetings,

I have released a first version of my LADSPA host Soundtank which
holds instruments for you to play.

The project website is <a
href="http://www.nymu.net/soundtank">www.nymu.net/soundtank</a>

In this program, you can use any LADSPA plugin with a pitch control as
a softsynth; multiple instances handle polyphony and MIDI control is
handled through user-customizeable Event Maps. As a perk, I have
included a command to automatically create Event Maps, ensuring you
instant gratification.

Soundtank is a shell for audio work. Instead of a directory heirarchy,
Signal Path objects hold other objects in ordered lists. The order
dictates the audio signal flow. There are alternate versions of the
shell commands you are familiar with, such as: ls, cd, rm, mv. This
should make it easy to learn to use.

This is a native ALSA app, with full duplex support in JACK, and an
ALSA Sequencer MIDI port is created for every active object. All audio
generation/filtering is handled by LADSPA plugins. Furthermore,
objects are saved to human readable, flat-file format XML files.

To see more, go to <a
href="http://www.nymu.net/soundtank">www.nymu.net/soundtank</a>


thanks and best wishes,

--jacob



From tszilagyi at users.sourceforge.net  Fri Sep  3 15:02:30 2004
From: tszilagyi at users.sourceforge.net (Tom Szilagyi)
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 21:02:30 +0200
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Aqualung,
	a new music player for GNU/Linux
Message-ID: <20040903190230.GA19027@cora>

Hi all,


I am pleased to announce the first beta release
(and the first public release, as well) of

	Aqualung, a music player for GNU/Linux
	--------------------------------------

Homepage: http://aqualung.sf.net


Aqualung is a new music player for the GNU/Linux operating system.
It plays audio files from your filesystem and has the feature of
inserting _no_gaps_ between adjacent tracks.

Aqualung is released under the GNU General Public License.


Features at a glance
====================

Supported file formats:

* Almost all sample-based, uncompressed formats (eg. WAV, AIFF, AU
  etc.), files encoded with FLAC (the Free Lossless Audio Codec), Ogg
  Vorbis and MPEG Audio files (including, but not limited to, MP3) are
  supported. Naturally, any of these files can be mono or stereo.


Supported output devices:

* OSS and ALSA driver interface, as well as support for connecting to
  the JACK Audio Connection Kit.


Key features:

* Continuous, gap-free playback of consecutive tracks! Your ears get
  exactly what is in the files -- no silence inserted in between.

* Ability to convert sample rates between the input file and the
  output device, in high quality. (Thanks to libsamplerate!)

* LADSPA plugin support -- you can use any suitable LADSPA plugin to
  enhance the music you are listening to.


Some other niceties:

* Internally working volume and balance controls (not touching the
  soundcard mixer).

* Support for multiple skins; changing them is possible at any time.

* Support for random seeking during playback.

* Track repeat, List repeat and Shuffle mode (besides normal playback)

* All windows are sizable. You can stretch the main window
  horizontally for more accurate seeking.

* State persistence via XML config files. Aqualung will come up in the
  same state as it was when you closed it, including playback modes,
  volume & balance settings, currently processing LADSPA plugins,
  window sizes, positions & visibility, and other miscellaneous
  options.


In addition to all this, Aqualung comes with a Music Store that is an
XML-based music database, capable of storing various metadata about
music on your computer (including, but not limited to, the names of
artists, and the titles of records and tracks). This is much more
efficient than the all-in-one Winamp/XMMS playlist.


Hope you will like this program. Please report any problems.


Tom


From rncbc at rncbc.org  Sat Sep  4 10:52:56 2004
From: rncbc at rncbc.org (Rui Nuno Capela)
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 15:52:56 +0100 (WEST)
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] qjackctl 0.2.10 released!
Message-ID: <33068.192.168.1.8.1094309576.squirrel@192.168.1.8>

Hi everybody,

After the holiday season, and late for the 1st anniversary, here comes
another dot release for QjackCtl, the Qt GUI for the JACK Audio Connection
Kit:

Qjackctl 0.2.10 is out, with some minor enhancements and fixes.

>From the change log:

- New pre-shutdown script setup option, allowing to specify a shell-script
to be run before the JACK server daemon is shutted-down. This overrides
any previous shutdown script setting, which should be now moved onto the
existing post-shutdown script option, as to keep old procedural behaviour.

- Avoid stopping JACK prematurely with QProcess::kill() (oneliner fix);
stopping JACK will now take a little bit longer, but hopefully will take
the time to cleanup properly (thanks to Kjetil Matheussen).

- ALSA driver Duplex mode accepts alternate Input or Output device name.

- Context menu reset option is now always enabled (yet another suggestion
from Sampo Savolainen).

- Main display background gets shinny effect; adjusted system tray
background palette color mode.

- Priority and setup control is now a spinbox ranging from 0..89 (as
suggested by Florian Schmidt). Same for Periods/Buffer.

- Patchbay connection lines are now drawn correctly when items are
scrolled out of view. Additionally, the connection lines can now be
optionally drawn as bezier spline curves (big thanks to Wilfried Huss).

Just head to the homepage:

    http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net

or, in case that's not up-to-date yet, to sourceforge's project page:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl

Hope you enjoy.
-- 
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc at rncbc.org



From S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk  Tue Sep  7 06:33:52 2004
From: S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Steve Harris)
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 11:33:52 +0100
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Timemachine 0.2.5
Message-ID: <20040907103352.GD17698@login.ecs.soton.ac.uk>

http://plugin.org.uk/timemachine/

Timemachine is a JACK app for recording sounds that have just happened.
It can also be used as a generic JACK sound recorder. Read the website for
more retails.

Changes
 * Now builds properly without LASH installed (thanks to Joern Nettingsmeier)
 * Can specify recording format on command line (wav or w64)
 * Filename extension reflects the format (ie .w64 to help user confusion)
 * Can specify ports to connect to on the command line
 * Desktop icon (thanks to Anarcat) pixmaps/timemachine-icon.png

Known Bugs / Omisions
 * There is a race condition - locks up the app, but recordings are OK.
   Not fixed, as I dont understand the problem fully, and I've not
   received a patch for it.
 * TM wont auto-connect to JACK hardware capture ports, I've had one
   request for this, but dont care enough to add it right now.

- Steve


From conrad at metadecks.org  Wed Sep  8 01:23:04 2004
From: conrad at metadecks.org (Conrad Parker)
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 15:23:04 +1000
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] liboggz 0.8.4 Released
Message-ID: <20040908052304.GA27673@vergenet.net>

Oggz 0.8.4 Release
------------------

liboggz is a C library providing a simple programming interface for reading
and writing Ogg files and streams. Ogg is an interleaving data container
developed by Monty at Xiph.Org, originally to support the Ogg Vorbis audio
format.

This release is available as a source tarball at:

http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/download/liboggz-0.8.4.tar.gz

New in this release:

	* added support for building on Symbian OS (by Colin Ward)
	* new OGGZ_ERR_IO_AGAIN handling for network reads
	* added test for reading packets one-by-one
	* expanded --help output for oggzdump tool
	* added option to run test suite under valgrind

Additionally, a thorough audit of memory leaks has been completed and
various minor bugs have been fixed.

About Oggz
----------

Oggz comprises liboggz and the command-line tools oggzdump and oggzdiff.

liboggz supports the flexibility afforded by the Ogg file format while
presenting the following API niceties:

	* Full API documentation.

	* Comprehensive test suite of read, write and seeking behavior.

	* Developed and tested on GNU/Linux, Darwin/MacOSX, Win32 and
	Symbian OS. May work on other Unix-like systems via GNU autoconf.
	For Win32: nmake Makefiles, Visual Studio .NET 2003 solution files
	and Visual C++ 6.0 workspace files are provided in the source
	distribution.

	* Strict adherence to the formatting requirements of Ogg bitstreams,
	to ensure that only valid bitstreams are generated; writes can fail
	if you try to write illegally structured packets.

	* A simple, callback based open/read/close or open/write/close
	interface to raw Ogg files.

	* Writing automatically interleaves with packet queuing, and provides	
	callback based notification when this queue is empty

	* A customisable seeking abstraction for seeking on multitrack Ogg
	data. Seeking works easily and reliably on multitrack and multi-codec
	streams, and can transparently parse Theora, Speex, Vorbis and Annodex
	headers  without requiring linking to those libraries. This allows
	efficient use on servers and other devices that need to parse and
	seek within Ogg files, but do not need to do a full media decode.

Full documentation of the liboggz API, customization and installation,
and mux and demux examples can be read online at:

    http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/html/

Tools
-----

The Oggz source tarball also contains the following command-line tools,
which are useful for debugging and testing Ogg bitstreams:

	* oggzdump: Hexdump packets of an Ogg file, or revert an Ogg file
	from such a hexdump.

	* oggzdiff: Hexdump the packets of two Ogg files and output
	differences Oggz is Free Software, available under a BSD-style
	license.

License
-------

Oggz is Free Software, available under a BSD style license.

More information is available online at the Oggz homepage:

    http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/

enjoy :)

--
Conrad Parker
Senior Software Engineer, Continuous Media Web, CSIRO Australia
http://www.annodex.net/   http://www.ict.csiro.au/cmweb/


From acominu at tiscali.it  Thu Sep  9 07:14:33 2004
From: acominu at tiscali.it (Comix)
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 13:14:33 +0200
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Hydrogen v0.9.0 Released
Message-ID: <200409091314.34022.acominu@tiscali.it>

Hydrogen 0.9.0 is out! :)

Features:
__General__
 * Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based 
on QT 3.
 * Sample-based stereo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au 
and .aiff formats.
 * Support of samples in compressed FLAC file.
 
__Sequencer and mixer__
 * Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to 
chain patterns into a song.
 * Up to 64 ticks per pattern with individual level per event and variable 
pattern length.
 * 32 instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities.
 * Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples for each instrument).
 * Ability to import/export song files.
 * Unique human velocity, human time and swing functions.
 * Multiple patterns playing at once.

__Other__
 * OSS and Jack audio drivers, with assignable Jack ports.
 * ALSA MIDI input with assignable midi-in channel (1..16, ALL).
 * Import/export of drumkits.
 * Export song to wav file.
 * Export song to midi file.


Changes:
 * Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples).
 * Multiple patterns playing at once.
 * Added FLAC files support for songs and drumkits.
 * Added pitch and gain properties per instrument.
 * Improved song and pattern editor (selections, copy/move, etc..).
 * Added a new selectable user interface (single panel).
 * Better jack-transport support.
 * Ability to set the note length in pattern editor
 * Export song to standard midi file


Download:
? http://hydrogen.sourceforge.net

Happy drumming! :^)
-- 
Alessandro <Comix> Cominu

http://hydrogen.sf.net
e-mail: comix at despammed.com
Icq: 116354077
Linux User # 203765
[...Codito Ergo Sum...]



From Diemo.Schwarz at ircam.fr  Fri Sep 10 12:25:49 2004
From: Diemo.Schwarz at ircam.fr (Diemo Schwarz)
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:25:49 +0200
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] jMax-SDIF 0.8 released
Message-ID: <4141D58D.6050809@ircam.fr>


Hello all,

I just finished the jMax-SDIF package version 0.8 for jMax 4.1 CVS.
You can now import SDIF files into a track of matrices, and export a track to 
SDIF.  There is also an sdifinfo object that reads and outputs information 
about the contents of an SDIF file.

Download:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=26076&package_id=106205

SDIF is the Sound Description Interchange Format, see
http://www.ircam.fr/sdif and the freesoftware wiki 
http://freesoftware.ircam.fr/wiki/index.php?pagename=HomePage.

Cheers...
								...Diemo


--
Diemo Schwarz  --  http://www.ircam.fr/anasyn/schwarz
Analysis-Synthesis Team  --  http://www.ircam.fr/anasyn
Real Time Applications Team  --  http://www.ircam.fr/equipes/temps-reel
IRCAM - Centre Pompidou  --  1, place Igor-Stravinsky, 75004 Paris, France
Phone +33-1-4478-4879 / -4824 / -1558 /  Fax -1540

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From rncbc at rncbc.org  Fri Sep 10 12:34:14 2004
From: rncbc at rncbc.org (Rui Nuno Capela)
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:34:14 +0100 (WEST)
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] qjackctl 0.2.11 released!
Message-ID: <33103.192.168.1.5.1094834054.squirrel@192.168.1.5>

Hi,

Just less than a week after some user complaints about that glossy-glass
light effect featured on the front panel display, here comes a couple of
fixes that were made into this rather minor dot release.

Now's the perfect time for a recommended upgrade: qjackctl 0.2.11 is here,
grab it from:

   http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl

Simply as is, as taken from the changelog:

* Fixed Input/Output channels settings, being now either enabled when the
ALSA driver is selected for Capture/Playback only.

* Shiny display effect: after some conservative user complaints this pure
cosmetic feature is now made optional ;)

Enjoy.
-- 
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc at rncbc.org



From drobilla at connect.carleton.ca  Mon Sep 13 01:45:01 2004
From: drobilla at connect.carleton.ca (Dave Robillard)
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 01:45:01 -0400
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Patchage 0.0.3 Released
Message-ID: <1095054301.11891.3.camel@DaveDesk>

Patchage is a modular patch bay for jack (and soon alsa sequencer)

More information, downloads, and a screenshot at
http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~drobilla/patchage

-DR-



From drobilla at connect.carleton.ca  Mon Sep 13 21:55:27 2004
From: drobilla at connect.carleton.ca (Dave Robillard)
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:55:27 -0400
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Patchage 0.0.4 Released
Message-ID: <1095126927.5238.2.camel@DaveDesk>

Patchage is a modular patch bay for jack (and soon alsa sequencer)

This release fixes glaringly obvious bugs, 0.0.3 is broken.  Also, you
can now run patchage without installing (in the src directory).

Thanks to Steve Harris and pasp at ll.pl for pointing out said bugs.

More information, downloads, and a screenshot at
http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~drobilla/patchage


-DR-



From S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk  Tue Sep 14 13:31:20 2004
From: S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Steve Harris)
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 18:31:20 +0100
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Prerelease of libgdither 0.2 dithering
	library
Message-ID: <20040914173119.GH13919@login.ecs.soton.ac.uk>

Invitation for testing and API comments.

http://plugin.org.uk/libgdither/


Libgdither is a GPL'd library library for performing audio dithering on
PCM samples. The dithering process should be carried out before reducing
the bit width of PCM audio data (eg. float to 16 bit int conversions) to
preserve audio quality.

It can do conversions between any combination of:

in                              out (optionally interleaved)
-------------------------------------------------------------
normalised mono float           8bit unsigned ints
normalised mono double          16bit signed ints
                                32bit signed ints
                                normalised float
                                normalised double

At any bitdepth supported by the input and output formats


Instructions for testing are in
http://plugin.org.uk/libgdither/TESTING

Basic docs can be found in
http://plugin.org.uk/libgdither/libgdither-0.2/gdither.h

Examples of use can be found in
http://plugin.org.uk/libgdither/libgdither-0.2/examples/ex1.c

Comments welcome,
   Steve


From taybin at earthlink.net  Sun Sep 19 10:49:01 2004
From: taybin at earthlink.net (Taybin Rutkin)
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:49:01 -0400
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Jack Audio Connection Kit 0.98.16
	Release
Message-ID: <414D9C5D.5030905@earthlink.net>

JACK RELEASE 0.98.16

JACK is a low-latency audio server, written primarily for the GNU/Linux
operating system. It can connect a number of different applications to
an audio device, as well as allowing them to share audio between
themselves. Its clients can run in their own processes (ie. as normal
applications), or can they can run within the JACK server (ie. as a
"plugin").

JACK is different from other audio server efforts in that it has been
designed from the ground up to be suitable for professional audio work.
This means that it focuses on two key areas: synchronous execution of
all clients, and low latency operation.

JACK is available at http://jackit.sf.net

--CHANGES--

Buffer resizing enabled by default.
Added jack_ringbuffer_peak() to API.
Added jack_last_frame_time() to API.
--verbose will print the maximum usecs used on jackd termination.
Better compatibility with NPTL.
--version output changed for easier parsing.
New --unlock/-u option so that large libraries (gtk, qt, fltk, wine) 
aren't memlocked.
Jack's tmp files now have the uid appended to them, so if there is a 
crash, and then another user tries to use jack, it will still work.
New jack_create_thread() cleans up threading for portability.  Available 
for use by jack clients too.
New CoreAudio driver from the Jackosx project included in jack tree.
Prettier configure output.

and of course, updated documentation, better error reporting, and misc 
internal fixes and cleanups.


From taybin at earthlink.net  Sun Sep 19 10:53:26 2004
From: taybin at earthlink.net (Taybin Rutkin)
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:53:26 -0400
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] Jack Release Announcement update
Message-ID: <414D9D66.1070907@earthlink.net>

The release number is actually 0.99.0.

Jack's website is at http://jackit.sf.net.

Taybin


From info at miu-ft.org  Tue Sep 21 12:33:31 2004
From: info at miu-ft.org (Media Innovation Unit - Firenze Tecnologia)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:33:31 +0200
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] Media Innovation Unit Workshops at Firenze
	World Vision Information for streaming
Message-ID: <87d60fvaxw.fsf@perchetopi.org>

+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
|           __  __   ___   _   _           _____   _____             |
|          |  \/  | |_ _| | | | |         |  ___| |_   _|            |
|          | |\/| |  | |  | | | |  _____  | |_      | |              |
|          | |  | |  | |  | |_| | |_____| |  _|     | |              |
|          |_|  |_| |___|  \___/          |_|       |_|              |
|                                                                    |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+

   [ Apologies for cross-posting.  Feel free to forward around ]

Florence, 21 September 2004

+++ Media Innovation Unit Workshops at Firenze World Vision 
    Information for streaming

On Sep 23/24/25, 2004, Media Innovation Unit - Firenze Tecnologia will
host  three workshops (on  "Audio/Video streaming with Free Software",
"Custom Debian Distributions" and "Migrating to Free Software") during
Firenze World Vision 2004, which will be held in Florence (Italy).

It will be possible to remotely follow the workshops connecting to:

http://stream.bononia.it:8000/miu-fwv04.ogg

starting from 9:00 a.m.

During all seminars an IRC channel (server: irc.freenode.net, channel:
#miu-fwv04) will be open, where you will be able to ask your questions
to the speakers.

Special thanks to the Bononia  team (http://www.bononia.it/) for their
technical support and for offering otheir bandwidth.

All    presentations   will be given   in   the  english language.  An
italian-english translation  service  will be  available  for  the Q&A
session, after each talk.

Further information on the workshop will be published on:

http://www.miu-ft.org/what/events/20040923.fwv.str/

For more details, feel free to contact:

Nicola Giosmin	  <n.giosmin at miu.firenzetecnologia.it>

and/or our office in Florence:

Media Innovation Unit - Firenze Tecnologia
Borgo Albizi 15/a
50122 Firenze
Italy

Tel. no: +39 055 2001561
Fax. no: +39 055 2345762


+++

About Firenze Tecnologia: Firenze Tecnologia is  the special agency of
the Chamber of Commerce of Florence  devoted to study and facilitation
of technological innovation  in the florentinian  and tuscanian areas.
Please check: <http://www.firenzetecnologia.it/>.

About Media Innovation Unit:   Media Innovation Unit is  the  research
unit  of Firenze  Tecnologia,  devoted  to  research,  development and
promotion  of Free Software,  Libre  Content,  Open  Networks and  New
Media.

About Firenze  World Vision: Firenze  World Vision is  the event which
annually gathers the  protagonists of  innovation and of  contemporary
communication  processes, who compare  their  "visions" of the future.
Firenze World  Vision deals with theory  and practice,  with ideas and
products, with global change and  the ways our  daily life is going to
change, well aware that the keys to read the contemporary world can be
found only through a multiform approach, without preconstituted views.
Please check: <http://www.firenzeworldvision.it/>.


From garrison at case.edu  Sat Sep 25 14:20:54 2004
From: garrison at case.edu (Jim Garrison)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 14:20:54 -0400
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] ANNOUNCE: Gnomoradio 0.14.1
Message-ID: <1096136453.21210.78.camel@ibook>

Gnomoradio is a peer to peer music playing system, based on Creative
Commons licenses.  It has the ability to find, share, recommend, and
play songs that are freely available.

Version 0.14 migrates audio output to libao and closes the audio device
when music is paused.  It also has an improved http server, and it can
now download songs without RDF descriptions.

Version 0.14.1 fixes a bug that some people were experiencing
downloading files, and it fixes a few bugs when scanning all local music
on startup.

Web site: http://gnomoradio.org/
Screenshots: http://gnomoradio.org/screenshots/
Source: http://gnomoradio.org/pub/devel/gnomoradio-0.14.1.tar.bz2





From Dr.Graef at t-online.de  Mon Sep 27 09:18:14 2004
From: Dr.Graef at t-online.de (Albert Graef)
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:18:14 +0200
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Q multimedia examples released
Message-ID: <41581316.4060202@t-online.de>

Q is a functional programming language based on the term rewriting 
calculus, see http://q-lang.sourceforge.net for details. This release 
provides a collection of sample multimedia programs written with Q:

- QAudioPlayer, an audio player with waveform and FFT display
- QMidiCC, a MidiShare patchbay and transport control
- QMidiPlayer, a MidiShare-based MIDI player
- QSCSynth, a GUI frontend for SuperCollider

These programs also demonstrate how to embed a Q application in a KDE/Qt 
GUI. A recent KDE version is required (3.2 has been tested). And you'll 
need the Q core and multimedia packages, of course.

Descriptions, screenshots and download links can be found here:
http://q-lang.sourceforge.net/examples.html

Download, for the impatient:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=96881&package_id=130902

Besides this, there are also new releases of Q-Audio (which now uses 
PortAudio v19, with support for Alsa and Jack) and Q-Synth (fixes for 
compatibility with recent SuperCollider versions in CVS). Moreover, FC1 
and SuSE 9.1 RPMs for PortAudio v19 and SuperCollider are now also 
available for your convenience. See 
http://q-lang.sourceforge.net/download.html

Enjoy!

-- 
Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
Email:  Dr.Graef at t-online.de, ag at muwiinfa.geschichte.uni-mainz.de
WWW:    http://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-mainz.de/~ag


From info at agnula.org  Thu Sep 30 11:58:04 2004
From: info at agnula.org (The AGNULA Team)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:58:04 +0200
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] AGNUlL/DeMuDi 1.2.0 IS OUT
Message-ID: <87655vu4tv.fsf@agnula.org>

+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
|                  ______ ______  _     _ _                       |
|            /\   / _____)  ___ \| |   | | |        /\            |
|           /  \ | /  ___| |   | | |   | | |       /  \           |
|          / /\ \| | (___) |   | | |   | | |      / /\ \          |
|         | |__| | \____/| |   | | |___| | |_____| |__| |         |
|         |______|\_____/|_|   |_|\______|_______)______|         |
|                                                                 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+

     [Sorry for cross-posting.  Feel free to forward around]

Florence, 30/09/2004

AGNULA/DeMuDI 1.2.0,  the    Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution   for
audio, has been released.

This release   is  first  the  1.2.x  series  , which   sports tighter
integration with Debian, using the Sarge  Debian Installer and the CDD
(Custom Debian Distributions) framework.

Instructions on how to download and install it can be found here:

  http://www.agnula.org/download/demudi/demudi_1_2_0_iso

and a list of frequently asked questions here:

  http://www.agnula.org/download/demudi/1.2.0-FAQ

The available packages along with their versions can be checked here:

  http://apt.agnula.org/demudi/indices/Available

Highlights:

- Installer
	* Running apt-get update in case network is available

- Configuration:
	* Added a cfengine script to properly set /dev/dsp /dev/dsp0 /dev/dsp1
	  /dev/dsp2 /dev/dsp3 and /dev/mixers* links and permissions
	* Added the aadebug test script
	* Added cfengine script to turn on vim syntax highlighting by default

- Kernel:
	* Applied i2c and lm-sensors patches

- Menus:
	* Added missing menu entry for Gnome Wave Cleaner in Sound/DSP
	* Moved Cantus from Compression/Tag to Editors/Tag
	* Added icons to most of the menu entries

- Applications:
	* Added gtkguitune to the DSP task
	* Added lm-sensors and sensord to the packages installed by default 
	* Added GEM to the Synthesis task
	* Added vim-gtk to the default packages of a X enabled installation
	* Added libmidi-perl to the MIDI task
	* Added xemacs and emacs
	* Removed gimp to make some room for kernel-source

- Artwork
	* Minor change to linuxlogo banners that you'll never even notice.
	* Added Baroque fluxbox style
	* Removed Classical style as it's a duplication of Romantic
	* Updated Romantic fluxbox style to make use of fbsetbg and made
	  menu font small

Feel free report all bugs,  requests, criticisms using our development
portal [0].

Instructions on how to report bugs and requests are available here:

  http://www.agnula.org/development/agnula_bugs_requests/

We hope you enjoy AGNULA/DeMuDi!  For any information, do not hesitate
to contact us writing to:

<info at agnula.org>

And/or visiting our web site, http://www.agnula.org/.

+++

About AGNULA:   Agnula (acronym for   A  GNU/Linux Audio distribution,
pronounced with a strong  g) is  the name of   a project funded  until
April  2004  by    the   European  Commission   (number  of  contract:
IST-2001-34879; key action IV.3.3, Free Software: towards the critical
mass).  After the end of the funded period,  AGNULA is continuing as a
volunteer   based project,  aiming  to  spread Libre  Software in  the
professional audio/video arena.

Best regards,

The AGNULA Team                                   info at agnula.org        

--
Our mailing lists:                        http://lists.agnula.org/
Our web site:                               http://www.agnula.org/
"There's no free expression without control on the tools you use"

[0] http://devel.agnula.org/



From nettings at folkwang-hochschule.de  Thu Sep 30 20:46:45 2004
From: nettings at folkwang-hochschule.de (Joern Nettingsmeier)
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 02:46:45 +0200
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] LAC 2004 recordings now online
Message-ID: <415CA8F5.2080001@folkwang-hochschule.de>

hi everyone!


thanks to the work of stephan r?mer at zkm, the recordings of the
linux audio conference 2004 are now completely edited and tagged.
they are being uploaded as i type.

you will find them at
http://linuxaudiodev.org/contrib/zkm_meeting_2004/recordings/ ,
the corresponding slides are at
http://linuxaudiodev.org/contrib/zkm_meeting_2004/slides/ .

best regards, and sorry it took so long (my responsibility),

j?rn


ps: if you have more photos, recordings or other lac memorabilia to
share, throw them my way so that i can upload them.

-- 
"90% of all networking problems are routing problems. 9 of the
remaining 10% are routing problems, but in the other direction.
The final 1% might be something else, but check the routing anyway."
	- Anthony Stone's networking words of wisdom

J?rn Nettingsmeier
Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Germany
http://spunk.dnsalias.org (my server)
http://www.linuxaudiodev.org (Linux Audio Developers)











From jrobbins at nymu.net  Wed Sep  1 08:19:14 2004
From: jrobbins at nymu.net (jrobbins at nymu.net)
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 06:19:14 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] Introducing Soundtank 1.0.0 !!
Message-ID: <50478.141.157.194.161.1094041154.squirrel@www.nymu.net>



Greetings,

I have released a first version of my LADSPA host Soundtank which
holds instruments for you to play.

The project website is <a
href="http://www.nymu.net/soundtank">www.nymu.net/soundtank</a>

In this program, you can use any LADSPA plugin with a pitch control as
a softsynth; multiple instances handle polyphony and MIDI control is
handled through user-customizeable Event Maps. As a perk, I have
included a command to automatically create Event Maps, ensuring you
instant gratification.

Soundtank is a shell for audio work. Instead of a directory heirarchy,
Signal Path objects hold other objects in ordered lists. The order
dictates the audio signal flow. There are alternate versions of the
shell commands you are familiar with, such as: ls, cd, rm, mv. This
should make it easy to learn to use.

This is a native ALSA app, with full duplex support in JACK, and an
ALSA Sequencer MIDI port is created for every active object. All audio
generation/filtering is handled by LADSPA plugins. Furthermore,
objects are saved to human readable, flat-file format XML files.

To see more, go to <a
href="http://www.nymu.net/soundtank">www.nymu.net/soundtank</a>


thanks and best wishes,

--jacob



From tszilagyi at users.sourceforge.net  Fri Sep  3 15:02:30 2004
From: tszilagyi at users.sourceforge.net (Tom Szilagyi)
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 21:02:30 +0200
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Aqualung,
	a new music player for GNU/Linux
Message-ID: <20040903190230.GA19027@cora>

Hi all,


I am pleased to announce the first beta release
(and the first public release, as well) of

	Aqualung, a music player for GNU/Linux
	--------------------------------------

Homepage: http://aqualung.sf.net


Aqualung is a new music player for the GNU/Linux operating system.
It plays audio files from your filesystem and has the feature of
inserting _no_gaps_ between adjacent tracks.

Aqualung is released under the GNU General Public License.


Features at a glance
====================

Supported file formats:

* Almost all sample-based, uncompressed formats (eg. WAV, AIFF, AU
  etc.), files encoded with FLAC (the Free Lossless Audio Codec), Ogg
  Vorbis and MPEG Audio files (including, but not limited to, MP3) are
  supported. Naturally, any of these files can be mono or stereo.


Supported output devices:

* OSS and ALSA driver interface, as well as support for connecting to
  the JACK Audio Connection Kit.


Key features:

* Continuous, gap-free playback of consecutive tracks! Your ears get
  exactly what is in the files -- no silence inserted in between.

* Ability to convert sample rates between the input file and the
  output device, in high quality. (Thanks to libsamplerate!)

* LADSPA plugin support -- you can use any suitable LADSPA plugin to
  enhance the music you are listening to.


Some other niceties:

* Internally working volume and balance controls (not touching the
  soundcard mixer).

* Support for multiple skins; changing them is possible at any time.

* Support for random seeking during playback.

* Track repeat, List repeat and Shuffle mode (besides normal playback)

* All windows are sizable. You can stretch the main window
  horizontally for more accurate seeking.

* State persistence via XML config files. Aqualung will come up in the
  same state as it was when you closed it, including playback modes,
  volume & balance settings, currently processing LADSPA plugins,
  window sizes, positions & visibility, and other miscellaneous
  options.


In addition to all this, Aqualung comes with a Music Store that is an
XML-based music database, capable of storing various metadata about
music on your computer (including, but not limited to, the names of
artists, and the titles of records and tracks). This is much more
efficient than the all-in-one Winamp/XMMS playlist.


Hope you will like this program. Please report any problems.


Tom


From rncbc at rncbc.org  Sat Sep  4 10:52:56 2004
From: rncbc at rncbc.org (Rui Nuno Capela)
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 15:52:56 +0100 (WEST)
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] qjackctl 0.2.10 released!
Message-ID: <33068.192.168.1.8.1094309576.squirrel@192.168.1.8>

Hi everybody,

After the holiday season, and late for the 1st anniversary, here comes
another dot release for QjackCtl, the Qt GUI for the JACK Audio Connection
Kit:

Qjackctl 0.2.10 is out, with some minor enhancements and fixes.

>From the change log:

- New pre-shutdown script setup option, allowing to specify a shell-script
to be run before the JACK server daemon is shutted-down. This overrides
any previous shutdown script setting, which should be now moved onto the
existing post-shutdown script option, as to keep old procedural behaviour.

- Avoid stopping JACK prematurely with QProcess::kill() (oneliner fix);
stopping JACK will now take a little bit longer, but hopefully will take
the time to cleanup properly (thanks to Kjetil Matheussen).

- ALSA driver Duplex mode accepts alternate Input or Output device name.

- Context menu reset option is now always enabled (yet another suggestion
from Sampo Savolainen).

- Main display background gets shinny effect; adjusted system tray
background palette color mode.

- Priority and setup control is now a spinbox ranging from 0..89 (as
suggested by Florian Schmidt). Same for Periods/Buffer.

- Patchbay connection lines are now drawn correctly when items are
scrolled out of view. Additionally, the connection lines can now be
optionally drawn as bezier spline curves (big thanks to Wilfried Huss).

Just head to the homepage:

    http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net

or, in case that's not up-to-date yet, to sourceforge's project page:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl

Hope you enjoy.
-- 
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc at rncbc.org



From S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk  Tue Sep  7 06:33:52 2004
From: S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Steve Harris)
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 11:33:52 +0100
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Timemachine 0.2.5
Message-ID: <20040907103352.GD17698@login.ecs.soton.ac.uk>

http://plugin.org.uk/timemachine/

Timemachine is a JACK app for recording sounds that have just happened.
It can also be used as a generic JACK sound recorder. Read the website for
more retails.

Changes
 * Now builds properly without LASH installed (thanks to Joern Nettingsmeier)
 * Can specify recording format on command line (wav or w64)
 * Filename extension reflects the format (ie .w64 to help user confusion)
 * Can specify ports to connect to on the command line
 * Desktop icon (thanks to Anarcat) pixmaps/timemachine-icon.png

Known Bugs / Omisions
 * There is a race condition - locks up the app, but recordings are OK.
   Not fixed, as I dont understand the problem fully, and I've not
   received a patch for it.
 * TM wont auto-connect to JACK hardware capture ports, I've had one
   request for this, but dont care enough to add it right now.

- Steve


From conrad at metadecks.org  Wed Sep  8 01:23:04 2004
From: conrad at metadecks.org (Conrad Parker)
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 15:23:04 +1000
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] liboggz 0.8.4 Released
Message-ID: <20040908052304.GA27673@vergenet.net>

Oggz 0.8.4 Release
------------------

liboggz is a C library providing a simple programming interface for reading
and writing Ogg files and streams. Ogg is an interleaving data container
developed by Monty at Xiph.Org, originally to support the Ogg Vorbis audio
format.

This release is available as a source tarball at:

http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/download/liboggz-0.8.4.tar.gz

New in this release:

	* added support for building on Symbian OS (by Colin Ward)
	* new OGGZ_ERR_IO_AGAIN handling for network reads
	* added test for reading packets one-by-one
	* expanded --help output for oggzdump tool
	* added option to run test suite under valgrind

Additionally, a thorough audit of memory leaks has been completed and
various minor bugs have been fixed.

About Oggz
----------

Oggz comprises liboggz and the command-line tools oggzdump and oggzdiff.

liboggz supports the flexibility afforded by the Ogg file format while
presenting the following API niceties:

	* Full API documentation.

	* Comprehensive test suite of read, write and seeking behavior.

	* Developed and tested on GNU/Linux, Darwin/MacOSX, Win32 and
	Symbian OS. May work on other Unix-like systems via GNU autoconf.
	For Win32: nmake Makefiles, Visual Studio .NET 2003 solution files
	and Visual C++ 6.0 workspace files are provided in the source
	distribution.

	* Strict adherence to the formatting requirements of Ogg bitstreams,
	to ensure that only valid bitstreams are generated; writes can fail
	if you try to write illegally structured packets.

	* A simple, callback based open/read/close or open/write/close
	interface to raw Ogg files.

	* Writing automatically interleaves with packet queuing, and provides	
	callback based notification when this queue is empty

	* A customisable seeking abstraction for seeking on multitrack Ogg
	data. Seeking works easily and reliably on multitrack and multi-codec
	streams, and can transparently parse Theora, Speex, Vorbis and Annodex
	headers  without requiring linking to those libraries. This allows
	efficient use on servers and other devices that need to parse and
	seek within Ogg files, but do not need to do a full media decode.

Full documentation of the liboggz API, customization and installation,
and mux and demux examples can be read online at:

    http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/html/

Tools
-----

The Oggz source tarball also contains the following command-line tools,
which are useful for debugging and testing Ogg bitstreams:

	* oggzdump: Hexdump packets of an Ogg file, or revert an Ogg file
	from such a hexdump.

	* oggzdiff: Hexdump the packets of two Ogg files and output
	differences Oggz is Free Software, available under a BSD-style
	license.

License
-------

Oggz is Free Software, available under a BSD style license.

More information is available online at the Oggz homepage:

    http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/

enjoy :)

--
Conrad Parker
Senior Software Engineer, Continuous Media Web, CSIRO Australia
http://www.annodex.net/   http://www.ict.csiro.au/cmweb/


From acominu at tiscali.it  Thu Sep  9 07:14:33 2004
From: acominu at tiscali.it (Comix)
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 13:14:33 +0200
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Hydrogen v0.9.0 Released
Message-ID: <200409091314.34022.acominu@tiscali.it>

Hydrogen 0.9.0 is out! :)

Features:
__General__
 * Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based 
on QT 3.
 * Sample-based stereo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au 
and .aiff formats.
 * Support of samples in compressed FLAC file.
 
__Sequencer and mixer__
 * Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to 
chain patterns into a song.
 * Up to 64 ticks per pattern with individual level per event and variable 
pattern length.
 * 32 instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities.
 * Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples for each instrument).
 * Ability to import/export song files.
 * Unique human velocity, human time and swing functions.
 * Multiple patterns playing at once.

__Other__
 * OSS and Jack audio drivers, with assignable Jack ports.
 * ALSA MIDI input with assignable midi-in channel (1..16, ALL).
 * Import/export of drumkits.
 * Export song to wav file.
 * Export song to midi file.


Changes:
 * Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples).
 * Multiple patterns playing at once.
 * Added FLAC files support for songs and drumkits.
 * Added pitch and gain properties per instrument.
 * Improved song and pattern editor (selections, copy/move, etc..).
 * Added a new selectable user interface (single panel).
 * Better jack-transport support.
 * Ability to set the note length in pattern editor
 * Export song to standard midi file


Download:
? http://hydrogen.sourceforge.net

Happy drumming! :^)
-- 
Alessandro <Comix> Cominu

http://hydrogen.sf.net
e-mail: comix at despammed.com
Icq: 116354077
Linux User # 203765
[...Codito Ergo Sum...]



From Diemo.Schwarz at ircam.fr  Fri Sep 10 12:25:49 2004
From: Diemo.Schwarz at ircam.fr (Diemo Schwarz)
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:25:49 +0200
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] jMax-SDIF 0.8 released
Message-ID: <4141D58D.6050809@ircam.fr>


Hello all,

I just finished the jMax-SDIF package version 0.8 for jMax 4.1 CVS.
You can now import SDIF files into a track of matrices, and export a track to 
SDIF.  There is also an sdifinfo object that reads and outputs information 
about the contents of an SDIF file.

Download:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=26076&package_id=106205

SDIF is the Sound Description Interchange Format, see
http://www.ircam.fr/sdif and the freesoftware wiki 
http://freesoftware.ircam.fr/wiki/index.php?pagename=HomePage.

Cheers...
								...Diemo


--
Diemo Schwarz  --  http://www.ircam.fr/anasyn/schwarz
Analysis-Synthesis Team  --  http://www.ircam.fr/anasyn
Real Time Applications Team  --  http://www.ircam.fr/equipes/temps-reel
IRCAM - Centre Pompidou  --  1, place Igor-Stravinsky, 75004 Paris, France
Phone +33-1-4478-4879 / -4824 / -1558 /  Fax -1540

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From rncbc at rncbc.org  Fri Sep 10 12:34:14 2004
From: rncbc at rncbc.org (Rui Nuno Capela)
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:34:14 +0100 (WEST)
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] qjackctl 0.2.11 released!
Message-ID: <33103.192.168.1.5.1094834054.squirrel@192.168.1.5>

Hi,

Just less than a week after some user complaints about that glossy-glass
light effect featured on the front panel display, here comes a couple of
fixes that were made into this rather minor dot release.

Now's the perfect time for a recommended upgrade: qjackctl 0.2.11 is here,
grab it from:

   http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl

Simply as is, as taken from the changelog:

* Fixed Input/Output channels settings, being now either enabled when the
ALSA driver is selected for Capture/Playback only.

* Shiny display effect: after some conservative user complaints this pure
cosmetic feature is now made optional ;)

Enjoy.
-- 
rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc at rncbc.org



From drobilla at connect.carleton.ca  Mon Sep 13 01:45:01 2004
From: drobilla at connect.carleton.ca (Dave Robillard)
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 01:45:01 -0400
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Patchage 0.0.3 Released
Message-ID: <1095054301.11891.3.camel@DaveDesk>

Patchage is a modular patch bay for jack (and soon alsa sequencer)

More information, downloads, and a screenshot at
http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~drobilla/patchage

-DR-



From drobilla at connect.carleton.ca  Mon Sep 13 21:55:27 2004
From: drobilla at connect.carleton.ca (Dave Robillard)
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:55:27 -0400
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Patchage 0.0.4 Released
Message-ID: <1095126927.5238.2.camel@DaveDesk>

Patchage is a modular patch bay for jack (and soon alsa sequencer)

This release fixes glaringly obvious bugs, 0.0.3 is broken.  Also, you
can now run patchage without installing (in the src directory).

Thanks to Steve Harris and pasp at ll.pl for pointing out said bugs.

More information, downloads, and a screenshot at
http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~drobilla/patchage


-DR-



From S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk  Tue Sep 14 13:31:20 2004
From: S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Steve Harris)
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 18:31:20 +0100
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Prerelease of libgdither 0.2 dithering
	library
Message-ID: <20040914173119.GH13919@login.ecs.soton.ac.uk>

Invitation for testing and API comments.

http://plugin.org.uk/libgdither/


Libgdither is a GPL'd library library for performing audio dithering on
PCM samples. The dithering process should be carried out before reducing
the bit width of PCM audio data (eg. float to 16 bit int conversions) to
preserve audio quality.

It can do conversions between any combination of:

in                              out (optionally interleaved)
-------------------------------------------------------------
normalised mono float           8bit unsigned ints
normalised mono double          16bit signed ints
                                32bit signed ints
                                normalised float
                                normalised double

At any bitdepth supported by the input and output formats


Instructions for testing are in
http://plugin.org.uk/libgdither/TESTING

Basic docs can be found in
http://plugin.org.uk/libgdither/libgdither-0.2/gdither.h

Examples of use can be found in
http://plugin.org.uk/libgdither/libgdither-0.2/examples/ex1.c

Comments welcome,
   Steve


From taybin at earthlink.net  Sun Sep 19 10:49:01 2004
From: taybin at earthlink.net (Taybin Rutkin)
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:49:01 -0400
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Jack Audio Connection Kit 0.98.16
	Release
Message-ID: <414D9C5D.5030905@earthlink.net>

JACK RELEASE 0.98.16

JACK is a low-latency audio server, written primarily for the GNU/Linux
operating system. It can connect a number of different applications to
an audio device, as well as allowing them to share audio between
themselves. Its clients can run in their own processes (ie. as normal
applications), or can they can run within the JACK server (ie. as a
"plugin").

JACK is different from other audio server efforts in that it has been
designed from the ground up to be suitable for professional audio work.
This means that it focuses on two key areas: synchronous execution of
all clients, and low latency operation.

JACK is available at http://jackit.sf.net

--CHANGES--

Buffer resizing enabled by default.
Added jack_ringbuffer_peak() to API.
Added jack_last_frame_time() to API.
--verbose will print the maximum usecs used on jackd termination.
Better compatibility with NPTL.
--version output changed for easier parsing.
New --unlock/-u option so that large libraries (gtk, qt, fltk, wine) 
aren't memlocked.
Jack's tmp files now have the uid appended to them, so if there is a 
crash, and then another user tries to use jack, it will still work.
New jack_create_thread() cleans up threading for portability.  Available 
for use by jack clients too.
New CoreAudio driver from the Jackosx project included in jack tree.
Prettier configure output.

and of course, updated documentation, better error reporting, and misc 
internal fixes and cleanups.


From taybin at earthlink.net  Sun Sep 19 10:53:26 2004
From: taybin at earthlink.net (Taybin Rutkin)
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:53:26 -0400
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] Jack Release Announcement update
Message-ID: <414D9D66.1070907@earthlink.net>

The release number is actually 0.99.0.

Jack's website is at http://jackit.sf.net.

Taybin


From info at miu-ft.org  Tue Sep 21 12:33:31 2004
From: info at miu-ft.org (Media Innovation Unit - Firenze Tecnologia)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:33:31 +0200
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] Media Innovation Unit Workshops at Firenze
	World Vision Information for streaming
Message-ID: <87d60fvaxw.fsf@perchetopi.org>

+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
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|          |  \/  | |_ _| | | | |         |  ___| |_   _|            |
|          | |\/| |  | |  | | | |  _____  | |_      | |              |
|          | |  | |  | |  | |_| | |_____| |  _|     | |              |
|          |_|  |_| |___|  \___/          |_|       |_|              |
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+--------------------------------------------------------------------+

   [ Apologies for cross-posting.  Feel free to forward around ]

Florence, 21 September 2004

+++ Media Innovation Unit Workshops at Firenze World Vision 
    Information for streaming

On Sep 23/24/25, 2004, Media Innovation Unit - Firenze Tecnologia will
host  three workshops (on  "Audio/Video streaming with Free Software",
"Custom Debian Distributions" and "Migrating to Free Software") during
Firenze World Vision 2004, which will be held in Florence (Italy).

It will be possible to remotely follow the workshops connecting to:

http://stream.bononia.it:8000/miu-fwv04.ogg

starting from 9:00 a.m.

During all seminars an IRC channel (server: irc.freenode.net, channel:
#miu-fwv04) will be open, where you will be able to ask your questions
to the speakers.

Special thanks to the Bononia  team (http://www.bononia.it/) for their
technical support and for offering otheir bandwidth.

All    presentations   will be given   in   the  english language.  An
italian-english translation  service  will be  available  for  the Q&A
session, after each talk.

Further information on the workshop will be published on:

http://www.miu-ft.org/what/events/20040923.fwv.str/

For more details, feel free to contact:

Nicola Giosmin	  <n.giosmin at miu.firenzetecnologia.it>

and/or our office in Florence:

Media Innovation Unit - Firenze Tecnologia
Borgo Albizi 15/a
50122 Firenze
Italy

Tel. no: +39 055 2001561
Fax. no: +39 055 2345762


+++

About Firenze Tecnologia: Firenze Tecnologia is  the special agency of
the Chamber of Commerce of Florence  devoted to study and facilitation
of technological innovation  in the florentinian  and tuscanian areas.
Please check: <http://www.firenzetecnologia.it/>.

About Media Innovation Unit:   Media Innovation Unit is  the  research
unit  of Firenze  Tecnologia,  devoted  to  research,  development and
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From garrison at case.edu  Sat Sep 25 14:20:54 2004
From: garrison at case.edu (Jim Garrison)
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 14:20:54 -0400
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] ANNOUNCE: Gnomoradio 0.14.1
Message-ID: <1096136453.21210.78.camel@ibook>

Gnomoradio is a peer to peer music playing system, based on Creative
Commons licenses.  It has the ability to find, share, recommend, and
play songs that are freely available.

Version 0.14 migrates audio output to libao and closes the audio device
when music is paused.  It also has an improved http server, and it can
now download songs without RDF descriptions.

Version 0.14.1 fixes a bug that some people were experiencing
downloading files, and it fixes a few bugs when scanning all local music
on startup.

Web site: http://gnomoradio.org/
Screenshots: http://gnomoradio.org/screenshots/
Source: http://gnomoradio.org/pub/devel/gnomoradio-0.14.1.tar.bz2





From Dr.Graef at t-online.de  Mon Sep 27 09:18:14 2004
From: Dr.Graef at t-online.de (Albert Graef)
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:18:14 +0200
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Q multimedia examples released
Message-ID: <41581316.4060202@t-online.de>

Q is a functional programming language based on the term rewriting 
calculus, see http://q-lang.sourceforge.net for details. This release 
provides a collection of sample multimedia programs written with Q:

- QAudioPlayer, an audio player with waveform and FFT display
- QMidiCC, a MidiShare patchbay and transport control
- QMidiPlayer, a MidiShare-based MIDI player
- QSCSynth, a GUI frontend for SuperCollider

These programs also demonstrate how to embed a Q application in a KDE/Qt 
GUI. A recent KDE version is required (3.2 has been tested). And you'll 
need the Q core and multimedia packages, of course.

Descriptions, screenshots and download links can be found here:
http://q-lang.sourceforge.net/examples.html

Download, for the impatient:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=96881&package_id=130902

Besides this, there are also new releases of Q-Audio (which now uses 
PortAudio v19, with support for Alsa and Jack) and Q-Synth (fixes for 
compatibility with recent SuperCollider versions in CVS). Moreover, FC1 
and SuSE 9.1 RPMs for PortAudio v19 and SuperCollider are now also 
available for your convenience. See 
http://q-lang.sourceforge.net/download.html

Enjoy!

-- 
Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
Email:  Dr.Graef at t-online.de, ag at muwiinfa.geschichte.uni-mainz.de
WWW:    http://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-mainz.de/~ag


From info at agnula.org  Thu Sep 30 11:58:04 2004
From: info at agnula.org (The AGNULA Team)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:58:04 +0200
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] AGNUlL/DeMuDi 1.2.0 IS OUT
Message-ID: <87655vu4tv.fsf@agnula.org>

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|           /  \ | /  ___| |   | | |   | | |       /  \           |
|          / /\ \| | (___) |   | | |   | | |      / /\ \          |
|         | |__| | \____/| |   | | |___| | |_____| |__| |         |
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     [Sorry for cross-posting.  Feel free to forward around]

Florence, 30/09/2004

AGNULA/DeMuDI 1.2.0,  the    Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution   for
audio, has been released.

This release   is  first  the  1.2.x  series  , which   sports tighter
integration with Debian, using the Sarge  Debian Installer and the CDD
(Custom Debian Distributions) framework.

Instructions on how to download and install it can be found here:

  http://www.agnula.org/download/demudi/demudi_1_2_0_iso

and a list of frequently asked questions here:

  http://www.agnula.org/download/demudi/1.2.0-FAQ

The available packages along with their versions can be checked here:

  http://apt.agnula.org/demudi/indices/Available

Highlights:

- Installer
	* Running apt-get update in case network is available

- Configuration:
	* Added a cfengine script to properly set /dev/dsp /dev/dsp0 /dev/dsp1
	  /dev/dsp2 /dev/dsp3 and /dev/mixers* links and permissions
	* Added the aadebug test script
	* Added cfengine script to turn on vim syntax highlighting by default

- Kernel:
	* Applied i2c and lm-sensors patches

- Menus:
	* Added missing menu entry for Gnome Wave Cleaner in Sound/DSP
	* Moved Cantus from Compression/Tag to Editors/Tag
	* Added icons to most of the menu entries

- Applications:
	* Added gtkguitune to the DSP task
	* Added lm-sensors and sensord to the packages installed by default 
	* Added GEM to the Synthesis task
	* Added vim-gtk to the default packages of a X enabled installation
	* Added libmidi-perl to the MIDI task
	* Added xemacs and emacs
	* Removed gimp to make some room for kernel-source

- Artwork
	* Minor change to linuxlogo banners that you'll never even notice.
	* Added Baroque fluxbox style
	* Removed Classical style as it's a duplication of Romantic
	* Updated Romantic fluxbox style to make use of fbsetbg and made
	  menu font small

Feel free report all bugs,  requests, criticisms using our development
portal [0].

Instructions on how to report bugs and requests are available here:

  http://www.agnula.org/development/agnula_bugs_requests/

We hope you enjoy AGNULA/DeMuDi!  For any information, do not hesitate
to contact us writing to:

<info at agnula.org>

And/or visiting our web site, http://www.agnula.org/.

+++

About AGNULA:   Agnula (acronym for   A  GNU/Linux Audio distribution,
pronounced with a strong  g) is  the name of   a project funded  until
April  2004  by    the   European  Commission   (number  of  contract:
IST-2001-34879; key action IV.3.3, Free Software: towards the critical
mass).  After the end of the funded period,  AGNULA is continuing as a
volunteer   based project,  aiming  to  spread Libre  Software in  the
professional audio/video arena.

Best regards,

The AGNULA Team                                   info at agnula.org        

--
Our mailing lists:                        http://lists.agnula.org/
Our web site:                               http://www.agnula.org/
"There's no free expression without control on the tools you use"

[0] http://devel.agnula.org/



From nettings at folkwang-hochschule.de  Thu Sep 30 20:46:45 2004
From: nettings at folkwang-hochschule.de (Joern Nettingsmeier)
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 02:46:45 +0200
Subject: [linux-audio-announce] LAC 2004 recordings now online
Message-ID: <415CA8F5.2080001@folkwang-hochschule.de>

hi everyone!


thanks to the work of stephan r?mer at zkm, the recordings of the
linux audio conference 2004 are now completely edited and tagged.
they are being uploaded as i type.

you will find them at
http://linuxaudiodev.org/contrib/zkm_meeting_2004/recordings/ ,
the corresponding slides are at
http://linuxaudiodev.org/contrib/zkm_meeting_2004/slides/ .

best regards, and sorry it took so long (my responsibility),

j?rn


ps: if you have more photos, recordings or other lac memorabilia to
share, throw them my way so that i can upload them.

-- 
"90% of all networking problems are routing problems. 9 of the
remaining 10% are routing problems, but in the other direction.
The final 1% might be something else, but check the routing anyway."
	- Anthony Stone's networking words of wisdom

J?rn Nettingsmeier
Lortzingstr. 11, 45128 Essen, Germany
http://spunk.dnsalias.org (my server)
http://www.linuxaudiodev.org (Linux Audio Developers)