Welcome to Boodler, the open-source soundscape tool.
| FM3 Buddha Machine 1 and 2 Agents | Bruno Santos <bluey azulebanana com> | Nov. 15, 2009 |
| FM3 Buddha Machine 1 and 2 loop collection | Bruno Santos <bluey azulebanana com> | Nov. 15, 2009 |
| Babies! And plenty of 'em. | peterb <peterb@tleaves.com> | Oct. 22, 2009 |
| Infant sounds | peterb <peterb@tleaves.com> | Oct. 22, 2009 |
| waves by the sea | Adrian Croucher | Aug. 18, 2009 |
listen module to work on Windows, unless the --stdinevents option is used. (That option requires the fcntl module, which is not available on Windows.)
Axel Gross posted a bash tab-completion script for Boodler modules. If you don't know what that is, don't worry about it -- you're not a command-line Unix geek. If you are, this allows you to do tab completion on the packages and agents in your collection. Drop the file into /etc/bash_completion.d to use it.
If you're reading this on the http://boodler.org/ web site, look up one line to see the new toy. If you're on RSS, click through... I'll wait...
The front page now shows the most recently added Boodler packages. It links to a complete, if simple, web-site database of the package collection. No search yet, but I'll get to it.
Notice that the package database has its own RSS feed.
Tuukka Hastrup has written a small Python script which acts as a GUI for Boodler, listing your installed agents and letting you select one to play.
This requires the PyQt4 library (Qt toolkit, Python interface), which you're not likely to have unless you're a Linux user. So it's not mass-market, but it is the very first graphical Boodler interface, and that's cool. Thanks!
Download the script: boodle-ui-qt.py
EDIT 9/25: The author is maintaining a source directory at http://github.com/tuukka/boodle-ui-qt.
Only very minor cosmetic changes, but all-new software underneath. Please let me know if you see any problems. You can email me personally or on the mailing list.
At some point over this weekend, I will take Boodler.org down to upgrade the server software. (I'm installing the latest versions of Django and Sphene.)
Expect erratic behavior and random failures until I get it all working again. I've been testing the upgrade on a dev server, so it should all work smoothly, right? Right. I'll post again when life is good.
Fixed a few annoying glitches which prevented Boodler from working under Python 2.3.5.
I've also added Boodler to the Cheese Shop, Python's central registry of Python software.
After many months of delay (some would say "years")... it's Boodler 2.0. Check out the documentation and download links, to the right.
With this release, boodler.org becomes the central Boodler web site. My old Boodler page on eblong.com will redirect here.
Boodler 2.0 features a complete redesign of the sound and sound-effect libraries. No more horsing around with environment variables. Instead, you download .boop packages from this web site, install them, and they work. Or rather, you run the new Boodler package-management script -- it does all of that for you, automatically.
All of the classic Boodler sounds and soundscapes have been reformatted into .boop packages. We look forward to many contributions to come.