… Although Csound has a strong tradition as a tool for composing electro-acoustic pieces, it is used by composers and musicians for any kind of music that can be made with the help of the computer. Csound has traditionally been used in a non-interactive score driven context, but nowadays it is mostly used in in a real-time context. Csound can run on a host of different platforms including all major operating systems as well as Android and iOS. Csound can also be called through other programming languages such as Python, Lua, C/C++, Java, etc.
Category Archives: Open Source
Opsound ~ Free Open Music
Opsound was a gift economy in action, an experiment in applying the model of free software to music. Musicians and sound artists were invited to add their work to the Opsound pool using a copyleft license developed by Creative Commons. Listeners were invited to download, share, remix, and reimagine.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opsound
RadioDroid ~ Browse & Stream Internet Radios
Android app that allows you to look up online radio streams at RadioBrowser and listen to them. RadioBrowser is a wiki like approach to collecting as many online radio stations as possible. Everyone can help by not only adding new stations but also tagging existing ones.
Features:
- Everyone can add stations easily
- Sleep timer
- Alarm clock
- Record streams
- Music Player Daemon support
- ChromeCast support
OpenAudible ~ Audible Audiobook Manager
An open-source cross-platform audible audiobook manager. With over 250 stars by github developers, OpenAudible is the trusted audio book content manager.

Lplex ~ Create Lossless Audio DVDs
Lplex is a console application meant to provide a free, quick, and hopefully painless way to:
- Create lossless “audio-only” dvd-video discs from wav or flac audio files, featuring:
- gapless playback.
- md5 verification of audio data.
- archival (dvd-rom) content.
- Losslessly extract unencrypted lpcm audio streams from dvd-video to wav or flac format.
You’re already fully equipped for hi-res audio (up to 24-bit/96khz) if you have a typical dvd-player and digital amp, and lplex is a way to take advantage of this.
DeaDBeeF ~ Extensible Unix Audio Player
DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is a modular audio player for GNU/Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris, macOS, and other UNIX-like systems.
DeaDBeeF lets you play variety of audio formats, convert between them, customize the UI almost any way you want, and use many additional plugins which can extend it even more.

deadbeef.sourceforge.net
deadbeef.sourceforge.net/download
deadbeef.sourceforge.io/plugins.html
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.deadbeef.android
Plugins:
File Browser
lyricbar
mpris2
ddb_musical_spectrum
ddb_quick_search
ddb_spectrogram
ddb_vu_meter
ddb_waveform_seekbar
deadbeef-uade (Amiga)
Pulseaudio ~ Linux Crossover Rack
Pulseaudio Crossover Rack is a program to design and implement multi-way speaker crossovers using any linux powered computer with a multi-channel sound card and a running desktop environment which uses Pulseaudio as it’s sound backend. It also uses a set of LADSPA plugins, namely ladspa-t5-plugins for the heavy lifting of DSP/audio processing. It’s written in python3 and uses QT as the windowing toolkit.

TAudioConverter ~ Audio Converter & Extractor
TAudioConverter is a audio converter and extractor. It can convert almost any audio format to aac, ac3, mp3, flac, wav, ogg, opus or mpc. SoX is used to apply effects such as normalization, volume change etc. It can also extract audio streams from video files and encode them. Video files with more than one audio stream is supported. It is possible to run up to 8 simultaneous processes to shorten encoding time.

ozok.users.sourceforge.net
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Hydrogen Audio Topic
Doom9 Topic
foo_discord_rich ~ Foobar2000 & Discord Integration
Foobar component which displays information about currently played track via Discord Rich Presence.
github.com/TheQwertiest/foo_discord_rich
hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,116860.0.html
Alternative:
github.com/ultrasn0w/foo_drpc
Footers:
if($stricmp($right(%filename_ext%,3),iso),Super Audio CD - 2.8MHz,%codec% - $ifgreater(%samplerate%,1000000,$insert($div(%samplerate%,100000),'.',$sub($len($div(%samplerate%,100000)),1)) MHz,$ifgreater($mod(%samplerate%,1000),0,$insert($div(%samplerate%,100),'.',$sub($len($div(%samplerate%,100)),1)) kHz,$div(%samplerate%,1000) kHz)) - %bitrate% kbps)
if2ktool ~ Migrate Data From iTunes™ To Foobar2000
This tool is aimed at people migrating a music library from iTunes™ to Foobar2000, and allows you to keep the various statistics and dates that are saved by iTunes. It reads these fields from your iTunes Library XML, and writes them to the file tags that are expected by the import function of foo_playcount. You can transfer playlists too.
Overtone ~ Collaborative Programmable Music
Overtone is an open source audio environment designed to explore new musical ideas from synthesis and sampling to instrument building, live-coding and collaborative jamming. We combine the powerful SuperCollider audio engine, with Clojure, a state of-the-art lisp, to create an intoxicating interactive sonic experience.
Discord ~ Open Source & Multi-platform Chat
It’s time to ditch Skype and TeamSpeak. All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers that’s free, secure, and works on both your desktop and phone. Stop paying for TeamSpeak servers and hassling with Skype. Simplify your life.
