Re: [Audacity-quality] changes in Resample code
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From: Gale A. <ga...@au...> - 2013-01-16 14:12:14
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| From Vaughan Johnson <va...@au...> | Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:51:27 -0800 | Subject: [Audacity-quality] changes in Resample code > On 1/15/2013 11:35 PM, Gale Andrews wrote: > > | From Vaughan Johnson <va...@au...> > > | Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:55:03 -0800 > >> On 1/14/2013 10:37 PM, Gale Andrews wrote: > >>> | From Vaughan Johnson <va...@au...> > >>> | Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:59:47 -0800 > >>>> On 1/14/2013 11:51 AM, Richard Ash wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:27:20 -0500 > >>>>> Bill Wharrie <bi...@go...> wrote: > >>>>>> On 14/01/2013, at 2:16 AM, Gale Andrews <ga...@au...> wrote: > >>> [...] > >> In light of that, I'm not going to revert Richard's > >> changes for 2.0.3. From off-list discussion with Rob, there are still > >> good reasons to separate const-rate and var-rate, at least for libsoxr. > > > > So what is the end game now? I would guess by continuing to allow > > Audacity to be built with a working const-rate libsamplerate, it will > > take longer for the demand for libsamplerate to fall off. > > Whu-ut? These are *very* marginal. "Continuing to allow"? That's about > letting a tiny percentage (<1%)of people still play with razor blades. > > We're releasing 2.0.3 with libsoxr for const- and var-rate, on Windows > and Mac. That's about 99% of our users. > > If those 1%-usage-share Linux suppliers don't switch to libsoxr, it's on > them. Does this < 1% come from the number of tarball downloads as a % of the other downloads (33000, versus 8 million or so)? Clearly the numbers of Audacity users on Linux is far higher than that when you include distro packages. Steve suggested off list that Audacity could be installed on around 20% of all Ubuntu systems, which could extrapolate to over 2 million Audacity users just on Ubuntu. This was my concern, to clarify we'll continue to make the case for libsoxr (as we continue to work on it) and hopefully influence distro maintainers to make the switch to libsoxr. > > Plus we need to monitor (in so far as we can) for when demand > > for libsamplerate has fallen away to the point it's no longer > > "economic" to support it. > > I say we just eliminate it in 2.0.4, and see who whines. > > Eventual goal is all-libsoxr, as several of us have voted. Great! But I had to ask. > Still to be proven. Rob still thinks libsoxr var-rate needs proving in > the bigger user population. > > And hey, libsoxr is new for both const- and var-rate in the 2.0.3 > release! So absolutely, we should make these decisions after we get a > few *million* more users testing, with 2.0.3 release. Yes. Many thanks to Rob for his past and future work. Gale |