Category Archives: PC

Personal Computer Audioware

Pot-O MusiQT ~ Python Music Player

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Pot-O MusiQT is a lightweight yet feature-rich desktop music player built with Python and PyQt5, designed for users who want a clean interface, strong playlist control, and practical everyday playback features without unnecessary complexity.

It focuses on local media playback, fast interaction, and keyboard-friendly operation, while still offering modern conveniences such as metadata handling, lyrics viewing, and smooth playback transitions.

Features:

  • JSON-backed
  • Edit Metadata
  • Embed Lyrics
  • Rename File by Metadata
  • Open ZIP File
  • Edit Cover
  • Show Lyrics
  • Play Video Clip
  • Save & Load M3U Playlist
  • Export Playlist to CSV & JSON
  • Search result as new playlist
  • Multiple Instances
  • User friendly UI/UX
  • Search by Metadata & Filename
  • Support common popular audio files (e.g. MP3, FLAC, AAC, M4V, OGG) and many more
  • Play music audio files
  • Safe file operations
  • Totally offline (No need for internet connection)
  • Lightweight in size, RAM & CPU usage
  • Stable
  • No equalizer or visualizer
  • Freeware

sourceforge.net/projects/pot-o-musiqt

foo_resume ~ Foobar Remembers Playback Positions

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A lightweight foobar2000 component that automatically remembers and resumes the playback position for every track.

Features:

  • Remembers the last playback position for every unique track in your library.
  • Easily enabled or disabled via the advanced settings menu.
  • Stores data in a simple text file within your foobar2000 profile folder.

github.com/reda777/foo_resume

mididash ~ Open Source MIDI Router

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Mididash is an open source MIDI routing software with a node-based interface and Lua scripting. A modern take on programs like MIDI-OX.

Features:

  • High performance built with Tauri and Rust
  • Cross-platform available on Windows, Linux and macOS
  • Node-based MIDI routing allows for versatile configurations
  • Hot-plugging reconnect or replace MIDI devices
  • MIDI monitoring for inputs, outputs or individual nodes
  • Pre-configured nodes for MIDI splitting, mapping and more
  • Script nodes using Lua 5.4
  • Lightweight installer under 10MB

tiagolr.github.io/mididash
github.com/tiagolr/mididash
sourceforge.net/projects/mididash

JD990 Super Editor ~ Roland JD-990 Editor

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CtrlrX based editor for Roland SUPER JD SYNTHESIZER MODULE JD-990

Features:

  • Menu access to SR-JV80/SL-JD80 external card patches and waveforms if installed.
  • Rename any remote patch name for Internal Patches I-11 – I-88 (64 x patches).
  • Save Temporary Patch data on Ctrlr panel to any Internal Patch location I-11 – I-88 (64 x patches).
  • Palette mode. Quick adjustment of each Tone ABCD using mouse wheel or click & drag.
  • Patch data on panel can be saved as a sysex file to computer.
  • Bulk Sysex dumps of patches I-11 – I-88
  • Emulation of most graphic elements on the JD-990 display.
  • Separate ”mixer’ area allowing simultaneous adjustment of each Tone Level & Pan.
  • Sync button~ synchronising panel with JD-990.
  • PATCH mode, PERFORMANCE and RHYTHM editing
  • Map Keyboard Control CC messages to panel.
  • MIDI learn feature
  • Support for SO-PCM1 cards not yet fully implemented
JD990 Super Editor

sourceforge.net/projects/jd990-super-editor
github.com/RomanKubiak/ctrlr

Audio Dimensia III ~ Rainmeter Dimensional Visualizer Tool

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Audio Dimensia III is a framework that let’s you create dimensional visualizer displays of your music with an optional mirrored image.

By default, it responds to 30~19,000 Hz in a 4-layered dimensional pattern; low frequencies are represented on the narrowest back line, up to the high frequencies on the widest front line.

Requires Rainmeter v4.3.0.0 minimum

www.deviantart.com/eclectic-tech/art/Audio-Dimensia-III

museeks ~ Simple, Clean & Cross-platform Music Player

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Museeks aims to be a simple and easy-to-use music player with a clean UI. You will not find tons of features, as its goal is not to compete with more complete and more famous music players.

Features:

  • 💻 Cross-platform music player (Linux, macOS, and Windows)
  • 🎧 Supported formats: mp3, mp4, m4a/aac, flac, wav, ogg, 3gpp
  • 🔄 Library auto-refresh
  • 🌟 Playlists
  • 🎼 Queue management
  • ➰ Shuffle, loop
  • 🌄 Cover art
  • 🤓 Dark theme
  • 🚤 Playback speed control
  • 😴 Sleep mode blocker
  • 📥 .m3u import/export

museeks.io
github.com/martpie/museeks
sourceforge.net/projects/museeks.mirror

Ministation ~ Mini Audiostation

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The Ministation application is a small media player, for playing audio files. The program only has a few options to play, stop, pause, etc. the current media track. 

Ministation Interface

github.com/Sibra-Soft/ministation

Symphonie ~ Music Player

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Symphonie is a sleek, lightweight desktop music player built with Electron and powered by HTML5 capabilities, offering a clean interface for enjoying your local audio library. It supports popular formats including MP3, FLAC, AAC, M4A, OGG, WAV, OPUS. Features include playlist management, intuitive playback controls, track metadata display (title/artist), and shuffle functionality for a seamless listening experience.

Features:

  • Supported audio formats mp3,aac,m4a,wav,ogg,flac,opus and more
  • Drag and drop files/folders directly onto the player or playlist
  • Visualizer which can be enabled and disabled
  • Reorder tracks within the playlist using drag and drop
  • Select all tracks and delete in the playlist using Ctrl+A
  • Seamless integration with modern web technologies without relying on third-party libraries.
  • Supported Platforms Windows 10/11,Debian,Ubuntu,Arch Linux,Linux Mint,Fedora
Symphonie

sourceforge.net/projects/symphonie

OBS ~ win-capture-audio Plugin

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An OBS plugin that allows capture of independent application audio streams on Windows, in a similar fashion to OBS’s game capture and Discord’s application streaming.


obsproject.com/forum/resources/win-capture-audio.1338
github.com/bozbez/win-capture-audio
gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20211230-obs-win-capture-audio

Lidify ~ Music Hosting & Discovery Tool

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Lidify is built for music lovers who want the convenience of streaming services without sacrificing ownership of their library. Point it at your music collection, and Lidify handles the rest: artist discovery, personalized playlists, podcast subscriptions, and seamless integration with tools you already use like Lidarr and Audiobookshelf.

  • Stream your library – FLAC, MP3, AAC, OGG, and other common formats work out of the box
  • Automatic cataloging – Lidify scans your library and enriches it with metadata from MusicBrainz and Last.fm
  • Audio transcoding – Stream at original quality or transcode on-the-fly (320kbps, 192kbps, or 128kbps)
  • Ultra-wide support – Library grid scales up to 8 columns on large displays
Lidify Interface

github.com/Chevron7Locked/lidify
github.com/TheWicklowWolf/Lidify

DLNA Music Controller ~ Manage DLNA Directly

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Read a DLNA Media Server to select music to play on your DLNA Renderer

Scan the network for your Media Server (“Server”) and Renderer (“Renderer”) devices, select one of each and then from the main screen select the music you want to play, drilling into Albums, Artists, Genres (all defined by your Media Server). Any music you want to hear is called a track and is loaded onto the play queue. Then select Play button to listen to the track listed at the top of the queue. You can also create playlists and store your favorite tracks for playback.

Features:

  • DLNA
  • Media Server
  • Media Renderer
  • Play queue

sourceforge.net/projects/dlna-music-controller

Resources:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UPnP_AV_media_servers_and_clients

Dancing QT ~  Player For Dancing Schools

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Dancing QT is a combined music database and player application specially designed for dancing schools and equivalent applications. Key features are an easy-to-use interface, fast search capabilities, playlist management, exact pitching and crossfading.

Looking around the open source landscape for a while, I tried to find a music database and player that is suitable for use in a dancing school environment – without success. Most mixing applications tend to be too confusing for the intended audience, most players lack database searching capabilites and most song databases don’t know how to pitch 😦

Because of this, I decided to setup a new application – Dancing QT. It uses alsaplayer because of its excellent interface and pitching capabilities, it uses an embedded SQLite DBMS to maintain a song database, and it uses taglib to populate the database. The interface is written in C++ using Qt. Because of the alsaplayer dependency, the target platforms will be limited to environments providing alsaplayer.

Dancing QT Interface

dqt.sourceforge.net
sourceforge.net/projects/dqt