Overtone GEQ ~ Harmonic Graphic Equalizer


Overtone GEQ is a free 7-band harmonic (overtone) graphic equalizer AudioUnit, AAX, and VST plugin with multi-channel operation support (supporting up to 8 input/output channels, audio host application-dependent).  Overtone GEQ offers extensive internal channel routing capabilities, and supports mid/side channel processing.

Beside equalizing, Overtone GEQ applies harmonic enhancement: it uses 7 harmonic enhancement modules, one for each EQ band.  This generates a complex harmonic coloration you will probably like a lot.

Overtone GEQ was designed to allow audio engineers to apply quick EQ shape adjustments together with adding a bit of harmonic richness to the audio material (mainly mixes and sub-mixes due to a comparably high load this EQ puts on a CPU).

www.voxengo.com/product/overtonegeq

DLNA Music Controller ~ Manage DLNA Directly


Read a DLNA Media Server to select music to play on your DLNA Renderer

Scan the network for your Media Server (“Server”) and Renderer (“Renderer”) devices, select one of each and then from the main screen select the music you want to play, drilling into Albums, Artists, Genres (all defined by your Media Server). Any music you want to hear is called a track and is loaded onto the play queue. Then select Play button to listen to the track listed at the top of the queue. You can also create playlists and store your favorite tracks for playback.

Features:

  • DLNA
  • Media Server
  • Media Renderer
  • Play queue

sourceforge.net/projects/dlna-music-controller

Resources:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UPnP_AV_media_servers_and_clients

AirWindows ~ Meter Plugin


This is a first JUCE plugin, meant to offer some useful metering.

github.com/airwindows/Meter/releases

AudioPlayer ~ CD Image Player


This is an audio player for Windows, Linux and MacOS.

It is designed to play audio CDs dumped to raw bin/cue files.

The bin/cue files can be loaded from a folder on disk, or from a zip archive.

This player provides a convenient way of listening to dumps in that format without any additional step(s):

  • No need to mount the cue file as a virtual drive.
  • No need to extract the cue/bin files from zip files.
  • No need to convert the data to wav/flac/ogg/mp3.

This is currently NOT supported:

  • Playing from archives in 7z and rar formats.
  • Playing music from other formats such as wav, mp3, flac, ogg, etc. Just use a regular music player for that.

Album and track metadata is loaded from the CDTEXT information when present in cue file.

Additional metadata is optionally retrieved from CueToolsDB, including album art.

Lyrics are optionally retrieved from LRCLIB. Using a local LRCLIB sqlite3 database is also supported.

AudioPlayer Interface

github.com/huguesv/AudioPlayer

Swing Music ~ Self-hosted Music Player


Swing Music is a fast and beautiful, self-hosted music player for your local audio files. Like a cooler Spotify … but bring your own music. Just run the app and enjoy your music library in a web browser.

Features:

  • Daily Mixes – curated everyday based on your listening activity
  • Metadata normalization – a clean and consistent library
  • Album versioning – normalized albums and association with version labels (eg. Deluxe, Remaster, etc)
  • Related artist and albums
  • Folder view – Browse your music library by folders
  • Playlist management
  • Beautiful browser based UI
  • Silence detection – Combine cross-fade with silence detection to create a seamless listening experience
  • Collections – Group albums and artists based on your preferences
  • Statistics – Get insights into your listening activity
  • Lyrics view
  • Android client
  • Last.fm scrobbling
  • Multi-user support
  • Cross-platform – Windows, Linux, MacOS (coming soon), arm64, x86
  • Blazingly fast
  • Pure awesomeness

github.com/swingmx/swingmusic
github.com/swingmx/android
github.com/swingmx/webclient
sourceforge.net/projects/swing-music.mirror

Feishin ~ Self-hosted Music Player


Rewrite of Sonixd.

Features:

  •  MPV player backend
  •  Web player backend
  •  Modern UI
  •  Scrobble playback to your server
  •  Smart playlist editor (Navidrome)
  •  Synchronized and unsynchronized lyrics support

github.com/jeffvli/feishin

MeasureLab ~ Audio Measurement Suite


A collection of DIY audio measurement and analysis tools, grown organically as needed. This software is compatible with standard audio devices.

PyQt6 desktop app bundling 28+ DIY modules: signal generator, spectrum/PSD analyzer, sound level & LUFS meters, loopback finder, distortion/IMD tools, network/impedance analyzers, oscilloscope, spectrogram, ultrasound modulator, transient analyzer, lock-in/FRA, inverse filter, frequency counter, recorder/player, sound quality analyzer, noise profiler, boxcar averager, goniometer, BNIM meter (ITD/ILD neural map), HRTF Player, and more.

Built for hobbyists and engineers: device routing, calibration (input/output/SPL), multi-language UI, light/dark themes.

github.com/youtube-at-vach/MeasureLab
youtube-at-vach.github.io/MeasureLab

shntool ~ WAVE Processing & Reporting Utility


shntool is a multi-purpose WAVE data processing and reporting utility. File formats are abstracted from its core, so it can process any file that contains WAVE data, compressed or not – provided there exists a format module to handle that particular file type.

shntool has native support for .wav files. If you want it to work with other lossless audio formats, you must have the appropriate helper program installed. The “Helper programs” section below contains links to helper programs for each format that shntool supports.

shnutils.freeshell.org/shntool
github.com/bayun/shntool

Splitting A Single Album File Into Tracks


Convert an album from a single media file with a .cue file to individual tracks instead.

Option 1: foobar2000 (easy, very reliable)

If you already use foobar2000, this is usually the best choice.

Steps

  1. Open foobar2000
  2. Drag either the .cue file or the .flac file into foobar
    • If the CUE is correct, you’ll see the album broken into tracks.
  3. Select all the tracks
  4. Right-click → Convert → …
  5. Choose:
    • Output format: FLAC
    • Processing: none needed
  6. Click Destination
    • Output path: your album folder
    • File name pattern (example): %tracknumber% - %title%
  7. Convert

Result

  • Individual FLAC tracks
  • No quality loss (bit-perfect split)
  • Metadata pulled from the CUE

💡 Note: If the cue has gaps or pre-emphasis flags, foobar2000 handles them correctly.


Option 2: CUETools (best for archival accuracy)

If you care about log verification, AccurateRip, or preserving exact offsets, this is the gold standard.

Steps

  1. Download CUETools
  2. Open it and load the .cue file
  3. Set:
    • Action: Encode
    • Audio Output: FLAC
    • Mode: Tracks
  4. Start

Result

  • Sample-accurate track splits
  • Excellent for archival rips
  • Strong metadata handling

This is especially good if the album originated from a CD rip.


Option 3: FLAC + shntool (command line, Linux-friendly)

If you’re on Linux, shntool works well.

Example

shnsplit -f album.cue -o flac album.flac

Then tag the files:

cuetag album.cue *.flac

Result

  • Clean, lossless splits
  • Metadata from CUE applied
  • More manual, but very transparent

Option 4: MusicBrainz Picard (semi-automatic)

Useful if:

  • The CUE has weak or missing metadata
  • You want MusicBrainz tags

Workflow:

  • Load the CUE
  • Let Picard identify the release
  • Use Tools → Split files

Not as precise as foobar or CUETools for offsets, but fine for most albums.

caudec ~ Multiprocess Audio Converter


caudec is a command-line utility that transcodes (converts) audio files from one format (codec) to another, among other things.

It leverages multi-core CPUs and runs multiple processes concurrently (one per file and per codec, and more than one thread per codec when it supports it). The objective is to hog the CPU as much and as long as possible. One strategy is to sort input files by size, so that the largest files potentially get more threads towards the end of the job.

Features:

  • Supported input formats / codecs: WAV, AIFF, CAF, FLAC, WavPack, Monkey’s Audio, ALAC.
  • Supported output formats / codecs: all of the above, as well as LossyWAV / LossyFLAC, MP3, AAC (.m4a), Ogg Vorbis, Opus.
  • Supported platforms: macOS, Linux.
  • Transcoding to several different codecs at once is possible. In that case, decoding of input files is done only once.
  • Metadata is preserved (as much as possible) from one codec to another.
  • Artwork can be embedded into each file, and / or copied to the output directory. It can be done selectively (e.g. embed and / or copy one image for lossless files, and another image for lossy files).
  • Audio can be resampled (e.g. 48kHz to 44.1kHz) and downmixed (e.g. 6 channels to stereo). A profile can be provided to set a maximum value for the number of channels, bit depth and sampling rate. When a profile is provided, the source will only be altered after decoding and before encoding, if some metric of the source is above the given profile.
  • Multiprocess ReplayGain scanner for FLAC, WavPack, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Opus.
  • Ability to hard link lossy files to a different directory when encoding to WavPack Hybrid. The point is to have two libraries that takes the storage of just one, with a lossy collection that has its own root directory and that’s easy to drag and drop to a device such as a smartphone or a Digital Audio Player (DAP).
  • Ability to touch files and album directories using metadata to reflect the music’s release date and duration (see example below).

github.com/gcocatre/caudec

ZuseMe ~ Last.fm Client


ZuseMe allows you to scrobble songs to Last.fm from players like Groove Music, Media Player (Windows 11) and more.

github.com/dumbie/ZuseMe

Harmonoid ~ Play & Manage Music Library


Plays & manages your music library. Looks beautiful & juicy.

Features:

  • Fluid animations & beautiful design, everywhere you navigate
  • It’ll find lyrics or give your own .LRC files
  • Closely paired to work together. Windows & Linux
  • Experience the consistent Material Design
  • Music library management based on metadata tags
  • Capable of indexing 30+ files/second & saves cache for future app start-ups
  • Very strictly follows Material Design guidelines for UI & animations
  • Taskbar & System Media Transport Controls for Windows
  • Small installer (≈ 35 MB) & low RAM usage (≈ 150 MB)
  • Discord RPC integration with album art support & “Find”/”Listen” buttons

harmonoid.com
github.com/harmonoid
sourceforge.net/projects/harmonoid.mirror
itsfoss.com/harmonoid