musikcube VS FlexASIO

Nord theme for Musickube

Turns out someone already made an issue about this upstream, and even made a working ebuild, although it was published to his/her overlay which is not listed on overlays.gentoo.org yet sadly. If you're curious what was wrong and how it was fixed: the github issue

If it's just for music and you dig the look of TUI apps then musikcube has built-in server functionality. You install it on both the server and clients but keep the library on the server. It's light and works well, including for giant collections. There's apparently an android app too, musikdroid, but I haven't tried it. I haven't tried the windows or mac client apps either, so I can't vouch for any of them, but it's great on linux.

VLC can be used to play a file from the command line, but there is no user interface. Players like cmus and musikcube have a text based interface and library management.

Well, there's Musikcube. I think it's a solid choice over cmus.

music player: musikcube

Dont know about the rest but the top left music player looks like musikcube with a skin on it. https://musikcube.com/

I use https://github.com/clangen/musikcube on a daily basis

Musikcube, a cross-platform, terminal-based library, player and server\ (16 comments)

I had a similar issue with my setup, I suggest using FLEXASIO. Youll need to download flexasio and the gui component to use it. https://github.com/dechamps/FlexASIO

The problem I have with FlexASIO is that it only supports having 1 input while the katana requires multiple. See: https://github.com/dechamps/FlexASIO/issues/147

The UMC-22 has a budget Midas-type pre-amp which is hard to beat under $200. That said, the UMC-22 also has terrible ASIO4ALL based drivers which can partially be worked around by using something like FlexASIO. Ultimately though, the drivers won't matter unless you are using heavier VST plugins for your voice/audio input.

FlexASIO allows none exclusive mode but it does it in a different way to regular ASIO drivers. You will have to give it a try to see if it can provide a latency that is acceptable. It is meant to work with more hardware than regular ASIO drivers. I suspect that latency might be compromised somewhat but give it a try to see if it works okay for you. It does explain how it works compared to other ASIO drivers on the github page.

FlexASIO

https://github.com/dechamps/FlexASIO/releases

FlexASIO is the modern and IMO better alternative to ASIO4ALL, just sayin.

You could try https://github.com/dechamps/FlexASIO It's a universal asio driver that allows non-exclusive mode

flex asio - https://github.com/dechamps/FlexASIO/tree/flexasio-1.9 and https://github.com/flipswitchingmonkey/FlexASIO_GUI