Audex is a CD ripper application. It lets you extract the audio from your CDs to let you listen to them on your computer and your other devices. It includes CDDB and MusicBrainz integrations to fetch the metadata and covers for your CDs if available.
apps.kde.org/audex
github.com/KDE/audex
invent.kde.org/multimedia/audex
userbase.kde.org/Audex
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE_Gear#Playback
K3b was created to be a feature-rich and easy to handle CD and DVD burning application. It consists of basically three parts:
- The projects: Projects are created from the file menu and then filled with data to burn
- The Tools: The tools menu offers different tools like CD copy or DVD formatting
- Context sensitive media actions: When clicking on the icon representing a CD/DVD drive K3b will present its contents and allow some further action.
apps.kde.org/k3b
github.com/kde/k3b
sourceforge.net/projects/k3b
snapcraft.io/k3b
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K3b
K3b Themes
Linux code to decode Ogg Vorbis files with multi-thread support
sourceforge.net/projects/jamailmar
Pear Desktop is an Electron-based desktop client for YouTube Music designed for Windows, Linux and macOS. The project keeps the standard YouTube Music interface while adding desktop integration, plugins, themes and additional playback features.
The application is open source and distributed under the MIT license.
Pear Desktop loads the standard YouTube Music web interface inside a desktop application window and extends it through plugins and Electron desktop integration. It is not a standalone music service and still requires a YouTube Music or Google account for normal use.
Because Pear Desktop uses Electron, memory and CPU usage are generally higher than lightweight native audio players such as foobar2000 or AIMP. The project is intended primarily as a feature-enhanced desktop frontend for streaming music from YouTube Music rather than as a traditional local-library music player.
github.com/pear-devs/pear-desktop
A monorepo for Casio CZ-101 phase distortion synthesis — including a preset manager web/desktop app, an in-browser phase distortion synthesizer, and a VST3/CLAP/AUv2 plugin.
A set of utilities for working with Byzantine sheet music.
PsalticTools includes:
• a set of utilities (plugins) for typing of Byzantine notes in parallel double notation (Byzantine and Western), based on MuseScore free music editor;
• the PsalticHelper program for searching for formulas of Byzantine music in music books.
• the UniPsaltica2 font with the characters of the musical Byzantine notation in Unicode.
sourceforge.net/projects/psaltichelper
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_music
sourceforge.net/projects/byzorgan/
A cross-platform music player based on PyQt5, supports Win32, Linux and macOS.
LX‑Music‑Desktop is an open‑source, Electron‑based music player built with Vue 3, offering a simple, fast interface for managing and playing local music libraries on desktop systems.
github.com/lyswhut/lx-music-desktop
sourceforge.net/projects/lx-music-desktop.mirror
QMidiArp is a MIDI arpeggiator, phrase generator and controller LFO for ALSA and JACK. It can run multiple synchronized arpeggiators, LFOs and step sequencers. The modules are also available as LV2 plugins with Qt user interface. QMidiArp has been growing since June 2009 on top of Matthias Nagorni’s original arp idea.
Features:
- Programmable arpeggio patterns, LFO waveforms and sequences
- Modular setup of arpeggiators, MIDI LFOs and step sequencers
- MIDI-controllable (MIDI-Learn)
- Synchronization with MIDI Clock or JACK Transport possible
- Optional triggering by keyboard or continuous play mode for all modules
- Patterns can be stored and switched by MIDI control while running
- JACK MIDI or ALSA MIDI backends
- Modules available as LV2 Plugins
qmidiarp.sourceforge.net
sourceforge.net/projects/qmidiarp
github.com/emuse/qmidiarp
man.archlinux.org/man/qmidiarp.1.en
www.freshports.org/audio/qmidiarp
Video:
Packages:
packages.debian.org/trixie/qmidiarp
packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/qmidiarp
References:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesizer#Arpeggiators
www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-arpeggiators-part-1
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-frequency_oscillation
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JACK_Audio_Connection_Kit
The Sound Description Interchange Format (SDIF) is an established standard for the interchange of sound descriptions and analysis data. This project provides libraries, SDIF (in C) and Easdif (in C++), tools, and wrappers to read and write SDIF files.
sourceforge.net/projects/sdif
cnmat.berkeley.edu/library/sdif
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDIF
groups.google.com/g/sdif-forum
A desktop app for producers who bounce a lot. Drag in a folder of exports and Producer Player auto-groups versions, organizes your album, and gives you a full mastering workspace — all in one place.
ethansk.github.io/producer-player
github.com/EthanSK/producer-player
A high-performance CLI toolkit for music collectors who manage their own libraries. Lattice provides a suite of tools for library visualization, integrity verification, cover art extraction, and metadata auditing — all from a single, zero-dependency script.
Modern music players often hide your library behind proprietary databases. Lattice is built for collectors who treat the filesystem as the source of truth. It reads tags directly via mutagen, ensuring your library is portable and player-agnostic.
| Mode | Flag | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Library Tree | --library | Generate a formatted ASCII/Unicode tree of your entire collection. |
| AI Library | --ai-library | Token-efficient export designed for LLM recommendation prompts. |
| Genre Wings | --all-wings | Generate separate library catalogs segmented by genre. |
| Integrity Checks | --testFLAC | Parallel verification of FLAC/MP3/Opus/WAV integrity via FFmpeg. |
| Art Extraction | --extractArt | Extract embedded covers with format-priority ranking (FLAC > Opus). |
| Tag Audit | --auditTags | Identify and report files with missing or inconsistent metadata. |
github.com/VirInvictus/Lattice
