Category Archives: Nightingale

Freesound seeks designer(s).

Posted on June 4, 2008 by bdejong

Would you like to help build Freesound 2.0 a.k.a. nightingale? Do you have plenty of experience with making design for web and pouring that design into clean, validating xhtml and css? Do you like the idea of having a link … Continue reading →

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Testing Solr…

Posted on June 2, 2008 by bdejong

After looking around for a search engine for Nightingale, and comparing features between all the various ones (from using tsearch2 on postgres to Sphinx to Solr to …) I’ve settled on Solr. Configuring and running Solr was (much) easier than … Continue reading →

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wav2png.py, son of wav2png

Posted on May 15, 2008 by bdejong

Last week I decided that for nightingale we need a new wav2png, and preferably one written in python, using the awesome python image library. After talking a bit to Ricard it was clear that using numpy and audiolab it would … Continue reading →

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Freesound 2.0 – A.k.a. Nightingale

Posted on March 3, 2008 by bdejong

So, we have finally succombed to the pressure of web 2.0, we have been tagged, we tagged, we dugg, opened a flickr.com account and … created a blog for Freesound. Or should I say Nightingale? Well, let’s only use Nightingale … Continue reading →

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