Tag Archives: GNU

OooPlayer ~ Lightweight Windows Audio Player

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OooPlayer is a free audio player for Microsoft® Windows®. It has a clean, lightweight user interface and it is also friendly with your computer resources. It is one of the best candidates if you’re looking for an alternative to Winamp® or just looking for a simple, easy-to-use music and radio player. It’s written in Delphi and uses Bass library and its plugins from www.un4seen.com

The listed versions are clean, without no bundles/installers and it has support for most popular audio formats (see below in the features section). This player is released under the GNU General Public License version 2.0 and is available in two versions: installer and portable.

Features:

  • user-friendly and with a low impact on resource usage
  • support for most audio formats: MP3, FLAC, OGG, MPC, WMA, AC3, SPX, AAC, ALAC, APE, TTA, OFR, WV, OPUS, TAK etc.
  • support for gapless playback (uninterrupted playback of sequential/consecutive audio tracks)
  • support for M3U and M3U8 playlists
  • integrated lyric downloader (it doesn’t work with certain files such as covers)
  • save your own playlists in M3U, M3U8 or PPF format
  • built-in support for radio stations (huge list available) including details about the current radio
  • multiple options available: shuffle, repeat, search, jump, find etc.
  • available as installer and portable version.

www.fosshub.com/OooPlayer
github.com/ozok/OooPlayer

Ultimate Mono2Stereo ~ Better Mono To Stereo

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What sets this frontend for ffmpeg apart from other stereo simulators is it creates an illusion of actual stereo separation. More importantly, it produces none of the weird phasing, and/or time delay artifacts. And very little, if any of the tone discoloration, when those others aren’t meticulously set up just right. All this is accomplished by using the ffmpeg crossover audio filter to split the sound into 8 frequency bands. The split points are based on center frequencies of a typical 1/3 octave equalizer. Those 8 bands are then panned in varying degrees to left and right. The varying width of each band is set to achieve the best balance between the left and right channels.

sourceforge.net/projects/ultimate-mono2stereo

DR14 T.meter ~ Linux Dynamic Range Meter

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DR14 T.meter is a free and open source command line tool for computing the Dynamic Range of your music according to the procedure used in the off-line meter released by the Pleasurize Music Foundation.

This tool is a very useful measure of how loud your music is, and for understanding that a good quality album always has a wide dynamic range, and it’s also useful for understanding the effects of the so called ‘loudness war’.

Dr14 t.meter is released under the terms of the GNU GPLv3 license and is intended for the Linux users who can not use the Windows application released by the Pleasurize Music Foundation, or the plugin for Foobar2000.

I’ve largely tested this application and it has always returned results identical to those of the official off-line meter.

Feature:
  • Compute the DR dynamic range of the audio file

sourceforge.net/projects/dr14tmeter

R128GAIN ~ EBU Loudness Scanner

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R128GAIN is a FFmpeg and SoX based EBU R128 compliant loudness scanner. It helps you normalizing the loudness of your audio and video files to the same level.

r128gain.sourceforge.net
sourceforge.net/projects/r128gain

netjukebox ~ Flexible Media Sharing

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netjukebox is a web-based media jukebox for MPD, VideoLAN and Winamp/httpQ. netjukebox is open source under the GNU GPL license.

Stand alone:
Client and server on one computer. So you can play your favorite music and video from your local hard disk.

Client / Server:
Play music and video from any computer in your network. A working network share is required.

Remote:
Remotely control MPD, VideoLAN or Winamp from any computer.

Stream:
Native HTML5 audio streaming support. Automatic M3U/HLS fallback for unsupported clients.

More:
Download the original file or transcode to another format or bitrate. Generate PDF cd-covers on the fly.

www.netjukebox.nl
sourceforge.net/projects/netjukebox

LAoE ~ Multilayer Java Audio Editor

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LAoE means Layer-based Audio Editor, and it is a rich featured graphical audio sample-editor, based on multi-layers, floating-point samples, volume-masks, variable selection-intensity, and many plugins suitable to manipulate sound, such as filtering, retouching, resampling, graphical spectrogram editing by brushes and rectangles, sample-curve editing by freehand-pen and spline and other interpolation curves, effects like reverb, echo, compress, expand, pitch-shift, time-stretch, and much more… And it is free of charge, under GPL license!

www.oli4.ch/laoe/home
sourceforge.net/projects/laoe

CheeseTracker ~ Sampler & Sequencer

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CheeseTracker is a software sampler and step-based sequencer. It allows a musician to turn single-note samples into instruments capable of covering three or four octaves (by playing the samples at different speeds, resulting in different pitches). In addition, it is possible to take a collection of samples that are recorded at different octaves, and combine them into a single “instrument,” allowing for even more octaves without sampling artifacts.

Using the Pattern Editor, it is possible to compose songs with these instruments that the computer plays automatically. The Pattern Editor allows the user to arrange samples in several independant channels, so that many samples can play simultaneously. These songs, and the samples which comprise their instruments, can be saved together in one-file archives called modules.

CheeseTracker imposes no limits on the length of the samples used. As a result, it can be used as a mixer as well as a sampler/sequencer. Effects such as reverb can be applied to each sample individually, eliminating the need for expensive pedals.

cheesetracker.sourceforge.net

DGuitar ~ Guitar Pro File Player & Viewer

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DGuitar is a Guitar Pro (*.GP4,*.GP3,GTP) viewer and player that works under Linux, MacOs, Solaris, BSD or Windows or any other Operational System that has Java Runtime Environment 1.4 or later installed.

dguitar.sourceforge.net

Beast ~ Linux Synthesizer & Music Creation

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Beast is a digital synthesizer and music creation system, released as Free Software under the GNU LGPL-2.1+. It has support for Linux Audio Plugins (LADSPA), multi-track editing, unlimited undo, real-time synthesis, MIDI and various audio formats like WAV, AIFF, Vorbis, Soundfont 2, Gus Patch, FLAC and MP3 files, 32bit audio rendering, full duplex support, multi-core audio rendering, SIMD utilisation, precise timing at sample granularity, FFT spectrograms and MIDI automation. The project is translated into a variety of languages.

beast.testbit.eu

github.com/tim-janik/beast

GLAME ~ GNU / Linux Audio Mechanics

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Welcome to the wonderful world of GLAME, short for GNU/Linux Audio Mechanics! The project aims to present you with a powerful, fast, stable and easily extensible sound editor for Linux and compatible systems. And best of all, it’s GPLed!

glame.sourceforge.net