The following is an incomplete list of Linux audio software.

Audio players

GStreamer-based

* Amarok is a free music player for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Multiple backends are supported (xine, helix and NMM). *

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is a free audio player for Linux which uses the

GStreamer GStreamer is a pipeline-based multimedia framework that links together a wide variety of media processing systems to complete complex workflows. For instance, GStreamer can be used to build a system that reads files in one format, processes them, ...

multimedia platforms to play, encode, and decode Ogg

Vorbis Vorbis is a free and open-source software project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The project produces an audio coding format and software reference encoder/decoder (codec) for lossy audio compression. Vorbis is most commonly used in conjun ...

MP3 MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany, with support from other digital scientists in the United States and elsewhere. Origin ...

, and other formats. Banshee supports playing and importing audio CDs and playing and synchronizing music with iPods. Audioscrobbler API support. *

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is a

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, open-source, Qt based audio player, written in

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. It can play Internet radio streams; managing some media devices, playlists; supports visualizations, Audioscrobbler API. It was made as a spin-off of Amarok 1.4 and is a rougher version of said program. *

Exaile Exaile is a cross-platform free and open-source audio player, tag editor and library organizer. It was originally conceived to be similar in style and functions to KDE's Amarok 1.4, but uses the GTK widget toolkit rather than Qt. It is writte ...

is a free software audio player for

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operating systems that aims to be functionally similar to

KDE KDE is an international Free software movement, free software community that develops free and open-source software. As a central development hub, it provides tools and resources that allow collaborative work on this kind of software. Well-know ...

’s Amarok. Unlike Amarok, Exaile is a

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program and uses the

GTK GTK (formerly GIMP ToolKit and GTK+) is a free and open-source cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs). It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, allowing both free and propriet ...

toolkit. * Guayadeque Music Player is a free and open-source audio player written in C++ using the

wxWidgets wxWidgets (formerly wxWindows) is a widget toolkit and tools library for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for cross-platform applications. wxWidgets enables a program's GUI code to compile and run on several computer platforms with mini ...

toolkit. * Muine is an audio player for the

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desktop environment. Muine is written in C# using

Mono Mono may refer to: Common meanings * Infectious mononucleosis, "the kissing disease" * Monaural, monophonic sound reproduction, often shortened to mono * Mono-, a numerical prefix representing anything single Music Performers * Mono (Japanese b ...

and Gtk#. The default backend is GStreamer framework but Muine can also use xine libraries. *

Quod Libet A quodlibet (; Latin for "whatever you wish" from ''quod'', "what" and '' libet'', "pleases") is a musical composition that combines several different melodies—usually popular tunes—in counterpoint, and often in a light-hearted, humorous manne ...

is a GTK based audio player, written in Python, using GStreamer or Xine as back ends. Its distinguishing features are a rigorous approach to tagging (making it especially popular with

classical music Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" also ...

fans) and a flexible approach to music library management. It supports

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and

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-based searches, and is stated to perform efficiently with music libraries of tens of thousands of tracks. *

Rhythmbox Rhythmbox is a free and open-source audio player software, tag editor and music organizer for digital audio files on Linux and Unix-like systems. Rhythmbox is designed to work well under GNOME, but can function on other desktop environments. I ...

is an audio player inspired by Apple

iTunes iTunes () is a software program that acts as a media player, media library, mobile device management utility, and the client app for the iTunes Store. Developed by Apple Inc., it is used to purchase, play, download, and organize digital mul ...

. *

Songbird A songbird is a bird belonging to the suborder Passeri of the perching birds (Passeriformes). Another name that is sometimes seen as the scientific or vernacular name is Oscines, from Latin ''oscen'', "songbird". The Passeriformes contains 500 ...

is a cross-platform, open-source media player and web browser. It is built using code from the

Firefox Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current and ...

web browser. The

graphical user interface The GUI ( "UI" by itself is still usually pronounced . or ), graphical user interface, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and audio indicator such as primary notation, inste ...

(GUI) is very similar to Apple iTunes, and it can sync with Apple iPods. Like Firefox, Songbird is extensible via downloadable add-ons. It's able to display lyrics retrieved from the net, and also the ones embedded through metadata (ID3v2 tag) after adding the LyricMaster plug-in. Linux official support for Songbird was discontinued in April, 2010. But in December, 2011 a group of programmers forked it openly as

Nightingale The common nightingale, rufous nightingale or simply nightingale (''Luscinia megarhynchos''), is a small passerine bird best known for its powerful and beautiful song. It was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is no ...

Music Player Daemon based

Cantata A cantata (; ; literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian verb ''cantare'', "to sing") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir. The meaning of ...

is a Qt-based front-end for Music Player Daemon. *

Ario Ario may refer to: Places *Ario Municipality, Mexico *Ario de Rosales, main town of Ario Municipality Other

*Ario Barzan, who was an ancient royal Persian commander who led a last stand of the Persian army against Alexander the Great. *The gro ...

is a light GTK2 client to MPD

Other

* aTunes is a free, cross-platform audio player for operating systems supporting the programming language

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(Unix-like: Linux, BSD, Macintosh), and Windows. aTunes can also play Internet radio streams and automatically display associated artist information, song videos, and song lyrics. *

Audacious Audacious may refer to: * ''Audacious'' (album), a 2016 album by Cupcakke * Audacious (software), an open-source media player Ships * List of ships named ''Audacious'' * HMS ''Audacious'', various ships of the British Royal Navy * ''Audaci ...

is a free media player for Linux or Linux-based systems. It can be expanded via plug-ins, including support for all popular codecs. On most systems a useful set of plug-ins is installed by default, supporting MP3, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files. Audacious' classic interface looks and feels very similar to Winamp. It is compatible with LADSPA plug-ins. * cmus is a small and fast text-mode music player for Linux and many other Unix-like operating systems. *

DeaDBeeF DeaDBeeF is an audio player software available for Linux, Android and other Unix-like operating systems. DeaDBeeF is free and open-source software, except on Android. History The player was first published in August 2009. Its author cited ...

(as in 0xDEADBEEF) is a modular audio player for Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris, macOS, and other UNIX-like systems. * JuK is a free software audio player for KDE, the default player since KDE 3.2. JuK supports collections of MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files. *

mpg123 mpg123 is a free and open-source audio player. It supports MPEG audio formats, including MP3. As a console application, it has no graphical user interface. mpg123's Assembly code is optimized with SIMD instructions to improve the performance ...

is a real time MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 audio player/decoder for layers 1, 2 and 3 (MPEG 1.0 layer 3 a.k.a. MP3 most commonly tested). Among others working with Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, SunOS4.1.3, Solaris 2.5, HPUX 9.x, SGI Irix and Cygwin or plain Windows. It is free software licensed under LGPL 2.1 * Music on Console (MOC) is an

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-based console audio player. It is designed to be powerful and easy to use, and its command structure and window layouts are similar to the

Midnight Commander GNU Midnight Commander (also known as mc, the command used to start it, and as mouseless commander in older versions) is a free cross-platform orthodox file manager. It was started by Miguel de Icaza in 1994 as a clone of the then-popular Nor ...

console file manager. It is very configurable, with

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) is a software framework and part of the Linux kernel that provides an application programming interface (API) for sound card device drivers. Some of the goals of the ALSA project at its inception w ...

(ALSA),

Open Sound System The Open Sound System (OSS) is an interface for making and capturing sound in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is based on standard Unix devices system calls (i.e. POSIX read, write, ioctl, etc.). The term also sometimes refers to the ...

(OSS) or

JACK Audio Connection Kit JACK Audio Connection Kit (or JACK; a recursive acronym) is a professional sound server Application programming interface, API and pair of daemon (computing), daemon implementations to provide real-time, low-latency connections for both audio and ...

(JACK) outputs, customizable color schemes, interface layouts, key bindings, and tag parsing. * Sound eXchange (

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) is a cross-platform command-line audio editor. * X MultiMedia System (

XMMS X Multimedia System (XMMS) is an audio player (software), audio player for Unix-like systems released under a free software license. History XMMS was originally written as ''X11Amp'' by Peter and Mikael Alm in November 1997. The player was made t ...

) is a GTK1-based multimedia player which works on many platforms, but has some features which only work under Linux. XMMS can play media files such as .ogg, MP3, MOD's, WAV and others with the use of input plug-ins. It is 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 on the more modern GTK2 libraries. See also Audacious on this page as a successor to the historic XMMS. *

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is a cross-platform music player built with social media and multi-source music streaming in mind. It features support for services like Spotify, Grooveshark, Dilandau, SoundCloud, 4shared, Jamendo, Last.fm, Ampache, Owncloud, Ex.fm and Subsonic.

Distributions and add-ons

* dyne:bolic * Musix GNU+Linux *

Planet CCRMA Planet CCRMA (pronounced ''karma'') is a collection of Red Hat package manager, packages (RPM Package Manager, RPMs ) to help set up and ''optimize'' a Red Hat-based workstation for Sound recording and reproduction, audio work. Overview The e ...

, an add-on for

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with many tools and system mods * puredyne (Ubuntu based) *

Ubuntu Studio Ubuntu Studio is a recognized flavorAdministration permit the user to "Enable Nice", allowing the use of wireless networking and proprietary graphics cards drivers while maintaining low audio latency free of XRUNs (audio drop-outs) in JACK Aud ...

, an Ubuntu-based distribution geared toward multimedia * AVLinux (Debian-based)

Graphical programming

Pure Data Pure Data (Pd) is a visual programming language developed by Miller Puckette in the 1990s for creating interactive computer music and multimedia works. While Puckette is the main author of the program, Pd is an open-source project with a large d ...

(Pd), graphical programming language.

Audio programming languages (text-based)

ChucK Chuck is a masculine given name or a nickname for Charles or Charlie. It may refer to: People Arts and entertainment * Chuck Alaimo, American saxophonist, leader of the Chuck Alaimo Quartet * Chuck Barris (1929–2017), American TV producer * C ...

, an audio programming language for realtime synthesis, composition, and performance. *

Csound Csound is a domain-specific computer programming language for audio programming. It is called Csound because it is written in C, as opposed to some of its predecessors. It is free software, available under the LGPL-2.1-or-later. Csound was or ...

, composition, synthesis and processing. * Nyquist,

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-based language for sound generation and analysis. Audacity supports plug-ins written in Nyquist. *

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, a language like

Smalltalk Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed reflective programming language. It was designed and created in part for educational use, specifically for constructionist learning, at the Learning Research Group (LRG) of Xerox PARC by Alan Ka ...

for real-time audio synthesis.

DJ tools

Mixxx Mixxx is free and open-source software for disk jockey, DJing.James, Daniel. "Drafting Digital Media". Apress, 2009, p. 213. It is cross-platform and supports most common music file formats. Mixxx can be controlled with MIDI and Human interface d ...

is a cross-platform and DJ package supporting a wide range of file formats, MIDI/HID controllers and timecode vinyl. *

xwax xwax is an open-source vinyl emulation software. It was initially developed in 2006 as proprietary software. In May 2007 xwax was licensed under the GPL-2.0-only, making it the first open source software of this kind. Unlike the software suppl ...

Drum machines

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, drum machine and sequencer

Recording, editing and mastering

Digital audio workstations (DAWs)

* Ardour, a multi-track audio recorder. GPLv2+ *

LMMS LMMS (formerly Linux MultiMedia Studio) is a digital audio workstation application program. It allows music to be produced by arranging samples, synthesizing sounds, playing on a MIDI keyboard, and combining the features of trackers and sequen ...

, music composer. GPL *

Qtractor Qtractor is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application for Linux. Qtractor is written in C++ and is based on the Qt framework. Its author is Rui Nuno Capela, who is also responsible for the Qjackctl, Qsynth and Qsampler line ...

, a full featured multitrack

digital audio workstation A digital audio workstation (DAW) is an electronic device or application software used for Sound recording and reproduction, recording, editing and producing audio files. DAWs come in a wide variety of configurations from a single software pro ...

(DAW), with audio and MIDI sequencer. GPL *

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, a proprietary multitrack audio, MIDI recording and mastering software. *

Rosegarden Rosegarden is a free software digital audio workstation program developed for Linux with ALSA and Qt4. It acts as an audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriter and musical composition and editing tool. It is intended to be a free alternative to su ...

, MIDI sequencer. GPL * Tracktion, proprietary and commercial digital audio workstation. * Traverso DAW, a multi-track audio recorder. GPL *

Harrison Mixbus Harrison Mixbus is a digital audio workstation (DAW) available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux operating systems and version 1 was released in 2009. Mixbus provides a modern DAW model incorporating a "traditional" analog mixing workf ...

and Mixbus32C, proprietary. *

Bitwig Studio Bitwig Studio is a proprietary digital audio workstation developed by Bitwig GmbH. Bitwig is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Bitwig is designed to be an instrument for live performances as well as a tool for composing, recording, arra ...

, proprietary and commercial digital audio workstation. *

Renoise Renoise is a digital audio workstation (DAW) based upon the heritage and development of tracker software. Its primary use is the composition of music using sound samples, soft synths, and effects plug-ins. It is also able to interface with MID ...

, a digital audio workstation (DAW) based upon the heritage and development of tracker software.

Audio editors and recorders

* Audacity, audio editor and recorder. * udio Recorder simple audio recorder, still offers events to trigger or stop recording * Ecasound, audio recorder. *

Jokosher Jokosher is a free software, non-linear multi-track digital audio editor, released under the GPL-2.0-only. It is written in Python, using the GTK+ interface and GStreamer as an audio back-end, initially just for the Linux operating system b ...

, audio editor. * Sound eXchange (

). *

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, audio editor. *

WaveSurfer WaveSurfer is an audio editor widely used for studies of acoustic phonetics. It is a simple but fairly powerful program for interactive display of sound pressure waveforms, spectral sections, spectrograms, pitch tracks and transcriptions. It can ...

Sequencers

MilkyTracker MilkyTracker is a free software multi-platform music tracker for composing music in the MOD and XM module file formats. It is a clone that attempts to recreate the module replay and user experience of the popular DOS program FastTracker 2, wi ...

, an old-school tracker. *

MusE In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Muses ( grc, Μοῦσαι, Moûsai, el, Μούσες, Múses) are the inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts. They were considered the source of the knowledge embodied in the ...

, MIDI-audio sequencer. *

, commercial modern tracker-style sequencer. *

, a music composition and editing environment based on a MIDI sequencer. *

Seq24 Seq24 is a software MIDI music sequencer that runs under Linux and Microsoft Windows. Written in C++, it is designed to be simple to use and appropriate for live performance. Distributed under the terms of the GPL-2.0-or-later license, Seq24 is ...

, a loop based midi sequencer.

Other

Baudline The baudline time-frequency browser is a signal analysis tool designed for scientific visualization. It runs on several Unix-like operating systems under the X Window System. Baudline is useful for real-time spectral monitoring, collected signals ...

, signal analyzer. *

Buzztrax Buzztrax is a free software project designed to create a clone of the Buzz music composer. Its functionality is to preserve the playability of the compositions made with Buzz. Songs are made by adding virtual sound generators and effects, conne ...

, music composer. *

Gnome Wave Cleaner Gnome Wave Cleaner (GWC) is a digital audio editor application. The graphical user interface for the editor has been produced employing GTK+ for the GUI widgets. Its primary author is Jeff Welty. Gnome Wave Cleaner is free and open-source s ...

, denoise, dehiss and amplify. *

Impro-Visor Impro-Visor is an educational tool for creating and playing a lead sheet, with a particular orientation toward representing jazz solos. Improvisation Advisor The philosophy of Impro-Visor is to provide a tool to help musicians construct jazz ...

, edit and playback jazz solos over chord changes and rhythm. *

LinuxSampler LinuxSampler is music sampler software under active development , aiming to provide a pure software audio sampler with professional grade features comparable to both hardware and commercial software samplers, as well as to introduce new features ...

, sampler. *

Mp3gain MP3Gain is an audio normalization software tool. The tool is available on multiple platforms and is free software. It analyzes the MP3 MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio d ...

, adjust MP3 playback volume without re-encoding.

Sound servers

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, the KDE 3 soundserver. *

Phonon In physics, a phonon is a collective excitation in a periodic, Elasticity (physics), elastic arrangement of atoms or molecules in condensed matter physics, condensed matter, specifically in solids and some liquids. A type of quasiparticle, a phon ...

, the multimedia framework provided by Qt 4 and used in KDE 4. *

Enlightened Sound Daemon In computing, the Enlightened Sound Daemon (ESD or EsounD) was the sound server for Enlightenment and GNOME. Esound is a small sound daemon for both Linux and UNIX. ESD was created to provide a consistent and simple interface to the audio devi ...

(EsounD, ESD). *

(JACK),

real-time Real-time or real time describes various operations in computing or other processes that must guarantee response times within a specified time (deadline), usually a relatively short time. A real-time process is generally one that happens in defined ...

sound server. *

Network Audio System Network, networking and networked may refer to: Science and technology * Network theory, the study of graphs as a representation of relations between discrete objects * Network science, an academic field that studies complex networks Mathematics ...

(NAS). * Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM). *

PulseAudio PulseAudio is a network-capable sound server program distributed via the freedesktop.org project. It runs mainly on Linux, various BSD distributions such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD, macOS, as well as Illumos distributions and the Solaris operating ...

, a sound server, drop-in replacement for EsounD. *

PipeWire PipeWire is a server for handling audio, video streams, and hardware on Linux. It was created by Wim Taymans at Red Hat. It handles multimedia routing and pipeline processing. History In 2015, Taymans started work on PipeWire. It was based on ...

, a server for multimedia routing and pipeline processing.

Synthesizers

Amsynth amsynth is an open source realtime software synthesizer for Linux. Its operation is similar to analog Moog Minimoog and Roland Juno-60, which are considered classic synthesizers from the 1970s. The two main oscillators support five cyclic w ...

* DIN Is Noise ( din), software synthesiser, musical instrument, uses computer mouse as bow. *

FluidSynth FluidSynth, formerly named iiwusynth, is a free open source software synthesizer which converts MIDI note data into an audio signal using SoundFont technology without need for a SoundFont-compatible soundcard. FluidSynth can act as a virtual MID ...

, with the interface QSynth. * Gnaural, binaural beat and pink noise synthesizer. *

, tracker, sequencer, synthesizer. *

Pianoteq ''Pianoteq'' is a software synthesizer that features real-time MIDI-control of digital physically modeled pianos and related instruments, including electric piano, harp, harpsichord, fortepiano, and various metallophones. It is usable as a s ...

, digital physical modeling of pianos and related instruments. * PySynth, a simple software synthesizer in

. *

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, Play-convert MIDI files as-to PCM *

WildMIDI WildMIDI is a free open-source software synthesizer which converts MIDI note data into an audio signal using GUS sound patches without need for a GUS patch-compatible soundcard. WildMIDI, whose aim is to be as small as possible and easily por ...

, Some alternative to TiMidity *

, a free open source software synthesizer which converts MIDI note data into an audio signal *

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, software synthesizer. *

ZynAddSubFX ZynAddSubFX (also now called Zyn-Fusion) is a free and open-source software synthesizer for Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. As of version 3, the completely new user interface is being released under proprietary terms with an open-source-ev ...

, software synthesizer.

Effects processing

PulseEffects EasyEffects (formerly known as PulseEffects) is a free and open-source GTK application software, application for Unix-like systems which provides a large array of sound effects, audio effects and Audio filter, filters to apply to input and outp ...

, effects processing for input and output audio streams with

. *

FreqTweak FreqTweak is an open-source software, open-source tool for real-time Audio frequency, audio frequency spectrum, spectral manipulation and display. It is free software, available under the GNU General Public License. FreqTweak can (and is supposed ...

, real-time audio processing with spectral displays. * Linux Audio Developers Simple Plug-in API (

LADSPA LADSPA is an acronym for Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API. It is an application programming interface (API) standard for handling audio filters and audio signal processing effects, licensed under LGPL-2.1-or-later. It was originally de ...

). *

Disposable Soft Synth Interface Disposable Soft Synth Interface (DSSI) is a virtual instrument ( software synthesizer) plugin architecture for use by music sequencer applications. It was designed for applications running under Linux, although there is nothing specific to Linu ...

(DSSI), a virtual instrument (software synthesizer) plug-in architecture. * Sound eXchange (

), the audio Swiss Army knife. *

LV2 LV2 (LADSPA Version 2) is a set of royalty-free open standards for plug-in (computing), plug-ins and matching host applications. It includes support for the audio synthesis, synthesis and digital signal processing, processing of digital audio and ...

, is the new audio Linux standard for plug-ins.

Format transcoding

* fre:ac *

OggConvert OggConvert is a free and open-source transcoder for digital audio and video files of various types into the free Ogg Vorbis audio format, and the Theora, VP8 and Dirac video formats. It supports Ogg, Matroska and WebM containers for output. ...

* Sound eXchange (

) *

GNOME SoundConverter GNOME SoundConverter is an unofficial GNOME-based free and open-source transcoder for digital audio files. It uses GStreamer for input and output files. It has multi threaded design and can also extract the audio from video files. From many y ...

Radio broadcasting

* Airtime, an automation system for radio stations. *

Campcaster Airtime is a radio management application for remote broadcast automation (via web-based scheduler), and program exchange between radio stations. Airtime was developed and released as free and open-source software, subject to the requirements o ...

(discontinued), an automation system for radio stations. *

Icecast Icecast is a streaming media project released as free software maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. It also refers specifically to the server program which is part of the project. Icecast was created in December 1998/January 1999 by Jack Mof ...

, free server software for streaming multimedia. *

OpenBroadcaster OpenBroadcaster is a web-based, open-source system to run community radio and television broadcast transmitters with a simple web interface. History The initial concept was to develop a web based radio system to run emergency messages and pu ...

, LPFM IPTV broadcast automation tools.

Radio listening

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

Score and tablature edition software

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, score writer *

Denemo Denemo is a scorewriter and music sequencer. Denemo has been under development since 1999. Denemo helps prepare notation for publishing and lets a user rapidly enter notation, simultaneously typesetting via the LilyPond music engraver. Music c ...

, score editor *

LilyPond LilyPond is a computer program and file format for music engraving. One of LilyPond's major goals is to produce scores that are engraved with traditional layout rules, reflecting the era when scores were engraved by hand. LilyPond is cross-pl ...

, score typesetter *

NoteEdit NoteEdit is a defunct music scorewriter for Linux and other Unix-like computer operating systems. Its official successor is Canorus. NoteEdit is written in C++, uses the Qt3 toolkit, and is integrated with KDE. Released under the GPL-2.0-or-lat ...

, score writer * MuseScore, score writer *

TuxGuitar TuxGuitar is a free and open-source tablature editor, which includes features such as tablature editing, score editing, and import and export of Guitar Pro gp3, gp4, and gp5 files. In addition, TuxGuitar's tablature and staff interfaces function ...

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

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