mp3DirectCut is a fast and extensive audio editor and recorder for encoded mp3s. Without re-encoding you can directly cut, crop or split your MP3 and AAC tracks, change the volume on mp3s and much more. Direct editing saves encoding time and preserves the original audio quality of your tracks. The built in recorder creates mp3s on the fly. By using cuesheets, pause detection or autocue you can easily divide long files.
Audio Switcher is a 100% free, Open Source, application for Windows® Vista, 7, and 8.
Audio Switcher makes switching between sound devices trivial. No longer do you have to go into the Control Panel or the Windows® Sound options, instead there is an easy to access icon, or even hotkeys.
The beautiful part of Audio Switcher is it’s simplicity. It doesn’t try to do too much, it does exactly what is needed; nothing more, nothing less.
There is an updated version here.
Adding scripts is one method used to extend Foobar’s abilities. Not only are there quite a few existing useful scripts, new custom scripts can be written. One great script is the Biography script which displays biography and rating information from both AllMusic and Last.FM
Script Panel:hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,112914.msg929674
Youlean Loudness Meter is your ultimate free VST, VST3, AU and AAX plugin for loudness measurement.
youlean.co/youlean-loudness-meter
Denemo is a free music notation program for GNU/Linux, Mac OSX and Windows that lets you rapidly enter notation which it typesets using the LilyPond music engraver. Music can be typed in at the PC-Keyboard, played in via MIDI controller, or input acoustically into a microphone plugged into your computer’s soundcard.
Opus is a lossy audio coding format developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force, designed to efficiently code speech and general audio in a single format, while remaining low-latency enough for real-time interactive communication and low-complexity enough for low-end embedded processors. Opus replaces both Vorbis and Speex for new applications, and several blind listening tests have ranked it higher-quality than any other standard audio format at any given bitrate until transparency is reached, including MP3, AAC and HE-AAC.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(audio_format)
opus-codec.org
opus-codec.org/downloads
github.com/xiph/opus/releases
Opus Tools ~ hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,124025
Opus Gapless ~ hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=116605.msg984924#msg984924
Opusrug ~ Based on opus 1.3.1-64 Good Opus encoder for Windows.(command line, you can use it with a GUI like Foobar2000 copying it in the encoders folder). You can also compile it for Linux, with the modified celtencoder.c.
github.com/fabiorug/Opusrug
Pure-Go Opus codec (RFC 6716), zero cgo. A bit-exact port of libopus, differential-tested against the C reference: the decoder passes all 12 RFC conformance vectors, and the CELT encoder produces byte-identical packets.
Free application that converts audio files to MP3, AAC, AC3, WMA, FLAC, M4A, OGG, WV, AIFF or WAV format. Moreover, the program allows extraction of audio tracks from video files without loss of sound quality. Supported input formats: over 70 audio and video formats, including AVI, MP4, MP3, MOV, FLV, 3GP, M4A, MKV, WMA.
You can use the YouTube Audio Library to get free music and sound effects to use in your videos.
www.youtube.com/c/audiolibrary-channel
www.audiolibrary.com.co
FlicFlac is a portable (no installation required) utility for converting WAV, FLAC, MP3, OGG and APE files to any of the other formats.
You may drag files onto the FlicFlac interface, or convert files directly from the right click menu in Windows Explorer.
www.sector-seven.net/software/flicflac
Written in Python, Mopidy plays music from a local disk, Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Play Music, and more. You edit the playlist from any phone, tablet, or computer using a range of MPD and web clients.
A programmable audio generator intended as an aural aid to meditation, implementing the binaural beat principle as described in Gerald Oster’s Oct. 1973 Scientific American article “Auditory Beats in the Brain.”
sourceforge.net/projects/gnaural
The Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) is an audio codec developed by Apple and supported on iPhone, iPad, most iPods, Mac and iTunes. ALAC is a data compression method which reduces the size of audio files with no loss of information. A decoded ALAC stream is bit-for-bit identical to the original uncompressed audio file.
The Apple Lossless Audio Codec project contains the sources for the ALAC encoder and decoder. Also included is an example command line utility, called alacconvert, to read and write audio data to/from Core Audio Format (CAF) and WAVE files. A description of a ‘magic cookie’ for use with files based on the ISO base media file format (e.g. MP4 and M4A) is included as well.
macosforge.github.io/alac
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lossless
This package contains ALAC code used in foobar2000 / foobar2000 Mobile; derived from Apple’s public ALAC code release.
