Author Archives: tom2tec

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.

Roland TB-303 & TR-808 ~ Web Synths

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Create music with both instruments for free online at 808303.studio A website from Roland, Yuri Suzuki and The London Design Museum.

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

ABC/HR Audio Comparison Tool ~ Open Source DBT

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ABC/HR is an audio comparison tool that allows users to self-conduct double-blind listening tests of digital audio codecs.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/abchr/

Bongo ~ GNU Emacs Media Player

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Bongo is a flexible and usable media player for GNU Emacs. If you store your music collection locally and use structured file names, then Bongo is a great way for you to play music from within Emacs.

https://github.com/dbrock/bongo/

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.

sourceforge.net/projects/kmetronome

yplayer ~ Desktop YouTube Audio Player

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Stream audio from YouTube. Plays only the audio from YouTube videos, this reduces bandwidth and improves performance.

https://github.com/haikelfazzani/yplayer

Funkwhale ~ Decentralised Music Network

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Looking for a social platform to enjoy and share music? Funkwhale is a community-driven project that lets you listen and share music and audio within a decentralised, open network.

funkwhale.audio

AAX Audio Converter ~ AAX To mp3 Or m4a

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  • Free and Open Source software.
  • Converts Audible proprietary .aax files to plain .mp3 or .m4a/.m4b.
  • Also offers basic support for older .aa files.
  • Windows application, with all the classic features of the Windows eco-system.
  • Requires activated Audible Manager/App or personal activation code.
  • Processing Modes:
    • One output file per input file.
    • Multiple output files per input file, divided by chapter.
    • Multiple output files per input file, divided by chapter and further split into shorter tracks of roughly equal length.
    • Multiple output files per input file, split into shorter tracks of roughly equal length, ignoring chapters.
  • Creates additional playlist if more than one output file is created per book.
  • Handles books with multiple parts.
  • Manages and preserves all meta-tag information.
  • Supports named chapters, for .aax files downloaded with the Audible App.
  • Can adjust inaccurate chapter marks.
  • Allows customization of output naming: files, folders and tags.
  • Delegates all audio processing to powerful FFmpeg, including DRM handling.
  • High performance: Utilizes all available processor cores to run conversion work in parallel.
  • Optionally copies original .aax file to a new location after the conversion, with a customizable name.
  • Automatically launches default media player after conversion has completed.
  • Log facility, optional, to record program activity, activated with program argument.
  • Online update function: Will automatically scan the website for a new version, download and install it.
  • Technical:
    • .Net Framework application, written in C# with Windows Forms, the Task Parallel Library and other goodies from language and framework.
    • Incorporating a number of snippets from the Open Source community.

https://github.com/audiamus/AaxAudioConverter

Tomahawk ~ Metadata Based Player

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Tomahawk is a free multi-source and cross-platform music player. An application that can play not only your local files, but also stream from services like Spotify, Beats, SoundCloud, Google Music, YouTube and many others. You can even connect with your friends’ Tomahawks, share your musical gems or listen along with them. Let the music play!

Tomahawk is basically a player for music metadata. At its core it decouples the metadata about a song from the source and reassembles it for each user based on their individual music accessibility and rights. In short, given the name of a song and artist, Tomahawk will find the right source, for the right user at the right time. This fundamentally different approach to music enables a range of new music consumption and sharing experiences previously not possible.

Music Sources:
  • Local music library (MP3, Ogg, FLAC and many other formats)
  • Networked music libraries (other connected computers)
Subscription Music Services
Free Streaming / Music Promotion Platforms
Network/Cloud storage

Third party-developed resolvers have also been written for services like YouTube, Qobuz and others. We’ve also heard of digital music distributors writing their own for their internal CMSes to help them navigate and preview their content. That’s cool.

https://github.com/tomahawk-player/tomahawk