Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] [ANN] Rhythmbox plugin for pitch and tempo control

[giopas <linux giopas eu>]

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> Willem van Engen wrote:
>> I'd like to announce the first release of a Rhythmbox plugin that allows
>> the independent control of tempo and pitch during playback. I was glad
>> to find that almost all things I wanted were supported by Rhythmbox's
>> plugin architecture, thanks!

Thanks to you Willem! It's a very nice idea and work that adds another
amazing plugin to rhythmbox!

>> The source code can be found at:
>>   http://willem.engen.nl/projects/musictools/
>
> Very cool! I'm thinking of using echonest's analysis data to have smooth
> automatic beatmatching and mixing of songs, and this is an excellent
> first step to achieving that! I'll be sure to look into it, and the the
> scaletempo libraries!

Eric, that would be a really nice project too!

> When I install the plugin, however, I get:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/home/eric/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins/scaletempo/__init__.py",
> line 127, in activate
>     self.scaler.activate(shell.get_player().get_property('player'))
>   File "/home/eric/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins/scaletempo/__init__.py",
> line 86, in activate
>     self.gstelement = gst.element_factory_make('pitch', 'pitch0')
> gst.ElementNotFoundError: pitch
>
> I *do* have gstreamer-plugins-bad installed, but maybe Ubuntu Hardy has
> a version that is too old?

No problem for me instead. I run rhythmbox 0.11.6 on Debian SID and I've
installed the following packages:

> $ dpkg -l "gstreamer*" | grep ^ii | awk '{ print $1" "$2 }'
> ii gstreamer0.10-alsa
> ii gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
> ii gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs
> ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
> ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-base
> ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
> ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
> ii gstreamer0.10-tools
> ii gstreamer0.10-x

enjoy, ;)
giopas

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