GarageJam Music Studio Recording Software

GarageJam is Free Software in development for musicians who want to compose, record and share original music to the Internet from the GNOME Desktop. GarageJam 0.1.0 runs on Fedora Core 38, Ubuntu 23.04 LTS and macOS 13 (Ventura) via DMG with Icon Support (0.1.0_1) or MacPorts 2.8.0 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 2023-04-30 with MacBook Air 2020 (M1) with USB-C/A converter after selecting the USB sound card Output/Input under System Preferences -> Sound in macOS 13 Ventura).

Version 0.2.0

Installation on macOS 13 Ventura

Download DMG package for macOS 13 Ventura
http://www.gingerblue.org/mac/garagejam-0.1.0_1.dmg

sudo port install garagejam xorg-server

Installation on Fedora Core 38 x86_64

sudo dnf install http://www.gingerblue.org/~ole/fedora/RPMS/x86_64/garagejam-0.2.0-1.fc38.x86_64.rpm

Installation on Ubuntu 23.04 amd64

wget http://www.gingerblue.org/~ole/ubuntu/garagejam_0.2.0-1_amd64.deb dpkg -i garagejam_0.2.0-1_amd64.deb

Launching GarageJam

Launch the software GarageJam from Terminal with

garagejam

Desktop Icon

Screenshots

News

April 30, 2023

http://www.gingerblue.org/mac/garagejam-0.1.0_1.dmg

The GarageJam Music Studio Recording Project website will be www.garagejam.org.

Bugs

GarageJam 0.1.0

Bug #1 (Build on Ubuntu 23.04 LTS)

Bug #2 (Build on macOS 13.3.1): Icon Support

Bug #3 (Build on Fedora Core 38): Experimental Connect link to Gingerblue Recording Studio API.

Bug #4 (Build on Fedora Core 38): Experimental meta tagging with GstTagSetter.

Bug #5 (Build on Fedora Core 38 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS): Immediate Recording to Ogg Vorbis from 'Mic' works!

Bug #6 (Build on Fedora Core 38 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS): Write XSPF 1.0

Documentation

GarageJam API

Building from Source

Fedora Core 38

sudo dnf install intltool libshout-devel geoclue2-devel gnome-common
sudo dnf install gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel geocode-glib-devel
sudo dnf install libchamplain-devel libchamplain-gtk libchamplain
git clone http://gitlab.gnome.org/oka/garagejam.git
cd garagejam/
autoreconf
aclocal
automake --add-missing
./configure
make
sudo make install
garagejam

Click on "Cancel" once in GarageJam 0.1.0 to stop immediate recording and click on "Cancel" once again to exit the GarageJam application (or Ctrl-c in the terminal). You'll find the recorded files in $HOME/Music/ on GNOME 44 systems in American English language.

Source Code

GarageJam C Source

Development Repository

http://gitlab.gnome.org/oka/garagejam

Distribution Packages

Source Code

http://www.gingerblue.org/src/garagejam-0.2.0.tar.xz