Ardour - Digital Audio Workstation

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Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application. It supports unlimited audio tracks and buses. Its features include Non-destructive, non-linear editing with unlimited undo, and anything-to-anywhere signal routing. It supports Standard file formats BWF, WAV, WAV64, AIFF, CAF and Windows VST plugins. Ardour can be used as an audio mastering environment. Its integration with JACK makes it possible to use mastering tools such as JAMin to process the audio data.

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Rosegarden - Music software for Linux

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Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment. Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on Linux, ideal for composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home recording environments.

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Tone.js - A Web Audio framework for making interactive music in the browser

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Tone.js is a Web Audio framework for creating interactive music in the browser. The architecture of Tone.js aims to be familiar to both musicians and audio programmers creating web-based audio applications. On the high-level, Tone offers common DAW (digital audio workstation) features like a global transport for synchronizing and scheduling events as well as prebuilt synths and effects. Additionally, Tone provides high-performance building blocks to create your own synthesizers, effects, and complex control signals.

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Ubuntu Studio - Multimedia toolkit in Ubuntu

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Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavor of Ubuntu. It's built for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional.

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aubio - a library for audio and music analysis

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aubio is a library to label music and sounds. It listens to audio signals and attempts to detect events. For instance, when a drum is hit, at which frequency is a note, or at what tempo is a rhythmic melody. Its features include segmenting a sound file before each of its attacks, performing pitch detection, tapping the beat and producing midi streams from live audio.

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essentia - C++ library for audio and music analysis, description and synthesis, including Python bindings

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Essentia is an open-source C++ library for audio analysis and audio-based music information retrieval released under the Affero GPL license. It contains an extensive collection of reusable algorithms which implement audio input/output functionality, standard digital signal processing blocks, statistical characterization of data, and a large set of spectral, temporal, tonal and high-level music descriptors. The library is also wrapped in Python and includes a number of predefined executable extractors for the available music descriptors, which facilitates its use for fast prototyping and allows setting up research experiments very rapidly. Furthermore, it includes a Vamp plugin to be used with Sonic Visualiser for visualization purposes. Essentia is designed with a focus on the robustness of the provided music descriptors and is optimized in terms of the computational cost of the algorithms. The provided functionality, specifically the music descriptors included in-the-box and signal processing algorithms, is easily expandable and allows for both research experiments and development of large-scale industrial applications. If you use example extractors (located in src/examples), or your own code employing Essentia algorithms to compute descriptors, you should be aware of possible incompatibilities when using different versions of Essentia.

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hydrogen - The git repository of the advanced drum machine

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Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux, Mac and Windows. It's main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming. Installation: See the INSTALL.txt file.

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LMMS - Cross-platform music production software

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LMMS is a free cross-platform software which allows you to produce music with your computer. This covers creating melodies and beats, synthesizing and mixing sounds and arranging samples. You can have fun with your MIDI keyboard and much more – all in a user-friendly and modern interface. Furthermore LMMS comes with many ready-to-use instrument and effect plugins, presets and samples.

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quodlibet - Music player and music library manager for Linux, Windows, and macOS

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Quod Libet is a music management program. It provides several different ways to view your audio library, as well as support for Internet radio and audio feeds. It has extremely flexible metadata tag editing and searching capabilities. Ex Falso is a tag editor with the same tag editing interface as Quod Libet.

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clubber - Application of music theory in audio reactive visualizations

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This small js library listens to audio sources and extracts the underlying rhythmic information. The linear frequency energies are converted into midi notes which music theory suggests to be a better segregation for music audio. A set of meaningful measurements are produced in a form suitable for direct use in webgl shaders, or any other context. This simple flow provides a powerful framework for the rapid development of awesome audio reactive visualisations.

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waveform-playlist - Multitrack Web Audio editor and player with canvas waveform preview

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Inspired by Audacity, this project is a multiple track playlist editor written in ES2015 using the Web Audio API. Load tracks and set cues (track cue in, cue out), fades (track fade in, fade out) and track start/end times within the playlist. I've written up some demos on github for the different audio fade types in the project.

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Navidrome Music Server - Modern Music Server and Streamer compatible with Subsonic/Airsonic

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Navidrome is an open source web-based music collection server and streamer. It gives you freedom to listen to your music collection from any browser or mobile device. It's like your personal Spotify. It streams virtually any audio format available and handles very large music collections. It is compatible with all Subsonic/Madsonic/Airsonic clients.

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PlayJoom - Web based Audio Streaming Server

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PlayJoom is a web based audio streaming server. It is written in php and save the data about the audio files like mp3 music in a MySQL database. You can stream your music files, manage covers, and additional informations about the music band, the tracks or the albums. You manage your own playlists with your favorite songs and listen it everywhere in your local network on each device. You can play the audio files direct in the most web browsers on a PC and mobile devices.

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musikcube - a cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server in c++

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a cross-platform, terminal-based audio engine, library, player and server written in c++. musikcube compiles and runs easily on windows, macos and linux. it also runs well on a raspberry pi with raspbian, and can be setup as a streaming audio server.

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Sayonara-player - Platform independent music player written in C++

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Sayonara is a small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, supported by the Qt framework. It uses GStreamer as audio backend. It supports Many supported music and playlist formats, Media library with fast search function, Dynamic playback, Equalizer, MP3 Converter, Radio streaming, Multimedia Keys and lot more.

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MusicBobber - Awesome Audio Widget for any Android Music App

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You know, guys, we have become a bit obsessed with music recently. See yourself by checking our previous work on the Audio Visualization View library. Since we wanted to create a companion to our equalizer and add to the collection of Android widgets, the idea to develop a nice and convenient audio widget was born almost immediately. So if you have already developed a music player and you feel that you want to make it even better, then you’re welcome to use our library and enjoy the results. Our invention can facilitate the user’s interaction with a music player and nicely decorate his device screen. Moreover, it’s really easy to integrate! Read our Case Study: Audio Widget Overlay View by Cleveroad to ensure that and find more of useful information.

snapcast - Synchronous multiroom audio player

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Snapcast is a multiroom client-server audio player, where all clients are time synchronized with the server to play perfectly synced audio. It's not a standalone player, but an extension that turns your existing audio player into a Sonos-like multiroom solution. Audio is captured by the server and routed to the connected clients. Several players can feed audio to the server in parallel and clients can be grouped to play the same audio stream. One of the most generic ways to use Snapcast is in conjunction with the music player daemon (MPD) or Mopidy. The encoded chunks are sent via a TCP connection to the Snapclients. Each client does continuous time synchronization with the server, so that the client is always aware of the local server time. Every received chunk is first decoded and added to the client's chunk-buffer. Knowing the server's time, the chunk is played out using a system dependend low level audio API (e.g. ALSA) at the appropriate time. Time deviations are corrected by playing faster/slower, which is done by removing/duplicating single samples (a sample at 48kHz has a duration of ~0.02ms).

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Mp3blaster - Audio player for the text console

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Mp3blaster is an interactive text-based program that plays MP3, Ogg Vorbis, wav, and sid audio files. One of its key features is its nested playlist editor which can group albums or genres.

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react-native-track-player - A fully fledged audio module created for music apps

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Check Platform Support for more information. After trying to team up modules like react-native-sound, react-native-music-controls and react-native-google-cast, I've noticed that their structure and the way should be tied together can cause a lot problems (mainly on Android). Those can heavily affect the app stability and user experience.

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Beets - Music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger

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Beets is the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks. 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. It then provides a bouquet of tools for manipulating and accessing your music.

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