The media-sound category contains sound, music and audio applications.
a2jmidid | Daemon for exposing legacy ALSA sequencer applications in JACK MIDI system |
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aacplusenc | High-Efficiency AAC (AAC+) Encoder |
abcde | A command line CD encoder |
abcm2ps | A program to convert abc files to Postscript files |
abcmidi | Programs for processing ABC music notation files |
adplay | A console player for AdLib music |
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 | simple alsa mixer dockapp |
alsamixergui | FLTK based amixer Frontend |
alsaplayer | A heavily multi-threaded pluggable audio player |
amsynth | Virtual analogue synthesizer |
apetag | Command-line ape 2.0 tagger |
apulse | PulseAudio emulation for ALSA |
aqualung | Music player for a wide range of formats designed for gapless playback |
ardour | Digital Audio Workstation |
ario | 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 many output formats |
aucdtect | Commandline FLAC CDDA authenticity verifier |
audacious | Lightweight and versatile audio player |
audacity | Free crossplatform audio editor |
audex | Tool for ripping compact discs |
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 |
aumix | Aumix volume/mixer control program |
awesfx | AWE32 Sound Driver Utility Programs |
aylet | Aylet plays music files in the .ay format |
baudline | A time-frequency browser designed for visualization of spectral domains |
beets | A media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks |
bempc | Qt5 MPD client with experimental UI |
bitmeter | Diagnosis tool for JACK audio software |
bladeenc | An mp3 encoder |
bluez-alsa | Bluetooth Audio ALSA Backend |
bplay | No-frills command-line buffered player and recorder |
bpmdetect | Automatic BPM detection utility |
bristol | Synthesizer keyboard emulation package: Moog, Hammond and others |
brutefir | Software convolution engine for applying long FIR filters |
cantata | Featureful and configurable Qt client for the music player daemon (MPD) |
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 | A guitar music typesetter |
chuck | Strongly-timed, concurrent, and on-the-fly audio programming language |
clementine | Modern music player and library organizer based on Amarok 1.4 and Qt |
cmix | command line audio mixer |
cmus | A ncurses based music player with plugin support for many formats |
cmusfm | Last.fm scrobbler for cmus music player |
codecgraph | Generates a graph based on the ALSA description of an HD Audio codec |
combine_wave | sync up 2 audio ch. and/or combine 2 mono audio ch. into one stereo wave ch |
coquillo | GUI audio tagger based on Qt and taglib |
cplay | A Curses front-end for various audio players |
csound | Sound design and signal processing system for composition and performance |
cvoicecontrol | Console based speech recognition system |
dagrab | fixed point cd ripper |
darkice | A live audio streamer |
darksnow | Streaming GTK+ Front-End based on Darkice Ice Streamer |
daudio | Distributed audio on the local network |
dbmeasure | ALSA Volume Control Attenuation Measurement Tool |
dcadec | DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder with support for HD extensions |
dcaenc | DTS Coherent Acoustics audio encoder |
dcd | A simple command-line based CD Player |
declick | Dynamic digital declicker for audio sample files |
deinvert | A voice inversion descrambler |
denemo | A music notation editor |
din | a software musical instrument and audio synthesizer |
dir2ogg | Converts mp3, m4a, wma, and wav files to Ogg Vorbis format |
drumstick | Qt/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 |
edna | Greg Stein's python streaming audio server for desktop or LAN use |
elisa | Simple music player by KDE |
entagged-tageditor | Open-source audiofile tagger |
erec | A shared audio recording server |
exaile | GTK+ based media player aiming to be similar to Amarok |
ezstream | A command line source client for Icecast media streaming servers |
fapg | Fast Audio Playlist Generator |
flac-image | Utility for adding image files (e.g. album cover art) to metadata of FLAC files |
flac123 | console app for playing FLAC audio files |
flack | flack - edit FLAC tags from command line |
flacon | Extracts audio tracks from an audio CD image to separate tracks |
flake | An alternative to the FLAC reference encoder |
fluid-soundfont | The Fluid R3 soundfont |
fluidsynth | Software real-time synthesizer based on the Soundfont 2 specifications |
fmdrv | Console mode MIDI player with builtin userland OPL2 driver |
fmit | Free Music Instrument Tuner |
fmtools | A collection of programs for controlling v4l radio card drivers |
forked-daapd | A DAAP (iTunes) media server |
freebirth | Free software bass synthesizer step sequencer |
frescobaldi | A LilyPond sheet music text editor |
galan | gAlan - Graphical Audio Language |
gbsplay | Nintendo Gameboy sound player for GBS format |
gigedit | An instrument editor for gig files |
gimmix | a graphical music player daemon (MPD) client using GTK+2 |
glmix | 3D widget for mixing up to eight JACK audio streams down to stereo |
glurp | Glurp is a GTK2 based graphical client for the Music Player Daemon |
gmorgan | Opensource software rhythm station |
gmpc | A GTK+2 client for the Music Player Daemon |
gmtp | A simple MTP client for MP3 players |
gmusicbrowser | An open-source jukebox for large collections of mp3/ogg/flac files |
gnomad | A GTK+ music manager and swiss army knife for the Portable Digital Entertainment (PDE) protocol |
gnome-music | Music management for Gnome |
gnome-sound-recorder | Simple sound recorder |
gnump3d | A streaming server for MP3, OGG vorbis and other streamable files |
gogglesmm | Fast and light music player |
gom | Console Mixer Program for OSS |
gpodder | A free cross-platform podcast aggregator |
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 | A GStreamer based command line media player |
gstreamripper | A GTK+ toolkit based frontend for streamripper |
gtick | Metronome application supporting different meters and speeds ranging |
gtkguitune | A guitar tuning program that uses Schmitt-triggering for quick feedback |
gtklick | A simple metronome with an easy-to-use GTK interface |
guayadeque | Music management program designed for all music enthusiasts |
guimup | A client for MPD with a clean, GTK interface |
hearnet | Listen to your network |
helm | Open source polyphonic software synthesizer with lots of modulation |
herrie | Herrie is a command line music player |
horgand | Opensource software organ |
hydrogen | Advanced drum machine |
icecream | Extracts and records individual MP3 tracks from shoutcast streams |
id3 | changes the id3 tag in an mp3 file |
id3ed | ID3 tag editor for mp3 files |
id3ted | A Command-line ID3 Tag Editor |
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 |
imp3sh | flexible playlist manipulation shell and song player/streamer |
jaaa | JACK and ALSA Audio Analyser is an audio signal generator and spectrum analyser |
jack | A frontend for several cd-rippers and mp3 encoders |
jack-audio-connection-kit | A low-latency audio server |
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 | Jackdmp jack implemention for multi-processor machine |
jackbeat | An audio sequencer for Linux |
jalv | Simple but fully featured LV2 host for Jack |
jamin | JAMin is the JACK Audio Connection Kit (JACK) Audio Mastering interface |
jtagger | Powerful MP3 tag and filename editor |
justeport | Stream audio to your AirPort Express |
karlyriceditor | Application to edit and synchronize lyrics with karaoke songs in various formats |
kaudiocreator | CD ripper and audio encoder frontend based on KDE Frameworks |
kid3 | Simple tag editor based on Qt |
klick | An advanced command-line based metronome for JACK |
kmetronome | MIDI based metronome using ALSA sequencer |
lame | LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder |
lash | LASH Audio Session Handler |
lilycomp | graphical note entry program for use with LilyPond |
lilypond | GNU Music Typesetter |
lingot | Accurate, easy to use, and highly configurable musical instrument tuner |
linuxsampler | 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 | Cross-platform music production software |
lollypop | Modern music player for GNOME |
lxmusic | A simple GUI XMMS2 client with minimal functionality |
lyvi | A simple command-line lyrics viewer |
mac | Monkey's Audio Codecs |
madplay | The MAD audio player |
mangler | Open source VOIP client capable of connecting to Ventrilo 3.x servers |
marrie | A simple podcast client that runs on the Command Line Interface |
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 | A console MOD-Player based on libmikmod |
milkytracker | FastTracker 2 inspired music tracker |
mixxx | Advanced Digital DJ tool based on Qt |
mmix | A soundcard mixer for the OSS driver |
moc | Music On Console - ncurses interface for playing audio files |
modplugtools | libmodplug based module players modplug123 and modplugplay |
moosic | Music player that focuses on easy playlist management |
mp32ogg | A perl script to convert MP3 files to Ogg Vorbis files |
mp3_check | MP3 consistency checker |
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 |
mp3gain | A program to analyze and adjust MP3 files to 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 | Commandline utility to convert ID3 tags in mp3 files between different encodings |
mp3val | Validate and fix MPEG audio files |
mp3wrap | Command-line utility that wraps quickly two or more mp3 files in one single large playable mp3 |
mpc | 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 | Terminal-based YouTube player and downloader |
mserv | Jukebox-style music server |
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 | ALSA MIDI driver for emulating the Roland MT-32, CM-32L, CM-64 and LAPC-I |
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 SV8 libraries and utilities |
musescore | WYSIWYG Music Score Typesetter |
music-file-organizer | Organizes audio files into directories based on metadata tags, along with other metadata utilities. |
musique | Qt music player |
ncmpc | Ncurses client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD) |
ncmpcpp | featureful ncurses based MPD client inspired by ncmpc |
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 |
opus-tools | Royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec |
orpheus | Command line MP3 player |
pamix | A PulseAudio NCurses mixer |
paprefs | PulseAudio Preferences, configuration dialog for PulseAudio |
pasystray | PulseAudio system tray |
patchage | Modular patch bay for JACK-based audio and MIDI systems |
pavucontrol | Pulseaudio Volume Control, GTK based mixer for Pulseaudio |
pavucontrol-qt | A Pulseaudio mixer in Qt (port of pavucontrol) |
pavumeter | PulseAudio Volume Meter, simple GTK volume meter for PulseAudio |
peercast | A client and server for Peercast P2P-radio network |
pianobar | A console-based replacement for Pandora's flash player |
picard | A cross-platform music tagger |
picoxine | Very small xine frontend for playing audio events |
pitchtune | Precise Instrument Tweaking for Crispy Harmony - tuner |
pithos | Pandora.com client for the GNOME desktop |
playerctl | A CLI utility to control media players over MPRIS |
playmidi | Command Line and GUI based MIDI Player |
pms | Practical Music Search: an open source ncurses client for mpd, written in C++ |
pnmixer | Volume mixer for the system tray |
poc | mp3 and ogg streamer (include mp3cue and mp3cut) |
podcatcher | Podcast client for the command-line written in Ruby |
podget | A simple podcast aggregator optimized for running as a scheduled job |
podracer | A simple podcast aggregator, designed for cron |
positron | Synchronization manager for the Neuros Audio Computer |
potamus | A lightweight audio player with a simple interface and an emphasis on high audio quality |
pragha | A lightweight music player (for Xfce) |
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-modules-bt | PulseAudio modules for LDAC, aptX, aptX HD, and AAC for Bluetooth (alongside SBC and native+ofono headset) |
pulseeffects | Limiter, compressor, reverberation, equalizer auto volume effects for Pulseaudio |
pwavecat | concatenates any number of audio files to stdout |
pympd | a Rhythmbox-like PyGTK+ client for Music Player Daemon |
qastools | Qt5 GUI ALSA tools: mixer, configuration browser |
qjackctl | Qt GUI to control the JACK Audio Connection Kit and ALSA sequencer connections |
qmidiarp | An arpeggiator, sequencer and MIDI LFO for ALSA |
qmidiroute | QMidiRoute is a filter/router for MIDI events |
qmmp | Qt5-based audio player with winamp/xmms skins support |
qsampler | Graphical frontend to the LinuxSampler engine |
qsynth | A Qt application to control FluidSynth |
qtagger | Simple Qt5 ID3v2 tag editor |
qtgain | A simple frontend to mp3gain, vorbisgain and metaflac |
qtractor | Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer written in C++ with the Qt framework |
qtscrobbler | Updates last.fm profiles using information from supported portable music players |
quimup | A Qt5 client for the music player daemon (MPD) written in C++ |
quodlibet | audio library tagger, manager, and player for GTK+ |
rawrec | CLI program to play and record audiofiles |
rcenter | Rcenter - A program to control the EMU10K Remote Control |
redoflacs | Bash commandline flac compressor, verifier, organizer, analyzer, retagger |
retrovol | Systemtray volume mixer applet from PuppyLinux |
rexima | A curses-based interactive mixer which can also be used from the command-line |
rgain | Set of programmes and Python modules to deal with Replay Gain information |
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 data transfer |
saydate | A Linux shell program that talks the date and system uptime |
sc2mpd | Implements the SongCast protocol for use by upmpdcli and mpd |
schismtracker | Free implementation of Impulse Tracker, a tool used to create high quality music |
scmpc | a client for MPD which submits your tracks to last.fm |
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 |
sfc | SoundFontCombi is an opensource software pseudo synthesizer |
shnflacverify | Manage the verification of checksums related to Shorten and FLAC files |
shntool | A multi-purpose WAVE data processing and reporting utility |
shorten | fast, low complexity waveform coder (i.e. audio compressor) |
sidplay | C64 SID player |
sidplayfp | Sidplay2 fork with resid-fp |
SmarTagger | Perl script for renaming and tagging mp3s |
smixer | command-line tool for setting and viewing mixer settings |
snapcast | Synchronous multi-room audio player |
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 |
soundconverter | A simple audiofile converter application for the GNOME environment |
soundkonverter | Frontend to various audio converters |
sox | The swiss army knife of sound processing programs |
specimen | A Midi Controllable Audio Sampler |
spek | Analyse your audio files by showing their spectrogram |
splay | An audio player, primarily for the console |
split2flac | sh script to split an APE/FLAC/WV/WAV audio image with CUE sheet into tracks |
spotify | Spotify is a social music platform |
streamripper | Extracts and records individual MP3 file tracks from shoutcast streams |
streamtranscoder | Commandline program to transcode shoutcast/icecast streams to different bitrates |
subsonic-bin | Subsonic is a complete, personal media streaming solution |
substract_wave | substracts 2 mono wave files from each other by a factor specified on the command line |
supercollider | An environment and a programming language for real time audio synthesis. |
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 | Expressive Synthesis, Transformation, Rendering of Environmental Audio |
tapiir | A flexible audio effects processor, inspired by classical tape delay systems |
teamspeak-client | A client software for quality voice communication via the internet |
teamspeak-server | A server software for hosting quality voice communication via the internet |
tempest_for_eliza | Listen to music on the radio generated by images on your screen |
terminatorx | Realtime audio synthesizer allowing you to 'scratch' on 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 | Multi-source social music player |
toolame | tooLAME - an optimized mpeg 1/2 layer 2 audio encoder |
traverso | Professional Audio Tools for GNU/Linux |
ttaenc | True Audio Compressor Software |
tudor-volumed | Lightweight, desktop environment agnostic volume management daemon |
tunapie | Directory browser for Radio and TV streams |
tuxguitar | TuxGuitar is a multitrack guitar tablature editor and player written in Java-SWT |
twolame | An optimised MPEG Audio Layer 2 (MP2) encoder |
umix | Program for adjusting soundcard volumes |
umurmur | Minimalistic Murmur (Mumble server) |
upmpdcli | UPnP Media Renderer front-end for MPD, the Music Player Daemon |
vb2rip | Konami VB2 sound format ripping utility |
vbrfixc | Vbrfix fixes MP3s and re-constructs VBR headers |
ventrilo-server-bin | The Ventrilo Voice Communication Server |
vimpc | An ncurses based mpd client with vi like key bindings |
vitunes | A curses media indexer and player for vi users |
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 |
volti | GTK+ application for controlling audio volume from system tray/notification area |
volumeicon | A lightweight volume control that sits in your systray |
volwheel | A volume control trayicon with mouse wheel support |
vorbis-tools | Tools for using the Ogg Vorbis sound file format |
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 | Generate waveformjs.org compatible json data out of wav files |
wavbreaker | wavbreaker/wavmerge GTK+ utility to break or merge WAV files |
wavegain | ReplayGain for WAVE audio files |
wavpack | Hybrid lossless audio compression tools |
wavplay | A command line player/recorder for wav files |
wavsplit | Simple command line tool to split WAV files |
whipper | A Python CD-DA ripper preferring accuracy over speed (forked from morituri) |
wildmidi | Midi processing library and a midi player using the gus patch set |
wmsound-data | A bunch of sounds for WindowMaker Sound Server |
xfmpc | Music Player Daemon (MPD) client for the Xfce desktop environment |
xineadump | Utility for Xine decoding support in transKode |
xmms2 | X(cross)platform Music Multiplexing System. Next generation of the XMMS player |
xmms2-scrobbler | XMMS2 AudioScrobbler client |
xnoise | A media player for Gtk+ with a slick GUI, great speed and lots of features |
xwax | Digital vinyl emulation software |
yarock | Qt-based music player |
yoshimi | A software synthesizer based on ZynAddSubFX |
zynaddsubfx | Software synthesizer capable of making a countless number of instruments |