A handful of notes I made while building and packaging the new Intel/ARM universal binary of Rubber Band Audio for Mac. I might add to this if other things come up. See also my earlier notes about notarization. Context I'm using an ARM Mac – M1 or Apple Silicon – with macOS 11 "Big Sur",… Continue reading On macOS, arm64, and universal binaries
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On macOS “notarization”
I've spent altogether too long, at various moments in the past year or so, trying to understand the code-signing, runtime entitlements, and "notarization" requirements that are now involved when packaging software for Apple macOS 10.15 Catalina. (I put notarization in quotes because it doesn't carry the word's general meaning; it appears to be an Apple… Continue reading On macOS “notarization”
MIREX 2019 submissions
For the 2019 edition of MIREX, the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange, we at the Centre for Digital Music once again submitted a set of Vamp audio analysis plugins for evaluation. This is the seventh year in a row in which we've done so, and the fourth in which no completely new plugin has been… Continue reading MIREX 2019 submissions
MIREX 2018 submissions
The 2018 edition of MIREX, the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange, was the sixth in a row for which we at the Centre for Digital Music submitted a set of Vamp audio analysis plugins for evaluation. For the third year in a row, the set of plugins we submitted was entirely unchanged — these are… Continue reading MIREX 2018 submissions
EasyMercurial v1.4
Today's second post about a software release will be a bit less detailed than the first. I've just coordinated a new release of EasyMercurial, a cross-platform user interface for version control software that was previously updated in February 2013. It looks a bit like this. EasyMercurial was written with a bit of academic funding from… Continue reading EasyMercurial v1.4
Sonic Visualiser v3.2
Another release of Sonic Visualiser is out. This one, version 3.2, has some significant visible changes, in contrast to version 3.1 which was more behind-the-scenes. The theme of this release could be said to be "oversampling" or "interpolation". Waveform interpolation Ever since the Early Days, the waveform layer in Sonic Visualiser has had one major… Continue reading Sonic Visualiser v3.2
The Breakfast Post 