Category Archives: Linux

Audioware For Linux

ardour ~ Freeware Digital Audio Workstation

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Grab yourself a nice audio interface. Plug in a microphone or a keyboard. Import audio or MIDI from your hard drive or the Freesound database. Cut, move, stretch, copy, paste, delete, align, trim, crossfade, rename, snapshot, zoom, transpose, quantize, swing, drag, drop. All with unlimited undo/redo. All in the same window.

Mix, mute, solo, fader, automate, EQ, dynamics, insert, send, pre-fader, post-fader, sync, monitor, isolate. Floating point fidelity, the most flexible mixer architecture in the industry, hundreds of plugins and external control surfaces.

Ardour - Retina - No Plugins

ardour.org
community.ardour.org/download
Plugins
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardour_(software)

fre:ac ~ Cross-platform Converter & Ripper

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fre:ac is a free open source audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It currently converts between mp3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and Bonk formats.

With fre:ac you can easily rip your audio CDs to MP3 or WMA files for use with your hardware player, or convert files that do not play with other audio software. You can even convert whole music libraries retaining the folder and filename structure.

The integrated CD ripper supports the CDDB / freedb online CD database. It will automatically query song information and write it to ID3v2 or other title information tags.

Features:

  • Converter for MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and Bonk formats
  • Integrated CD ripper with CDDB/freedb title database support
  • Portable application, install on a USB stick and take it with you
  • Multi-core optimized encoders to speed up conversions on modern PCs
  • Full Unicode support for tags and file names
  • Easy to learn and use, still offers expert options when you need them
  • Multilingual user interface available in 40 languages
  • Completely free and open source without a catch

freac-1.0.x-en

www.freac.org

Restoration ~ The Gnome Wave Cleaner Project

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Digital audio restoration of CD quality audio wave files. Dehiss, declick and decrackle in a GUI environment.

The goals are simple — denoise, dehiss and amplify audio files. With the use of libsndfile, you can now do this on a multitude of audio formats, wav, au, aiff, …

Gnome Wave Cleaner

Clean up your needle drops!

gwc.sourceforge.net
sourceforge.net/projects/gwc
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnome_Wave_Cleaner

Nightingale ~ Extensible Audio Player

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Nightingale chirps your favorite tunes! A beautiful interface with a wide range of supported audio formats, Last.fm and multi-platform support!

nightingale-windows-screenshot

getnightingale.com
Add-ons

* A descendant of Songbird

Sonic Visualiser ~ View & Analyze Audio Files

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The aim of Sonic Visualiser is to be the first program you reach for when want to study a musical recording rather than simply listen to it.

We hope Sonic Visualiser will be of particular interest to musicologists, archivists, signal-processing researchers and anyone else looking for a friendly way to take a look at what lies inside the audio file.

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www.sonicvisualiser.org
www.sonicvisualiser.org/download
www.vamp-plugins.org/download
Introduction Video

Amarok ~ Cross Platform Audio Player

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Amarok is a powerful music player, with multi-language support, for Macs, Unix/Linux and Windows. It has an intuitive interface and makes playing the music you love, and discovering new music, easier than ever before – and it looks good doing it!

Features:

  • Dynamic playlists matching different criteria
  • Collection managing with rating support
  • Support for basic iPod, MTP and UMS music player devices
  • Integrated Internet services: last.fm, Magnatune, Ampache and more.
  • Scripting support
  • Cover manager
  • Replaygain support

apps.kde.org/amarok
amarok.kde.org
Downloads
Documentation

CUETools ~ CUE File Utility & Transcoder

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CUETools is a tool for lossless audio / CUE sheet format conversion. The goal is to make sure the album image is preserved accurately. A lossless disc image must be lossless not only in preserving contents of the audio tracks, but also in preserving gaps and CUE sheet contents. Many applications lose vital information upon conversion, and don’t support all possible CUE sheet styles. For example, foobar2000 loses disc pre-gap information when converting an album image, and doesn’t support gaps appended (noncompliant) CUE sheets.

CueTools Interface

cue.tools/wiki/Main_Page
cue.tools/wiki/CUETools
cue.tools/wiki/CUETools_Download
cue.tools/wiki/Category:CUETools_Guides
hydrogenaud.io/index.php?board=74.0

Lacinato ABX ~ Comparing Track Quality

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Lacinato ABX is the only cross-platform ABX and shootout blind testing software for audio. It allows double-blind ABX testing of audio files (seeing if you can tell which file is being played), as well as “shootouts” (picking your favorite from a shuffled, anonymized list). Or you can just use it as a convenient way to switch between files (maintaining the current play position, if you like.

Lacinato ABX

Website
Web Service ~ online version
ABX Testing ~ Wikipedia

Audacious & XMMS ~ VU Meters Plugin

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Open source, multi-instance, skinnable VU meters for Audacious and XMMS.

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Audacious with several instances

vumeterplugin.sourceforge.net
Discussion
Downloads

Skins:
http://vumeterplugin.sourceforge.net/themes.php
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/LED+VU+meter?content=140540

Sox ~ The Swiss Army Knife Of Sound Processing

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SoX is a cross-platform command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files into other formats. It can also apply various effects to these sound files, and, as an added bonus, SoX can play and record audio files on most platforms.

Sox
Sox sample session

Website
Features
Download
Documentation
Scripts
FAQ

Additional resources:
www.audiofaidate.org/sw/sox-dsd/
codeberg.org/sox_ng
github.com/simonefil/sox-vulkan

Peppy Players ~ DIY Audio Players

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Peppy Players

Hardware, software and woodware do-it-yourself audio players

Peppy Players ~ GitHub

YAFS ~ Changing Song Order On USB Sticks

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Some players display, or play files, in the order that the file was originally copied to a USB drive or stick. YAFS (Yet Another FAT Sorter) allows the order to be changed to whatever you prefer. YAFS is a multi-platform, open source, freeware, command line utility with a GUI (Graphical User Interface).

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Website
Visual YAFS ~ Frontend