List of Linux audio software

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The following is a list of Linux audio software.

Contents 1 Audio players 1.1 Amarok 1.2 Aqualung 1.3 Audacious 1.4 Banshee 1.5 BMP and BMPx 1.6 Exaile 1.7 GMPC (Gnome Music Player Client) 1.8 Qmmp 1.9 Quod Libet 1.10 Rhythmbox 1.11 Sonata 1.12 Songbird 1.13 XMMS and XMMS2 2 Distributions 3 Graphical programming 4 Audio programming languages (text-based) 5 DJ tools 6 Drum machines 7 Recording and editing 8 Sound servers 9 Patch bays 10 Synthesizers 11 Effects processing 12 Format transcoding 13 Radio broadcasting 14 Radio listening 15 Tabulature, guitar, and fretted instrument software 16 Music study software 17 See also 18 References 19 External links

[edit] Audio players

[edit] Amarok

Amarok is a music player for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Amarok’s interface is designed to be intuitive. It’s a free music player for GNU / Linux and works with UNIX as well. Right now, Amarok is the most popular audio player for Linux. ^[1]

[edit] Aqualung

Aqualung runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. It plays audio CDs, internet radio streams and podcasts as well as sound files in many audio formats and supports replaygain, gapless playback, LADSPA plugins.^[2]

[edit] Audacious

Audacious is a free media player for Linux or Linux-based systems. Audacious can be expanded via plugins, including support for all popular codecs. On most systems, a useful set of plugins is installed by default, giving you the ability to play MP3, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files. ^[3]

[edit] Banshee

Banshee is a free audio player for Linux which uses the Helix and GStreamer multimedia platforms to play, ‬encode, and decode Ogg, MP3, and other formats. Banshee supports playing and importing audio CDs and playing and synchronizing music with iPods. Banshee also has the capability of reporting played songs to a user’s Last.fm playlist.

[edit] BMP and BMPx

BMP is also known as Beep Media Player. BMP is a free audio player based on XMMS multimedia player (Mentioned above). It looks like Winamp and also supports it’s skins, including XMMS’s. BMP supports most of the audio formats that XMMS does; the main difference is between plugins that these players use. BMP has been discontinued in favor of BMPx. However, BMPx shares very little of BMP's codebase.

[edit] Exaile

Exaile is a free software audio player for Unix-like operating systems that aims to be similar to KDE’s Amarok, but based on the GTK+ toolkit instead of the Qt toolkit Amarok uses.

[edit] GMPC (Gnome Music Player Client)

GMPC is a front-end for Music Player Daemon. It’s fast and easy to use, while still making optimal use of all the functions in mpd.

[edit] Qmmp

Qmmp is a free audio-player, written with the Qt toolkit. Its user interface is skinnable with Winamp skins and thus similar to Winamp or XMMS.

[edit] Quod Libet

Quod Libet is a GTK+ based audio player, its main feature is its music library management. Instead of categorizing the songs by genre, artist, and album, you can search and display instead. Quod Libet can support huge music libraries compared to any other audio players for Linux.

[edit] Rhythmbox

Rhythmbox is an audio player inspired by Apple iTunes.

[edit] Sonata

Sonata is a GTK+ Music player for MPD (Music player daemon).

[edit] Songbird

Songbird is a cross platform, open source media player and web browser. It is built using code from the Firefox web browser. The GUI is very similar to Apple iTunes, and it is also capable of syncing with Apple iPods. Like Firefox, Songbird is extensible via downloadable add-ons.

[edit] XMMS and XMMS2

XMMS (X MultiMedia System) is a multimedia player which works on almost all systems but it has some special items which only works in Linux. XMMS can play media files such as MP3, MOD’s, WAV and others with the use of Input plugins. It’s a free software audio player similar to Winamp, that runs on many Unix-like operating systems. However, development of XMMS has been deprecated in favor of XMMS2, a new audio player built from scratch.

[edit] Distributions

• 64 Studio at http://64studio.com (Debian-based)
• Amarok Live
• Apodio at http://www.apo33.org/apodio/doku.php
• DeMuDi, audio software for Debian GNU/Linux (NB: DeMuDI is no longer in production.)
• dynebolic at http://www.dynebolic.org/
• JAD at http://www.jacklab.net/ (based on openSUSE)
• Musix GNU+Linux at http://www.musix.org.ar/
• Planet CCRMA, audio software for Red Hat Linux
• StudioToGo!
• Ubuntu Studio, an Ubuntu-based distribution geared toward multimedia
• Gentoo Pro-Audio overlay at http://proaudio.tuxfamily.org/

Many distributions include a "live" version that can be run without installation. Check the listed websites for more information.

[edit] Graphical programming

• gAlan, graphical audio language.
• Ingen, modular audio system formerly known as Om.
• jMax, modular visual programming environment for music. (NB: jMax is no longer in development.)
• OpenSoundWorld, sound programming environment.
• Pure Data or Pd, graphical programming language.

[edit] Audio programming languages (text-based)

• ChucK, an audio programming language for realtime synthesis, composition, and performance.
• Csound, composition, synthesis and processing.
• Nyquist, Lisp-based language for sound generation and analysis. Audacity supports plug-ins written in the Nyquist language.
• SuperCollider, Smalltalk-like language for real-time audio synthesis.

[edit] DJ tools

• Digital-Scratch
• DJPlay
• Mixxx
• TerminatorX
• UltraMixer
• xwax

[edit] Drum machines

• csDrummer, Record a drum session in a virtual studio
• Hydrogen
• Jackbeat

[edit] Recording and editing

• Aldrin, modular music sequencer/tracker
• Ardour, a multi-track audio recorder.
• Audacity, audio editor.
• Baudline, signal analyzer.
• BEAST, music composition and modular synthesis application,
• Buzztard, music composer.
• Ecasound, audio recorder.
• Freecycle, beat slicer.
• Gnome Wave Cleaner, denoise, dehiss and amplify.
• gramofile, apply filters to reduce ticks and scratches on gramophone recordings.
• JAMin, JACK Audio Mastering interface.
• Jokosher, audio editor.
• LinuxSampler, sampler.
• LMMS, music composer
• mhWaveEdit, audio editor.
• Mp3gain, adjust MP3 playback volume without re-encoding.
• Mp3splt, splits MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files without re-encoding.
• MusE, MIDI sequencer (not to be confused with MuSE).
• NoteEdit, score writer.
• Renoise, modern tracker-style sequencer.
• ReZound, audio editor.
• Qtractor, a full featured multi-track audio and MIDI workstation.
• Rosegarden, MIDI sequencer.
• Seq24, a loop based midi sequencer.
• Snd, audio editor.
• Sweep, audio editor.
• Timemachine, small JACK buffer capture tool.
• Traverso DAW, a multi-track audio recorder.

[edit] Sound servers

• aRts, the KDE soundserver.
• EsounD, the Enlightened Sound Daemon.
• Fst, how to get the vst, instruments under Linux.
• JACK Audio Connection Kit, low latency sound server.
• JEsd, a Java implementation of EsounD.
• MAS, the Multimedia Audio Server, a network audio server for X.
• MuSE, a multipurpose network streaming sound server and mixer.
• NAS, the Network Audio System.
• NMM, Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware.
• PulseAudio, a sound server. A drop-in replacement for EsounD.

[edit] Patch bays

• Qjackctl, JACK control panel and patch bay
• Patchage, JACK patch bay

[edit] Synthesizers

• Aeolus, organ synth.
• AlsaModularSynth
• Amsynth
• Bristol, synthesiser emulation package.
• FluidSynth, with the QSynth interface.
• Gnaural, binaural beat and pink noise synthesizer.
• LMMS, tracker/sequencer/synth.
• OM Synth, (ingen) software synthesizer, LADSPA host.
• PySynth, a simple software synthesizer in Python.
• San-dysth
• Specimen, a MIDI controllable audio sampler.
• TiMidity, Play/Convert MIDI files as/to PCM
• RT-synth
• ZynAddSubFX, software synthesizer.

[edit] Effects processing

• Ecamegapedal, real-time frontend for LADSPA plugins.
• FreqTweak, real-time audio processing with spectral displays.
• Jack Rack, a graphical frontend for the chaining together of multiple LADSPA plugins.
• Rakarrack, Guitar Effects Processor.
• LADSPA, the Linux Audio Developers Simple Plugin API.
• DSSI, Disposable Soft Synth Interface, a virtual instrument (software synthesizer) plugin architecture.
• SoX, the Audio Swiss Army knife.
• LV2, is the new audio Linux standard for plugins.

[edit] Format transcoding

• Perl Audio Converter, a tool for converting multiple audio types from one format to another. Homepage: http://pacpl.sourceforge.net/
• Gnac, an audio converter for the Gnome desktop (http://gnac.sourceforge.net/)
• Sound Converter

[edit] Radio broadcasting

• ARAS, radio broadcast automation.
• Campcaster, an automation system for radio stations.
• Rivendell, radio broadcast automation.
• SomaPlayer, radio broadcasting scheduler automation.

[edit] Radio listening

• Streamtuner, browse and listen to hundreds of streamed radio stations.

[edit] Tabulature, guitar, and fretted instrument software

• Tuxguitar, a tabulature editor, score writer and player oriented for guitarists.

[edit] Music study software

• GNU Solfege, a free music education software. Use it to train your rhythm, interval, scale and chord skills.
• Javtronome, a simple java practice metronome.
• multi-metronome, a metronome capable of very complex patterns, including polyrhythms
• GTick, GTick is a metronome application written for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems supporting different meters (Even, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 and more) and speeds ranging from 10 to 1000 bpm. It utilizes GTK+ and OSS (ALSA compatible).

[edit] See also

• List of free software for audio

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Free Linux Software