Subject: [linux-audio-dev] Announce: aRts-0.6.0
From: Stefan Westerfeld (stefan_AT_space.twc.de)
Date: Tue Sep 04 2001 - 18:14:20 EEST
Hi!
aRts-0.6.0 is available as standalone release.
What is it?
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This release contains a standalone version of the aRts sound server. Running
artsd will allow you to let multiple applications play and record sounds at
once, network transparently. Besides being a very modular sound server, aRts
is also a media framework.
The core design of the aRts framework involves several concepts:
* sound (or other media streams) is produced and processed in small modules,
which are connected to achieve the desired effect
* communication through MCOP - the multimedia communication protocol, enables
multiple applications running in seperate processes to work together at
media oriented tasks
aRts is good at midi synthesis, realtime processing, a useful tool for
creating music, but also at applying effects, filters, decoding media, and
so on. Plugins can be easily added. It's a good base for applications.
Note that this is a standalone release. Most people currently use aRts in
conjunction with KDE (aRts is included in all versions >= KDE2.0). The
standalone release is lacking a lot of frontend code for most advanced
tasks. This means: whereas the sound server itself is really stable and
usable for everybody, arts-extras currently is probably something for
developers.
Changes since arts-0.5.4:
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* finished Arts::InputStream/Arts::StreamPlayObject interface for decoding
streaming media
* added Arts::PitchablePlayObject for changing playing speed/pitch of media
on the fly
More information:
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http://www.arts-project.org
Download:
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artsd,basics: http://www.arts-project.org/download/arts-0.6.0.tar.gz
midi,extras : http://www.arts-project.org/download/arts-extras-0.6.0.tar.gz
Cu... Stefan
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KDE Developer, project infos at http://space.twc.de/~stefan/kde *-
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