xiph.org: 24/192 Music Downloads are Very Silly Indeed

24/192 Music Downloads are Very Silly Indeed:

"Unfortunately, there is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz format. Its playback fidelity is slightly inferior to 16/44.1 or 16/48, and it takes up 6 times the space."

Links from Open Source Musician Podcast 53

Here are some links from Open Source Musician Podcast episode 53:

harrisonconsoles.com - Mixbus

Harrison Mixbus: The $79 Virtual Analog Console, Now on Both Mac and Linux

Sonic Talk Podcast

JACK-AUDIO-CONNECTION-KIT: Session API for clients

WalkThrough/Dev/JackSession - Jack Audio Connection Kit - Trac

ardour - the digital audio workstation

Ardour 3.0 alpha 4 released

Paul Davis

Mixxx - Free Digital DJ Software

DSSI - API for audio processing plugins

Leigh Dyer: woo, tangent | lsd's rants about games, music, linux, and technology

KXStudio

PiTiVi, a free and open source video editor for Linux

Open Source Musician Podcast: Podcast editing using Ardour

Saffire PRO 40 Audio Interface

ffado.org - Free Firewire Audio Drivers

Diffusion (acoustics) - Wikipedia

FoamByMail

Podcast OUT.

RCA Digital Voice Recorder in Linux

Using an RCA Digital Voice Recorder in Linux

"Despite the .VOC extension, they are not Creative Labs Sound Files. RCA-VOC is an undocumented proprietary format starting with the signature 'VCP162_VOC_File', not 'Creative Voice File'.

On March 28, 2008, I finally solved this format..."

Sansa m250 with Ubuntu 9.04

Ubuntu 9.04 did not let me see the files on my Sansa m250 mp3 player. It detected it as a media player but I could not see its file system. I got it to work based on info in item #7 in this forum post by editing this file:

/usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/10osvendor/20-libgphoto2.fdi

I used gksudo nautilus to open a root file manager session. Then I made a backup copy of the above file in a directory under my home directory. Next I opened the file in gedit, commented out the section pertaining to Sansa devices, and saved the file.

Instead of restarting hal I just restarted the machine.

Now when I connect the Sansa player I can see and copy files as I please.

Jinzora

Jinzora:

"Jinzora is a web based media streaming and management system, written in PHP."

The Levelator

The Levelator from The Conversations Network:

"Do you believe in magic? You will after using The Levelator to enhance your podcast. And you'll be amazed that it's free, now even for commercial use."

ArtistX

ArtistX - eXtra ordinary art tools:

"ArtistX is a free live GNU/Linux DVD which turns a common computer into a full multimedia production studio.
It is based on Ubuntu GNU/Linux and contains nearly all the available free audio, 2D and 3D graphics, and video software for the GNU/Linux computing platform."

The site has a big list of free graphics, audio, and video software packages.

New release of n-Track Studio

Version 6.0.4 of n-Track Studio Multitrack Audio Recording and Editing Software was released on 2009-04-17.

SoX - Sound eXchange

SoX - Sound eXchange:

"SoX is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, MacOS X, etc.) command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files in to other formats. It can also apply various effects to these sound files, and, as an added bonus, SoX can play and record audio files on most platforms."

Sox on Wikipedia.

Linux Journal article about Sox.

I don't know JACK

But I hope to get to know JACK, as I work on a few audio projects, as time permits.

JACK : connecting a world of audio:

"JACK is system for handling real-time, low latency audio (and MIDI). It runs on GNU/Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OS X and Windows (and can be ported to other POSIX-conformant platforms). 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 also has support for distributing audio processing across a network, both fast & reliable LANs as well as slower, less reliable WANs."

List of applications supporting JACK.

QjackCtl - JACK Audio Connection Kit - Qt GUI.

The Jack Rack project.

JAMin - JACK audio mastering.

Also, a couple digital audio tools that work with JACK:

ReZound graphical audio file editor.

Ardour digital audio workstation.

Note to self: check 'em out.

Sound & MIDI Software For Linux

Sound & MIDI Software For Linux is a site maintained by Dave Phillips who sometimes writes for Linux Journal. Dave's most recent article in the October 2008 Linux Journal (which, I believe, won't be available online for a couple months) points out a number of resources for Linux audio and sound. I don't know if the old boxes I have running Linux will be up to the task but I'd like to check out these audio tools as time permits.

Query: VR8 WAV

I was curious if there is a program available that can convert the files (with a VR8 extension) used internally by the Roland VS-880 digital audio workstation to standard WAV files. I have a VS-880 (now quite "legacy") that I used to record the Shack Monks album. I don't really need a converter since I have already archived the audio (two tracks at a time through the S/PDIF port into CoolEdit with the help of MIDI sync).

The search for "VR8 WAV" revealed a forum thread on VS-Planet discussing a RDAC to WAV converter utility. There were also references to a plug-in for a PC digital audio workstation program named REAPER.

I've never heard of REAPER before so I explored that a bit. The company that makes it is Cockos Inc. which was founded by Justin Frankel who created WinAmp years ago. I may give REAPER a try later.

Also found a VStudio Utility Portal page but there's not much on it.

Larry Osterman's WebLog

Larry Osterman's WebLog

List of Documents - AV Prototype

List of Documents - AV Prototype: "Project Documents from the First Phase of the Recorded Sound Digital Preservation Prototyping Project"

FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec

FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec