open web audio CMS
Project description
For personal or collaborative media archiving projects, research laboratories and digital humanities.
Based on Django, Python, HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.
Overview
Telemeta is a free and open source web audio archiving software which introduces useful and secure methods to backup, index, transcode, analyse and publish any digitalized audio file with its metadata. It is dedicated to professionnals who wants to easily organize, backup and publish documented sound collections of audio files, CDs, digitalized vinyls and magnetic tapes over a strong database, in accordance with open web standards.
Key features:
Secure archiving, editing and publishing of audio files over internet.
Pure HTML web user interface including dynamical forms and smart workflows
Smart dynamical and skinnable audio player (thanks to TimeSide and SoundManager2)
“On the fly” audio analyzing, transcoding and metadata embedding based on an easy plugin architecture
Social cumulative indexing with semantic ontologies and timecoded markers
Multi-format support : FLAC, OGG, MP3, WAV and more
User management with individual desk, lists, profiles and rights
Playlist management for all users with CSV data export
Geo-Navigator for audio geolocalization
High level search engine
DublinCore compatibility
OAI-PMH data provider
RSS feed generators
XML serialized backup
SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL or Oracle DB backends
Multi-language support (now english and french)
Video support (EXPERIMENTAL, WebM only)
This web audio CMS is exclusively based on open source modules and can be run on any Unix or Linux system. It is mostly written in Python and JavaScript.
Installation, upgrade and usage
See INSTALL.rst and telemeta.org for more informations.
News
1.4.5
Collection and Item regex in settings allowed
Change resource list filtering rules
Add KdenLive session parsers and auto faders to auto tag audio or video timeline
Add ffmpeg based transcoding tools
Add enumerations replacing methods
Add chat rooms for enumerations
Cleanup some useless model properties
Many, many and many bugfixes
Last version compatible with TimeSide 0.4.x
Please check the new dependencies in setup.py
As always after upgrading: ./manage.py migrate telemeta
1.4.4
no new fancy functions
full using of static files which are now in static/ (htdocs/ is now deprecated)
IMPORTANT : upgrade TimeSide to 0.4.1, add ‘timeside’ to INSTALLED_APPS and do: ./manage.py collectstatic
add various buttons, various bugfixes
after upgrading, always do: ./manage.py migrate
1.4.3
add solr-thumbnail for automatic thumbnail handling of all related media images (please install)
add static media handling for solr and all various telemeta public files
fix some wrong user properties
SECURITY: you need to move your TELEMETA_EXPORT_CACHE_DIR from TELEMETA_CACHE_DIR cache (see example/sandbox_sqlite/settings.py)
EXPERIMENTAL: WebM and MP4 video handling for items, NO transcode but decode, add a nice video.js player
RECOMMEND: install django-extensions
transitional package to 1.5 (maybe 1.4.4 soon)
1.4.2
add user revisions to user profile
move all edit buttons to main edit pages
new Format object and various enumerations
add last revision to item detail
various bugfixes
1.4.1
Fix a bug for related media title parsing
1.4
For users:
add a Desk providing links to home and personal data
add Fonds, Corpus and their related media to the models and to the search engine
add some fancy drop down menus for main tabs
add video media handling (WebM formats only and with the last TimeSide master branch)
add playlist metadata editor
fix some sad bugs for YouTube related URLs and previews
cleanup admin page
add auto saving now for all searches !
add “My Searches” modules to user lists with search direct link
add RSS feeds for last changes of all users
better icon views
many bugfixes !
For developers and maintainers:
a new setting parameter: TELEMETA_DOWNLOAD_FORMATS = (‘wav’, ‘mp3’, ‘webm’) or whatever
before upgrading, you need to BACKUP and manually delete old wrong MediaCorpus and MediaCorpusRelated tables
we now use South for data model migration. Add ‘south’ to your apps and to do:
./manage.py syncdb ./manage.py migrate telemeta
See INSTALL.rst and email me if any pb!
Full changelog: see CHANGELOG
Demo
login: demo password: demo
Original Examples
Sound archives of the French Ethnomusicology Research Center (CREM) and the Musée de l’Homme :
a 100 year old world database migrated,
more than 5000 geolocated collections,
more than 32000 geolocated items,
more than 11000 sounds included
700 Go of original ethnological music files accessible through the web.
various musical instruments recorded for research purposes
started in sept. 2012
various electronic sounds and original electronic music produced by Parisson
Bugs and feedback
You are welcome to freely use this application in accordance with its licence. If you find some bugs, PLEASE leave a ticket on this page:
You can also leave a ticket to request some new interesting features for the next versions. And even if Telemeta suits you, please give us some feedback !
Contact
Homepage: http://telemeta.org
E-mails:
Guillaume Pellerin <yomguy@parisson.com>,
Olivier Guilyardi <olivier@samalyse.com>,
Riccardo Zaccarelli <riccardo.zaccarelli@gmail.com>
Twitter:
Development
You are welcome to participate to the development of the Telemeta project. The official project site is telemeta.org but you can find a mirror on GitHub.
To get the lastest development version, you need Git and run:
$ git clone http://vcs.parisson.com/git/telemeta.git
or:
$ git clone git://github.com/yomguy/Telemeta.git
License
CeCILL v2, compatible with GPL v2 (see LICENSE)
Sponsors
The Telemeta project is developed by Parisson. It is sponsored by :
CNRS : Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (the french Natianal Research and Scientific Center) http://cnrs.fr
CREM : Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicology (the french Ethnomusicology Research Center) http://www.crem-cnrs.fr
LAM : Equipe Lutherie, Acoustique et Musique de l’Université Pierre et Marie Curie de Paris (Instrument design, Acoustic and Music team of the Pierre & Marie Curie University) http://www.lam.jussieu.fr/
MuCEM : Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée http://www.musee-europemediterranee.org
MMSH : Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme http://www.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/
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