Sonic Visualiser ~ View & Analyze Audio Files


The aim of Sonic Visualiser is to be the first program you reach for when want to study a musical recording rather than simply listen to it.

We hope Sonic Visualiser will be of particular interest to musicologists, archivists, signal-processing researchers and anyone else looking for a friendly way to take a look at what lies inside the audio file.

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www.sonicvisualiser.org
www.sonicvisualiser.org/download
www.vamp-plugins.org/download
Introduction Video

Amarok ~ Cross Platform Audio Player


Amarok is a powerful music player, with multi-language support, for Macs, Unix/Linux and Windows. It has an intuitive interface and makes playing the music you love, and discovering new music, easier than ever before – and it looks good doing it!

Features:

  • Dynamic playlists matching different criteria
  • Collection managing with rating support
  • Support for basic iPod, MTP and UMS music player devices
  • Integrated Internet services: last.fm, Magnatune, Ampache and more.
  • Scripting support
  • Cover manager
  • Replaygain support

apps.kde.org/amarok
amarok.kde.org
Downloads
Documentation

Last.fm ~ Scrobblers


Last.fm is a web service that scrobbles, or tracks and publishes, your music profile and listening history.

Download software to scrobble from anywhere and from any service.

Official:
Last.fm
Github

Android:
github.com/simple-last-fm-scrobbler

Browser plugins:
Last.fm scrobbler for Chrome
scroblr.fm

Cross-platform:

github.com/kawaiiDango/pano-scrobbler
github.com/dumbie/ZuseMe

Foobar2000:
github.com/gix/foo_scrobble ~ newer
github.com/zfoxer/foo_scrobbler_mac
www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_audioscrobbler

Web:

openscrobbler.com
universalscrobbler.com

CUETools ~ CUE File Utility & Transcoder


CUETools is a tool for lossless audio / CUE sheet format conversion. The goal is to make sure the album image is preserved accurately. A lossless disc image must be lossless not only in preserving contents of the audio tracks, but also in preserving gaps and CUE sheet contents. Many applications lose vital information upon conversion, and don’t support all possible CUE sheet styles. For example, foobar2000 loses disc pre-gap information when converting an album image, and doesn’t support gaps appended (noncompliant) CUE sheets.

CueTools Interface

cue.tools/wiki/Main_Page
cue.tools/wiki/CUETools
cue.tools/wiki/CUETools_Download
cue.tools/wiki/Category:CUETools_Guides
hydrogenaud.io/index.php?board=74.0

Lacinato ABX ~ Comparing Track Quality


Lacinato ABX is the only cross-platform ABX and shootout blind testing software for audio. It allows double-blind ABX testing of audio files (seeing if you can tell which file is being played), as well as “shootouts” (picking your favorite from a shuffled, anonymized list). Or you can just use it as a convenient way to switch between files (maintaining the current play position, if you like.

Lacinato ABX

Website
Web Service ~ online version
ABX Testing ~ Wikipedia

Audacious & XMMS ~ VU Meters Plugin


Open source, multi-instance, skinnable VU meters for Audacious and XMMS.

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Audacious with several instances

vumeterplugin.sourceforge.net
Discussion
Downloads

Skins:
http://vumeterplugin.sourceforge.net/themes.php
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/LED+VU+meter?content=140540

Sox ~ The Swiss Army Knife Of Sound Processing


SoX is a cross-platform command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files into other formats. It can also apply various effects to these sound files, and, as an added bonus, SoX can play and record audio files on most platforms.

Sox
Sox sample session

Website
Features
Download
Documentation
Scripts
FAQ

Additional resources:
www.audiofaidate.org/sw/sox-dsd/
codeberg.org/sox_ng
github.com/simonefil/sox-vulkan

Peppy Players ~ DIY Audio Players


Peppy Players

Hardware, software and woodware do-it-yourself audio players

Peppy Players ~ GitHub

YAFS ~ Changing Song Order On USB Sticks


Some players display, or play files, in the order that the file was originally copied to a USB drive or stick. YAFS (Yet Another FAT Sorter) allows the order to be changed to whatever you prefer. YAFS is a multi-platform, open source, freeware, command line utility with a GUI (Graphical User Interface).

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Website
Visual YAFS ~ Frontend

REW ~ Room EQ Wizard


REW is free room acoustics analysis software for measuring and analyzing room and loudspeaker responses. The audio analysis features of REW help you optimize the acoustics of your listening room, studio or home theater and find the best locations for your speakers, subwoofers and listening position.

aftereq500h

www.roomeqwizard.com
www.hometheatershack.com/forums/rew-forum
sourceforge.net/projects/equalizerapo
Multi-Sub Optimizer
Convolver – A Convolution Plugin

PeppyMeter ~ Linux Analog VU Meter


PeppyMeter is a software VU Meter written in Python. It was originally developed as the new ‘VU Meter’ screensaver for Peppy Player. With minor modifications it became a stand-alone application. PeppyMeter gets audio data from media players (e.g. mpd) via fifo and displays current volume levels in a Graphical User Interface in the form of a traditional VU Meter.

  • Written in Python.
  • Pygame library leveraged for UI purposes.
  • UI is available in three resolutions 800×480, 480×320 and 320×240 pixels.
  • The input for the program is the data from the named pipe. That signal should be provided by peppyalsa plugin.
  • Supplies 9 default meters out of the box.
  • Allows you to add your own meters.
  • Open-source. All source files are available on Github.
  • Several data sources are available for testing and tuning.
  • Provides four types of output: Display, Serial, I2C and PWM.

meters

github.com/project-owner/PeppyMeter.doc/wiki
github.com/project-owner/PeppyMeter
diyaudio.com/forums/pc-based/291010-peppymeter

AcousticBrainz ~ Analyze Your Music


The AcousticBrainz project aims to crowd source acoustic information for all music in the world and to make it available to the public. This acoustic information describes the acoustic characteristics of music and includes low-level spectral information and information for genres, moods, keys, scales and much more. The goal of AcousticBrainz is to provide music technology researchers and open source hackers with a massive database of information about music. ~ AcousticBrainz

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