Question: Related to [What's the uA741's appeal?](https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/8253/whats-the-ua741s-appeal), a lot of schematics use this rather dated opamp. My follow-up question would be: What is a good alternative?

Of course if you have specific requirements you just search for the correct part. What I'm talking about is, what should be the default opamp I stock in my parts bin?

Imagine the average hobby project with a breadboard and an Arduino, single-supply, probably 5V, frequencies in the audio spectrum, and accidental shorts.

It should just be a nice, single-ended, well behaved (no phase reversal) opamp with a large voltage swing (preferably rail-to-rail), and reasonable performance for audio.

Some comments on the linked question mention LM358 and LM324, but I've read the low slew-rate may be bad for audio, which is what most of my analogue signals are.

Answer: 
Because you mentioned Arduino (low power, low voltage):

LM358N - 0.5mA, min 3V 1MHz  

MCP6001 - 0.1mA, min 1.8V 1MHz  

LM324 - 0.7mA, min 3V 1MHz (quadruple)  

NE5532a - ?mA min +-5V (10MHz!)  

TDA1308 - 3mA, min 3V, (class-AB stereo headphone driver, circ boards already available on ebay for $1)  

LM193, LM293, LM393, LM2903, min 2V

Note:  

 \* min is minimum voltage required to run  

 \* mA is typical current consumption  

 \* I am going to prepare a RAR file with the data sheets for all the above ICs and upload it somewhere (for lazy people like me).
Here is a brief answer - go to a distributor site and look at the op-amp section. One can normally select by parameters. For example, [Farnell](http://uk.farnell.com/c/semiconductors-ics/amplifiers-comparators/operational-amplifiers-op-amps)