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Audioware For Linux

xwax ~ Linux Digital Vinyl System

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xwax is an open-source Digital Vinyl System (DVS) for Linux. It allows DJs and turntablists to playback digital audio files (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC and more), controlled using a normal pair of turntables via time coded vinyls.

It’s designed for both beat mixing and scratch mixing. Needle drops, pitch changes, scratching, spinbacks and rewinds are all supported, and feel just like the audio is pressed onto the vinyl itself.

The focus is on an accurate vinyl feel which is efficient, stable and fast.

xwax

xwax.org

MusE ~ Open source MIDI / Audio Sequencer

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MusE is a MIDI/Audio sequencer with recording and editing capabilities written originally by Werner Schweer, and now developed and maintained by the MusE development team. MusE aims to be a complete multi-track virtual studio for Linux. It is published under the GNU General Public License.

muse2.1_song-s

www.muse-sequencer.org

EplayOrgan ~ Multiple Organ Simulator

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EplayOrgan is a multi purpose organ intended to be playable by organists and versatile enough to be useful to everybody with an interest in organs. It will load and be playable almost instantly and does not need an expensive computer with huge amounts of memory.

midimusic.github.io/tech/eplayOrgan
eplay organ user interface

Exaile ~ GTK+ Music Player

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Simple interface. Powerful music management. Smart Playlists. Advanced track tagging. Automatic album art. Lyrics. Streaming Radio. Podcasts. Secondary output device support. Cross-platform. Easily extensible with 50+ plugins available.

exaile-3.4

www.exaile.org

ocenaudio ~ Powerful, Fast & Easy Audio Editor

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ocenaudio is a cross-platform, easy to use, fast and functional audio editor. It is ideal for people who need to edit and analyze audio files without complication. ocenaudio also has powerful features that will satisfy more advanced users including VST plugin support.

ocenaudio editor image

www.ocenaudio.com

VMPK ~ Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard

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VMPK is a virtual MIDI piano keyboard for Linux, Windows and OSX. Based on Qt and Drumstick the program is a MIDI event generator using the computer’s alphanumeric keyboard and the mouse. It may also be used to display received MIDI notes.

vmpk_605x334

vmpk.sourceforge.net

Ogg Vorbis ~ Free & Open Audio CODEC

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Vorbis is a free and open-source software project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The project produces an audio coding format and software reference encoder/decoder (codec) for lossy audio compression. Vorbis is most commonly used in conjunction with the Ogg container format and it is therefore often referred to as Ogg Vorbis. ~ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis

Ogg Vorbis is a completely open, patent-free, professional audio encoding and streaming technology with all the benefits of Open Source.

www.vorbis.com
www.xiph.org/downloads
github.com/enzo1982/vorbis-aotuv-lancer
www.rarewares.org/ogg
www.rarewares.org/ogg-tools
nouturn.com/oggdrop
Ogg Forums At Hydrogen Audio

VorbisGain is a utility that uses a psychoacoustic method to correct the volume of an Ogg Vorbis file to a predefined standardized loudness.

www.sjeng.org/vorbisgain

jamailmar

Linux Ogg Vorbis decoder with multi-thread support

sourceforge.net/projects/jamailmar

butt ~ Broadcast Using This Tool

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butt (broadcast using this tool) is an easy to use, multi OS streaming tool. It supports SHOUTcast and Icecast and runs on Linux, MacOSX and Windows. The main purpose of butt is to stream live audio data from your computer’s Mic or Line input to an Shoutcast or Icecast server; recording is also possible.

It is NOT intended to be a server by itself or automatically stream a set of audio files.

butt
danielnoethen.de

Mumble ~ Low-latency High Quality VOIP

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Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software primarily intended for use while gaming.

wiki.mumble.info
github.com/mumble-voip/mumble

Kid3 ~ Cross-platform Audio Tagger

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Kid3 audio tag editor can edit the tags of MP3, Ogg, FLAC, MPC & WMA files in an efficient way, convert between ID3v1 and ID3v2, set the tags of multiple files, generate tags from file names or vice versa and import from freedb, MusicBrainz and Discogs.

Features

  • Edit and convert between ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags of MP3 files
  • Supports MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV and AIFF files
  • Generate tags from filenames and file-, directorynames from tags
  • Mass-tagging of multiple files
  • Import from gnudb.org, MusicBrainz and Discogs
kid3

apps.kde.org/kid3
apps.kde.org/kid3-qt
github.com/KDE/kid3
kid3.sourceforge.io
sourceforge.net/projects/kid3
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid3

Jukes ~ Cross-platform Music Organizer & Player

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Jukes was created for the serious music lover. This program was created for people who rip full CD’s or possibly their entire CD collection to their hard drive. Jukes allows you to have all of your CD’s at your fingertips and play them like a real jukebox. Perfect for DJ’s, whether in your house or for parties or whatever, spin all of your favorite tunes anytime you want. No more loading the files in to play them and removing them to add more to the list, now all of your CD’s are at your disposal! Jukes is cross-platform and operates on Windows, Solaris, Linux, and Mac OSX.

jukes-screenshot

code.google.com/archive/p/jukes
Downloads

PortAudio ~ Free Cross-platform Open-source Audio I/O Library

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PortAudio is a free, cross-platform, open-source, audio I/O library.  It lets you write simple audio programs in ‘C’ or C++ that will compile and run on many platforms including Windows, Macintosh OS X, and Unix (OSS/ALSA). It is intended to promote the exchange of audio software between developers on different platforms. Many applications use PortAudio for Audio I/O.

www.portaudio.com