Category Archives: PC

Personal Computer Audioware

HeSuVi ~ Headphone Surround Virtualizations

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This tool imitates the 7.1 to binaural sound effect of many surround virtualizations by making use of Equalizer APO’s convolution filter. Available impulse response that were recorded with activated…

  • Dolby Atmos Headphone
  • CMSS-3D
  • SBX Pro Studio Surround (also found in BlasterX Acoustic Engine & THX TruStudio Pro)
  • Dolby Headphone
  • Sennheiser GSX Binaural 7.1
  • DTS Headphone:X
  • Windows Sonic Headphone
  • Dolby Home Theater v4 Headphone Surround Virtualizer
  • Razer Surround
  • Out Of Your Head
  • Flux HEar V3
  • OpenAL and DirectSound3D HRTFs
  • Waves Nx
  • and many more!

Features:

  • many different headphone surround impulse responses
  • powerful graphic equalizer
  • equalizer presets for over 1000 popular headphones
  • use multiple devices on one sound card
  • extensive control over different volume levels
  • apply and save the processing onto your audio files
  • fully configurable crossfeed
  • quickly save & load profiles, even through hotkeys
  • supports command line parameters for all options
  • rearrange the virtual speakers’ positions
  • intelligent stereo upmix
  • portable installation with easy one-click updater

sourceforge.net/projects/hesuvi
sourceforge.net/p/hesuvi/wiki/Help

HeSuVi Conversion Tool

This fairly simple tool converts all HeSuVi 14 channel presets into 7.0 formatted _L/_R stereo pairs, for use with the soon to be updated PulseAudio module-virtual-surround-sink, which I’ve updated with a faster FFT overlap-save convolver, eliminated the sample length limits for impulses, and added support for asymmetrical/dual impulse mode.

gist.github.com/kode54

MAD ~ MPEG Audio Decoder

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MAD is a high-quality MPEG audio decoder. It currently supports MPEG-1 and the MPEG-2 extension to lower sampling frequencies, as well as the de facto MPEG 2.5 format. All three audio layers — Layer I, Layer II, and Layer III (i.e. MP3) — are fully implemented.

MAD does not yet support MPEG-2 multichannel audio (although it should be backward compatible with such streams) nor does it currently support AAC.

MAD has the following special features:

  • 24-bit PCM output
  • 100% fixed-point (integer) computation
  • completely new implementation based on the ISO/IEC standards
  • available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)

www.underbit.com/products/mad
sourceforge.net/projects/mad/files

mvMeter2 ~ Freeware Multivariable Meter

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mvMeter2 is a multivariable meter including RMS, EBUR128, VU and PPM measurement. mvMeter2 is the successor of mvMeter and adds single/dual meter display, adjustable reference level for all meter modes, adjustable meter delay and preset management.

Features:

  • behavior of classic analog VU and PPM meters
  • multiple measurement modes: PEAK, RMS, EBU R128, VU and PPM
  • multi channel metering: stereo, left, right, mid, side
  • single and dual meter display
  • adjustable reference level for all meter modes
  • adjustable meter delay
  • preset management
  • adjustable pre-gain including gain matching
  • instance label
  • large and accurate live meters
  • 64-bit internal processing
  • 5 different meter themes
  • GUI resizing up 400%, ready for 4k displays
  • free of charge

mvMeter2

www.tb-software.com/TBProAudio/mvmeter2

TooLAME ~ MP2 Audio Encoder

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TooLAME is a free software MPEG-1 Layer II (MP2) audio encoder written primarily by Mike Cheng. While there are many MP2 encoders, TooLAME is well-known and widely used for its particularly high audio quality. It has been unmaintained since 2003, but is directly succeeded by the TwoLAME code fork (the latest version, TwoLAME 0.3.13, was released January 21, 2011). The name TooLAME is a play on LAME and Layer II.

www.twolame.org
sourceforge.net/projects/toolame
github.com/njh/twolame
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TooLAME
www.rarewares.org/mp3-others.php#twolame

foo_cad ~ Foobar & CD Art Display / Rainmeter

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CD Art Display / Rainmeter interface plugin. Displays Foobar2000’s now playing artwork and info on the desktop.

poiru.github.io/foo-cad
github.com/poiru/foo-cad
github.com/RangerCD/foo-cad-plus

The ABC Music Project ~ Plain Text Notation Format

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ABC, developed by Chris Walshaw, is a format designed to notate music using plain text. It was originally designed for folk tunes of Western European origin which can be written on one staff, but has since been extended to support the notation of complete, classical music scores.

Since its introduction at the end of 1991, ABC has become very popular. Programs on many operating systems use ABC as an input and/or output format. There are programs which produce printed sheet music or allow for computer performances, search in tune databases, or that analyze tunes in some way.

The aim of this project is to promote the ABC language by maintaining the ABC standard and a set of software and source code that manipulate and present music written in ABC.

abcnotation.com
abc.sourceforge.net

ABC Tune Search

The abc tune search / tune finder gives you access to thousands of folk & traditional tunes from across the web.

abcnotation.com/search

Classical music extensions:

abcplus.sourceforge.net
sourceforge.net/projects/abcplus

ABC to HTML ~ sourceforge.net/projects/netabc
User Interfaces ~ sourceforge.net/projects/runabc
Reference: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation

EasyTAG ~ Audio File Metadata Editor

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EasyTAG is a simple application for viewing and editing tags in audio files.It supports MP3, MP2, MP4/AAC, FLAC, Ogg Opus, Ogg Speex, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack, Monkey’s Audio, and WavPack files, and it works under Linux or Windows.

Features:

  • View, edit, write tags of MP3, MP2 files (ID3 tag with pictures), FLAC files (FLAC Vorbis tag), Ogg Opus files (Ogg Vorbis tag), Ogg Speex (Ogg Vorbis tag), Ogg Vorbis files (Ogg Vorbis tag), MP4/AAC (MP4/AAC tag), MusePack, Monkey’s Audio files and WavPack files (APE tag)
  • Can edit more tag fields: title, artist, album, disc number, year, track number, comment, composer, original artist/performer, copyright, URL, encoder name and attached picture
  • Auto tagging: filename and directory to automatically complete the fields (masks)
  • Ability to rename files and directories from the tag (using masks) or by loading a text file
  • Process selected files of the selected directory
  • Ability to browse subdirectories
  • Recursion for tagging, removing, renaming, saving…
  • Can set a field (artist, title,…) to all other files
  • Read and display file header information (bitrate, time,…)
  • Auto completion of the date if a partial one is entered
  • Undo and redo last changes
  • Ability to process fields of tag and file name (convert letters into uppercase, lowercase,…
  • Ability to open a directory or a file with an external program
  • CDDB support using Freedb.org and Gnudb.org servers (manual and automatic search)
  • A tree based browser or a view by artist & album
  • A list to select files
  • A playlist generator window
  • A file searching window
  • Straightforward and explicit interface
  • Translations into many languages
  • Written in C and using GTK+ for the GUI
  • Packages available for Linux and Windows
easytag

wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EasyTAG

AIMP ~ Full Featured Music Player

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AIMP is a powerful free audio player for Windows OS that supports for local files, NAS, clouds and podcasts. Additionally, it includes powerful tools to operate with audio files.

Multi-format Playback:
.CDA, .AAC, .AC3, .APE, .DTS, .FLAC, .IT, .MIDI, .MO3, .MOD, .M4A, .M4B,
.MP1, .MP2, .MP3, .MPC, .MTM, .OFR, .OGG, .OPUS, .RMI, .S3M, .SPX, .TAK,
.TTA, .UMX, .WAV, .WMA, .WV, .XM, .DSF, .DFF, MKA, AA3, AT3, OMA, .WebM,
.MPEG-DASH (YouTube)

Features:

  • CUE Sheet support
  • Output support ~ DirectSound / ASIO / WASAPI / WASAPI Exclusive
  • 32-bit audio processing for the best quality!
  • Listen to internet-radio stations in OGG / WAV / MP3 / AAC / AAC+ formats
  • Capture stream to APE, FLAC, OGG, WAV, WV, WMA and MP3 formats
  • Capture stream as is for MP3 / AAC / AAC+ formats
  • Creating bookmarks and playback queue
  • Rating and auto-marks
  • Collecting statistics about tracks listening
  • Automatic calculations of rating and marks for listened tracks
  • Support for plugins ~ You can add new utilities or extend already existing ones
  • Build-in scrobbler / Last.fm, Libre.fm and ListenBrainz services are supported
  • Clouds / OneDrive, Google.Drive, DropBox, Облако@mail.ru, Яндекс.Диск and Custom WebDAV clouds are supported
  • Podcasts
  • Hot keys ~ Configure local and global hotkeys as you wish!
  • Multi-user mode support ~ Several users working on one computer? No problem!
  • Multi-language interface
  • Great functionality and user-friendly interface
  • Support for 4K and High DPI / Following scale factors are supported: 125%, 150%, 175%, 200%
  • Flexible program options
aimp

www.aimp.ru
aimp2.us

Icons:
aablab.deviantart.com/art/Aimp-3-anthracite-icons-260461145
www.deviantart.com/aablab/art/AIMP3-BW-Icons-190763277

Skins:
aablab.deviantart.com/art/AIMP-3-Skin-Editor-258029733
www.deviantart.com/ddkonstantinov/art/A-Graph-ver-1-0-294252760
www.deviantart.com/merydev/art/MetalikGlass-Light-for-AIMP3-258995954
www.deviantart.com/yamshikoff/art/Metro-for-AIMP3-v3-Final-279912238
www.deviantart.com/raidero1/art/ZiX-for-AIMP3-273232347
www.myaimp.com/skins
angelag.ucoz.ru

VU Meter Skins:
www.aimp.ru/forum/index.php?topic=52865.0

Mikmod Sound System ~ Cross-platform Game Audio

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Mikmod is a module player and library supporting many formats, including mod, s3m, it, and xm. Originally a player for MS-DOS, MikMod has been ported to other platforms, such as Unix, Macintosh, BeOS, and Java(!!)

mikmod

mikmod.sourceforge.net/
sourceforge.net/projects/mikmod/

Simple TTS Reader ~ Windows Text To Speech

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Simple TTS Reader is a small clipboard reader. Simply copy any text, and it will be read aloud. You can choose any installed speech engine, e.g. Microsoft Anna. This text-to-speech utility can also be minimized to tray.

Requires .NET Framework 2.0

Features:

  • Supports WinXP’s Sam and Vista’s Anna engines
  • Ability to minimize to tray
  • Small and simple
  • Reads copied to clipboard text
  • Includes an installer

simpletts

simplettsreader.sourceforge.net/
sourceforge.net/projects/simplettsreader/

VSLM ~ Virtual Sound Level Meter

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This project is the MATLAB development of a virtual sound level meter. The program will read in a calibrated .wav file and allow the user to analyze it as one would analyze a sound field with a sound level meter. The software implements Fast, Slow, Impulse and LEQ; A, C and Flat Weighting; Ln and Noise Dose analysis; Octave and 1/3 Octave band analysis; high resolution FFT analysis and spectrograms. Band analysis can be made using fast FFT methods or slower, but ANSI standard methods.

Source code requires MATLAB + Signal Processing Toolbox.
Developed under MATLAB R2010a (but might work with some earlier versions)

Executable version does not require MATLAB and runs under Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7.

Features

  • MATLAB Based Software Sound Analyzer
  • Mimics results of an ANSI Standard Integrating Sound Level Meter
  • Includes Lp, LEQ, Octave and 1/3 Octave Band, NC, RC and FFT Analysis

VSLM

sourceforge.net/projects/vslm/

MusicLibraryPlayer ~ Server Side Player

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Music Library & Player utilizes PHP and vanilla javascript to deliver your web-accessible music library via HTML5 audio in a fully responsive and modern interface.

The library does not require a database back-end. It parses the directory structure, best suited for a [ROOT]/[ARTIST]/[ALBUM]/[TRACKS] type of layout. This isn’t required, but makes for the best user experience. Random playlists can also be generated.

The code contained in this script has not been minified. It is written in long form and is well-documented for ease of use and customization.

Individual tracks are optionally presented with download links. Minimal effort has been put into limiting the reach of the player and download links. It is limited, by default, to the three audio file types that are supported by HTML5. It is advised that you password protect the Music Library & Player directory using htaccess or other method to restrict public access.

Features:
  • Responsive web music library and player
  • HTML5 or m3u file
  • Perfect for a NAS or personal website
  • Easy to setup with little to no programming
  • Uses PHP, vanilla javascript, and html5media
  • No database back-end. Directories are parsed into Artist/Album/Track playlists
  • Open Source MIT License

sourceforge.net/projects/musiclibraryplayer/