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I recently stumbled upon the audio-visual Linux project, one of many music-oriented Linux distributions. Audio-visual Linux:

Is based on ArchLInux to provide a customized real-time linux kernel for playing music. Use a lightweight flow box window manager to avoid unnecessary daemons and services that allow dsf playback and support the usual pcm format. Support a variety of music players, including one of my favorite combinations: mpd+ Cantonese

The audio-friendly Linux site hasn't shown much activity since April 2017, but it does contain some updates and comments from this year. Considering its location and feature set, I decided to run it on my old Toshiba laptop.

Install Audio Linux

The website provides a clear set of installation instructions that require the use of terminals. The first step after downloading .iso is to burn it to a USB card. To do this, I used the restore disk image of the GNOME disk utility. Once I have set up the USB and am ready, I will plug it into Toshiba and boot it. When the boot screen appears, I set the boot device to a flash drive, and about a minute later, the ArchGRUB menu is displayed. I boot Linux from this menu, which places me in the root shell session, where I can perform an installation on the hard drive:

For this test, I am willing to sacrifice the 320 GB hard drive in Toshiba, so I can use the previous Linux partition. Then, I did the following work:

Fdisk-l # find the disk / partition In my case / dev/sda and / dev/sda1mkfs.ext4 / dev/sda1 # build the ext4 filesystem in the root partitionmount / dev/sda1 / mnt # mount the new file systemtime cp-ax / / mnt # copy over the OS # reported back cp-ax / / mnt 1.36s user 136.54s system 88% cpu 2dev/sda1mkfs.ext4 36.37 totalarch-chroot / mnt / bin/bash # run in the new system rootcd / etc/apl-files./runme.sh # do the rest of the installgrub-install -- target=i386-pc / dev/sda # make the new OS bootable part 1grub-mkconfig-o / boot/grub/grub.cfg # part 2passwd root # set root's passwordln-s / usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Vancouver / etc/localtime # set my time zonehwclock-- systohc-- utc # update the hardware clock./autologin.sh # set the system up so that it automatically logs inexit # done with the chroot sessiongenfstab-U / mnt > > / mnt/etc/fstab # create the fstab for the new system

At that time, I was ready to start the new operating system, so I did-wow, here comes the system!

Complete the configuration

Once the music lover linux is up and running, I need to complete the configuration and play some music. By right-clicking on the screen background, I started crawling the application menu. X side and enter the rest of the configuration commands:

Ping 8.8.8.8 # check connectivity (works fine) su # become rootpacman-key-init # create pacman's encryption data part 1pacman-key-populate archlinux # part 2pacman-Sy # part 3pacman-S archlinux-keyring # part 4

At this point, the installation instructions note the use of the pacman-Suy command, and libxfont must first use pacman-Rc libxfont. I followed this instruction, but the second round of pacman-Suy resulted in another dependency error, this time using X265 packages. I looked further at the page in the installation instructions and saw the following suggestions:

Once again, there was a mistake in the upstream buyback arch bag. Try to delete the package that conflicts with "Pacman-R ffmpeg2.8", and then do Pacman-Suy later.

I chose to use pacman-Rc ffmpeg2.8 and then rerun pacman-Suy. (as a narrator, typing all these pacman commands made me realize how familiar I was with APT-the whole process made me feel like I wanted to write an email in a language I didn't know, using an online translator.)

To be clear, this is my order of operation:

Pacman-Suy # failedpacman-Rc libxfontpacman-Suy # failed, againpacman-Rc ffmpeg2.8 # uninstalled Cantata, have to fix that portable pacman-Suy # worked!

Now go back to the remaining instructions:

Pacman-S terminus-font pacman-S xorg-server pacman-S firefox # the docs suggested installing chromium but I prefer FF reboot

Finally, fiddle with / etc/fstab to avoid changing the access time. I also want to try to install Cantata and use pacman-S cantata again, and it works well (no ffmpeg2.8 problems).

I found DAC Setup > List cards on the application menu, which shows the built-in Intel sound hardware plus the USB DAC I inserted earlier. Then I select DAC Setup > Edit mpd.conf to adjust the output section mpd.conf. I used scp to copy the album from my main music server to ~ / music. Finally, I used the application menu. DAC Setup > Restart mpd. And the message on the conky screen says "MPD is not responding". So I scanned the notes at the bottom of the installation instructions again and found the following:

After each update of MPD, you must do the following:

1. Take root

$su

two。 Run the following command

# cat / etc/apl-files/mpd.service > / usr/lib/systemd/system/mpd.service#systemctl daemon-reload # systemctl restart mpd.service

This will be fixed.

And it worked! Now I enjoy Niels Frem's "full Melody" from the album of the same name, playing my Schiit Fulla 2 high-resolution sound. It's time to copy some more music so that I can give it a better listening.

So... Does this sound better than the dac connected to my regular work laptop? Guayadeque or GogglesMM? I want to see if I can find a different place at some point, but now all I can say is that it sounds great, and I like Cantonese / MPD very much. I really like the look-up display in the upper right corner of the screen.

About music.

One day, I made a little adjustment to my work hard drive, and I decided to check it to make sure that all the music on it was on the music server at home, 2) and vice versa (rsync must be set some day soon for this). In the process, I found some music that I hadn't enjoyed for a while, which was a bit like buying a brand new album, but it was much cheaper.

Finally, I am saddened to hear that recently Rashid Taha has created some powerful and interesting music by perfectly combining the musical traditions of North Africa and France, as well as his frank confrontation with the challenges of being a North African and living in Europe. Check Taha's version of Rock and Roll Caspar. I have several of his songs scattered on different albums, some time ago I bought Rachid Taha: authoritative collection recently I began to enjoy it again.

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