Category Archives: Open Source

Opensource audioware

AudioSwitch ~ Taskbar Volume & I/O Switch

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Switch between default audio input or output + change volume.

github.com/sirWest/AudioSwitch

www.facebook.com/AudioSwitchSoftware

Monkey’s Audio ~ Free Lossless CODEC

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Monkey’s Audio is a fast and easy way to compress digital music.  Unlike traditional methods such as mp3, ogg, or wma that permanently discard quality to save space, Monkey’s Audio only makes perfect, bit-for-bit copies of your music.  That means it always sounds perfect – exactly the same as the original.  Even though the sound is perfect, it still saves a lot of space (think of it as a beefed-up Winzip™ your music).  The other great thing is that you can always decompress your Monkey’s Audio files back to the exact, original files.  That way, you’ll never have to recopy your CD collection to switch formats, and you’ll always be able to perfectly recreate the original music CD.

monkeysaudio.com

References:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey%27s_Audio

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lossless_audio_codecs

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_coding_formats

wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Lossless_comparison#Monkey.27s_Audio_.28APE.29

GNUsound ~ Opensource Unix Audio Editor

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GNUsound is a multitrack sound editor for GNOME 1 and 2.

www.gnu.org/software/gnusound

GNUMP3d ~ GNU Streaming Media Server

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GNUMP3d is a streaming server for MP3s, OGG vorbis files, movies and other media formats.

It is designed to be:

  • Small, stable, portable, self-contained, and secure.
  • Simple to install, configure, and use.
  • Portable across different varieties of Unix, the GNU Operating System, and Microsoft Windows platforms.

www.gnu.org/software/gnump3d/

APlayer ~ Lovely HTML5 Player

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APlayer is a lovely HTML5 music player.

APlayer supports:

  • Media formats – MP4 H.264 (AAC or MP3) – WAVE PCM – Ogg Theora Vorbis
  • Features – Playlist – Lyrics

github.com/DIYgod/APlayer

Drumstick ~ MIDI Monitor

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Drumstick MIDI Monitor is a MIDI monitor for Linux using ALSA sequencer and Qt5 user interface.

Features:
  • Easy to use Qt5 graphic user interface
  • Based on ALSA sequencer. Provides one input port to be connected to other programs and devices using the usual external tools (aconnect, QJackCtl…)
  • Customizable event filters and sequencer parameters
  • Supports all MIDI messages, including System Exclusive, and some ALSA messages
  • MIDI Playback of the recorded session or loaded MIDI file
  • Saves to a text file or standard MIDI file the recorded event list

sourceforge.net/projects/kmidimon

Shairport4w ~ Airtunes For Windows

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An AirPlay Audio-Receiver for your Windows-PC. Play audio content from your iPhone, iPad, iPod or iTunes on your PC with Shairport4w. AirPlay lets you wirelessly stream what’s on your iOS device whenever you see the AirPlay symbol.

Features:
  • Stream music wirelessly
  • Integrates with iPod/iPad/iPhone/iTunes

sourceforge.net/projects/shairport4w/

Kitten Player ~ YouTube Audio For Windows

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Kitten Player is a simple music player, based on foobar2000 functionality. It allows user to view, arrange and download tracks from YouTube. Works on Windows Vista / 7 / 8 & 10.

Features:
  • Search music on Youtube
  • Download music
  • Arrange tracks in playlists

sourceforge.net/projects/kitten-player

Volume Limiter ~ Lock MS Windows Volume Control

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Volume Limiter is a small application that allows you to set a maximum volume limit on your windows PC. This is designed to protect children from turning the volume up to a level that would damage their hearing.

The application can be password protected to prevent children from changing your defined limit. The application runs in the background and minimizes to the system tray. Volume settings, the lock or unlocked status, and password information are stored in the windows registry. If the application is set to start up upon login (by placing it in the startup group) it will load the previous settings.

This application is compatible with Windows Vista, 7 and 8 and will run on 32 bit or 64 bit systems.

Features:
  • Can be password protected
  • Volume level and lock status auto-saved to registry
  • Minimizes to system tray rather than task bar
  • Lightweight (Uses 2MB of system RAM when running)

https://sourceforge.net/projects/volumelimiter/

gmusicbrowser ~ Unix Audio Library App

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Jukebox for large collections of music files, written in perl. Uses gstreamer, mplayer or mpg321/ogg123/flac123 for playback.

https://gmusicbrowser.org/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gmusicbrowser/

mda VST ~ Cross-platform Effect Plugins

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These free effect plug-ins work with Cubase and other VST compatible applications

The plug-ins:

Bandisto – Multi-band distortion
BeatBox – Drum replacer
Combo – Amp & speaker simulator
De-ess – High frequency dynamics processor
Degrade – Sample quality reduction
Delay – Simple stereo delay with feedback tone control
Detune – Simple up/down pitch shifting thickener
Dither – Range of dither types including noise shaping
DubDelay – Delay with feedback saturation and time/pitch modulation
Dynamics – Compressor / Limiter / Gate
Envelope – Envelope follower / VCA
Image – Stereo image adjustment and M-S matrix
Leslie – Rotary speaker simulator
Limiter – Opto-electronic style limiter
Loudness – Equal loudness contours for bass EQ and mix correction
Multiband – Multi-band compressor with M-S processing modes
Overdrive – Soft distortion
Re-Psycho! – Drum loop pitch changer
RezFilter – Resonant filter with LFO and envelope follower
Round Panner – 3D panner
Shepard – Continuously rising/falling tone generator
Splitter – Frequency / level crossover for setting up dynamic processing
Stereo Simulator – Haas delay and comb filtering
Sub-Bass Synthesizer – Several low frequency enhancement methods
Talkbox – High resolution vocoder
TestTone – Signal generator with pink and white noise, impulses and sweeps
Thru-Zero Flanger – Classic tape-flanging simulation
Tracker – Pitch tracking oscillator, or pitch tracking EQ
Vocoder – Switchable 8 or 16 band vocoder
VocInput – Pitch tracking oscillator for generating vocoder carrier input

mda.smartelectronix.com
sourceforge.net/projects/mda-vst

Qsampler ~ LinuxSampler Qt GUI

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Qsampler is a linuxsampler GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit using Qt Designer. For the moment it just wraps the client interface of LinuxSampler Control Protocol (LSCP)

https://qsampler.sourceforge.io/