Category Archives: Unix

UNIX audio applications, tools or utilities

Kid3 ~ Cross-platform Audio Tagger

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Kid3 audio tag editor can edit the tags of MP3, Ogg, FLAC, MPC & WMA files in an efficient way, convert between ID3v1 and ID3v2, set the tags of multiple files, generate tags from file names or vice versa and import from freedb, MusicBrainz and Discogs.

Features

  • Edit and convert between ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags of MP3 files
  • Supports MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV and AIFF files
  • Generate tags from filenames and file-, directorynames from tags
  • Mass-tagging of multiple files
  • Import from gnudb.org, MusicBrainz and Discogs
kid3

kid3.sourceforge.io
sourceforge.net/projects/kid3
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid3

Jukes ~ Cross-platform Music Organizer & Player

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Jukes was created for the serious music lover. This program was created for people who rip full CD’s or possibly their entire CD collection to their hard drive. Jukes allows you to have all of your CD’s at your fingertips and play them like a real jukebox. Perfect for DJ’s, whether in your house or for parties or whatever, spin all of your favorite tunes anytime you want. No more loading the files in to play them and removing them to add more to the list, now all of your CD’s are at your disposal! Jukes is cross-platform and operates on Windows, Solaris, Linux, and Mac OSX.

jukes-screenshot

code.google.com/archive/p/jukes
Downloads

PortAudio ~ Free Cross-platform Open-source Audio I/O Library

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PortAudio is a free, cross-platform, open-source, audio I/O library.  It lets you write simple audio programs in ‘C’ or C++ that will compile and run on many platforms including Windows, Macintosh OS X, and Unix (OSS/ALSA). It is intended to promote the exchange of audio software between developers on different platforms. Many applications use PortAudio for Audio I/O.

www.portaudio.com

guitarix ~ Linux Virtual Guitar Amplifier

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guitarix is a virtual guitar amplifier for Linux running on Jack Audio Connection Kit. It is free as in speech and free as in beer. The available source code allows you to build it on other UNIX-like systems too, namely BSD and MacOSX.

guitarix takes the signal from your guitar as any real amp would do: as a mono-signal from your sound card. The input is processed by a main amp and a rack-section. Both can be routed separately and deliver a processed stereo-signal via Jack. You may fill the rack with effects from more than 25 built-in modules from a simple noise gate to brain-slashing modulation f/x stuff like flanger, phaser or auto-wah.

Guitarix_0.35.0
guitarix 0.35.0

guitarix.org
sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix

Hydrogen ~ Advanced Linux Drum Machine

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Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux. Its main goal is to provide professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.

Hydrogen Interface

www.hydrogen-music.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_(software)

ZynAddSubFX ~ Multi-platform Synthesizer

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ZynAddSubFX is a fully featured open source software synthesizer capable of making a countless number of instruments …

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zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net
zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/download
VST version
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZynAddSubFX

Qtractor ~ Audio / MIDI Multi-track Sequencer

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Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework. Target platform is Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio, and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI, are the main infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio.

qtractor-screenshot16

qtractor.sourceforge.io
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtractor

MiniLyrics ~ Display Music Lyrics Free

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  • Lyrics plugin software for iTunes, Windows Media Player, Winamp, etc. You needn’t change your way of enjoying music.
  • Display scrolling lyrics, you can follow along with the artist and catch every word.
  • Automatically search and download lyrics.
  • Huge lyrics database, and it is expanding every day.
  • Download and save lyrics in your song files, you can view these lyrics on your iPod or iPhone.
  • Amazing translucency skins.
  • Cross-platform, support Windows, Mac and Android.
minilyrics

www.crintsoft.com/MiniLyrics

AudioCuesheetEditor ~ Create Cuesheets Easily

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Annoyed by the difficulty of writing your audio cuesheets via a text editor? Here comes the solution! AudioCuesheetEditor helps you when editing your audio cue sheet file.

With AudioCuesheetEditor you can import text files, edit the imported data and afterwards export to a working audio cue sheet. There are also other export possibilities like csv or xml. Feel free to try it.  😉

audiocuesheeteditor

sourceforge.net/projects/audiocuesheet

Aqualung ~ Advanced Gapless Audio Player

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Aqualung is an advanced music player originally targeted at the GNU/Linux operating system, today also running on FreeBSD and OpenBSD, with native ports to Mac OSX and even Microsoft Windows. It plays audio CDs, internet radio streams and podcasts as well as sound files in just about any audio format and has the feature of inserting no gaps between adjacent tracks.

Aqualung

Default Skin

Website
Download
GitHub
SourceForge
Wikipedia

JACK ~ Audio Connection Kit

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Have you ever wanted to take the audio output of one piece of software and send it to another? How about taking the output of that same program and send it to two others, then record the result in the first program? Or maybe you’re a programmer who writes real-time audio and music applications and who is looking for a cross-platform API that enables not only device sharing but also inter-application audio routing, and is incredibly easy to learn and use? If so, JACK may be what you’ve been looking for.

Audio Connection Kit

jackaudio.org
jackaudio.org/downloads

JACK Rack is an effects “rack” for the JACK low latency audio API. The rack can be filled with LADSPA effects plugins and can be controlled using the ALSA sequencer. It’s phat; it turns your computer into an effects box.

jack-rack

jack-rack.sourceforge.net

Gnome Extension:

extensions.gnome.org/extension/1135/jackvolume

MP3Packer ~ Shrink Or Change MP3s CBR / VBR

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MP3packer is a program which can rearrange the data within an MP3 to fulfill specific goals. By default, the program generates the smallest MP3 possible (with the least padding). However, many people also use it to turn VBR files into CBR for use with players which don’t support VBR.

It can save space by storing frame data in the smallest possible frame. Usually MP3s are already stored in the most efficient way possible. However, for high-bitrate CBR files (like -b 320) there can be a lot of wasted space. ~ HydrogenAudio

wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=MP3packer