Category Archives: Mac

Apple MacIntosh Audioware

Foobar2000 ~ Biography Display Script

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This is an updated biography script that works in the 32bit Spider Monkey Javascript panel. This won’t work in 64bit Foobar2000 installations.

biography_new_1

Spider Monkey Panel ~ github.com/TheQwertiest/foo_spider_monkey_panel

Biography Script: The most recent version of the script is on, or near, the last page of this discussion. ~ hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,112913.0.html

  1. Download and install foo_spider_monkey_panel
  2. Download and unzip the newest version of the Biography script
  3. In Foobar2000 select “View > Layout > Enable Layout Editing Mode“
  4. Add a new panel or tab to your Foobar interface
  5. Right click in the new area and select “Add New UI Element…“
  6. Select “Spider Monkey Panel” in the Utility section
  7. You should now see a blank Spider Monkey panel and the message “Click here to open editor.“
  8. Click on the panel to open the editor and click the “Files” button and select “Import” and navigate to the biography script folder, select the script file “biography.x.x.x.js” and click “Open“
  9. Click “Apply” and click “Ok“
  10. Rename the Tab
  11. Disable “Layout editing mode” in the “View” menu

Forum Discussion:
hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,112914.msg929674

foo_musical_spectrum ~ Foobar2000 DUI Spectrum Display

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This is a “musical spectrum”, displayed accordingly to how the spectrum is divided in music (notes, semitones, etc).

musical-spectrum.png

hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=97404.0

xACT ~ Mac / WIndows Audio GUI

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A Mac OSX GUI frontend for open source audio codecs. There is an older Windows version available as well.

xact_main

http://xact.scottcbrown.org

RompЯ ~ Browser Based Player

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RompЯ is a music player with the emphasis on discovery – discovering more about the music you know, and discovering new music you don’t know yet. RompЯ is an interface that runs in a web browser on any device and controls a music player which can be on any other device. I recommend using Mopidy as the music player. When used with Mopidy and a Spotify Premium subscription RompЯ is a powerful Spotify client with many music discovery features.

Features:

  • Collectioniser sorts your music by artist and album
  • Directory browser
  • Search
  • Tagging and Rating of tracks
  • Spotify, Soundcloud, GMusic, etc support (with Mopidy),
  • Add tracks from Spotify, Soundcloud, etc to the collection on the fly
  • Web Radio support, automatic Spotify search for radio tracks you like
  • Podcast search and subscribe
  • Alarm Clock
  • Sleep Timer
  • Album Cover Art
  • Last.FM Scrobbling
  • Automatic on-the-fly playlist generation based on tags, ratings, popularity, your listening habits, etc
  • Get biographies of artists from various sources
  • Album and artist suggestions based on your listening habits
  • UI themes

rompr-1

fatg3erman.github.io/RompR
github.com/fatg3erman/RompR

VoodooHDA ~ Mac Open IHDA Driver

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VoodooHDA is an open source audio driver for devices compliant with the Intel High Definition Audio specification. It is intended as a replacement for AppleHDA on Mac OS X with support for a wide range of audio controllers and codecs.

Features:

  • automatic recognition of all HDA codecs
  • test jacks for autoswitch
  • control panel for fine tuning
  • sound treatment includes stereo enhancements
  • since v2.8 it works with two sound cards
  • v2.9 creates 5.1 channel as one device

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sourceforge.net/projects/voodoohda/

GrandOrgue ~ Virtual Pipe Organ

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GrandOrgue is a sample based pipe organ simulator. When connected to MIDI keyboards and an audio system, it can accurately simulate the sound of a real pipe organ. This application has builds for Linux, Windows and OSX.

Features:

  • Play sample sets
  • GUI console
GrandOrgue

sourceforge.net/projects/ourorgan/
sourceforge.net/p/ourorgan/wiki/Home

mvMeter2 ~ Freeware Multivariable Meter

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mvMeter2 is a multivariable meter including RMS, EBUR128, VU and PPM measurement. mvMeter2 is the successor of mvMeter and adds single/dual meter display, adjustable reference level for all meter modes, adjustable meter delay and preset management.

Features:

  • behavior of classic analog VU and PPM meters
  • multiple measurement modes: PEAK, RMS, EBU R128, VU and PPM
  • multi channel metering: stereo, left, right, mid, side
  • single and dual meter display
  • adjustable reference level for all meter modes
  • adjustable meter delay
  • preset management
  • adjustable pre-gain including gain matching
  • instance label
  • large and accurate live meters
  • 64-bit internal processing
  • 5 different meter themes
  • GUI resizing up 400%, ready for 4k displays
  • free of charge

mvMeter2

www.tb-software.com/TBProAudio/mvmeter2

Mikmod Sound System ~ Cross-platform Game Audio

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Mikmod is a module player and library supporting many formats, including mod, s3m, it, and xm. Originally a player for MS-DOS, MikMod has been ported to other platforms, such as Unix, Macintosh, BeOS, and Java(!!)

mikmod

mikmod.sourceforge.net/
sourceforge.net/projects/mikmod/

EXP Soundboard ~ Simple Soundboard With Hotkeys

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A soundboard that supports almost all MP3s and WAVs. Sounds can be triggered with custom keyboard hot-keys and played through up to 2 outputs. i.e. Your speakers and a virtual audio cable. Also allows for your mic to pass into the virtual audio cable when enabling Mic Injector. This soundboard also incorporates a save feature.

Features:

  • Easy to use soundboard app, allows soundboards to be saved.
  • Use keyboard hotkeys to trigger sounds
  • Play sounds through a virtual audio cable and still be able to hear them through your speakers
  • Includes Mic Injector to route sound from your mic into your virtual audio cable
  • Includes converter tool for converting almost any audio file into a compatible one

expsoundboard

sourceforge.net/projects/expsoundboard
How To Use Microphone While Using Soundboard (Using Mic Injector)

Frescobaldi ~ LilyPond Sheet Music Editor

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Frescobaldi is a free and open source LilyPond sheet music text editor. Designed to be powerful yet lightweight and easy-to-use, Frescobaldi offers great functionality and a host of useful features such as music view with advanced two-way Point & Click, Midi capturing to enter music, a Snippet Manager and many more.

Frescobaldi is named after Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), an Italian composer of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period.

Features

  • Powerful text editor with syntax highlighting and automatic completion
  • Music view with advanced two-way Point & Click
  • Midi player to proof-listen LilyPond-generated MIDI files
  • Midi capturing to enter music
  • Powerful Score Wizard to quickly setup a music score
  • Snippet Manager to store and apply text snippets, templates or scripts
  • Use multiple versions of LilyPond, automatically selects the correct version
  • Built-in LilyPond documentation browser and built-in help
  • Configurable document outline view to navigate large LilyPond scores easily
  • Smart layout-control functions like coloring specific objects in the PDF
  • Import ABC, Midi and MusicXML using the LilyPond-provided tools
  • Experimental export to MusicXML
  • Modern user interface with configurable colors, fonts and keyboard shortcuts
  • Translated into: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Czech, Russian, Spanish, Galician, Turkish, Polish, Brazilian and Ukrainian.
Frescobaldi

sourceforge.net/projects/frescobaldi.mirror
www.frescobaldi.org

Softsqueeze ~ Software Squeezebox

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Softsqueeze is a music player for your PC that works with the SqueezeCenter software. It complements the Boom, Duet, Transporter, Squeezebox and Slimp3 hardware music players developed by Slim Devices.

Supports synchronization with hardware players and remote streaming over the Internet using ssh tunneling.

Developed in Java, allowing this useful application to work with Windows PCs, OS X and Unix systems.

Emulates most of the digital music players and uses the TCP based slim protocol, allowing use across the Internet and through firewalls / NAT routers.

softsqueeze.sourceforge.net
sourceforge.net/projects/softsqueeze

Spek ~ Acoustic Spectrum Analyzer

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Spek (IPA: /spɛk/, ‘bacon’ in Dutch) helps to analyse your audio files by showing their spectrogram. Spek is free software available for Unix, Windows and Mac OS X.

Features:

  • Supports all popular lossy and lossless audio file formats thanks to the FFmpeg libraries.
  • Ultra-fast signal processing, uses multiple threads to further speed up the analysis.
  • Shows the codec name and the audio signal parameters.
  • Allows to save the spectrogram as an image file.
  • Drag-and-drop support; associates with common audio file formats.
  • Auto-fitting time, frequency and spectral density rulers.
  • Adjustable spectral density range.
  • Translated into 19 languages.
spek

spek.cc
github.com/alexkay/spek

References:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_analyzer