Seldom without a computer of some sort since graduating from the University of British Columbia in 1978, I have been a full-time Linux user since 2005, a full-time Solaris and SunOS user from 1986 through 2005, and UNIX System V user before that.
On the technical side of things, I have spent a great deal of my career as a consultant, doing data analysis and visualization; especially spatial data analysis. I have a substantial amount of related programming experience, using C, awk, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, PostGIS and lately Groovy. I'm looking at Julia with great interest. I have also built a few desktop and web-based applications, primarily in Java and lately in Grails with lots of JavaScript on the front end and PostgreSQL as my database of choice.
Aside from that, I spend a considerable amount of time writing proposals, technical reports and - of course - stuff on https://www.opensource.com.
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Thanks for the comment, Maxim Stewart. As a matter of interest, where do you find psf and midi files? Are you a musician?
Thanks for the comment, Andrew_B. I thought about going further afield - for example, VLC, console-based players, and so on. My main reason for staying away from VLC as a music player is that, in my perception anyway, it isn't really built with managing a decent-sized collection of music in mind; as far as I have ever been able to determine, if I want to play a music track in VLC, I use the open file dialogue to go find the music file. There's no browser using the tags, no search by tag ability, and so forth. Maybe I'm wrong! But I've never stumbled upon this kind of stuff while trying out VLC.