I can now tentatively say that there will be speed-ups - and possibly quite significant ones - in #faircamp 2.0.

For one, if you're using the graphical interface, faircamp will¹ "pre-preprocess" (= analyze audio and generate waveforms for) your entire catalog in the background while you're just still exploring the interface and fiddling with texts and settings. I'm planning to also expose this as a `faircamp --warmup` (or so) option in the CLI, so that you can let this pre-preprocessing run while you're still editing things in the manifests (way before building). So in both cases, when you finally request a build, a considerable portion of the required processing might already be ready and waiting in the cache.

Then, because of the graphical user interface, I needed to make all internal data shareable across threads (that's pretty much done by now), and in turn we can reap the benefits in the form of concurrent processing.

I just now naively parallelized decoding, peak generation and encoding, testing with a single album with 17 tracks, and I'm seeing a ~5.5 times faster completion, or in other words, on my machine², a build that took one hour could be done in roughly 12 minutes now, if these figures hold in the larger picture.

(¹) implementation pending but I see zero blockers to that

(²) 16 cores, average i7

I can now tentatively say that there will be speed-ups - and possibly quite significant ones - in #faircamp 2.0.

For one, if you're using the graphical interface, faircamp will¹ "pre-preprocess" (= analyze audio and generate waveforms for) your entire catalog in the background while you're just still exploring the interface and fiddling with texts and settings. I'm planning to also expose this as a `faircamp --warmup` (or so) option in the CLI, so that you can let this pre-preprocessing run while you're still editing things in the manifests (way before building). So in both cases, when you finally request a build, a considerable portion of the required processing might already be ready and waiting in the cache.

Then, because of the graphical user interface, I needed to make all internal data shareable across threads (that's pretty much done by now), and in turn we can reap the benefits in the form of concurrent processing.

I just now naively parallelized decoding, peak generation and encoding, testing with a single album with 17 tracks, and I'm seeing a ~5.5 times faster completion, or in other words, on my machine², a build that took one hour could be done in roughly 12 minutes now, if these figures hold in the larger picture.

(¹) implementation pending but I see zero blockers to that

(²) 16 cores, average i7

I can now tentatively say that there will be speed-ups - and possibly quite significant ones - in #faircamp 2.0.

For one, if you're using the graphical interface, faircamp will¹ "pre-preprocess" (= analyze audio and generate waveforms for) your entire catalog in the background while you're just still exploring the interface and fiddling with texts and settings. I'm planning to also expose this as a `faircamp --warmup` (or so) option in the CLI, so that you can let this pre-preprocessing run while you're still editing things in the manifests (way before building). So in both cases, when you finally request a build, a considerable portion of the required processing might already be ready and waiting in the cache.

Then, because of the graphical user interface, I needed to make all internal data shareable across threads (that's pretty much done by now), and in turn we can reap the benefits in the form of concurrent processing.

I just now naively parallelized decoding, peak generation and encoding, testing with a single album with 17 tracks, and I'm seeing a ~5.5 times faster completion, or in other words, on my machine², a build that took one hour could be done in roughly 12 minutes now, if these figures hold in the larger picture.

(¹) implementation pending but I see zero blockers to that

(²) 16 cores, average i7

Please welcome the latest members of the #Faircamp #WebRing :

@oooo0v0v0oooo
@scorp

As always you can find them by using the "Newest" button:

https://faircamp.webr.ing/directory.html

New Release: "Parahelion"
Gear: ASM Hydrasynth Desktop; Critter & Guitari Organelle M; Roland MV-1, SP-404 Mk2; Arturia Keystep 37.

Some chill-out music for you. Do not operate heavy machinery while listening.

#faircamp #music #nham #spacey #synth

https://www.flockofnazguls.com/perahelion/

Please welcome the latest members of the #Faircamp #WebRing :

@oooo0v0v0oooo
@scorp

As always you can find them by using the "Newest" button:

https://faircamp.webr.ing/directory.html

New Release: "Parahelion"
Gear: ASM Hydrasynth Desktop; Critter & Guitari Organelle M; Roland MV-1, SP-404 Mk2; Arturia Keystep 37.

Some chill-out music for you. Do not operate heavy machinery while listening.

#faircamp #music #nham #spacey #synth

https://www.flockofnazguls.com/perahelion/

For everyone who manually builds and uses #faircamp from the git repository (main branch), an important notice regarding 2.0 development:

"Heads-up: From late february to late summer 2026 (tbd) there will be heavy work and restructuring happening on the main branch. Please expect bugs and undefined behavior when building and using faircamp from main in that period. Until announcement of the first 2.0 release candidates it is also not recommended to report bugs observed on main alone - breakage is likely intentional and/or known for the time being."

For everyone who manually builds and uses #faircamp from the git repository (main branch), an important notice regarding 2.0 development:

"Heads-up: From late february to late summer 2026 (tbd) there will be heavy work and restructuring happening on the main branch. Please expect bugs and undefined behavior when building and using faircamp from main in that period. Until announcement of the first 2.0 release candidates it is also not recommended to report bugs observed on main alone - breakage is likely intentional and/or known for the time being."

Shameless Promotion for ourselves:
Last friday we released our new song "Mer de Glace"! We are sooo proud, take a listen!

https://crocutaband.org/merdeglace/

On your own website, everday is #BandcampFriday !

#grungepop #diy #faircamp #leipzig