AlsaPlayer for Linux is a new kind of player that effectively runs pulse-code modulation or .PCM files. The player uses multithreading pretty heavily and was written specifically for giving some good exercise to the new Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) driver and the library system. If you look closely, you’ll observe that AlsaPlayer has some highly interesting features that can be found only in the UNIX-based or Linux-based players. The main goal of the people who created AlsaPlayer for Linux was to develop a completely pluggable framework that could playback every type of media file, with majority of focus on the PCM audio data.
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FFmpeg ~ Open Source Audio Video Toolset
A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge. No matter if they were designed by some standards committee, the community or a corporation. It is also highly portable: FFmpeg compiles, runs, and passes our testing infrastructure FATE across Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, the BSDs, Solaris, etc. under a wide variety of build environments, machine architectures, and configurations.
ffmpeg.org
Frontends:
- github.com/MattMcManis/Axiom
- github.com/eibol/ffmpeg_batch
- github.com/alfg/ffmpeg-commander
- github.com/jeanslack/Videomass
Resources:
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg
- ffbinaries.com
- github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg
- sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpeg-windows-builds
- sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpeg-ios
- opensource.com/article/17/6/ffmpeg-convert-media-file-formats
- www.wikihow.com/Install-FFmpeg-on-Windows
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RoughRider 3 ~ Dynamics Compressor VST
Our RoughRider compressor is one of the most popular dynamics processors on the planet, with well over a half a million downloads over its decade-plus lifespan, and is in heavy daily use by producers the world over. With RoughRider 3, we’ve expanded the original to include an external sidechain input, the ability to turn off the built-in “warming” filter (the FULL BANDWIDTH button), and much more accurate metering.
www.audiodamage.com/pages/free-downloads
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Sekaiju ~ Windows MIDI Sequencer & Editor
“Sekaiju” is free, open source MIDI sequencer / editor software for creating and editing MIDI data. You can record MIDI keyboard or synthesizer playing to the computer, and you can compose music to play with your MIDI modules or synthesizers. Since it allows editing of all kinds of events, and has an unlimited undo and redo feature, Sekaiju can also be used as a powerful MIDI editor. A real-time input which can input each MIDI channel messages into separate tracks at the same time is a popular feature .
openmidiproject.osdn.jp/Sekaiju
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Piano One ~ Yamaha C7 Concert Grand VST
Piano One comes from the Yamaha C7 concert grand, a true workhorse in the professional piano world, appearing on famous concert stages, in international competitions and in prestigious music events throughout the world.
By utilizing the Sound Magic Hybrid Modelling Engine, Piano One offers both the Realistic Sound of Sampling and the Playability of Modelling. Hybrid Modelling provides an instantaneous feeling – no delay – and a truer and richer sound than can be created with either sampling or modelling alone.
- VST on Windows (32Bit&64Bit) and VST and AU on Mac (32Bit&64Bit)
- Neo Piano Hybrid Modeling Engine (Limited Features)
- Yamaha C7 Sound
- Note duration is limited within 18 seconds
- Some features are limited such as Sympathetic Resonance and noises
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AudioSwitch ~ Taskbar Volume & I/O Switch
Switch between default audio input or output + change volume.
github.com/sirWest/AudioSwitch
www.facebook.com/AudioSwitchSoftware
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Monkey’s Audio ~ Free Lossless CODEC
Monkey’s Audio is a fast and easy way to compress digital music. Unlike traditional methods such as mp3, ogg, or wma that permanently discard quality to save space, Monkey’s Audio only makes perfect, bit-for-bit copies of your music. That means it always sounds perfect – exactly the same as the original. Even though the sound is perfect, it still saves a lot of space (think of it as a beefed-up Winzip™ your music). The other great thing is that you can always decompress your Monkey’s Audio files back to the exact, original files. That way, you’ll never have to recopy your CD collection to switch formats, and you’ll always be able to perfectly recreate the original music CD.
References:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey%27s_Audio
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lossless_audio_codecs
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_coding_formats
wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Lossless_comparison#Monkey.27s_Audio_.28APE.29
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Music Genre List ~ Genres & Subgenres
The Music Genres List site covers many of the most popular styles of music, the site is becoming the definitive list of music genres on the Internet…
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GNUsound ~ Opensource Unix Audio Editor
Every Noise At Once ~ Spotify Genres Plotted
Every Noise at Once is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 5,169 genre-shaped distinctions by Spotify as of 2021-01-15. The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier.
everynoise.com/engenremap.html
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GNUMP3d ~ GNU Streaming Media Server
GNUMP3d is a streaming server for MP3s, OGG vorbis files, movies and other media formats.
It is designed to be:
- Small, stable, portable, self-contained, and secure.
- Simple to install, configure, and use.
- Portable across different varieties of Unix, the GNU Operating System, and Microsoft Windows platforms.
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Musicmap ~ Genealogy & History Of Music Genres
Musicmap attempts to provide the ultimate genealogy of popular music genres, including their relations and history. It is the result of more than seven years of research with over 200 listed sources and cross examination of many other visual genealogies. Its aim is to focus on the delicate balance between comprehensibility, accuracy and accessibility. In other words: the ideal genealogy is not only complete and correct, but also easy to understand despite its complexity. This is a utopian balance that can never be achieved but only approached. By choosing the right amount of genres, determining forms of hierarchy and analogy and ordering everything in a logical but authentic manner, a satisfactory balance can be obtained. Said balance is always the main subject of discussion in music genre genealogies and the capital reason why an absolute visual reference has been absent thus far (and probably always will be). Musicmap is a platform in search for the perfect balance of popular music genres to provide a powerful tool for educational means or a complementary framework in the field of music metadata and automatic taxonomy.
The Audio File 