Category Archives: Windows

MS Windows Audioware

foo_youtube ~ Foobar2000 & Youtube

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Watch music videos and video playlists using Foobar2000

  • This component adds the possibility of playing Youtube, Vimeo and Dailymotion clips directly via their URL.
  • In addition to single clip URLs it supports clip feeds (i.e. playlists, channels etc.) from Youtube and Dailymotion.
  • Single clips and feeds can be added using File menu commands Add location and Add multiple URL(s).
  • Component has several UI elements, both DUI and CUI are supported. There are element for searching on Youtube within the program, for video playback and elements for various technical info about clips and component workflow. All elements are listed under Youtube Source group in UI configuration windows.
  • In addition to UI elements it has several popup windows with similar functionality.
  • For Lyric Show Panel 3 it provides an additional lyric source.
  • Clip thumbnails are exposed as album art to the program.
  • Single clip can be turned into album with multiple tracks.

fy.3dyd.com
www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_youtube

Install component then install these dependencies:

Installing madVR:

  1. Download madVR zip archive
  2. Extract contents to a new folder
  3. Move folder to “C:\Program Files” (you need to be an admin)
  4. Right click install.bat and select “Run as administrator”

If it works it will say “Install Successful”

Additional Resources:
wiki.mikejung.biz/MadVR#LAV_Filters

ScorchCrafter ~ Guitar FX DAW Plugins

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A group of audio DAW plug-ins targeting Windows (VST), Mac (VST/AU), and Linux, mostly for guitar amplifier simulation, with the C-120 being the flagship product (which started off long ago as a closed-source VST). Open source, mostly under GPL.

Features:

  • Up to 128-bit (internal) Multi-Stage Guitar Amplifier Layered Distortion, also runs in 64 and 32 bit modes
  • Native Mac and Linux ports coming soon
  • Advanced maths for tube-like guitar amplifier distortion, doesn’t use cheap waveshaping
  • Designed with dynamic response that changes according to the input level – Much more than just a basic “sample in, sample out”
  • Up to 12x Internal Oversampling, separate controls for live/online and off-line render
  • Multi-Band EQ – low, mid, high, contour, presence
  • Built-in custom convolution-based cab-mic effect, works with almost any sample rate and/or audio buffer size
  • New version of C120 has less clutter in GUI, separate page for advanced features
  • No commercial bloat!
  • GPL license, but just for the plug-in itself
  • Any rendered/processed audio is YOURS (any license you want)!
  • Hand-Coded in C++, pre-fab code or “wizards” were NOT used to build this!
  • Primarily built with MinGW-w64 and Code::Blocks IDE
  • NEW Jykwrakker plugin also features custom stereo reverb FX you won’t find elsewhere.
  • NEW Source code available under zlib license (long overdue)
scorchcrafter

sourceforge.net/projects/scorchcrafter

SimpleTAG ~ Massive Audio File Tagger

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SimpleTag is a cross-platform desktop tool, which allows to update the labels of all your music before incorporating it into a musical library or cloud service.

Nowadays, the amount of music we have in our equipment is large, it is no longer possible to manage with the traditional system of filenames and directories. The most convenient way is to use the concept of libraries that handle the big market music players: iTunes, Amarok, Windows Media Player, Google Music, … etc.

The labels of music files contains all the information on artist, album, genre, title, lyrics … etc, associated with a song. This information is used by music players to manage their libraries. A good labeling enhances the user experience.

Do you want your music in the cloud? Then before, you have to check the tag information is correct before incorporating. If you do not, you will be unable to locate many of your songs.

Features:

  • Complete file information from audio fingerprint (AcoustID database). This uses the service provided by AcoustId (http://acoustid.org). One colors simple system gives you information about your search results
  • Locate the covers of your songs by the artist/album the song. The location of the cover image, uses Google image services. It also incorporates images that are in the directory you’re processing, treating them as potential cover images.
  • Allows mass renaming music files on disk, based on the tag information. If in addition to either your tagged songs, you want the file names follow a pattern that identifies them, you can use this feature.
  • Supports MP3, Ogg/Vorbis formats
  • Mass-tagging of multiple files
  • Auto enumerate the selected songs. In many cases, the songs do not have track numbers. With this feature, you can set the sequence numbers for all the songs on an album.

simpletag

sourceforge.net/projects/simpletag

Protoplug ~ Scriptable Audio Plugins

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Create audio plugins on-the-fly with LuaJIT.

Protoplug is a VST/AU plugin that lets you load and edit Lua scripts as audio effects and instruments. The scripts can process audio and MIDI, display their own interface, and use external libraries. Transform any music software into a live coding environment!

Cross-platform: builds for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. This means that all protoplug scripts are compatible with these platforms and can be loaded into a huge amount of audio software (glory to JUCE).

Fast: Use the speed of LuaJIT, and perform DSP tasks as efficiently as old school C implementations.

Free and open source: Want a new feature? Add it yourself. The source is MIT-licensed and available on Github.

protoplug_example_5-6

www.osar.fr/protoplug
github.com/pac-dev/protoplug

ISSE ~ Interactive Source Separation Editor

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In applications such as audio denoising, music transcription, music remixing, and audio-based forensics, it is desirable to decompose a single-channel recording into its respective sources. To perform such tasks, we present a new software tool to perform source separation by painting on time-frequency visualizations of sound. Initial results shows the software can achieve state-of-the-art separation results compared to prior work.

Features:

  • Source separation
  • Denoising
  • Painting
  • Interaction

http://sourceforge.net/projects/isse

Balabolka ~ Text To Speech

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Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view text from documents, customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys.

www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka

Cover Retriever ~ Album Artwork Downloader

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Cover Retriever is free software for Windows that makes it easy to add album cover art to mp3 and flac audio files on the computer.

Album cover finder

The search is based on data obtained from the file tags and processing through Google’s search engine. The drill is as easy as can be: you just have to select the folder that contains your audio files and let this app take care of the rest. You’ll have your covers in just seconds.

Tag finder

The tags search allows you to fill out audio file tags and find appropriate covers. The tags can be easily saved to the file by clicking one button. The search is based on the AcoustId service in order to get the best results.

cover retriever

dimkov.org
github.com/adimkov/coverretriever
sourceforge.net/projects/coverretriever

Nootka ~ Learn Classical Score Notation

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Nootka is an application to help learn classical score notation. It helps in understanding the rules of reading and writing scores and helps with developing skills of playing and singing notes.

Simply: users looks at piece of a score, plays it, while Nootka is listening to it, checks and shows was it played well. All in real time.

Features:

  • interactive interface to discover the rules of musical notation
  • exercises with possibility to create own sets
  • accurate method for detecting sung and played sounds
  • natural sound of guitars
  • clefs (treble, bass and others) and grand staff
  • analysis of results
  • different kinds of guitars and their tuning
Nootka

nootka.sourceforge.io
sourceforge.net/projects/nootka

foo_dsp_delta ~ Foobar2000 Noise Sharpening

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A digital signal processor that makes dull songs sound sharper, as in brighter.

Strictly speaking, nobody really needs this DSP. It’s just that some people like the effect. If you want to compensate deficiencies in your playback equipment or listening environment, the convolver or the equalizer are more appropriate tools. ~ HA post

There are four interrelated DSPs enclosed, only use the last one, Noise Sharpening.

Noise sharpening can/should be used alone. ~ HA post

http://foosion.foobar2000.org/components/?id=delta

foo_dsp_xover ~ Foobar2000 Digital Crossover

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foo_dsp_xover is a software digital crossover implementation that I have been working on for a while in my spare time as a hobby. It is a Foobar2000 audio player plugin that implements this digital crossover to achieve active multi-amplification.

This software needs to run on a WinXP PC equipped with a multi-channel sound card (e.g. 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound card) feeding the various voices of a multi-amplifier and loudspeaker active configuration set-up.

foo_dsp_xover

xover.sourceforge.net
sourceforge.net/projects/xover

Helm ~ Open Source Synthesizer

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Helm runs in GNU/Linux, Mac OSX and Windows. Run Helm as a standalone synthesizer or as an LV2, VST, VST3 or AU plugin. Comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
helm_screenshot

tytel.org/helm

FLAC Frontend ~ Lossless Encoding GUI

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FLAC Frontend is a convenient way for Windows users not used to working with command lines to use the official FLAC tools. It accepts WAVE, W64, AIFF and RAW files for encoding and outputs FLAC or OGG-FLAC files. It is able to decode FLAC files, test them, fingerprint them and re-encode them. It has drag-and-drop support too. It is tested on Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7, but should work with Windows XP SP2 or newer. It requires .NET 2.0 or later.

sourceforge.net/projects/flacfrontend