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Category: Best Unix Earcandy
Is there a set of sounds that you've carefully matched to your every move in X? Or is there an album you believe personifies your computing experience? Or perhaps you firmly believe that having CowboyNeal making beat-box sounds in your ears is just what you need. If your answer is the last of those three, than you should try to deafen yourself. Otherwise, head over to the nomination area and show where your ear is aligned.
Earcandy *and* a good movie. what more can I say?
Grz, Aardbeike
xmms, the clone that's better than winamp. Supports writing to disk, playing back midi, mp3, .au, wave files, oss direct hw access, eSound, and soon KDE. How much more versatile can you get? Oh yeah, and it has some nice eye candy too - the visualization plugins.
This is an excellent piece of ear *and* eye candy. Simply enter the following into a term:
xsynaesthesia cd &
And chill...
In the interest of being on the right side of Rob, Jeff, et al., I will nominate Geeks in Space ;-)
I'd like to nominate the Icecast project. After the huge hype of Shoutcast, which allowed anyone with WinAmp to repeat their MP3 audio to a server (thusly to many listeners), these people sat down and said "We can do better -- and we can do under the GPL." The rest is history.
With the latest stable release being v1.3, they have allowed many to setup their own MP3 streaming music servers. It's very handy for setting up (via a program like Yell or Shout, which send the MP3s to the server without reencoding) a small 486 box in the corner that can be a jukebox for an entire LAN. They have also pioneered some important updates to the defacto Shoutcast standard.
An interview with Jack Moffitt, the team leader, is available from LinuxToday
Note: Their parent sponsor, Greenwitch has been down since the 1st of January, with DNS service non existant. As I write this message, their DNS is still not working. The DNS fixes are propagating, and the Icecast people are available on norton.openprojects.net #icecast.
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Internet Explorer (n): Another bug -- that is, a feature that can't be turned off -- in Windows.
Don't forget The Score by Don Davis. MP3ify both of them, load 'em into sonique and shuffle play. The perfect mix from the perfect movie.
I love xmms.
I also listen to geeks in space so...
How about xmms playing Geeks in Space.
-ev0l
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This is the obvious choice for me. It doesn't really matter which version of FF, they all have the best music (by far) that I've ever heard in a video game. Nobuo Uematsu is a genius. I rarely play video games any more, and the last time I actually played FF was FF III many years ago, but I still love the music, and have a CD full of MP3's that I listen to all the time. I can't help but wonder if it was the music that subconsciously attracted me so much to the Final Fantasy series when I was younger moreso than the actual game.
I suggest ARTS (Analog RealTime Synthesiser). It's a very interesting project and will be included with KDE2.
No, but seriously, I think her music has depth and emotional substance... Plus I can really get on with some of the later remixes (e.g. the Hunter remixes and All is Full of Love). Also the Potage Du Jour remix of Alarm Call is really cool with her going "wooo-ooo-oooh-wooo"....
I'm no f***ing buddhist, but this is enlightenment ;)
Primordial Atmosphere from http://www.solarworld.com/ is so dreamy.
as sung here by RMS....
Full plate and packing steel! -Minsc
Does it count even if it's still in 'beta' ?
Quasimodo is pretty swanky (and very powerful) even though it hasn't reached the scope envisoned by it's author..