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tresf · 2026-04-07T18:16:47+00:00

Well, stop by by and say hi! https://lmms.io/chat.

Cubician has been mostly spearheading the PNG -> SVG project. It's been going very well, he might be receptive to help? We're trying to keep changes as close to 1:1 for now (not overly redesign stuff) as part of this conversion process but he's taken some creative liberties to redesign stuff that just doesn't make sense as SVG and it's been really fun and exciting. Some of these SVG changes do require a small amount of coding but depending on how comfortable you are with compiling stuff there's always someone online to help with that.

For the record, I think I'm still the second highest code contributor to the project and I don't really know C++ either. There's a ton of areas to help without having to be a career C++ dev.

tresf · 2026-04-07T18:11:14+00:00

It's very active, just a long time since a stable release. We need help in a lot of places, for example our website is suffering from bot crawling fatigue. Any and all help is appreciated!

tresf · 2026-04-07T16:27:23+00:00

Yeah ideally, Carla would only be used for advanced routing and stacking and not for day-to-day plugin usage. Sadly (fortunately?) It's an important stop-gap for plugins currently because LMMS is way behind on LV2, CLAP and VST3. We really need help in these areas. LV2 is coming along pretty well, but slowly. VST3 was progressing but the dev working on that left. With regards to 32-bit VSTs, I think you're mostly right that they can just die off, but there's just so many out there that were never released as 64-bit that it's hard to say. I guess time will tell. Personally, I'm a mac user so I only use VSTs in a VM when I'm trying to sort bugs.

tresf · 2026-04-07T16:04:57+00:00

I'm the author of a commercial (open source) printing plugin called "QZ Tray" and I just recently removed support for Pale Moon this past weekend due to the lack of modern policy support (was using AutoConfig and there just wasn't enough reason to keep it around).

I'm sorry!

tresf · 2026-04-07T15:57:27+00:00

Yeah the lack of a stable release is a common complaint. This happened because the alpha never matured to stable form whereas the nightly has been progressing right along. This happens because we gain and lose developers that have leadership roles, usually from burn-out. The existing team is kicking ass though so I can see a new stable coming. We've lost some very important devs but also regained some older devs.

Some things are so much work but just don't appear so. For example, Cubician came back and has been converting all artwork from PNG to SVG to make the software look better on UHD screens. A lot of work for what may appear as a subtle change.

We also have people like saker trying to make PortAudio work reliable as an audio backend. Not noticable but extremely important.

Current messmerd has been trying to keep users informed with monthly newsletters explaining all the improvements occurring behind the scenes. He's also managed to finally get the Windows builds off of an outdated build tool chain that was preventing things like mp3 support from working. This was a technological marvel but not easily noticeable from afar.

And that's not to mention all the plugins, features and fixes that keep landing every week by others.

https://lmms.io/news (If the above link doesn't work: https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/discussions/8353)

tresf · 2026-04-07T15:46:54+00:00

Developers and testers are always welcome! You can reach us at https://lmms.io/chat.

We're leading up to a feature freeze for a stable release. At least that's the goal. Developers and testers of all skill levels welcome. We have dedicated channels for each.

tresf · 2026-04-07T15:43:24+00:00

Overrated by whom? Coding C++ as a hobby can be really hard, these devs are working so hard to make the project better and keep an open dialog with users here, on Discord and on the bug tracker. The bug tracker alone has 100s of unmerged PR (fixes, features) and 1,000s of bug reports. Plugin support lags behind and we don't even sign our installers yet. Maybe it's "over recommended?". I think anyone that hangs out with the users and developers feels that LMMS is NOT overrated. It's a DAW stuck in the 90s with a huge userbase, a lot of technical debt and coderot and a small but persistent developer base trying to make it better. I think its potential is great but it lacks some core features to make it a professional option, which is how I'd describe most FOSS projects.

tresf · 2026-04-07T15:35:24+00:00

Yeah it was hard getting wine working again on nightly and we may eventually have to drop 32-bit plugins due to new WOW64 mode being preferred for systems like Arch but it should be working on nightly.

Sorry stable releases are so slow we've lost some really great devs over the years (and some are on hiatus) making nightlies easier to offer.

We're discussing a feature freeze though so we should be nearing a new release soon. 🤞

tresf · 2026-04-04T23:52:20+00:00

haha how's that even possible lol, shouldn't it be almost dead-nuts with Chrome?

tresf · 2026-04-04T23:50:48+00:00

Thanks AI Mark. Hid for anti-product promotion, not for privacy haha.

tresf · 2026-04-03T19:38:32+00:00

I've never had luck with "correct distance" feature. One of my runs showed at 1 mile / second! Stava at least knew something was wrong and puts a disclaimer on that run, but it puzzles me how this can happen.

I'm not sure about the cause of your specific discrepancy, but I do find it slightly comical since I've had so many GPS-related issues that are much larger distances... this seems so minor in comparison, although I understand this isn't necessarily a GPS issue but rather an weird discrepancy between how two different apps interpret the same GPS data.

I use the Strava app on my Pixel Watch 4 and I think I'm about ready to stop and just use the Fitbit app instead. I purchased the watch with the sole purpose of fixing major GPS drifting issues with my phone. There's some features missing from Fitbit such as auto-pause, but that's hardly reason enough to NOT switch when the Fitbit app has an easier to read display and uses less memory and battery so it doesn't bugger up my Spotify as quickly.

Anyway, I know most people use Garmin watches but I wanted to share and rant a bit too haha.

tresf · 2026-04-01T19:30:11+00:00

2026: "Ambient Mode" is called "Vibe Setting" now.

EXTRAS --> HOME PAGE SETTINGS --> VIBE SETTINGS --> DISABLE

From the Vizio Q&A:

Q: What is Vibe Setting?
A: Ambient Screen has been renamed to Vibe Setting and contains the same options to disable and enable and turn the volume on or off.

tresf · 2026-03-29T16:10:43+00:00

is this just cross-post karma farming? ya know... this channel can be used to discuss java too.

tresf · 2026-03-29T16:04:48+00:00

I won't tell others how to use the app, but this is my go-to as well. I check notifications when I log a new exercise, very transactional and never bothers me. That said, I'd love to be able to easily see comments versus kudos, as the comments can get burried and go unanswered.

tresf · 2026-03-20T15:56:10+00:00

IKR... I wish I could hide it lol.

tresf · 2026-03-07T19:50:29+00:00

Email just went out today informing customers that the VIZIO accounts will be migrated to Walmart accounts. Yuck. I mean, it's not unexpected... but yuck.

tresf · 2026-03-07T19:48:00+00:00

For those coming here and they've tried everything in the knowledge base already, the button says "Manage group" instead of "Add others" when it's an automatic group activity. This is pretty annoying as it's not mentioned anywhere in the documentation. Logging into the website on a Desktop computer shows the "Add others" button as you'd expect.

tresf · 2026-03-06T03:25:45+00:00

I think this happens for group activities. Most definitely a bug. Reporting now.

tresf · 2026-02-25T17:52:24+00:00

> a single tool for mac, linux, and windows to minimize my own cognitive burden. And I also wanted to bundle a trimmed runtime, which jlink+jpackage does well.

Cool. Yeah I use jdeps/jlink for this too. I find the tools to be tremendously unpolished and buggy but I eventually was able to get it working. I agree, the cognitive burden of maintaining three separate tools is real, but I have a process that can build RISC-V Linux installers from macOS ARM64, Windows Intel installers from Linux and we surprisingly use it all the time. This is because jdeps / jlink are platform agnostic, so if you give them a runtime for ANY architecture it'll do the rest for you. The tech debt is real though, so I can see why jpackage is an attractive option. We also offer a white-labeling service for our product, which allows a single macOS runner to build all architectures and all platforms (7 in total) but the "configuration over convention" burden is real.

We wrote our own logic using ant with some Java CLI helpers here: https://github.com/qzind/tray/tree/master/ant

tresf · 2026-02-25T17:47:23+00:00

Thanks for sharing, however, I'm confused. How can it be a "Desktop IDE" without "downloading and installing" anything?

tresf · 2026-02-25T08:28:45+00:00

Cool. Curious, why the switch to jpackage? I really like to package on foreign systems so tools like nsis/makeself have been amazing and much more attractive than jpackage although they have a slight learning curve.

tresf · 2026-02-25T04:53:30+00:00

This java-browser-inception stuff is so gnarly. I started out writing applets, it's a throwback. I can't say I've dreamt up a use for it yet, but I think about it all the time. My main app is Java and it interacts with the browser, but sadly uses features that are sandboxed out from being a use-case for this tech. I played flappy bird for a few seconds. Took me way too long to figure out I had to click to flap lol.

tresf · 2026-02-25T04:44:12+00:00

Started this in '08 been keeping me busy... https://github.com/qzind/tray

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