Lidarr ~ Usenet & BitTorrent Music Manager


Lidarr is a music collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new tracks from your favorite artists and will grab, sort and rename them. It can also be configured to automatically upgrade the quality of files already downloaded when a better quality format becomes available.

Major Features Include:

  • Support for major platforms: Windows, Linux, macOS, Raspberry Pi, etc.
  • Automatically detects new tracks.
  • Can scan your existing library and download any missing tracks.
  • Can watch for better quality of the tracks you already have and do an automatic upgrade.
  • Automatic failed download handling will try another release if one fails
  • Manual search so you can pick any release or to see why a release was not downloaded automatically
  • Fully configurable track renaming
  • Full integration with SABnzbd and NZBGet
  • Full integration with Kodi, Plex (notification, library update, metadata)
  • Full support for specials and multi-album releases
  • And a beautiful UI
lidarr user interface

lidarr.audio
github.com/Lidarr/Lidarr

JellyBox ~ Jellyfin Music Player


This is unofficial audio client for app. Currently it supports macOS, iOS and android via APK file. I’m also working on adding Linux(deb) support and windows.

jellybox interface

github.com/avdept/JellyBoxPlayer
sourceforge.net/projects/jellybox.mirror

Resources:

jellyfin.org

Dynamic Audio Normalizer ~ Advanced Normalization


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 compressing”. 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 favorite DAW (digital audio workstation), as a VST plug-in, or into your favorite 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).

github.com/lordmulder/DynamicAudioNormalizer

Double File Scanner ~ WinXP Thru Win10 Scanning


The purpose of this tool is scanning the selected directory or directories for duplicate files, i.e. files with identical content. Duplicate files are identified by first calculating the SHA-1 digest of each file and then looking for values that appear more than once. In particular, files with identical content are guaranteed to have the same SHA-1 digest, while files with differing content will have different SHA-1 values with very high certainty.

All computed SHA-1 values are stored in a hash table, so collisions are found quickly and we do NOT need to compare every digest to every other one. Also, the files are processed concurrently in multiple “worker” threads in order to parallelize and speed-up the SHA-1 computations on multi-core processors. On our test machine it took ~15 minutes to analyse all the ~260,000 files on the system drive (~63.5 GB). During this operation ~44,000 duplicates were found.

Once the scan is completed, the program provides commands to review, rename or delete the duplicate files manually. Alternatively, the “automatic clean-up” wizard may be invoked in order to remove ALL redundant files at a single blow. Optionally, the list of duplicates can be exported to the XML or INI format.

double file scanner interface

github.com/lordmulder/DoubleFilerScanner

Integral ~ Java MicroEdition Player


Integral is music player for cellphones and other mobile devices with Java MicroEdition platform (J2ME). This player has outstanding ability to keep played statuses for each track in the playlist. It has three possible statuses for each track: new, played or partially played.

Key features of the player:

  • User can define directory and supported file extensions for music files
  • Player can keep individual statuses for each track in list, including partial played position
  • English and Russian interface, player supports Russian MP3 tags
  • User interface is automatically layouted for different screen sizes
  • Player can be sent to background execution, if this feature’s supported by device
  • Lock screen featuring large digital clock. Automatic screen lock can be turn on, based on inactivity timer.
  • This project is open source (distibuted under GNU GPL)

Integral player doesn’t decode sound streams itself by design. Instead, Integral can be considered as a shell to internal playback functions of the mobile device. That’s why the player supports only those formats of music files which are supported by the actual device.

Integral User Interface

integral.sourceforge.net
sourceforge.net/projects/integral

txt2chord ~ Turn Words Into Chords


Convert words and sentences to 5 note chords you can use to inspire music creation. Have fun turning your name, your city name, your friends’ names, your team’s name, your pet’s name into wild and original harmonies that go beyond serialism and classic jazz.

Features:

  • generate five note chords
  • generate scales matching the chords
  • display chord name
  • preview chords
  • preview scales

sourceforge.net/projects/txt2chord

soundKonverter ~ KDE Conversion & Ripping


soundKonverter is a frontend to various audio converters.

The key features are:

  • Audio conversion
  • Replay Gain calculation
  • CD ripping

github.com/dfaust/soundkonverter
github.com/nphantasm/soundkonverter
store.kde.org/p/1126634

K3b ~ KDE Disk Burner


K3b was created to be a feature-rich and easy to handle CD and DVD burning application. It consists of basically three parts:

  • The projects: Projects are created from the file menu and then filled with data to burn
  • The Tools: The tools menu offers different tools like CD copy or DVD formatting
  • Context sensitive media actions: When clicking on the icon representing a CD/DVD drive K3b will present its contents and allow some further action. 

apps.kde.org/k3b
github.com/kde/k3b
sourceforge.net/projects/k3b
snapcraft.io/k3b
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K3b
K3b Themes

Ear Tag ~ Edit Audio File Tags


Ear Tag is a simple audio file tag editor. It is primarily geared towards making quick edits or bulk-editing tracks in albums/EPs. Unlike other tagging programs, Ear Tag does not require the user to set up a music library folder. It can:

  • Edit tags of MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, OGG and WMA files
  • Modify metadata of multiple files at once
  • Rename files using information from present tags
  • Identify files using AcoustID

Network access is only used for the “Identify selected files” option.

apps.gnome.org/EarTag
gitlab.gnome.org/World/eartag

Tambourine ~ Linux Music Player


A music player for your local music library.

  • Linux first
  • Local only: no internet connection will ever be established.
  • Read only: your music will be accessed only in read mode.
  • Stateless: no cache/database/whatever will be created. The metadata in your songs are the database.
  • Imperfect: there will be use-cases that are not solved by this software, and that’s fine.

github.com/MMarco94/tambourine-music-player

Amberol ~ Plays music and nothing else


Amberol is a music player with no delusions of grandeur. If you just want to play music available on your local system then Amberol is the music player you are looking for.

Current features:

  • adaptive UI
  • UI recoloring using the album art
  • drag and drop support to queue songs
  • shuffle and repeat
  • MPRIS integration

gitlab.gnome.org/World/amberol
apps.gnome.org/en/Amberol
flathub.org/en/apps/io.bassi.Amberol