Category Archives: Freeware

Free To Use Audio Software

ListenBrainz ~ Open Source Online Song Logging

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The ListenBrainz project is similar to the original AudioScrobbler®. Unlike the original project, ListenBrainz is open source and will publish its data as open data.

A team of former Last.fm and current MusicBrainz hackers created the first version of ListenBrainz in the space of a weekend. Since the original project was created, technology has advanced at an incredibly rapid pace, which made re-creating the original project fairly straightforward.

listenbrainz.org
List of Listenbrainz apps
Import listens from last.fm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ListenBrainz

LMMS ~ Let’s Make Music

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Produce music with your computer by creating melodies and beats, synthesizing and mixing sounds, arranging samples and much more. Playback instruments, samples and plugins with a typing or MIDI keyboard in a user-friendly and modern interface. Bundled with ready-to-use content from an assortment of instrument and effect plugins, presets and samples to VST and SoundFont support.

lmms-main
LMMS – Project View

lmms.io
github.com/LMMS
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMMS

rePhase ~ Loudspeaker Phase Linearization

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rePhase is a FIR generation tool for building fully linear-phase active crossovers with arbitrary slopes.

It also let you manually compensate for the phase shifts of your loudspeakers and existing crossovers, be it active or passive.

Once generated, the FIR can be applied using any hardware (openDRC, miniSHARC, Najda, …) or software (foobar, convolver, JRiver, …), stereo or multi-way convolution engine.

sourceforge.net/projects/rephase

Additional resources:

Equalizer APO, REW and Rephase WOW! ~ diyAudio
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_room_correction

Subvert Audio ~ Encourage Musical Creativity

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Subvert Audio is a music program designed to try and stimulate creativity in the user. To do this, it imposes certain restraints on the user, in an attempt to encourage more creative thought processes, and solutions to the problem these restraints introduce. In addition to the restraints imposed, Subvert Audio strives to encourage exploration of the program, and reward efforts to discover/create new ways of using it. It is, essentially, a program that is designed to be subverted, the idea being that in the process of doing so, the user’s creativity will be stimulated.

In some ways, the program is similar to graphical music programming languages such as Max/MSP et al. Indeed, prior knowledge of such environments could be seen as beneficial to Subvert Audio’s methods of stimulating creativity.

subvert_audio_linux

subvertaudio.sourceforge.net

Equalizer APO ~ A Windows System Equalizer

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Equalizer APO is a parametric / graphic equalizer for Windows. It is implemented as an Audio Processing Object (APO) for the system effect infrastructure introduced with Windows Vista.

Features:

  • virtually unlimited number of filters
  • works on any number of channels
  • very low latency, which makes it suited for interactive applications
  • low CPU usage
  • modular graphical user interface
  • VST plugin support
  • integrates into Voicemeeter (www.voicemeeter.com)

Equalizer APO is best used in conjunction with Room EQ Wizard (www.roomeqwizard.com ), because it can read its filter text file format.

equalizer apo
sourceforge.net/projects/equalizerapo
Discussion
Documentation
Downloads

User Interfaces:

Peace Equalizer
EQ APO GUI
mega-switcher

Resources:

Room Equalization Tutorial
Equalizer APO issues solver

foo_input_sacd ~ Foobar2000 & SACDs

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DIY-AUDIO-HEAVEN: Playing SACDs with Foobar2000

Foobar2000 for Dummies (Part 1) – General Setup
Foobar2000 for Dummies (Part 2) – Playing DSD – New SACD plugin (0.9.x & 1.x.x)
Foobar 2000 for Dummies (Part 3) – Playing DSD – Old SACD plugin (0.7.x & 0.8.x)

1by1 ~ The Directory Player

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Tired of handling playlists? by1 is a small, fast and handy audio player which is not only small: it provides a smart and versatile environment to handle your file collection and listen to your tracks – with no need for playlists or databases.

1by1

www.mpesch3.de1.cc/1by1

koel ~ Personal Streaming Music Server

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koel is a personal, open source, Unix web audio server that just works.

koel.phanan.net
github.com/phanan/koel

foo_wave_seekbar ~ Foobar2000 Waveform Seekbar

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Enhance the appearance and functionality of Foobar2000 by adding a visual waveform representation of the currently playing audio track, which can be used to navigate to any point in the image of the track by clicking there.

Waveform Seekbar is a UI element for both the Default UI and Columns UI that provides seekbar functionality (seeking, position indicator) on top of a pretty image of the waveform of the currently playing song, drawn using either Direct3D 9.0c or Direct2D 1.0.

foobar_waveform_seekbar

Foobar Waveform Seekbar in action

Topic ~ Hydrogen Audio
Download ~ Hydrogen Audio
Documentation ~ Hydrogen Audio
Source code ~ GitHub

Additional resources:

Waveform Minibar ~ CUI Only
Installing a foobar component
Waveform ~ Wikipedia

Cue Sheet Generator ~ Multi-platform, Open-source Utility

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A program to easily generate cue sheets for CD images with compressed, or raw (wav), audio tracks, usable, for example, in DosBox.

cuesheet generator

Cue Sheet Generator in action

sourceforge.net/projects/cuegen
Downloads

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