SuperLinux Encyclopedia - Sound and Music

Also see Embedded Computing for some mobile MP3 players.

Misc:

• Graphical Display of Sounds:
  • Bomb:
    • Bomb; A visual-musical-instrument (displays neato patterns in response to various inputs)
    • Bomb: An Interactive Image Generator  Jun'97 LG
  • Kandinsky  "generates a picture file from a MIDI file" May'97 LG
  • Spectrum "a graphical scope and spectrum analysis for the root window" (needs sound card)
  • XPortShot RT  Simulated oscilloscope reads soundcard using OSS
  • Visual Music: The Linux Port of Cthugha  May'97 LG
• Some Interesting Sound & MIDI Software For Linux (canonical sound links site)
  Mirrors at: lovebead.com and condorow.com
• aumix  "for adjusting an audio mixer from the console, a terminal, the command line or scripts,"
• Freshmeat: Sound
• Freshmeat: Gnome Sound
• Freshmeat: KDE Sound
• Ask Slashdot: Is There a Good Sound Library for Linux?
• ALSA - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture  Project to easy writing of sound SW.
• Cecilia  "a completely programmable sound-processing tool, with real-time interactive processing on soundfiles or live input, and as a full blown software synthesizer with configurable knobs". Impressive.
• DAP - Digital Audio Processor "a comprehensive audio sample editing and processing suite". Impressive.
• FVWM and Audio  Jan'96 LG
• Groovit  Makes "groovy and accurate sound/noise".
• The Linux MIDI + Sound Pages  Aims to be a comprehensive index site for this topic.
• Playing .AU at boot up  Jul'95 LG
• Sound HOWTO  Sound hardware and software for the Linux operating system.
• Sound Playing HOWTO  How to play various sound formats under Linux.
• Sox ("the Swiss Army knife of sound processing tools"):
  • Bagwell's Sox page
  • Original? Sox page
• README.audio  Info for running audio over ISDN.
• CDDA Paranoia (reads Audio CD into file in several formats incl. linear PCM)
• Internet broadcasting:
  • Real Audio:
    • Real Networks ($ and free; Real Audio and Real Video downloads.)
    • The RA client does work, at least with RH 5.0 and NS 4.5. In the "Navigator/Applications" dialog, I've got "/usr/bin/rvplayer %s". Some have had to preceed that with something to change an environmental variable ('LD_LIBRARY_PATH=""' or LD_PRELOAD? ). Use DejaNews.
    • RAWrapper  Use RA client without X11.
  • FreeAmp:
    • We're working on it at two levels. First, at the reproduce-what-they-have level, and second at the do-it-the-right-way level. We'd like lots of input. Consider joining outcast-dev@freeamp.org (send subscribe outcast-dev to majordomo@freeamp.org)
  • Other:
    • Slashdot Comments on Internet-radio  Lots of stuff here. 06jan99
    • Cyber Radio 1  Something like RA for Unix-likes; has own server and client. Used by WCSB 89.3 FM to broadcast to Inet from Cleveland OH.
    • icecast  "a Mpeg Layer III Audio broadcasting system"; "almost totally Shoutcast compliant"
• WavPlay/GnuWave  "sound play/record program"
• xmp: A module player for X. [link broke]
• sbpnpprobe - Scan ISA bus for Sound Blaster PnP cards. Part of the isapnptools package?
• The Leaf Project - Linux Enhanced Audio Funnel  "a new interface to the /dev/dsp device. It will accept input in the same exact methods as the current dsp device, but provide a user-space mixer to mix multiple inputs to a single output."
• Quasimodo  Sound synthesizer SW project.
• SADP CD player  "Features spectrum analyser, oscillator, mixer"
• arts - analog realtime synthesizer  "You can create sounds & music (realtime midi synthesis) using small modules like oscillators for creating waveforms, various filters, modules for playing data on your speakers, mixers, faders,..."; uses Corba, KDE

Sound Cards:

• General Subject:
  • Ask Slashdot: Soundcard for Linux-x86?
• Particular Products:
  • Mwave sound card driver project  (IBM Thinkpad or Aptiva)
  • Sound Blaster:
    • Soundblaster AWE mini-HOWTO  How to install the Soundblaster AWE 32/64.
    • soundblaster.com ($)
  • Trident Microsystems  Writing drivers for some of their sound cards.
  • Turtle Beach Malibu: Somebody liked this and wrote up info about his card search and usage experience. Search c.o.l.hardware for "Quality soundcard search: Results" and "TB Malibu experience".

DSP - Digital Signal Processing & Processors:

• gcc for Analog Devices DSPs(ftp) (21k, 21csp and 21xx families of DSPs)
• DAP - Digital Audio Processor "a comprehensive audio sample editing and processing suite"; sounds good

Music:

• Freebirth  "software bass synthesizer/ step sequencer/ sample player"
• FunktrackerGOLD  "allows you to compose digital music (similar to Fasttracker, Impulsetracker etc"
• Jazz++  $
• Lilypond  Music typesetter.
• Music Machine  "100's of free downloads"; shareware site?
• Music Publisher  May'98 LG
• Rosegarden
• Ask Slashdot: Music Sequencers for Linux?
• Rio SW for Linux  Load data from Linux.

MIDI:

• MIDI Introduction  Not Linux-specific.
• Linux MIDI Demo  "the basic steps required to realise a MIDI-system based on Linux software and drivers, and a brief introduction to some of the applications available."
• Keyit  GUI Language for MIDI work.
• SoftWerk  "a software "analogue" MIDI sequencer "
• Timidity++  "MIDI to WAVE converter/player"
• dosemu & MIDI: A User's Report  Jun'97 LG
• Linux & Midi  Mar'97 LG

MP3:

• Freshmeat: MP3 (text)
• Freshmeat: MP3 (X11)
• MP3 Mobile (documents MP3 car player setup)
• Linuxmp3: MP3 player. [link broke]
• Ask Slashdot: Tools for Managing Large MP3 Libraries?
• Ask Slashdot: Linux [MP3] Vending Machines?

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