positron

This is the home of positron, the synchronization manager for the Neuros Audio Computer. This software is primarily intended to support Linux, but will probably be portable to other POSIX systems such as OS X and the BSDs. Currently there are USB protocol issues with OS X, so please don’t try it there yet.

Vorbis support

If you are using one of the beta Neurosetta firmwares, you will need to enable Vorbis support in Positron. To do this you will need to:

Make sure you have the final release of Positron 1.0 installed and configured.
Install pyogg and pyvorbis. These can be found on the Vorbis download page, or they might already be packaged by your distribution. There have been reports that the RPMS on that page do not work on current RPM systems like RedHat 9 and Mandrake 9.1. We suggest you install pyogg and pyvorbis from the source tarballs. Please make sure you have the -devel or -dev packages for libogg and libvorbis installed if your distribution has that sort of thing.
Edit ~/.positron/config and add the option oggvorbis_support=true If the oggvorbis_support option is already present in the file, just edit that line instead.
Add Ogg Vorbis files using the positron add or positron sync command as you would other music files.

If you decided to revert your Neuros to the non-Vorbis firmware, you can easily remove all the Ogg Vorbis files from the database by setting oggvorbis_support=false and then running positron rebuild. Deleting the actual Vorbis files on the Neuros is optional. (Note that as of the beta 2 firmware, you no longer need to worry about mixing MP3 and Vorbis files on the Neuros. Neurosetta beta 2 can play both.)