Audio
Audio formats
MP3
AAC
Ogg
Vorbis
FLAC
Lossless from original digital.
Opus
New and the best at both low and high ratio(?)
Linux
Pulseaudio
JACK
ALSA
- ALSA
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/
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
- Arch Linux: Music Player Daemon
ncmpcpp
Production
- http://reaper.fm/
- http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=26690 - on linux using wine
Synth
Effects
DJing
Jamming
Speech synth
- http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/squeak/
- http://festvox.org/
- http://mary.dfki.de/
- http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
- http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/osss/
Misc
WebAPI
Logging
Visualisation
- 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
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/
Free audio
Hardware
- http://blip.tv/ruinwesen/ruin-wesen-minicommand-pattern-euclid-3186495
- http://www.rebeltech.org/modules/stoicheia/
- http://cycling74.com/
- http://www.textfiles.com/phreak/BLUEBOXING/ - via jolly rogers's cookbook, 17? years ago
Studio
Wind
Pick instrument with suitable note and octive range and/or texture and learn it. At some point.