[LAU] Console tools for linux audio and other things

Hey list, On 3/25/13, Harry van Haaren <harryhaaren(a)gmail.com> wrote: 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.