Category Archives: Linux

Audioware For Linux

Ritmolux ~ Real-time Music Visualizer

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A lightweight, real-time music visualizer built around one shared Rust core that turns a stream of PCM audio samples into GPU-rendered visuals. Two frontends consume that core:

  • Standalone app (Windows, macOS and Linux) — pure Rust (winit + wgpu), fed by the OS’s system-audio capture.
  • foobar2000 plugin (Windows-first) — a thin C++ shim over the core’s C ABI, fed by foobar’s own visualisation_stream (no loopback needed on that path).

The core is source-agnostic: it takes interleaved/mono PCM frames and does not care whether they came from loopback capture or foobar. That single abstraction is what lets one visual codebase serve both frontends.

ritmolux visualization

github.com/IgorKonovalov/Ritmolux
igorkonovalov.github.io/Ritmolux/gallery

Aurral ~ Self Hosted Music Discovery

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Aurral is self-hosted music discovery with its own music library. Best-in-class recommendations, rotating flows, playlist downloads, and a library that Aurral manages, with Lidarr as an optional add-on.

Aurral Discovery Page View

aurral.org
github.com/lklynet/aurral

WrzDJ ~ Disc Jockey Song Requestor

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A real-time song request system for DJs. Guests scan a QR code to submit requests. DJs manage everything from a live dashboard with automatic track detection from their equipment via plugins for Denon, Pioneer, Serato, and Traktor.

wrzdj web interface

wrzdj.com
github.com/wrzonance/WrzDJ

thinksynth ~ Modular Synth & Algorthmic Composition

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thinksynth builds sounds out of a graph of DSP nodes — oscillators, filters, envelopes, delays and arithmetic — described in a small language and rendered in real time. Patches assign those graphs to MIDI channels, so one instrument can layer several voices.

Every node is a plugin, and the set that ships covers subtractive and FM synthesis, resonators, waveshaping and a range of filters. New ones are ordinary shared libraries dropped into the plugin directory.

thinksynth user interface

github.com/mishan/thinksynth

Gleamy Audio Player ~ Local Player & Downloader

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Local music player and downloader.

Features:

  • Play local audio in different ways
  • Drag and drop multiple files and folders from your file manager onto the app to add them to the queue
  • Build and search your own custom audio library in app, by registering locations from your computer
  • Manually select a folder to open
  • Reorder and shuffle queue
  • Loop current or whole queue
  • Create your own playlists
  • Import and export your playlists to .M3U format
  • Automatically download missing playlist tracks
  • Search and download songs and albums directly from the internet, using yt-dlp
  • Allow downloading songs and playlists using direct url
  • Lyrics auto fetching from song file name + caching
  • Change lyrics source if they are incorrect or sync is broken
  • Power saving / appearance toggle, if your machine struggles with pretty blurs and overly long queues :p
  • Automatically fetches album cover art using filename and parent directory name + caching
  • Enable / disable auto cover art fetching
  • Link your Youtube account (by using your browser’s cookies) to download content that fails otherwise
  • Looks cute and pretty :3
Gleamy User Interface

github.com/esteakacrownie/gayer

Luminous ~ A Home For Music You Own

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Luminous is a fast, local-first player for your own audio library. Built for anyone who wants the convenience of a modern streaming app without giving up ownership of their music. Turn a folder of files into a library you’ll enjoy browsing and listening to.

esoltys.dev/luminous
github.com/esoltys/luminous

PearTune ~ Peer-To-Peer Music Player

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Play a music collection that lives on a computer at home, from anywhere. It can be your computer or a friend’s. No port forwarding, no VPN, no account and no cloud copy of your files.

peerloomllc.com/peartune
github.com/peerloomllc/peartune

Spatial-Linux ~ Boom 3D FOSS Alternative

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3D sound for every app on your Linux desktop. Looking for Boom 3D on Linux? Spatial Linux is a free, open-source alternative. It adds a virtual output device to PipeWire and processes everything you play through it: 3D surround for headphones, a room around the music, clarity, bass and a night mode, plus a 10-band equaliser. You can also set each app’s volume separately — game chat quiet, music loud — right from the app. It runs entirely on PipeWire’s built-in filters, so no extra audio plugins are needed.

github.com/Nothingman333/Spatial-Linux

Glacier EQ ~ USB DAC Parametric EQ

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Cross-platform parametric EQ editor for USB DACs. Offline, direct Tauri+React app for desktop and Android.

glacier eq user interface

github.com/Bukutsu/glacier-eq

ShinRonin ~ Modular Filter & Delay

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ShinRonin is a ground-up rebuild of Ronin, one of the earliest plugins we ever shipped, first released in 2003. The original paired two delay lines with a set of morphing filters and two fully patchable routing matrices, and it earned a cult following for the strange feedback networks and self-oscillating textures you could build inside it. Twenty years on, we have rebuilt it for modern systems, kept the architecture that made it worth remembering, and released it for free.

Two independent delay lines, each with tempo sync, reverse, looping, and feedback, feed a pair of morphing multimode filters that sweep continuously from notch through lowpass, bandpass, and highpass. There is saturation, two LFOs, and an envelope follower. Everything connects through two on-board matrices: a signal matrix that routes any audio source to any destination, and a modulation matrix that wires the LFOs, envelope, and incoming MIDI to nearly any parameter. It is happy doing clean stereo delays and gentle filtering, but the real fun starts when you patch a feedback loop and let it misbehave.

shinronin user interface

www.audiodamage.com/pages/shin-ronin

SC55-CLAP ~ Nuked SC-55 CLAP Plugin

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Nuked SC-55 CLAP is a CLAP audio plug-in built upon J.C. Moyer’s fork of nukeykt’s Nuked-SC55, an emulation of the Roland SC-55 Sound Canvas MIDI module.

Unlike the original Nuked-SC55, this version has no graphical user interface. It reacts to MIDI messages like an external MIDI module and is intended for retro gaming, hobby music, and research.

The plug-in supports ROM versions from several original SC-55 models, including the SC-55 v1.00 through v2.00 and SC-55mk2 v1.01. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. The project is based on the original MAME license, which includes restrictions on commercial use, including commercial music production and inclusion in commercial software packages.

The project describes its purpose as helping preserve DOS gaming history while providing historically accurate SC-55 sound through a modern CLAP plug-in.

Note: The plug-in requires ROM dumps from the original hardware; the ROMs are not included with the project.

github.com/johnnovak/Nuked-SC55-CLAP

gonic ~ Self-hosted Music Server

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music streaming server / free-software subsonic server API implementation

Features:

  • browsing by folder (keeping your full tree intact) see here
  • browsing by tags (using taglib – supports mp3, opus, flac, ape, m4a, wav, etc.)
  • on-the-fly audio transcoding and caching (requires ffmpeg) (thank you spijet)
  • subsonic jukebox mode, for gapless server-side audio playback instead of streaming (thank you lxea)
  • support for podcasts (thank you lxea)
  • pretty fast scanning (with my library of ~50k tracks, initial scan takes about 10m, and about 6s after incrementally)
  • multiple users, each with their own transcoding preferences, playlists, top tracks, top artists, etc.
  • last.fm scrobbling
  • listenbrainz scrobbling (thank you spezifisch, lxea)
  • artist similarities and biographies from the last.fm api
  • support for multi valued tags like albumartists and genres (see more)
  • a web interface for configuration (set up last.fm, manage users, start scans, etc.)
  • support for the album-artist tag, to not clutter your artist list with compilation album appearances
  • written in go, so lightweight and suitable for a raspberry pi, etc. (see ARM images below)
  • newer salt and token auth
  • tested on airsonic-refix, amperfy, symfonium, dsub, jamstash, music-assistant, subsonic.el, sublime music, soundwaves, stmp, termsonic, tempus, strawberry, and ultrasonic

github.com/sentriz/gonic