Gigboy ~ Songbook & Gig-prep App


Gigboy is a web app for musicians and bands to write, organize, and rehearse songs from — built on the open ChordPro format, so nothing you write is ever locked into a proprietary format or someone else’s server. It’s self-hosted only: you run it on your own machine, NAS, or VPS with one Docker Compose command, and your band’s setlists, recordings, and press kit live in your own database, not a startup’s.

No subscriptions, no per-seat pricing, no feature paywalls — every account gets full access.

Gigboy web interface

blindpassasjer.github.io/gigboy
github.com/blindpassasjer/gigboy

SimpMusic ~ Cross-platform Music App


A FOSS YouTube Music client for Android and Desktop with many features from
Spotify, SponsorBlock, ReturnYouTubeDislike using Compose Multiplatform to develop.

Features:

  • Play music from YouTube Music or YouTube for free, without ads and in the background
  • Three Now Playing styles: Classic, Material 3 Expressive and Apple Music (NEW)
  • Ten-band equalizer with presets and AutoEq headphone profiles (NEW)
  • SimpMusic Wrapped: your year in music, plus monthly recap playlists (NEW)
  • On-device listening analytics: charts, period history, listening clock (NEW)
  • Word-by-word Apple Music-style lyrics, romanization for 12 languages, share lyrics as an image (NEW)
  • Home screen widgets: turntable, playlists and listening insights (NEW)
  • High quality up-to 256kbps stream (Opus or AAC) for YouTube Music Premium users
  • Browsing Home, Charts, Podcast, Moods & Genre with YouTube Music data at high speed
  • Search everything on YouTube
  • Spotify Canvas supported
  • Power your experience with SimpMusic Chart (chart.simpmusic.org)
  • Play 1080p video option with subtitle
  • AI song suggestions
  • Import playlists converted from Spotify and other apps
  • Customize your playlist, synced with YouTube Music
  • Notifications from followed artists
  • Caching and offline playback support
  • Crossfade with DJ-style like Apple Music
  • Customizing THEME (Light, Dark, Color, etc)
  • Synced lyrics from SimpMusic Lyrics, LRCLIB, Spotify (require login) and YouTube Transcript – AI lyrics translation (BETA) (*)
  • Personalize data (**) and multi-YouTube-account support
  • Last.fm scrobbling (Full version)
  • Supports SponsorBlock and Return YouTube Dislike
  • Sleep Timer
  • Android Auto with online content, feature rich UI/UX
  • Discord Rich Presence support
  • Listen Together: shared rooms that play in sync with friends, compatible with Metrolist (NEW)
  • And many more!

(*) Use your OpenAI or Gemini API key
(**) For users who chose “Send back to Google” feature

www.simpmusic.org
github.com/maxrave-dev/SimpMusic

Tonbandfetzen ~ Audio From Plain Text


Tonbandfetzen is a collection of command-line tools that allow you to compose music based on audio fragments generated from plain text input. It contains:

  • tz mel – generate sound fragments from plain text
  • tz guitar – read guitar tablature
  • tz stick – concatenate audio data
  • tz stack – superimpose audio data
  • tz stretch – rescale audio data
  • tz repeat – loop audio data
  • tz trim – strip leading and trailing silence
  • tz mono – unzip audio channels
  • tz harmonics – show spectra of wave samples
  • tz inspect – show information on audio file
  • tz riff2aiff – convert .wav(e) into .aif(f) files
  • tz aiff2riff – convert .aif(f) into .wav(e) files
  • tz tag – add ID3v2 metadata to .wav(e) files
  • tz play – generate and play sound fragments

github.com/janberges/Tonbandfetzen

Lidarr ~ Usenet & BitTorrent Music Manager


Lidarr is a music collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new tracks from your favorite artists and will grab, sort and rename them. It can also be configured to automatically upgrade the quality of files already downloaded when a better quality format becomes available.

Major Features Include:

  • Support for major platforms: Windows, Linux, macOS, Raspberry Pi, etc.
  • Automatically detects new tracks.
  • Can scan your existing library and download any missing tracks.
  • Can watch for better quality of the tracks you already have and do an automatic upgrade.
  • Automatic failed download handling will try another release if one fails
  • Manual search so you can pick any release or to see why a release was not downloaded automatically
  • Fully configurable track renaming
  • Full integration with SABnzbd and NZBGet
  • Full integration with Kodi, Plex (notification, library update, metadata)
  • Full support for specials and multi-album releases
  • And a beautiful UI
lidarr user interface

lidarr.audio
github.com/Lidarr/Lidarr

mstream ~ Self-hosted Music Server


mStream is a self-hosted music server. Self-hosting means you run the server software on a computer you own. mStream is lightweight and can be run on old hardware and boards like the Raspberry Pi.

Why host your own?

  • Own your music. No ads, and nothing gets removed from your library.
  • Quality. Stream FLAC and lossless files uncompressed.
  • Privacy. Streaming services log your listening habits. Your server never snitches on you.
  • Good for artists. Buy music directly and the money goes to them.
mstream interface

mstream.io
github.com/IrosTheBeggar/mStream

Bandcamp Desktop ~ FOSS Bandcamp Desktop App


Bandcamp Desktop is a crossplatform desktop application which allows you to use bandcamp.com in an easy and quick way.

Note that Bandcamp Desktop is not affiliated with Bandcamp, it is only a fan-made, free and Open-Source project.

Features:

  • Simple as the website
  • Header menu
  • Mini Player
  • Directly download Music from Bandcamp

Mini Player

Keep listening to the music while you explore the website! That’s the killer feature of this web application.

It’s very simple to use: just go to the album (or song, ep…) and click File > Mini Player (or press Ctrl + Space).

Directly download Music from Bandcamp

Bandcamp Desktop is able to directly download music from Bandcamp. Your albums and songs will be automatically unzipped and stored in the bandcamp-desktop folder which is located in your default download folder (Library Folder can be changed from App Preferences).

github.com/themagiulio/bandcamp-desktop

References:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandcamp

DXD-e ~ Experimental DXD Audio Format


This is a library that implements a proposed digital audio intermediary format, called DXD-e, that allows audio player and workstation applications to handle DSD (Direct Stream Digital) audio with only minor modifications to their input and output plugins. This is accomplished by embedding the original 1-bit DSD audio stream, along with a digital pilot signal, into a conventional decimated 24-bit PCM version of the DSD stream (which is known otherwise as DXD). This embedding consumes the 9 LSBs of each 24-bit sample (8 for the DSD and 1 for the pilot) while noise-shaping filters are employed to completely bury the resulting noise underneath the existing high-frequency DSD quantization noise always found in a DXD stream. In short, the DXD stream is made to hold a lossless copy of the original DSD stream without any degradation.

github.com/dbry/DXD-e
hydrogenaudio.org/index.php/topic,129787.0

SimpleWavSplitter ~ Split WAV Channels


Split multi-channel WAV files into single channel WAV files.

github.com/wieslawsoltes/SimpleWavSplitter

Voxengo MSED ~ Mid-Side Encoder Plugin


  • Mid-side encoder/decoder
  • Mid-side stereo widener
  • Stereo imaging
  • Stereo channels swapper
  • 180-degree channel phase flipper
  • Stereo correlation and balance meter
  • Unique “plasma” vector scope

Step into a new dimension of stereo control with Voxengo MSED – a professional, no-compromise free audio mid-side encoder-decoder AudioUnit, AAX and VST plugin designed for audio engineers and creative producers alike.  Whether you’re tightening a mix, widening a synth pad, or repairing phase issues, MSED gives you surgical command over the heart and soul of your stereo image.

At its core, MSED effortlessly splits any stereo track into its Mid (center) and Side (ambient) components – and seamlessly reconstructs them back.  But it doesn’t stop there.  With the “Inline” mode, you can adjust gain, panning, and mute status for Mid and Side channels independently without needing multiple plugin instances.  That means faster workflow, cleaner routing, and zero clutter.

Need to flip phase by 180°, swap channels, or extract only the Mid or Side signal?  MSED handles it instantly.  And with its stunning Plasma Vector Scope, you don’t just hear the stereo field – you see it.  This unique, frequency-aware visualizer places low frequencies at the outer edge and high frequencies toward the center, helping you spot phase issues, balance problems, and correlation irregularities at a glance.

Add to that stereo correlation and balance meters, zero processing latency, and 64-bit floating-point precision, and you have a lightweight yet powerful tool that fits seamlessly into any session.

Voxengo MSED isn’t just a utility – it’s your stereo scalpel.  Clean.  Fast.  Visual.  Essential.

MSED user interface

www.voxengo.com/product/msed

foobar2000 ~ foo_bookbar


Bookbar is a DSP component for foobar2000 (32-bit and 64-bit), designed for listening to audiobooks, podcasts and spoken-word recordings. It lets you smoothly change playback tempo, pitch and “tape speed”, and optionally enhances the sound (loudness leveling and speech intelligibility). The configuration window is fully accessible to screen readers (NVDA, JAWS).

Bookbar is a port of the Winamp plugin Bookamp to foobar2000.

github.com/michaldziwisz/bookbar
hydrogenaudio.org/index.php/topic,129790.0

Chord Cadenza ~ MIDI Chord Player


This app helps you to play and improvise chords whilst a MIDI file or audio source is being played. It does this by updating a rolling display to map the chord notes to a piano keyboard. It can also dynamically assign notes or chords to keys on a MIDI or PC keyboard.

Synchronisation is achieved automatically from a MIDI file. An audio file (e.g. MP3) can be synchronised and saved using the program.

Chords and major/minor keys can be extracted from the MIDI file using a configurable tool that analyses the MIDI file. Chords, keys, and time signatures can also be created or updated manually – this allows you to play along with an audio source without requiring a MIDI file.

The program contains a sequencer-style display that can be used to control the volume, panning, muting, solo’ing and patching of the tracks of the MIDI file.

Audio can be rendered with the program’s builtin synthesizer (using SoundFonts), or an external synthesizer.

Features:

  • Extract keys and chords from a MIDI file.
  • MIDI sequencer with track display and control.
  • Output to built-in synthesizer or MIDI out port.
  • ASIO and non-ASIO sound cards supported.
  • Play with MIDI or PC keyboard.
  • Display chords on a piano roll to facilitate playing and improvisation.
chord cadence interface

chordcadenza.org
sourceforge.net/projects/chord-cadenza