Computer techniques people here use? (Thanks, Aaron)

Hello, there, Aaron and all.

Please let me explain that I'm in touch with Aaron on e-mail, and one
of the questions I've asked is where I might find some useful FAQ's to
read about Linux and some musicmaking and recording techniques for
that platform -- with the latter, of course, most relevant to this
forum.

Documenting my arguably rather "antiquated" style of computing with a
Pentium 150 system running MS-DOS 6.22, 16M RAM, a 1G hard drive, and
a UNIX shell account for the Internet -- with GNU utilities (DJGPP) to
make the DOS more "UNIX-like" -- might amuse people here, not to
mention my actual _enjoyment_ of this.

However, for this forum, what I might ask about is what people here
have done or are doing, to supplement the FAQ's that I want to read
and the most generous advice and assistance I'm getting from people
off-list.

First, is anyone involved with recording or playing mp3 or ogg files
in a command-line environment like Linux?

Also, more generally, how do people go about recording something
they're playing on synthesizer in a customized timbre, say, to mp3 or
to CD -- in a command-line environment (which I find user-friendly) or
a GUI environment (which I realize a vast majority of people prefer)?

Finding out more about how people "make micro music" should help me to
understand better what's going on here, and to appreciate some of the
effort behind the pieces offered here.

By the way, while writing about computer techniques, I should offer to
make available my Scala .seq files to anyone who might have an
interest, via e-mail or possibly by posting links along with my MIDI
links. If this solves some "reverse engineering" problems for Jon or
others, I'd be delighted.

Most appreciatively,

Margo
mschulter@...

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Margo Schulter <mschulter@c...>
wrote:

> First, is anyone involved with recording or playing mp3 or ogg files
> in a command-line environment like Linux?

I don't use command-line for these but I do sometimes play midi files
using the "timidity" command under Linux.