LNXMuSCNS video meet Saturday April 10 / 6pm GMT / 8pm CEST / 14.00 EDT

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LNXMuSCNS video meet Saturday April 10 / 6pm GMT / 8pm CEST / 14.00 EDT

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#Video meet
#Saturday April 10 / 6pm GMT / 8pm CEST / 14.00 EDT
#time-zone-convert to mytime.io

You are invited and most welcome
- to meet and talk and chat about anything Linux audio related.

It's an open cafe with no particular schedule, stay as long as you like, it usually runs 3+ hours so do join in later if you can.

Join at fairmeeting.net/alinuxmusiciansvideomeeting.
Video and mic usage is optional, meeting room chat is open for all.

This thread is posted to track any notes and stuff that may come up and to help spread the word.

There's a shared scratchpad agenda open (no login req.) at framapad.org.
  • Meeting platform is Jitsi and supported by most browsers. Generously hosted by fairkom in Austria.
  • When joining you may see a notice about being the only participant, ignore that, if anyone else is in the room they'll appear within seconds
  • in the settings menu there's a audio and video device chooser with mic check level meter
  • RTFM at jitsi.github.io/handbook if you want
This will be the 6th linuxmusicians.com video meet organized on @briandc's initiative.
Here are some bullet point minutes from meet#2, meet#3 and a thread from meet#4 and meet#5
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General talk about what motivates programmers to keep on going even when non-linear complexity arises independently of how lean the code may become. Do they keep going anyway because they have to or can't stop, like musicians may do, no matter who listens?

@PieterPenninckx (maybe, or another Pieter :) ) explained about the effort required to learn and write solid code. Est. at least 5 years for C, C#, C++ or Rust.

I mentioned viewtopic.php?f=1&t=22975 :

@TAERSH reported issues exporting volume automation on MIDI tracks Sat Mar 27, 2021 12:45 am

@rncbc fixed it on the same day!
rncbc wrote: Sat Mar 27, 2021 4:32 pm
https://www.rncbc.org/drupal/comment/9101#comment-9101
guess wat? he news are it was all one pretty old and overlooked mistake of mine:)
after some deeper code examination, it was possible to nail it down, hopefully...
you may well have it fixed on today's snapshot (qtractor >= 0.9.21.13) please test && tell!
https://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/13
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Open Letter to Hobbyists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists

The Open Letter to Hobbyists is a 1976 open letter written by Bill Gates ...in which Gates expresses dismay at the rampant software piracy taking place in the hobbyist community, particularly with regard to his company's software.

Gates expressed frustration with most computer hobbyists who were using his company's Altair BASIC software without having paid for it. He asserted that such widespread unauthorized copying in effect discouraged developers from investing time and money in creating high-quality software.

The Homebrew Computer Club was an early computer hobbyist club in Palo Alto, California. At the first meeting in March 1975, Steve Dompier gave an account of his visit to the MITS factory in Albuquerque, where he had attempted to pick up his order for one of everything.

He left with a computer kit with 256 bytes of memory.

....at a June seminar, a paper tape containing a pre-release version of Altair BASIC disappeared. The tape was given to Dompier, who passed it on to Dan Sokol, who had access to a high speed tape punch.

At the next Homebrew Computer Club meeting, 50 copies of Altair BASIC on paper tape appeared in a cardboard box.

As a result of Dompier's copying of Altair BASIC ... many Altair 8800 computer owners came to skip purchasing the bundled package from MITS directly, instead purchasing their memory boards from a third-party supplier and using a "borrowed" copy of Altair BASIC.

At the end of 1975, MITS was shipping a thousand computers a month, but copies of BASIC were selling in the low hundreds.

David Bunnell, Computer Notes Editor, was sympathetic to Gates' position. He wrote in the September 1975 issue that "customers have been ripping off MITS software".
Now I ask you--does a musician have the right to collect the royalty on the sale of his records or does a writer have the right to collect the royalty on the sale of his books? Are people who copy software any different than those who copy records and books?

Gates, keen to attempt to explain the cost of developing software to the hobbyist community, restated much of what Bunnell had written in September and what Roberts had written in October; however, the tone of his letter was different, instead emphasising Gates' view that hobbyists were stealing from him personally, and not from a corporation.

"Why is this? As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share. Who cares if the people who worked on it get paid?"

In early 1976 ads for its Apple I computer, Apple Inc made the claims that "our philosophy is to provide software for our machines free or at minimal cost",[24] emphasising that Apple BASIC was free.[25]

Hal Singer of the Micro-8 Newsletter published an open letter to Roberts, pointing out that MITS promised a computer for $395, but that the price for a working system was $1000. He suggested a class action lawsuit or a Federal Trade Commission investigation into false advertising was in order. Hal also noted that rumors were circulating that Gates had developed BASIC on a Harvard University computer funded by the US government, and that customers should not pay for software already paid for by the taxpayer.[27]
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Updating a Linux distro, rolling vs. stable releases, arch vs. debian

Caveats exchanged.

@merlyns idea of an appliance audio LAW is parked for now, he's updating arch basically everyday

@rghvdberg finds the debian stable way is the real solution, sandboxing newer apps with flatpak'd, snap'd, containerized, etc. at the expense of extra disk usage to pull in extra dependencies where needed. A horror story of a Manjaro update that once blew out its install because of some rocket science.

Immutable architecture is one take on this challenge, similar to how iOS and Android may update (not sure about that):
https://guix.gnu.org/
https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/
Nixos viewtopic.php?f=4&t=20473
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This Japanese pensioner built an electricity pylon in his garden to improve the sound of his records
https://thevinylfactory.com/news/japane ... lity-pole/
Nicknamed ‘Rock Grandpa’ by his local record store, Morita paid $10,000 to plant a 40 foot utility pole in his garden that he has connected to the power grid to give his hi-fi setup its own source of “pure” power.

According to Morita, having your own power source eliminates interference that results from sharing a public utility pole. “Electricity is like blood. If it is tainted, the whole body will get sick,” he explains in a new Wall Street Journal video. “No matter how expensive the audio equipment is, it will be no good if the blood is bad.”

There’s little comprise with his equipment either, which includes a $60,000 American-made amplifier, 1960s German loudspeakers that once belonged to a theater and Japanese audio cables threaded with gold and silver.
https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/techno ... o-cab.html
"I accidentally dropped one end of my Denon cable into a glass of Tuscan whole milk I was drinking. Later when I finished my milk (yeah, I still drank it; should I not have done that?), my right arm (lost in an accident in 1987) spontaneously grew back. Is this normal?" asked R. Blais.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 171510.htm
The background lighting provided in a room has an influence on how we taste wine. This is the result of a survey conducted by researchers at the Institute of Psychology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. Several sub-surveys were conducted in which about 500 participants were asked how they liked a particular wine and how much they would pay for it.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs ... 09.00239.x
It is well known that the color of a beverage can influence its flavor. We conducted three experiments to investigate the effect of the ambient room color on flavor, while leaving the color of the beverage unaltered. We chose white wine as the beverage and used several methods to fully explore the potential role of ambient light.

First, a group of wine buyers made judgments on flavor and global liking while tasting a Riesling on site at a local winery. Ambient color influenced the subjective value of the wine. Wine tasted better in blue or red environments as compared with green and white. A second group was tested in the laboratory. Ambient color modified the taste, but not the odor of the wine. The influence of ambient color on flavor was confirmed in a third experiment using the method of paired comparisons.
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Yes, lots of interesting and useful ideas last night! :)
@LAM also mentioned the Valhalla tracker (particularly useful for MIDI output to other instrument plugins: VHT

And as @Fmajor7add9 noted.. the subjectivity of things (applicable to music as well!) such as surrounding environment (color, etc), price of equipment, etc.

And, as an idea for next week: screensharing an app or set-up for others to see, ask and comment on. Should be interesting! :)

A big thanks to all who participated last night, and to everyone working in their own way to make linux such a great platform for great music!


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