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

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

• http://001.vade.info/

• http://www.buzzmachines.com/

• http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/functional-composition

Effects

• http://rakarrack.sourceforge.net/

DJing

• http://www.mixxx.org/

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