Category Archives: PC

Personal Computer Audioware

DMRA ~ Digital Media Renderer Analyser

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This Digital Media Renderer Analyser is a test application that evaluates the capabilities of a selected UPnP / DLNA Digital Media Renderer and recommends the optimum server settings for it to run with JRiver Media Center.

Optional Test Files

In addition to the tool, you can also download an optional set of sample test files here – warning download size 100 MByte

Database of Renderer Test Reports

You can download the database collection of the test results of all renderers so far tested here. Note if you want to add your renderer to this collection please email me the report.

www.whitebear.ch/dmra

TidyMP3 ~ Metadata Removal Tool

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This tool removes every kind of trash from your mp3-files. It searches for valid mp3 audiodata-frames and removes everything else. This has the big advantage that it will also remove tags which are in the middle of the file (as is the case with joined tracks) as well as broken frames (half-downloads) and malicious tags (Tag-buffer-overflow bug in WinAMP and Windows XP). Use this tool to cleanup your mp3 files before you add your own tag. No more double tags, or annoying ‘Lyrics’ data containing group names or misspelled song names.

cuemaster.org/tidymp3

Foobar2000 ~ Installing Analog VU Meters

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Adding an analog VU meter to the Foobar2000 2.x Default User Interface

Required component: foo_vis_vumeter

Directions:

  1. Download foo_vis_vumeter
  2. Click on foo_vis_vumeter which should install the component
  3. Click Apply and then Ok to restart Foobar
  4. Copy some .bin skin files to the …\AppData\Roaming\foobar2000-v2\vumeter folder (Shift+File>Browse configuration folder)
  5. Select View > Layout > Enable layout editing mode
  6. Right click the tab area in a panel and select Add New Tab
  7. Right click the new tab and rename it “Analog VU Meter” or whatever
  8. Right click the new tab display area and select Add New UI Element
  9. Select ‘Analog VU Meter (DirectX 12)’ from the list (Playback Visualization)
  10. Disable layout editing mode

Parameters:

Right mouse click on the meter display:

  • submenus – Layout / Mode / Levels / Decay / Tuning / Options
  • Fullscreen
  • Skin Selection

Mouse wheel (hover over meters)

  • Adjusts current Tuning selection

Resources:
Analog VU Meter Skin Gallery
Foobar2000 1.x ~ Installing Analog VU Meters

Sources:
www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index.php?showtopic=33939
www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index.php?showtopic=106793
www.head-fi.org/t/616963/the-foobar2000-resource-thread/45#post_9382013
foobar2000.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5012 (Russian)

GŌN ~ Visualization Plugin For Stereo Bus Masters

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Available for all major plug-in formats, including VST 2, VST 3 and AAX for macOS and Windows plus Audio Units for macOS, GŌN (rhymes with “lone”) is a free software goniometer that authentically replicates an analog oscilloscope experience while keeping complexity at bay.

www.maat.digital/gon

Librempeg ~ Multimedia Libraries & Toolsets

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Librempeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.

Libraries:

  • libavcodec provides implementation of a wider range of codecs.
  • libavformat implements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access.
  • libavutil includes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility functions.
  • libavfilter provides means to alter decoded audio and video through a directed graph of connected filters.
  • libavdevice provides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices.
  • libswresample implements audio mixing and resampling routines.
  • libswscale implements color conversion and scaling routines.

Tools:

  • ffmpeg is a command line toolbox to manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content.
  • ffplay is a minimalistic multimedia player.
  • ffprobe is a simple analysis tool to inspect multimedia content.
  • Additional small tools such as aviocat, ismindex and qt-faststart.

github.com/librempeg

jfMusic ~ Tracked Music Editor

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Supports WAV and DLS files.
Supports recording from MIDI devices.

sourceforge.net/projects/jfmusic

CamillaDSP ~ IIR & FIR Engine For Crossovers & Room Correction

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A tool to create audio processing pipelines for applications such as active crossovers or room correction. It is written in Rust to benefit from the safety and elegant handling of threading that this language provides. Supported platforms: Linux, macOS, Windows.

Audio data is captured from a capture device and sent to a playback device. Alsa, PulseAudio, Jack, Wasapi and CoreAudio are currently supported for both capture and playback.

The processing pipeline consists of any number of filters and mixers. Mixers are used to route audio between channels and to change the number of channels in the stream. Filters can be both IIR and FIR. IIR filters are implemented as biquads, while FIR use convolution via FFT/IFFT. A filter can be applied to any number of channels. All processing is done in chunks of a fixed number of samples. A small number of samples gives a small in-out latency while a larger number is required for long FIR filters. The full configuration is given in a YAML file.

henquist.github.io
github.com/HEnquist/camilladsp

SOX-DSD ~ SoX With DSD For Windows.

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Here located unofficial builds of the SoX (Sound eXchange) audio tool with DSD support and other patches (including both DSF & DFF I/O and SDM sox “effect” to convert from PCM to DSD) for OS Windows only. Provided two Windows executable files for 32 & 64 bit systems. Binaries were cross-compiled on Linux using MinGW/gcc on fully static way.

  •  DSF I/O
  •  DFF I/O
  •  SDM effect to convert from PCM to DSD
github.com/turbulentie/sox-dsd-win

BirdNET-Go ~ Realtime BirdNET Soundscape Analyzer

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BirdNET-Go is an AI solution for continuous avian monitoring and identification

  • 24/7 realtime bird song analysis of soundcard capture, analysis output to log file, SQLite or MySQL
  • Utilizes BirdNET AI model trained with more than 6500 bird species
  • Local processing, Internet connectivity not required
  • Easy to use Web user interface for data visualisation
  • BirdWeather.com API integration
  • Realtime log file output can be used as overlay in OBS for bird feeder streams etc.
  • Minimal runtime dependencies, BirdNET Tensorflow Lite model is embedded in compiled binary
  • Runs on Windows, Linux and macOS
  • Low resource usage, works on Raspberry Pi 3 and equivalent 64-bit single board computers

github.com/tphakala/birdnet-go

NSMusicS ~ Modular Multiplatform Player

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The NSMusicS plan is a multi-modal smart music software based on Electron and WPF, supporting multiple platforms.

  • Windows Professional MusicPlayer++
  • Tens of millions – song level of Music Library Management on NAS
  • Music and Entertainment Scenes (Recording karaoke and scoring…)
  • Windows Music IDE, similar to Adobe Audition:
    1. Identify songs module based on sound fingerprint technology (also open sourced as a separate project model)
    2. Guessing Your Favorite Module Based on Big Data User Behavior Analysis
    3. AI singing module based on NLP, replacing the sound of the song with your own (also open sourced as a separate project model)
    4. AI music notation module based on NLP (also open sourced as a separate project model)
    5. AI extraction of audio lyrics synchronization information based on nlp (breaking copyright barriers such as Krc and Qrc)
    6. Implement functions such as NSMusicS singing bar scoring and evaluation

github.com/Super-Badmen-Viper/NSMusicS

Halcyon ~ Minimalistic Music Player

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This is a minimalistic Music Player written in Java & native C++. The engine framework is written mainly in Java with C++ used to back any other
native functionalities.

Currently this project is under heavy development and not for general consumer usage.

Features:

  • audio
  • music-player
  • audio-player
  • minimalistic-music-player

sourceforge.net/projects/halcyon4j

March 2004

Integra Live ~ Simple Interactive Audio

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Interactive audio made simple.

integra.io
sourceforge.net/projects/integralive
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integra_Live