List of Linux audio software

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The following is an incomplete list of Linux audio software.

Audio players

GStreamer-based

Music Player Daemon based

  • Cantata
    is a Qt-based front-end for Music Player Daemon.
  • Ario
    is a light GTK2 client to MPD

Other

  • Audacious 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.[1] 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.
  • 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 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 ncurses-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 console file manager. It is very configurable, with Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA), Open Sound System (OSS) or JACK Audio Connection Kit (JACK) outputs, customizable color schemes, interface layouts, key bindings, and tag parsing.
  • Sound eXchange (SoX) is a cross-platform command-line audio editor.
  • X MultiMedia System (XMMS) 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.
  • Tomahawk 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

Graphical programming

  • Pure Data (Pd), graphical programming language.

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 Nyquist.
  • Sonic Pi, live coding and performance
  • SuperCollider, a language like Smalltalk for real-time audio synthesis.

DJ tools

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

Drum machines

Recording, editing and mastering

Digital audio workstations (DAWs)

  • Ardour, a multi-track audio recorder. GPLv2+
  • LMMS, music composer. GPL
  • Qtractor, a full featured multitrack digital audio workstation (DAW), with audio and MIDI sequencer. GPL
  • REAPER, a proprietary multitrack audio, MIDI recording and mastering software.
  • Rosegarden, MIDI sequencer. GPL
  • Tracktion
    , proprietary and commercial digital audio workstation.
  • Traverso DAW, a multi-track audio recorder. GPL
  • Harrison Mixbus and Mixbus32C, proprietary.
  • Bitwig Studio, proprietary and commercial digital audio workstation.
  • Renoise, a digital audio workstation (DAW) based upon the heritage and development of tracker software.

Audio editors and recorders

  • Audacity, audio editor and recorder.
  • Audio Recorder, simple audio recorder, still offers events to trigger or stop recording
  • Ecasound, audio recorder.
  • Jokosher, audio editor.
  • Ocenaudio free audio editor and recorder
  • Sound eXchange (SoX).
  • Sweep, audio editor.
  • WaveSurfer

Sequencers

  • MilkyTracker, an old-school tracker.
  • MusE, MIDI-audio sequencer.
  • tracker
    -style sequencer.
  • Rosegarden, a music composition and editing environment based on a MIDI sequencer.
  • Seq24, a loop based midi sequencer.

Other

  • Baudline, signal analyzer.
  • Buzztrax, music composer.
  • Gnome Wave Cleaner, denoise, dehiss and amplify.
  • Impro-Visor, edit and playback jazz solos over chord changes and rhythm.
  • Mp3gain
    , adjust MP3 playback volume without re-encoding.

Sound servers

Samplers

Synthesizers

  • Amsynth
  • DIN Is Noise (din), software synthesiser, musical instrument, uses computer mouse as bow.
  • FluidSynth, with the interface QSynth.
  • Gnaural, binaural beat and pink noise synthesizer.
  • LMMS, tracker, sequencer, synthesizer.
  • Pianoteq, digital physical modeling of pianos and related instruments.
  • TiMidity
    , Play-convert MIDI files as-to PCM
  • WildMIDI, Some alternative to TiMidity
  • FluidSynth, a free open source software synthesizer which converts MIDI note data into an audio signal
  • Yoshimi
    , software synthesizer.
  • ZynAddSubFX, software synthesizer.

Effects processing

  • EasyEffects, former known as PulseEffects, effects processing for input and output audio streams with PulseAudio.
  • FreqTweak, real-time audio processing with spectral displays.
  • Linux Audio Developers Simple Plug-in API (LADSPA).
  • Disposable Soft Synth Interface (DSSI), a virtual instrument (software synthesizer) plug-in architecture.
  • Sound eXchange (SoX), the audio Swiss Army knife.
  • LV2, is the new audio Linux standard for plug-ins.

Format transcoding

Radio broadcasting

  • Airtime, an automation system for radio stations.
  • Campcaster
    (discontinued), an automation system for radio stations.
  • Icecast, free server software for streaming multimedia.
  • OpenBroadcaster, LPFM IPTV broadcast automation tools.

Radio listening

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

Score and tablature edition software

See also

References

  1. ^ "Audacious home page".