A music player for your local music library.
- Linux first
- Local only: no internet connection will ever be established.
- Read only: your music will be accessed only in read mode.
- Stateless: no cache/database/whatever will be created. The metadata in your songs are the database.
- Imperfect: there will be use-cases that are not solved by this software, and that’s fine.
github.com/MMarco94/tambourine-music-player
FlavourMTC follows classic βpassiveβ equalizer designs where the EQ circuits itself are not able to amplify signals but a dedicated amplifier stage takes care of it. Those EQ designs are well known for allowing very transparent frequency changes while their amplifier designs do add some icing on the cake quite often.
FlavourMTC implements this by utilizing 1st order shelving filter designs avoiding unwanted resonances and takes advantage of βzero delayβ implementations for most accurate higher order filtering and w/o introducing curve warping near Nyquist frequency. The output amplifier stage of the plugin can be calibrated according specific mixing levels, provides a distinct βbox toneβ and glues everything together. Parts of the plugin are oversampled internally for maximum transparency and sound quality.
varietyofsound.wordpress.com/downloads
Amberol is a music player with no delusions of grandeur. If you just want to play music available on your local system then Amberol is the music player you are looking for.
gitlab.gnome.org/World/amberol
apps.gnome.org/en/Amberol
flathub.org/en/apps/io.bassi.Amberol
/synthΒ is a minimalist, array-oriented synthesis environment. Heavily inspired by theΒ K/SimpleΒ lineage and the work of Arthur Whitney, it treats sound not as a stream, but as a holistic mathematical vector.
This isn’t a DAW; it’s a vector-processing engine designed for “Base Camp” signal processing.
It uses:
Sound is a vector. A kick drum is a vector. A two-second bell tone is a vector. You do math on vectors and the result is audio. There are no tracks, no timelines, no patch cables β only expressions.
octetta.github.io/k-synth
github.com/octetta/k-synth
Four easy steps to make your headphones sound better.
autoeq.app
github.com/jaakkopasanen/AutoEq
Deep brown noise for focus, for the macOS menu bar.Β
Single-purpose menu bar app that generates deep brown noise locally and plays it on loop. Install it, click play, forget about it. Cumulative-sum brown noise through a Butterworth bandpass (1 to 500 Hz, 20 Hz sub-bass highpass), RMS-normalized per chunk, crossfaded at boundaries. Everything is stored inΒ
~/.lowhum/. Playback streams through PortAudio via memory-mapped files, so the full WAV never sits in RAM. The app polls audio devices every 2 seconds and stops instantly if headphones disconnect or a Bluetooth device drops.Menu bar controls
The menu bar icon is a template image, so macOS handles dark/light mode automatically. Further, use it for:
- Play / Stop from the menu bar
- Pick any connected audio device from the Output Device submenu
- Noise color selection (brown, pink, white)
- Auto-stops when headphones connect or disconnect
Requires macOS and Python 3.12+.
lmarkmann.github.io/lowhum
github.com/lmarkmann/lowhum
References:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_noise
AceForge is aΒ local-first AI music workstation for macOS SiliconΒ powered byΒ ACE-Step
_prompt.txtΒ /Β _lyrics.txtΒ files
github.com/audiohacking/AceForge
Gnomoradio is a program that can find, fetch, share, and play music that is freely available for file sharing. Gnomoradio isΒ free software, licensed under the terms of the GNUΒ General Public License, which permits modifications and distribution of the source code to the program. It runs on GNU/Linux and other UNIX-compatible systems, but it is no longer actively developed or maintained.
A clean, minimalist web interface for foobar2000 that displays full-screen album art with elegant hover controls.
github.com/jame25/albumart_minimal
A lightweight HTML5 web music player with FLAC support that runs in a Docker container. This project provides a clean, minimalist interface for playing FLAC audio files with metadata extraction.
The Audio File 