See also:

• Computers: Open Source: Software: Music and Audio  (9)
• Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Linux: Projects: Multimedia: Music and Audio  (7)

AlsaPlayer - - PCM player written for ALSA driver and library, supports other outputs like OSS and esd. Plug-in interface.

Audio File Library - - An API for accessing a variety of audio file formats.

Aumix - - Adjusts an audio mixer. X and ncurses interfaces.

Baudline Signal Analyzer - - Realtime signal analysis and spectrum analyzer tool.

BEAST/BSE - - GTK+/GNOME based front-end to BSE framework to simulate audio synthesis and tracking composition.

Cdgtools - - Suite of tools for handling CD+G karaoke disks and files.

CoverViewer XMMS Plugin - - Displays covers or images related to songs. Internet cover retrieval facility. Handles tagged files, CDs, and streams.

Dir2ogg - - Python script that converts MP3, WAV, and M4A files to Ogg format.

Ecasound - - Audio software for Unix.

Geoff and Dave's Audio Mixer - - A digital audio mixing package.

GLAME - - Free and extensible Linux/Unix audio editor. GNU licence.

GNOMAD - - GTK+ client program for the NOMAD Jukebox, using libnjb and id3lib to handle communications and ID3 tagging.

Gnome Wave Cleaner - - An audio cleanup tool for GNOME. Handles WAV, MP3, and Ogg.

GramoFile - - Assists in moving gramophone records onto CDs. Filters out hiss and pops.

Grip - - Cd-player and cd-ripper. It also provides an automated frontend for MP3 and other audio format encoders.

KGuitune - - A program for tuning guitars and other instruments that is available for download.

Lilypond - - Creates beautiful music notation from text input. Outputs Postscript, SVG or MIDI files. GNU license.

Linux Sampler Project - - Audio sampler with features similar to hardware samplers. Offers speed, high audio quality rates, supports common sample library formats.

Mixxx - - Open source DJ mixer.

MusE - - MIDI/Audio sequencer with recording and editing capabilities.

Orpheus - - Text and window mode audio player for CDs and MP3 with CDDB interface.

Philip's Music Writer - - A music typesetter. Input is a plain text file, output is in PostScript.

PyKaraoke - - CDG/MP3+G karaoke player. Can search inside Zip files.

Rosegarden - - MIDI sequencer and notation editor for Unix-like systems.

SndStretch - - Plug-in for XMMS to adjust pitch and tempo of a sound.

Sound Processing Kit - - An object-oriented class library for audio signal processing.

SoundTracker - - MOD tracker for X, similar to FastTracker. Includes a sample recorder and editor.

The TAON Project - - A sound editor for Linux.

TiMidity++ - - MIDI player, converter to wav. Uses Gravis compatible patches and can play these through soundcards lacking their own patches.

XMMS-SID SIDplay Plugin - - Plug-in for playing Commodore 64 music (SID tunes) with XMMS. Requires libSIDPlay library (link given).

xmp: Extended Module Player - - Open source (GNU GPL) portable module player for Unix or Win32.

Zero Tolerance's Cue Creator - - A small Perl script that allows you to create CUE and MP3/OGG/WAV-files from audio CD's.

ZynAddSubFX - - Synthesizer with two engines, realtime polyphonic, Midi support, microtonal capability, effects.