Thanks for that Dave, I guess there's no arguing with the author himself! I have heard/read that the book is/was very good, but time stands still for no man or book unfortunately. I have a good collection of expensive, outdated Linux books that were all wonderful in their day :-) Although I've played music for 30 years, and worked with Linux web servers/scripting/databases for 3 years, I've only just put 2 and 2 together and begun exploring Linux audio and sound. So I look forward to the 2nd Edition. Mick Quoting Dave Phillips <dlphilp@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Michael Hall wrote: > > > I'm wondering if Dave Phillip's book 'Linux Music and Sound' is still a > good > > buy. Given that it was published 3 years ago, would much of the material > now be > > out of date? > > Hi Michael: > > Yes, I'm afraid much of it (most of it?) is out of date. It's probably > still useful as introductory material for Csound, Common Music Notation, > and a few other things, but I hesitate to recommend it. I'm supposed to > be working on the 2nd edition, and I've collected a good lot of material > for it, but I still need to work out some issues with my publisher. > > You're likely to get much more timely information from this list. :) > > Best regards, > > == Dave Phillips > > The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm > The Linux Soundapps Site at http://linux-sound.org > ---------------------------------------------------- Michael Hall Web Development Officer Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education Work: mick.hall at batchelor.edu.au (08) 8951 8352 Home: ninti at ninti.com (08) 8953 1442 ----------------------------------------------------
