Category Archives: Freeware

Free To Use Audio Software

RompЯ ~ Browser Based Player

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RompЯ is a music player with the emphasis on discovery – discovering more about the music you know, and discovering new music you don’t know yet. RompЯ is an interface that runs in a web browser on any device and controls a music player which can be on any other device. I recommend using Mopidy as the music player. When used with Mopidy and a Spotify Premium subscription RompЯ is a powerful Spotify client with many music discovery features.

Features:

  • Collectioniser sorts your music by artist and album
  • Directory browser
  • Search
  • Tagging and Rating of tracks
  • Spotify, Soundcloud, GMusic, etc support (with Mopidy),
  • Add tracks from Spotify, Soundcloud, etc to the collection on the fly
  • Web Radio support, automatic Spotify search for radio tracks you like
  • Podcast search and subscribe
  • Alarm Clock
  • Sleep Timer
  • Album Cover Art
  • Last.FM Scrobbling
  • Automatic on-the-fly playlist generation based on tags, ratings, popularity, your listening habits, etc
  • Get biographies of artists from various sources
  • Album and artist suggestions based on your listening habits
  • UI themes

rompr-1

fatg3erman.github.io/RompR
github.com/fatg3erman/RompR

Dynamic Audio Normalizer ~ Advanced Normalization

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Dynamic Audio Normalizer is a library for advanced audio normalization purposes. It applies a certain amount of gain to the input audio in order to bring its peak magnitude to a target level (e.g. 0 dBFS). However, in contrast to more “simple” normalization algorithms, the Dynamic Audio Normalizer dynamically re-adjusts the gain factor to the input audio. This allows for applying extra gain to the “quiet” sections of the audio while avoiding distortions or clipping the “loud” sections. In other words: The Dynamic Audio Normalizer will “even out” the volume of quiet and loud sections, in the sense that the volume of each section is brought to the same target level. Note, however, that the Dynamic Audio Normalizer achieves this goal without applying “dynamic range compression”. It will retain 100% of the dynamic range within each “local” region of the audio file.

The Dynamic Audio Normalizer is available as a small standalone command-line utility and also as an effect in the SoX audio processor as well as in the FFmpeg audio/video converter. Furthermore, it can be integrated into your favourite DAW (digital audio workstation), as a VST plug-in, or into your favourite media player, as a Winamp plug-in. Last but not least, the “core” library can be integrated into custom applications easily, thanks to a straightforward API (application programming interface). The “native” API is written in C++, but language bindings for C99 Microsoft.NET,  Java,  Python and Pascal are provided.

muldersoft.com/#dyauno
github.com/lordmulder/DynamicAudioNormalizer

Foobar2000 ~ foo_spider_monkey_panel

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This is a x32 bit component for the foobar2000 audio player. It allows using JavaScript to create full-fledged CUI/DUI panels!

Base functionality includes:

  • Graphics functions: drawing (text, images, lines, rectangles and etc), image modification (resize, blur, inversion of colours and etc).
  • Access to font and colour settings from CUI/DUI preferences.
  • Capture of foobar2000 events with callbacks.
  • Capture of keystrokes and mouse movement/clicks.
  • Execution of main menu and context menu commands.
  • Creation of custom buttons and menus.
  • Playlist management: create, destroy, sort, change, rename and do anything that fb2k can do.
  • Media Library access with ability to sort and filter it’s content.
  • File tag management.
  • Per panel settings storage.
  • Built-in web and filesystem functionality.
  • foo_acfu integration.
  • And more!

theqwertiest.github.io/foo_spider_monkey_panel
github.com/TheQwertiest/foo_spider_monkey_panel
github.com/TheQwertiest/foo_spider_monkey_panel/releases/latest

foo_spider_monkey_panel – x64 bit

github.com/dima-lur/spider-monkey-panel-x64

References:

Discussion ~ hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=116669.0



GNU Solfege ~ Train Your Ears

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GNU Solfege is *free* ear training software written in Python 3.4 using the Gtk+ 3 toolkit. The program is designed to be easily extended with lesson files (data files), so the user can create new exercises.

www.gnu.org/software/solfege
sourceforge.net/projects/solfege

DeltaWave ~ Audio Null Comparator

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Advanced audio file comparison software.

deltaw.org/index

QjackCtl ~ JACK Audio Qt GUI

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JACK Audio Connection Kit – Qt GUI Interface: A simple Qt application to control the JACK server daemon. Written in C++ around the Qt framework for X11, most exclusively using Qt Designer. Provides a simple GUI dialog for setting several JACK server parameters.

QjackCtl.jpeg

qjackctl.sourceforge.io
sourceforge.net/projects/qjackctl

Munt ~ Multi-platform Synthesizer

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A multi-platform software synthesiser emulating (somewhat inaccurately) pre-GM MIDI devices such as the Roland MT-32, CM-32L, CM-64 and LAPC-I.

munt

munt.sourceforge.net/
sourceforge.net/projects/munt/

ANMP ~ Another Nameless Music Player

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ANMP aims to be a versatile but lightweight audio player, just as the other hundred thousands out there. It is written in C++11. As being only a frontend, ANMP itself doesn’t know anything about audio formats and how to decode them. That’s why it uses 3rd party libraries to decode them. By using VgmStream, GameMusicEmu, LazyUSF and supporting looped songs natively, ANMP is esp. suited to play various audio formats from video games. Moreover it supports Looped Midi Tracks.

Main Features:

  • muting multichannel audio files
  • gapless playback (for most streamed audio formats)
  • arbitrary (forward) looping of songs (i.e. even nested loops)
  • synthesizing MIDI files using fluidsynth
  • multi-channel audio rendering
  • overlapping notes do not kill each other
  • unrolling looped MIDI tracks
  • volume response compatible to N64’s software synth
  • supports an IIR lowpass filter compatible to Rareware‘s N64 games (Conkers Bad Fur Day, Jet Force Gemini)
  • support for cue sheets
  • support for audio normalization based on EBU R 128
  • exposes basic commands via D-Bus

github.com/derselbst/ANMP

VoodooHDA ~ Mac Open IHDA Driver

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VoodooHDA is an open source audio driver for devices compliant with the Intel High Definition Audio specification. It is intended as a replacement for AppleHDA on Mac OS X with support for a wide range of audio controllers and codecs.

Features:

  • automatic recognition of all HDA codecs
  • test jacks for autoswitch
  • control panel for fine tuning
  • sound treatment includes stereo enhancements
  • since v2.8 it works with two sound cards
  • v2.9 creates 5.1 channel as one device

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sourceforge.net/projects/voodoohda/

GrandOrgue ~ Virtual Pipe Organ

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GrandOrgue is a sample based pipe organ simulator. When connected to MIDI keyboards and an audio system, it can accurately simulate the sound of a real pipe organ. This application has builds for Linux, Windows and OSX.

Features:

  • Play sample sets
  • GUI console
GrandOrgue

sourceforge.net/projects/ourorgan/
sourceforge.net/p/ourorgan/wiki/Home

MAD ~ MPEG Audio Decoder

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MAD is a high-quality MPEG audio decoder. It currently supports MPEG-1 and the MPEG-2 extension to lower sampling frequencies, as well as the de facto MPEG 2.5 format. All three audio layers — Layer I, Layer II, and Layer III (i.e. MP3) — are fully implemented.

MAD does not yet support MPEG-2 multichannel audio (although it should be backward compatible with such streams) nor does it currently support AAC.

MAD has the following special features:

  • 24-bit PCM output
  • 100% fixed-point (integer) computation
  • completely new implementation based on the ISO/IEC standards
  • available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)

www.underbit.com/products/mad
sourceforge.net/projects/mad/files

mvMeter2 ~ Freeware Multivariable Meter

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mvMeter2 is a multivariable meter including RMS, EBUR128, VU and PPM measurement. mvMeter2 is the successor of mvMeter and adds single/dual meter display, adjustable reference level for all meter modes, adjustable meter delay and preset management.

Features:

  • behavior of classic analog VU and PPM meters
  • multiple measurement modes: PEAK, RMS, EBU R128, VU and PPM
  • multi channel metering: stereo, left, right, mid, side
  • single and dual meter display
  • adjustable reference level for all meter modes
  • adjustable meter delay
  • preset management
  • adjustable pre-gain including gain matching
  • instance label
  • large and accurate live meters
  • 64-bit internal processing
  • 5 different meter themes
  • GUI resizing up 400%, ready for 4k displays
  • free of charge

mvMeter2

www.tb-software.com/TBProAudio/mvmeter2