Just caught up with this thread. Yes, it looks very interesting, and I wonder if AstralStorm will get back to us on this.
I'm a Linux user, usually using DeaDBeeF as my player, either direct to ALSA or through JACK. My second-string player is Aqualung, which can use LADSPA plugins.
Even although I have Unix systems management experience, that was a long time ago and I am not (and wasn't then) a programmer of any sort beyond a little shell. ./configure, make, and make install is about as far as I go in any serious src directory.