Category Archives: Freeware

Free To Use Audio Software

Foobar2000 ~ Columns User Interface (CUI)

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Columns UI is an alternative skinnable user interface for the Foobar2000 audio player.

  • Playlist view with columns, grouping and artwork
  • In-line metadata editing
  • Customizable layout through interchangeable panel and toolbar components
  • Built-in panels: playlist view, artwork view, filter, item details, item properties, playlist list, playlist tabs, tab stack
  • Built-in toolbars: menu, buttons, seekbar, playback order, volume, spectrum analyzer
  • Extensible through official and third-party panel and toolbar components

Website
Documentation
Hydrogen Audio Forum

Advanced CUI Themes:
EOLE ~ github.com/Ottodix/Eole-foobar-theme
Georgia ~ hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=116190.0

CUI Components:

foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_uie_tagger_mod
foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_youtube
github.com/reupen/console_panel

  1. foo_uie_albumart
  2. foo_uie_albumart_mod
  3. foo_uie_albumlist
  4. foo_uie_biography
  5. foo_uie_color
  6. foo_uie_console
  7. foo_uie_elplaylist
  8. foo_uie_eslyrics
  9. foo_uie_esplaylist
  10. foo_uie_library_tree
  11. foo_uie_lyrics_panel
  12. foo_uie_lyrics2
  13. foo_uie_lyrics3
  14. foo_uie_metronome
  15. foo_uie_output_switcher
  16. foo_uie_panel_splitter
  17. foo_uie_playlists_dropdown
  18. foo_uie_ptb
  19. foo_uie_sql_tree
  20. foo_uie_trackinfo
  21. foo_uie_typefind
  22. foo_uie_vis_channel_spectrum
  23. foo_uie_vis_peakmeter_spectrum
  24. foo_uie_wsh_panel_mod
  25. foo_uie_wsh_panel_mod_plus

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foo_chronflow ~ Foobar2000 Cover Flow Display

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Adding a configurable Cover Flow display to Foobar2000. (Media Library Viewer)

foo_chronflow - no border
  1. Download and install foo_chronflow.
  2. Enable Layout Editing Mode and add a new panel or tab to the DUI.
  3. Right click within the new area and select Add New UI Element
  4. Select Coverflow from the Media Library Viewers list
  5. Disable Layout Editing Mode

Coverflow Preferences:

Coverflow Preferences – Album Source:

  • If covers aren’t being displayed, you can click Reload Sources
  • Group By: & Sort By: work as headers do in a playlist
  • Select placeholder images:

You can use your own images or click the ones below and save them to your computer.

Placeholder Images

Coverflow Preferences – Cover Display:

Select from various built in display configurations, modify or create a new one. Click Compile / Apply after selecting a list item.

github.com/Chronial/foo_chronflow
www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_chronflow
hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,108450.0
hydrogenaudio Wiki

Resources:

github.com/ghDaYuYu/foo_coverflowY

Strawberry ~ Cross-platform Music Player

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Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer. It is a fork of Clementine released in 2018 aimed at music collectors, enthusiasts and audiophiles. The name is inspired by the band Strawbs. It’s based on a heavily modified version of Clementine created in 2012 and 2013. Strawberry is written in C++ and Qt 5.

  • Play and organize music
  • Supports WAV, FLAC, WavPack, DSF, DSDIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, MPC, TrueAudio, AIFF, MP4, MP3, ASF and Monkey’s Audio
  • Audio CD playback
  • Native desktop notifications
  • Playlists in multiple formats
  • Advanced audio output and device configuration for bit-perfect playback on Linux
  • Edit tags on music files
  • Fetch tags from MusicBrainz
  • Album cover art from Last.fm, MusicBrainz, Discogs, Tidal and Deezer
  • Song lyrics from AudD
  • Support for multiple backends
  • Audio analyzer
  • Audio equalizer
  • Transfer music to iPod, iPhone, MTP or other mass-storage USB player
  • Streaming support for Tidal, Qobuz and Subsonic
  • Scrobbler with support for Last.fm, Libre.fm and ListenBrainz
Strawberry Player User Interface

www.strawbs.org
github.com/jonaski/strawberry
github.com/strawberrymusicplayer
sourceforge.net/projects/strawberry-music-player.mirror
flathub.org/apps/org.strawberrymusicplayer.strawberry

Aria Maestosa ~ MIDI Editor & Sequencer

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Aria Maestosa is a midi sequencer / editor. It lets you compose, edit and play midi files with a few clicks in a user-friendly interface offering score, keyboard, guitar, drum and controller views.

Aria Maestosa

sourceforge.net/projects/ariamaestosa
github.com/ariamaestosa/ariamaestosa

StereoTool ~ Analysis & Imaging Tool

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The Complete Stereo Imaging And Analysis Tool. StereoTool offers ultra-precise control of input gain and individual pan for left and right channels, accurate visual feedback reflecting the signal content with; a vectorscope, PPM meters for inputs/outputs, phase correlation meter permanently monitoring the signal and individual left and right polarity reversal – No dongle or registration required – 100% Freeware!

stereotool-v3-full

www.flux.audio/project/stereo-tool-v3

orDrumbox ~ Cross-platform Drum Machine

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The orDrumbox is free drum machine software, designed to be as creative as possible with some unusual features: auto-composition, polyrhythms, custom arpeggiator, automatic sounds/track matching, custom soft synths, lo fi rendering and more … Ideal for experimentation and fast results.

  • This software can automatically compose bass lines, melodic patterns and complete songs.
  • It comes with a rhythms database and sounds database including musical items which can be fully edited.
  • … and a fully customizable soft synth section adds many synthetics sounds as presets to the sounds library.

orDrumbox-V0.9.30-Assignations

www.ordrumbox.com
sourceforge.net/projects/ordrumbox
www.facebook.com/ordrumbox

BRP-PACU ~ Acoustic Analysis Tool

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A cross platform dual channel FFT based Acoustic Analysis Tool to help engineers analyze live professional sound systems using the transfer function. One feature is the ability to capture four sample plots, average them, and invert to aid in final EQ.

  • Four capture buffers, with auto-save (in case of crash) and save-as ability
  • Averages buffers to a separate buffer and flips it for analysis
  • Automatic delay calculation
  • Impulse response capturing
  • Pink Noise generation tool to eliminate need for an external Pink Noise source
  • Uses JACK to route and manage audio paths

BRP-PACU

sourceforge.net/projects/brp-pacu

Mkchromecast ~ Linux & Mac Casting

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This is a program to cast your macOS audio, or Linux audio to your Google Cast devices or Sonos speakers. It can also cast video files.

It is written for Python3, and it can stream via  node.js,parec (Linux), ffmpeg, or avconv. Mkchromecast is capable of using lossy and lossless audio formats provided that ffmpeg, avconv (Linux), or parec (Linux) are installed. It also supports Multi-room group playback, and 24-bit/96kHz high audio resolution. Additionally, a system tray menu is available.

mkchromecast.com
github.com/muammar/mkchromecast

WaveShop ~ Windows Audio Editor

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WaveShop is a free, open-source audio editor for Windows XP/Vista/7/8 32-bit and 64-bit. WaveShop is fast, lightweight, and bit-perfect, meaning samples aren’t altered unless they need to be. Editing a portion of an audio file only affects that portion; the rest of the file is untouched. Blocks of audio can be cut and pasted without changing their contents at all. This is especially useful for patching a finished master without corrupting its dither. Waveshop’s features include peak, RMS and spectral analysis, normalizing, fading, sample rate conversion, audio generation, plug-ins, and more, all with unlimited undo and comprehensive help.

waveshop-main-window

waveshop.sourceforge.net/
sourceforge.net/projects/waveshop/

aTunes ~ Cross Platform Audio Player

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aTunes is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform player and manager, with support for online radios, podcasts and CD ripping.

www.atunes.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATunes

FoxTunes ~ Modular Audio Player

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A modular Linux / Windows XP music player using the BASS library.

FoxTunes

github.com/aidan-g/FoxTunes

Guayadeque ~ Linux Music Player

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Guayadeque is a music management program designed for all music enthusiasts. It is Full Featured Linux media player that can easily manage large collections and uses the Gstreamer media framework. Post Development.

github.com/anonbeat/guayadeque
codeberg.org/thothix/guayadeque
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guayadeque_Music_Player