Author Archives: tom2tec

mp3guessenc ~ Analyze Audio mpeg Files

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… a small utility for analysis of audio mpeg files and detection of the encoder used (when layer III).

Further, mp3guessenc can detect many details about the mpeg audio stream and print out lots of useful information.

Supported streams are mpeg 1, mpeg 2 and unofficial mpeg 2.5 – layer I, layer II and layer III of course. Xing tag, lame tag, VBRI tag, Id3 tags (both 1.x and 2.x), APE tags (both v1 and v2), Lyrics3 tags (both v1 and v2) and MusicMatch tag (any version) are detected as well.

Features:

  • scan mpeg 1/2/2.5 streams, layer I/II/III
  • guess encoder used (lame/gogo/xing/helix/fhg(new, old and ancient)/blade)
  • also detects mp3pro and mp3surround streams (even with OFL)
  • support for large files (up to 2^60 bytes!)
  • free format streams supported
  • full statistics for the stream (audio mode, frame histogram, block usage, ancillary data)
  • crc16 verification
  • vbr tags by xing/lame + VBRI tag by fhg
  • detection of ID3 v1/v2 + APE tags + Lyrics3 tags + MusicMatch tag
  • verify integrity of lame tag

mp3guessenc

mp3guessenc.sourceforge.net
sourceforge.net/projects/mp3guessenc

foo_dsp_dolbyhp ~ Foobar Virtual 5.1 Headphones

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Dolby Headphone technology gives you the sound of a 5.1 surround system through any pair of headphones.

It accurately models the surround sound listening experience of a properly set up and calibrated 5.1-channel speaker system, making it ideal for personal and portable surround listening.

This component wraps the functionality of a Dolby Headphone engine DLL (typically DOLBYHPH.DLL bundled with some software DVD players) to be used under Foobar2000. After installation you must configure the plugin pointing out the location of that DLL in your system and restart foobar2000. Amplification is provided by the Dolby Headphone engine itself.

foo_dsp_dolbyhp

Additional resources:
ww.head-fi.org/threads/5-1-headphone-experience-foobar-configuration-for-all-stereo-music-files.447089/

www.head-fi.org/threads/foobar2000-dolby-headphone-config-comment-discuss.555263/

www.dlldownloader.com/dolbyhph-dll/

cmus ~ Lightweight Unix Player

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cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.

cmus-2.4.3-osx

cmus.github.io

Pulseaudio Parametric Equalizer ~ Unix Equalization

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Pulseaudio Parametric Equalizer is a python GUI to insert a fully parametric three band equalizer with high and low shelves into the pulseaudio audio server.

Pulseaudio Parametric Equalizer

Website
Repository

VGMPF ~ Video Games Music Preservation Foundation

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The Video games music preservation foundation is an online community effort that is concerned with the preservation of video game’s music and information related to it.

Wiki

EarTrumpet ~ Windows Volume Control

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eartrumpet_main

  • Visualize Audio with Multi-Channel Aware Peakingeartrumpet_2
  • Standalone Volume Mixereartrumpet_3
  • Move Apps Between Playback Deviceseartrumpet_4
  • Default playback device management
  • Automatic updates via the Microsoft Store
  • Support for light/dark mode and all accent colors
  • Configurable hotkey
  • Modern context menus
  • Growing multi-lingual support
  • Cairo Shell support

github.com/File-New-Project/EarTrumpet

Tauon Music Box ~ Streamlined Linux Player

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A music player for the desktop. Designed to be powerful, simple and streamlined, putting the user in control of their music collection. Uses the proprietary BASS audio library for playback.

Tauon Music Box

tauonmusicbox.rocks
github.com/Taiko2k/tauonmb

cuesheet heaven ~ Online Search

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Search for cue sheets by artist or album title.

regeert.nl/cuesheet

tonedeaf ~ Online Hearing Test

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Test your musical skills in 6 minutes!

While working at the music and neuroimaging lab at Beth Israel/Harvard Medical School in Boston, I developed a quick online way to screen for the tonedeafness. It actually turned out to be a pretty good test to check for overall pitch perception ability. The test is purposefully made very hard, so excellent musicians rarely score above 80% correct. Give it a try!

Website

MPD ~ Cross Platform Music Player Daemon

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Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound files while being controlled by its network protocol.

MPD can broadcast via Snapcast.

www.musicpd.org
www.musicpd.org/clients

SpeakPipe ~ Online Voice Recorder

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SpeakPipe voice recorder allows you to create an audio recording directly from a browser by using your microphone. The recording is produced locally on your computer, and you can record as many times as you need. There is the option to save your recording on the SpeakPipe server and get a link to it, so you can send it via email or use on the web.

Works on iPhone, iPad, iPod, and Android devices.

www.speakpipe.com

Rivendell ~ Open Source Radio Automation

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Rivendell is a complete radio broadcast automation solution, with facilities for the acquisition, management, scheduling and playout of audio content. It has all of the features one would expect in a modern, fully-fledged radio automation system, including support for both PCM and MPEG audio encoding, full voice-tracking and log customization as well as support for a wide variety of third party software and hardware. As a robust, functionally complete digital audio system for broadcast radio applications, Rivendell uses industry standard components like the GNU/Linux Operating System, the AudioScience HPI Driver Architecture and the MySQL Database Engine. Rivendell is available under the GNU Public License.

www.rivendellaudio.org