Category Archives: Freeware

Free To Use Audio Software

GNU Radio ~ Software Radio Ecosystem

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GNU Radio is a free & open-source software development toolkit that provides signal processing blocks to implement software radios. It can be used with readily-available low-cost external RF hardware to create software-defined radios, or without hardware in a simulation-like environment. It is widely used in research, industry, academia, government, and hobbyist environments to support both wireless communications research and real-world radio systems.

wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php?title=What_Is_GNU_Radio

GNU Radio is a free software development toolkit that provides signal processing blocks to implement software-defined radios and signal processing systems. It can be used with external radio frequency (RF) hardware to create software-defined radios, or without hardware in a simulation-like environment. It is widely used in hobbyist, academic, and commercial environments to support both wireless communications research and real-world radio systems.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Radio

itunesfm ~ iTunes & last.fm Integration

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A small script to sync your play counts from last.fm back to iTunes. Supports both Windows and Mac OS X without any native dependencies. (Requires Music.app on OS X.)

Useful if you scrobble to last.fm from iTunes on multiple computers / devices and want to keep your local play counts consistent.

github.com/hansonw/itunesfm

Sampletoy ~ Sampler & Synthesiser

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Sampletoy is a radical new musical instrument / plaything;
part sampler, part granular synthesiser.

Use it to capture sounds through the microphone,
then play, loop, pitch and distort them live on the screen.

www.elf-audio.com/sampletoy
www.facebook.com/elfaudioapps

tz-player ~ Command Line Music Player

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A clean, keyboard-driven music player for the terminal.

tz-player is a simple TUI music player built with Python and powered by VLC. If VLC can play it, tz-player can play it.

No streaming. No accounts. No background services. Just your music, in your terminal.

github.com/taggedzi/tz-player

midimusic ~ Music Software & Music Archive

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Midimusic provides archives of Wurlitzer and Estey music rolls in e-roll format. These are downloadable and the music can be played using eplayOrgan. An archive of Miditzer organ midi files is also provided.

All features of the original e-rolls and midis are available including stops and swell.

eplayOrgan is a fully featured organ which can also be played from a full midified console or standard midi keyboards. Stops may be set using a touch screen.

eplayOrgan operates under Windows. Mac and Linux are supported under Wine. The programs work just the same under Wine on Mac and Linux as they do under Windows.

sourceforge.net/projects/midimusic

GNOME Music ~ Desktop Audio Player

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Play and organize your music collection

An easy and pleasant way to play your music.

Find tracks in your local collection, use automatically generated playlists or curate a fresh one.

gnome music player interface

apps.gnome.org/Music

GNOME Podcasts ~ Listen From The Desktop

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A Podcast application for GNOME.

Listen to your favorite podcasts, right from your desktop.

gitlab.gnome.org/World/podcasts

GNOME Metronome ~ Keep The Tempo

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Keep the tempo

Metronome beats the rhythm for you, you simply need to tell it the required time signature and beats per minutes.

You can also tap to let the application guess the required beats per minute.

A boilerplate template to get started with GTK, Rust, Meson, Flatpak made for GNOME. It can be adapted for other desktop environments like elementary.

gitlab.gnome.org/World/metronome

FeelUOwn ~ Hackable Music Player

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trying to be a robust, user-friendly and hackable music player

Features:

  • Stable and Easy to Use
  • One-click installation, packaged for all popular platforms (e.g., Arch Linux, Windows, macOS, etc.)
  • Plug-ins for various media resource platforms, making full and reasonable use of free online resources (e.g., YouTube Music)
  • Comprehensive basic functions, including desktop lyrics, intelligent resource replacement, multiple audio quality options, and the nowplaying protocol
  • Core modules have good test coverage, and core interfaces maintain good backward compatibility
  • Large-scale support: AI radio, natural language to playlist conversion, etc.
  • High Playability:
    • Provides a TCP-based interactive control protocol
    • Provides an MCP Server (experimental feature) for programmatic control of player/resource capabilities
  • Text-based playlists for easy sharing with friends and synchronization across devices
  • Supports Python-based configuration files (.fuorc), similar to .vimrc and .emacs

github.com/feeluown/FeelUOwn
sourceforge.net/projects/feeluown.mirror

Tagr ~ Music Metadata Editor

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Self-hosted web app for browsing, playing, and editing music file metadata. Features a three-panel UI to navigate your library, listen to tracks, and write tag changes directly back to audio files. Built with Next.js, React, Prisma + SQLite, and node-taglib-sharp.

Most metadata editors are either desktop-only, command-line tools, or bloated apps with steep learning curves. If your music lives on a NAS, a server, or a headless machine, editing tags means SSH, mounting drives, or syncing files back and forth.

Tagr takes a different approach:

  • Run it anywhere — Docker, bare metal, your NAS. If it runs Node.js, it runs Tagr.
  • Edit from any browser — No installs, no plugins. Just open a tab.
  • Do one thing well — Browse your library, edit tags, save. That’s it.

Features:

Metadata Editing
  • Edit 40+ metadata fields inline — title, artist, album, year, genre, composer, BPM, lyrics, and more
  • Album art management — view, replace, and upload cover images directly
  • Star ratings (1–5) with a visual widget
  • Support for track/disc numbering, sort fields, catalog numbers, barcodes, and extended tags
  • Read-only display of audio properties (codec, bitrate, sample rate, channels, bits per sample)
Tagr Interface
Music Player
  • Built-in audio player with interactive waveform visualization (WaveSurfer.js)
  • Play/pause, previous/next track navigation
  • Click-to-seek on the waveform
  • Auto-advance to next song
  • Collapsible sidebar player with album art, title, and artist display
Library Browsing
  • Three-panel layout — folder tree, song list, and detail editor side by side
  • Folder tree with hierarchical navigation and real-time search
  • Sorting on any column — title, artist, album, year, duration, bitrate, date added, and dozens more
  • Advanced filtering — text, numeric ranges, date ranges, and boolean filters across all fields
  • Customizable columns — show/hide any of 40+ columns to match your workflow
  • Virtual scrolling and infinite pagination for large libraries

github.com/suitux/Tagr

rescrobbled ~ Music Scrobbler Daemon

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Rescrobbled is a music scrobbler daemon. It detects active media players running on D-Bus using MPRIS, automatically updates “now playing” status, and scrobbles songs to Last.fm or ListenBrainz-compatible services as they play.

Among other things, due to sharing a Spotify account, I needed a way to scrobble to Last.fm without connecting the Spotify account to my Last.fm account. Rescrobbled offers a simple solution for this.

github.com/InputUsername/rescrobbled

Easy Audio Sync ~ Syncing & Conversion Utility

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Audio library syncing and conversion utility

Easy Audio Sync is an audio library syncing and conversion utility. The intended use is syncing an audio library with many lossless files to a mobile device with limited storage.

The program’s design is inspired by the rsync utility. It supports folder-based source to destination syncing, with added audio transcoding capability, and is GUI-based instead of CLI-based.

Features:

  • Custom FFmpeg-based audio transcoding engine
    • Multithreaded operation for fast conversions
    • 4 lossy output codecs supported: MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, and Opus
  • Robust metadata parser ensures tags and cover art are correctly transferred when converting between different formats
  • ReplayGain volume adjustments
  • Destination folder cleaning (deleting files that no longer exist in the source)
  • Cross-platform Windows/macOS/Linux

github.com/complexlogic/EasyAudioSync