Packages
Packages
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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| abcde | Command line CD encoder |
| abcm2ps | 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 | 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 | GTK client for MPD inspired by Rhythmbox but much lighter and faster |
| aseqview | ALSA sequencer event viewer/filter |
| asunder | 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 | Command-line tool for mass tagging/renaming of audio files |
| audiotools | A collection of command line audio tools |
| 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 | 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 |
| cadence | Collection of tools useful for audio production |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| guitarix | Virtual guitar amplifier for Linux |
| 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 | Tool for easy manipulation of the ID3 tags present in MP3 audio files |
| id3v2 | A command line editor for id3v2 tags |
| 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 |
| jack_capture | JACK Recording utility |
| 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 |
| justeport | Stream audio to your AirPort Express |
| 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 |
| loudness-scanner | Scans your music files and tags them with loudness information |
| 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 |
| mp3diags | Qt-based MP3 diagnosis and repair tool |
| 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 multiple mp3 files into one 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| openmpt123 | libopenmpt-based command line player for tracked music files (modules) |
| 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 |
| 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-ctl | CLI utility to control PulseAudio volume |
| 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 |
| pulsemixer | CLI and curses mixer for PulseAudio |
| pwavecat | concatenates any number of audio files to stdout |
| 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 | Loop based MIDI sequencer with focus on live performances |
| setmixer | A commandline mixer |
| sexypsf | Open-source PSF1 (Playstation music) file player |
| 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 program to help practicing ear training |
| sonata | 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 |
| strawberry | Modern music player and library organizer based on Clementine and Qt |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| vimpc | An ncurses based mpd client with vi like key bindings |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 | Software synthesizer based on ZynAddSubFX |
| zynaddsubfx | Software synthesizer capable of making a countless number of instruments |