Audio

• Music

Audio formats

• MP3 AAC Ogg (Vorbis, FLAC, etc.)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_%28codec%29

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

Effects

• http://rakarrack.sourceforge.net/

DJing

• http://www.mixxx.org/

Music streams

• http://somafm.com/
• https://github.com/milkmiruku/streams

• http://patchwerk.rumblesan.com/

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/

Free audio

• http://www.voxforge.org/

Hardware

• http://dennishavlena.com/
• http://www.cockos.com/jesusonic/

Studio

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

Wind

Pick instrument with suitable note and octive range and/or texture and learn it.

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

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

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_whistle
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanter
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_(instrument)

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerophone
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullroarer_(music)