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Free To Use Audio Software

Meson ~ A Player With No GUI

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Meson Player is a very convenient music player if you don’t need a GUI to control playback or manage playlists. You just run it and then forget about it. The player runs in the background. Switching tracks, volume control, loading and saving playlists, all of this is performed by using hotkeys, therefore you can control the player while working in any application.

Meson Player supports gapless playback, Last.FM, a lot of music file formats (stream and tracker), Internet radio and playlist management.

Linux  /  MacOS  /  Windows

sourceforge.net/projects/mesonplayer

Baudline ~ Visual Signal Analyzer

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Baudline is a time-frequency browser designed for scientific visualization of the spectral domain. Signal analysis is performed by Fourier, correlation, and raster transforms that create colorful spectrograms with vibrant detail. Conduct test and measurement experiments with the built in function generator, or play back audio files with a multitude of effects and filters. The baudline signal analyzer combines fast digital signal processing, versatile high speed displays, and continuous capture tools for hunting down and studying elusive signal characteristics.

Explore, Analyze, and Discover.

baudline

Linux / MacOS / Unix

Website
Downloads
Twitter
Wikipedia

Baudline Mystery Signal Of The Month

Every month a new mystery signal is posted. Can you identify it?

Monthly Mystery Signal

BMPx ~ A Very Simple Audio Player

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BMPx is a media player which is excruciatingly (painfully?) simple to use, while being very powerful under the hood. BMPx is based on the current experimental codebase of the BMP project.

www.beep-media-player.org
sourceforge.net/projects/beepmp
Wikipedia

KeyFinder ~ Musical Key Song Analyser

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KeyFinder is an open source key detection tool, for DJs interested in harmonic and tonal mixing. It’s intended to be very focused: no library management, no track suggestions, no media player. Just a fast, efficient workflow tool. It supports a huge range of codecs thanks to LibAV, and writes to metadata tags using TagLib.

keyfinder

www.ibrahimshaath.co.uk/keyfinder
github.com/ibsh/is_KeyFinder

CreateM3U ~ m3u Playlist Creator

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Drag & drop files or folders to create .m3u playlists. For each folder, a single .m3u file is created named after that folder. It will not replace already existing playlists of that name. The generated playlists do not contain EXTM3U information because a simple .m3u is nothing more than a text file with a list of file names per line. The initial tool for this task for me was a batch file. 😉

As the generated playlists only include filenames without any path, and they are located with the media files, they can be moved together with the files, as an example, for portable mp3 player usage.

createm3u

lostfound.raum108.de/create_m3u

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MusicBee ~ Extensible Audio Player

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Enjoy a great music experience with MusicBee, the ultimate music manager and player. Play your music the way you want. Turn your computer into a music jukebox.

MusicBee makes it easy to manage, find, and play music files on your computer. Use auto-tagging to clean up your messy music library. MusicBee also supports podcasts, web radio stations and SoundCloud integration.

Supports AcoustID, Discogs, Last.FM, Milkdrop, ReplayGain and UPnP / DLNA

musicbee

getmusicbee.com
getmusicbee.com/downloads
getmusicbee.com/addons
Wiki
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBee

Resources:

sourceforge.net/projects/additional-tagging-tools/

AcoustID ~ Identify Your Music

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AcoustID is a project providing complete audio identification service, based entirely on open source software.

It that consists of a client library for generating compact fingerprints from audio files, a large crowd-sourced database of audio fingerprints, many of which are linked to the MusicBrainz metadata database using their unique identifiers, and a web service that enables applications to quickly search the fingerprint database.

acoustid.org
Applications
Acoustic Fingerprint – Wikipedia

Tau Analyzer ~ Audio Source Verification

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Tau Analyzer is a free program, which can help you to distinguish with reasonable accuracy the original studio-based CDs from poor quality fakes, that have been “reconstructed” using a lossy audio source, such as mp3. Using this program you can check the authenticity of your purchased or borrowed music CDs.

Tau Analyzer features an intuitive user interface, allowing users to work directly with audio CDs, and has some additional functions such as spectrum and frequency analyzers, ATIP and ISRC data readers, etc.

tau_analyzer_main_window

tausoft.org

VSXu ~ Audio / Music Visualizer

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VSXu (VSX Ultra) is an OpenGL-based (hardware-accelerated), modular programming environment with its main purpose to visualize music and create graphic effects in real-time.

VSXu - small

www.vsxu.com
www.vsxu.com/download
store.steampowered.com/app/981590/VSXu_Player
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSXu

Presets:
www.deviantart.com/jaw/art/Abstract-Star-57883008
www.deviantart.com/jaw/art/dragonheart-58013353
www.deviantart.com/jaw/art/psybubbles-58013078
www.deviantart.com/jaw/art/star-zoomer-39992664
www.deviantart.com/milcr/art/seea-103811449
www.deviantart.com/darthdavid/art/Whirlpool-168278710
www.deviantart.com/dragon99099/art/White-Cap-14-DTSD-370392294

Mp3Wrap ~ Create mp3 Albums

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Mp3Wrap is a free and independent alternative to AlbumWrap. It’s a command-line utility that quickly wraps two or more mp3 files into one single large playable mp3, without losing filenames and ID3 information (and without decoding or encoding). It’s also possible to include other non mp3 files, such as playlists, info files and cover images inside the new mp3. You can easily produce a large mp3 file that you can split at any time by using mp3splt and in few seconds you’ll have all the original files again! It’s useful because files created with Mp3Wrap are much easier to share.

Linux / Unix / Windows

mp3wrap.sourceforge.net
Downloads

beets ~ The Music Geek’s Media Organizer

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The purpose of beets is to get your music collection right once and for all. It catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes using the MusicBrainz database. Then it provides a bouquet of tools for manipulating and accessing your music.

Because beets is designed as a library, it can do almost anything you can imagine for your music collection. Via plugins, beets becomes a panacea:

  • Fetch or calculate all the metadata you could possibly need: album art, lyrics, genres, tempos, ReplayGain levels, or acoustic fingerprints.
  • Get metadata from MusicBrainz, Discogs or Beatport. Or guess metadata using songs’ filenames or their acoustic fingerprints.
  • Transcode audio to any format you like.
  • Check your library for duplicate tracks and albums or for albums that are missing tracks
  • Browse your music library graphically through a Web browser and play it in any browser that supports HTML5 Audio and lots more.

beets.io

Mp3splt ~ Split Albums Into Songs

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Mp3Splt-project is a cross-platform utility to split mp3, ogg vorbis and native FLAC files by selecting a begin and an end time position, without decoding. It’s very useful to split large mp3, ogg vorbis or FLAC files to make smaller files or to split entire albums to obtain original tracks. If you want to split an album, you can select split points and filenames manually, you can get them automatically from CDDB (internet or a local file) or from .cue files. Also supports automatic silence splitting, which can be used to adjust cddb/cue split points. Trimming using silence detection is also available. You can extract tracks from Mp3Wrap or AlbumWrap files in few seconds.

mp3splt-gtk_0.7.3

mp3splt.sourceforge.net