>From: Rob <lau@xxxxxxxxx> >On Tuesday 13 November 2007 15:21, Alexandros Vichos wrote: >> I don't know if someone has implemented this idea, neither have I >> searched online for something similar, but this post reminded me of >> it, and i thought it would be nice to share it with all you Linux >> Audio guys! > >I started messing with some scripts a couple years ago and registered >the domains musicvs.com and .org (as in "music versioning system" but >I didn't want to reuse "MVS" even if it were available), but then my >partner's heart problems got worse and my free time disappeared. I >haven't let them lapse if I remember right, but I'm still kinda >picking up the pieces and doubt I'd get anything done with it for >months at least, if not more. > >It kinda started with my desire for a license for music that was like >the GPL. No, not the CC-Attribution-ShareAlike license, because that >doesn't require you to release your source tracks. I'm no lawyer, so >rather than conceiving yet another new half-cocked license I started >thinking about creating an environment where that kind of sharing >would be easier. > >My idea was basically to have projects on this site like cvs or svn >would, but with a timeline and audio tracks instead of a bunch of >directory trees, and participants could be granted read-only or >check-in access (no access by default because of the bandwidth >involved), they could upload their tracks in some lossless format, >subject to CC-By-SA, and I was going to use one of the non-GUI sound >libraries/languages to allow for effects and (though I hadn't heard >of the term yet) Ajax waveform editing with streaming audio for >previewing, and there'd be some way to distribute tracks or mixdowns >publicly automatically via bittorrent, and it was all probably way, >way more ambitious than I could have handled by myself. interesting ideas, there. but, yes, somewhat involved. i wonder what would happen if it all started with one sample, which could be developed and forked at will, resulting in a LARGE collection of material, all "descended" from one source... not sure about the logistics of something like that. -- .pltk. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
