Backline: DDP Player/Burner for the Mac

[Riccardo]

Originally Posted by Jerry Tubb

Excellent Matthew !

Something resembling PlexTools/Utilities for MAC OS X would be a real winner.

JT

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[Matthew Foust]

Originally Posted by 24-96 Mastering

Absolutely... but cross-platform compatibility would be necessary.

Would something fully web-based be acceptable?

[fader8]

Originally Posted by 24-96 Mastering

Here's an idea (just in case noone has suggested it yet) for DDP Player:

- make a PC version as well
- make it so the app and one DDP image can be packed into one executable (that can only play THAT image)
- make the interface brandable with a logo
- sell to mastering studios to use as an eMastering delivery / client proofing solution... As it is, there's no real solution to get images to clients in a foolproof way, which is a bit of a pain. A DDP player/burning app that'd be geared toward that would really fill a void.

Very cool. That's exactly what I had in mind with my previous question to Matthew about using it for client proofing, but I like your idea of the embedded, branded player.

[24-96 Mastering]

Originally Posted by Matthew Foust

Would something fully web-based be acceptable?

Is that possible? I'm very, very interested... How would that work?

[jdg]

Originally Posted by Matthew Foust

Would something fully web-based be acceptable?

yes. i was thinking the same thing this morning.

like a flash based player that streams the DDP.

data rates might be hard to do in real time over slow connections :/

[Coyoteous]

Will Backline be part of StudioLife?

[flurdee]

This really would be fantastic as a proofing tool for clients. Maybe a cheap 30 day license that I can include send to clients to check masters. PC compatibility would be great (if possible with a browser based interface). Maybe it would be possible to include an ftp client so that less ftp savvy clients can just click on a download master button, then audition the ddp or burn to cd. Maybe an option to convert whole cd to individual mp3 files would be cool too.

Keep up the good work!

[yeloocproducer]

Oh wow please get that rolling for client proofing. I'm very interested... web based, or cross platform. It was the first thing I thought of when I read the very first post. Our mastering clients would be very very grateful.

[Matthew Foust]

Hey all, I failed to mention in previous posts here and elsewhere that Backline requires Mac OS X 10.5. My apologies for the omission.

[alemass]

That's why I couldn't even open it.
Why not a version for tiger Matthew?
Alessandro-Rome

[Matthew Foust]

Originally Posted by alemass

That's why I couldn't even open it.
Why not a version for tiger Matthew?
Alessandro-Rome

There is some under-the-hood stuff that requires 10.5. We're looking at ways to work around this, but for now it requires 10.5.

[Coyoteous]

Originally Posted by Coyoteous

Will Backline be part of StudioLife?

Originally Posted by Coyoteous

Will Backline be part of StudioLife?

- re-asked and answered from PM (maybe I'm blocked here?):

The Basic license will be included, the DDP Player license will not.

[Jerry Tubb]

Originally Posted by Phil Julian

Any chance that there will ever be some kind of CD-R disc error checking functionality available within this (or Wave Editor)?

Still come across pressing plants not savvy with DDP and at present, nothing like this seems to exist for Mac (other than bogging down your system with Bootcamp & XP in order to run PlextorTools...)

Originally Posted by Matthew Foust

Yes, this is definitely in the works for Backline.

Originally Posted by Jerry Tubb

Excellent Matthew !

Something resembling PlexTools/Utilities for MAC OS X would be a real winner.

JT

BUMP!

I'm wait for the disc analysis feature to appear in Backline, with card in hand Matthew!

Any word on the progress?

Yesterday our lone PlexTools PC died at the studio (we think it's the motherboard).

So we spent a good part of the afternoon installing Boot Camp, Windows XP, and Plextools on my MacBook, which works just great as a stop gap, but...

All the Best - JT

[Matthew Foust]

Originally Posted by Jerry Tubb

BUMP!

I'm wait for the disc analysis feature to appear in Backline, with card in hand Matthew!

Any word on the progress?

Yesterday our lone PlexTools PC died at the studio (we think it's the motherboard).

So we spent a good part of the afternoon installing Boot Camp, Windows XP, and Plextools on my MacBook, which works just great as a stop gap, but...

All the Best - JT

That sucks. We're just getting Backline up to speed for the 1.0.0 release. Lining up interns to populate the effects update database!

The CD tools are probably a ways off.

[Jerry Tubb]

Originally Posted by Matthew Foust

That sucks. We're just getting Backline up to speed for the 1.0.0 release. Lining up interns to populate the effects update database!

The CD tools are probably a ways off.

Thanks Matthew.

I imagine there are many of us around the globe waiting on this feature for OSX.

Might be a really big seller.

Cheers - JT

[mischa janisch]

Originally Posted by Matthew Foust

Would something fully web-based be acceptable?

I just stumbled across this thread - web based sounds VERY interesting! Robin is right, cross platform is a must, since you can't force your clients into using a certain OS.

So how could such a player work - would that be a flash player type of thing? Would there be the possibility to burn a CD as well?

We recently have been thinking about having some proprietory developed - are you already working on something specific or could you give us any clue about the timeframe such a project?

Cheers,
Mischa

[Table Of Tone]

Originally Posted by Matthew Foust

Not really.

There are two separate licenses available for Backline, one to unlock the basic paid features and one to unlock the DDP Player/Burner.

One feature that Backline DDP has that Wave Editor does not (yet) is the ability to burn multiples.

Any plans to do ilok licenses for Wave Editor and Backline?