Category Archives: Freeware

Free To Use Audio Software

Zinf ~ The New FreeAmp Player

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The Zinf audio player is a simple, but powerful audio player for Linux and Win32. It supports MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, WAV and Audio CD playback, SHOUTcast/Icecast HTTP streaming, RTP streaming, a powerful music browser, theme support and a download manager.

Zinf is based on the FreeAmp source code. However, AMP® is a trademark of PlayMedia Systems, Inc., and therefore the original name of the project cannot be used any longer. On this website the old project will be referred to as FreeA*p.

Why Zinf? Zinf Is Not FreeA*p!

zinf_main_shot

zinf.sourceforge.net

foo_dsp_subwoofer ~ Foobar2000 Linear Phase Filter

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Extracts bass from the source signal using a linear phase low-pass filter and sends it to the LFE channel.
Features:

  • fast fir processing
  • adjustable filter shapes
  • delay control
  • mono, stereo, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 input support

foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_dsp_subwoofer
HA Forum Topic

Linear phase is a property of a filter, where the phase response of the filter is a linear function of frequency. The result is that all frequency components of the input signal are shifted in time (usually delayed) by the same constant amount (the slope of the linear function), which is referred to as the group delay. And consequently, there is no phase distortion due to the time delay of frequencies relative to one another.

~ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_phase

Krut ~ Audio / Video Recorder

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Krut Computer Recorder is an open source, cross platform, screencast tool to record audio and video from your computer screen into .mov-files and .wav-files. It can be used to make video tutorials or record games. It can also be used to record from streaming video and audio.

krut

krut.sourceforge.net

Album Art Downloader ~ Obtain Album Artwork

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The Album Art Downloader is a program designed to make life easier for anyone who wishes to find and update their album art for their music collection. The sources for the pictures can be defined by creating plugin scripts.

albumartdownloader

sourceforge.net/projects/album-art
sourceforge.net/p/album-art/discussion
HydrogenAudio Topic

MuseScore ~ Open Source Music Notation

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Create, play and print beautiful sheet music.

MuseScore_2.0_in_full_screen

musescore.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuseScore

JAMin ~ JACK Mastering Interface

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JAMin is the JACK Audio Connection Kit (JACK) Audio Mastering interface. JAMin is an open source application designed to perform professional audio mastering of stereo input streams. It uses LADSPA for digital signal processing (DSP). JAMin is licensed under the GPL.

Features:

  • Linear filters
  • JACK I/O
  • 30 band graphic EQ
  • 1023 band hand drawn EQ with parametric controls
  • Spectrum analyser
  • 3 band peak compressor
  • Lookahead brickwall limiter
  • Multiband stereo processing
  • Presets and scenes
  • Loudness maximizer

jamin

jamin.sourceforge.net

FreePiano ~ An Open Source Virtual Piano

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FreePiano is a virtual MIDI keyboard and a VST host for MS Windows. You can use FreePiano to play piano with a computer keyboard or a MIDI keyboard with any VST instrument you like, or output through MIDI, or generate any MIDI message with any key on your keyboard. You can also record your song or export a MP4 movie to share with your friends.

FreePiano

freepiano.tiwb.com
sourceforge.net/projects/freepiano

foo_dsp_vlevel ~ Dynamic Normalization

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VLevel keeps your music from making you jump out of your seat, and it keeps you from having to fiddle with the volume constantly. It’s different from other dynamic compressors because it looks ahead. You can think of VLevel as someone who knows your music by heart, and turns the volume up during quiet passages, but smoothly turns it back down when he knows a loud part is coming. It’s great for making CDs to listen to in your car, or to play background music on your computer.

Vlevel

vlevel.sourceforge.net
HydrogenAudio Topic
HydrogenAudio Wiki

WaveSurfer ~ Visualize & Manipulate Sound

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WaveSurfer is an open source tool for sound visualization and manipulation. Typical applications are speech / sound analysis and sound annotation / transcription. WaveSurfer may be extended by plug-ins as well as embedded in other applications.
Features:

  • Customizable – users can create their own configurations. Localization support.
  • Extensible – new functionality can be added through a plugin architecture.
  • Embeddable – WaveSurfer can be used as a widget in custom applications.
  • Transcription file formats – reads, and writes HTK (and MLF), TIMIT, ESPS/Waves+, and Phondat. Support for encodings and Unicode.
  • Multi-platform – Linux, OSX & Windows.
WaveSurfer

sourceforge.net/projects/wavesurfer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WaveSurfer

PoQStacker ~ Multi-Function Music Player

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PoQStacker is a PC based MP3 and wav file music player with a playlist manager / organizer. If you have a CD or MP3 collection, PoQStacker will assist you in connecting you to your music.

Features:

  • Floating Library
  • CD Ripper
  • WiFi / Network Ready
  • Levelling / Normalisation
  • Unlimited Playlists
  • Resident DJ

www.poqstacker.org

MP3val ~ Validate Your mp3s

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MP3val is a small, high-speed, free software tool for checking MPEG audio files’ integrity. It can be useful for finding corrupted files (e.g. incompletely downloaded, truncated, containing garbage). MP3val is also able to fix most of the problems. Being a multi-platform application, MP3val can be run both under Windows and under Linux (or BSD).

The most common MPEG audio file type is MPEG 1 Layer III (mp3), but MP3val supports also other MPEG versions and layers. The tool is also aware of the most common types of tags (ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2).

mp3val

mp3val.sourceforge.net

Frontend ~ github.com/cfgnunes/wxmp3val

VUPlayer ~ Multi-Featured Windows Player

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VUPlayer is a freeware multi-format audio player for Windows
supporting the following formats:

  • MOD – Sound / Noise / ProTracker
  • MTM – MultiTracker
  • S3M – ScreamTracker
  • XM – FastTracker
  • IT – ImpulseTracker
  • MO3 – MO3 Packer
  • MP3 – MPEG Audio
  • MP4 – QuickTime MPEG-4 (AAC / Apple Lossless)
  • MPC – Musepack
  • OGG – Ogg Vorbis
  • FLAC – Free Lossless Audio Codec
  • APE – Monkey’s Audio
  • WV – WavPack
  • AIFF – Audio Interchange File Format
  • WMA – Windows Media Audio
  • WAV – Windows PCM / ACM
  • MIDI – Musical Instrument Digital Interface
  • CD – Audio CD
vuplayer

www.vuplayer.com