Music Assistant is a free, opensource media library manager that connects to your streaming services and a wide range of connected speakers. The server is the beating heart, the core of Music Assistant and must run on an always-on device like a Raspberry Pi, a NAS or an Intel NUC or alike.
www.music-assistant.io
github.com/music-assistant
github.com/music-assistant/server
Gigboy is a web app for musicians and bands to write, organize, and rehearse songs from — built on the open ChordPro format, so nothing you write is ever locked into a proprietary format or someone else’s server. It’s self-hosted only: you run it on your own machine, NAS, or VPS with one Docker Compose command, and your band’s setlists, recordings, and press kit live in your own database, not a startup’s.
No subscriptions, no per-seat pricing, no feature paywalls — every account gets full access.
blindpassasjer.github.io/gigboy
github.com/blindpassasjer/gigboy
Pitch Playground is a free, ad-free collection of simple tools for musical tuning, rhythm, pitch, and intonation ear training.
Tuning and reference pitches
Use the tuner to check the pitch of a note with your microphone, or play reference tones to practice matching and tuning by ear. The reference pitch is adjustable, so you are not limited to A440.
Pitch and intonation ear training
Practice hearing small differences in pitch and recognizing whether a note is sharp or flat. The exercises are intended to develop pitch discrimination and a more accurate sense of intonation without requiring perfect pitch.
Metronome and rhythm practice
Use the metronome for a steady beat while practicing, choose from common simple, compound, and odd meters, or tap a tempo to set the BPM by feel.
Simple by design
Pitch Playground is designed to be a small, straightforward set of music practice tools: open it, choose a tab, and start practicing. Works well on desktop and mobile.
Free forever
Pitch Playground will always remain free, ad-free, and without in-app purchases. To run this site locally, download and unzip the latest release, which can be hosted on a webserver like nginx or by directly opening index.html.
p.jeltz.org
github.com/qwell/pitch-playground
A FOSS YouTube Music client for Android and Desktop with many features from
Spotify, SponsorBlock, ReturnYouTubeDislike using Compose Multiplatform to develop.Features:
- Play music from YouTube Music or YouTube for free, without ads and in the background
- Three Now Playing styles: Classic, Material 3 Expressive and Apple Music (NEW)
- Ten-band equalizer with presets and AutoEq headphone profiles (NEW)
- SimpMusic Wrapped: your year in music, plus monthly recap playlists (NEW)
- On-device listening analytics: charts, period history, listening clock (NEW)
- Word-by-word Apple Music-style lyrics, romanization for 12 languages, share lyrics as an image (NEW)
- Home screen widgets: turntable, playlists and listening insights (NEW)
- High quality up-to 256kbps stream (Opus or AAC) for YouTube Music Premium users
- Browsing Home, Charts, Podcast, Moods & Genre with YouTube Music data at high speed
- Search everything on YouTube
- Spotify Canvas supported
- Power your experience with SimpMusic Chart (chart.simpmusic.org)
- Play 1080p video option with subtitle
- AI song suggestions
- Import playlists converted from Spotify and other apps
- Customize your playlist, synced with YouTube Music
- Notifications from followed artists
- Caching and offline playback support
- Crossfade with DJ-style like Apple Music
- Customizing THEME (Light, Dark, Color, etc)
- Synced lyrics from SimpMusic Lyrics, LRCLIB, Spotify (require login) and YouTube Transcript – AI lyrics translation (BETA) (*)
- Personalize data (**) and multi-YouTube-account support
- Last.fm scrobbling (Full version)
- Supports SponsorBlock and Return YouTube Dislike
- Sleep Timer
- Android Auto with online content, feature rich UI/UX
- Discord Rich Presence support
- Listen Together: shared rooms that play in sync with friends, compatible with Metrolist (NEW)
- And many more!
(*) Use your OpenAI or Gemini API key
(**) For users who chose “Send back to Google” feature
www.simpmusic.org
github.com/maxrave-dev/SimpMusic
Tonbandfetzen is a collection of command-line tools that allow you to compose music based on audio fragments generated from plain text input. It contains:
tz mel– generate sound fragments from plain texttz guitar– read guitar tablaturetz stick– concatenate audio datatz stack– superimpose audio datatz stretch– rescale audio datatz repeat– loop audio datatz trim– strip leading and trailing silencetz mono– unzip audio channelstz harmonics– show spectra of wave samplestz inspect– show information on audio filetz riff2aiff– convert .wav(e) into .aif(f) filestz aiff2riff– convert .aif(f) into .wav(e) filestz tag– add ID3v2 metadata to .wav(e) filestz play– generate and play sound fragments
github.com/janberges/Tonbandfetzen
Lidarr is a music collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new tracks from your favorite artists and will grab, sort and rename them. It can also be configured to automatically upgrade the quality of files already downloaded when a better quality format becomes available.
Major Features Include:
- Support for major platforms: Windows, Linux, macOS, Raspberry Pi, etc.
- Automatically detects new tracks.
- Can scan your existing library and download any missing tracks.
- Can watch for better quality of the tracks you already have and do an automatic upgrade.
- Automatic failed download handling will try another release if one fails
- Manual search so you can pick any release or to see why a release was not downloaded automatically
- Fully configurable track renaming
- Full integration with SABnzbd and NZBGet
- Full integration with Kodi, Plex (notification, library update, metadata)
- Full support for specials and multi-album releases
- And a beautiful UI
lidarr.audio
github.com/Lidarr/Lidarr
mStream is a self-hosted music server. Self-hosting means you run the server software on a computer you own. mStream is lightweight and can be run on old hardware and boards like the Raspberry Pi.
Why host your own?
- Own your music. No ads, and nothing gets removed from your library.
- Quality. Stream FLAC and lossless files uncompressed.
- Privacy. Streaming services log your listening habits. Your server never snitches on you.
- Good for artists. Buy music directly and the money goes to them.
mstream.io
github.com/IrosTheBeggar/mStream
Bandcamp Desktop is a crossplatform desktop application which allows you to use bandcamp.com in an easy and quick way.
Note that Bandcamp Desktop is not affiliated with Bandcamp, it is only a fan-made, free and Open-Source project.
Features:
- Simple as the website
- Header menu
- Mini Player
- Directly download Music from Bandcamp
Mini Player
Keep listening to the music while you explore the website! That’s the killer feature of this web application.
It’s very simple to use: just go to the album (or song, ep…) and click File > Mini Player (or press Ctrl + Space).
Directly download Music from Bandcamp
Bandcamp Desktop is able to directly download music from Bandcamp. Your albums and songs will be automatically unzipped and stored in the
bandcamp-desktopfolder which is located in your defaultdownloadfolder (Library Folder can be changed from App Preferences).
github.com/themagiulio/bandcamp-desktop
References:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandcamp
The EAR Production Suite (EPS) is a set of VST® plugins for digital audio workstations (DAWs) that enable sound engineers to produce immersive and personalizable content using the Audio Definition Model (ADM) format and to monitor it for any ITU-R BS.2051 loudspeaker configuration using the ITU ADM Renderer. ADM is the only format available for codec-agnostic Next Generation Audio (NGA) productions. Moreover, the EAR Production Suite enables professionals to import and export ADM files, compliant to the EBU ADM Production profile. The VST® plugins are currently optimized for the Reaper DAW, which features an extension interface that is used to import and export ADM files within a BW64 container. The EAR Production Suite was designed to demonstrate the intended use of the ADM in audio production workflows, so that the standards can be adopted in other professional tools in a consistent manner.
ear-production-suite.ebu.io
github.com/ebu/ear-production-suite
adm.ebu.io
www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000607
www.w3.org/2013/10/tv-workshop/papers/webtv4_submission_4
aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=18430
github.com/ebu/ebu_adm_renderer
github.com/immersive-audio-live/ADM-OSC
Compare your mix against a reference track. Level-matched A/B with spectrum overlay and detailed metrics.
LUFS, True Peak, BPM, Key, Stereo Width, Frequency Spectrum — everything runs locally in your browser. No uploads.
This is a library that implements a proposed digital audio intermediary format, called DXD-e, that allows audio player and workstation applications to handle DSD (Direct Stream Digital) audio with only minor modifications to their input and output plugins. This is accomplished by embedding the original 1-bit DSD audio stream, along with a digital pilot signal, into a conventional decimated 24-bit PCM version of the DSD stream (which is known otherwise as DXD). This embedding consumes the 9 LSBs of each 24-bit sample (8 for the DSD and 1 for the pilot) while noise-shaping filters are employed to completely bury the resulting noise underneath the existing high-frequency DSD quantization noise always found in a DXD stream. In short, the DXD stream is made to hold a lossless copy of the original DSD stream without any degradation.
github.com/dbry/DXD-e
hydrogenaudio.org/index.php/topic,129787.0
