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Six Degrees Records has long been one of my favorite purveyors of unusual music. ![]() In doing so, I found some music I hadn’t enjoyed for a while, which is kind of like buying a brand-new album, except it costs much less. The other day I was reorganizing my work hard drive a bit and I decided to check to make sure that 1) all the music on it was also on the house music servers and 2) vice versa (gotta set up rsync for that purpose one day soon). #Fl studio linux alternatives plusSo… does it sound better than the same DAC connected to my regular work laptop and playing back through Guayadeque or GogglesMM? I’m going to see if I can detect a difference at some point, but right now all I can say is it sounds just wonderful plus I like the Cantata / mpd combo a lot, and I really enjoy having the heads-up display in the upper right of the screen. Time to copy in some more music so I can give it a better listen. # cat /etc/apl-files/mpd.service > /usr/lib/systemd/system/mpd.serviceĪnd it works! Right now I’m enjoying Nils Frahm’s "All Melody" from the album of the same name, playing over my Schiit Fulla 2 in glorious high-resolution sound. #Fl studio linux alternatives updateSo I scanned again through the comments at the bottom of the installation instructions and spotted this:Īfter every update of mpd, you have to do: And… nothing… the conky info on the screen indicated “MPD not responding”. And finally, I used the application menu DAC Setup > Restart mpd. I used scp to copy an album over from my main music server into ~/Music. Then I selected DAC Setup > Edit mpd.conf and adjusted the output stanza of mpd.conf. I found the DAC Setup > List cards on the application menu, which showed the built-in Intel sound hardware plus my USB DAC that I had plugged in earlier. I also thought I’d try installing Cantata once more using pacman -S cantata, and it worked just fine (no ffmpeg2.8 problems). Pacman -S firefox # the docs suggested installing chromium but I prefer FFĪnd the last little bit, fiddling /etc/fstab to avoid access time modifications. Now back to the rest of the instructions: pacman -S terminus-font Pacman -Rc ffmpeg2.8 # uninstalled Cantata, have to fix that later! To be clear, here was my sequence of operations: (As an aside, typing all these pacman commands made me realize how familiar I am with apt, and how much this whole process made me feel like I was trying to write an email in some language I don’t know using an online translator.) I chose to use pacman -Rc ffmpeg2.8, and then reran pacman -Suy. Try to remove conflicting packages with “pacman -R ffmpeg2.8” and then do pacman -Suy later. #Fl studio linux alternatives installI looked further down the page in the install instructions and saw this recommendation:Īgain there is an error in upstream repo of Arch packages. I followed this instruction, but the second run of pacman -Suy led to another dependency error, this time with the x265 package. #Fl studio linux alternatives softwarePacman-key –init # create pacman’s encryption data part 1Īt this point, the install instructions note that there is a problem with updating software with the pacman -Suy command, and that first the libxfont package must be removed using pacman -Rc libxfont. Ping 8.8.8.8 # check connectivity (works fine) I booted Linux from that menu, which put me in a root shell session, where I could carry out the install to the hard drive: When the splash screen came up, I set the boot device to the USB stick and a minute or so later, the Arch Grub menu was displayed. Once I had the USB set up and ready to go, I plugged it into the Toshiba and booted it. I used the GNOME Disks utility’s Restore Disk Image for this purpose. The site provides a clear set of install instructions that require the use of the terminal. Given its orientation and feature set, I decided to take it for a spin on my old Toshiba laptop. The Audiophile Linux site hasn’t shown a lot of activity since April 2017, but it does contain some updates and commentary from this year. Supports various music players, including one of my favorite combos: MPD + Cantata Uses the lightweight Fluxbox window managerĪllows playback of DSF and supports the usual PCM formats Provides a real-time Linux kernel customized for playing music I recently stumbled on the Audiophile Linux project, one of a number of special-purpose music-oriented Linux distributions. ![]()
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