audio

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• abcde command-line utility to rip and encode audio cds
• adplay console-based OPL2 audio player
• adplug AdLib sound player library
• alac_decoder basic Apple Lossless Audio Codec decoder
• amused minimalistic music player
• aqualung advanced music player
• ario GTK3 MPD client inspired by Rhythmbox
• ascd cd player for Afterstep or Window Maker
• aucatctl control aucat and/or sndiod volume
• audacity free audio editor
• audiality2 realtime audio and music engine for games
• beets CLI tools to manage music collections
• calf CALF LADSPA plugins
• cantata Qt-based MPD client
• caps-plugins CAPS LADSPA plugins
• cd-discid retrieve CDDB ID from a disc
• cdparanoia CDDA reading utility with extra data verification features
• celt experimental ultra-low delay audio codec
• checkmate check mp3 files for errors
• chromaprint audio fingerprint extraction library
• clementine music player
• cmixer simple curses mixer
• cmt computer music toolkit
• cmu-sphinx3 acoustic decoder for CMU Sphinx3 speech recognition system
• cmu-sphinxbase common libraries for the CMU speech recognition engines
• cmus ncurses-based music player
• cozy gtk3 audiobook player
• cplay simple curses audio player
• cuetools tools for handling audio-file cue sheets and toc files
• curseradio curses interface for browsing and playing radio streams
• d11amp simple MP3 player
• deadbeef DeaDBeeF is an audio player
• deadbeef-plugin-mpris2 deadbeef plugin for mpris2 support
• disc-cover creates cover for audio cds using cddb and latex
• dumb IT/MOD/XM player and library
• easytag tag editor for various audio file formats
• espeak compact speech synthesizer
• faad MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AAC decoder
• fdk-aac modified Fraunhofer FDK AAC encoder and decoder
• ffmpeg-normalize audio normalization
• flac free lossless audio codec
• flac123 command-line FLAC player
• flite text to speech utility
• fluidsynth SoundFont2 software synthesizer
• freealut OpenAL Utility Toolkit
• generaluser-gs-soundfont GM and GS compatible SoundFont bank for MIDI
• glyr music related metadata searchengine
• gmpc GNOME music player client
• gmpc-plugins bundle of plugins for gmpc
• goattracker crossplatform music editor for creating Commodore 64 music
• gogglesmm music collection manager and player
• gonic music streaming server / subsonic server API implementation
• gqmpeg front-end to various audio players
• gradio internet radio browser and player
• grip front-end to external cd audio rippers and mp3 encoders
• gsm GSM audio codec library and converter
• gsound GObject library for playing system sounds
• herrie minimalistic console-based audio player
• hydrogen software drum machine
• id3ed interactive console id3 tag editor
• id3lib library for manipulating ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags
• jack low latency sound server
• ladspa Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API
• lame lame ain't an MP3 encoder
• liba52 free library for decoding ATSC A/52 streams, aka AC-3
• libao portable audio output library
• libbs2b Bauer stereophonic-to-binaural DSP
• libcanberra implementation of the Freedesktop sound theme spec.
• libcdaudio multi-platform cd player development library
• libcddb library to access data on a CDDB server
• libcdio compact disk input and control library
• libcdio-paranoia fork of cdparanoia that uses libcdio for CDROM access
• libcue CUE sheet parser library
• libdca free DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder
• libdiscid create MusicBrainz DiscIDs from audio CDs
• libebur128 library implementing the EBU R128 loudness standard
• libgpod library to access the contents of an iPod
• libid3tag library for reading ID3 tags
• liblastfm Qt-based C++ library for the Last.fm webservices
• liblo Lightweight Open Sound Control (OSC) implementation
• libmad high-quality MPEG audio decoder
• libmikmod mikmod sound library
• libmodplug library for decoding mod-like music formats
• libmp3splt library to split mp3/ogg files without decoding
• libmpd mpd client library
• libmpdclient library for interfacing MPD
• libmusicbrainz library for audio metadata lookup
• libmusicbrainz5 library for audio metadata lookup (v5)
• libmysofa SOFA (Spatially Oriented Format for Acoustics) file reader
• libnjb communicate with some Creative and Dell audio players
• libofa Open Fingerprint Architecture library
• libogg Ogg bitstream library
• libopenmpt OpenMPT based module player library and command-line player
• libopusenc high-level API for encoding .opus files
• libsamplerate audio sample rate conversion library
• libsidplay C64 music player and SID chip emulator library
• libsmackerdec decoder for smacker audio files
• libsndfile library to handle various audio file formats
• libsoxr fast and high quality sample-rate conversion (SoX Resampler)
• libvorbis audio compression codec library
• libworkman multi-platform CD-Player library
• libxmp module player library
• lilv library for simple use of LV2 plugins in applications
• lmms music studio with tracking, sampling and MIDI
• lv2 open standard for audio plugins
• mac Monkey's audio lossless codec
• madplay command-line MPEG audio decoder and player
• mcp-plugins MCP LADSPA plugins
• metronome simple metronome
• midish command line MIDI sequencer and filter
• mikmod module audio player
• milkytracker Fasttracker II inspired MOD tracker
• moc console audio player
• morseplayer morse player
• mp3applygain apply gain information to mp3 audio data
• mp3blaster text console audio player with an interactive interface
• mp3cddb embedding CDDB information in MP3s
• mp3cut cut and cat MP3 files
• mp3info MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor
• mp3splt split mp3/ogg files without decoding
• mp3splt-gtk graphical mp3/ogg file splitter
• mp3wrap utility for mp3 wrapping
• mpc command line client for mpd
• mpd Music Player Daemon
• mpdscribble mpd client to scrobble track info to last.fm
• mpg123 fast console MPEG audio player and decoder library
• mpg321 clone of mpg123, a command-line mp3 player
• mscore WYSIWYG music notation software (MuseScore)
• mt-daapd multi-threaded DAAP server
• multimux create multichannel WAV audio files
• mumble low-latency voice chat client
• musepack decoder, encoder and replaygain for musepack files
• musikcube terminal-based music player
• musique graphical music player focused on a clean ui
• navidrome modern music server and streamer
• ncmpc curses based frontend for mpd
• ncmpcpp ncurses mpd client inspired by ncmpc
• ncspot ncurses Spotify client
• normalize audio file volume normalizer
• nosefart nsf (Nintendo sound) file player
• noson C++ library for accessing SONOS devices
• noson-app fast and smart SONOS controller
• nspmod MOD/S3M/MTM tracker that does its own DSP
• ocp UNIX port of Open Cubic Player
• openal cross-platform 3D audio API
• opencore-amr implementation of the Adaptive Multi Rate speech codec
• opennap opensource Napster(tm) server
• opus IETF audio codec
• opus-tools encode, inspect, and decode Opus files
• opusfile high-level decoding and seeking API for Opus files
• p5-Audio-CD interface to libcdaudio
• p5-Audio-FLAC-Header interface to FLAC header metadata
• p5-Audio-M4P M4P/MP4/M4a audio/video tools
• p5-Audio-MPD module for communicating with MPD servers
• p5-Audio-MPD-Common bunch of common helper classes for MPD
• p5-Audio-Musepack object-oriented interface to Musepack/APE file information
• p5-Audio-Scan fast audio metadata and tag reader for Perl
• p5-Audio-Scrobbler submit tracks to last.fm/audioscrobbler
• p5-Audio-WMA read WMA/ASF metadata
• p5-CDDB-File parse a CDDB/freedb data file
• p5-CDDB_get perl interface to query for cddb-information
• p5-MP3-ID3v1Tag edit id3v1 tags from an audio mpeg layer 3
• p5-MP3-Info read MPEG1-Layer3 tags
• p5-MP3-Tag read tags of MP3 audio files
• p5-MP4-Info fetch info from MPEG-4 files
• p5-MPEG-Audio-Frame class for weeding out MPEG audio frames from a file handle
• p5-Music-Audioscrobbler-MPD module to submit songs to last.fm from MPD
• p5-Music-Audioscrobbler-Submit module providing routines to submit songs to last.fm
• p5-MusicBrainz-DiscID Perl interface for the MusicBrainz libdiscid library
• p5-Ogg-Vorbis-Header object-oriented interface to Ogg Vorbis information
• p5-Ogg-Vorbis-Header-PurePerl interface to Ogg Vorbis information, fully written in Perl
• p5-POE-Component-Client-MPD complete MPD client library
• p5-cddb interface to CDDB and freedb servers
• p5-gnupod collection of perl scripts to manage your iPod
• p5-libvorbis Perl extension for Ogg Vorbis streams
• pacpl PAC (Perl Audio Converter)
• parlatype minimal audio player for manual speech transcription
• paulstretch program for extreme audio stretching
• pavucontrol PulseAudio volume mixer
• pcaudiolib C API to different audio devices
• pianobar command-line client for Pandora Internet Radio
• picard automatic audio files tagger using the MusicBrainz database
• pithos Pandora client for GNOME
• pms curses based frontend for mpd
• portaudio-svn portable cross-platform audio API
• portmidi library for real time input and output of MIDI data
• potamus lightweight audio player with a simple interface
• puddletag spreadsheet-like audio file tagger
• pulseaudio cross-platform networked sound server
• py-acoustid Python bindings for Chromaprint and the Acoustid API
• py-audio Python bindings for PortAudio
• py-discid Python binding of libdiscid
• py-discogs-client Python interface to Discogs website
• py-eyed3 module and program for processing ID3 tags
• py-fsb5 extract audio from FSB5 (FMOD Sample Bank) files
• py-last Python last.fm library
• py-mediafile read and write audio file tags in Python
• py-mpd2 Python client interface for MPD
• py-musicbrainzngs python bindings for musicbrainz NGS webservice
• py-mutagen Python module to handle audio metadata
• py-speechrecognition Python library for performing speech recognition
• py-tagpy Python bindings to TagLib audio file tag library
• py-tinytag library for reading music meta data
• qsynth Qt GUI Interface for FluidSynth
• quodlibet audio player and tagger for GTK+ with regex support
• rgain multi-format tools and Python module for ReplayGain
• rhythmbox integrated music management application for GNOME
• rnnoise recurrent neural network for audio noise reduction
• rtunes Streams audio to Apple AirPort Express device
• rubberband audio time-stretching and pitch-shifting library
• ruby-taglib reads and writes metadata/tags for many audio formats
• ruby-vorbis_comment ruby library for reading/writing vorbis comments
• s-cdda access information and track data of audio CDs
• s-cdda-to-db perl program that creates a music database via s-cdda
• schismtracker open-source reimplementation of Impulse Tracker
• scmpc client for MPD to submit tracks to Last.fm
• sdl2-audiolib SDL2 audio decoding, resampling and mixing library
• shairport-sync AirPlay audio player
• shntool multi-purpose wave data processing utility
• shorten fast compression for waveform files
• sidplay Commodore 64 music player and SID chip emulator
• siren text-based audio player
• snack Tcl/Tk snack sound toolkit
• solfege solfege and ear training program
• sonata GTK+ client for the Music Player Daemon
• sound-theme-freedesktop XDG sound theme
• soundtouch tempo/pitch audio processing library
• soundtracker music tracking tool for X11
• sox Sound eXchange, the Swiss Army knife of audio manipulation
• speech-dispatcher common interface to speech synthesis
• speex patent-free speech codec
• speexdsp speech processing DSP library
• spotify-qt lightweight Spotify client using Qt
• spotifyd Spotify client running as UNIX daemon
• squeezecenter streaming audio server for Squeezebox network music players
• squeezelite lightweight headless squeezebox player
• sratom library for serialising LV2 atoms to/from RDF
• streamripper rip shoutcast streams to local mp3s
• subsonic-cli control subsonic api from cli
• suil lightweight C library for loading & wrapping LV2 plugin UIs
• swh-plugins LADSPA plugins from Steve Harris
• taglib managing meta-data of audio formats
• tagtool Ogg Vorbis and MP3 files tagger
• tap-plugins TAP LADSPA plugins
• tempest sends AM radio signals using a monitor
• timidity MIDI to WAV renderer and player
• tracker MOD player
• twolame optimised MPEG Audio Layer 2 (MP2) encoder
• umurmur minimalistic Mumble server
• vamp-plugin-sdk audio plugin API
• vgmplay command line audio player for VGM files
• vgmstream play back various video game streamed audio formats
• vlorb audio CD to audio file encoder
• vorbis-tools play, encode, and manage Ogg Vorbis files
• vorbisgain add tags to Ogg Vorbis files to adjust the volume
• wavpack audio codec for lossless, lossy and hybrid compression
• wmmp wm-dockapp to control MPD
• wmmp3 wm-dockapp; front end for an mp3 player
• wmtune premier dockable radio tuner
• xcd Tcl/Tk CD player
• xcdplayer CD player for X11
• xmcd Motif CD player
• xmms2 audio player daemon with library management
• xmms2-scrobbler last.fm client for xmms2
• xmp extended module player
• ympd Music Player Daemon web client
• ymuse GTK front-end for MPD
• yt-audio youtube-dl wrapper to manage youtube audio
• zmusic gzdoom music library as standalone form for reuse
• zynaddsubfx synth capable of making a countless number of instruments