Telemeta 1.6.4 is out!

ChangeLog:

  • Minor bug fixes and improvments
  • Fix HTML5 audio compatibility (#173) for the web audio player. The SoundManager Flash player fallback should not be used in most modern web browser. Media files are now serves through Nginx (#155) which enables to stream music with byte range requests.
  • Add a User permission "can_run_analysis" to specify that a user or a group of users has the right to list and select advanced Timeside analysis to be displayed in the Timeside web audio player.
  • Temporarily remove Timeside server from INSTALLED_APPS until the development of this application is more advanced and is really used by Telemeta.
  • Add enumeration management and statitics
  • Improved media security allowing streaming through Nginx only from the application
  • Add TimeSide as a submodule
  • Add a validator for …
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Telemeta 1.7 has been released!

After months of hard development, I am very pleased to release Telemeta 1.7! It includes many transparent changes, mainly upgrading a lot of dependencies, especially those brought by the audio engine TimeSide which has also been released in its new version.

  • Based on TimeSide 0.9
  • Use Django 1.8
  • Rename some directories
  • Better video streaming
  • Better logging

More details:

Upgrading

git pull origin master
git submodule update --init --remote
docker-compose run app /srv/app/bin/upgrade_from_1.6_to_1.7.sh

WARNING

scripts/ and app/scripts/ directories has been renamed bin/ and app/bin/ respectively. So please adapt your management and maintenance personal scripts.

1.6.x

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Telemeta 1.6 is finally out!

Telemeta is now usable on any OS, ready for development and for production in 5 mn! B-)

  • Provide a docker image and composition for the full Telemeta application bundle. One month after the publication of docker-compose around march 2015, we had managed to build a prototyped composition which bundled all the dependencies of Telemeta and TimeSide. It took almost one year to deeply investigate all the capabilities of Docker and various images to finally release a propoer composition which bundles all the necessary applications and modules.
  • Full refactoring of the search engine and interface using django-haystack and ElasticSearch with new faceting and smart filtering features
  • Add an automatic EPUB3 ebook exporter for corpus and collections embedding metadata, image and audio materials.
  • More inline forms and functional buttons …
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Telemeta 1.5 is out!

After months of hard work we are pleased to release a big update to Telemeta communities. It represents a huge milestone that makes Telemeta now compatible with more modern web technologies.

Changelog:

  • Django 1.6.x compatibility
  • TimeSide 0.7.x compatibility
  • Huge refactoring of all forms, detail and edit views based on class based views
  • Main styles (buttons, tabs) are now based Bootstrap 3 and JQuery 2.1
  • Update of models and views as needed by the CREM
  • WARNING! Be careful to the new dependencies before updating

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Telemeta 1.4.6 is out!

Changelog:

  • Drastically improve collection zip packaqe streaming thanks to zipstream (check NEW dependencies)
  • Compatible with TimeSide >= 0.5.2
  • Add URL field to item so that a external sound can be indexed and streamed
  • Add TIMESIDE_AUTO_ZOOM in settings to auto toggle the player in zooming mode
  • Add TIMESIDE_DEFAULT_GRAPHER_ID in settings to select the default grapher in the player
  • Add minor migrations
  • Fix marker display bug
  • This is a transitional, minor release because 1.5 will be released soon.

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Telemeta 1.4.5 has been released!

After a long debugging and producing period, Telemeta reaches a nice stable version.

Changelog:

  • 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
  • Download: ​http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/T/Telemeta/Telemeta-1.4.5.tar.gz

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Telemeta 1.4.4 is out !

Changes:

  • 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

Upgrade:

sudo pip install --upgrade telemeta

Please first read README.rst and INSTALL.rst to get all informations about the news. Apply new rules, dependencies, modules and settings from your old version to the new one.

or download (MD5: 47b8d7a6fa8340388ff72be58aaff59c)

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Telemeta 1.4.3 has been released !

Changes:

  • 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
  • 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
  • Fix a bug for related media title parsing

Upgrade:

sudo pip install --upgrade telemeta

or download (MD5: ceec77f9b5e637cf1e2cb9b9fad21183)

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Telemeta 1.4 is out!

Changes:

  • 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 …

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