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First of all: Leif, i’m very glad to see that you are still making sound processing software. I’ve been using your plugins since AudioStocker and i’m completely addicted to them. I was affraid we wouldn’t hear from you anymore after Volume Logic. Maybe you should put a link on http://leif.cx/software/ (= before http://leif.cx/ on google)
OK. My problem: Your software doesn’t work on linux! 🙁 In fact OctiMax is currently the only thing that is still keeping me with Windows; on my computer at work, on my computer at home and on the server that hosts my shoutcast stream. I’d really love to be able to switch to Linux but without OctiMax (or Breakaway) i can’t!
I’ve spent the past 3 weekends trying to get OctiMax, Volume Logic or StreamSolo to work with WINE on Linux, without success. The closest i came to a working setup was a winamp/wine process chewing up about 90% of my CPU while having a buffer underrun ever 3 seconds.
I have tried Breakaway with WINE and it is unable to install because it can’t install the Pipeline driver. When i manually copy the program files from my windows installation and try to run breakaway.exe it says it can’t run because the Pipeline driver is not installed 🙁
To make a long story short: Please, please, _please_ release a linux version of Breakaway. 🙂
Hi Oele!
I’d love to be able to make and sell a linux version, but I don’t know that it’s possible. The number of linux users is so small compared to the number of windows users, and even so the users are fragmented between a huge number of different, partially incompatible distributions. This makes development a nightmare — how could we test all these different distributions? Also, there’s the common-sense business question: Do users really want to pay even the extremely low price of $29.95 for Breakaway when the whole operating system and all other software they’re using is free?
Good idea regarding linking from leif.cx — I will redo that whole site at some point with a content management system (I’ve finally started to learn to use Joomla — welcome to the 21st century, Leif!) and once I’ve done that I’ll be able to update much more frequently.
///Leif
Hi Leif,
Thanks for your answer. I’m affraid you’re right about the relatively small amount of linux users, compared to windows. But what about the streaming/broadcasting market? There are quite a few online radio stations that run on linux, bsd or other unix-like-OS’ses. I guess you could also charge them a lot more than the average Windows desktop user.
Also, i think that once you have a linux or bsd compatible version you make (and sell!) relatively cheap hardware processing appliances.
About the incompatibilities – yes, there are differences between distributions but afaik there are quite a few companies that distribute linux binaries of their software and they do not have a separate binary for each distribution. I guess it’s possible to create something that works on at least most distributions. But indeed, it is an issue.
Another approach that would probably cost a lot less of your precious time could be to make a stand-alone (audio device to audio device type of thing, like streamsolo) windows version of breakaway that works in WINE without complaining about missing Pipeline drivers (like breakaway) or about network drivers (?) and/or copy protection (like StreamSolo). Just something that takes input from sound device X and outputs the processed audio to device Y. That way linux users could start the program in WINE and use JACK ("virtual audio cables" on linux) to put audio through it.
One other question: why is it that you are releasing a "Windows System" version but not a "Mac System" version?
– Oele
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