Ho ho ho, I just wanted to say I hate it when release announcements are soo dry and dreary you almost fall to tears reading them... People could atleast _try_ and add some humour to them! It's not like it's _that_ much harder... ...oh, wait... that was _my_ announcement... then it must have been you saying that??? Ooooh, now I'm confused, I hate being confused... /Robert :) ps. I just loved the road map, the future's so bright we gotta wear shades! ds. Monday 10 November 2003 23.30 skrev iain: > What is Marlin? > > Its a Sample Editor. > It edits Samples. > It uses GNOME and GTK+2 > It looks pretty > > What's changed? Ermmm > * We do stuff with any metadata a file may have. > * Should load and save markers in wavfiles if you have a recent > enough GStreamer (HEAD branch) > * More paste options, and more silly features like halving > selections > * Hmmm... > * Oh, the CD ripp^wextractor should work again, and if you have > Musicbrainz installed it'll get details from there and use them > in naming samples. > * Markers can be added and editted and used for minor editting jobs > * In the file selector there's preview details of sound samples. > * Errr... > * Bound to be other stuff I've forgotten (Can you tell I'm putting > lots of thought into this announcement?) > * Oh yeah... > * It has a thumbnail of the whole sample in the overview bar now. > Soundforge doesn't even do that! > > What does it look like? > http://marlin.sourceforge.net/marlin-track-marker.png is a good > screenshot. There's others kicking around that site. > Some are out of date. > > Where can I get it? > Rumour has it you can download it here > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53043 > You shouldn't always believe rumours though... > > Can I help? > Please do, I have no real clue what I'm doing. In fact as David Devant > and His Spirit Wife once sang "We're making it up as we go along, > humming a half remembered song. When we woke up, we thought, whats the > big deal...then we remembered, this is for real". Only the first line of > that really was relevant, but I thought I'd do the whole thing. People > to work on docs would be nice...translators too. > Testers really welcome, and audio engineers can tell me what they want > Marlin to do. I'd love to have feedback. > > What do I need? > > GNOME 2.4. It'll be moving to gnome2.6 base soon, but it'll still work > on 2.4 for the time being. > If you want track listings in the CD ripp^wextractor then you'll need > Musicbrainz. > GStreamer 0.7+ is required. HEAD CVS would be preferable cos then you'll > get extra stuff, but 0.7.1 should be fine if thats all you have and > can't be bothered fighting Sourceforge's anoncvs stuff. > > Is there a website? > > Yes. > > Where is it? > > http://marlin.sf.net > > Is there a roadmap so we can see where you're heading? > > Yes! I spent hours making one, cos all the cool projects have one, and > we want to at least give the impression we're a cool project. > http://marlin.sourceforge.net/road-trip2.png > > Any art commissioning, just ask me. I'm great at art. You're bound to be > able to tell. > > As usual, all donations of > a) Old guitar effects > b) Fender Jaguar/Telecaster guitars > c) Money > d) Soundcards that work with ALSA and aren't limited to 48Khz > (dumb Extigy) > e) bugfixes and feature patches > Will be greatfully received, although, and I'm getting realistic here, > not really expected. > > Hasta La Vista Baybee! > iain > -- > "Things like Destiny's Child are just repressed sexuality. It happens > with boys and men too. I feel embarrassed for them when I listen to > Stereophonics or Coldplay. That's not music for men." -- Alec Empire > > _______________________________________________ > linux-audio-announce mailing list > linux-audio-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-announce
