a2jmidid

Daemon for exposing legacy ALSA sequencer applications in JACK MIDI system.

abcde

A Better CD Encoder

abcm2ps

A program to convert abc files to Postscript files

abcmidi

Programs for processing ABC music notation files

aeolus

A synthesised pipe organ emulator

alac_decoder

Basic decoder for Apple Lossless Audio Codec files (ALAC)

alsa-tools

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture tools

alsa-utils

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Utils (alsactl, alsamixer, etc.)

alsamixer-app

AlsaMixer.app is a simple mixer dockapp

alsamixergui

AlsaMixerGui - a FLTK based amixer Frontend

alsaplayer

Media player primarily utilising ALSA

amsynth

Virtual analogue synthesizer.

apetag

Command-line ape 2.0 tagger

apulse

aqualung

Aqualung is a music player capable of gapless playback. Not very suitable for eye candy seekers.

ardour

multi-track hard disk recording software

ario

a GTK2 MPD (Music Player Daemon) client inspired by Rythmbox

aseqview

ALSA sequencer event viewer/filter.

asunder

a graphical Audio CD ripper and encoder with support for WAV, MP3, OggVorbis and FLAC.

aucdtect

audacious

Audacious Player - Your music, your way, no exceptions

audacity

Free crossplatform audio editor

audex

KDE4 based CDDA extraction tool.

audicle

A Context-sensitive, On-the-fly Audio Programming Environ/mentality

audiocompress

Very gentle 1-band dynamic range compressor

audiotag

A command-line tool for mass tagging/renaming of audio files.

audiotools

aumix

Aumix volume/mixer control program

awesfx

AWE32 Sound Driver Utility Programs

aylet

Aylet plays music files in the .ay format.

baudline

beets

bempc

bitmeter

a diagnosis tool for JACK audio software

bladeenc

An mp3 encoder

bluez-alsa

bplay

No-frills command-line buffered player and recorder.

bpmdetect

Simple BPM detection utility

bristol

synthesiser emulation package for Moog, Sequential Circuits, Hammond and several other keyboards.

brutefir

Software convolution engine for applying long FIR filters

cadence

cantata

cd-discid

returns the disc id for the cd in the cd-rom drive

cdcd

a simple yet powerful command line cd player

cdparanoia

an advanced CDDA reader with error correction

cdplay

a commandline CD Player

cdstatus

Tool for diagnosing cdrom drive and digital data (audio) extraction

cdtool

Collection of command-line utilities to control cdrom devices.

chordii

chuck

Strongly-timed, Concurrent, and On-the-fly Audio Programming Language

clementine

A modern music player and library organizer based on Amarok 1.4 and Qt4

cmix

command line audio mixer

cmus

A ncurses based music player with plugin support for many formats

cmusfm

combine_wave

sync up 2 audio ch. and/or combine 2 mono audio ch. into one stereo wave ch.

coquillo

csound

Csound is a sound and music synthesis system, providing facilities for composition and performance over a wide range of platforms.

cvoicecontrol

Console based speech recognition system

dagrab

fixed point cd ripper

darkice

IceCast live streamer, delivering ogg and mp3 streams simultaneously to multiple hosts.

darksnow

Streaming GTK+ Front-End based in Darkice Ice Streamer

daudio

Distributed audio on the local network

dbmeasure

ALSA Volume Control Attenuation Measurement Tool

dcadec

dcaenc

dcd

A simple command-line based CD Player

deadbeef

declick

declick is a dynamic digital declicker for audio sample files

deinvert

denemo

GTK+ graphical music notation editor

din

dir2ogg

Converts mp3, m4a, wma, and wav files to Ogg Vorbis format.

drumstick

Qt4/C++ wrapper for ALSA sequencer

dvda-author

Author a DVD-Audio DVD

easytag

GTK+ utility for editing MP2, MP3, MP4, FLAC, Ogg and other media tags

ecasound

a package for multitrack audio processing

elisa

entagged-tageditor

Open-source audiofile tagger

erec

A shared audio recording server

exaile

a media player aiming to be similar to KDE's AmaroK, but for GTK

ezstream

Enables you to stream mp3 or vorbis files to an icecast server without reencoding

fapg

Fast Audio Playlist Generator

flac-image

flac123

console app for playing FLAC audio files

flack

flacon

flake

An enhanced FLAC encoder

fluid-soundfont

fluidsynth

Fluidsynth is a software real-time synthesizer based on the Soundfont 2 specifications.

fmdrv

Console mode MIDI player with builtin userland OPL2 driver

fmit

fmtools

A collection of programs for controlling v4l radio card drivers.

frescobaldi

LilyPond sheet music editor for KDE4

gbsplay

Nintendo Gameboy sound player for GBS format.

gigedit

Instrument editor for the Gigasampler format

gimmix

Gimmix is a graphical music player daemon (MPD) client written in C using GTK+2.

glurp

Glurp is a GTK2 based graphical client for the Music Player Daemon

gmorgan

gmorgan is an opensource software rhythm station.

gmpc

A GTK+2 client for the Music Player Daemon.

gmtp

gmusicbrowser

An open-source jukebox for large collections of mp3/ogg/flac files

gnomad

A GNOME2 frontend for Creative Players (Zen, JukeBox, etc ...)

gnome-music

gnome-sound-recorder

gnump3d

A streaming server for MP3, OGG vorbis and other streamable files

gogglesmm

gom

Console Mixer Program for OSS

gpodder

gPodder is a Podcast receiver/catcher written in Python, using GTK.

gqradio

An FM radio tuner app from the people who brought you GQmpeg.

gramofile

Transfer sound from gramophone records to CD

grip

GTK+ based Audio CD Player/Ripper.

gsm

Lossy speech compression library and tool.

gst123

gstreamripper

GStreamripper, a GTK front-end to streamripper

gtick

a metronome application supporting different meters and speeds ranging

gtkguitune

A guitar tuning program that uses Schmitt-triggering for quick feedback

guayadeque

Music player with the aims to be intuitive, easy to use and fast for even huge music collections

guitarix

helm

herrie

Herrie is a command line music player.

horgand

Horgand is an opensource software organ.

hydrogen

Linux Drum Machine

icecream

id3

changes the id3 tag in an mp3 file

id3ed

ID3 tag editor for mp3 files

id3ted

id3tool

A command line utility for easy manipulation of the ID3 tags present in MPEG Layer 3 audio files

id3v2

A command line editor for id3v2 tags.

jaaa

The JACK and ALSA Audio Analyser is an audio signal generator and spectrum analyser

jack

jack-audio-connection-kit

Jackdmp jack implemention for multi-processor machine

jack-keyboard

A virtual MIDI keyboard for JACK MIDI

jack-rack

JACK Rack is an effects rack for the JACK low latency audio API.

jack-smf-utils

Utilities for MIDI streams and files using Jack MIDI

jack2

jack_capture

jalv

jamin

JAMin is the JACK Audio Connection Kit (JACK) Audio Mastering interface

justeport

Stream audio to your AirPort Express

kid3

A simple tag editor for KDE

klick

kmetronome

MIDI based metronome using ALSA sequencer

lame

LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder

lash

LASH Audio Session Handler

lilypond

GNU Music Typesetter

lingot

LINGOT Is Not a Guitar-Only Tuner

linuxsampler

LinuxSampler is a software audio sampler engine with professional grade features.

litestream

Litstream is a lightweight and robust shoutcast-compatible streaming mp3 server.

lltag

Automatic command-line mp3/ogg/flac file tagger and renamer

lmms

free alternative to popular programs such as FruityLoops, Cubase and Logic

lollypop

loudness-scanner

lxmusic

mac

madplay

The MAD audio player

mangler

Open source VOIP client capable of connecting to Ventrilo 3.x servers

marrie

mcdp

A very small console cd player

meterbridge

Software meterbridge for the UNIX based JACK audio system.

mhwaveedit

GTK+ Sound file editor (wav, and a few others.)

mikmod

MikMod is a console MOD-Player based on libmikmod

milkytracker

FastTracker 2 inspired music tracker

mixxx

Digital DJ tool using QT 4.x

mmix

moc

Music On Console - ncurses interface for playing audio files

modplugtools

mp32ogg

A perl script to convert MP3 files to Ogg Vorbis files.

mp3asm

A command line tool to clean and edit mp3 files.

mp3blaster

Text console based program for playing audio files

mp3c

console based mp3 ripper, with cddb support

mp3cat

mp3cat reads and writes MP3 files

mp3check

Checks mp3 files for consistency and prints several errors and warnings.

mp3diags

mp3gain

MP3Gain automatically adjusts mp3s so that they all have the same volume

mp3info

An MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor

mp3report

Perl script to create an HTML report of MP3 files in a directory.

mp3splt

a command line utility to split mp3 and ogg files without decoding.

mp3splt-gtk

a GTK+ based utility to split mp3 and ogg files without decoding.

mp3unicode

MP3Unicode is a command line utility to convert ID3 tags in mp3 files between different encodings

mp3val

mp3wrap

Command-line utility that wraps quickly two or more mp3 files in one single large playable mp3.

mp3_check

MP3 consistency checker

mpc

A commandline client for Music Player Daemon (media-sound/mpd)

mpck

Checks MP3s for errors

mpd

The Music Player Daemon (mpd)

mpdas

An AudioScrobbler client for MPD written in C++

mpdscribble

An MPD client that submits information to Audioscrobbler

mpfc

Music Player For Console

mpg123

a realtime MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 audio player for layers 1, 2 and 3.

mpg321

a realtime MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 audio player for layers 1, 2 and 3

mplay

A Curses front-end for mplayer

mps-youtube

mt-daapd

A multi-threaded implementation of Apple's DAAP server

multimux

combines up to 8 audio mono wave ch. into one big multi ch. wave file.

mumble

Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software.

munt-mt32emu-alsadrv

mup

Program for printing music scores

murmur

Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software.

muse

Multiple Streaming Engine, an icecast source streamer

musepack-tools

Musepack audio compression tools

musescore

WYSIWYG Music Score Typesetter

music-file-organizer

musique

ncmpc

A ncurses client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD)

ncmpcpp

An ncurses mpd client, ncmpc clone with some new features, written in C++

normalize

Audio file volume normalizer

ogg2mp3

A perl script to convert Ogg Vorbis files to MP3 files.

oggtst

A tool for calculating ogg-vorbis playing time

ogmtools

Information, extraction or creation for OGG media streams

openmpt123

opus-tools

orpheus

Command line MP3 player.

pamix

paprefs

PulseAudio Preferences, configuration dialog for PulseAudio

pasystray

patchage

Patchage is a modular patchbay for Jack audio and Alsa sequencer.

pavucontrol

Pulseaudio Volume Control, GTK based mixer for Pulseaudio

pavucontrol-qt

pavumeter

PulseAudio Volume Meter, simple GTK volume meter for PulseAudio

peercast

A client and server for Peercast P2P-radio network

pianobar

A free, MIT-licensed replacement for pandora's flash player.

picard

An improved rewrite/port of the Picard Tagger using Qt

picoxine

Very small xine frontend for playing audio events

pitchtune

A GPL'ed GTK oscilloscope-style musical instrument tuning program. It can also be used to find the frequency of sounds

pithos

playerctl

pms

PMS is an ncurses based client.

pnmixer

poc

mp3 and ogg streamer (include mp3cue and mp3cut)

podcatcher

Podcast client for the command-line written in Ruby.

podget

A simple podcast client that runs on CLI.

podracer

potamus

a lightweight audio player with a simple interface and an emphasis on high audio quality.

pragha

Pragha is a lightweight GTK+ music manager

protux

Professional Audio Tools for GNU/Linux

ptabtools

Utilities for PowerTab Guitar files (.ptb)

pulseaudio

A networked sound server with an advanced plugin system

pulseaudio-ctl

pulseaudio-modules-bt

pulseeffects

pulsemixer

pwavecat

concatenates any number of audio files to stdout

qastools

qjackctl

A Qt application to control the JACK Audio Connection Kit and ALSA sequencer connections.

qmidiarp

MIDI Arpeggiator QMidiArp

qmidiroute

QMidiRoute is a filter/router for MIDI events

qmmp

Qt4-based audio player with winamp/xmms skins support

qsampler

QSampler is a graphical frontend to the LinuxSampler engine.

qsynth

A Qt application to control FluidSynth

qtagger

qtgain

A simple frontend to mp3gain, vorbisgain and metaflac

qtractor

Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer.

qtscrobbler

Updates a last.fm profile using information from a supported portable music player

quimup

A QT3 user interface for the music player daemon

quodlibet

Quod Libet is a GTK+-based audio player written in Python.

rawrec

CLI program to play and record audiofiles.

rcenter

Rcenter - A program to control the EMU10K Remote Control

redoflacs

retrovol

rexima

A curses-based interactive mixer which can also be used from the command-line.

rhythmbox

Music management and playback software for GNOME

rip

A command-line based audio CD ripper and mp3 encoder

ripperx

a GTK program to rip CD audio tracks and encode them to the Ogg, MP3, or FLAC formats.

rosegarden

MIDI and audio sequencer and notation editor.

rplay

Play sounds on remote Unix systems, without sending audio data over the network.

saydate

A Linux shell program that talks the date and system uptime.

sc2mpd

schismtracker

a free reimplementation of Impulse Tracker, a program used to create high quality music

scmpc

a client for MPD which submits your tracks to last.fm

scream

seq24

Seq24 is a loop based MIDI sequencer with focus on live performances.

setmixer

A commandline mixer

sexypsf

sexyPSF is an open-source PSF1 (Playstation music) file player

shnflacverify

shntool

shntool is a multi-purpose WAVE data processing and reporting utility

shorten

fast, low complexity waveform coder (i.e. audio compressor)

sidplay

C64 SID player

sidplayfp

SmarTagger

Perl script for renaming and tagging mp3s

smixer

A command-line tool for setting and viewing mixer settings

snapcast

snd

Snd is a sound editor

sndfile-tools

A small collection of programs that use libsndfile

sndpeek

real-time audio visualization

solfege

GNU Solfege is a program written to help you practice ear training.

sonata

an elegant GTK+ music client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD).

sonic-visualiser

Music audio files viewer and analiser

sooperlooper

Live looping sampler with immediate loop recording

sound-juicer

CD ripper for GNOME 2

soundconverter

A simple sound converter application for the GNOME environment.

soundkonverter

A frontend to various audio converters

sox

The swiss army knife of sound processing programs

spek

splay

an audio player, primarily for the console

split2flac

spotify

strawberry

streamripper

Extracts and records individual MP3 file tracks from shoutcast streams

streamtranscoder

Command line application to transcode shoutcast/icecast streams to different bitrates

subsonic-bin

substract_wave

substracts 2 mono wave files from each other by a factor specified on the command line

supercollider

synaesthesia

a nice graphical accompaniment to music

taginfo

a simple ID3 tag reader for use in shell scripts

tagtool

Audio Tag Tool Ogg/Mp3 Tagger

takcd

Command line CD player

tap-reverbed

Standalone JACK counterpart of LADSPA plugin TAP Reverberator.

tapestrea

Techniques + Paradigms for Expressive Synthesis, Transformation, Rendering of Environmental Audio

teamspeak-client

teamspeak-server

tempest_for_eliza

listen to music on the radio generated by images on your screen

terminatorx

realtime audio synthesizer that allows you to "scratch" on digitally sampled audio data

timemachine

JACK client record button remembering the last 10 seconds when pressed.

timidity++

A handy MIDI to WAV converter with OSS and ALSA output support

timidity-eawpatches

Eric Welsh's GUS patches for TiMidity

timidity-freepats

Free and open set of instrument patches

tk707

An "7x7" type midi drum sequencer for Linux

tomahawk

toolame

tooLAME - an optimized mpeg 1/2 layer 2 audio encoder

ttaenc

True Audio Compressor Software

tudor-volumed

twolame

TwoLAME is an optimised MPEG Audio Layer 2 (MP2) encoder

umix

Program for adjusting soundcard volumes

umurmur

upmpdcli

vb2rip

Konami VB2 sound format ripping utility

vbrfixc

Vbrfix fixes MP3s and re-constructs VBR headers

vimpc

vkeybd

A virtual MIDI keyboard for X

vlevel

Dynamic compressor to amplify quiet parts of music

vlorb

a high quality Audio CD to audio file encoder

vmpk

Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard

volumeicon

volwheel

Tray icon to change volume with the mouse

vorbis-tools

tools for using the Ogg Vorbis sound file format

vorbisgain

Calculator of perceived sound level for Ogg Vorbis files

vsound

A virtual audio loopback cable

wav2json

wavbreaker

wavbreaker/wavmerge GTK+ utility to break or merge WAV files

wavegain

ReplayGain for WAVE audio files

wavpack

WavPack audio compression tools

wavplay

A command line player/recorder for wav files

wavsplit

WavSplit is a simple command line tool to split WAV files

whipper

wildmidi

wmsound-data

A bunch of sounds for WindowMaker Sound Server

xfmpc

a graphical GTK+ MPD client focusing on low footprint

xineadump

Utility for Xine decoding support in transKode

xmms2

X(cross)platform Music Multiplexing System

xmms2-scrobbler

XMMS2 AudioScrobbler client

xnoise

xwax

open source vinyl emulation

yarock

yoshimi

A software synthesizer for Linux, based on ZynAddSubFX

zynaddsubfx

ZynAddSubFX is an opensource software synthesizer.

a2jmidid

herrie

pulseaudio-ctl

abcde

horgand

pulseaudio-modules-bt

abcm2ps

hydrogen

pulseeffects

abcmidi

icecream

pulsemixer

aeolus

id3

pwavecat

alac_decoder

id3ed

qastools

alsa-tools

id3ted

qjackctl

alsa-utils

id3tool

qmidiarp

alsamixer-app

id3v2

qmidiroute

alsamixergui

jaaa

qmmp

alsaplayer

jack

qsampler

amsynth

jack-audio-connection-kit

qsynth

apetag

jack-keyboard

qtagger

apulse

jack-rack

qtgain

aqualung

jack-smf-utils

qtractor

ardour

jack2

qtscrobbler

ario

jack_capture

quimup

aseqview

jalv

quodlibet

asunder

jamin

rawrec

aucdtect

justeport

rcenter

audacious

kid3

redoflacs

audacity

klick

retrovol

audex

kmetronome

rexima

audicle

lame

rhythmbox

audiocompress

lash

rip

audiotag

lilypond

ripperx

audiotools

lingot

rosegarden

aumix

linuxsampler

rplay

awesfx

litestream

saydate

aylet

lltag

sc2mpd

baudline

lmms

schismtracker

beets

lollypop

scmpc

bempc

loudness-scanner

scream

bitmeter

lxmusic

seq24

bladeenc

mac

setmixer

bluez-alsa

madplay

sexypsf

bplay

mangler

shnflacverify

bpmdetect

marrie

shntool

bristol

mcdp

shorten

brutefir

meterbridge

sidplay

cadence

mhwaveedit

sidplayfp

cantata

mikmod

SmarTagger

cd-discid

milkytracker

smixer

cdcd

mixxx

snapcast

cdparanoia

mmix

snd

cdplay

moc

sndfile-tools

cdstatus

modplugtools

sndpeek

cdtool

mp32ogg

solfege

chordii

mp3asm

sonata

chuck

mp3blaster

sonic-visualiser

clementine

mp3c

sooperlooper

cmix

mp3cat

sound-juicer

cmus

mp3check

soundconverter

cmusfm

mp3diags

soundkonverter

combine_wave

mp3gain

sox

coquillo

mp3info

spek

csound

mp3report

splay

cvoicecontrol

mp3splt

split2flac

dagrab

mp3splt-gtk

spotify

darkice

mp3unicode

strawberry

darksnow

mp3val

streamripper

daudio

mp3wrap

streamtranscoder

dbmeasure

mp3_check

subsonic-bin

dcadec

mpc

substract_wave

dcaenc

mpck

supercollider

dcd

mpd

synaesthesia

deadbeef

mpdas

taginfo

declick

mpdscribble

tagtool

deinvert

mpfc

takcd

denemo

mpg123

tap-reverbed

din

mpg321

tapestrea

dir2ogg

mplay

teamspeak-client

drumstick

mps-youtube

teamspeak-server

dvda-author

mt-daapd

tempest_for_eliza

easytag

multimux

terminatorx

ecasound

mumble

timemachine

elisa

munt-mt32emu-alsadrv

timidity++

entagged-tageditor

mup

timidity-eawpatches

erec

murmur

timidity-freepats

exaile

muse

tk707

ezstream

musepack-tools

tomahawk

fapg

musescore

toolame

flac-image

music-file-organizer

ttaenc

flac123

musique

tudor-volumed

flack

ncmpc

twolame

flacon

ncmpcpp

umix

flake

normalize

umurmur

fluid-soundfont

ogg2mp3

upmpdcli

fluidsynth

oggtst

vb2rip

fmdrv

ogmtools

vbrfixc

fmit

openmpt123

vimpc

fmtools

opus-tools

vkeybd

frescobaldi

orpheus

vlevel

gbsplay

pamix

vlorb

gigedit

paprefs

vmpk

gimmix

pasystray

volumeicon

glurp

patchage

volwheel

gmorgan

pavucontrol

vorbis-tools

gmpc

pavucontrol-qt

vorbisgain

gmtp

pavumeter

vsound

gmusicbrowser

peercast

wav2json

gnomad

pianobar

wavbreaker

gnome-music

picard

wavegain

gnome-sound-recorder

picoxine

wavpack

gnump3d

pitchtune

wavplay

gogglesmm

pithos

wavsplit

gom

playerctl

whipper

gpodder

pms

wildmidi

gqradio

pnmixer

wmsound-data

gramofile

poc

xfmpc

grip

podcatcher

xineadump

gsm

podget

xmms2

gst123

podracer

xmms2-scrobbler

gstreamripper

potamus

xnoise

gtick

pragha

xwax

gtkguitune

protux

yarock

guayadeque

ptabtools

yoshimi

guitarix

pulseaudio

zynaddsubfx

helm