Your Favourite Open Source Software?

Any recommendations for very good quality audio playback software, particularly for Linux. So far, Steawberry works fairly,well

The best program for Mac by far is VeraVox, recently released. Bit-perfect resolution and excellent library management with many facilities
If you are looking for bit-perfect playback on Linux then you are going to have to sidestep the system mixer (PulseAudio or PipeWire). These resample everything to a common rate, so you need to access ALSA directly on the hardware layer.

Strawberry is a good option. Under the backend settings you can switch the output plugin to ALSA and then specify the DAC under the dropdown list underneath this (you may have done this already).

If you are going for a hardcore music server then MPD is the way to go, together with the rabbit hole that can open up.
 
Screen recorder: OBS Studio

3D Production: Blender

Audio editor: Audacity

Password manager: Bitwarden

Data recovery tool: TestDisk

Media player: VLC Media Player
These are all "classics" that were already on our original list in Github so I have updated all of the entries on the current site with additional info.

Even when software is already on the list, it's always good when people share what they like and find useful so thanks for that!
 
I have started adding some bolierplate docker compose stacks on Github to help people kickstart a Docker homelab:


The stacks are intended to deploy on a single Linux host with Docker and feature Traefik reverse proxy with LetsEncrypt DNS-01 Challenge via Cloudflare.

The stacks published so far are the ones that I could test and document most quickly. I will add to them on an ongoing basis.

Hopefully someone will find these interesting or helpful. Feel free to drop a reply in this thread or PM me if you have any requests for additional stacks and I will do my best to oblige.
 
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