Freesound aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, … released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse. Freesound provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing users to:
- browse the sounds in new ways using keywords, a “sounds-like” type of browsing and more
- upload and download sounds to and from the database, under the same creative commons license
- interact with fellow sound-artists!
We also aim to create an open database of sounds that can also be used for scientific research and be integrated in third party applications. Using the Freesound API researchers and developers can access Freesound content and retrieve meaningful sound information such as metadata, analysis files and the sounds themselves.
freesound.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freesound
Category Archives: Audio
Cue Sheet Generator ~ Multi-platform, Open-source Utility
A program to easily generate cue sheets for CD images with compressed, or raw (wav), audio tracks, usable, for example, in DosBox.
Cue Sheet Generator in action
sourceforge.net/projects/cuegen
Downloads
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Meson ~ A Player With No GUI
Meson Player is a very convenient music player if you don’t need a GUI to control playback or manage playlists. You just run it and then forget about it. The player runs in the background. Switching tracks, volume control, loading and saving playlists, all of this is performed by using hotkeys, therefore you can control the player while working in any application.
Meson Player supports gapless playback, Last.FM, a lot of music file formats (stream and tracker), Internet radio and playlist management.
Linux / MacOS / Windows
sourceforge.net/projects/mesonplayer
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Baudline ~ Visual Signal Analyzer
Baudline is a time-frequency browser designed for scientific visualization of the spectral domain. Signal analysis is performed by Fourier, correlation, and raster transforms that create colorful spectrograms with vibrant detail. Conduct test and measurement experiments with the built in function generator, or play back audio files with a multitude of effects and filters. The baudline signal analyzer combines fast digital signal processing, versatile high speed displays, and continuous capture tools for hunting down and studying elusive signal characteristics.
Explore, Analyze, and Discover.
Linux / MacOS / Unix
Website
Downloads
Twitter
Wikipedia
Baudline Mystery Signal Of The Month
Every month a new mystery signal is posted. Can you identify it?
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BMPx ~ A Very Simple Audio Player
BMPx is a media player which is excruciatingly (painfully?) simple to use, while being very powerful under the hood. BMPx is based on the current experimental codebase of the BMP project.
www.beep-media-player.org
sourceforge.net/projects/beepmp
Wikipedia
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KeyFinder ~ Musical Key Song Analyser
KeyFinder is an open source key detection tool, for DJs interested in harmonic and tonal mixing. It’s intended to be very focused: no library management, no track suggestions, no media player. Just a fast, efficient workflow tool. It supports a huge range of codecs thanks to LibAV, and writes to metadata tags using TagLib.
www.ibrahimshaath.co.uk/keyfinder
github.com/ibsh/is_KeyFinder
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CreateM3U ~ m3u Playlist Creator
Drag & drop files or folders to create .m3u playlists. For each folder, a single .m3u file is created named after that folder. It will not replace already existing playlists of that name. The generated playlists do not contain EXTM3U information because a simple .m3u is nothing more than a text file with a list of file names per line. The initial tool for this task for me was a batch file. 😉
As the generated playlists only include filenames without any path, and they are located with the media files, they can be moved together with the files, as an example, for portable mp3 player usage.
lostfound.raum108.de/create_m3u
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MusicBee ~ Extensible Audio Player
Enjoy a great music experience with MusicBee, the ultimate music manager and player. Play your music the way you want. Turn your computer into a music jukebox.
MusicBee makes it easy to manage, find, and play music files on your computer. Use auto-tagging to clean up your messy music library. MusicBee also supports podcasts, web radio stations and SoundCloud integration.
Supports AcoustID, Discogs, Last.FM, Milkdrop, ReplayGain and UPnP / DLNA
getmusicbee.com
getmusicbee.com/downloads
getmusicbee.com/addons
Wiki
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBee
Resources:
sourceforge.net/projects/additional-tagging-tools/
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AcoustID ~ Identify Your Music
AcoustID is a project providing complete audio identification service, based entirely on open source software.
It that consists of a client library for generating compact fingerprints from audio files, a large crowd-sourced database of audio fingerprints, many of which are linked to the MusicBrainz metadata database using their unique identifiers, and a web service that enables applications to quickly search the fingerprint database.
acoustid.org
Applications
Acoustic Fingerprint – Wikipedia
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Tau Analyzer ~ Audio Source Verification
Tau Analyzer is a free program, which can help you to distinguish with reasonable accuracy the original studio-based CDs from poor quality fakes, that have been “reconstructed” using a lossy audio source, such as mp3. Using this program you can check the authenticity of your purchased or borrowed music CDs.
Tau Analyzer features an intuitive user interface, allowing users to work directly with audio CDs, and has some additional functions such as spectrum and frequency analyzers, ATIP and ISRC data readers, etc.
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VSXu ~ Audio / Music Visualizer
VSXu (VSX Ultra) is an OpenGL-based (hardware-accelerated), modular programming environment with its main purpose to visualize music and create graphic effects in real-time.
www.vsxu.com
www.vsxu.com/download
store.steampowered.com/app/981590/VSXu_Player
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSXu
Presets:
www.deviantart.com/jaw/art/Abstract-Star-57883008
www.deviantart.com/jaw/art/dragonheart-58013353
www.deviantart.com/jaw/art/psybubbles-58013078
www.deviantart.com/jaw/art/star-zoomer-39992664
www.deviantart.com/milcr/art/seea-103811449
www.deviantart.com/darthdavid/art/Whirlpool-168278710
www.deviantart.com/dragon99099/art/White-Cap-14-DTSD-370392294
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Mp3Wrap ~ Create mp3 Albums
Mp3Wrap is a free and independent alternative to AlbumWrap. It’s a command-line utility that quickly wraps two or more mp3 files into one single large playable mp3, without losing filenames and ID3 information (and without decoding or encoding). It’s also possible to include other non mp3 files, such as playlists, info files and cover images inside the new mp3. You can easily produce a large mp3 file that you can split at any time by using mp3splt and in few seconds you’ll have all the original files again! It’s useful because files created with Mp3Wrap are much easier to share.
Linux / Unix / Windows
mp3wrap.sourceforge.net
Downloads
The Audio File 