Category Archives: Unix

Cava ~ Cross-platform Audio Visualizer

Posted by tom2tec on

Cava is a bar spectrum audio visualizer for terminal or desktop (SDL).

Cava works on:

  • Linux
  • FreeBSD
  • macOS
  • Windows

This program is not intended for scientific use. It’s written to look responsive and aesthetic when used to visualize music.

github.com/karlstav/cava
Cavalier ~ Visualize Audio With CAVA

SongRec ~ Linux Shazam Client

Posted by tom2tec on

SongRec is an open-source Shazam client for Linux, written in Rust.

github.com/marin-m/SongRec
flathub.org/apps/com.github.marinm.songrec

Brasero ~ Gnome CD/DVD Burner

Posted by tom2tec on

Brasero is a GNOME application to burn CD/DVD, designed to be as simple as possible. It has some unique features to enable users to create their discs easily and quickly.

wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Brasero
www.linuxlinks.com/brasero
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasero_(software)

Audio Share ~ Share Audio To Android

Posted by tom2tec on

Audio Share can share a Windows or Linux computer’s audio to an Android device over a network, so your phone becomes the speaker of the computer. 

github.com/mkckr0/audio-share
sourceforge.net/projects/audio-share

SoundScapeExplorer ~ Process, Visualize & Explore

Posted by tom2tec on

SSE is a powerful and versatile software environment designed for soundscape visualisation and quantification. It provides a robust platform for processing audio files, generating useful metrics, and presenting data through intuitive visualisation interfaces. Catering to bioacousticians and data scientists alike, 

SoundScapeExplorer Icon

SSE encompasses an extensive range of tools and capabilities to fulfil diverse user requirements.

sound-scape-explorer.github.io
github.com/sound-scape-explorer

Librempeg ~ Multimedia Libraries & Toolsets

Posted by tom2tec on

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

Akkeyrdion ~ Chromatic MIDI Keyboard Accordion

Posted by tom2tec on

Turn your computer keyboard into a chromatic accordion keyboard. Ah, but it already is…

Supports both right and left hand system, currently:
– C griff (right hand)
– B griff (right hand)
– Stradella (left hand standard bass system)

sourceforge.net/projects/akkeyrdion

MusicSync ~ Synchronize Music Libraries

Posted by tom2tec on

MusicSync is a cross-platform tool that synchronizes your music library between devices and drives with advanced settings.

You can use it through CLI, that makes easy to sync you library with only a click using a script, or through GUI, that is more user-friendly. Here there are two examples:

python musicsync D:/Music sdcard/Music --adb --min-rating 4.5 --output-format opus --output-bitrate 128k
python musicsync D:/Music sdcard/Music --adb --min-rating 3 --min-year 2020 --output-format opus --output-bitrate

github.com/serpest/MusicSync
hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=121169.0

GMetronome ~ Gnome Metronome

Posted by tom2tec on

A free software metronome and tempo measurement tool for composers and musicians.

gitlab.gnome.org/dqpb/gmetronome

Euphonium ~ Multiplatform Extensible Audio Streaming

Posted by tom2tec on

Euphonium is a highly extensible audio streaming software. It’s multiplatform, also supporting low cost MCU’s like espressif ESP32 series.

Features:

  • Clean and lightweight web-ui.
  • Supports multiple plugins: Spotify streaming, Bluetooth (on esp32), Web Radio, Jellyfin.
  • Fully modular architecture.
  • Easily extendible and portable to new hardware, thanks to the internal Berry-lang powered scripting engine.

Required hardware for esp32:

  • Any ESP32 chip with at least 4MB of flash and 4MB of PSRAM. Wrover chips are usually a good call. 🙂
muvox-io.github.io/euphonium
github.com/muvox-io/euphonium

elpAudio ~ Simple Audio Player Using FMOD

Posted by tom2tec on

elpAudio – A simple audio player using FMOD, that supports custom WinAmp themes, music files (.mp3, .midi, .wav, .ogg, .flac, .opus), tracker music (.mod, .xm, .s3m, .it) and other sound types (.wasd, .etm, .mus).

github.com/elpoeprod/elpAudio

Spotube ~ Open Source Spotify Client

Posted by tom2tec on

An open source, cross-platform Spotify client compatible across multiple platforms utilizing Spotify’s data API and YouTube, Piped.video or JioSaavn as an audio source, eliminating the need for Spotify Premium.

  • 🚫 No ads, thanks to the use of public & free Spotify and YT Music APIs¹
  • ⬇️ Freely downloadable tracks
  • 🖥️ 📱 Cross-platform support
  • 🪶 Small size & less data usage
  • 🕵️ Anonymous/guest login
  • 🕒 Time synced lyrics
  • ✋ No telemetry, diagnostics or user data collection
  • 🚀 Native performance
  • 📖 Open source/libre software
  • 🔉 Playback control is done locally, not on the server
spotube.krtirtho.dev