Open Source Linux Sound/Audio Software

LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to improve the psycho acoustics, quality and speed of MP3 encoding. Note: we provide source code only!

FLAC is a free lossless compressed audio format which supports streaming and archival. The FLAC project maintains the format and provides a reference encoder/decoder and input plugins for several popular audio players.

Finds problems in MP3 files and helps the user to fix many of them using included tools. Looks at both the audio part (VBR info, quality, normalization) and the tags containing track information (ID3.) Also includes a tag editor and a file renamer.

Lossless compressor for multichannel 8,16 and 24 bits audio data, with the ability of password data protection. Being 'lossless' means that no data/quality is lost in the compression - when uncompressed, the data will be identical to the original.

ASAP (Another Slight Atari Player) plays and converts 8-bit Atari music (*.sap, *.cmc, *.mpt, *.rmt, *.tmc, ...) on modern computers and mobile devices.

This is a Commodore 64 emulator specialized for sound reproduction. It is also a SID player for music collections like HVSC and CGSC. It is a full C64 emulator and can play games of the GameBase64 project as well.

DeepSpeech is an open source embedded (offline, on-device) speech-to-text engine which can run in real time on devices ranging from a Raspberry Pi 4 to high power GPU servers. DeepSpeech is an open-source Speech-To-Text engine, using a model trained by machine learning techniques based on Baidu's Deep Speech research paper. Project DeepSpeech uses Google's TensorFlow to make the implementation easier. A pre-trained English model is available for use and can be downloaded following the instructions in the usage docs. If you want to use the pre-trained English model for performing speech-to-text, you can download it (along with other important inference material) from the DeepSpeech releases page.

Firmware loaders for M-Audio/Midiman USB MIDI and Audio devices

TAPClean is a Commodore tape preservation / restoration tool. It will check, repair, and remaster Commodore 64 and VIC 20 TAP or DC2N DMP files (tape images).

CD recording in DAO mode, console and Gnome based application.

"ISO Unix Linux OS Distribution This distribution comes with all the optimizations, customizations, and exclusive configurations already in place, allowing you to use it right out of the box. You'll have everything you need to work immediately, without complicated setups, and with the best professional software already installed and optimized. It's built for a complete desktop experience, ideal for professionals and advanced enthusiasts such as musicians, graphic designers, and video makers. You won't have to search for or configure anything; all the best tools available are already present and ready for you to start producing."

K3b is a highly usable and very userfriendly cd writing program.

DuMP3 is a duplicate and similar file finder. It finds exact duplicate binaries by hash, similar text files by substring content, images (JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, etc) by color and audio files (MP3, WAV, OGG, etc) by wave data. Future: fonts, video.

IDTE is a full-featured tag editor for Windows that supports tagging of FLAC, APE, ID3v1.x/2.x, WMA, Lyrics, and Vorbis metadata in audio files. It also includes a powerful audio player with support for 40+ lossy and lossless formats, including FLAC, ALAC, OGG, APE, MP3, and more. IDTE offers a wide range of advanced features: • Rename files using tag information • Export and manage tag data • Create and manage playlists • Search online for missing or incomplete tags • Fetch lyrics and album artwork • Full CUE sheet support • Batch processing and multi-file editing • SFX, visualizations, and more A new, minimalistic version of IDTE is also available for download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/idte ⚠️ Important Notice Tagging MP4 video files and WAV audio files using IDTE is not recommended. WAV tag support is ambiguous and inconsistently handled across players (see: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/WAV).

Updated 2026/01/24: Turn your PC into the ultimate shortwave radio. Skywave Linux is an X86, 64 bit live environment configured for accessing internet accessible software defined radio receivers. With this operating system, you may tune in popular stations or amateur radio, aeronautical, maritime, or other signals received at remote internet servers around the world. For a live map of the best KiwiSDR and WebSDR servers and a nice "click to tune" interface, Use the installed SDR-Map utility to find radio servers and listen from interesting places. Also, I have set up a self-updating SDR Map at https://rx.skywavelinux.com. An internet radio streamer application is also included for popular studio streams. Bring it up with keys [Super] + [S]. SDR software is configured to operate with popular plug-in devices, such as the RTL-SDR dongles, Airspy, and, HackRF radios. Skywave Linux is built on Debian Sid. It is primarily a live environment, but can be fully installed.

dvbsnoop - DVB analyzer / MPEG analyzer program to monitor, analyze, debug, dump or view dvb/mpeg/dsm-cc/mhp stream information (TS, PES, SECTION) (e.g. digital television) send via satellite, cable or terrestrial.

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.

Manage and stream your music on a web server using a browser. Some features: - Scan+Import music (MP3/OGG/WMA/APE ). - Random play with "fair rotation". - Upload/download - Themes. - Uses various webservices and API's (last.fm, the Echonest) ...plus more.

Qoobar - Audio Tagger for Classical Music. It can - Edit ID3v2.4, Xiph.org, APE, ASF tags. - Rename files and fill in tags. - Work with groups of files. - Insert chars with diacritics.

Channel Code Copy of Compact Discs: This project has the goal to archive the complete content of CDs on the channel code layer. Here, the NRZI signal which stems from the laser-pickup of a CD player is recorded directly, providing sort of a pit-land photo of the CD. The resulting image file, in turn, is demodulated and decoded in software, i.e. within a virtual CD player. The digital audio channel code on LaserDiscs and CD Video discs can be handled as well. Note: The image extraction functionality requires a proprietary hardware interface with a modified disc player. Associated open hardware project "ccccd-HW": http://sourceforge.net/projects/ccccd-hw/ Note: Special restrictions apply. See disclaimers below and within the distribution. Copyright (C) 2012-2025 by Klaus Michael Indlekofer. All rights reserved. (We are not affiliated in any way with companies/persons mentioned on this page. All brand names and trademarks are property of their respective owners.)

Phoniebox is a contactless jukebox for the Raspberry Pi, that plays audio files, playlists, podcasts, web streams, and Spotify triggered by RFID cards. All plug and play via USB, no soldering iron needed. It also features GPIO button control support.

VeloxFetch — The Next-Gen Local-First Download Manager VeloxFetch is a lightweight, ultra-fast, zero-telemetry desktop download manager and browser companion built for modern power users. Engineered with a high-performance Rust engine and a sleek Tauri v2 UI, VeloxFetch replaces clunky, ad-ridden legacy downloaders with a clean, privacy-focused, single-purpose experience. Whether you are fetching massive raw ISOs, multi-gigabyte media archives, or streaming video segments, VeloxFetch gives you full control over your bandwidth without tracking your history or sending data to the cloud. 🚀 Key Features ⚡ Blazing-Fast Multi-Segment Downloads Utilizes an adaptive connection engine with up to 64 parallel threads per file, dynamic connection throttling, and optimized disk I/O to maximize your network bandwidth. 🛡️ 100% Local-First & Zero-Telemetry Your web history, cookies, and downloads belong to you. VeloxFetch operates strictly on your machine. No accounts, no external track

Ships Clock will ring a bell on every half-hour in the style of the standard ship's clock used for centuries on sailing ships around the world and still used in the world's navies today.

X-CD-Roast is a flexible frontend for optical disc authoring. It combines command line tools like "cdrecord", "cdda2wav", "readcd" and "mkisofs" into a nice GTK based graphical user interface.

Volocian believes first and foremost that financial status shouldn’t be a barrier to entry in multimedia content creation. Whether you want to design a product or website, record a band, remix a song, or produce a feature length movie with professional post production graphics and effects, Volocian™ wants to help, even if you’re using borrowed hardware with no previous experience. We provide affordable products and services for any budget, including cost-free solutions for education and demo purposes, while everything we do is designed with ease of use and flexibility in mind, to suit everyone from novice hobbyists to expert professionals. Wherever possible, Volocian™ relies on free, open source, and cross-platform software to prevent vendor lock-in, planned obsolescence, and software as a service licensing. While we remain pragmatic about the use of proprietary software, as we’re aware of the feature limitations of some open source solutions, free solutions are preferred.