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Audioware For Linux

cyanrip ~ Accurate & Secure Ripper

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Fully featured CD ripping program able to take out most of the tedium. Fully accurate, has advanced features most rippers don’t, yet has no bloat and is cross-platform.

Features:

github.com/cyanreg/cyanrip

QmidiNet ~ MIDI Network Gateway

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QmidiNet is a MIDI network gateway application that sends and receives MIDI data (ALSA Sequencer and/or JACK MIDI) over the network, using UDP/IP multicast. Inspired by multimidicast and designed to be compatible with ipMIDI for Windows.

qmidinet.sourceforge.io

QmidiCtl ~ MIDI Remote Controller

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QmidiCtl is a MIDI remote controller application that sends MIDI data over the network, using UDP/IP multicast. Inspired by multimidicast and designed to be compatible with ipMIDI for Windows.

qmidictl.sourceforge.io

AUDMES ~ Oscilloscope & Spectrum Analyzer

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AUDio MEasurement System – multi-platfrom system for audio measurement through a PC sound card. Incorporates generator, oscilloscope, audio spectrum analyzer (FFT) and frequency sweep characteristic. Can be compiled and works under Linux, Windows and MacOS.

Features:
  • Display audio spectrum (FFT)
  • Show wave form
  • Generate tones
  • Only requires a sound card
  • Uses WxWidgets
  • Source code available

sourceforge.net/projects/audmes

Resources:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_analyzer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscilloscope

RuneAudio ~ Hardware Audio Player

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RuneAudio is a free and open source software that turns embedded hardware into Hi-Fi music players. We want to make a cheap, low-consumption and silent mini-PC perform as an high fidelity digital source. RuneAudio features a custom-built Linux distribution (RuneOS) and a web player (RuneUI) which allows to remote control playback and setup options, from multiple devices (desktop PC, netbook, tablet, smartphone).

Features:

  • Easy to install and use
  • A custom built, optimized and small footprint Linux-based OS (RuneOS)
  • Runs on a variety of embedded platforms
  • Works with almost every model of USB DAC in commerce
  • Bitperfect and gapless playback of common audio formats (FLAC, WAVE, MP3, AAC, ALAC, etc.)
  • Supports native DSD playback with DSD-over-PCM
  • Playback from network drives (over CIFS and NFS protocols) and USB drives (FAT32 and NTFS)
  • Playback of web radio streams
  • Built-in web interface (RuneUI) for playback and setup control
  • Can be controlled from a lot of third party clients (desktop and mobile)
  • Supports USB Audio Class 2
  • Optimized to reduce SD card wearing

sourceforge.net/projects/runeaudio

ABC/HR Audio Comparison Tool ~ Open Source DBT

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ABC/HR is an audio comparison tool that allows users to self-conduct double-blind listening tests of digital audio codecs.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/abchr/

BallroomDJ ~ Ballroom Audio Player

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BallroomDJ is a ballroom music player. It is designed to be able to play music the entire evening without intervention. Use for your personal training, dance studio, and ballroom, dancesport, Argentine tango, country western, or west coast swing events.

Drumstick Metronome ~ Linux Precision Beats

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Drumstick Metronome is a MIDI based metronome using the ALSA sequencer. It’s intended for musicians and music students, as a tool to keep the rhythm while playing musical instruments. It uses MIDI for sound generation instead of digital audio, allowing low CPU usage and very accurate timing, thanks to the ALSA sequencer.

Features:

  • Easy to use graphic user interface.
  • MIDI only. Can be used with software or external MIDI synthesizers.
  • Based on ALSA sequencer. Provides input and output ports
  • Highly customizable parameters.
  • External control: D-Bus and MIDI realtime.
  • Custom rhythm patterns.

sourceforge.net/projects/kmetronome

Tomahawk ~ Metadata Based Player

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Tomahawk is a free multi-source and cross-platform music player. An application that can play not only your local files, but also stream from services like Spotify, Beats, SoundCloud, Google Music, YouTube and many others. You can even connect with your friends’ Tomahawks, share your musical gems or listen along with them. Let the music play!

Tomahawk is basically a player for music metadata. At its core it decouples the metadata about a song from the source and reassembles it for each user based on their individual music accessibility and rights. In short, given the name of a song and artist, Tomahawk will find the right source, for the right user at the right time. This fundamentally different approach to music enables a range of new music consumption and sharing experiences previously not possible.

Music Sources:
  • Local music library (MP3, Ogg, FLAC and many other formats)
  • Networked music libraries (other connected computers)
Subscription Music Services
Free Streaming / Music Promotion Platforms
Network/Cloud storage

Third party-developed resolvers have also been written for services like YouTube, Qobuz and others. We’ve also heard of digital music distributors writing their own for their internal CMSes to help them navigate and preview their content. That’s cool.

https://github.com/tomahawk-player/tomahawk

tapedeck ~ DJ Audio Editor

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Tapedeck is an audio editor for Linux with an alternative control interface. Instead of a mouse, keyboard, and screen, it uses the DJ board Hercules DJ Control Instinct, and a set of LED graph displays (not currently implemented, simulated with terminal graphics).

github.com/vanjac/tapedeck

Eisenkraut ~ Multi-channel Audio Editor

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The audio file editor, baptised ‘Eisenkraut’, came into existence (as a scaffold) during a project class on audio programming in Java at the SeaM in Weimar. It is distinguished by a number of traits which makes it particularly interesting in the field of computer music: There are no restrictions with regard to the number of channels in a file, and there is an OSC interface via which the functionality can be extended, for example using the SuperCollider language. Possible applications of such extensions are the transfer of marker information or the maintenance of meta data for segmented files, the algorithmic editing (cut/copy/paste) of files, or the addition of your own sound transformations or special decoders (e.g. an MS matrix).

User Interface

github.com/dhfgj/Eisenkraut
github.com/Sciss/Eisenkraut

Psycle ~ Modular Music Creation Studio

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Psycle is a Music tracker (like FastTracker 2 or Impulse Tracker) combined with plugin modularity. It supports its own plugin API, the VST2 plugin standard, and a tracker style sampler playback.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/psycle

http://psycle.pastnotecut.org/portal.php
http://sourceforge.net/projects/psycle/