Category Archives: Open Source

Opensource audioware

lowhum ~ Deep Brown Noise For Focus

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Deep brown noise for focus, for the macOS menu bar. 

Single-purpose menu bar app that generates deep brown noise locally and plays it on loop. Install it, click play, forget about it. Cumulative-sum brown noise through a Butterworth bandpass (1 to 500 Hz, 20 Hz sub-bass highpass), RMS-normalized per chunk, crossfaded at boundaries. Everything is stored in ~/.lowhum/. Playback streams through PortAudio via memory-mapped files, so the full WAV never sits in RAM. The app polls audio devices every 2 seconds and stops instantly if headphones disconnect or a Bluetooth device drops.

Menu bar controls

The menu bar icon is a template image, so macOS handles dark/light mode automatically. Further, use it for:

  • Play / Stop from the menu bar
  • Pick any connected audio device from the Output Device submenu
  • Noise color selection (brown, pink, white)
  • Auto-stops when headphones connect or disconnect

Requires macOS and Python 3.12+.

lmarkmann.github.io/lowhum
github.com/lmarkmann/lowhum

References:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_noise

Aceforge ~ AI Music Workstation

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AceForge is a local-first AI music workstation for macOS Silicon powered by ACE-Step

Features:

  • .100% Local (only needs to download models once)
  • Music Generation with ACE-Step prompts
    • Use Stem separation to rebalance vocals vs instrumentals
    • Use existing Audio as reference (optional)
    • Train ACE-Step LoRAs from your own datasets
      • Mass-create _prompt.txt / _lyrics.txt files
      • Auto-tag datasets using MuFun-ACEStep (experimental)
  • Stem Splitting using Demucs for high-quality audio separation
  • Voice Cloning TTS using XTTS v2
  • MIDI Generation using basic-pitch for audio-to-MIDI transcription
  • Embedded Music Player to explore generation catalog
  • Manage and reuse prompt presets

github.com/audiohacking/AceForge

Gnome ~ Internet Radio Extension

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Listen to an Internet Radio Stream

extensions.gnome.org/extension/836/internet-radio

Gnomoradio ~ Find, Fetch, Share, & Play Music

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Gnomoradio is a program that can find, fetch, share, and play music that is freely available for file sharing. Gnomoradio is free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, which permits modifications and distribution of the source code to the program. It runs on GNU/Linux and other UNIX-compatible systems, but it is no longer actively developed or maintained.

gnomoradio.nongnu.org

Album Art Minimal ~ foobar2000 HTTP Control Template

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A clean, minimalist web interface for foobar2000 that displays full-screen album art with elegant hover controls.

github.com/jame25/albumart_minimal

HTML5-FLAC ~ HTML5 FLAC Player

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A lightweight HTML5 web music player with FLAC support that runs in a Docker container. This project provides a clean, minimalist interface for playing FLAC audio files with metadata extraction.

github.com/jame25/HTML5-FLAC

AJED ~ Roland JUNO ALPHA & MKS50 Editor

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An Editor for Roland JUNO ALPHA 1 / 2 HS-10 / HS-80 and Roland MKS50

sourceforge.net/projects/ajed

Distort ~ Distortion Audibility Tester

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DISTORT was conceived as a tool to allow one to apply a combination of complex distortions to any recorded signal, including music and hi-res recordings. DISTORT also provides simple visualization tools to examine the effects of all the distortions as they are being adjusted. The distorted sound file can be played through the available audio device drivers, from ASIO to WASAPI to Direct Sound.

The following distortions are currently provided with a variety of settings and options:

  • Harmonic distortion (THD, SINAD, THD+N)
  • Different noise floors and various spurious noise components, such as mains frequency
  • Various types of jitter, random, correlated, 1/f noise, and at various frequencies
  • Dynamic range compression effects
  • Different types of dither and bit settings

distortaudio.org

GNU Radio ~ Software Radio Ecosystem

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GNU Radio is a free & open-source software development toolkit that provides signal processing blocks to implement software radios. It can be used with readily-available low-cost external RF hardware to create software-defined radios, or without hardware in a simulation-like environment. It is widely used in research, industry, academia, government, and hobbyist environments to support both wireless communications research and real-world radio systems.

wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php?title=What_Is_GNU_Radio

GNU Radio is a free software development toolkit that provides signal processing blocks to implement software-defined radios and signal processing systems. It can be used with external radio frequency (RF) hardware to create software-defined radios, or without hardware in a simulation-like environment. It is widely used in hobbyist, academic, and commercial environments to support both wireless communications research and real-world radio systems.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Radio

SY-FloorBoard ~ BOSS & Roland Editors

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A collection of graphical midi based editors, each made specifically for the BOSS SY-1000 , Roland VG-99 guitar, or VB-99 bass synth units, which provide an alternative to the Boss or Roland version of midi editors, with full features and control of the SY-1000, VG-99, or VB-99 from a Windows, Mac, or Linux computer.

Features:

  • Midi editing of parameters on-line or off-line, text list generation of settings, file load/save/backup/restore, ease of use with graphical interface.
  • A different version specific for each device.
  • SY-1000FloorBoard version also has features to convert patches from VG-99,VB-99, GP-10, GT-1000 units.
SY-1000 Floorboard interface

sourceforge.net/projects/sy1000floorboard

tz-player ~ Command Line Music Player

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A clean, keyboard-driven music player for the terminal.

tz-player is a simple TUI music player built with Python and powered by VLC. If VLC can play it, tz-player can play it.

No streaming. No accounts. No background services. Just your music, in your terminal.

github.com/taggedzi/tz-player

LosslessExtract ~ Rip High Resolution Audio

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Lossless Extract for macOS and Windows is a tool for purists who demand perfect audio preservation. Designed for precision and simplicity, it effortlessly extracts high-resolution audio from Blu-ray, SACD, MKV or DVD=Audio sources. It handles Dolby TrueHD (with Atmos) and DTS-HD Master Audio preserving atmos object based meta data. Many tools decode immersive audio into PCM, which permanently destroys spatial metadata. Lossless Extract preserves the original audio stream so the immersive mix plays correctly on compatible AVRs and streaming devices.

Accepts MKV, BLU-Ray BDMV, and DVD-AUDIO ISO, AUDIO_TS folders, and SACD.isos as input files. Choose your preferred output format—FLAC , MKA, M4A, DSF, DFF, or Direct stream copy and Lossless Extract will deliver pristine, bit-for-bit copies of your original audio streams. Whether you’re archiving your home theater collection or preparing high-end audio projects, Lossless Extract ensures every detail is preserved, every time.

sourceforge.net/projects/losslessextract