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audio/media related reports to bugzilla.redhat.com ignored?
by Niels Mayer 30 Mar '26

30 Mar '26

For audio/media related apps and issues reported on bugzilla.redhat.com , this is the pattern: bugs get filed, they're never acknowledged && totally ignored. Eventually people stop filing bug reports as it ends up being a waste of time and the quality of the distro goes down as result.... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566665 [abrt] instability from snd-mtpav on PCI parallel port, causes crash in jack-audio-connection-kit-0.118.0-1.fc12 (edit) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=588965 [abrt] crash in gnome-media-apps-2.28.5-1.fc12: Process /usr/bin/gstreamer-properties was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV) (edit) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602900 [abrt] crash in alsa-tools-1.0.22-1.fc12: ____strtol_l_internal: Process /usr/bin/envy24control was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV) (edit) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602903 envy24control "Reset Peaks" button nonfunctional; metering shows no peaks Niels http://nielsmayer.com PS: the above is not my experience with non-media related bugs, which are handled quickly and effectively, e.g.: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=575875 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445543#c20

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Re: [Fedora Update] [old_testing] rakarrack-0.2.0-5.fc8 / fc9
by Development discussions related to Fedora 27 Jan '26

27 Jan '26

updates(a)fedoraproject.org wrote: > The update for rakarrack-0.2.0-5.fc8 has been in 'testing' status for over 2 weeks. .. > ================================================================================ > rakarrack-0.2.0-5.fc8 > ================================================================================ > Update ID: FEDORA-2008-9033 > Release: Fedora 8 > Status: testing > Type: newpackage > Karma: 0 > Bugs: 455953 - Review Request: rakarrack - Audio effects processing rack > : for guitar > Notes: Initial build of rakarrack for fedora > Submitter: dtimms > Submitted: 2008-10-20 21:46:29 > Comments: dtimms - 2008-10-20 21:46:32 (karma 0) > This update has been submitted for testing > bodhi - 2008-10-23 16:35:19 (karma 0) > This update has been pushed to testing > > http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-9033 Hi fedora-music lovers, I would be keen for some feedback on whether rakarrack that is now in fedora testing works for you ? To fully test you'll need a guitar and pickup plugged into your soundcard, but even a go/nogo on whether it starts would be helpful. Where I developed the package, it works OK, but another older AMD machine, it fails during startup. This will help me to decide whether to push it to the F8,F9 updates repos. DaveT.

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whysynth doesn't work
by Florin Andrei 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

I got whysynth-dssi-20060122-7.src.rpm from here: http://people.redhat.com/green/FE/devel/ I rebuilt it on FC6 without problems. The thing is, the GUI doesn't show up. The program appears to be working, I see the outputs being automatically routed in qjackctl, but there's no GUI anywhere! ############################################### $ jack-dssi-host whysynth.so jack-dssi-host: Warning: DSSI path not set jack-dssi-host: Defaulting to "/usr/local/lib/dssi:/usr/lib/dssi:/home/florin/.dssi" jack-dssi-host: OSC URL is: osc.udp://rivendell.home.local:15040/dssi/whysynth/WhySynth/chan00 host: Ready WhySynth_gtk starting (pid 4305)... ############################################### -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

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Low Latency vs. Real Time Kernel
by Brian Monroe 10 Nov '14

10 Nov '14

I've been spending a lot of time on the #opensourcemusicians channel talking to Ubuntu Studio users about their kernel and latency times they're getting. Seems like most of them are using g a stock kernel with the preemptive option enabled and they are getting great latency results (2ms)while utilizing the @audio group on their user. I ended up compiling my own low latency kernel and I haven't had any issues with it yet. If this is what we are missing for the spin I'd be happy to maintain packaging for the kernel. I know ccrma has been behind a few kernel releases. I saw the instructions for adding the real time patch for a tick less kernel and from what I can tell it wouldn't be hard to get that rolling as well. I'm not entirely sure what ccrma does differently with their kernels compared to other Linux users, and I'm still a bit of a noob so I could be off base with this, but I would reason that we should be able to just utilize the same settings to archive similar performance enhancements. I thought I read that ccrma uses a unique scheduler, but if we could get a 2ms latency time without it, the point may be moot.

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audacity - audio editor - testers requested
by Development discussions related to Fedora 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

Hi, Following up on a scratch build from two weeks ago, the audacity project [1] is now at release candidate 1 for audacity 2.0.0 [2], and is expecting to release in another 2 weeks. I've built packages for Fedora devel [3] and RPM Fusion 16 [4]. I would welcome any help you can give in testing either package, as preparation for release of v2.0.0, and providing packages for Fedora users. In terms of the testing, while I think a fairly random approach is useful, think about a task you would like to achieve with audacity, and follow through with it, to see that it succeeds. For problems, please create bugs, or reply to this message with a subject indicating the issue. Rather than a straight, "works for me", please indicate any functions/menus you did use, so that others might test different functionality. For mp3/ffmpeg file format support, use the version audacity-freeworld from rpmfusion buildsys instead. [1] http://code.google.com/p/audacity/ [2] http://code.google.com/p/audacity/downloads/list [3] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3802444 [4] <http://buildsys.rpmfusion.org/plague-results/fedora-16-rpmfusion_free/audac…>

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by William Blackburn 24 Feb '12

24 Feb '12

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Re: [Fedora-music-list] (no subject)
by William Blackburn 24 Feb '12

24 Feb '12

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Re: [Fedora-music-list] Call to arms - Fedora Audio Spin
by Philip Rhoades 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

Christopher, On 2012-02-22 17:00, Christopher R. Antila wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/21/2012 03:51 PM, Brendan Jones wrote: >> On 02/21/2012 09:07 PM, Kyrian wrote: >>> ... >>> >>> - Then I think, ah, wrong kernel, and pulseaudio? But that could >>> be grouped too, no? Have, say, Jack and have it conflict with >>> pulseaudio somehow? >> >> Pulseaudio is proving to be a pain. Its now an implicit dependency >> of the default desktop (GNOME) which is unfortunate. Having said >> all that, I think its a great piece of software, but creates >> unnecessary complications when all you want to do is >> create/produce and edit music. There are some applications which >> refuse to play with anything else now (skype anyone?) that mean >> people like me have no choice but to coexist with it. I'm still not >> happy with my setup - other users on this list have also posted >> their solutions [2]. I think we should aim to ship a >> pulseaudio-less solution. This means we need to decide on a desktop >> that's not Gnome - of course that won't make everyone happy, but if >> we have the comps group like you suggest, those gnome users can >> still pull in the audio packages with ease. > > Something about this seems off. > > I remember when it used to be the case that audio cards generally > wouldn't work by default in Linux. Slowly, eventually, PulseAudio > solved that. If we remove PulseAudio, we're forcing our users to "go > it alone." Now, I understand that PulseAudio isn't ideal for audio > creation software--that's why it uses JACK--but we don't want to > throw > away everything that PulseAudio gained. And surely we want to allow > people to use GNOME if they want. And Skype. Otherwise we risk > running > into a situation where people enjoy using the Fedora Audio Spin for > audio-creation tasks, but can't stand it for anything else. That hasn't been my experience - after much pain over the last few years with audio, the first thing I do is remove PA and just use ALSA . . but I am an audio guru wannabe . . Regards, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au

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Re: [Fedora-music-list] Call to arms - Fedora Audio Spin
by Kyrian 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

Just been taking a metaphorical chainsaw to my inbox and got through to the Fedora Music list at long last. I've packaged up some bits and bobs and assisted with Fedora myself, for better or for worse. Anyway, this thread makes me think a couple of things that I'd like to throw in for the masses (nor not, as the case may be) to chew over. - Couldn't this lot be done as a yum 'Group' or several? With that then incorporated into the standard installer environment? - Then I think, ah, wrong kernel, and pulseaudio? But that could be grouped too, no? Have, say, Jack and have it conflict with pulseaudio somehow? - Then it all sounds a bit complicated, and I can't help think that maybe a respin is a valid and sane way forward. - But still, it might be nice to give the non-pro users a leg-up to that sort of stuff with package groups in Yum anyway? Surely you don't need an RT kernel unless you're really hammering at the audio? - Having better documentation would be really good, and I've noted the "Musicians Guide" on my travels, which I fully intend to real real soon now(tm). - Every person who's into pro audio that I mention about Linux audio says "ah, but will it accomodate my XYZ plugins/filters from a.n.other windows app"? As far as I know the answer is usually "yes", but I hope that's documented in wherever the docs are. I'll gladly put in such time as I can find to make this happen, and if necessary to get it documented as well, because I want to start using all my kit properly through Linux, with the minimum of fuss (there was a lot of fuss the last time I had a go, in spite of PlanetCCRMA and other's best efforts...), help other people at the same time, but perhaps mainly, get some distractions from my day job which involves Linux too. Another thing it would be nice to have is a way to use my laptop running Linux for dj-ing if I'm feeling extremely lazy on a given night (I'm not a laptop DJ when I do so, but others are, and, hell, CD's are heavy, physically as well as at times musically), but I could not find a suitable app for that. Rhythmbox has a cross-fade feature, but it's a bit "brute force" and not very nuanced. If this helps, or provokes discussion in any way, then that's great, and if someone can help me with any of the above questions, that's perhaps even better. Yours, Kev "Kyrian" Green. -- Kev "Kyrian" Green. WWW: http://kyrian.ore.org/ Linux Security + Hosting + Admin/LAMP Coder @ http://www.orenet.co.uk/ When I spit in the eye of the gods, then I will smile

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spin-kickstarts/fedora-music-creation-base.ks
by Brendan Jones 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

spin-kickstarts/fedora-music-creation-base.ks | 110 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 110 insertions(+) New commits: commit d14887a7fcc5de5315631730b4039413ee1c39ef Author: Brendan Jones <brendan.jones.it(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed Feb 22 13:51:35 2012 +0100 Default package suggestions diff --git a/spin-kickstarts/fedora-music-creation-base.ks b/spin-kickstarts/fedora-music-creation-base.ks new file mode 100644 index 0000000..617cac8 --- /dev/null +++ b/spin-kickstarts/fedora-music-creation-base.ks @@ -0,0 +1,110 @@ +# fedora-music-creation-base.ks +# +# Description: +# - Simply a suggested package selection for music creation. This is +# not an exhaustive list, but could be used as a base to create a +# group entry for the comps.xml file at some point. +# +# Maintainer(s): +# - Brendan Jones <bsjones(a)fedoraproject.org> +# +# Changelog +# --------- +# Wed Feb 22 2012 Brendan Jones <bsjones(a)fedoraproject.org> +# - created + + +%packages + +# fedora audio +multimedia-menus + +# alsa / jack / transport +jack-audio-connection-kit +qjackctl +jackctlmmc +a2jmidid +alsa-firmware +alsa-plugins-jack +alsa-plugins-pulseaudio +alsa-tools +alsa-tools-firmware +alsa-utils +alsamixergui + +# midi +arpage +qmidiarp +timidity++ +seq24 + +# DAWs +ardour +rosegarden +muse + +# notation / editors +frescobaldi +swami +lilypond +audacity + +# synths / samplers +zynaddsubfx +fluidsynth +qsynth +#ams +bristol +hydrogen + +# guitar effects +guitarix +rakarrack + +# samplers / +sooperlooper +audacious + +# plugins +calf + +lv2-EQ10Q-plugins +lv2-abGate +lv2-avw-plugins +lv2-c++-tools +lv2-fil-plugins +lv2-invada-plugins +lv2-kn0ck0ut +lv2-ll-plugins +lv2-mdaEPiano +lv2-swh-plugins +lv2-ui +lv2-vocoder-plugins +lv2-zynadd-plugins +lv2core +lv2dynparam +slv2 + +ladspa +ladspa-amb-plugins +ladspa-autotalent-plugins +ladspa-blop-plugins +#ladspa-cap-plugins +ladspa-cmt-plugins +ladspa-fil-plugins +ladspa-mcp-plugins +ladspa-rev-plugins +ladspa-swh-plugins +ladspa-tap-plugins +ladspa-vco-plugins + +dssi +#dssi-vst +fluidsynth-dssi +hexter-dssi +nekobee-dssi +whysynth-dssi +xsynth-dssi + +%end +

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