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« Reply #90 on: December 01, 2007, 11:51:15 AM »

 I'd think twice before going after the wife's system  Shocked.. let her watch you sail along; she'll eventually want it too.

Can you still chimp files in linux?
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« Reply #91 on: December 01, 2007, 12:16:11 PM »

A dangerous venture
1. I would never touch the laptop of the lady, if it doesn't work like she WANTS it to work, she'll be all over me.
2. Watch out for hardware of laptops, be sure to check out that pilots for linux are available !

k

....And then there's my wife's new laptop with Vista - a fast processor, lots of RAM, and a real slow-poke Undecided -  prone to freezing up, slow to start up, and slow to accomplish even simple tasks Huh....hmmm

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« Reply #92 on: December 01, 2007, 12:43:09 PM »

OK, OK,

I'll leave the laptop alone!  Cheesy

Linux supports a tool called FLAC which is similar, although I haven't tried it yet.

MonkeysAudio will not work in Linux....yet.

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« Reply #93 on: December 01, 2007, 08:24:09 PM »

FWIW FLAC stands for 'Free Lossless Audio Codec' - but you knew that anyway Wink

 I hadn't heard of MonkeysAudio before. Is it completely free, as in, no patents etc.?
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« Reply #94 on: December 02, 2007, 01:35:18 PM »

Yes- free and lossless.  I'm sure it's patented so you can't go sell it and make money off of their efforts, but it's free to use...
 check their site; it shows comparisons to other formats.
 One thing I like about monkeysaudio is it is VERY fast, and efficient. 
http://www.monkeysaudio.com

Good news is that the source code is freely available, so one of those linux wizards could easily port it over..
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« Reply #95 on: December 03, 2007, 10:11:31 AM »

As I understand the situation, the original developer of Monkey's Audio has made the source code available for further improvements, but licensed the software in such a way that it cannot be developed for Linux. The open-source community typically conducts it's activities under the GNU license agreement, and the new Monkey's Audio licensing scheme is not compatible with GNU. Consequently, development for Windoze and Mac is encouraged, but improvements that would make the codec function in the Linux environment are pointless.

Repeated requests by the open-source community for a revised agreement that will allow them to adapt the software for Linux, have been ignored.

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« Reply #96 on: December 03, 2007, 10:30:05 AM »


Repeated requests by the open-source community for a revised agreement that will allow them to adapt the software for Linux, have been ignored.

Oren.

Bummer..so how does FLAC compare to the chimps?

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« Reply #97 on: December 03, 2007, 12:35:46 PM »

If you go to the monkysaudio link in my post above, they compare it to FLAC.
FLAC works. Just a little larger filesize in the long run.

I saw that same thread about monkey not responding the requests from linux people..bummer.
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« Reply #98 on: December 03, 2007, 12:38:40 PM »

If you go to the monkysaudio link in my post above, they compare it to FLAC.
FLAC works. Just a little larger filesize in the long run.


Thanks Bob.

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« Reply #99 on: December 08, 2007, 09:30:08 AM »

Right now, JACK is getting all my attention. It's one thing to get it set up for the basic connections, but there are some wild and wonderful combinations possible. Just joined the JACK site and am working my way through the manual.

Time well spent, I hope!
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« Reply #100 on: December 08, 2007, 09:35:18 AM »

True, Jack is wonderfull.
It's actually a combination of  virtual midi cables (like MIDI yoke on windoze) and rewire.
Very powerfull

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« Reply #101 on: January 05, 2008, 10:02:31 AM »

After working with my hot-rodded version of Ubuntu Ultimate Edition for 3 months now, the pitfalls of  using an operating system designed by a "gamer" (Thee Mahn) and optimized for general personal computing are becoming apparent. Although many of the musician's tools work well, some music programs perform in a hesitant fashion, and some won't load at all. Now, Canonical Ltd. (which provides commercial support for Ubuntu operating systems) has informed the developer of Ultimate Edition that he must remove "Ubuntu" from all product labelling because the direction he has taken this distribution is no longer in line with the Ubuntu philosophy of software development.

Next project for me: load up a new hard drive with "Ubuntu Studio", and see if it is a more appropriate operating system for running my audio applications.
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« Reply #102 on: January 05, 2008, 01:20:31 PM »

There's another guy (mod) over on Audiominds that seems to have a pretty good handle on Linux, too, in case you need any other help.
 He's involved in this post on using Linux for music, and is named elwood blues.
Not the same guy as here..
http://audiominds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5435

Nice guy, willing to help.
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« Reply #103 on: January 05, 2008, 02:54:21 PM »

Thanks, Pardner!

Elwood from Germany...I'll see what he has to say...
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« Reply #104 on: January 05, 2008, 03:19:47 PM »

Hmmm. Sad to hear you're having problems.

I wonder if this is time to have another look at 64studio? I can't remember exactly what the problem was you had before, display problems wasn't it? In any case I can't see they would be insurmountable and this distro does give you a lot of the stuff already correctly configured.
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