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.
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Google Play Music Desktop Player
The same beautiful Material Design experience you love on the browser, just as a dedicated desktop player.
www.googleplaymusicdesktopplayer.com
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aveX ~ Linux ABX Testing
aveX is a free software for running and monitoring ABX listening tests. It works as a Jack (Jack Audio Connection Kit) client and is able to send test-status messages over a network for monitoring purposes. ‘A’ and ‘B’ audio files are read in pairs from a list and played in randomized order, the ‘X’ audio file is also randomized and is either ‘A’ or ‘B’ (double-blind test).
The listening test results are written after every choice in a file in text format.
The program is configured by filling in a very simple XML file.
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Audio Check ~ Test Your Equipment, Online
AudioCheck gives you access to an extensive collection of sound tests, playable online and downloadable in high-quality for patrons. The audio material provided here will help you assess the audio equipment connected to your computer. Using this website, you will be able to:
- Test your hearing, speakers, headphones, digital-to-analog converters… and more!
- Design your own sound tests using our high quality waveform generators.
- Download our sound files to your favorite audio player, and use your player as a portable audio test device.
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oTranscribe ~ Online Transcription App
Giada ~ Your Hardcore Loop Machine
Giada is a free, minimal, hardcore audio tool for DJs, live performers and electronic musicians. How does it work? Just pick up your channel, fill it with samples or MIDI events and start the show by using this tiny piece of software as a loop machine, drum machine, sequencer, live sampler or yet as a plugin/effect host. Giada aims to be a compact and portable virtual device for Linux, Mac and Windows for production use and live sets.
www.giadamusic.com
github.com/monocasual/giada
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TimeStretch Player ~ Audio Web App
TimeStretch Player is a free online audio player that allows you to loop, speed up, slow down and pitch shift sections of an audio file. This makes it a great tool for practicing or transcribing music.
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XiX ~ Open Source Music Player
XiX Player is a free, easy to use, multi-platform music player that currently runs in Linux, Linux ARM (Raspberry Pi), Windows & MacOS Intel
Features:
- Supports the following file formats: MP3, OGG, M4A (non-DRM), AAC, FLAC, OPUS, APE, DFF, WAV
- Play & rip your CDs to MP3 or FLAC with CD-Text and CDDB support.
- Rip CD/DVD tracks to MP3 or FLAC. Needs mplayer.
- See albums the chosen artist is on and vice versa.
- Create and use playlists.
- Online radio stations + presets.
- Record online radio stations.
- Schedule Radio station recordings.
- Listen to & download podcasts.
- Play license free audio from the Internet Archive.
- Show the lyrics and CD covers of the song being played.
- Shuffle and repeat.
- Reverse play.
- Crossfading & trimming.
- Search.
- Rate your songs.
- EQ + FXs (Flanger, Echo & Reverb).
- Set EQ & trim for individual songs.
- Copy, delete or rename files.
- Change ID3 tag (only for MP3/OGG/FLAC/APE).
- Multiple tagging / renaming.
- Theme support (Basic).
sourceforge.net/projects/xixmusicplayer
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Planet CCRMA ~ Linux Audio Workstation
Planet CCRMA at Home is a (large) collection of free, open source software packages that you can add to a computer running Fedora 22, 23 or 24 or CentOS 5 to transform it into an audio/video oriented workstation. Here at Stanford University CCRMA we use a consistent and well defined Linux environment for our daily work in audio and computer music and research. With the Planet CCRMA at Home package collection, you can easily install most of that environment on your own Linux system. Planet CCRMA is easy to install and maintain, it can also be installed and upgraded over the network from the Planet CCRMA repositories or its mirrors.
ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma
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Audio Router ~ Open Source Windows 7 Utility
Soundgrain ~ Granular Sound Synthesis
Soundgrain is a graphical interface where users can draw and edit trajectories to control granular sound synthesis. Soundgrain is written with Python/WxPython and uses Pyo as its audio engine.
ajaxsoundstudio.com/software/soundgrain
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Foobar2000 ~ Official Free Encoder Pack
This pack includes every natively supported free encoder binary for use with the Converter Foobar2000 component. The binaries are conveniently installed into a subfolder of the Foobar2000 installation folder.
Current versions of Foobar2000 will automatically recognize these encoders and no longer ask you for encoder binary location.
Included encoders:
- FLAC
- Ogg Vorbis
- Opus
- Musepack
- WavPack
- AAC + Apple Lossless (qaac) – requires iTunes to be installed (read more…)
- AAC (fhgaacenc) – requires Winamp to be installed (read more…)
- Apple Lossless (refalac)
- MP3 (LAME)
www.foobar2000.org/encoderpack
The Audio File 