Open Source Sound/Audio Software

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Audacity is free software, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Programs like Audacity are also called open source software, because their source code is available for anyone to study or use. There are thousands of other free and open source programs, including the Firefox web browser, the LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice office suites and entire Linux-based operating systems such as Ubuntu

Kid3 audio tag editor can edit the tags of MP3, Ogg, FLAC, MPC & WMA files in an efficient way, convert between ID3v1 and ID3v2, set the tags of multiple files, generate tags from file names or vice versa and import from freedb, MusicBrainz and Disco

fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper for various formats and encoders. It features MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, and Bonk format support, integrates freedb/CDDB, CDText and ID3v2 tagging and is available in several languages.

MediaInfo is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.

Universal Media Server is a DLNA-compliant UPnP Media Server Universal Media Server supports all major operating systems, with versions for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The program streams or transcodes many different media formats with little or no configuration. UMS is powered by MEncoder, FFmpeg, tsMuxeR, AviSynth, MediaInfo and more, which combine to offer support for a wide range of media formats Check out the list of media renderers here: http://www.universalmediaserver.com/about/

MuseScore is a free and open-source music notation software designed for composers, arrangers, educators, and musicians of all levels. It allows users to write, edit, and print professional-quality sheet music with no limitations or subscription fees. MuseScore Studio supports a wide range of instruments and ensembles, from solo piano and guitar to full orchestras and choirs. The software is easy to learn while still offering powerful tools for advanced notation and score layout. With support for MIDI input and formats like MusicXML and MIDI, MuseScore integrates smoothly with other music software and workflows. Built by a global open-source community, MuseScore continues to evolve through active development and community contributions. Support MuseScore at http://musescore.org/en/donate

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

aTunes is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform player and manager, with support for online radios, podcasts and CD ripping.

μ is a cross-platform application for media file managing.

CIOS Audio Core is the infrastructure and subsystem in Collective Intelligence Operation System. It is a cross platforms audio abstract interface, supports including Mac OS X, Linux, Android, iPhone OS and Windows 7.

A subtitle agent, which developed on Java, helps to create, modify, and operate subtitle files easily. Also providing Java packages for developing subtitle agents conveniently. Moreover, they're free and open-sourced, based on GPL lisence.

OpenAVS is the open source implementaion of AVS (Advanced Coding of Audio and Video ). AVS is competing with MPEG-4 and H.264 to replace the current worldwide compression standard, MPEG-2.

XBMC Media Center is a free cross-platform media player software and entertainment system application framework for Linux, Mac, and Windows. XBMC is capable of playing back and streaming all popular video, audio, and picture formats out-of-the-box.