Category Archives: Player

Audio File Players

Kontakt Player ~ Industry Standard Sample Player

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KONTAKT PLAYER is a free application that runs all of our KONTAKT instruments, as well as a large number of instruments from other companies.

Features:
  • Free sample player based on Kontakt 6.
  • Hosts a huge selection of Native Instruments and third-party instruments.
  • Also included in KOMPLETE START – the free bundle with 2,000 sounds and 6 GB of content.

www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/samplers/kontakt-6-player

Midi Sheet Music ~ Cross-platform MIDI Player

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Midi Sheet Music is a free program that plays MIDI music files while highlighting both the piano keys and sheet music notes. Works on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux Ubuntu, iPhone / iPad and Android.

midisheetmusic.com
sourceforge.net/projects/midisheetmusic

Drumstick ~ Multiplatform MIDI FIle Player

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Featured MIDI File Player for Linux, Windows, and macOS written in C++, and using Qt5 and Drumstick2.

Features:

  • MIDI Output to hardware MIDI ports, or any other Drumstick backend
  • Transpose song tonality between -12 and +12 semitones
  • Change MIDI volume level (using MIDI CC7)
  • Scale song speed between half and double tempo
  • Plays Standard MIDI Files (.MID, .KAR) and Cakewalk project files (.WRK)

sourceforge.net/projects/dmidiplayer

Subsonic ~ Web-Based Personal Streaming

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Subsonic is a web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music and video collection. More than 20 apps are available for Android, iPhone, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Roku, Chumby, Sonos etc. Supports virtually all media formats, converting files on the fly. Also includes a Podcast receiver and jukebox feature allowing you to control what’s playing on your computer from your mobile phone.

Features:
  • Enjoy your music and movies no matter where you are. Share with family and friends.
  • Browse and manage your media collection with the user-friendly web interface.
  • Stream music to Android, iPhone and Windows Phone.
  • Subsonic apps available for Roku, BlackBerry Playbook and many more.
  • Convert and stream lossless music on the fly.
  • Manage 100,000+ files in your music collection without hassle.
  • Download and listen to Podcasts.
  • Get cover art, lyrics, reviews and other album info from Google, Chartlyrics, allmusic and Wikipedia.

www.subsonic.org
sourceforge.net/projects/subsonic

Resources:

github.com/hypfvieh/foo_subsonic

netjukebox ~ Flexible Media Sharing

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netjukebox is a web-based media jukebox for MPD, VideoLAN and Winamp/httpQ. netjukebox is open source under the GNU GPL license.

Stand alone:
Client and server on one computer. So you can play your favorite music and video from your local hard disk.

Client / Server:
Play music and video from any computer in your network. A working network share is required.

Remote:
Remotely control MPD, VideoLAN or Winamp from any computer.

Stream:
Native HTML5 audio streaming support. Automatic M3U/HLS fallback for unsupported clients.

More:
Download the original file or transcode to another format or bitrate. Generate PDF cd-covers on the fly.

www.netjukebox.nl
sourceforge.net/projects/netjukebox

Elisa ~ Simple KDE Music Player

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Elisa is a music player developed by the KDE community that strives to be simple and nice to use. We also recognize that we need a flexible product to account for the different workflows and use-cases of our users. We focus on a very good integration with the Plasma desktop of the KDE community without compromising the support for other platforms (other Linux desktop environments, Windows and Android). We are creating a reliable product that is a joy to use and respects our users privacy. As such, we will prefer to support online services where users are in control of their data.

apps.kde.org/elisa
github.com/KDE/elisa
invent.kde.org/multimedia/elisa
flathub.org/apps/org.kde.elisa
apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pb5md7zh8tl

TASCAM Hi-Res Editor ~ Mac & Windows Freeware

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TASCAM Hi-Res Editor is a new, free application for Windows and Macintosh computers, that plays and edits up to 11.2MHz DSD or 384kHz WAV files. The software allows playback and export of DSD files without converting to PCM audio. This app is available now as a free download for Windows and Mac. Ideal for users of TASCAM’s hi-resolution recorders like the DA-3000, TASCAM’s Hi-Res Editor is one of the only ways to edit native DSD master recordings.

TASCAM Hi-Res Editor Interface

tascam.com/us/product/hi-res_editor/top
www.tascam.eu/en/downloads/Hi-Res+Editor

wtfplay ~ Linux High Quality Sound

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Wtfplay project is an initiative to create a quality music player for Linux. Ultimately the project has just one objective – deliver the best sound quality possible – with no compromises.

Initially the player has been created: wtfplay. Soon the project evolved and wtfplay-live Linux distribution was born.

wtfplay-live is a minimalist Linux distribution purely dedicated to audio playback. It does not have many features, but offers exceptional sound quality as a reward. Simply put: it is created to play music and it plays music well.

The main features of wtfplay-live are:

  • Memory based, bit perfect playback of WAV and FLAC files with PCM data (16 and 24 bit, up to 384kHz), and DSF files with DSD data.
  • Fully command line driven. No graphical mode. No network either. The whole system is optimised for sound playback from local disks.
  • A small text mode user interface: wtfcui – for more convenient usage.
  • Precisely tailored Linux kernel for best sound performance.
  • Distributed as Live CD: does not require installation on a hard disk, does not make any changes to your computer configuration.
  • Very small system size: the distribution ISO image is less than 50MB.
  • Good documentation – to give you all information that you need to comfortably listen to music.

The philosophy of wtfplay project is simple: provide the minimum set of features for easy use and focus 100% efforts on sound quality.

wtfplay-project.org

Aural Player ~ Winamp For Macs

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Aural Player is an audio player for macOS. Inspired by the classic Winamp player for Windows, it is designed to be to-the-point, easy to use, and customizable, with support for a wide variety of popular audio formats and some sound tuning capabilities for audio enthusiasts.

github.com/maculateConception/aural-player

Cassette Retro Player ~ MP3 Player With Beautiful Cassette Look & Feel

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Transform a set of mp3 files into a virtual cassette and interact with it just like a real cassette.

Live again all that emotional load attached to the cassette format and the way you interacted with these gadgets: press play, rewind, fast forward and reverse the cassette tape. Concepts that do not exist anymore in modern media players in the same way, but they are still wired in your brain with the music you used to listen in the 70s, 80s and 90s and the places and people that were around you at those moments.

Play the music as you used to do it decades ago, and bring a piece of happiness from the past. Nostalgia ensured.

Features:
  • Simple controls: Play, pause, rewind, fast forward, stop, eject and master volume.
  • Customize cassette color and label aspect.
  • Create a cassette library with all your most appreciated music.
  • Edit cassette track list, adding, removing and reordering the audio files.
  • Support for mp3, aac, and all popular audio formats.
  • Because the music sounds better in the format in which you heard it for the first time.

sourceforge.net/projects/cassette-retro-player

genius-spicetify ~ Spotify Lyrics

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Fetch lyrics from Genius and Musixmatch right in Spotify’s desktop client.

github.com/khanhas/genius-spicetify

DGuitar ~ Guitar Pro File Player & Viewer

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DGuitar is a Guitar Pro (*.GP4,*.GP3,GTP) viewer and player that works under Linux, MacOs, Solaris, BSD or Windows or any other Operational System that has Java Runtime Environment 1.4 or later installed.

dguitar.sourceforge.net