Category Archives: Windows

MS Windows Audioware

MediaInfo ~ Audio and Video Metadata Tool

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MediaInfo is a free, open-source utility for examining audio and video files. It presents technical information and embedded metadata in a readable format, making it useful when checking unfamiliar files, comparing encodes, investigating playback problems, or auditing a media collection.

For audio, MediaInfo can report the format and codec, sample rate, channel count, bit depth, bitrate, duration and embedded tags. For video, it also reports properties such as resolution, frame rate, aspect ratio, colour information, subtitles and chapters.

Information can be viewed in several formats, including text, tree, sheet and HTML, and exported as text, CSV or HTML. MediaInfo is available with graphical and command-line interfaces, with releases for Windows, macOS, Linux and mobile platforms.

MediaInfo is an inspection tool, not a tag editor or an audio-quality test. It tells you what a file reports about its contents; it does not determine whether a recording sounds good or establish the provenance of the original source.

MediaInfo — Official Website
Download MediaInfo
Source Code — GitHub

Orfeo ~ FOSS Piano Tutor

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Orfeo is a free, open-source desktop app that turns MIDI files into an interactive piano lesson: notes fall onto a virtual keyboard in real time, keys light up as they play, and you can slow down, loop, transpose, and explore any passage at your own pace. Real-time chord detection, hand-coloured keys, interactive chord and scale explorers, a full mixer, and per-note editing — with a piano roll that looks like it was built this decade.

github.com/Squarebow/Orfeo

Levyra-deepsound ~ FOSS Music Player

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Play streamed music and your own files in the same app, save tracks for offline listening, and follow synced lyrics. Levyra does not need an account and does not track you.

Features:

  • Native playback: Media3 and ExoPlayer on Android, libVLC through direct C bindings on Windows (no web wrappers).
  • Gapless & audio tuning: uninterrupted album transitions, crossfade, pitch shifting, custom playback speed, 10-band EQ, and AutoEQ headphone profiles.
  • SponsorBlock: automatically skips sponsored segments, intros, outros, and non-music chatter.
  • Audio & video modes: one-tap switch between audio-only streaming and full video with subtitle tracks.
  • Clean offline downloads: saved directly in device storage as standard M4A files with metadata, artwork, and lyrics.
  • Unified library: local files and streamed tracks share the same playlists, favorites, and queues.
  • Optional YouTube Music sign-in (Android): connect your account to browse your music and import playlists, liked songs and albums. No account needed if you’d rather keep using Levyra as it is.
  • Queue Spaces: keep multiple active listening sessions side by side without losing your current queue.
  • Synced lyrics: tap-to-seek, manual timing adjustments, dedicated Bluetooth latency offset, and non-Latin romanization.
  • Visuals: motion artwork on the Now Playing screen, falling back to animated album covers.
  • Global skins (Android): seven complete looks, each with its own layout and not just a new set of colors. Nocturne 78 brings vintage hi-fi warmth, Prism pairs deep black with raspberry accents, Torque goes for bold graphite shapes and Ivory is a soft, bright look with a dark mode of its own. Spotify Style, Apple Music Style and YouTube Music Style follow the layouts people already know from those apps. Every skin restyles Home, Explore, Library, Settings, the mini player and the full player. You’ll find them under Settings → Design → Skin. Levyra Default stays the default, and your customizations are kept when you switch back and forth.
  • Theme Studio: sixteen presets, including Midnight, Aurora, Pure Material, Velvet and Editorial. You can also build your own themes: pick background, surface and accent colors from swatches or a HEX code, choose light or dark, set how round the corners are, then save, rename or duplicate them. Levyra Aura stays the default, and one tap brings it back.
  • Mini player studio: five alternative mini player designs (Super Expressive, Floating, Liquid Glass, Ultra Compact and Artwork Focus), each with its own size, shape, progress bar and control options, plus a live preview. The original mini player stays the default, so nothing changes until you pick something else.
  • Navigation studio: four extra styles for the bottom bar (Super Expressive, Floating Dock, Minimal and Expressive Compact). Drag the buttons into the order you like, hide Explore or Library, choose when labels show, and pick the indicator, icon size, height and background. Home and Search always stay in the bar.
  • System integration: Android Auto, lockscreen media controls, persistent notifications, and Quick Settings tile.
  • Device integration (Android): Levyra recognizes the phone it runs on and turns on what that system supports. On HyperOS 3 it shows synced lyrics in the Super Island, on OriginOS it shows the current track in the Atomic Island, and OPPO, OnePlus and realme keep their system lyrics panel. Samsung’s Now Bar and other phones use the standard media controls. Settings → Integrations shows what was detected and links to the right battery page for background playback.
  • Song recognition: on-device music identification through the microphone or internal audio, saved in local history.
  • Explore: live radio stations, international charts, and genre or mood browsing.
  • Levyra Vault: backup and restore playlists, favorites, history, and preferences in a single local file.
  • Private stats: on-device play counts and listening hours, with optional Last.fm and ListenBrainz scrobbling.

github.com/LUC4N3X/Levyra-deepsound

FamiTracker ~ Freeware Famicom Music Tracker

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FamiTracker is a free Windows tracker for producing music for the NES/Famicom-systems. The interface is based on MadTracker and should be easy to use if you’ve been using trackers before.

One of the features is NSF-file exporting. That allows music created in this tracker to be played on the real hardware, or even for use in your own NES-applications.

Some other features:

  • Full real-time emulation of all channels
  • Internal PCM to DPCM-sample converter
  • MIDI input devices are supported
  • NTSC & PAL modes are both supported
famitracker user interface

famitracker.com
www.reddit.com/r/famitracker
en.namu.wiki/w/FamiTracker

ProM ~ ProjectM As Plugins

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projectM is an awesome music visualizer. DISTRHO ProM makes it work as an audio plugin (CLAP, LV2, VST2 and VST3).

ProM visualization

github.com/DISTRHO/ProM

AudioRouter ~ Windows Visual Router

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AudioRouter is a visual audio router for Windows 11. Draw your audio on a canvas: plug a microphone into a noise gate, an EQ and a compressor, send the result to Discord, monitor it in your headphones and record it, all at once. Stream game audio from your gaming PC to your streaming PC over your home network. Every route is a picture you can read, and every setting is live.

AudioRouter User Interface

audiorouter.org
github.com/MrDesjardins/audiorouter

Riff ~ FOSS Cross-platform Music App

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Riff is an open-source, telemetry-free desktop music app and player for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It unifies playback across YouTube Music, YouTube, SoundCloud, and offline local media into a single high-performance interface without ads, subscriptions, or login constraints. Provides very fancy UI and layout.

Built with Electron, Vanilla JavaScript, and WebGL, Riff provides responsive UI interactions and hardware-accelerated audio visualization without runtime framework overhead. The project is distributed under the MIT license and enforces strict privacy: all configuration, cached streams, and playback history remain strictly on the local machine.

Features:

  • High quality streaming with YouTube Music, YouTube, and SoundCloud without third-party advertisements or account requirements
  • Offline lossless playback with full local library support for high resolution formats including FLAC, WAV, MP3, OGG, and M4A.
  • Easy built-in audio editor, downloading with effects or trimming 10-band & 3-band equalizer, and real-time DSP effects (speed, pitch, reverb, distortion).
  • 1-Click multi-platform playlist migration: Direct import and resolution of public playlists from Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and SoundCloud
  • Material Design 3 UI: Dynamic color extraction from album artwork, deep UI theming, responsive layout presets, and an integrated CSS editor
  • Hardware-Accelerated Visuals: Canvas and WebGL visualizers including real-time frequency analyzers, an interactive squiggly progress scrubber, and synchronized karaoke lyrics.
  • Discord Rich Presence: Real-time playback status reporting track metadata, artist info, and elapsed time to Discord.
  • Zero Telemetry: No tracking identifiers, analytics pings, or background data collection.
  • Fullscreen mode with fancy lyrics animation.
  • Albums – see all of your favorite artist albums.
  • Customization – built in theme editor, configure everything, and a CSS editor, with animated backgrounds and interface opacity sliders.
  • Plugins – built-in plugin feature where you can add a plugin to edit how Riff works with something or add a new function.

riff.hs.vc
github.com/rootscripts/riff

NeoBleeper ~ PC Speaker Music Maker

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NeoBleeper is the world’s first AI-enabled tune creation software using the system speaker (aka PC Speaker) on the motherboard, inspired by the Bleeper Music Maker software that Robbi-985 (aka SomethingUnreal) developed around late 2007-early 2008 but abandoned in 2011 due to the fact that beeps were directed to the default sound device instead of the system speaker on the motherboard in newer Windows versions. NeoBleeper provides a more stable music making experience by solving the problem of system beeps being directed to the default sound device instead of the system speaker on the motherboard in newer Windows versions by accessing the physical port of the system speaker.

neobleeper user interface

github.com/GeniusPilot2016/NeoBleeper

SoundCraft ~ Avid Pro Tools Reimplementation

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Recording, editing and mixing audio; an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Avid Pro Tools, rebuilt in pure Rust.

A complete digital audio workstation that runs natively on macOS, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, and in the browser. Multitrack editing, a full mixer with plugins, sends and automation, MIDI, recording and bouncing, and every action scriptable from the command line or by an AI agent.

soundcraft user interface

github.com/storytold/soundcraft
sourceforge.net/projects/soundcraft.mirror

Ritmolux ~ Real-time Music Visualizer

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A lightweight, real-time music visualizer built around one shared Rust core that turns a stream of PCM audio samples into GPU-rendered visuals. Two frontends consume that core:

  • Standalone app (Windows, macOS and Linux) — pure Rust (winit + wgpu), fed by the OS’s system-audio capture.
  • foobar2000 plugin (Windows-first) — a thin C++ shim over the core’s C ABI, fed by foobar’s own visualisation_stream (no loopback needed on that path).

The core is source-agnostic: it takes interleaved/mono PCM frames and does not care whether they came from loopback capture or foobar. That single abstraction is what lets one visual codebase serve both frontends.

ritmolux visualization

github.com/IgorKonovalov/Ritmolux
igorkonovalov.github.io/Ritmolux/gallery

WrzDJ ~ Disc Jockey Song Requestor

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A real-time song request system for DJs. Guests scan a QR code to submit requests. DJs manage everything from a live dashboard with automatic track detection from their equipment via plugins for Denon, Pioneer, Serato, and Traktor.

wrzdj web interface

wrzdj.com
github.com/wrzonance/WrzDJ

thinksynth ~ Modular Synth & Algorthmic Composition

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thinksynth builds sounds out of a graph of DSP nodes — oscillators, filters, envelopes, delays and arithmetic — described in a small language and rendered in real time. Patches assign those graphs to MIDI channels, so one instrument can layer several voices.

Every node is a plugin, and the set that ships covers subtractive and FM synthesis, resonators, waveshaping and a range of filters. New ones are ordinary shared libraries dropped into the plugin directory.

thinksynth user interface

github.com/mishan/thinksynth