Geiss ~ Screensaver & Winamp Plugin


The Geiss screensaver and Winamp music visualization plug-in.

geiss visulization

github.com/geissomatik/geiss

WhatChord ~ Realtime Chord Identification


WhatChord is an interactive chord identification, key detection, and harmony exploration app. Identify voicings from live Bluetooth or USB MIDI input or manual note entry, follow the key as you play, then explore chords, scales, keyboard patterns, and harmonic context. It is optimized for speed, accuracy, and musician-expected naming, favoring stable, conventional interpretations over simple note-matching.

WhatChord User Interface

whatchord.earthmanmuons.com
github.com/EarthmanMuons/whatchord

Tonbandfetzen ~ Audio From Plain Text


Tonbandfetzen is a collection of command-line tools that allow you to compose music based on audio fragments generated from plain text input. It contains:

  • tz mel – generate sound fragments from plain text
  • tz guitar – read guitar tablature
  • tz stick – concatenate audio data
  • tz stack – superimpose audio data
  • tz stretch – rescale audio data
  • tz repeat – loop audio data
  • tz trim – strip leading and trailing silence
  • tz mono – unzip audio channels
  • tz harmonics – show spectra of wave samples
  • tz inspect – show information on audio file
  • tz riff2aiff – convert .wav(e) into .aif(f) files
  • tz aiff2riff – convert .aif(f) into .wav(e) files
  • tz tag – add ID3v2 metadata to .wav(e) files
  • tz play – generate and play sound fragments

github.com/janberges/Tonbandfetzen

iamf-tools ~ Immersive Audio Model & Format Utilities


iamf-tools implements tools to help users process and work with the IAMF format. These tools can be used as a complement to the libiamf reference decoder and other tools such as ffmpeg and MP4Box.

github.com/AOMediaCodec/iamf-tools

References:

aomediacodec.github.io/iamf
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Open_Media

Resources:

chromestatus.com/feature/5113656292540416

gpodder ~ Media aggregator & Podcast Client


gPodder is a simple, open source podcast client.

In development since 2005 with a proven, mature codebase.

gpodder.github.io
github.com/gpodder/gpodder
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3093354

KMix ~ Mixer & Volume Control


KMix is a sound channel mixer and volume control.

apps.kde.org/kmix
github.com/kde/kmix
invent.kde.org/multimedia/kmix
docs.kde.org/trunk_kf6/en/kmix
userbase.kde.org/KMix

AudioTube ~ KDE YouTube Music Client


AudioTube can search YouTube Music, list albums and artists, play automatically generated playlists, albums and allows to put your own playlist together. It is adapted to mobile phones and desktop computers.

apps.kde.org/audiotube
github.com/KDE/audiotube
invent.kde.org/multimedia/audiotube

Bitfake2 ~ Audio Tool Handler & Manipulator


Bitfake was originally created to detect fake .FLAC files through spectral analysis. It has since grown into a multipurpose CLI tool for handling music more easily and efficiently.

One common problem was that getting a track’s metadata required long ffprobe commands with messy output. Converting music with ffmpeg was also repetitive. The command itself is easy to remember, but writing scripts to convert entire directories felt inefficient and slow. This project now performs metadata and conversion tasks directly through linked libraries (TagLib/libsndfile/libav*).

Features:

  • Get metadata
  • Get ReplayGain info (useful for music players)
  • Spectral analysis on 44.1 kHz .FLAC files (higher sample rates may be misrepresented, so be careful)
  • Lossy diagnosis (banding score)
  • File Conversion + VBR Support (Works for outputs like .wav, .flac, .ogg, .mp3, .aac, .opus)
  • Tagging metadata (Works for single files, but not directories yet)
  • Calculating ReplayGain and applying it to files (Works for track replay gain iterating through directories, album replay gain is a bit funky?)
  • Directory Conversion (works for all previously mentioned formats!)
  • CoverArt+ (Brings along cover art among all conversions!)
  • Organizing Files by album! (Give a dir of random music, and bitfake will organize it – ty to uncognic)
  • Directory Tagging (YAY!)
  • Album folder renaming from tags (Artist – Album (Year))
  • Spectrogram generation (in .png)
  • Version info (WOW! BEST YET!)
  • MusicBrainz Syncing data.

github.com/Ray17x/bitfake2
gpo.zugaina.org/app-misc/bitfake2
repology.org/maintainer/ray%40atl.tools/feed-for-repo/gentoo_ovl_guru

Gnomoradio ~ Find, Fetch, Share, & Play Music


Gnomoradio is a program that can find, fetch, share, and play music that is freely available for file sharing. Gnomoradio is free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, which permits modifications and distribution of the source code to the program. It runs on GNU/Linux and other UNIX-compatible systems, but it is no longer actively developed or maintained.

gnomoradio.nongnu.org

GLava ~ OpenGL Audio Spectrum Visualizer


GLava is a general-purpose, highly configurable OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer for X11.

github.com/jarcode-foss/glava

cplayer ~ minimal audio player


cplayer is a small, statically served, client-side album-based audio player for modern web browsers. You simply drop a build into a directory on your web server, create a manifest.json file that describes the album metadata and track URIs and you’re done.

display of a cplayer web page

github.com/clangen/cplayer

microenc ~ Linux/BSD Batch Encoding Script


microenc is a small Bash shell script for Linux/BSD for encoding directories with audio files to other formats using FFmpeg as encoder.

Features:

  • Encodes to MP3, AAC, Vorbis, Opus, AC-3, E-AC-3, DTS, FLAC, ALAC, WavPack, AIFF and WAV audio
  • Auto-copying of metadata and, for MP3/AAC/FLAC/ALAC/AIFF, cover art
  • Optional high-quality audio resampling
  • Requires only ffmpeg and ffprobe
sourceforge.net/projects/microenc