Mp3Splt-project is a cross-platform utility to split mp3, ogg vorbis and native FLAC files by selecting a begin and an end time position, without decoding. It’s very useful to split large mp3, ogg vorbis or FLAC files to make smaller files or to split entire albums to obtain original tracks. If you want to split an album, you can select split points and filenames manually, you can get them automatically from CDDB (internet or a local file) or from .cue files. Also supports automatic silence splitting, which can be used to adjust cddb/cue split points. Trimming using silence detection is also available. You can extract tracks from Mp3Wrap or AlbumWrap files in few seconds.
Tag Archives: Open Source
Audacious & XMMS ~ VU Meters Plugin
Open source, multi-instance, skinnable VU meters for Audacious and XMMS.

Audacious with several instances
vumeterplugin.sourceforge.net
Discussion
Downloads
Skins:
http://vumeterplugin.sourceforge.net/themes.php
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/LED+VU+meter?content=140540
Sox ~ The Swiss Army Knife Of Sound Processing
SoX is a cross-platform command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files into other formats. It can also apply various effects to these sound files, and, as an added bonus, SoX can play and record audio files on most platforms.

Sox sample session
Website
Features
Download
Documentation
Scripts
FAQ
Additional resources:
www.audiofaidate.org/sw/sox-dsd/
Ex Falso/Quod Libet ~ Cross Platform Music Editor / Library / Player
Quod Libet is a GTK+-based audio player written in Python, using the Mutagen tagging library. It’s designed around the idea that you know how to organize your music better than we do. It lets you make playlists based on regular expressions (don’t worry, regular searches work too). It lets you display and edit any tags you want in the file, for all the file formats it supports.
Unlike some, Quod Libet will scale to libraries with tens of thousands of songs. It also supports most of the features you’d expect from a modern media player: Unicode support, advanced tag editing, ReplayGain, podcasts & Internet radio, album art support and all major audio formats – see the screenshots.
Ex Falso is a program that uses the same tag editing backend as Quod Libet, but isn’t connected to an audio player. If you’re perfectly happy with your favorite player and just want something that can handle tagging, Ex Falso is for you.
Audio RightMark ~ Independent Audio Benchmarking
Need help deciding which PC audio hardware to purchase? Want to test some gear? Open source, freeware hardware analysis software and posted RMAA test results for common hardware.
RareWares ~ Freeware Audio Archive
Providing hard-to-find pieces of software since 2001
Repository of open audio CODECs, compiled LAME binaries and freeware utilities.
Convolver ~ A Convolution Plug-in
Convolver is a DSP Audio convolution plugin for Windows Media Player or any application that accepts DMOs or DirectShow filters
FLAC ~ Free Lossless Audio CODEC
FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio, and you can play back compressed FLAC files in your favorite player (or your car or home stereo) just like you would a MP3 file.
FLAC stands out as the fastest and most widely supported lossless audio codec, and the only one that at once is non-proprietary, is unencumbered by patents, has an open-source reference implementation, has a well documented format and API and has several other independent implementations.
xiph.org/flac
xiph.org/flac/comparison
xiph.org/flac/documentation
xiph.org/flac/download
xiph.org/flac/faq
sourceforge.net/projects/flac
github.com/xiph/flac
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC
Additional resources:
sourceforge.net/projects/flacfrontend
FLAC Development Forum @ Hydrogen Audio
FLAC Test Bench:
wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=FLAC_decoder_testbench
Encoders:
FLACCL ~ cue.tools/wiki/FLACCL
Max ~ Mac Audio CD Ripper
A Mac application for ripping high quality audio files from CDs. Integrated with MusicBrainz.
Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or later
CUERipper ~ Open Source PC CD Ripper
CUERipper is an utility for extracting digital audio from CDs, and an open-source alternative to EAC. It has a lot fewer configuration options, so it’s somewhat easier to use, and is included in CUETools package.
Supports AccurateRip, CTDB, freeDB and MusicBrainz