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Opensource audioware

CreateM3U ~ m3u Playlist Creator

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Drag & drop files or folders to create .m3u playlists. For each folder, a single .m3u file is created named after that folder. It will not replace already existing playlists of that name. The generated playlists do not contain EXTM3U information because a simple .m3u is nothing more than a text file with a list of file names per line. The initial tool for this task for me was a batch file. 😉

As the generated playlists only include filenames without any path, and they are located with the media files, they can be moved together with the files, as an example, for portable mp3 player usage.

createm3u

lostfound.raum108.de/create_m3u

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AcoustID ~ Identify Your Music

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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
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Acoustic Fingerprint – Wikipedia

VSXu ~ Audio / Music Visualizer

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VSXu (VSX Ultra) is an OpenGL-based (hardware-accelerated), modular programming environment with its main purpose to visualize music and create graphic effects in real-time.

VSXu - small

www.vsxu.com
www.vsxu.com/download
store.steampowered.com/app/981590/VSXu_Player
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSXu

Presets:
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beets ~ The Music Geek’s Media Organizer

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The purpose of beets is to get your music collection right once and for all. It catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes using the MusicBrainz database. Then it provides a bouquet of tools for manipulating and accessing your music.

Because beets is designed as a library, it can do almost anything you can imagine for your music collection. Via plugins, beets becomes a panacea:

  • Fetch or calculate all the metadata you could possibly need: album art, lyrics, genres, tempos, ReplayGain levels, or acoustic fingerprints.
  • Get metadata from MusicBrainz, Discogs or Beatport. Or guess metadata using songs’ filenames or their acoustic fingerprints.
  • Transcode audio to any format you like.
  • Check your library for duplicate tracks and albums or for albums that are missing tracks
  • Browse your music library graphically through a Web browser and play it in any browser that supports HTML5 Audio and lots more.

beets.io

Mp3splt ~ Split Albums Into Songs

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Mp3Splt-project is a cross-platform utility to split mp3, ogg vorbis and native FLAC files by selecting a begin and an end time position, without decoding. It’s very useful to split large mp3, ogg vorbis or FLAC files to make smaller files or to split entire albums to obtain original tracks. If you want to split an album, you can select split points and filenames manually, you can get them automatically from CDDB (internet or a local file) or from .cue files. Also supports automatic silence splitting, which can be used to adjust cddb/cue split points. Trimming using silence detection is also available. You can extract tracks from Mp3Wrap or AlbumWrap files in few seconds.

mp3splt-gtk_0.7.3

mp3splt.sourceforge.net

Audacious ~ Open Source Audio Player

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Audacious is an open source audio player. A descendant of XMMS, Audacious plays your music how you want it, without stealing away your computer’s resources from other tasks. Drag and drop folders and individual song files, search for artists and albums in your entire music library, or create and edit your own custom playlists. Listen to CD’s or stream music from the Internet. Tweak the sound with the graphical equalizer or experiment with LADSPA effects. Enjoy the modern GTK-themed interface or change things up with Winamp Classic skins. Use the plugins included with Audacious to fetch lyrics for your music, to set an alarm in the morning, and more.

Audacious

audacious-media-player.org
audacious-media-player.org/download
VU Meters

Mixxx ~ DJ Your Way For Free

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Mixxx has everything you need to start making DJ mixes in a tight, integrated package. Whether you’re DJing your next house party, spinning at a club, or broadcasting as a radio DJ, Mixxx has what you need to do it right.

Mixx-2.0

Cross-platform, extensible, multi-language, open source & skinnable freeware. Support for iTunes, MusicBrainz, ReplayGain and Traktor.

mixxx.org
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fre:ac ~ Cross-platform Converter & Ripper

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fre:ac is a free open source audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It currently converts between mp3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and Bonk formats.

With fre:ac you can easily rip your audio CDs to MP3 or WMA files for use with your hardware player, or convert files that do not play with other audio software. You can even convert whole music libraries retaining the folder and filename structure.

The integrated CD ripper supports the CDDB / freedb online CD database. It will automatically query song information and write it to ID3v2 or other title information tags.

Features:

  • Converter for MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and Bonk formats
  • Integrated CD ripper with CDDB/freedb title database support
  • Portable application, install on a USB stick and take it with you
  • Multi-core optimized encoders to speed up conversions on modern PCs
  • Full Unicode support for tags and file names
  • Easy to learn and use, still offers expert options when you need them
  • Multilingual user interface available in 40 languages
  • Completely free and open source without a catch

freac-1.0.x-en

www.freac.org

Restoration ~ The Gnome Wave Cleaner Project

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Digital audio restoration of CD quality audio wave files. Dehiss, declick and decrackle in a GUI environment.

The goals are simple — denoise, dehiss and amplify audio files. With the use of libsndfile, you can now do this on a multitude of audio formats, wav, au, aiff, …

Gnome Wave Cleaner

Clean up your needle drops!

gwc.sourceforge.net
sourceforge.net/projects/gwc
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnome_Wave_Cleaner

Nightingale ~ Extensible Audio Player

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Nightingale chirps your favorite tunes! A beautiful interface with a wide range of supported audio formats, Last.fm and multi-platform support!

nightingale-windows-screenshot

getnightingale.com
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* A descendant of Songbird

Sonic Visualiser ~ View & Analyze Audio Files

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The aim of Sonic Visualiser is to be the first program you reach for when want to study a musical recording rather than simply listen to it.

We hope Sonic Visualiser will be of particular interest to musicologists, archivists, signal-processing researchers and anyone else looking for a friendly way to take a look at what lies inside the audio file.

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www.sonicvisualiser.org
www.sonicvisualiser.org/download
www.vamp-plugins.org/download
Introduction Video

Amarok ~ Cross Platform Audio Player

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Amarok is a powerful music player, with multi-language support, for Macs, Unix/Linux and Windows. It has an intuitive interface and makes playing the music you love, and discovering new music, easier than ever before – and it looks good doing it!

Features:

  • Dynamic playlists matching different criteria
  • Collection managing with rating support
  • Support for basic iPod, MTP and UMS music player devices
  • Integrated Internet services: last.fm, Magnatune, Ampache and more.
  • Scripting support
  • Cover manager
  • Replaygain support

apps.kde.org/amarok
amarok.kde.org
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