Category Archives: Unix

UNIX audio applications, tools or utilities

Softsqueeze ~ Software Squeezebox

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Softsqueeze is a music player for your PC that works with the SqueezeCenter software. It complements the Boom, Duet, Transporter, Squeezebox and Slimp3 hardware music players developed by Slim Devices.

Supports synchronization with hardware players and remote streaming over the Internet using ssh tunneling.

Developed in Java, allowing this useful application to work with Windows PCs, OS X and Unix systems.

Emulates most of the digital music players and uses the TCP based slim protocol, allowing use across the Internet and through firewalls / NAT routers.

softsqueeze.sourceforge.net
sourceforge.net/projects/softsqueeze

Spek ~ Acoustic Spectrum Analyzer

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Spek (IPA: /spɛk/, ‘bacon’ in Dutch) helps to analyse your audio files by showing their spectrogram. Spek is free software available for Unix, Windows and Mac OS X.

Features:

  • Supports all popular lossy and lossless audio file formats thanks to the FFmpeg libraries.
  • Ultra-fast signal processing, uses multiple threads to further speed up the analysis.
  • Shows the codec name and the audio signal parameters.
  • Allows to save the spectrogram as an image file.
  • Drag-and-drop support; associates with common audio file formats.
  • Auto-fitting time, frequency and spectral density rulers.
  • Adjustable spectral density range.
  • Translated into 19 languages.
spek

spek.cc
github.com/alexkay/spek

References:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_analyzer

Jniz ~ Compose With Harmonies

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Jniz is a free proprietary piece of software designed for musicians as a support tool to the musical composition. It allows you to build and to harmonize several voices according to the rules of classical harmony.

To be convinced of the limitations observed and of the work done by the great classical masters such as Bach, Mozart or Beethoven, please refer to Wikipedia, the Walter Piston Harmony book or the Schonberg theory.

The perfect knowledge and the good practice of these rules are not required but you will undoubtedly save time and it will help you greatly in using and understanding the mechanism of Jniz.

  • interface of musical notation which allows you to create, edit, save a score
  • number of voices up to 16 (256 with layers).
  • possibility to change of Key at any time.
  • Jnz, MusicXml, LillyPond, Midi, PDF export.
  • listen to the available Midi ports.
  • scale
  • redo / undo
  • Non harmonic tones (appoggiatura, echappee, suspension, passing, pedal, cambiata, anticipation)
  • Minor melodic keys
  • Chords notation recognition
  • harmonic correction of your work following the set of predefined rules
  • to give one or several solutions in case of fault if one or more rules are circumvented (Solver module).
  • Empty staves filled up by Solver (Auto Harmonizing)
  • Keys / modulations simulation tool
  • Cadences
  • Solvers serialization
  • multi-cores support
  • Input with Midi keyboards or microphones / input lines
  • Audio / sound to midi converter (monophonic)
  • Windows, Linux, OS X compatible (32/64 bits)
  • multi-languages support
jniz

www.jniz.org

Vermilion Desktop Composer ~ Cross Platform Editor

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A unique desktop music composing application for PC / Mac / Linux / Android with a tracker style interface and a simple modular Java plugin based design allowing rapid improvement and endless expansion.

Vermilion Desktop Composer

sourceforge.net/projects/buzz-like

LASTAR ~ Batch File Splitting & Normalization

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LASTAR is a batch (non-interactive) audio processor for loudness adjustment and file splitting of a batch of audio recordings, using an audio transparent maximizer.

At the opposite of usual available software, loudness normalization is done on signal power, which leads to a louder and more homogeneous result than the usual “peak” normalization, in particular on live recordings.

Its purpose is:

  • to split, equalize and normalize digitized analog tapes or vinyl
  • to split, equalize and normalize live recordings from microphones (ex ZOOM H2 recordings)
  • fast and homogeneous normalization of a group of files (compilation for instance)
  • loudness and dynamic reduction for listening in a noisy environment (car…)
  • and so on…

This software aims to be very fast and easy to use : the most efficient computing techniques have been implemented, and there are very few parameters to set (most of them are automatically adjusted by analyzing the file).

It embeds:

  • an automatic RMS normalizer,
  • an Automatic Gain Controller (compressor)
  • a 10 bands automatic equalizer
  • a 3 bands semi-parametric equalizer
  • a file splitter
  • a noise gate
  • preset management
  • a preview function.

www.arthelion.com/index.php/en/windows-en/lastar
sourceforge.net/projects/lastar

IDTE ~ ID3 Tag Editor & Player

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IDTE is a full featured tag editor for Windows which supports tagging of FLAC, APE, ID3V1.x/2.x, WMA, LYRICS, and VORBIS tags in audio files.

It also supports the playback of 40+ various lossy and lossless music formats such as FLAC, ALAC, OGG, APE, MP3 etc.

It can rename files based on the tag information, export tag information, create playlists, search for incomplete tags on Internet, fetch lyrics, fetch cover art, supports CUE sheets, can process multiple files at same time, allows for batch file processing, supports SFX, visualizations and more…

sourceforge.net/projects/idteid3tagedito

MidiQuickFix ~ MIDI Editor & Player

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MidiQuickFix allows you to directly edit the events in a Midi file. It is intended to make it easy to find and fix problems, such as setting volume and pan values for a track, without the need for a complex Midi sequencing program.

midiquickfix

midiquickfix.sourceforge.net

Nulloy ~ Linux Audio Player

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Features:

  • Most audio formats supported: MP3, FLAC, OGG, WMA, AIFF, etc.
  • Gapless playback
  • Tags & Cover Art support
  • Keyboard shortcuts

nulloy.com

TiMidity++ ~ Synthesizer & Player

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TiMidity++ is a software synthesizer. It can play MIDI files by converting them into PCM waveform data; give it a MIDI data along with digital instrument data files, then it synthesizes them in real-time, and plays. It can not only play sounds, but also can save the generated waveforms into hard disks as various audio file formats.

TiMidity++ is a free software, distributed under the terms of GNU general public license.

Features:

  • Plays MIDI files without any external MIDI instruments at all
  • Understands SMF, MOD, RCP/R36/G18/G36, MFI
  • Converts MIDI files into various audio file formats: .wav, .au, .aiff, .ogg and so on
  • Uses Gravis Ultrasound compatible patch files and/or SoundFonts as the voice data
  • Displays information about the music that is now playing
  • Various user interfaces: ncurses, gtk, Win32-GUI, and others
  • Plays remote MIDI files over the network
  • Plays MIDI files in archive files
  • Displays sound spectrogram for the playing music
  • Trace playing
timidity.sourceforge.net
sourceforge.net/projects/timidity

TuxGuitar ~ Multitrack Tablature Editor & Player

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With TuxGuitar, you will be able to compose music using the following features:

  • Tablature editor
  • Score Viewer
  • Multitrack display
  • Auto Scroll while playing
  • Note duration management
  • Various effects (bend, slide, vibrato, hammer-on/pull-off)
  • Support for triplets (5,6,7,9,10,11,12)
  • Repeat open and close
  • Time signature management
  • Tempo management
  • Imports and exports gp3,gp4 and gp5 files

tuxguitar

www.tuxguitar.com.ar

Goggles Music Manager ~ Linux Player

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  • Fast and lightweight. Quick startup, no splash screen needed!
  • Supports Opus, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, mp3 and mp4 (AAC and Apple Lossless)
  • Gapless playback and Replaygain support (Ogg Vorbis, Opus, FLAC and mp3 with APE tags).
  • Support for cover art embedded in tag or as separate file on disk.
  • Subscribe to Podcasts (rss) using the built in podcast manager.
  • Tag editing and powerful file renaming capability.
  • Filters / Smart Playlists
  • Smart sorting with user configurable leading word filter to prevent sorting on common words like the, a or an.
  • Support for playlists. Playlists may be played in a certain configurable order, or browsed through like the main music library.
  • Import / export music library and playlists to XSPF, PLS, M3U, Extended M3U or CSV.
  • Clipboard & DND (drag-and-drop) support to arrange playlists and dragging to and from Gnome / kde applications.
  • Clean and fast database backend using SQLite 3.
  • Written using FOX, one of the fastest GUI toolkits available.
  • Last.fm and libre.fm audio scrobbler support.
  • Translated in Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

gogglesmm0.13.png

gogglesmm.dev

Decibel ~ Modular GNU / Linux Audio Player

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Decibel Audio Player is a GTK+ open-source (GPL) audio player for GNU/Linux. It is very straightforward to use thanks to a clean and user-friendly interface. It is especially targeted at Gnome and follows the Gnome HIG.

Decibel Audio Player is built around a highly modular structure that lets the user disable completely the features he does not need. A disabled feature uses absolutely no memory and no processor time.

Decibel Audio Player is a real audio player and does not include features that are not meant to be part of an audio player. These features, such as tagging files or burning CDs, generally have a better support in dedicated software. If you are looking for an audio player that can make coffee, then you should stay away from Decibel and give a try to other players (e.g., Amarok, Exaile).

decibel-main-library
decibel.fingelrest.net