Welcome to the Telemeta project

Telemeta is a global audio archiving program written in python which introduces useful and secure indexing methods to backup digitalized audio files and metadata dictionnaries. It is dedicated to backup any digitized and documented sound from collections of vinyls, magnetic tapes or audio CD over a strong database in accordance with many standards. Export functions also encapsulate edited metadata into compressed file. The object style architecture will soon provide user-friendly interfaces and plugin' style audio processing.

Here are the main features of Telemeta:

  • Secure media editing and archiving over networks.
  • Easy transcoding
  • Full tagging and marking methods
  • Dublin Core compatible
  • XML metadata backup
  • Web interface introducing WorkFlow? (still in dev from march 2007)
  • SQL backend
  • Data anti-corruption security with par2 recovery keys
  • Data synchronizing over remote servers (rsync)
  • Auto AudioMarking? from metadata (thanks to Festival and Ecasound)

The Telemeta concept is based on collections. A collection includes original sounds - or albums containing sounds - which will be backuped in a secure way with a view of transcoded 'public' formats (WAV, FLAC, MP3, OGG and many more soon...) including metadata editing and publishing tools.


NEWS

  • September 30th 2008:

Telemeta 0.3.3 has been released ! Telemeta is now compatible with Django 1.0 thanks to Olivier Guilyardi ! See the changelog file

  • September 19th 2008:

Telemeta's license has changed from BSD to CeCILL

  • September 3rd 2008:

Telemeta 0.3.2 has been released !

  • May 26th 2008:

Telemeta 0.3.1-1beta has been released !

  • March 28th 2008:

Telemeta is under development thanks to the CREM. Here is a view of the almost finished version 0.3.1. Stay tuned for the release !

  • June 4th 2007:

Telemeta 0.3.0 is out !
Download it here.
View the revisionlog since the old version 0.2.8.

  • April 17th 2007:

Telemeta is in high development now. The devel architecture has been modified to define main class objects of the program. Olivier has started the development of the user interface and SQL links. Guillaume has created the first Export objects, methods and tests. Please consider the development version in a _transitional state_. Some methods might be not functionnal... Feel free to post tickets if you encounter problems...


SCREENSHOT


Full size : Screenshot of the last telemeta version applied to the data of the Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie (CREM, Paris)


DEMO


DOWNLOAD

  • On Debian or Ubuntu systems, just add these lines to your /etc/apt/sources-list: 
deb http://debian.parisson.org/ binary/
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main

Then, 

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install telemeta
  • On other linux platforms, get the lastest package on and uncompress the archive. See INSTALL for more informations.
  • You can also get the lastest development version to try the lastest useful features (require Subversion): 

svn co http://svn.parisson.org/svn/telemeta/trunk telemeta

Then go into the created directory and just type this with your favorite shell : 

sudo python setup.py install

See README and INSTALL file for more informations and how to start a new telemeta instance.


DEPENDENCIES

python (>= 2.4), python-xml, python-mutagen, python-django (>= 1.0), sox, vorbis-tools, flac, normalize-audio, python-mysqldb, mysql-server, octave2.9, python-tk, libgd2-xpm, libsndfile1, vorbis-tools, flac, lame, normalize-audio, python-scikits-audiolab (>= 0.7)

optional:
ecasound, festival, par2


DOCUMENTATION


OTHERS

  • TracGuide: How to use the Trac environment (where you currently are)


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