PC20-249-2026-01-30 Podcasting 2.0 Episode 249: "Put More Cheese On It!"

Podcasting 2.0 January 30th 2026 Episode 249: "Put More Cheese On It!"
Adam & Dave Try out the new Linux based podcast rig Needs work :-)
The Only Boardroom that Runs Entirely on Linux...
I'm Adam Curry in the Heart of the Texas Hill Country
And in Alabama- the man who has a hard out at least once a month... Say hello to my Friend on the other End - Dave Jones!
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  We are LIT
  Vibe Coding the playout system for Rodecaster
    Rodecaster Pipewire config
    Rodecaster integration
      Pipewire and helvum
    The Playout System
      Python 3: The glue that holds everything together.
      PyQt6 (Qt): The graphical user interface framework. It powers the windows, the "MIDI Learn" context menus, and the custom widgets like the Waveform view.
      GStreamer: The heavy-lifting audio engine. This is the same multimedia framework used by major Linux desktop environments (GNOME, etc.). It handles the actual decoding (MP3/WAV/FLAC), seeking, and volume mixing.
      FFmpeg (via subprocess): Used solely for high-speed audio analysis. We use it to read the raw audio data to draw the waveform visuals and to extract ID3 tags (Artist/Title) via
      ffprobe.
      ALSA / Mido: The MIDI interface layer.
        Mido (using the rtmidi backend) talks directly to the Linux sound architecture (ALSA) to read the raw signals from your Korg nanoKONTROL2.
      Hyprland (via Omarchy): The tiling window manager context. While the code is technically desktop-agnostic, we optimized the window flags (
        X11BypassWindowManagerHint removal) specifically to play nice with your tiling workflow.
      In short: a GStreamer audio engine wrapped in a PyQt6 GUI, with FFmpeg for visualization and Mido for hardware control.
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