Category Archives: Windows

MS Windows Audioware

MusicSync ~ Synchronize Music Libraries

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MusicSync is a cross-platform tool that synchronizes your music library between devices and drives with advanced settings.

You can use it through CLI, that makes easy to sync you library with only a click using a script, or through GUI, that is more user-friendly. Here there are two examples:

python musicsync D:/Music sdcard/Music --adb --min-rating 4.5 --output-format opus --output-bitrate 128k
python musicsync D:/Music sdcard/Music --adb --min-rating 3 --min-year 2020 --output-format opus --output-bitrate

github.com/serpest/MusicSync
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Windows Media Player Plus ~ Enhance WMP

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Windows Media Player Plus! is a free plug-in for Windows Media Player that adds various user interface and playback enhancements.

Features:

  • Tag Editor Plus: an alternative for Windows Media Player’s Advanced Tag Editor (screenshot). Tag Editor Plus works on Windows Media Player 12 too, where the original Advanced Tag Editor has been removed.
  • Global hotkeys, allowing you to control Windows Media Player from within any running application.
  • Party Shuffle: a dynamic playlist that automatically gets filled with randomly picked songs. Of course, you can still add songs yourself, and reorder/remove songs, just like with a normal playlist. Very useful while throwing a party, as a DJ aid, or just for casual listening.
  • Real ‘find as you type’ in the media library: you can simply start typing to search, without having to click on the Search field first.
  • Disc number (‘set’) support in the media library: shows disc numbers in the Track number column and makes Windows Media Player use the disc numbers for sorting the tracks of an album (screenshot).
  • Access the standard Explorer right-click menu of a media file directly from within Windows Media Player (screenshot).
  • Restore last active playlist, media item, and playback position at Windows Media Player startup.
  • Show currently playing media in Windows Media Player’s title bar (screenshot).
  • Advanced playback options: Stop after current and Close after current, to automatically stop playback or close Windows Media Player when the current media has ended (screenshot).
  • Let Windows Media Player play/pause when you press the space bar.
  • Disable group headers in the Library Pane (screenshot).
  • Enhanced and configurable replacement of the Windows Live Messenger Music plug-in (What I’m Listening To) (screenshot).
  • Show currently playing media in Skype’s mood message.
  • Access the properties/settings of any Windows Media Player plug-in from within the main menu (Tools – Plug-in properties), without having to go to Options first (screenshot).
  • Bring back the “Find in library” right-click option of older versions of Windows Media Player to Windows Media Player 12.
  • “Play next” option when right-clicking a media item in Windows Media Player 11’s library (Windows Media Player 12 already has this by default).
  • Quickly re-enable all plug-ins after a Windows Media Player crash (screenshot).

Windows Media Player Plus! supports Windows Media Player 12 on all recent releases of Windows.

bmproductions.fixnum.org/wmpplus

audiovolumesyncer ~ Sync Output Device Volumes

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Use this application to sync the volume of several audio playback devices.

sourceforge.net/projects/audiovolumesyncer

WMPCDText ~ Windows Media Player CD-Text Plugin

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CD-Text is an extension of the audio CD standard that allows you to store additional information on an audio CD, such as album name, album artist and track info. Many audio players like Winamp and RealPlayer can read CD-Text but Windows Media Player has never supported it. Until now, because the WMPCDText plug-in allows Windows Media Player to read CD-Text.

WMPCDText provides an option to automatically read CD-Text from unrecognized audio CDs. Alternatively, you can right-click on a CD track in Windows Media Player’s Now Playing mode while a CD is playing, and select Read CD-Text.

WMPCDText especially comes in handy when using Windows Media Player for playing home-made audio CDs. Before WMPCDText, you would have to insert all the track information of such a CD manually into Windows Media Player. Now, just make sure that the CD-Text information is burned onto the CD, play the burned CD with Windows Media Player, and WMPCDText will automatically read the track information from the CD itself and insert it into the Media Library.

bmproductions.fixnum.org/moreprogs/wmpcdtext

Benihora ~ Voice Generation Library & VST3 Plugin

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Benihora is a Rust library and VST Plugin that generates voice based on a vocal tract model. This is a Rust port of Pink Trombone developed by Neil Thapen with some customizations.

github.com/carrotflakes/benihora
github.com/carrotflakes/benihora/tree/main/benihora-vst

jammer ~ Command Line Audio Player

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Light-weight CLI music player with Soundcloud & Youtube support.

Supported formats:

  • MP3: MPEG Audio Layer III
  • OGG: Ogg Vorbis
  • WAV: Waveform Audio File Format
  • FLAC: Free Lossless Audio Codec
  • AAC: Advanced Audio Coding
  • WMA: Windows Media Audio
  • MP4: MPEG-4
  • JAMMER: Jammer playlist
  • FOLDER: Folder / Directory
github.com/jooapa/jammer

Ferocious File Converter ~ Graphical Frontend For ReSampler

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Ferocious File Converter is a graphical front-end for ReSampler, and potentially any number of other command-line audio conversion tools.

It provides a convenient and easy-to-use method for converting audio files between a number of formats.

github.com/jniemann66/ferocious

Spotube ~ Open Source Spotify Client

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An open source, cross-platform Spotify client compatible across multiple platforms utilizing Spotify’s data API and YouTube, Piped.video or JioSaavn as an audio source, eliminating the need for Spotify Premium.

  • 🚫 No ads, thanks to the use of public & free Spotify and YT Music APIs¹
  • ⬇️ Freely downloadable tracks
  • 🖥️ 📱 Cross-platform support
  • 🪶 Small size & less data usage
  • 🕵️ Anonymous/guest login
  • 🕒 Time synced lyrics
  • ✋ No telemetry, diagnostics or user data collection
  • 🚀 Native performance
  • 📖 Open source/libre software
  • 🔉 Playback control is done locally, not on the server

spotube.krtirtho.dev
github.com/KRTirtho/spotube

Vitomu ~ Video To Audio Converter

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Vitomu stands for VIdeo TO MUsic converter. It allows easy conversion of online and offline videos to audio files. Just drop a URL or a local video file on the target to start the conversion. The current version supports dropping URLs of both YouTube videos and local MKV and MP4 files.

github.com/digimezzo/vitomu

Winyl ~ Lightweight Audio Player

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Winyl is a free digital audio player and music library application for organizing and playing audio on Windows.

Winyl offers great new ways to organize and enjoy all your music. Listen to music and radio, rate your favorite tracks, create playlists, browse song lyrics, tag music, all of this is very simple in Winyl.

Winyl uses the least system resources, it starts and working very fast. It’s the best choice for a laptop or netbook.

winyl-player.github.io
github.com/winyl-player/winyl

Audio DiffMaker ~ Signal Difference Extraction Software

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Audio DiffMaker is a freeware tool set intended to help determine the absolute difference between two audio recordings, while neglecting differences due to level difference, time synchronization, or simple linear frequency responses.

The difference recording  that results is only what has changed between the two recordings.  If anything – a change of component, a treatment, mechanical damping, etc. – is having any audible effect on the audio signal in a system, the difference recording will have audible content. The end result is primarily intended to be evaluated by ear.

Presented at the 125th AES convention. “Detecting Changes in Audio Signals by Digital Differencing“

www.libinst.com/Audio DiffMaker

CueListTool ~ Swiss Army Knife For Cue Lists & Cue Sheets

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This utility allows you, among other things, to read, edit, and write back the cue lists embedded in WAV files by audio editing programs such as Adobe Audition. Cue lists can be saved as small text files and shared with other users.

www.stefanbion.de/cuelisttool