[LAU] Console tools for linux audio and other things

Hey list,

On 3/25/13, Harry van Haaren <harryhaaren@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Egor Sanin <egor.sanin@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
>> For music playback, you can use Music On Console
>> http://moc.daper.net/
>>
>
> Neat tool. Didn't know of this one... and I've been looking for a small
> lightweight little audio player :)
> Egor you should post your info on your Arch setup and all the little
> console tools you use, I remember
> you showed me a real-cool console wifi manager too, "wifi-menu" was it?

Sure, but I think Julien knows much more than I do. This is just for
music making:

sox: lots of wonderful uses
ecasound: recording/mixing/effects
a2jmidid: interoperability of alsa and jack midi
aj-snapshot: connection manager
esjit: another connection manager, for quick and dirty patching
mididings: awesome midi handler (use midi for pretty much ANYTHING)
meterec: a simplistic multitrack recorder, used mostly for it's
console level meter
jackctlmmc: drive jack transport with mmc messages
midish: really low-level hardcore midi sequencer
fluidsynth: you know this one (minus the qt interface)
linuxsampler: I really seldom use this
supercollider: again, sans gui (scvim styles)
sooperlooper: i just love client/server implementations
alsa utilities: aseqdump and friends
python, bash, ncurses, pyliblo, tmux, vim: scripting delight

and of course jack is a given.

I may have missed one or two things. Other than that my arch setup is
standard, default kernel, etc.

As for wifi, hmm Harry, I don't quite remember of a manager program.
I just use the following set of commands:
# ip link set wlan0 up
# iwlist wlan0 scan | less

or instead of less use some grep magic to show only needed info and
then use netcfg with corresponding config file in /etc/network.d/ to
connect.
There are many examples that directory, so it's rather trivial.

Though now I looked in ArchWiki and there are apparently a few options
for interactive console wifi management:
wifi-menu, wicd-curses, nmcli

I just tested wifi-menu and it's actually quite nice, still I find the
straight-up ip/iwlist/netcfg approach more transparent, which appeals
to me greatly.

Enjoy!

I'd love to hear about other console tools folks around here use.
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Received on Thu Mar 28 16:15:04 2013