28 Mar
2013
28 Mar
'13
1:24 p.m.
Hey list,
On 3/25/13, Harry van Haaren <harryhaaren(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Egor Sanin
<egor.sanin(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.
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? 
28 Mar
28 Mar
1:51 p.m.
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
GUI apps and CLI toolkits are generally a front end to the required commands:
ifconfig wlan0 up iwlist wlan0 scan | egrep -i '(key|essid|auth)'
Choose the essid you want, see if it has a key and if so the auth type. If auth is as
below you can connect to the net with:
NONE/off: iwconfig wlan0 essid <wlan id>
WEP: iwconfig wlan0 essid <wlan id> key <passphrase> OR if the key
is passphrase rather than hex WEP: iwconfig wlan0 essid <wlan id> key
s:<passphrase>
PSK is a bit more work, first generate a key file, then start the negotiation
# wpa_password <wlan id> >~/wpa.key# reading passphrase from
stdindafttxtstartszebrassweetgrassfeedfestcraze
# wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c ~/wpa.key
Finally
# dhclient wlan0
And you should be good to go. You might want to bounce (down/up) the interface as doing so
will force an event to start the negotiation. Do that before the dhclient.
You could script this especially if you generally only sign on to your home network. I
travel a lot so prefer to just type it all in. Lots more fun. BTW none of this works if
you have a network manager app running, they will complete for the settings and things
become very frustrating/unpredictable. If your wlan0 id has spaces, '@',
'-', things like that, then you will need to quote the wlan id string.
Regards, nick.
2:38 p.m.
On 3/28/13, Nick Copeland <nickycopeland(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
This used to be the case on Arch as well, but recently ifconfig has
been replaced by ip, hence the command above.
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
GUI apps and CLI toolkits are generally a front end to the required
commands:
ifconfig wlan0 up Choose the essid you want, see if it has a key and if
so the auth type. If
[SNIP]
You could script this especially if you generally only
sign on to your home
network.
Which is exactly what netcfg is for. You write some config files in
/etc/network.d/ and then netcfg does the magic for you. It's very
convenient and flexible.
Though I agree spelling it all out right there after # sends shivers
down my spine, sometimes.
2:11 p.m.
On 03/28/2013 01:24 PM, Egor Sanin wrote:
I'd love to hear about other console tools folks
around here use.
jalv: loading LV2 plugins
jack-dssi-host: loading LADSPA and DSSI plugins
jack_connect, jack_disconnect, jack_lsp etc: CLI JACK tools
aconnect: connect ALSA sequencer thingies
yoshimi -i: look ma, no GUI!
Jeremy
3 p.m.
Hello!
Of course there are the following as well:
Nama: based on casound, get the latest version from git:
https://freeshell.de/~bolangi/cgi1/nama.cgi/00home.html
Bristol has a fantastic, if simplistic, textbased interface! If you like
vi/vim, you'll love that! Try the -cli option.
zynAddSubFX could be compiled without GUI to load patches.
Midish was mentioned, but is rather more than low-level. It is a shell, you
can write scripts and there already are some. Well-documented and quite
powerful, if you know, what you want.
setBfree the opening and pollishing of the Beatrix hammond organ emulator is
fantastic (it's controlled by MIDI only)
Aeolus Fons Adriaensen's pipe organ has a simple text-based interface. You
can't edit the instrument, but you can load stops and setup the instrument.
Hydrogen has a text-based interface for loading kits (hydrogen -k
directory_of_kit )
mplayer and lately mplayer2 are very good music players with support for a lot
of formats. Mplayer2 still has its glitches, but it can play youtube-links
directly and there are a few other interesting new features.
the hexter LV2 plugin (the DX7 emulator) has a small shell to go with
jack-dssi-host. You can load patch files and switch patches, no editing.
LinuxSampler and telnet are good companions. LinuxSampler's lscp protocol is
fully documented on www.linuxsampler.org and you can either write your own
lscp-scripts or copythem fom session with graphical front ends. Commands like:
telnet piano_load.lscp | telnet localhost 8888
will load them and:
telnet localhst 8888
gives youaccess to enter more commands. Use commands:
RESET - to reset everything
QUIT - to quit the shell (telnet)
or any othe command from the lscp.
jack.plumbing (otherwise known as the jack.* utilities) have some interesting
small tools to manage jack connections.
CLM and Csound also work well, especially when combined with emacs (for CLM)
and probably both Vim and Emacs for Csound. They can do syntax highlighting
and even automatic compliation/execution of code.
Last but not least, there are all the small utilities, that are nice
surrounding your audio setup, all the encoders (lame, oggenc/oggdec,
flac,...). cdrecord, genisofs and wodim for CD ripping and burning, mencoder
for converting between a lot of video formats, alsamixer or the lowlevel
version amixer for setting up your soundcard... and of course 100s of LADSPA
plugins and LV2 plugins, that can be loaded/used in Ecasound/Nama.
If you're looking for non-audio related console utilities, please send an
e-mail off-list.
Warm regards
Julien
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http://juliencoder.de/nama/music.html
3:06 p.m.
On 3/28/13, Julien Claassen <julien(a)mail.upb.de> wrote:
Hello!
Of course there are the following as well:
[SNIPOMGSNIP]
If you're looking for non-audio related console
utilities, please send an
e-mail off-list.
Encyclopaedic knowledge, I tell you!
Julien, I always learn something from your messages, thanks for such
fruitful contribution!
29 Mar
29 Mar
3:04 a.m.
Hi,
I'd like to throw in clive for downloading videos off various sites,
e.g. youtube, vimeo etc.
Regarding mplayer2 having its glitches, I switched from mplayer to
mplayer2 because of mplayer glitches. :)
esp. playing this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHkucr1jJpQ
Use clive like this:
clive -f best 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHkucr1jJpQ'
then
mplayer Neil\ Peart\ Drum\ Solo\ Rush\ 30th\ Anniversary.webm
Warning: the downloaded file is 355M
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28 Mar
28 Mar
3:45 p.m.
On Thu, March 28, 2013 5:24 am, Egor Sanin 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
Nice list, I'll copy that text somewhere.
and of course jack is a given.
Jack_control is very handy and the whole jack-tools package has nice
stuff. On the console type jack<tab><tab> and you should see a list of
command line utilities to do with jack. Actually this is a trick that
works with many things... The jack_* stuff comes with jackd and the jack.*
stuff is from jack-tools.
For more info about any of these programs use man program_name or if there
is none then program_name --help will give enough info to get you going.
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