Category Archives: Mac

Apple MacIntosh Audioware

orDrumbox ~ Cross-platform Drum Machine

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The orDrumbox is free drum machine software, designed to be as creative as possible with some unusual features: auto-composition, polyrhythms, custom arpeggiator, automatic sounds/track matching, custom soft synths, lo fi rendering and more … Ideal for experimentation and fast results.

  • This software can automatically compose bass lines, melodic patterns and complete songs.
  • It comes with a rhythms database and sounds database including musical items which can be fully edited.
  • … and a fully customizable soft synth section adds many synthetics sounds as presets to the sounds library.

orDrumbox-V0.9.30-Assignations

www.ordrumbox.com
sourceforge.net/projects/ordrumbox
www.facebook.com/ordrumbox

BRP-PACU ~ Acoustic Analysis Tool

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A cross platform dual channel FFT based Acoustic Analysis Tool to help engineers analyze live professional sound systems using the transfer function. One feature is the ability to capture four sample plots, average them, and invert to aid in final EQ.

  • Four capture buffers, with auto-save (in case of crash) and save-as ability
  • Averages buffers to a separate buffer and flips it for analysis
  • Automatic delay calculation
  • Impulse response capturing
  • Pink Noise generation tool to eliminate need for an external Pink Noise source
  • Uses JACK to route and manage audio paths

BRP-PACU

sourceforge.net/projects/brp-pacu

Mkchromecast ~ Linux & Mac Casting

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This is a program to cast your macOS audio, or Linux audio to your Google Cast devices or Sonos speakers. It can also cast video files.

It is written for Python3, and it can stream via  node.js,parec (Linux), ffmpeg, or avconv. Mkchromecast is capable of using lossy and lossless audio formats provided that ffmpeg, avconv (Linux), or parec (Linux) are installed. It also supports Multi-room group playback, and 24-bit/96kHz high audio resolution. Additionally, a system tray menu is available.

mkchromecast.com
github.com/muammar/mkchromecast

aTunes ~ Cross Platform Audio Player

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aTunes is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform player and manager, with support for online radios, podcasts and CD ripping.

www.atunes.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATunes

Project Audio For GitHub

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This website tracks events happening across GitHub and converts them to music notes based on certain parameters.

There are three types of sounds(bell, string pluck and string swell) based on four types of events(PushEvent, PullRequestEvent, IssuesEvent and IssueCommentEvent). Bells represent PushEvents, string plucks represent IssuesEvents and IssueCommentEvents whereas string swells represent PullRequestEvents.

  • Events can be filtered by organization or repository.
  • Can be downloaded for Linux or Mac.

github.audio/
github.com/debugger22/github-audio

Background Music ~ macOS Audio Utility

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  • Automatically pauses your music player when other audio starts playing and unpauses it afterwards
  • Per-application volume, boost quiet apps
  • Record system audio

github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic
awesomeopensource.com/project/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic

Snapcast ~ Synchronous Audio Player

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Snapcast is a multi-room client-server audio player, where all clients are time synchronized with the server to play perfectly synced audio. It’s not a standalone player, but an extension that turns your existing audio player into a Sonos-like multi-room solution. The server’s audio input is a named pipe /tmp/snapfifo. All data that is fed into this file will be send to the connected clients. One of the most generic ways to use Snapcast is in conjunction with the music player daemon (MPD) or Mopidy, which can be configured to use a named pipe as audio output.

github.com/badaix/snapcast

mlYou ~ Music Library Utilities Suite

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This is a collection of tools to help you manage, maintain, and optimize your own music library for a better experience.

It makes growing and maintaining a music collection of any size easier by automating necessary (but tedious) processes.

The tools currently aim to assist with music organizing and tagging, and playlist management.

Cross-Platform Compatible – Works and tested under Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows. Mac untested but expected to work similar to linux.

github.com/nwrobel/mlYou#playlist-root-path-fixing

Sonic Pi ~ Live Coding Music Synthesizer

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Sonic Pi is a new kind of musical instrument. Instead of strumming strings or whacking things with sticks – you write code – live.

Sonic Pi has been designed with the aim to find a harmonious balance between three core principles:

  • Simple enough for the 10 year old within you
  • Joyful enough for you to lose yourself through play
  • Powerful enough for your own expressions

Sonic Pi is a complete open source programming environment originally designed to explore and teach programming concepts within schools through the process of creating new sounds.

In addition to being an engaging education resource it has evolved into an extremely powerful and performance-ready live coding instrument suitable for professional artists and DJs.

sonic-pi.net
github.com/samaaron/sonic-pi

puddletag ~ GNU \ Linux Audio Tag Editor

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puddletag is an audio tag editor (primarily created) for GNU/Linux similar to the Windows program, Mp3tag. Unlike most taggers for GNU/Linux, it uses a spreadsheet-like layout so that all the tags you want to edit by hand are visible and easily editable.

The usual tag editor features are supported like extracting tag information from filenames, renaming files based on their tags by using patterns and basic tag editing.

Then there are Functions, which can do things like replace text, trim it, do case conversions, etc. Actions can automate repetitive tasks. Doing web lookups using Amazon (including cover art), Discogs (does cover art too!), FreeDB and MusicBrainz is also supported. There’s quite a bit more, but I’ve reached my comma quota.

Supported formats: ID3v1, ID3v2 (mp3), MP4 (mp4, m4a, etc.), Vorbis Comments (ogg, flac), Musepack (mpc), Monkey’s Audio (.ape) and WavPack (wv).

puddletag

docs.puddletag.net

musikcube ~ Terminal-based Audio Client Server

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Cross-platform, terminal-based audio engine, library, player and server written in c++. Musikcube compiles and runs easily on Windows, macOS and Linux. It also runs well on a raspberry pi with raspbian, and can be setup as a streaming audio server.

musikcube

github.com/clangen/musikcube

loudgain ~ Linux Loudness Normalizer

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loudgain is a versatile ReplayGain 2.0 loudness normalizer, based on the EBU R128 / ITU BS.1770 standard (-18 LUFS) and supports FLAC / Ogg / MP2 / MP3 / MP4 / M4A / ALAC & Opus audio files. It uses the well-known mp3gain command line syntax but will never modify the actual audio data.

Just what you ever wanted: the best of mp3gain, ReplayGain 2.0 and Linux combined. Spread the word!

github.com/Moonbase59/loudgain