Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] New Linux soundapp site progress
From: francesco whalley (nonsenso_AT_planet.it)
Date: Fri Apr 05 2002 - 08:11:59 EEST
I think it could be useful to make a list of keywords
then bound every software/resource to some of them
(three-four keywords per item).
The list could be used to single out some categories
scanning for most used keywords and eventually
to let visitors browse the site choosing keywords
from some select menus.
just some comments...
apart from all these comments i'd like to declare beforehand
that they are not here just to criticize but only because i think
that public speaking about a matter could help to absorb it,
and this is very important for the browsing categories of a site.
Csound and friends could be seen as development tools
but they reside more in the "synthesis" domain...
orc, sco and csd files are jit compiled but what you get
it's rendered soundfiles or realtime stuff, not a conventional app.
Isn't Digital Audio too general as a category if we speak
about audio software? I know what it's meant here but
personallyi think it's too broad. Same apply for Musician's tools
I know here musician is used to refer to classical musician
but I created most of my music with a machine not with
my ex violin so i personally think most of the things in the
site will be musician tools...
Sound cards & Drivers aren't necessarily in the development
domain. Everyone that has to setup an environment not
automatically settled by an os installer or by some other tool,
has to pass the "ordeal"... especially for some types of soundcards.
please forgive me for my macaronic english
cheers
francesco
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Dantan Rzewnicki" <rzewnickie_AT_rfa.org>
To: <linux-audio-user_AT_music.columbia.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] New Linux soundapp site progress
> Just to get the ball rolling, here's a first shot at breaking down the
> categories. I'm not particularly happy with the names I have for the
> groups of categories, but maybe grouping the categories in a manner sort
> of like this would work with different names for the groups. I probably
> don't have enough understanding of all the various communities/cultures
> around all these types of software to be trying to do this fairly...but,
> I'll try anyway. Many of the categories would probably fit in several
> groups and I'm presenting the groups in no particular order.
>
> Music Made with Linux tools:
>
> Help:
> Documentation/Newsworthy
> Mailing Lists
> Other Sound+MIDI Pages
> Repositories
>
> Voice:
> Conferencing
> Telephony/AV
> Speech Synthesis/Analysis
>
> ????:
> Demos
> Digital DJ
> MOD Trackers/Players/Resources
> Drumming
>
> End user tools (i.e. stuff for when you just want to consume, as opposed
> to create):
> CD Software
> Games
> Players
> Radio
>
> Musician's tools
> Guitar Software
> Music Notation
> Musicians Utilities
>
> Compression
> File Compression
> MPEG (MP3) Players/Encoders
> OggVorbis Software
>
> Development
> Csound & Cmix Helpers
> DSP Software
> Java Miscellanea
> Network Audio
> Software tools
> Sound Cards & Drivers
>
> Digital Audio:
> File Compression
> LADSPA Plugins
> Mixers
> Multitrack Recorders/Mixers
> Soundfile Editors
>
> MIDI:
>
> Software Synthesis:
>
> Miscellaneous:
> Unusual
> Emulators
> Scopes
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