Music

Valérie and Friends, la compile

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Ce n’est certainement pas nouveau, mais je viens de découvrir ça avec un peu de retard :)
Un inédit de Minitel Rose, groupe Français, et un morceau de Moulinex, pas mal du tout.

Tracklisting:

1 Minitel Rose Zombie Lady (3:37)
2 Anoraak Long Distance Hearts (4:05)
3 Jupiter (4) Starlighter (3:15)
4 DVAS Inner Sanctum (3:47)
5 College The Light Of Your Dress (4:45)
6 Keenhouse Deep In The Forest (5:29)
7 Electric Youth Faces (4:11)
8 Russ Chimes Daytona (5:08)
9 Maethelvin Lost In Big City (3:16)
10 Outrunners, The Runaways (4:56)
11 Futurecop! Eyes Like The Ocean (4:46)
12 Moulinex & Press, Release 1stracklove (5:13)
13 Symbolone Last Scene (Daytona Mirage) (5:18)
14 Xinobi Woodstock (4:58)
15 Narctrax Excalibur Galactica (4:46)
16 Loose Shus Red Sonja (4:26)
17 Steve Moore (3) Saturnalia (5:38)

En écoute sur l’Itunes Store.

Oh ! By the way…

I must be really late on this one, but the website is just so cool ! Now you know what I want for christmas –> http://www.pinkfloyd.co.uk/obtw/

Pink FLoyd, thank you for all your work. I promiss I’ll never stop listening to you !

La musique selon vos criteres

MusicoveryÇa s’appelle Musicovery et c’est une « webradio » à la demande…

Le principe est simple : On choisi des critères on reçoit un « parcours  » musical. Après on peut passer d’une chanson à l’autre, spécifier si on aime la chanson ou pas, etc.

Je vous laisse decouvrir ici : http://www.musicovery.com/

Stopping Rotter to crash (I Hope)

I talked about Rotter in a previous post. This litte app connect to a Jack plug and record the audio to a file, in mp3, wav or other depending how you compiled it.
This app can also be told to spead files in a tree depending of the date, create a new file every X minutes and remove files older than X hours. Great.
But I had some crashed or unexpected exit. A friend of mine, already using it for a month or two said having no problem with it. But digging in the code let us find what the problem may be :

As we are recording in stereo, we are getting 2 ports from Jack. Then we create one stereo file (in wave).
The process is simple :
Inside a loop, check the jack ring-buffer to see if enough data is here. If yes, write a new chunk of sound. If not, wait for some time and check again.
I first found that the Jack ring-buffer check was made only on the first channel. As we are having 2 channels for stereo, what will happen if the first channel is filled up but not the second ?
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naming of Darkice’s Jack port

Darkice is a really good free product when talking about live encoding and streaming. It is the best friend of Icecast, which is the deflector module (ie : the link between live stream and customers).

I used to use Darkice directly from ALSA, the Linux sound layer, and encode my live audio from the soundcard to MP3. But for my new radio project I had to use Jack. I already talked about Jack earlier. It is so damn easy you won’t believe it :
Start jack (or have Jack start automaticaly when you start something using jack – see /etc/jackd.conf)
Start your favorite app, let’s say Darkice
Connect your Darkice plug to the soundcard
and you’re done !
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Un liens entre votre Itune, vos amis et l’internet

ilikeCa s’appel iLike, ca se trouve ici et ca permet de montrer a vos amis ce que vous ecoutez, de voir ce qu’ils ecoutent, de leur proposer ou se voir proposer de nouveaux artistes a ecouter.

Ca marche bien, c’est assé sexy. Merci a Manu pour cette info :)

Un logiciel de son opensource pour OS X

Ca s’appel Ardour et ca tourne sur osX, en universal binary. Pour le moment il faut installer Jack et l’interface est en X11. Ca semble puissant, je vais installer ca a la maison pour tester.

Bjork’s video contest

Think bjork video clips could look better ? Then do it yourself !
Make your own video of « innocence » here. The winner will finish up the clip with Bjork herself :)