BrutefirDRC ~ Add DRC/Loudness To LogitechMediaServer (LMS)


A plugin to use BruteFIR software convolution engine with Slim Devices SqueezeCenter clients for Digital Room Correction. Provides transparent automatic switching of filters for different sample rates. Filter creation can be done with DRC, Audiolense, Acourate or other DRC software.

An optional loudness correction using the digital volume control can be applied. The loudness features uses SoX loudness that is based on the ISO 226 curves.

Features:

  • On the fly digital room correction for LogitechMediaServer (formerly SqueezeBoxServer)
  • Automatic selection of filter for samplerate
  • Loudness correction via digial volume control using ISO 226
  • Resampling of filter for samplerate if none exists
  • Gapless playback
  • removal of silence in music
  • Application of ReplayGain with and without loss of bit depth/resolution
sourceforge.net/projects/brutefirdrc

Winyl ~ Lightweight Audio Player


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


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

microenc ~ Linux/BSD Batch Encoding Script


microenc is a small Bash shell script for Linux/BSD for encoding directories with audio files to other formats using FFmpeg as encoder.

Features:

  • Encodes to MP3, AAC, Vorbis, Opus, AC-3, E-AC-3, DTS, FLAC, ALAC, WavPack, AIFF and WAV audio
  • Auto-copying of metadata and, for MP3/AAC/FLAC/ALAC/AIFF, cover art
  • Optional high-quality audio resampling
  • Requires only ffmpeg and ffprobe
sourceforge.net/projects/microenc

CueListTool ~ Swiss Army Knife For Cue Lists & Cue Sheets


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

LCDex ~ A Linux CDEX Clone


A ripper and encoder frontend for Linux. Requires libsndfile and lame to work.

sourceforge.net/projects/lcdex

WaveCat ~ Combines Multiple WAV Files


Joins one or more WAV files together. If you rip a five CD book on tape, you’ll have a cluttered mess of about sixty audio files. WaveCat can turn your sixty files into one convenient large wav file. Suggestion: CDex –> WaveCat –> WinLame –> Single MP3 file.

Feature

  • Concatenates multiple Wav files into one large file.
sourceforge.net/projects/wavecat

Burrrn ~ Burn Audio CDs The Easy Way!


Burrrn is a little tool for creating audio CDs with CD-Text from various audio files. Supported formats are: wav, mp3, mpc, ogg, aac, mp4, ape, flac, ofr, wv, tta, m3u, pls and fpl playlists and cue sheets. You can also burn EAC’s noncompliant image + cue sheets! Burrrn can read all types of tags from all these formats (including ape tags in mp3). Burrrn uses cdrdao.exe for burning.

www.burrrn.net

Digital Peak Programme Meter


Under-reads very short peaks slightly like a traditional BBC PPM. Fallback ballistics are accurately modelled but the attack time (eg the BBC spec of 2.5dB down for a 10ms burst of 5Khz) is only approximate. Very short peaks such as 1.5ms register -4dB instead of -9dB as per spec. The fallback time from 1 to 7 is in line with BBC specifications, 2.5 to 3 seconds. You may prefer a faster fallback, especially as there are the peak markers, so the fallback time can be adjusted by means of an arbitrary value entered on the options page. A value of 2 corresponds to the BBC PPM spec. Values up to 10 speed up the decay.

Mono matrix can be set to M = (A+B) – 3dB or 6dB. Traditionally the BBC have used M3, though M6 is increasingly used. Channels can be labelled L & R or A & B. Displays Left, Right, Mono (sum) and Stereo (difference) simultaneously.

The peak markers can be set to hold the peak. Click on the window to reset.

There is also a 20dB button. This increases the gain of of the Stereo difference indication  by 20dB (10 times). M, L & R are not affected.

The colour of each bar can be set to any colour from the options screen. By default all bars are green but it possible to have, for example, red and green for A and B.

For Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8.

www.darkwooddesigns.co.uk/pc2/meters.html#Peak

Digital Level Meter ~ 0.1 dB Resolution Readout


With 0.1dB resolution readout, ideal for accurate steady state measurements or for reading peaks however short.

For Windows XP, Vista, 7 or above.   Requires WDM drivers, does not support ASIO.

The button to the left of the readout switches the digital readout to follow the maximum peak markers or the instantaneous ‘live’ peaks. In conjunction with the peak hold feature this enables transient peaks to be read accurately.

Zero is referenced to Full Scale Digital, although this can be modified with the calibration adjustment to provide some headroom as required.

Sample rate can be set to match recording if necessary.

Infinite peak hold setting if required, even across program restarts. Reset by double-clicking meter display.

If you need to run multiple meters monitoring more than one source there is a Multi-Channel Level Meter for up to 24 channels.

www.darkwooddesigns.co.uk/pc2/meters.html#Digital

DSD2FLAC ~ Convert DSD To FLAC


DSD2FLAC converts DSD files to FLAC

Features:

  • Supports DSD input files in .dsf and .dff formats
  • Supports DSD64 and DSD128 input rates
  • Selectable output sample rates: 88.2KHz (default), 176.4KHz or 352.8KHz
  • Selectable bit depth: 16, 20, 24 (default)
  • Volume scale: -6db to +6db (+4 db default)
  • Dither: on (default) or off
  • Optional output mode in DoP2FLAC for use by a player that supports FLAC and a DAC that supports DoP input
  • Transfers stored metadata from the original DSD file to the resulting FLAC file
  • Single title conversion or entire album conversion in a given folder

This application is provided as-is without warranty or support.
Development for this application is closed.

www.sonore.us/dsd2flac

Audiophile Linux ~ Audio Optimized Operating System


Audiophile Linux is the operating system optimized for high quality digital audio reproduction. Created by audiophiles for people who share the same dream. To have their system a bit more better. AP-Linux is easily installed, user friendly, and absolutely free. Install it like any other GNU/Linux distribution and enjoy the music playback. Audiophile Linux comes with everything you need for playing your audio and video files.

Audiophile Linux Features:

  • System and memory optimized for quality audio
  • Custom Real-Time kernel
  • Latency under 5ms
  • DSD support
  • Lightweight window manager
  • Pre installed audio and video programs
  • Lightweight OS, free of unnecessary daemons and services
www.ap-linux.com