Audio

• Music

Audio formats

• http://www.zappa.com/whatsnew/news/FZ-Proposal/index.html

Ogg

• http://www.xiph.org/

FLAC

Lossless from original digital.

Opus

New and the best at both low and high ratio(?)

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_%28codec%29

Vinyl

• http://wow.heavylistening.com/

Linux

• http://linux-sound.org/

• http://www.techradar.com/news/audio/linux-audio-explained-685419

Pulseaudio

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio
• http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/PulseAudio

JACK

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/JACK_Audio_Connection_Kit

ALSA

• ALSA

• http://i.imgur.com/f66sf.png

other

• OSS
• whatthefuckever

amixer -c 0 | pcregrep "control"
pacmd dump

• http://jackaudio.org/pulseaudio_and_jack
• http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=843012
• https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=48385
• http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/how-does-pulse-audio-compare-to-jackd-alsa-686288/

• http://jamin.sourceforge.net/

Software

Players

• VLC - lots of behind the scenes features, either handy or bloat
• MPC (cccp still?)? -
• http://wiki.wincustomize.com/wiki/Winamp

to check;

• http://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/n1kyh/what_are_some_good_lightweight_media_players/
• http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/
• http://moc.daper.net/
• http://xmms2.org/wiki/Main_Page

MPD

• Music Player Daemon Community Wiki
  • https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Music_Player_Daemon#Music_directory
  • http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Clients

• Arch Linux: Music Player Daemon

• https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=97845

ncmpcpp

• http://unkart.ovh.org/ncmpcpp/
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ncmpcpp

Production

• http://reaper.fm/
  • http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=26690 - on linux using wine

Generative

• http://darwintunes.org/
• http://soundhelix.com/
• http://computoser.com/
• http://musicalgorithms.ewu.edu/algorithms/import.html
• http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/experiments.htm

Synth

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_synthesis_environments

• http://001.vade.info/

Buzz

• Buzz is the first ever "easy to use" free modular software based synthesizer. What this means is that the entire system is based on objects, which may be routed in a modular fashion, giving you the freedom to be as creative as you want. For example, if you wish to run 3 Physical Modelling synths and a Drum Machine through 2 seperate Stereo Delays, into a Mixer, through a Compressor and Parameteric EQ, and finally out to your speakers - no problem. Lay down your synths, connect the wires and you're done.

SuperCollider

• SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. It provides an interpreted object-oriented language which functions as a network client to a state of the art, realtime sound synthesis server.
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperCollider

• Overtone is an open source audio environment being created to explore musical ideas from synthesis and sampling to instrument building, live-coding and collaborative jamming. We use the SuperCollider synth server as the audio engine, with Clojure being used to develop the APIs and the application. Synthesizers, effects, analyzers and musical generators can be programmed in Clojure.
  • http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/functional-composition

Pure Data

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Data

• http://gem.iem.at/
  • http://gem.iem.at/documentation/manual/manual/list-of-gem-objects

Effects

• http://rakarrack.sourceforge.net/

DJing

• http://mixxx.org/
• http://mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php

Jamming

• http://www.cockos.com/ninjam/

Speech synth

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis

• http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/squeak/
• http://festvox.org/
• http://mary.dfki.de/
• http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
• http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/osss/

Speech recognition

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition_in_Linux

• http://www.honeytechblog.com/12-useful-speech-recognition-applications-available-for-linux/
• http://linuxpoison.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/voice-control-your-ubuntu-desktop.html

Misc

• http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/freeware/linux/

WebAPI

• A standardized framework for building and including Web Audio API instrument/effect "patches"

Logging

• http://www.last.fm/group/Sites+that+scrobble+to+Last.fm

Visualisation

• http://projectm.sourceforge.net/
  • http://sourceforge.net/projects/projectm/files/
  • lgpl milkdrop clone

• http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=325669 - milkdrop presets for projectm discussion
• http://www.techanswerguy.com/2011/02/projectm-visualizer.html
• http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=125959

• http://milkdrop.co.uk/downloads.htm
  • bah, presets are in several separate preset nsis packages..
  • no open source bundle
  • http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/4246959 [1]

Synths

• http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata

Drums

• http://www.hydrogen-music.org/hcms/
• http://www.ordrumbox.com/
• http://jaket.is-a-geek.com/open-source-drum-loops-for-worship/
• http://briansbedroom.org/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_block

Free audio

• http://www.voxforge.org/

Hardware

move some to music?

• http://dennishavlena.com/

• http://www.cockos.com/jesusonic/

• http://blip.tv/ruinwesen/ruin-wesen-minicommand-pattern-euclid-3186495
• http://www.rebeltech.org/modules/stoicheia/
• http://cycling74.com/

• http://www.electrobob.com/auto-amp/

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tq5kQ_P2as

• http://www.textfiles.com/phreak/BLUEBOXING/ - via jolly rogers's cookbook, 17? years ago
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking_boxes

MP3

• http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/WebHome

Studio

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/archive/pdffiles/architectural-acoustics/bbc_guideacousticpractice.pdf