changeset 43:84d1d2076bf7

README file update

--- a/README	Tue May 15 12:50:33 2007 +0000
+++ b/README	Tue May 15 13:37:16 2007 +0000
@@ -1,35 +1,35 @@
 
-Sonic Visualiser
-================
+Sound Access - Easaier Frontend Client 
+======================================
 
-Sonic Visualiser is a program for viewing and analysing the contents
-of music audio files.
+Sound Access is a program for viewing and analysing the contents
+of a multimedia archive.
 
-With Sonic Visualiser you can:
+With Sound Access you can:
 
- * Load audio files in various formats and view their waveforms
+ * Query a multimedia archive on audio caracteristics (author, 
+ title, tonality, audio content...)
  
- * Look at audio visualisations such as spectrogram views, with
-interactive adjustment of display parameters
+ * Load and visualize audio files, related metadata and related media
+ 
+ * Add your own annotation metadata to an audio file of the archive 
+ and export it in an external file
 
- * Annotate audio data by adding labelled time points and defining
-segments, point values and curves
+ * Run feature-extraction plugins to calculate metadata
+ automatically, using algorithms such as beat trackers, pitch
+ detectors and so on
 
- * Run feature-extraction plugins to calculate annotations
-automatically, using algorithms such as beat trackers, pitch
-detectors and so on
+ * Run realtime audio plugin in cascade for source modification (source 
+ segmentation, noise reduction, pitch/scale modification...)
 
- * Import annotation data from various text formats and MIDI files
+ * Play back the original audio with related metadata and 
+ related media, taking care to synchronise playback with the 
+ display position
 
- * Play back the original audio with synthesised annotations, taking
-care to synchronise playback with the display position
+ * Slow down playback and loop segments of interest, including
+ seamless looping of complex non-contiguous areas
 
- * Slow down and speed up playback and loop segments of interest,
-including seamless looping of complex non-contiguous areas
-
- * Export annotations and audio selections to external files.
-
-Sonic Visualiser can also be controlled remotely using the Open Sound
+Sound Access can also be controlled remotely using the Open Sound
 Control (OSC) protocol.
 
 
@@ -37,10 +37,10 @@
 ----------------------
 
 First, please consider getting one of the ready-to-run binary
-distributions available from http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/ .
+distributions available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/easaier/.
 
 The following additional libraries are required or optional when
-building Sonic Visualiser:
+building Sound Access:
 
 REQUIRED	Vamp Plugin SDK		http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/
 
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@
 Optional	JACK			http://www.jackaudio.org/
 Optional	PortAudio v18 or v19	http://www.portaudio.com/
 Optional	MAD mp3 decoder		http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/
-Optional	Oggz and fishsound	http://www.annodex.net/software/libraries.html
-Optional        liblo OSC library	http://www.plugin.org.uk/liblo/
+Optional	Oggz and fishsound	http://www.xiph.org/downloads/
+Optional    liblo OSC library	http://www.plugin.org.uk/liblo/
 
 Although JACK and PortAudio are individually optional, you will need
 to have one or the other of them in order to get any audio playback.
@@ -82,14 +82,19 @@
 
 Then type "make".  The program will then either build, or not build.
 
+Under Windows, the VC project is provided. You can used it to 
+compile the sources with Visual Studio 2005 Pro or Visual Studio Express 2005.
+Note that in this case Qt must also be compiled with Visual Studio
+(http://qtnode.net/wiki/Qt4_with_Visual_Studio).
+
 
 Qt Library Version Requirements
 -------------------------------
 
-Sonic Visualiser requires Qt version 4.x.  It can not be built with
+Sound Access requires Qt version 4.x.  It can not be built with
 Qt 3 or earlier.
 
-You can build Sonic Visualiser using Qt 4.0, 4.1, or 4.2, but the
+You can build Sound Access using Qt 4.0, 4.1, or 4.2, but the
 build scripts provided will only work with Qt 4.2 because of an
 incompatible change in the Qt build utilities.  Please read
 README.Qt41 if you want to build with Qt 4.0 or 4.1.
@@ -98,19 +103,17 @@
 Credits
 -------
 
-Sonic Visualiser was developed at the Centre for Digital Music,
-Queen Mary, University of London.
+Sound Access was developed under the EASAIER project funded by the 
+European Commission (EU-FP6-IST-033902).
 
-http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/digitalmusic/
+http://www.easaier.org
 
-The main program is by Chris Cannam, with additional DSP and program
+Sound Access is based on Sonic Visualizer (http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/)
+developped by Chris Cannam, with additional DSP and program
 design work by Christian Landone.  Code copyright 2005-2007 Chris
 Cannam with parts copyright 2006-2007 Queen Mary, University of
 London, except where indicated in the individual source files.
 
-This project was partially funded by the European Commission through
-the SIMAC project IST-FP6-507142 and the EASAIER project IST-FP6-033902.
-
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
@@ -121,5 +124,5 @@
 More information
 ----------------
 
-http://www.sonicvisualiser.org/
+http://www.easaier.org