Aqualung ~ Advanced Gapless Audio Player


Aqualung is an advanced music player originally targeted at the GNU/Linux operating system, today also running on FreeBSD and OpenBSD, with native ports to Mac OSX and even Microsoft Windows. It plays audio CDs, internet radio streams and podcasts as well as sound files in just about any audio format and has the feature of inserting no gaps between adjacent tracks.

Aqualung

Default Skin

Website
Download
GitHub
SourceForge
Wikipedia

JACK ~ Audio Connection Kit


Have you ever wanted to take the audio output of one piece of software and send it to another? How about taking the output of that same program and send it to two others, then record the result in the first program? Or maybe you’re a programmer who writes real-time audio and music applications and who is looking for a cross-platform API that enables not only device sharing but also inter-application audio routing, and is incredibly easy to learn and use? If so, JACK may be what you’ve been looking for.

Audio Connection Kit

jackaudio.org
jackaudio.org/downloads

JACK Rack is an effects “rack” for the JACK low latency audio API. The rack can be filled with LADSPA effects plugins and can be controlled using the ALSA sequencer. It’s phat; it turns your computer into an effects box.

jack-rack

jack-rack.sourceforge.net

Gnome Extension:

extensions.gnome.org/extension/1135/jackvolume

DFasma ~ Compare Audio Files In Time & Frequency


DFasma is free open-source software which is used to compare audio files in time and frequency. The comparison is first visual, using waveforms and spectra. It is also possible to listen to time-frequency segments in order to allow perceptual comparison. It is basically dedicated to analysis. Even though there are basic functionalities to align the signals in time and amplitude, this software does not aim to be an audio editor.

Features:

  • Can load about 25 different audio formats (thanks to libsndfile or libsox).
  • Shows spectrogram, amplitude, phase spectra and group delay.
  • Can play a filtered sound given a selected frequency band.
  • Rectification of the spectrogram tilt (cepstral lifting).
  • Can create and edit segmentation files.
  • Can create and edit fundamental frequency (F0) files (thanks to REAPER).
  • Runs under Linux, Mac OSX and Windows.

dfasman - ss1.4_2comparison

gillesdegottex.github.io/dfasma

Clementine ~ Modern Player & Library Organizer


Clementine is a multi-platform music player. It’s inspired by Amarok 1.4, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music.

  • Search and play your local music library.
  • Listen to internet radio from Spotify, Groovesharks, SomaFM, Magnatune, Jamendo, SKY.fm (radiotunes), Digitally Imported, JAZZRADIO.com, Soundcloud, Icecast and Subsonic servers.
  • Search and play songs you’ve uploaded to Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive.
  • Create smart playlists and dynamic playlists.
  • Tabbed playlists, import and export M3U, XSPF, PLS and ASX.
  • CUE sheet support.
  • Play audio CDs.
  • Visualizations from projectM.
  • Lyrics and artist biographies and photos.
  • Transcode music into MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, FLAC or AAC.
  • Edit tags on MP3 and OGG files, organize your music.
  • Fetch missing tags from MusicBrainz.
  • Discover and download podcasts.
  • Download missing album cover art from Last.fm and Amazon.
  • Cross-platform – works on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.
  • Native desktop notifications on Linux (libnotify) and Mac OSX (Growl).
  • Remote control using an Android device, a Wii Remote, MPRIS or the command-line.
  • Copy music to your iPod, iPhone, MTP or mass-storage USB player.
  • Queue manager.
Clementine Version 1.2-1
Playlist tab, while listening to songs from multiples Internet services

www.clementine-player.org
www.clementine-player.org/downloads
github.com/clementine-player/Clementine
flathub.org/apps/org.clementine_player.Clementine
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementine_(software)
Clementine Music Player Tutorial

F-Droid

An Android remote control for Clementine

f-droid.org/packages/de.qspool.clementineremote

LMMS ~ Let’s Make Music


Produce music with your computer by creating melodies and beats, synthesizing and mixing sounds, arranging samples and much more. Playback instruments, samples and plugins with a typing or MIDI keyboard in a user-friendly and modern interface. Bundled with ready-to-use content from an assortment of instrument and effect plugins, presets and samples to VST and SoundFont support.

lmms-main
LMMS – Project View

lmms.io
github.com/LMMS
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMMS

Subvert Audio ~ Encourage Musical Creativity


Subvert Audio is a music program designed to try and stimulate creativity in the user. To do this, it imposes certain restraints on the user, in an attempt to encourage more creative thought processes, and solutions to the problem these restraints introduce. In addition to the restraints imposed, Subvert Audio strives to encourage exploration of the program, and reward efforts to discover/create new ways of using it. It is, essentially, a program that is designed to be subverted, the idea being that in the process of doing so, the user’s creativity will be stimulated.

In some ways, the program is similar to graphical music programming languages such as Max/MSP et al. Indeed, prior knowledge of such environments could be seen as beneficial to Subvert Audio’s methods of stimulating creativity.

subvert_audio_linux

subvertaudio.sourceforge.net

foo_wave_seekbar ~ Foobar2000 Waveform Seekbar


Enhance the appearance and functionality of Foobar2000 by adding a visual waveform representation of the currently playing audio track, which can be used to navigate to any point in the image of the track by clicking there.

Waveform Seekbar is a UI element for both the Default UI and Columns UI that provides seekbar functionality (seeking, position indicator) on top of a pretty image of the waveform of the currently playing song, drawn using either Direct3D 9.0c or Direct2D 1.0.

foobar_waveform_seekbar

Foobar Waveform Seekbar in action

Topic ~ Hydrogen Audio
Download ~ Hydrogen Audio
Documentation ~ Hydrogen Audio
Source code ~ GitHub

Additional resources:

Waveform Minibar ~ CUI Only
Installing a foobar component
Waveform ~ Wikipedia

Cue Sheet Generator ~ Multi-platform, Open-source Utility


A program to easily generate cue sheets for CD images with compressed, or raw (wav), audio tracks, usable, for example, in DosBox.

cuesheet generator

Cue Sheet Generator in action

sourceforge.net/projects/cuegen
Downloads

Meson ~ A Player With No GUI


Meson Player is a very convenient music player if you don’t need a GUI to control playback or manage playlists. You just run it and then forget about it. The player runs in the background. Switching tracks, volume control, loading and saving playlists, all of this is performed by using hotkeys, therefore you can control the player while working in any application.

Meson Player supports gapless playback, Last.FM, a lot of music file formats (stream and tracker), Internet radio and playlist management.

Linux  /  MacOS  /  Windows

sourceforge.net/projects/mesonplayer

Baudline ~ Visual Signal Analyzer


Baudline is a time-frequency browser designed for scientific visualization of the spectral domain. Signal analysis is performed by Fourier, correlation, and raster transforms that create colorful spectrograms with vibrant detail. Conduct test and measurement experiments with the built in function generator, or play back audio files with a multitude of effects and filters. The baudline signal analyzer combines fast digital signal processing, versatile high speed displays, and continuous capture tools for hunting down and studying elusive signal characteristics.

Explore, Analyze, and Discover.

baudline

Linux / MacOS / Unix

Website
Downloads
Twitter
Wikipedia

Baudline Mystery Signal Of The Month

Every month a new mystery signal is posted. Can you identify it?

Monthly Mystery Signal

KeyFinder ~ Musical Key Song Analyser


KeyFinder is an open source key detection tool, for DJs interested in harmonic and tonal mixing. It’s intended to be very focused: no library management, no track suggestions, no media player. Just a fast, efficient workflow tool. It supports a huge range of codecs thanks to LibAV, and writes to metadata tags using TagLib.

keyfinder

www.ibrahimshaath.co.uk/keyfinder
github.com/ibsh/is_KeyFinder

AcoustID ~ Identify Your Music


AcoustID is a project providing complete audio identification service, based entirely on open source software.

It that consists of a client library for generating compact fingerprints from audio files, a large crowd-sourced database of audio fingerprints, many of which are linked to the MusicBrainz metadata database using their unique identifiers, and a web service that enables applications to quickly search the fingerprint database.

acoustid.org
Applications
Acoustic Fingerprint – Wikipedia