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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
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Boodler 2.0.3 released

  • Fixed, or worked around, a bug that prevented --testsound from working on Python 2.6.
  • Adjusted the package creation tool to skip .pyc files, and anything that looks like compiled code. It will now also skip redundant package requirements, and warn about any package which is required in two different ways.
  • Added a JACKB driver: the JACK audio system, using the Bio2Jack library. (I'm not convinced that Bio2Jack is the right way to go, which is why I didn't call this one "JACK". It produces deprecation warnings when building with the latest JACK library.)
  • Adjusted the listen module to work on Windows, unless the --stdinevents option is used. (That option requires the fcntl module, which is not available on Windows.)
Posted 18 Nov 2009, 12:34 a.m. by Andrew Plotkin (zarf)

Bash completion script

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.

Posted 15 Nov 2009, 6:34 p.m. by Andrew Plotkin (zarf)

Look, packages!

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.

Posted 17 Oct 2009, 2:46 p.m. by Andrew Plotkin (zarf)

New Qt user interface

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.

Posted 20 Sep 2009, 12:55 a.m. by Andrew Plotkin (zarf)

Site update complete

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.

Posted 7 Sep 2009, 5:20 p.m. by Andrew Plotkin (zarf)

Boodler site will be updated this weekend

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.

Posted 4 Sep 2009, 6:58 p.m. by Andrew Plotkin (zarf)

Boodler 2.0.2 released

  • Fixed the --default-driver option in setup.py, which broke at some point.
  • ALSA: fixed bug where the last moment of a soundscape would be cut short.
  • MACOSX: fixed bug where the first moment of a soundscape could skip a little.
  • Added a OSXAQ driver (based on code contributed by Aaron Griffith). This is recommended on MacOSX 10.5 and later. Also compatible with the iPhone.
  • Added a PULSE driver, for the PulseAudio sound system used in (Linux) Ubuntu 8.
Posted 28 Jan 2009, 9:24 p.m. by Andrew Plotkin (zarf)

Boodler 2.0.1 released

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.

Posted 14 Jan 2009, 10:29 p.m. by Andrew Plotkin (zarf)

Welcome Boodler 2.0

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.

Posted 12 Jan 2009, 11:02 p.m. by Andrew Plotkin (zarf)
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