Tag Archives: macOS

Shairport Sync ~ Unix AirPlay Player

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Shairport Sync is an AirPlay audio player – it plays audio streamed from iTunes, iOS, Apple TV and macOS devices and AirPlay sources such as Quicktime Player and ForkedDaapd, among others.

Audio played by a Shairport Sync-powered device stays synchronised with the source and hence with similar devices playing the same source. In this way, synchronised multi-room audio is possible for players that support it, such as iTunes and the macOS Music app.

Shairport Sync runs on Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. It does not support AirPlay video or photo streaming.

github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync
github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync/wiki

andes ~ Perlin Noise Sound Synthesiser

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Andes is a standalone software synthesiser, or plugin, in early stages of development. The core of Andes is an original oscillator which uses a pseudo-3D version of Perlin Noise to produce distinctively digital sound.

andes

artfwo.github.io/andes
github.com/artfwo/andes

BlackHole ~ Mac Virtual Cable

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BlackHole is a modern macOS virtual audio driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.

BlackHole

existential.audio/blackhole
github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole

Background Music ~ macOS Audio Utility

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  • Automatically pauses your music player when other audio starts playing and unpauses it afterwards
  • Per-application volume, boost quiet apps
  • Record system audio

github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic
awesomeopensource.com/project/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic

eqMac ~ Mac System Wide Equalizer

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System-wide audio equalizer for the Mac. Basic edition is free and open source. Improves your audio listening on OSX / macOS. Experience music on your Mac, how it’s meant to be.

eqmac

eqmac.app
github.com/bitgapp/eqMac

XiX ~ Open Source Music Player

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XiX Player is a free, easy to use, multi-platform music player that currently runs in Linux, Linux ARM (Raspberry Pi), Windows & MacOS Intel

Features:

  • Supports the following file formats: MP3, OGG, M4A (non-DRM), AAC, FLAC, OPUS, APE, DFF, WAV
  • Play & rip your CDs to MP3 or FLAC with CD-Text and CDDB support.
  • Rip CD/DVD tracks to MP3 or FLAC. Needs mplayer.
  • See albums the chosen artist is on and vice versa.
  • Create and use playlists.
  • Online radio stations + presets.
  • Record online radio stations.
  • Schedule Radio station recordings.
  • Listen to & download podcasts.
  • Play license free audio from the Internet Archive.
  • Show the lyrics and CD covers of the song being played.
  • Shuffle and repeat.
  • Reverse play.
  • Crossfading & trimming.
  • Search.
  • Rate your songs.
  • EQ + FXs (Flanger, Echo & Reverb).
  • Set EQ & trim for individual songs.
  • Copy, delete or rename files.
  • Change ID3 tag (only for MP3/OGG/FLAC/APE).
  • Multiple tagging / renaming.
  • Theme support (Basic).
XIX

sourceforge.net/projects/xixmusicplayer

SonicBirth ~ Create Powerful Audio Plugins

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SonicBirth is an AudioUnit designing MacOS application. The first in its category, it allows users to build their own AudioUnit plugins, either by working with existing circuits or by creating circuits completely from scratch. SonicBirth is also a free AudioUnits package, as it comes bundled with a set of plugins designed for standalone use as plugins as well as pre-constructed circuits to modify or build upon for creating new plugins. Whether you’re looking for traditional eqs, compressors, and reverbs, or softsynths, distortion, and filters, etc., SonicBirth allows you unprecedented freedom and creativity over your sound.

sonicbirth

sonicbirth.sourceforge.net

ALAC ~ Apple Lossless Audio Codec

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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.

perkele.cc/software/ALAC

SoundFlower ~ Mac Virtual Audio Cable

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Soundflower is a MacOS system extension that allows applications to pass audio to other applications. Soundflower is easy to use, it simply presents itself as an audio device, allowing any audio application to send and receive audio with no other support needed. ~ code.google.com

Downloads:

Tutorials:

Cue Sheet Generator ~ Multi-platform, Open-source Utility

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A program to easily generate cue sheets for CD images with compressed, or raw (wav), audio tracks, usable, for example, in DosBox.

cuesheet generator

Cue Sheet Generator in action

sourceforge.net/projects/cuegen
Downloads

beets ~ The Music Geek’s Media Organizer

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The purpose of beets is to get your music collection right once and for all. It catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes using the MusicBrainz database. Then it provides a bouquet of tools for manipulating and accessing your music.

Because beets is designed as a library, it can do almost anything you can imagine for your music collection. Via plugins, beets becomes a panacea:

  • Fetch or calculate all the metadata you could possibly need: album art, lyrics, genres, tempos, ReplayGain levels, or acoustic fingerprints.
  • Get metadata from MusicBrainz, Discogs or Beatport. Or guess metadata using songs’ filenames or their acoustic fingerprints.
  • Transcode audio to any format you like.
  • Check your library for duplicate tracks and albums or for albums that are missing tracks
  • Browse your music library graphically through a Web browser and play it in any browser that supports HTML5 Audio and lots more.

beets.io

ardour ~ Freeware Digital Audio Workstation

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Grab yourself a nice audio interface. Plug in a microphone or a keyboard. Import audio or MIDI from your hard drive or the Freesound database. Cut, move, stretch, copy, paste, delete, align, trim, crossfade, rename, snapshot, zoom, transpose, quantize, swing, drag, drop. All with unlimited undo/redo. All in the same window.

Mix, mute, solo, fader, automate, EQ, dynamics, insert, send, pre-fader, post-fader, sync, monitor, isolate. Floating point fidelity, the most flexible mixer architecture in the industry, hundreds of plugins and external control surfaces.

Ardour - Retina - No Plugins

ardour.org
community.ardour.org/download
Plugins
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardour_(software)