Ear Tag ~ Edit Audio File Tags

Posted by tom2tec on March 30, 2026

Ear Tag is a simple audio file tag editor. It is primarily geared towards making quick edits or bulk-editing tracks in albums/EPs. Unlike other tagging programs, Ear Tag does not require the user to set up a music library folder. It can:

Edit tags of MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, OGG and WMA files
Modify metadata of multiple files at once
Rename files using information from present tags
Identify files using AcoustID

Network access is only used for the “Identify selected files” option.

apps.gnome.org/EarTag
gitlab.gnome.org/World/eartag

foo_timesleep ~ Foobar2000 Sleep Timer

Posted by tom2tec on March 27, 2026

foo_timesleep is a sleep timer component for foobar2000. It provides both:

Sleep timer commands under Playback > Sleep Timer
An always-visible Sleep Timer toolbar item for Columns UI (Toolbars)

Features:

Start a sleep timer in minutes (preset values)
Stop playback when the timer reaches zero
Show remaining time
Cancel an active timer

github.com/shirafukayayoi/foo_timesleep

OpenVoiceOS ~ Voice AI Platform

Posted by tom2tec on March 21, 2026

OpenVoiceOS is a community-driven, open-source voice AI platform for creating custom voice-controlled interfaces across devices with NLP, a customizable UI, and a focus on privacy and security.

www.openvoiceos.org
github.com/OpenVoiceOS
github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-installer

Audion ~ Community Driven Music Player

Posted by tom2tec on March 19, 2026

Audion is a privacy-focused music player that brings the Spotify experience to your local music library. No internet required, no tracking, just your music, beautifully organized.

Key highlights:

Synced lyrics with karaoke-style word highlighting

Extensible plugin system

Gorgeous, customizable interface

Fully offline

www.audionplayer.com
github.com/dupitydumb/Audion

Tambourine ~ Linux Music Player

Posted by tom2tec on March 17, 2026

A music player for your local music library.

Linux first

Local only: no internet connection will ever be established.

Read only: your music will be accessed only in read mode.

Stateless: no cache/database/whatever will be created. The metadata in your songs are the database.

Imperfect: there will be use-cases that are not solved by this software, and that’s fine.

github.com/MMarco94/tambourine-music-player

FlavourMTC ~ Mixbus Tone Control

Posted by tom2tec on March 16, 2026

FlavourMTC follows classic “passive” equalizer designs where the EQ circuits itself are not able to amplify signals but a dedicated amplifier stage takes care of it. Those EQ designs are well known for allowing very transparent frequency changes while their amplifier designs do add some icing on the cake quite often.

FlavourMTC implements this by utilizing 1^st order shelving filter designs avoiding unwanted resonances and takes advantage of “zero delay” implementations for most accurate higher order filtering and w/o introducing curve warping near Nyquist frequency. The output amplifier stage of the plugin can be calibrated according specific mixing levels, provides a distinct “box tone” and glues everything together. Parts of the plugin are oversampled internally for maximum transparency and sound quality.

varietyofsound.wordpress.com/downloads

Amberol ~ Plays music and nothing else

Posted by tom2tec on March 16, 2026

Amberol is a music player with no delusions of grandeur. If you just want to play music available on your local system then Amberol is the music player you are looking for.

Current features:

adaptive UI
UI recoloring using the album art
drag and drop support to queue songs
shuffle and repeat
MPRIS integration

gitlab.gnome.org/World/amberol
apps.gnome.org/en/Amberol
flathub.org/en/apps/io.bassi.Amberol

k-synth ~ Pocket Calculator Synthesizer

Posted by tom2tec on March 15, 2026

/synth is a minimalist, array-oriented synthesis environment. Heavily inspired by the K/Simple lineage and the work of Arthur Whitney, it treats sound not as a stream, but as a holistic mathematical vector.

📐 The Philosophy

This isn’t a DAW; it’s a vector-processing engine designed for “Base Camp” signal processing.

It uses:

One-Letter Variables: A-Z globals only.
Right-Associativity: Expressions evaluate from right to left.
Vectorized Verbs: Math applied to entire buffers at once.

Sound is a vector. A kick drum is a vector. A two-second bell tone is a vector. You do math on vectors and the result is audio. There are no tracks, no timelines, no patch cables — only expressions.

octetta.github.io/k-synth
github.com/octetta/k-synth

lowhum ~ Deep Brown Noise For Focus

Posted by tom2tec on March 13, 2026

Deep brown noise for focus, for the macOS menu bar.

Single-purpose menu bar app that generates deep brown noise locally and plays it on loop. Install it, click play, forget about it. Cumulative-sum brown noise through a Butterworth bandpass (1 to 500 Hz, 20 Hz sub-bass highpass), RMS-normalized per chunk, crossfaded at boundaries. Everything is stored in ~/.lowhum/. Playback streams through PortAudio via memory-mapped files, so the full WAV never sits in RAM. The app polls audio devices every 2 seconds and stops instantly if headphones disconnect or a Bluetooth device drops.

Menu bar controls

The menu bar icon is a template image, so macOS handles dark/light mode automatically. Further, use it for:

Play / Stop from the menu bar

Pick any connected audio device from the Output Device submenu

Noise color selection (brown, pink, white)

Auto-stops when headphones connect or disconnect

Requires macOS and Python 3.12+.

lmarkmann.github.io/lowhum
github.com/lmarkmann/lowhum

References:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_noise