Author Archives: tom2tec

RuneAudio ~ Hardware Audio Player

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RuneAudio is a free and open source software that turns embedded hardware into Hi-Fi music players. We want to make a cheap, low-consumption and silent mini-PC perform as an high fidelity digital source. RuneAudio features a custom-built Linux distribution (RuneOS) and a web player (RuneUI) which allows to remote control playback and setup options, from multiple devices (desktop PC, netbook, tablet, smartphone).

Features:
  • Easy to install and use
  • A custom built, optimized and small footprint Linux-based OS (RuneOS)
  • Runs on a variety of embedded platforms
  • Works with almost every model of USB DAC in commerce
  • Bitperfect and gapless playback of common audio formats (FLAC, WAVE, MP3, AAC, ALAC, etc.)
  • Supports native DSD playback with DSD-over-PCM
  • Playback from network drives (over CIFS and NFS protocols) and USB drives (FAT32 and NTFS)
  • Playback of web radio streams
  • Built-in web interface (RuneUI) for playback and setup control
  • Can be controlled from a lot of third party clients (desktop and mobile)
  • Supports USB Audio Class 2
  • Optimized to reduce SD card wearing

https://sourceforge.net/projects/runeaudio/

Tuniac ~ iTunes Styled Windows Player

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Tuniac is an iTunes style media player / manager for Windows, with an advanced playlist editor, search as you type and queue support.

Features:
  • Search as you type
  • Advanced queueing
  • Supports many audio formats
  • OpenGL Sonique Visual Plugin renderer
  • Small cpu and memory footprint
Supports:
  • MPEG-1 Audio (mp3, mp2, mp1)
  • FLAC (flac, fla, oga, ogg)
  • Advanced Audio Coding (aac, m4a, m4b, mp4)
  • Apple Lossless Audio Codec aka ALAC (m4a)
  • Windows Media Audio (wma)
  • Vorbis (ogg)
  • Opus (opus)
  • WavPack (wv)
  • TAK Audio (tak)
  • TrueAudio (tta)
  • Monkeys Audio (ape, mac)
  • Musepack (mpc, mp+, mpp)
  • OptimFrog (ofr, ofs)
  • Shorten (shn)
  • Dolby Digital (ac3)
  • DSD (dff, dfs)
  • PCM (wav, aif)
  • CD Audio (cda)
  • Speex (spx)
  • MOD Formats (mod, mo3, xm, it, s3m, mtm)
  • Game Audio Formats (adx, umx)
  • MIDI (mid)
  • radio streaming of most the above formats.

Polymeter ~ Compose Polymeter Based Music

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Polymeter is a MIDI sequencer for music that’s in multiple prime meters (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, etc.) simultaneously. Each track has its own loop length, and when the lengths differ, the tracks “slip” (or shift phase) relative to each other. The resulting interference pattern is sufficiently intricate that variations similar to the embellishments of a live performer can be generated algorithmically.

Features:
  • Multitrack step sequencer for polymeter
  • Each track has its own loop length
  • Any number of tracks, of any length
  • Full clipboard support (copy/cut/paste)
  • Unlimited undo and redo for all edits
  • Multiple tracks can be edited at once
  • Optionally shows current position within each track
  • Drag reordering of tracks
  • Exports a MIDI file
  • Join adjacent steps to make tied notes
  • Velocity editing
  • Controller tracks
  • Recording of live arrangement
  • Editing of arrangement on timeline
  • Inter-track modulation of mute, note, velocity, duration, position, and more
  • Live performance view with full screen mode
  • Recursive modulation (modulation of modulation) for mute and position
  • Modulation graphing via Graphviz
  • MIDI mapping of all parameters with learn mode
  • Optionally transmits MIDI clock

TspCheck ~ Loudspeaker Thiele / Small Paramaters

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As the program name suggests, TspCheck is a program that checks whether the determined or specified TS parameters of a loudspeaker match. Often you can then find out, for example, that the efficiency has been rounded up a bit too benevolently, or you can estimate the membrane mass, the resilience of the restraint, etc. by cleverly combining the information available.

In addition, the following is determined:

  • Max. Lin. SPL @ 50 Hz in CB – the maximum sound pressure that can be achieved in a closed housing at 50 Hz using the maximum linear stroke
  • SPL_m = SPL_e – the frequency from which the maximum achievable sound pressure at full input power is stroke limited.

http://www.picosound.de/E_SOFT.HTM#tspchk

BallroomDJ ~ Ballroom Audio Player

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BallroomDJ is a ballroom music player. It is designed to be able to play music the entire evening without intervention. Use for your personal training, dance studio, and ballroom, dancesport, Argentine tango, country western, or west coast swing events.

Drumstick Metronome ~ Linux Precision Beats

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Drumstick Metronome is a MIDI based metronome using the ALSA sequencer. It’s intended for musicians and music students, as a tool to keep the rhythm while playing musical instruments. It uses MIDI for sound generation instead of digital audio, allowing low CPU usage and very accurate timing, thanks to the ALSA sequencer.

Features:
  • Easy to use graphic user interface.
  • MIDI only. Can be used with software or external MIDI synthesizers.
  • Based on ALSA sequencer. Provides input and output ports
  • Highly customizable parameters.
  • External control: D-Bus and MIDI realtime.
  • Custom rhythm patterns.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/kmetronome/