Care about FreeArt? by drew Roberts is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
If you care about Free Art it might make sense to give as much of your attention budget as possible to those making it. Make it a non-zero amount.
Your attention includes promoting it to others.
Some of your monetary budget might be a good idea too but I figure your attention budget might be more important.
If you prefer to think of Free Culture or a subset such as Free Music, cool.
If You Have Something *Important* To Say, Set It Free! by drew Roberts is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
If you have something important to say, set it Free using something like the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License or their Attribution License.
If you are unwilling to set it Free, don't expect me to think you think it is important. To me, you are saying that money is more important to you than your message. Forgive me if I don't spend my time, which I value, on your message.
all the best,
drew
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EDL (edit decision list) Audio player functionality by drew Roberts is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
What I started looking for is an audio player that can do for audio when mplayer can do for video as described here:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/edl.html
It would be so simple if mplayer would do this for audio as well as video but it does not seem to want to.
Cannot use EDL without video, disabling.
So. I have been on a twisty journey for a few days but it looks like I have found a workable if sub-optimal solution.
I can do the thing with ecasound and ewf files and ecaplay to play multiple ewf files one after the other.
Now, can I hack up a quick utility to take the edl file that I can create in mplayer even though I can't use it there and write multiple ewf files for ecaplay to play for me.
I really want something simpler and cross platform.
Why can't mplayer do this for audio only? Does anyone know of another Free Software player that can do this?
I will update this post as I get new info and include any script I come up with as well. (Or a link to the script)
all the best,
drew
Edit: here is a pastebin link to the code in case there are problems with cop and paste below.
Edit: (this is my first working demo, hopefully the formatting will not bork things)
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# ecaedl.pl
# script to take an mplayer created edl file
# and the corresponding audio file and write
# a series of ecasound ewf files to match
# mplayer's edl file and then play them in
# sequence with ecaplayer
use strict;
use Getopt::Long;
use File::Basename;
my ($help, $edl, $audfile, $result, $line, @lines, @parts, $numfiles, $oom, $efw, $efwo, $outfile, $name, $dir, $ext, @args);
sub usage
{
print "Unknown option: @_\n" if ( @_ );
print "usage: program [--edl edlfilename ] [--audfile audfilename] [--help|-h|-?]\n";
exit;
}
usage() if ( ! GetOptions('help|h|?' => \$help, 'edl=s' => \$edl, 'audfile=s' => \$audfile) or defined $help or ! defined $edl or ! defined $audfile);
print "$edl\n";
print "$audfile\n";
($name,$dir,$ext) = fileparse($edl,'\..*');
print "dir is $dir, name is $name, extension is $ext\n";
open(EDLF, $edl);
@lines = <EDLF>;
close(EDLF);
$numfiles = scalar @lines;
$oom = length($numfiles);
print "The number of files is $numfiles, order of magnitude $oom\n";
$efw = 1;
$efwo = substr("00000000$efw",-$oom);
print "$efwo\n";
for $line (@lines) {
@parts = split(/ /, $line);
$outfile = $name.$efwo."."."ewf";
print "Outfile = $outfile\n";
open(EDWF, ">$outfile");
print EDWF "source = $audfile\n";
print EDWF "start-position = $parts[0]\n";
print EDWF "length = $parts[1]\n";
close(EDWF);
$efw = $efw + 1;
print "efw is now $efw\n";
$efwo = substr("00000000$efw",-$oom);
print "$efwo\n";
system("ecaplay $outfile");
}
Gated Punch In / Punch Out idea for ardour / traverso / qtractor / etc by drew Roberts is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
So, am I ignorant and does this idea already exist?
Or, is this a foolish idea and not worth considering?
Or... (hopefully this one if not the first) would this be a cool addition to the feature set of a Digital Audio Workstation?
What I have in mind is an auto punch in and punch out but rather being keyed off of predefined ranges, it will be controlled by a noise gate. When a threshold is exceeded we punch in and when we drop below the threshold, we punch out.
Thoughts?
all the best,
drew
Advertising Flyer Idea by drew Roberts is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
OK, so the other day (you got me, the other week, I have been putting this write up off for too long now) I came down from work to find a flyer in my windshield. Now I really don't like getting these things but I have handed out a good amount in my younger days so, whatever...
This one was printed on both sides and so became instant garbage... What a waste. So I got to thinking and figured that printing it on both sides increased the chances of it being waste. Now, I can see the appeal of printing it on both sides as when placed under a wiper on a windshield (this is where I met the one in question) as the offer can be seen by those passing as well as the poor driver from the inside who got in before thinking to remove it.
The thing is, is this worth it if the things gets trashed right away. What a waste indeed.
So here is the idea:
Print only one side with you intended ad or offer. Print the other side with lines (think note paper) and your logo and phone number. Now instead of trashing your flyer, there is a decent chance I will take it home to use as note paper. Now your logo and contact info will be before me. Possible for a good while to come.
Just a thought for you Flyer Distributors. No Charge...
all the best,
drew
Dirty Words by drew Roberts is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Hey advertisers. You want to sell me something? Well, I know you think when you use words like "proprietary" and "patented" or "patent pending" that it will enhance the image of what you are selling and make it seem more desirable to me. That such words will make me want your goods more and make me want to buy them but I have a little secret for you.
Those are "dirty words" to me. They are "turn off" words. They make me want to avoid your stuff. I do appreciate you telling me the facts though so that I can more easily avoid your stuff. I would hate for your stuff to be polluted with such stuff but you not tell me about it. That would make it harder to avoid your stuff.
So, do your best to leave such out of your products and tell me about *that* and I will be more likely to buy from you.
Just some food for thought.
all the best,
drew
