The BrutefirDRC manuals and all other stuff will only be updated on the new webspace. Toby has created a mailing list for BrutefirDRC. If you have any questions, tips or problems feel free to discuss them on our mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/brutefirdrc

• supporting audio files with different samplerate and different bitrates (thanks to Toby again, he changed the wrapper script to make this possible)
• The user can define a directory with his own custom-convert Template files to be used when enabling the plugin
• The PCM conversion has been deleted because FLAC is doing the job equally well

Bitrate and samplingrate
The support for all sample and bitrates has been implemented by Toby. The brutefirwrapper now uses WAV as input and output format. The wrapper script can read the samplerate from the WAV header and resample the underyling filters as needed.
For this to work all conversion templates have been changed to transcode input files to WAV in 24bit format.

Tested formats known to work:

• Flac with a bitrate of 16/24bit and a samplerate of 41000,48000 or 96000
• MP3 with a samplerate of 41000 or 48000 (mp3 does not support samplerates of 96000)
• OGG with a samplerate of 41000,48000 or 96000
• WAV with a bitrate of 16/24bit and a samplerate of 41000,48000 or 96000

Tested formats that are not working on my installation (Ubuntu 9.10 with SqueezeBoxServer version: 7.4.1 – r28947 @ Tue Oct 20 07:58:02 PDT 2009):

• AIFF all sampling and bitratess
• WMA (no WMA-Decoder is included in the installation, so it cannot be transcoded to WAV)

All other formats have not been tested.

Installation

After replacing the old Plugin with the new version you need to

• enable BrutefirDRC for all players that are using it
• change your Brutefir Config-Files to use 24bit input (from sample: “S16_LE”; to sample: “S24_LE”;)!! See the example configuration files in filter_examples_1.2.0.tar.gz

We are using Ruby on some projects and really wanted to give Apache Buildr a try. The problem with buildr is that it plugs ifself into the maven dependency management. Downgrading dependencies back to maven was not an option, so we needed a way to use Ivy with Buildr.

ivy4r to the rescue

To integrate ivy into buildr ivy4r was created. Ivy4r is a wrapper around Ivy using antwrap and provides a pure ruby interface to ivy. The interface provides all Ant tasks that can be useful. On top of this two extensions are provided one for buildr one for rake. By requiring the appropriate extension ivy can be integrated seamless into the build process using the standard way buildr extensions are configured.

For more information check out the ivy4r documentation on github or rubyforge:

• http://github.com/klaas1979/ivy4r/tree/master
• http://hamburgrb.rubyforge.org/ivy4r/