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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-music-list] Good hardware specs for a "Fedora Music" box?
by Kyrian 05 Feb '26

05 Feb '26

> > Hi: > > What do you plan to do with your audio workstation? As you can > imagine, editing one file with Audacity is very different from running > a SuperCollider server for many users while simultaneously recording > its output with Ardour *and* broadcasting it on the Internet. > A very good point indeed. I would like to be able to record stuff from guitar, midi-keyboard, microphone, DJ setup (via line input I suppose), and then edit the results with the appropriate applications. Not all at once, but maybe 1-3 inputs at a time. The ability to play in real-time through the computer's output would be very important I think as I reckon it's much harder to work any other way. That's all I can think of right now. I currently have an SB Live with the LiveDrive thing, which has all the inputs I need, but I am thinking in terms of general system horsepower (RAM/CPU/disk etc). Finding a supported sound card it's really a problem, I'll just go with M-Audio for that. But I would like to know if I need to get one to do what I want. 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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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 06 Jan '26

06 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 - actual latencies ?
by Be 05 Apr '15

05 Apr '15

Hello Fedora musicians, I've been lurking this list for a little bit and this is my first time chiming in on something. I think it is important to pursue an official realtime kernel for Fedora. I think a distribution focused on audio without a realtime kernel would have a serious bug, that IMO, would be worth delaying publication for. >So I had a beer with hansomepirate(jdulaney), who is, or was on the kernel sig, last night and we got to talking about a RT kernel. > >Last time we talked to the kernel folks about an rt kernel, they weren't impressed with the "need" for Fedora, but that was before the Spin was officially out. > >Now might be a good time to raise this issue again? I dug through my archives and found this thread. Now that we have an actual spin that's out, we can actually redo some of the testing to have more realistic tests. (multitrack with effects) > >I feel like right now, it's one of the few benefits that the ubuntu studio folks have (or at least claim to have) over us. The other is some semi-proprietary software that on... you know what, never mind it's getting off topic. > >Anyways, does the list think this is worth pursuing? > >>On Wed Feb 22 2012 at 9:10:29 PM Brian Monroe <briancmonroe at gmail.com[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music]> wrote: >> >> Ok, I redid all the tests, while the system was only running my DE and the >> test, and then again when I put it under duress by running a script that >> looped "du -h /" and "ls -Ral /usr/" over and over. I ran the script twice >> to get my proc up a bit to emulate running some intese delays and reverbs >> or other effects. >> >> Ironically the kernels typically did better when the scripts were running. >> Personally I think there's a clear advantage with CCRMA's kernel or even >> just a preempt kernel in the max lat areas. Those max numbers jumped up >> close to where they were near the beggining of the test if anyone was >> wondering. >> >> Here's the file with both sets of tests and the uname -a info as requested >> by Fernando. >> -Brian >> >>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Brian Monroe <briancmonroe at gmail.com[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music] >>> wrote: >>> I'll be sure to include that on the next batch. I used the kernel you >>> after installing the CCRMA repo when you use yum install kernel-rt, which >>> happens to be 3.0.17-1.rt33.1.fc16.ccrma.x86_64.rt. I'll go back and >>> include the other info to the old results when I do the load testing >>> tonight or tomorrow.

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Linux Audio Conference 2015 - Call for Participation
by Fernando Lopez-Lezcano 16 Mar '15

16 Mar '15

Hey, coming up soon!... -------- Forwarded Message -------- [Sorry for cross-posting, please distribute.] Linux Audio Conference 2015 - Call for Participation (Due to exceptional circumstances, this announcement comes a bit late, so please note the early deadline of Feb 1st for submissions. We apologize.) We are happy to announce the next issue of the Linux Audio Conference (LAC), April 9-12, 2015 @ JGU | Johannes Gutenberg University, in Mainz, Germany. http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2015/ The Linux Audio Conference is an international conference that brings together musicians, sound artists, software developers and researchers, working with Linux as an open, stable, professional platform for audio and media research and music production. LAC includes paper sessions, workshops, and a diverse program of electronic music. *Call for Papers, Workshops, Music and Installations* We invite submissions of papers addressing all areas of audio processing and media creation based on Linux and other open source software. Papers can focus on technical, artistic and scientific issues and should target developers or users. In our call for music, we are looking for works that have been produced or composed entirely/mostly using Linux and other open source music software. The online submission of papers, workshops, music and installations is now open at http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2015/participation The deadline for all submissions is Feb 1st, 2015 (23:59 HAST). You are invited to register for participation on our conference website. There you will find up-to-date instructions, as well as important information about dates, travel, lodging, and so on. This year's conference is hosted by the Computer Music Research Group (Bereich Musikinformatik) at the IKM (Institut für Kunstgeschichte und Musikwissenschaft) of the Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU) at Mainz. Being founded in 1991, our research group has been among the first German academic institutions in this interdisciplinary field at the intersection of music, mathematics, computer science and media technology. In our media lab students are working almost exclusively with Linux, and in our research we are also devoted to contributing to the growing body of open source audio and computer music software. http://www.musikwissenschaft.uni-mainz.de/Musikinformatik/ We look forward to your submissions and hope to meet you in Mainz in April! Sincerely, The LAC 2015 Organizing Team

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Fwd: [LAU] Linux Audio Conference 2015 - Extension of Deadline
by Fernando Lopez-Lezcano 31 Jan '15

31 Jan '15

A few more days! Hurry up and polish those papers and pieces! -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [LAU] Linux Audio Conference 2015 - Extension of Deadline Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 13:19:18 +0100 From: Frank Neumann <beachnase(a)web.de> Organization: Disorganized, kind of. [Sorry for cross-posting, please distribute.] The Linux Audio Conference submissions deadline has been extended for another week! Please note the new deadline: Sunday, Feb 8th, 2015 (23:59 HAST) So, if you were considering to submit a paper but couldn't make up your mind yet, here is your chance to become active! Never forget that this conference lives through the people participating in it. February 8th is the new deadline for all submission types: papers, music, installations, workshop proposals. Check out the link below for more info: http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2015/participation Note that as usual we have created two different OpenConf instances: one for the submission of regular papers, lightning talks and poster sessions, and a second one for music, installations and workshop proposals. For the latter, please also check the detailed instructions at http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2015/download/lac2015-call-for-miw.pdf. If you have any questions concerning your submission, please don't hesitate to contact us at lac(a)linuxaudio.org, or through our #lac2015 IRC channel on freenode.net. Please spread this information to anyone who might be interested. We look forward to your submissions and hope to meet you in Mainz in April! Sincerely, The LAC 2015 Organizing Team

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Re: [Fedora-music-list] SCaLE and LFNW
by Brian Monroe 30 Jan '15

30 Jan '15

Actually I remembered a conversation I had with Scott Williams who mentioned that we might try to setup OwnCloud and run the Jam spin off of Fedora Cloud as a proof of concept for that as well. If we get a server working I can bring that too. On Thu Jan 29 2015 at 11:47:10 PM Be <be.0(a)gmx.com> wrote: > I've been working on a Fedora Remix for something like this but > specifically for DJing with Mixxx. I am making this with DJs and > potential DJs in mind, who may or may not be tech savvy or know how to > use GNU/Linux. I am keeping it under 700 MB to fit on CDs. It will be > easy to modify the Kickstart to add whatever music packages you want to > demonstrate for your project. A lot of the work has been writing a shell > script to automatically partition USB drives in such a way as to be able > to boot a live image in BIOS or EFI mode (because Macs' BIOS emulation > mode does not have a USB driver) as well as have a normal storage > partition that is writable from the live system, Windows, and OS X. I am > nearly ready to publish it. I just need to read through the manual and > check things over before I'm ready to publish it. Hopefully I can do > that this weekend or next week. > > After a bunch of research, thinking, and testing, I have settled on the > following partition scheme: > GPT table: > 35 MB EFI System Partition with GRUB and a grub.cfg > 2 MB GRUB BIOS Partition > ~700 MB live ISO image contents copied to vfat filesystem > 100 MB ext4 unjournaled (to avoid wearing out flash drives) /home > rest of drive vfat storage partition, mounted at /home/liveuser/music by > a boot script > > Plus a hybrid MBR with the vfat storage partition first in the MBR table > so Windows sees only that partition on drives with the removable bit set > (this should also make it visible to CDJs, but I have not tested that). > The hybrid MBR also has an extra GPT protective partition so OS X sees > it as an MBR disk. Without the extra GPT protective partition, OS X will > see it as a GPT drive. I don't know why, but it won't read any of the > partitions when it sees it as a GPT drive. That doesn't really matter > though for my purpose and it's probably better to hide all but the music > partition from Windows and OS X users who would be prompted by their OS > to format the other partitions that those OSs do not read. > > On 01/29/2015 04:46 PM, Ian Malone wrote: > > On 29 January 2015 at 21:55, Brian Monroe <briancmonroe(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I am ParadoxGuitarist! I'm interested in going to LFNW, but I'll need to > >> check with the wife before I can commit. > >> > >> I really like your idea about the USB drives, here are some challenges > that > >> might pop up: > >> > >> I haven't had a lot of luck with persistent storage option when > creating usb > >> drives. SoaS I've heard works well, but I'm not sure how well it works > with > >> Jam. > >> I also don't know if they decide to install from that USB if their music > >> will transfer with them.... Though, hopefully they're savvy enough to > know > >> how to find it on the disk and copy it over, but if not it could give > them > >> negative impression of Fedora or Linux. > > I don't think it will. I've used the overlay persistent storage, that > > has a problem that once you run out of overlay it tends to freeze (or > > did in the past). It's possible to create the image with home on an > > actual filesystem on the USB, can't remember if this shows up as a > > partition or is an image file, if a partition then it would be simple > > enough for someone to find and copy a project off the attached USB > > after an install. > > > > > >> Jack sample settings could also give a bad impression if they're not the > >> same either when they reboot. > > plughw could work here, but it's really the installed system setup > > that would need to be tweaked. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > music mailing list > music(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music

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SCaLE and LFNW
by Jeff Sandys 30 Jan '15

30 Jan '15

Brian, Are you paradoxguitarist on the ambassadors chat? I like your proposal for SCaLE on the Fedora Music List. What I was thinking is put Fedora Jam on USB sticks, boot the stick, do the session with the guest, save it to the stick and give it to them. Unlike passing out disks or USB drives, you are pretty sure the guest will boot the drive to show off their creation to someone. Would you be interested in working the Fedora booth at LinuxFest NorthWest with me? The reason I ask is that I am not a "live" musician and do most of my work in PD and other music programming environments. I like what you are planning at SCaLE but feel that I would fail if I tried to implement the same thing. I have all the equipment we would need, guitars, bass, mikes, speakers, keyboards. And I could put you up in the Seattle area before and after the event. If you could attend I would get the 10 foot table, actually like a 10x10 booth space in the center of the exhibit hall. Otherwise I'll get one of the 5 foot tables that line the walls. If you are interested add a travel and hotel expense to the budget. I would enjoy the time with you to discuss the possibilities of making Fedora the premier Linux distribution for music. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxFest_Northwest_%28LFNW%29_2015 Thanks, Jeff Sandys

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Call for Content - Fedora Jam @ SCaLE
by Brian Monroe 20 Jan '15

20 Jan '15

Hey everyone, I'm promoting Fedora Jam in a big way at SCaLE (Southern California Linux Expo) this year. We're going to be giving away t-shirts to anyone that comes to the booth and records something. We're going to release all the recordings CC-BY somewhere online. (links to follow) I'm bringing a cajon, bass, two electric guitars, a mic, multiple midi controllers, acoustic, and a nylon string guitar to run along the Fedora Jam Spin connected to a 2 speaker system. That being said, I could use some help gathering some content. Here are some examples of what I'm looking for: - Ardour Sessions with tracks - Qtractor Sessions with audio/midi tracks - Rosegarden Project - soundfont libraries / Sampling patches - Hydrogen Sessions - Guitarix Patches - Sooperlooper stuff - Desktop Backgrounds - ect (you get the idea) My thought is to have some content, to show them all of the major programs working with something cool (as in working) on each of them as proof of concepts. If one of them sparks an interest, they can mix, edit, remix, solo over, or just listen to and get involved. So if you've got something (even if you're not thrilled about it) please send it my way. =)

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