[Fedora-music-list] Action items for the Audio spin

[Brendan Jones]

On 04/04/2012 12:59 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
> On 4 April 2012 05:50, Christopher R. Antila<crantila at fedoraproject.org>  wrote:
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>> Hi:
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>> On 04/03/2012 03:35 AM, Brendan Jones wrote:
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>>>> The scratch LXDE kickstart I put together was still only a little
>>>> too large for a live CD (but not much) and it covered all of the
>>>> above bar supercollider.
>> I'm not sure Frescobaldi/LilyPond are required for a Live CD. They
>> don't take up much space, but Frescobaldi (at least used to) have a
>> SoundFont as a dependency.
>>
>>>
>>>> I think for the DVD we should cover everything, and the Live CD a
>>>> subset showcasing the most popular applications (ie. one DAW
>>>> instead of three etc).
>> To that end, I added the "For Music Scholars" section to
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Audio_creation_spin_development
>>
>> Having those packages in the official Fedora repository unlocks a
>> potential user-base of five people at my institution, five people at
>> MIT, five people at Stanford, and two at University of Aberdeen.
>>
>
> Hi, this might seem like a silly question, but are there any plans to
> have a default music player in the spin? Had a quick look through the
> pages and google and can't see any mention of one. If the default
> desktop is not Gnome or KDE then I guess their players wont be
> included.
>
> Separately, is Pulse going to be on by default? If it is then the jack
> pulse plugins would be a useful inclusion.
>

Whilst not exactly minimal, some people might find that aqualung 
supports both jack and pulse out of the box, as well as the ability to 
use LADSPA plugins. A review for it popped up in RPMFusion a while back 
but has since been abandoned. All the free/non-free stuff can be turned 
off for mainline Fedora.

regards,

Brendan