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View 16 business solutionsBrowse free open source Sound/Audio software and projects for Mac and Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Sound/Audio software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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OpenVINO AI Plugins for Audacity
A set of AI-enabled effects, generators, and analyzers for Audacity
A set of AI-enabled effects, generators, and analyzers for Audacity. These AI features run 100% locally on your PC, no internet connection is necessary. OpenVINO™ is used to run AI models on supported accelerators found on the user's system such as CPU, GPU, and NPU. -
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Strawberry Music Player
Strawberry Music Player
Strawberry is a cross-platform music player and music collection organizer. It is aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. With Strawberry you can play and manage your digital music collection, or stream your favorite radios. Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer. It is aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. With Strawberry you can play and manage your digital music collection, or stream your favorite radios. Strawberry is free software released under GPL. The source code is available on GitHub. Strawberry is a fork of Clementine. It's written in C++ using the Qt toolkit and GStreamer. Strawberry is compatible with both Qt version 5 and 6. -
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Clementine
Modern music player and library organizer
Clementine is a multi-platform music player and library organizer inspired by Amarok 1.4. It has a fast and easy-to-use interface, and allows you to search and play music from your local library, internet radio, songs you’ve uploaded to cloud storage, and more! Use this as an open source alternative to itunes or spotify. -
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RSS Guard
Feed reader (and podcast player) which supports RSS/ATOM/JSON
RSS Guard is a simple RSS/ATOM feed reader for Windows, Linux, BSD, OS/2 or macOS which can work with RSS/ATOM/JSON/iCalendar/Sitemap feeds as well as many online feed services. RSS Guard is also a podcast player as it can play everything via its built-in mpv-based (or ffmpeg-based) media player. -
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RHVoice
Free open source speech synthesizer for Russian and other languages
RHVoice is a free and open-source multilingual speech synthesizer. Its developers hope to give more visually impaired people the ability to use a good free synthesis voice reading in their native language with their screen reader. We are especially interested in supporting those languages for which there are currently no good voices that could be used with a screen reader. The creator of RHVoice, Olga Yakovleva, is blind herself. Many of the contributors to the RHVoice project, both programmers and non-programmers, are blind or partially sighted. -
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Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard
Virtual MIDI controller for Linux, Windows and OSX
VMPK is a virtual MIDI piano keyboard for Linux, Windows and OSX. Based on Qt and Drumstick the program is a MIDI event generator using the computer's alphanumeric keyboard and the mouse. It may be used also to display received MIDI notes. -
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A multi-platform software synthesiser emulating (somewhat inaccurately) pre-GM MIDI devices such as the Roland MT-32, CM-32L, CM-64 and LAPC-I. In no way endorsed by or affiliated with Roland Corp. Source hosted at: http://www.github.com/munt/
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Snapcast
Synchronous multiroom audio player
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. -
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Feishin
A modern self-hosted music player
Feishin is an open-source social video platform project that aims to blend elements of community sharing and video discovery by letting users upload, browse, and interact with short and long-form content in a Web2-style experience. It includes features you’d expect from a modern video platform, such as profile pages, feeds, search functionality, and engagement tools like likes, comments, and follows, while maintaining a focus on performance and responsiveness. Built as a full-stack application, it provides backend APIs to handle user authentication, content delivery, and media storage alongside a frontend that dynamically renders feeds and playback experiences. The system also prioritizes scalability and media management, with mechanisms to handle large volumes of video content efficiently, including streaming optimization and caching. -
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SonoBus
SonoBus, a real-time network audio streaming collaboration tool
SonoBus is an easy-to-use application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network. Simply choose a unique group name (with an optional password), and instantly connect multiple people together to make music, remote sessions, podcasts, etc. Easily record the audio from everyone, as well as playback any audio content to the whole group. Connects multiple users together to send and receive audio among all in a group, with fine-grained control over latency, quality and overall mix. Includes optional input compression, noise gate, and EQ effects, along with a master reverb. All settings are dynamic, network statistics are clearly visible. Works as a standalone application on macOS, Windows, iOS, and GNU/Linux, and as an audio plugin (AU, VST, and AAX) on macOS and Windows. Use it on your desktop or in your DAW, or on your mobile device. -
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Navidrome
Your Personal Streaming Service
Navidrome is an open-source, web-based personal music server that lets you stream and manage your entire music collection from any browser or compatible mobile app, effectively turning your own files into a cloud-accessible music service. It supports large libraries and handles a wide variety of audio formats while maintaining very low resource usage, so it runs well even on small servers, Raspberry Pi devices, and other constrained hardware. Users can browse, play, and organize tracks and playlists via a modern web interface, plus they can control access for multiple users with individualized play counts, favorites, and library permissions. Navidrome also implements the Subsonic API, making it compatible with many third-party players and apps across different platforms. It automatically monitors and indexes your library for new content, supports on-the-fly transcoding to adapt audio streams to different network conditions. -
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AAX to MP3
Audible AAX to MP3 Converter
Usage: - Install the Audible Manager and open a file of your account. - Sign in into your audible account (in the application). Now the program can convert your audible files. - Start Aax2Mp3 (AaxToMp3GUI.exe) and select the file you want to convert. - Click the Convert button. - The buttons are grayed out and it shows how far the conversion has progressed. - - The time should always continue to increase. - If the buttons are clickable again, the conversion is completed. The mp3 file is now to be found in the same folder as the AAX file. The conversion need (depending on the computing power) for 1 minute of audio approximately 2 seconds. The conversion of Aax to MP3 is fast, free, and requires no I-Tunes. Have fun while listening! If you want to help developing this software, please contact me. I do not have enough time to develop alone. -
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yabridge
A modern and transparent way to use Windows VST2, VST3 and CLAP plugin
Yet Another way to use Windows audio plugins on Linux. Yabridge seamlessly supports using both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows VST2, VST3, and CLAP plugins in 64-bit Linux plugin hosts as if they were native plugins, with optional support for plugin groups to enable inter-plugin communication for VST2 plugins and quick startup times. Its modern concurrent architecture and focus on transparency allows yabridge to be both fast and highly compatible, while also staying easy to debug and maintain. -
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EeveeSpotify
A tweak to enhance Spotify experience
EeveeSpotifyReborn is an unofficial modification for the Spotify mobile application that alters client-side behavior to unlock premium-like features without requiring a paid subscription. It operates by injecting changes into the Spotify app, making it interpret the user account as having premium access and enabling functionalities that are normally restricted. The project was developed through reverse engineering techniques, including analyzing application behavior and intercepting requests to replicate premium functionality within the client environment. It also extends the base experience by adding features such as alternative lyric providers, enabling more flexible and enhanced lyric display compared to the default implementation. The tool requires users to build or sideload a modified application package, as distribution of prebuilt binaries is restricted due to legal concerns. -
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Quod Libet
Music player and music library manager for Linux, Windows, and macOS
Quod Libet is a cross-platform audio/music management program. It provides many ways to view your local library, and supports streaming audio and feeds (podcasts, etc). It has extremely flexible metadata editing and searching capabilities. With over 90 plugins included, you can extend and integrate with almost anything, or write your own! Ex Falso is a bare-bones tag editor with the same editing interface as Quod Libet. 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. -
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fre:ac
The fre:ac audio converter project
fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It converts freely between MP3, M4A/AAC, FLAC, WMA, Opus, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Monkey's Audio (APE), WavPack, WAV and other formats. With fre:ac you easily rip your audio CDs to MP3 or M4A files for use with your hardware player or convert files that do not play with other audio software. You can even convert whole music libraries retaining the folder and filename structure. The integrated CD ripper supports the CDDB/GNUdb online CD database. It will automatically query song information and write it to ID3v2 or other title information tags. -
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Giada
Your Hardcore Loop Machine.
Giada is an open-source, minimalistic and hardcore music production tool. Designed for DJs, live performers, and electronic musicians. Build your performance in real time by layering audio tracks or MIDI events, driven by the main sequencer. Load samples from your crates and play them with a computer keyboard or a MIDI controller. Write songs from scratch or edit existing live recordings with the powerful Action Editor, for fine-tuned control. Record sounds from the real world and MIDI events coming from external devices or other apps. Process samples or audio/MIDI input signals with VST instruments from your plug-ins collection. Control other software or synchronize physical MIDI devices by using Giada as a MIDI master sequencer. -
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MusicPlayer2
Audio player that can play common audio formats
MusicPlayer2 is a simple music-player application (or prototype) implemented in — presumably — a web or desktop environment, intended to give users a clean, functional interface for managing and playing audio files. The project likely implements basic playlist management, playback controls (play, pause, skip), and possibly UI features to browse or organize music. Because many smaller music-player projects aim for simplicity, MusicPlayer2 may focus on providing a lightweight, minimal-dependency audio player compared to larger, heavy multimedia suites. For people who want quick playback of local files, basic playlists, or a hassle-free, minimal UI music experience, MusicPlayer2 is positioned as a no-frills solution. As an open-source repo, it allows modification — for example customizing UI, hooking up additional features (equalizer, library scanning), or integrating with other apps. -
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Subsonic is a web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music and video collection. More than 20 apps are available for Android, iPhone, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Roku, Chumby, Sonos etc. Supports virtually all media formats, converting files on the fly. Also includes a Podcast receiver and jukebox feature allowing you to control what's playing on your computer from your mobile phone.
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Shutter Encoder
Free professional video converter Windows|Mac|Linux
Shutter Encoder is an video, audio and image converter based on FFmpeg and other great tools. It has been designed by video editors in order to be as accessible and efficient as possible. It's a swiss knife tool for any video editor. Link to website & downloads : https://www.shutterencoder.com - Without conversion: Cut without re-encoding, Replace audio, Rewrap, Conform, Merge, Extract, Subtitling, Video inserts - Sound conversions: WAV, AIFF, FLAC, ALAC, MP3, AAC, AC3, OPUS, OGG - Editing codecs: DNxHD, DNxHR, Apple ProRes, QT Animation, GoPro CineForm, Uncompressed YUV - Output codecs: H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, AV1, OGV - Broadcast codecs: XDCAM HD422, AVC-Intra 100, XAVC, HAP - Old codecs: DV PAL, MJPEG, Xvid, WMV, MPEG - Archiving codec: FFV1 - Images creation: JPEG, Image - Burn & Rip: DVD, Blu-ray, DVD RIP - Analysis: Loudness & True Peak, Audio normalization, Cut detection, Black detection, Media, VMAF - Download: Web video -
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AUDio MEasurement System
PC based Oscilloscope and Spectrum analyzer using sound card
AUDio MEasurement System - a multi-platfrom system for audio measurement through sound card in the PC. It contains: generator, oscilloscope, audio spectrum analyzer (FFT) and frequency sweep plot. Compiles and works under Linux, Windows and MacOS. Source code is available in "git" and as ZIP snapshot. For more information see README.md -
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DISTRHO Cardinal
Virtual modular synthesizer plugin
A fully free and self-contained modular synthesizer, based on the popular VCV Rack. Available in AudioUnit/CLAP/LV2/VST2/VST3 plugin formats and as a standalone app for FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Windows and the Web. -
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SuperCollider
Audio server, programming language, and IDE for sound synthesis
SuperCollider is a platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition, used by musicians, artists, and researchers working with sound. It is free and open source software available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. scsynth, a real-time audio server, forms the core of the platform. It features 400+ unit generators (“UGens”) for analysis, synthesis, and processing. Its granularity allows the fluid combination of many known and unknown audio techniques, moving between additive and subtractive synthesis, FM, granular synthesis, FFT, and physical modeling. You can write your own UGens in C++, and users have already contributed several hundred more to the sc3-plugins repository. sclang, an interpreted programming language. It is focused on sound, but not limited to any specific domain. sclang controls scsynth via Open Sound Control. You can use it for algorithmic composition and sequencing, finding new sound synthesis methods, connecting your app to external hardware. -
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Nootka
application to learn classical score notation.
Nootka helps understand the basics of music notation: reading and practicing playing musical scores. ​Long story short: the user plays notes (melody) displayed by the app, which then in real time checks if the notes was played correctly. The application is free and open source. It works under Windows, Linux, Mac and Android... -
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Music Lake PC
Electron Music Lake PC
Electronic cross-platform music player; can search Netease Cloud, QQ Music, Xiami Music; support QQ, Weibo, Github login, cloud playlist; support one-click import of music platform playlist. Song Api covers NetEase Cloud, QQ Music, Xiami. The interface imitates QQ music. Mac > Windows > Linux will gradually adapt. For Android client, see caiyonglong/MusicLake. The process of login, collection, and playback is basically no problem, and it can be used as a daily work program to listen to songs in the background. The energy is limited, and the demand is not saturated. It will be gradually improved. If you are interested, you can give a star to wait for improvement and bug fixes. You can also submit issues for the desired functions. Code Architecture Diagram. Search/ Featured/ List/ Artist Details/ Album Details/ Song Comments/ Netease Cloud MV. Support QQ, Weibo authorized login, cloud playlist. Support one-click import of NetEase Cloud, QQ Music, Xiami playlist.
