Open Source Desktop Operating Systems Audio Recording Software

NOTE: This site is not maintained anymore. If you want to get the latest news and releases please visit https://danielnoethen.de/butt. butt (broadcast using this tool) is an easy to use, multi OS streaming tool. It supports ShoutCast and IceCast and runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows. The main purpose of butt is to stream live audio data from your computers Mic or Line input to an Shoutcast or Icecast server. Recording is also possible. It is NOT intended to be a server by itself or automatically stream a set of audio files.

Streamripper records shoutcast-compatible streams. For shoutcast style streams it finds the "meta data" or track separation data, and uses that as a marker for where the track should be separated.

Sweep is an audio editor and live playback tool. It supports PCM (WAV, AIFF etc.), Ogg Vorbis, Speex and MP3, with multichannel editing and LADSPA effects. Inside lives a pesky little virtual stylus called Scrubby who enjoys mixing around in your file

ReZound aims to be a stable, open source, and graphical audio file editor primarily for but not limited to the GNU/Linux operating system.

GSburn.app is a GNUstep based CD burning program for GNU/Linux. You no longer need to remember ugly command line parameters or write shell scripts. With GSburn.app you compile your CD by point-and-click operation and save your projects for later reuse.

A simple light-weight tool for editing smaller soundfiles. Because Sound Studio uses Sox, it can cope with a wide variety of audio file formats. Because it is written mostly in Tcl/tk, it is easily extensible

DarkIce is a live audio streamer. It records audio from an audio interface (e.g. sound card), encodes it and sends it to a streaming server. Darkice website is http://www.darkice.org/

A simple, easy to use iPod backup utility.

CDRBQ is a disco burning application. Being written in TCL/TK, it works on all platforms, including Linux and variants, and Microsoft Windows through cygwin. It is derived from cdrtoaster project at the desperation of losing contact to its admin.

Csound is a sound and music synthesis system, providing facilities for composition and performance over a wide range of platforms. It is not restricted to any style of music, having been used for many years in at least classical, pop, techno, ambient. Csound is now hosted at https://github.com/csound Binary and source-code releases: http://csound.github.io/download.html Mailing lists are hosted by HEAnet at https://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A0=CSOUND and https://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A0=CSOUND-DEV Archives: mail lists at http://dream.cs.bath.ac.uk/Csound-archive releases: http://dream.cs.bath.ac.uk/Csound-archive/OldReleases/

NorQualizer is a smart audio equalizer/normalizer which corrects audio files to get them all similar in terms of bandwidth and volume level. Especially useful for preparing audio CDs with files from different sources.

OMK are several small projects that can be glued together to build custom music controllers based on both free hard- and software. Our most prominent one is the Chimaera, a polymagnetophonic theremin offering an unprecedented expressive and dynamic play.

A set of Qt/C++ classes enabling cross-platform sound recording and pitch recognition. Can be used in software (e.g. instrument tuners, sound dictation, music teaching and tests) as a user input method. Includes a guitar-tuner example.

A program to record and sequentially play audio spots in e.g. supermarkets. This project is now on github: http://github.com/pryds/spotmachine

StreamHijacker is a small Open Source stream ripper application and you can easly save audio or video contents from the internet radios or video servers without any modifications or data loss. It's supports ShoutCast and IceCast protocols.

The famous Elpetozede-Project has moved to Github: https://github.com/mijoskutt/elpetozede

A BeOS driver for AMD InterWave-based sound cards. The Gravis Ultrasound PnP was the most popular of these.

Transistoradio is a media player focusing on Internet radio. Supports most common streaming technologies, such as Shoutcast (including aacPlus), Real and Windows Media.