Category Archives: Mac

Apple MacIntosh Audioware

Easy Audio Sync ~ Syncing & Conversion Utility

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Audio library syncing and conversion utility

Easy Audio Sync is an audio library syncing and conversion utility. The intended use is syncing an audio library with many lossless files to a mobile device with limited storage.

The program’s design is inspired by the rsync utility. It supports folder-based source to destination syncing, with added audio transcoding capability, and is GUI-based instead of CLI-based.

Features:

  • Custom FFmpeg-based audio transcoding engine
    • Multithreaded operation for fast conversions
    • 4 lossy output codecs supported: MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, and Opus
  • Robust metadata parser ensures tags and cover art are correctly transferred when converting between different formats
  • ReplayGain volume adjustments
  • Destination folder cleaning (deleting files that no longer exist in the source)
  • Cross-platform Windows/macOS/Linux

github.com/complexlogic/EasyAudioSync

mididash ~ Open Source MIDI Router

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Mididash is an open source MIDI routing software with a node-based interface and Lua scripting. A modern take on programs like MIDI-OX.

Features:

  • High performance built with Tauri and Rust
  • Cross-platform available on Windows, Linux and macOS
  • Node-based MIDI routing allows for versatile configurations
  • Hot-plugging reconnect or replace MIDI devices
  • MIDI monitoring for inputs, outputs or individual nodes
  • Pre-configured nodes for MIDI splitting, mapping and more
  • Script nodes using Lua 5.4
  • Lightweight installer under 10MB

tiagolr.github.io/mididash
github.com/tiagolr/mididash
sourceforge.net/projects/mididash

JD990 Super Editor ~ Roland JD-990 Editor

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CtrlrX based editor for Roland SUPER JD SYNTHESIZER MODULE JD-990

Features:

  • Menu access to SR-JV80/SL-JD80 external card patches and waveforms if installed.
  • Rename any remote patch name for Internal Patches I-11 – I-88 (64 x patches).
  • Save Temporary Patch data on Ctrlr panel to any Internal Patch location I-11 – I-88 (64 x patches).
  • Palette mode. Quick adjustment of each Tone ABCD using mouse wheel or click & drag.
  • Patch data on panel can be saved as a sysex file to computer.
  • Bulk Sysex dumps of patches I-11 – I-88
  • Emulation of most graphic elements on the JD-990 display.
  • Separate ”mixer’ area allowing simultaneous adjustment of each Tone Level & Pan.
  • Sync button~ synchronising panel with JD-990.
  • PATCH mode, PERFORMANCE and RHYTHM editing
  • Map Keyboard Control CC messages to panel.
  • MIDI learn feature
  • Support for SO-PCM1 cards not yet fully implemented
JD990 Super Editor

sourceforge.net/projects/jd990-super-editor
github.com/RomanKubiak/ctrlr

ASH Toolset ~ Headphone Correction & Binaural Synthesis

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The Audio Spatialisation for Headphones Toolset is a set of tools for headphone correction and binaural synthesis of spatial audio systems on headphones.

Features:

  • Headphone Correction — Generate headphone correction filters in WAV format for IR convolution or as configurations for graphic equalisers.
  • Binaural Room Simulation — Generate customised binaural simulations of different acoustic environments including control rooms, studios, halls, and more. Resulting filters can be saved in WAV format or SOFA format for IR convolution.
  • Equalizer APO Integration — Auto configures Equalizer APO to apply created filters and perform headphone correction and binaural room simulation.
  • HeSuVi Compatibility — Generates filters in formats compatible with HeSuVi, a headphone surround virtualization tool for Equalizer APO.
  • SOFA Format Compatibility – Load HRTF datasets and export customised binaural responses in SOFA format
ASH Headphone Toolset

github.com/ShanonPearce/ASH-Toolset
sourceforge.net/projects/ash-toolset

museeks ~ Simple, Clean & Cross-platform Music Player

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Museeks aims to be a simple and easy-to-use music player with a clean UI. You will not find tons of features, as its goal is not to compete with more complete and more famous music players.

Features:

  • 💻 Cross-platform music player (Linux, macOS, and Windows)
  • 🎧 Supported formats: mp3, mp4, m4a/aac, flac, wav, ogg, 3gpp
  • 🔄 Library auto-refresh
  • 🌟 Playlists
  • 🎼 Queue management
  • ➰ Shuffle, loop
  • 🌄 Cover art
  • 🤓 Dark theme
  • 🚤 Playback speed control
  • 😴 Sleep mode blocker
  • 📥 .m3u import/export

museeks.io
github.com/martpie/museeks
sourceforge.net/projects/museeks.mirror

Overtone GEQ ~ Harmonic Graphic Equalizer

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Overtone GEQ is a free 7-band harmonic (overtone) graphic equalizer AudioUnit, AAX, and VST plugin with multi-channel operation support (supporting up to 8 input/output channels, audio host application-dependent).  Overtone GEQ offers extensive internal channel routing capabilities, and supports mid/side channel processing.

Beside equalizing, Overtone GEQ applies harmonic enhancement: it uses 7 harmonic enhancement modules, one for each EQ band.  This generates a complex harmonic coloration you will probably like a lot.

Overtone GEQ was designed to allow audio engineers to apply quick EQ shape adjustments together with adding a bit of harmonic richness to the audio material (mainly mixes and sub-mixes due to a comparably high load this EQ puts on a CPU).

www.voxengo.com/product/overtonegeq

DLNA Music Controller ~ Manage DLNA Directly

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Read a DLNA Media Server to select music to play on your DLNA Renderer

Scan the network for your Media Server (“Server”) and Renderer (“Renderer”) devices, select one of each and then from the main screen select the music you want to play, drilling into Albums, Artists, Genres (all defined by your Media Server). Any music you want to hear is called a track and is loaded onto the play queue. Then select Play button to listen to the track listed at the top of the queue. You can also create playlists and store your favorite tracks for playback.

Features:

  • DLNA
  • Media Server
  • Media Renderer
  • Play queue

sourceforge.net/projects/dlna-music-controller

Resources:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UPnP_AV_media_servers_and_clients

AirWindows ~ Meter Plugin

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This is a first JUCE plugin, meant to offer some useful metering.

github.com/airwindows/Meter/releases

AudioPlayer ~ CD Image Player

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This is an audio player for Windows, Linux and MacOS.

It is designed to play audio CDs dumped to raw bin/cue files.

The bin/cue files can be loaded from a folder on disk, or from a zip archive.

This player provides a convenient way of listening to dumps in that format without any additional step(s):

  • No need to mount the cue file as a virtual drive.
  • No need to extract the cue/bin files from zip files.
  • No need to convert the data to wav/flac/ogg/mp3.

This is currently NOT supported:

  • Playing from archives in 7z and rar formats.
  • Playing music from other formats such as wav, mp3, flac, ogg, etc. Just use a regular music player for that.

Album and track metadata is loaded from the CDTEXT information when present in cue file.

Additional metadata is optionally retrieved from CueToolsDB, including album art.

Lyrics are optionally retrieved from LRCLIB. Using a local LRCLIB sqlite3 database is also supported.

AudioPlayer Interface

github.com/huguesv/AudioPlayer

Swing Music ~ Self-hosted Music Player

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Swing Music is a fast and beautiful, self-hosted music player for your local audio files. Like a cooler Spotify … but bring your own music. Just run the app and enjoy your music library in a web browser.

Features:

  • Daily Mixes – curated everyday based on your listening activity
  • Metadata normalization – a clean and consistent library
  • Album versioning – normalized albums and association with version labels (eg. Deluxe, Remaster, etc)
  • Related artist and albums
  • Folder view – Browse your music library by folders
  • Playlist management
  • Beautiful browser based UI
  • Silence detection – Combine cross-fade with silence detection to create a seamless listening experience
  • Collections – Group albums and artists based on your preferences
  • Statistics – Get insights into your listening activity
  • Lyrics view
  • Android client
  • Last.fm scrobbling
  • Multi-user support
  • Cross-platform – Windows, Linux, MacOS (coming soon), arm64, x86
  • Blazingly fast
  • Pure awesomeness

github.com/swingmx/swingmusic
github.com/swingmx/android
github.com/swingmx/webclient
sourceforge.net/projects/swing-music.mirror

Feishin ~ Self-hosted Music Player

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Rewrite of Sonixd.

Features:

  •  MPV player backend
  •  Web player backend
  •  Modern UI
  •  Scrobble playback to your server
  •  Smart playlist editor (Navidrome)
  •  Synchronized and unsynchronized lyrics support

github.com/jeffvli/feishin

foo_scrobbler_mac ~ Foo Scrobbler For Macs

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Foo Scrobbler (foo_scrobbler_mac) is a native Last.fm scrobbling plugin for foobar2000 on macOS. Submits tracks based on precise playback rules, caches scrobbles when offline, and operates silently after one-time authentication. Built using the official foobar2000 plugin API, it focuses on reliability, low overhead, and correct metadata handling. Fully open-source under GPLv3.

Supports macOS ≥ 11.5 on both Intel and ARM.

github.com/zfoxer/foo_scrobbler_mac