music March 2012

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Thoughts on spin tools
by Brendan Jones 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

Hi all, I been thinking about what we need to do differentiate the audio spin from a just a collection of audio packages in addition to the spins we already have. We really need some kind of UI or set of tools which tries to tie everything together, allowing for the coexistence of jack/pulseaudio (or not), multiple sound device configurations and context switching between audio and normal desktop use. I've mapping out such an application and in my travels have come across laditools [1] and kxstudio's cadence [2]. Good to see that there have been some recent efforts in this area. Perhaps we can leverage of these. I'd be really keen to hear other peoples experiences using these tools. I'll start building them locally here when I have the time but personally haven't put them through their paces as yet. We also need to collate all the tips and tricks we've all picked up along the way. Those that can be made generic we can ship in a fedora-audio-tools package. I'll set up a wiki page (in the next week or two) just to record these and we can collate them together later. Here I'm thinking alsa device settings, pulse scripts, qjackctl start/stop scripts: anything that people have had to create themselves to get their systems in a position to be productive for what they want to do. Footnote: some people have made some very valid points to me regarding the audio spin w.r.t pulseaudio. I think if this project is going to be widely accepted we will need to cater for it. Having said that, I can see no reason why we can't ship a minimal audio spin as well, pulseaudio-less sitting on top of a very light DE. The aforementioned tools should ship with this as well. regards, Brendan [1] http://repo.or.cz/w/laditools.git [2] http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/KXStudio:Applications:Cadence

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Good hardware specs for a "Fedora Music" box?
by Kyrian 03 Mar '12

03 Mar '12

Folks, I know what hardware spec I'd put in a server, and what spec I'd put in a standard workstation, but can anyone give me some idea of what a decent spec is for a Fedora Music / PlanetCCRMA / etc workstation is please? Do I really need a quad-(or more-)core system? what about RAM? etc? Assume I've done all the sane things like install Jack, kick Pulseaudio to the curb where it belongs, disable unnecessary services, etc. My current box is an "AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+" based system, but it seems to struggle with even the most basic tasks, and I struggle to see why. I want to be in a situation where I can be 75%+ sure that the hardware is fast enough and not causing me issues. I don't hold with this (apparent) Microsoft philosophy of that the newer version of windows is faster, but that's because your new PC that comes pre-installed will be faster by virtue of Moore's Law, so I usually refrain from upgrading hardware too quickly, but this whole Fedora Music thing is a different ball-game for me, where I really genuinely might need the extra resources for a useful purpose. K. -- Kev Green, aka Kyrian. E: kyrian@ore.org WWW: http://kyrian.ore.org/ Linux/Security Contractor/LAMP Coder/ISP, via http://www.orenet.co.uk/ DJ via http://www.hellnoise.co.uk/ Human Rights left unattended may be Removed, or Destroyed, or Damaged by the Security Services.

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