Open Source Linux Audio Editing Software

SoX is the Swiss Army Knife of sound processing utilities. It can convert audio files to other popular audio file types and also apply sound effects and filters during the conversion.

mp3splt is a free utility to split mp3, ogg vorbis and FLAC files without decoding, selecting begin/end time; if file is an album, you can get splitpoints automatically from internet or a local cue, cddb file. It also splits Mp3Wrap and AlbumWrap archives. Supports splitting and trimming by silence detection. For mp3 files, both ID3v1 and ID3v2 are supported using original tags or user defined tags.

PlayerPro is a music composer and sound editor ( SoundTracker ) for MOD S3M XM IT UMX . Uses XI, Quicktime or SoundFonts. Currently runs on MacOS and OSX; playback engines also available for Windows and BeOS. Upcoming version 6 will support ALSA (Linux).

A Linux CLI tool for converting multiple audio types from one format to another. It supports the following audio formats: 3G2, 3GP, 8SVX, AAC, AC3, ADTS, AIFF, AL, AMB, AMR, APE, AU, AVR, BONK, CAF, CDR, CVU, DAT, DTS, DVMS, F32, F64, FAP, FLA, FLAC, FSSD, GSRT, HCOM, IMA, IRCAM, LA, MAT, AUD, MAT4, MAT5, M4A, M4R, MP2, MP3, MP4, MP4A, MPC, MPP, NIST, OFF, OFR, OFS, OPUS, OGA,OGG, PAF, PRC, PVF, RA, RAM, RAW, RF64, SD2, SF, SHN, SMP, SND,SOU, SPX, SRN, TAK, TTA, TXW, VOC, VMS, VQF, W64, WAV, WMA, and WV. It can also extract audio from the following video extensions: RM, RV, ASF, DivX, MPG, MKV, MPEG, AVI, MOV, OGM, OGV, QT, VCD, SVCD, M4V, NSV, NUV, PSP, SMK, VOB, FLV, WEBM and WMV. Parallel Processing, a CD ripping function with CDDB support, batch conversion, tag preservation for most supported formats, independent tag reading & writing, service menus for KDE Dolphin/Konqueror, Gnome Nautilus script, and action scripts for Nemo/Thunar are also provided.

Mp3 decoder to convert mp3 files into wav file. Works well on Linux, Windows and Android. Can perform fast fourier transforms on decoded audio data. Under research & development by WeaveBytes

MPC Maid ("MM") is a software editor for the Akai MPC 500, MPC 1000, and MPC 2500. It is Mac, PC, and Linux-compliant and makes the edition of MPC programs files easy. It also features a semi-automatic slicing tool to chop loops into slices.

ReZound aims to be a stable, open source, and graphical audio file editor primarily for but not limited to the GNU/Linux operating system.

KurzFiler is a software for editing the files of the Kurzweil sampler series. It is mainly intended for users of these great instruments.

VLevel is a dynamic compressor which amplifies the quiet parts of music. It uses a look-ahead buffer, so the changes are gradual and the audio never clips. It is a command line filter and a LADSPA plugin, so it works with XMMS.

AIFF-Tools will be a set of utilities to manage AIFF audio files, providing a library to read and write AIFFs and tools to cut, resample, amplificate, mix, write markers, etc. It aims to support all the features of AIFF (markers, comments, etc.).

soundgrab is a perl script which allows the user to interactively select and save their favorite portions of a long volume of ogg or raw audio data. The idea is to make it easy to take for example a three hour radio broadcast and reduce it to a few named

Sweep is an audio editor and live playback tool. It supports PCM (WAV, AIFF etc.), Ogg Vorbis, Speex and MP3, with multichannel editing and LADSPA effects. Inside lives a pesky little virtual stylus called Scrubby who enjoys mixing around in your file

Alliance HD is a sound converter and organizer for Alesis Fusion 6HD/8HD workstations. It allows to convert WAV files to AFS files and organize programs, samples, multisamples, etc. updating references between them.

A sheet music composition tool (for guitar, piano, etc.) using MusicXML. Including conversions of many music notation formats (such as Tablature, PDF, abc, XML, MP3 and MIDI) to and from MusicXML.

A GUI (interface) for mp3splt and mp3wrap written in Java. The open source alternative to AlbumWrapper. Compatible with AlbumWrapper only for splitting

"CAGE", the Computer Audio Garden in Eclipse, is to be an Eclipse-based, Java and XML workbench, for the computer music composer. It will use the Rich Client Platform to provide a basic backbone framework, enabling existing computer music tools to be p

Computer Musicians\' World is a music creator, modeller and manipulator program. With texture analysis you can represent the structure of music. A score editor, wave editor and a tracker also included as other types of music models.

Java Music Theory and Practice, with Open Source libraries and applications. Goals: MIDI/RMF support, NIFF Support, Notation Display (Dec '01), Score Editor (Feb '02), XML (various) support, Export as AU/WAV/AIFF, Instrument Creation, SMDL Support.

ESMDI is a console application which enables you to transfer sound samples to and from a sampler using the SMDI protocol. It is based on the OpenSMDI library written by Christian Nowak. ESMDI is currently a Linux-only application.

GNUitarra is a light-fast all-in-one helper for the guitar player. Has more than +4000 scale types, +60 chord types, +60 string instruments (i.e bass). Can automake solos, learning excersises, etc. Works even in a 386!

GTagger is a gtkmm ID3Tag editor which allows you to comfortably browse file lists, select a file and edit/convert its ID3Tag. Furthermore the programm suggests a filename you can accept in order to rename the file suitable to the tag.

Gmusic is a program for editing, printing, export and import of pieces of music, e.g. from and to musixTeX, midi, abc...

Hildegard is a music theory engine that will analyze music based on various theoretical systems. Users can stick to common theoretical systems or write their own with an extension language.

Advanced user-friendly MP3 and Ogg Vorbis tagger for GNOME desktop.

Yet another human-readable plaintext music notation language. Somewhat similar to ABC and also Guido. Empty lines divide blocks of music, and every line is for one voice. Blocks can be repeated and merged to simplify structured composing.