Gingerblue Music Recording Software version 6.0.1
Gingerblue is Free Software in development for musicians who want to compose, record and share original music to the Internet from the GNOME Desktop. Gingerblue 6.0.1 runs on Fedora Core 36, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and macOS 12.4 Monterey via DMG or MacPorts 2.7.2 and records in Ogg Vorbis, currently 16-bit, 80kbps, 44.1kHz in Mono with built-in sound card and 24-bit, 112kbps, 48kHz in Stereo with Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 USB and M-Audio Fast Track Mk2 USB Audio Interface (tested 2022-06-08 with MacBook Air 2020 (M1) with USB-C/A converter after selecting the USB sound card Output/Input under System Preferences -> Sound in macOS 12.4 Monterey).
Installation on macOS 12.4 Monterey M1
Download DMG package for macOS 12.4 Monterey
https://www.gingerblue.org/mac/gingerblue-6.0.1.dmg
or
sudo port install gingerblue
Installation on Fedora Core 36 x86_64
sudo dnf install https://www.gingerblue.org/~ole/fedora/RPMS/x86_64/gingerblue-6.0.1-1.fc36.x86_64.rpm
Launching Gingerblue
Launch the software gingerblue from Terminal with
gingerblue
Screenshots
News
June 8, 2022
https://www.gingerblue.org/mac/gingerblue-6.0.1.dmg
May 1, 2022
Posted the BSc EE thesis "Public Audio Recording Software for Recording World Sounds" by Ole Aamot at https://www.gingerblue.org/thesis.pdf.
September 5, 2021
Posted screenshots of Gingerblue 1.4.0.
July 15, 2021
First major release of Gingerblue 1.0.0.
July 12, 2021
Posted screenshots of Gingerblue 0.6.0.
June 15, 2020
The Gingerblue Music Recording Project website is up on www.gingerblue.org.
-Publications
Ole Aamot: Public Audio Recording Software for Recording World Sounds. BSc Electrical Engineering, Informatics and Technology. (May 1, 2022)
Bugs
gingerblue 6.0.1
Bug #18 (Build on Fedora Core 36 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS): Immediate Recording to Ogg Vorbis from 'Mic' works!
gingerblue 4.0.1
Bug #17 (Build on Fedora Core 36 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS): Immediate Recording to Ogg Vorbis from 'Mic' works again!
gingerblue 2.0.1
gingerblue 2.0.0
Write XSPF 1.0
gingerblue 1.9.0
Fedora Core 35 Build
gingerblue 1.8.0
Bug #15 (Build on Fedora Core 35) and #16 (Build on Ubuntu 21.04) is fixed.
gingerblue 1.7.0
Macports Build
gingerblue 1.6.0
Add C header files
gingerblue 1.5.0
Meson/Ninja Build
gingerblue 1.4.0
Fedora Core 34 Stable Build
gingerblue 1.3.0
Multiple-Location Audio Recording EndOfStream (EOS) support on Cancel
gingerblue 1.2.0
Multiple-Location Audio Recording support
gingerblue 1.1.0
Bug #14 (Icecast broadcasting via libshout 2.4.3) is blocked.
gingerblue 1.0.0
First major release.
gingerblue 0.9.0
Bug #13 (Icecast broadcasting via libshout 2.4.3) is fixed.
gingerblue 0.8.0
Bug #12 (Studio broadcast) is fixed.
gingerblue 0.7.0
Bug #11 (Studio configuration) is fixed.
gingerblue 0.6.0
Bug #10 (Computer station location) is fixed.
gingerblue 0.5.0
Bug #9 (Recording timestamp) is fixed.
gingerblue 0.4.1
Bug #8 (Immediate recording) is fixed.
gingerblue 0.4.0
Bug #7 (Build on Fedora Core 34) is fixed.
gingerblue 0.3.0
Bug #6 (Build on Fedora Core 32) is fixed.
gingerblue 0.2.0
Bug #5 (Crash on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS) is fixed.
gingerblue 0.1.9
Bug #4 (Overwriting Song Files) is fixed.
gingerblue 0.1.8
Bug #1, #2 & #3 is fixed.
gingerblue 0.1.7
Bug #3: Recording Cancellation
gingerblue 0.1.6
Bug #1 & #2 fixed.
gingerblue 0.1.5
Bug #1 is present, but bug #2 is fixed.
gingerblue 0.1.4
Bug #1: The wizard saves Song information as XML, but recording does not yet work
Bug #2: Internationalized folders (Norwegian $HOME/Musikk instead of $HOME/Music for saving Song information as XML must be supported
Documentation
Building from Source
Fedora Core 36
sudo dnf install intltool libshout-devel geoclue2-devel sudo dnf install gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel geocode-glib-devel sudo dnf install libchamplain-devel libchamplain-gtk libchamplain git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/ole/gingerblue cd gingerblue/ autoreconf aclocal automake --add-missing ./configure make sudo make install gingerblue
Click on "Cancel" once in Gingerblue 6.0.1 to stop immediate recording and click on "Cancel" once again to exit the Gingerblue application (or Ctrl-c in the terminal). You'll find the recorded files in $HOME/Music/ on GNOME 42 systems in American English language.
Source Code
Development Repository
http://gitlab.gnome.org/ole/gingerblue
Distribution Packages
Source Code
https://www.gingerblue.org/src/gingerblue-6.0.1.tar.xz
https://download.gnome.org/sources/gingerblue/6.0/gingerblue-6.0.1.tar.xz
Fedora Core 36
https://www.gingerblue.org/~ole/fedora/RPMS/x86_64/gingerblue-6.0.1-1.fc36.x86_64.rpm
https://www.gingerblue.org/~ole/fedora/RPMS/x86_64/gingerblue-debuginfo-6.0.1-1.fc36.x86_64.rpm
https://www.gingerblue.org/~ole/fedora/RPMS/x86_64/gingerblue-debugsource-6.0.1-1.fc36.x86_64.rpm
https://www.gingerblue.org/~ole/fedora/SRPMS/gingerblue-6.0.1-1.fc36.src.rpm
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
https://www.gingerblue.org/~ole/ubuntu/gingerblue_6.0.1-1_amd64.deb
https://www.gingerblue.org/~ole/ubuntu/gingerblue_6.0.1-1.debian.tar.xz
https://www.gingerblue.org/~ole/ubuntu/gingerblue_6.0.1-1.dsc
https://www.gingerblue.org/~ole/ubuntu/gingerblue_6.0.1-1_amd64.buildinfo
https://www.gingerblue.org/~ole/ubuntu/gingerblue_6.0.1-1_amd64.changes
https://www.gingerblue.org/~ole/ubuntu/gingerblue_6.0.1.orig.tar.xz