RAT ~ Open Source Audio Conferencing


The Robust Audio Tool (RAT) is an open-source audio conferencing and streaming application that allows users to participate in audio conferences over the internet. These can be between two participants directly, or between a group of participants on a common multicast group.

rat-4.3.00

mediatools.cs.ucl.ac.uk
freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/rat

NINJAM ~ Host An Internet Jam


NINJAM is open source (GPL) software to allow people to make real music together via the Internet. Every participant can hear every other participant. Each user can also tweak their personal mix to their liking. NINJAM is cross-platform, with clients available for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. REAPER (our digital audio workstation software for Windows and OS X) also includes NINJAM support (ReaNINJAM plug-in).

ninjam_win32

www.cockos.com/ninjam
github.com/justinfrankel/ninjam

Elpetozede ~ Split An Album Into Tracks


Elpetozede is a multi-platform, open source tool to split a wave file (.wav), which contains the complete audio recording of one side of a vinyl record or a cassette tape into single wav files, one for each track. It searches an Internet database (musicbrainz.org) for the album data, so, with a little luck, you won’t need to type all the track information by hand.

Elpetozede

elpetozede.sourceforge.net

Limited-Z ~ Easy, Fast & Free Limits


Limited-Z is a specialized and easy-to-use limiter, based on the foundation of being a capable look-ahead brickwall limiter suitable for final mixing or mastering.

Limited-Z dynamically combines several unique limiting algorithms to provide transparent limiting on all audio sources. Limited-Z is capable of substantial levels of compression / limiting without inadvertently creating excessive amounts of audible distortion … and, it’s FREE!

Limited-Z

lvcaudio.com/plugins/limited-z

PSP Vintagemeter ~ Analog VU Meter


Vintage analog VU meter VST

PSP Vintage VU Meter

www.pspaudioware.com/free_psp_plug-ins

EplayOrgan ~ Multiple Organ Simulator


EplayOrgan is a multi purpose organ intended to be playable by organists and versatile enough to be useful to everybody with an interest in organs. It will load and be playable almost instantly and does not need an expensive computer with huge amounts of memory.

midimusic.github.io/tech/eplayOrgan
eplay organ user interface

Exaile ~ GTK+ Music Player


Simple interface. Powerful music management. Smart Playlists. Advanced track tagging. Automatic album art. Lyrics. Streaming Radio. Podcasts. Secondary output device support. Cross-platform. Easily extensible with 50+ plugins available.

exaile-3.4

www.exaile.org

foo_bpm ~ Foobar2000 & BPM


foo_bpm – A Foobar component for automatically analyzing the number of beats per minute in audio files.

Installing and using foo_bpm:

First download and install foo_bpm.fb2k-component.

BPM Installed
foo_bpm successfully installed

The second step is adding a new BPM playlist column to the DUI playlist viewer:

BPM Column
Right click the playlist header and select columns. Toggle the BPM column on.

The third step, add an Analyze BPM toolbar button:

  1. Right click on the metronome icon ico file shown below and download / save it locally
  2. Right click the Foobar toolbar
  3. Select the Customize button
  4. Select from Available Commands [context] > BPM Analyzer > Automatically analyze BPMs
  5. Click Add
  6. Click Change Icon and select the downloaded metronome.ico file
  7. Click OK
metronome.ico (right click and save the link ico file locally)
BPM Analyser > Automatically analyse BPMs


The fourth step is to select and scan files:

Once the toolbar button is installed, songs can be selected then scanned. The songs will now be tagged with the %bpm% tag and can be selected or sorted by beats per minute as displayed in the playlist column.

The fifth step is to update your entire library:

Open Library > Search and insert the query %bpm% MISSING then click … and then click Create Autoplaylist. Rename the new autoplaylist located at the bottom of the playlist switcher Missing BPM. Activate the playlist, select the entire contents, automatically analyze them and then apply the changes.

Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg_wJH6TjcY

References:

www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_bpm
hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,77142.0
Updated Configuration
github.com/stengerh/foo_bpm
foobar.hyv.fi/?view=foo_bpm (latest version)

ocenaudio ~ Powerful, Fast & Easy Audio Editor


ocenaudio is a cross-platform, easy to use, fast and functional audio editor. It is ideal for people who need to edit and analyze audio files without complication. ocenaudio also has powerful features that will satisfy more advanced users including VST plugin support.

ocenaudio editor image

www.ocenaudio.com

VMPK ~ Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard


VMPK is a virtual MIDI piano keyboard for Linux, Windows and OSX. Based on Qt and Drumstick the program is a MIDI event generator using the computer’s alphanumeric keyboard and the mouse. It may also be used to display received MIDI notes.

vmpk_605x334

vmpk.sourceforge.net

Ogg Vorbis ~ Free & Open Audio CODEC


Vorbis is a free and open-source software project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The project produces an audio coding format and software reference encoder/decoder (codec) for lossy audio compression. Vorbis is most commonly used in conjunction with the Ogg container format and it is therefore often referred to as Ogg Vorbis. ~ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis

Ogg Vorbis is a completely open, patent-free, professional audio encoding and streaming technology with all the benefits of Open Source.

www.vorbis.com
www.xiph.org/downloads
github.com/enzo1982/vorbis-aotuv-lancer
www.rarewares.org/ogg
www.rarewares.org/ogg-tools
nouturn.com/oggdrop
Ogg Forums At Hydrogen Audio

VorbisGain is a utility that uses a psychoacoustic method to correct the volume of an Ogg Vorbis file to a predefined standardized loudness.

www.sjeng.org/vorbisgain.html

butt ~ Broadcast Using This Tool


butt (broadcast using this tool) is an easy to use, multi OS streaming tool. It supports SHOUTcast and Icecast and runs on Linux, MacOSX and Windows. The main purpose of butt is to stream live audio data from your computer’s Mic or Line input to an Shoutcast or Icecast server; recording is also possible.

It is NOT intended to be a server by itself or automatically stream a set of audio files.

butt
danielnoethen.de