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From: Josh <joshbp@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Linux audio (was Re: cdda2wav sound problem when ripping)
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:19:50
Message-Id: 417D35C6.1000407@bellsouth.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-desktop] Linux audio (was Re: cdda2wav sound problem when ripping) by Lindsay Haisley
1 Lindsay Haisley wrote:
2
3 >Thus spake Stuart Stegall on Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 10:19:47AM CDT
4 >
5 >
6 >>The real problem is that all of the rippers on linux are complete crap
7 >>compared to the rips with EAC or PlexTools.
8 >>
9 >>
10 >
11 >Has anyone gotten really serious about developing a professional quality
12 >studio suite for Linux, e.g. Protools or any of the other pacakges that run
13 >on the Mac, or even on Windows, for professional studio work? Even if it
14 >were commercial software, it would be a big step forward for Linux.
15 >
16 >Most of the bleeding edge Linux audio processing software I see is developed
17 >by and for geeks, is fairly obvioiusly still in the development phase, and
18 >often has been there for years ;-) Mixers (including most mixer UIs in ALSA
19 >that I've seen) are not user friendly. Other stuff is buggy, noisy,
20 >unstable, or unusable for some other reason, often because the UI is so
21 >completely at odds with what a studio engineer would expect and be able to
22 >grok without taking a crash course in under-the-hood Linux.
23 >
24 >
25 >
26 I've found this.
27 http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7342
28
29 and this:
30 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=17812&highlight=audio+tools
31 <http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=17812&highlight=audio+tools>
32
33 that's about all the help I can give, I'm not a musician.