Merge branch 'main' into 'main'

Main

See merge request then-try-this/samplebrain!8

README.md

@@ -28,6 +28,22 @@ The default block size (3000) is really high to prevent CPU glitches -
 be used, but take a long time to process, after which they can be
 saved as "brain" files and instantly reloaded.
 
+_Historical note_: Samplebrain is a method of sound synthesis called 
+"concatenative sound synthesis" (CSS), which was developed in speech synthesis 
+research in the 1990s: the computer is made to speak by concatenating 
+phonetic "units" together extracted from a database of recorded speech. 
+This was adapted for musical purposes in the early 2000s, with many
+researchers calling it by different names:
+- A. Zils and F. Pachet, “Musical mosaicing,” in Proc. COST G-6 Conf. Digital Audio Effects, (Limerick, Ireland), 2001.
+- A. Lazier and P. Cook, “Mosievius: Feature driven interactive audio mosaicing,” in Proc. COST G-6 Conf. Digital Audio Effects, (Queen Mary, University of London), 2003.
+- D. Schwarz, "Data-Driven Concatenative Sound Synthesis." PhD thesis, l’Université Paris 6 – Pierre et Marie Curie, 2004.
+- [sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!](https://www.wired.com/2006/04/the-man-behind-scrambled-hackz/) by Sven König in 2006.
+
+For an overview of early computer music research in this area, see D. Schwarz, "Concatenative sound synthesis: The early years", J. New Music Research, vol. 35, no. 1, 2006. [https://doi.org/10.1080/09298210600696857](https://doi.org/10.1080/09298210600696857)
+See also the work of Canadian composer John Oswald in the 1980s, who _manually_ explored such approaches 
+in his [plunderphonics](http://www.plunderphonics.com) work 
+
+
 # [Demo brain session](https://static.thentrythis.org/samplebrain/demo.samplebrain)
 
 Load this file using "load session" not "load brain" (sessions contain
@@ -157,3 +173,6 @@ License version 2 (see LICENCE).
 
 Written by [Dave Griffiths at Then Try This](http://thentrythis.org).
 
+## Links
+
+To find related tech like [CataRT](http://imtr.ircam.fr/imtr/CataRT) and [sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRlhKaxcKpA) search up [granular synthesis](http://granularsynthesis.com/guide.php), [concatenative synthesis](https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01161337), [neural audio synthesis](https://github.com/acids-ircam/RAVE), [sinewave speech](http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/home/Chris_Darwin/SWS/), audio mosaicing and plundermatics.

desktop/org.thentrythis.Samplebrain.metainfo.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<component type="desktop-application">
+  <id>org.thentrythis.Samplebrain</id>
+
+  <name>Samplebrain</name>
+  <summary>A custom sample mashing app designed by Aphex Twin</summary>
+
+  <metadata_license>CC0-1.0</metadata_license>
+  <project_license>GPL-2.0-only</project_license>
+
+  <description>
+    <p>
+      Samplebrain chops samples up into a &apos;brain&apos; of interconnected small sections called blocks which are connected into a network by similarity. It processes a target sample, chopping it up into blocks in the same way, and tries to match each block with one in it&apos;s brain to play in realtime.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      This allows you to interpret a sound with a different one. As we worked on it (during 2015 and 2016) we gradually added more and more tweakable parameters until it became slightly out of control.
+    </p>
+  </description>
+
+  <launchable type="desktop-id">samplebrain.desktop</launchable>
+
+  <categories>
+    <category>AudioVideo</category>
+    <category>Music</category>
+  </categories>
+
+  <content_rating type="oars-1.0"></content_rating>
+
+  <url type="homepage">https://thentrythis.org/projects/samplebrain/</url>
+  <url type="bugtracker">https://gitlab.com/then-try-this/samplebrain/-/issues</url>
+  <url type="vcs-browser">https://gitlab.com/then-try-this/samplebrain</url>
+
+  <screenshots>
+    <screenshot type="default">
+      <image type="source" width="1280" height="720">https://gitlab.com/then-try-this/samplebrain/-/raw/main/desktop/screenshots/01-main-with-project.png</image>
+    </screenshot>
+  </screenshots>
+
+  <releases>
+    <release version="0.18" date="2022-09-22"/>
+  </releases>
+</component>

desktop/samplebrain.desktop

@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 [Desktop Entry]
-Encoding=UTF-8
 Type=Application
 Name=Samplebrain
-Comment=A sample masher designed by Aphex Twin
+Comment=A custom sample mashing app designed by Aphex Twin
-Exec=samplebrain
 Icon=samplebrain
-Terminal=false
+Exec=samplebrain
-Categories=GNOME;Application;
+Categories=AudioVideo;Music
 StartupNotify=true

desktop/samplebrain.desktop~

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-[Desktop Entry]
-Type=Application
-Version=1.0
-Name=Samplebrain
-GenericName="Samplebrain"
-Exec=samplebrain
-Icon=samplebrain

samplebrain.pro

@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ unix:desktopfile.path = $$PREFIX/share/applications/
 unix:desktopfile.files = desktop/samplebrain.desktop
 unix:iconfile.path = $$PREFIX/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps
 unix:iconfile.files = desktop/samplebrain.svg
+unix:metainfofile.path = $$PREFIX/share/metainfo
+unix:metainfofile.files = desktop/org.thentrythis.Samplebrain.metainfo.xml
 
 target.path = $$PREFIX/bin
-INSTALLS += target desktopfile iconfile
+INSTALLS += target desktopfile iconfile metainfofile