Category Archives: Linux

Audioware For Linux

JJazzLab ~ Generate Backing Tracks

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JJazzLab is a Midi-based application dedicated to backing tracks generation. You type in chord symbols, select a rhythm (style), then the application generates a complete backing track with drums, bass, guitar, piano, strings, etc.

The objective is to generate intelligent and interesting backing tracks, i.e tracks which are:

  • realistic
  • non-boring (with variations)
  • easily customizable, even for complex songs
github.com/jjazzboss/JJazzLab
jjazzlab.gitbook.io/user-guide
www.facebook.com/jjazzlab/
www.youtube.com/channel/UC0L3SwjY6bhTj6jsbOYzzAw
JJazzLab user Interface

yabridge ~ Host WIndows Plugins On Linux

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Yet Another way to use Windows audio plugins on Linux. Yabridge seamlessly supports using both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows VST2, VST3, and CLAP plugins in 64-bit Linux plugin hosts as if they were native plugins, with optional support for plugin groups to enable inter-plugin communication for VST2 plugins and quick startup times. Its modern concurrent architecture and focus on transparency allows yabridge to be both fast and highly compatible, while also staying easy to debug and maintain.

github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge

Buzztrax ~ All In One Music Composer

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Buzztrax aims to be a music studio that allows one to compose songs using only a computer with a soundcard. If you’ve used tracker programs like FastTracker, Impulse Tracker, or the original AMIGA SoundTracker, that will give you an idea of how one can sequence music in Buzztrax.

The Buzztrax editor uses a similar concept, where a song consists of a sequence with tracks and in each track one uses patterns with events (musical notes and control changes). In contrast to other Tracker programs, tracks are not simply sample players: a user can make a song using an arrangement of virtual audio plugins that are linked together to create different effects. Each of these machines can be controlled real-time or via patterns in the sequencer.

www.buzztrax.org
Buzztrax User Interface Image

DawDreamer ~ Audio Processing Python Framework

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DawDreamer is an audio-processing Python framework supporting core DAW features and beyond:

  • Composing graphs of multi-channel audio processors
  • Audio playback
  • VST instruments and effects (with UI editing and state loading/saving)
  • FAUST effects and polyphonic instruments
  • Time-stretching and looping, optionally according to Ableton Live warp markers
  • Pitch-warping
  • Parameter automation at audio-rate and at pulses-per-quarter-note
  • Parameter automation saving in absolute audio-rate time
  • MIDI playback in absolute time and PPQN time
  • MIDI file export in absolute time
  • Rendering and saving multiple processors simultaneously
  • Support for the Faust Box and Signal APIs
  • Transpiling Faust code to JAX/Flax and other target languages (C++, Rust, Wasm, etc.)
  • Machine learning experiments with QDax
  • Multiprocessing support
  • Full support on macOS, Windows, Linux, Google Colab, and Ubuntu Dockerfile

DawDreamer’s foundation is JUCE, with a user-friendly Python interface thanks to pybind11. DawDreamer evolved from an earlier VSTi audio “renderer”, RenderMan.

github.com/DBraun/DawDreamer

Maloja ~ Linux Local Scrobble Database

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Simple self-hosted music scrobble database to create personal listening statistics.

github.com/krateng/maloja

musicScraper ~ Scrape RYM & Metallum

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CLI tool for scraping information from musical website (Rateyourmusic, Metal Archives), with nice album ASCII art.

Features:

  • Search for your favorite artists on Metallum and RateYourMusic (so far)
  • Show discography and album tracklist
  • Show album credits
  • Show user reviews.
  • RYM: Login and rate an album.
  • Metallum: Check similar artists
github.com/mBaratta96/musicScraper

MusicIP ~ Analyse Songs & Generate Playlists

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MusicIP is much more than a conventional Playlist Generator. MusicIP is a clever piece of software written in the 2000s that analyses and fingerprints your local music library to try to understand the makeup of each music track. So instead of endlessly scrolling through your library, trying to find something to listen to, you can simply select a track (the seed track) then based on MusicIPs understanding of your library, generate a playlist of tracks that blend together. This is far more than a genre based mix, as it will select tracks that are similar in composition.

www.spicefly.com/article.php?page=what-is-musicip

Festival ~ Album Centered Music Player

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Festival is a cross-platform music player for local album collections, with a client server architecture and multiple frontends

github.com/hinto-janai/festival

LMS ~ Lightweight Linux Music Server

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LMS is a self-hosted music streaming software: access your music collection from anywhere using a web interface!

Main features:

  • Recommendation engine
  • Audio transcoding for maximum interoperability and reduced bandwith requirements
  • Multi-value tags: genre, albumgenre, mood, albummood, albumgrouping, …
  • Artist relationships: composer, conductor, lyricist, mixer, performer, producer, remixer
  • Release types: album, single, EP, compilation, live, …
  • MusicBrainz Identifier support to handle duplicated artist and release names
  • ListenBrainz support for:
    • Scrobbling and synchronizing listens
    • Synchronizing ‘love’ feedbacks
  • ReplayGain support
  • User management, with several authentication backends
  • Subsonic/OpenSubsonic API support
github.com/epoupon/lms

Qsynth ~ Fluidsynth Qt GUI

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Qsynth is a fluidsynth GUI front-end application, written in C++ around the Qt framework, using Qt Designer. Eventually it may evolve into a softsynth management application allowing the user to control and manage a variety of command line softsynths.

sourceforge.net/projects/qsynth

redumper ~ Byte Perfect Disc Dumper

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redumper is an advanced byte perfect disc dumper. It supports incremental dumps, advanced SCSI/C2 repair, intelligent audio CD offset detection and a lot of other features. Everything is written from scratch in C++.

github.com/superg/redumper

Fooyin ~ Linux Audio Player

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Fooyin is a customisable music player for Linux. Fooyin features a layout editing mode in which the entire user interface can be customised, starting from a blank state or a default layout. FooScript takes this further by extending the customisation to individual widgets themselves.

Features:

  • Playback FLAC, MP3, MP4, Vorbis, Opus, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Monkey’s Audio
  •  Playback popular VGM and tracker module formats
  •  Gapless playback
  •  Add and play files from within compressed archives
  •  Audio output and device configuration
  •  CUE sheet support (including embedded)
  •  Fully customisable layout, starting from a blank window
  •  Customisable keyboard shortcuts
  •  Filter library on any field(s)
  •  Create and manage playlists
  •  Import/export playlists (M3U/M3U8)
  •  Extensible using a plugin system
  •  Tag editing
  •  Library tree, including directory structure view
  •  Directory browser
  •  Waveform seekbar
  •  MPRIS support
  •  ReplayGain support
  •  Scrobbling

www.fooyin.org
github.com/ludouzi/fooyin