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Code editor: Notepad++
Image viewer: IrfanView
Media player: VLC
Destructive audio editor: Audacity
Emulation: DOSbox
Archive handler: 7zip

>>497857
>Destructive audio editor: Audacity
what you mean destructive?

Consider putting together some Linux boxes

>>497860
its a future project, no one in our group is really linux savvy atm.

>>497859
Basically, if you make any edits or changes, you cannot easily revert to the original recording. Like, if you trim something in Audacity, you can't say, stretch the sides of the clip to bring the trimmed sections back. A non-destructive editor, like Sony ACID, would let you do this because you're not changing the actual clip itself, but rather putting edits around a clip that is stored in memory, so the original loaded into RAM is not itself modified until it is saved.

>>497861
Get Linux Mint. Seriously, you may never want to go back to Windows 7.

>>497862
intredasting. so with audacity you need to make backups and a lot of saves.

>>497866
Yeah, more or less. But it's not really *meant* to do anything aside from small and quick edits. If you're trying to manage any project where its destructiveness is going to hinder you, then you're using the wrong tool.

>>497868
ok, i have a couple music creators in the group but im not them so im not really up to date. know of anything that "compares" to software used with like pro tools or numark?

bump i guess.

>>497884

>>497884
Sticky. Read it.

>>497861
>linux savvy
That may have been necessary 10 years ago, but today everything is just about as plug and play as you can get.
I suggest Xubunu or Mint.

GIMP
Inkscape
ImageMagik
VLC/MPlayer
mkvtoolnix
PureData
Audacity
gmusicbrowser
gEDA suite
Anki
LibreOffice
emacs/vim
pdftk
Transmission/Deluge/rTorrent
Firefox
Thunderbird
Filezilla

Set for life.

>>497887
we aren't making fleshlights and bongs in the hackerspace.

>>497899
He was talking about the bump.
You were only on like, page 1.
Give it a day or 2.
We be super slow here.

>>497899
If that's the extent of your abilities, you're already doomed to failure.

>>497889
>GIMP
got it
>Inkscape
got it
>ImageMagik
is this really not govered with gimp or inkscape?
>VLC/MPlayer
got it
>mkvtoolnix
dont know why i want this.
>PureData
>Pure Data (aka Pd) is an open source visual programming language. Pd enables musicians, visual artists, performers, researchers, and developers to create software graphically, without writing lines of code.
pic related
>Audacity
got it
>gmusicbrowser
clementine?
>gEDA suite
interesting. looking into this. hows it compare to kicad?
>Anki
nice. getting this.
>LibreOffice
got it
>emacs/vim
got it
>pdftk
wow this seems more more of a pdf solution than libreoffice/sumatrapdf
>CLI
hrm..

>Transmission/Deluge/rTorrent
got it
>Firefox
got it
>Thunderbird
got it
>Filezilla
winscp?

>>497917
Some things I've had to do before utilized functions from Inkscape.

For if you ever need to open and edit mkvs.

PureData is fucking awesome.
It won't be for everyone, but I love and am trying to spread the word of it"s existence. It's really geared towards [live] music production. Computer programming for the guitar pedal minded.

gmusicbrowser is one of the greatest programs to have ever graced my life.
Clementine a shit comparatively (and I used to use it).

Never used KiCad, so I'm not sure - Only recently discover gEDA myself.

pdftk is another one that has just made my life unmeasurably easier. It's easy to use - If you're going to avoid it because you're afraid of command line, well then there's no helping you.

winscp
pls stop using windows.
It's such shit.
Everything in your life will get better.

>>497931
>utilized functions from Imagemagik*
god dammit

>>497931
>shits on windows
>over winscp

winscp is one of the best windows programs in existence.
it does exactly everything needed, nothing more, nothing less.

>>497934
winscp is great

windows is shit

>>497939

instead of vlc, you might consider using daum pot player. maybe it's just me, but I usually have a fair amount of problems when playing high definition shows. I'd also guess that not all of your computers are going to be running the latest hardware, and vlc kinda uses raw pc power to compensate it's coding.

pot player it's a derivative of kplayer, which is a rock solid Linux media player, albeit obnoxious as hell to use for a beginner. pot player is written for Windows, and works great on lighter systems. lots of good features too.

>>497945
haven't heard of pot player but ill look into it. if vlc is shit id probably switch to mpchc. thanks for the suggestion.

Problem is that a lot of free software is shit compared to proprietary alternatives. GIMP is a joke compared to photoshop. And in video and audio editing there isn't even something that could pass a free alternative to the industry standards like Sony Vegas or Ableton Live.

Anyways, no one has mentioned WinAVR, it's obligatory.

>>497955
>Anyways, no one has mentioned WinAVR, it's obligatory.
>~$10 for highest end cpu AT32UC3C064C

not bad. ill get one to play with. hell digi key might send me samples.

>>497858
What in the heck are they doing, electrocuting Twinkies?

>>497961
it's obvious if you just look at the pic.

>>497947
I'd recommend keeping vlc on as well as a backup. I use mpc-hc as my default player, but vlc is much better at playing broken, corrupted or incompletely downloaded files in my experience.

>>497963
It just looks like kids playing with snacks and electricity to me, and what are those doughball things.

TextPad for data import

Qcad is pretty good for 2d cad.

What programming languages do you have installed?

>>498001
Open Source Language: Python
OS Language: PHP
OSL: Ruby
OSL: Perl (Strawberry Perl)
OSL: Lua
OSL: R
OSL: Dart
OSL: Scala
OSL: Haskell (Haskell Platform)
OSL: Go
OSL: D
OSL: Pascal (Free Pascal)
OSL: Clojure
OSL: Erlang
OSL: Tcl
OSL: Prolog (SWI Prolog)
OSL: Ada (GNAT)
OSL: BASIC (FreeBASIC)
OSL: Java (jdk)
OSL: JavaScript
OSL: OCaml
OSL: Rust
OSL: Scheme (Racket)
OSL: Smalltalk (Squeak)
OSL: Vala

>>497992
better than librecad? i heard librecad is de facto.

>>498006
Looks good to me

>>497971
emacs nigga.

>>498006
>>498011
Wait a second - No C? No C++? (No C#?) Or are you just using D instead?

You might also want an assembly compiler just for the challenge of it.

>>498014
he said languages not dev tools.

-Development-

IDE: Eclipse
IDE: Netbeans
M$ IDE: MonoDevelop (Xamarin Studio)
Microcontroller: WinAVR
Microcontroller: Arduino IDE
Text Editor: Emacs
UI Creator: QT
Machine Emulator: QEMU
SQL Database: PostgreSQL
.NET Clone: Mono
GCC Port: MinGW
GCC Port: Cygwin

>>498016
avrgcc + avrdude

>>497862
I don't get it. It asks you if you want to edit the file or edit a copy of it.

Also, if you do something, like say trim the edges, then it's counter intuitive that you can revert that change inadvertently by modifying the rest of the audio clip in some way, no? You can always ctrl+z in audacity if you want to go back.

>>498332
And what if you want to change something a year from now? Nondestructive editors basically store a list of operations to be applied to the source material.

>>498340
Ah, so it's like working with say layers in photoshop and then saving as a PSD? I guess with audacity you'd have to redo everything.

>>498360
Can't you save the project as an aup file?