Amarok Blog

After attending Fosdem, Linda and I had a few days to spend in Brussels. On Tuesday, we went to the musical instrument museum. This was a really good experience, as they have 5 floors packed with instruments from every age and every corner of the globe, along with wireless headsets that lets you listen to music played by each.

The one thing that I found really intriguing was some of the old "self playing" instruments such as this organ.



This is in essence an early computer, capable of processing many instructions at once from a stored program. The mechanical complexity of it just boggles the mind. And a closer look at the actual "code" shoes just how painstaking a job programming it must have been.



I wonder if it was possible to buy additional "programs" once you had purchased the organ.... If nothing else, this shows that musical software has a long tradition, that we here at Amarok HQ are proud to be a part of!

And just to throw in a bit of Amarok related content. Today I have been hard at work fixing many ( most? ) of the crashes we experienced while demoing Amarok this weekend, so hopefully the upcoming demos at Cebit and OpenExpo will run a lot smoother!