audio software

This has been an essential part of my toolkit for as long as I’ve had CDs. These days I use it primarily to convert various other audio formats to MP3.

my rip-audio-from-video.sh script uses lame.

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Open Cubic Player

2014-09-09

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Software >

https://www.cubic.org/player/

Cubic Player, now Open Cubic Player, was my audio player of choice back in my DOS days. Officially abandoned under DOS, but renamed to “open cubic player” and further-developed to become multi-platform (Linux).

Rather old, but still awesome.

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Herrie

2014-05-08

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Oldschool music players >

https://github.com/EdSchouten/herrie (still mostly-gone as of 2016-03-31 – archive.org)

I don’t know where I heard of this music player, but I had recently bookmarked it. I took a moment to check it out.

It failed my review.

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Ardour

2012-12-07

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https://ardour.org/

A digital audio workstation.

Horribly complex, doesn’t really work with a normal audio setup. Might be worth checking out later.

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PulseAudio

2011-11-18

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Software >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/

My policy in general is to have as few moving parts as possible. The few inter-dependant projects, the simpler the software, the more straightforward the setup is the easier everything becomes.

PulseAudio is a steaming pile of shit which I’ve never had working correctly. Even finding basic documentation on how to use it isn’t out there.

Brought to you by the author of systemd, so you know it’s Evil.

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Christine

2011-10-27

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https://web.archive.org/web/20190126010616/http://www.christine-project.org/
https://web.archive.org/web/20090530072502/http://www.christine-project.org:80/html/index.php

A small and very fast Media Player, it suports the widespread media files that Gstreamer do support. Christine allows you to search trough your media files and play them quickly. You can create playlists to keep your files organized, use a queue and organize radio stations.

Complete garbage when I tried it

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