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

alacenc

alac_decoder

Basic decoder for Apple Lossless Audio Codec files (ALAC)

alsa-scarlett-gui

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.

aucatctl

aucdtect

audacious

Audacious Player - Your music, your way, no exceptions

audacity

Free crossplatform audio editor

audex

KDE4 based CDDA extraction tool.

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

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

cava

cd-discid

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

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

dbmeasure

ALSA Volume Control Attenuation Measurement Tool

dcadec

dcaenc

dcd

A simple command-line based CD Player

deadbeef

deadbeef-mpris2-plugin

declick

declick is a dynamic digital declicker for audio sample files

denemo

GTK+ graphical music notation editor

denonavr-cli

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

easyeffects

easytag

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

ecasound

a package for multitrack audio processing

elisa

erec

A shared audio recording server

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.

gmtp

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.

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

guitarix

helm

helvum

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-example-tools

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

kasts

kid3

A simple tag editor for KDE

klick

kmetronome

MIDI based metronome using ALSA sequencer

kmidimon

krecorder

lame

LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder

lash

LASH Audio Session Handler

liblc3

lilypond

GNU Music Typesetter

lingot

LINGOT Is Not a Guitar-Only Tuner

linux-show-player

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

lxmusic

mac

madplay

The MAD audio player

mangler

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

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.

mpc

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

mpck

Checks MP3s for errors

mpd

The Music Player Daemon (mpd)

mpd-ynca

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.

mpg123-base

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

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.

munt-mt32emu-alsadrv

mup

Program for printing music scores

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++

ncspot

nickvision-tagger

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.

owntone

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

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

ptabtools

Utilities for PowerTab Guitar files (.ptb)

puddletag

pulseaudio

A networked sound server with an advanced plugin system

pulseaudio-ctl

pulseaudio-daemon

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

qpaeq

qpwgraph

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

reaper-bin

redoflacs

rescrobbled

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.

saydate

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

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

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

sndio

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

tap-reverbed

Standalone JACK counterpart of LADSPA plugin TAP Reverberator.

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

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

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

xwax

open source vinyl emulation

yarock

yoshimi

A software synthesizer for Linux, based on ZynAddSubFX

zynaddsubfx

ZynAddSubFX is an opensource software synthesizer.

a2jmidid

horgand

ptabtools

abcde

hydrogen

puddletag

abcm2ps

icecream

pulseaudio

abcmidi

id3

pulseaudio-ctl

aeolus

id3ed

pulseaudio-daemon

alacenc

id3ted

pulseeffects

alac_decoder

id3tool

pulsemixer

alsa-scarlett-gui

id3v2

pwavecat

alsa-tools

jaaa

qastools

alsa-utils

jack

qjackctl

alsamixer-app

jack-audio-connection-kit

qmidiarp

alsamixergui

jack-example-tools

qmidiroute

alsaplayer

jack-keyboard

qmmp

amsynth

jack-rack

qpaeq

apetag

jack-smf-utils

qpwgraph

apulse

jack2

qsampler

aqualung

jack_capture

qsynth

ardour

jalv

qtagger

ario

jamin

qtgain

aseqview

justeport

qtractor

asunder

kasts

qtscrobbler

aucatctl

kid3

quimup

aucdtect

klick

quodlibet

audacious

kmetronome

rawrec

audacity

kmidimon

rcenter

audex

krecorder

reaper-bin

audiocompress

lame

redoflacs

audiotag

lash

rescrobbled

audiotools

liblc3

rexima

aumix

lilypond

rhythmbox

awesfx

lingot

rip

aylet

linux-show-player

ripperx

baudline

linuxsampler

rosegarden

beets

litestream

saydate

bempc

lltag

schismtracker

bitmeter

lmms

scmpc

bluez-alsa

lollypop

scream

bplay

lxmusic

seq24

bpmdetect

mac

setmixer

bristol

madplay

sexypsf

brutefir

mangler

shnflacverify

cadence

mcdp

shntool

cantata

meterbridge

shorten

cava

mhwaveedit

sidplay

cd-discid

mikmod

sidplayfp

cdparanoia

milkytracker

smixer

cdplay

mixxx

snapcast

cdstatus

mmix

snd

cdtool

moc

sndfile-tools

chordii

modplugtools

sndio

chuck

mp32ogg

sndpeek

clementine

mp3asm

solfege

cmix

mp3blaster

sonata

cmus

mp3c

sonic-visualiser

cmusfm

mp3cat

sooperlooper

combine_wave

mp3check

sound-juicer

coquillo

mp3diags

soundconverter

csound

mp3gain

soundkonverter

cvoicecontrol

mp3info

sox

dagrab

mp3report

spek

darkice

mp3splt

splay

darksnow

mp3splt-gtk

split2flac

dbmeasure

mp3unicode

spotify

dcadec

mp3val

strawberry

dcaenc

mp3wrap

streamripper

dcd

mpc

streamtranscoder

deadbeef

mpck

subsonic-bin

deadbeef-mpris2-plugin

mpd

substract_wave

declick

mpd-ynca

supercollider

denemo

mpdas

synaesthesia

denonavr-cli

mpdscribble

taginfo

din

mpfc

tagtool

dir2ogg

mpg123

tap-reverbed

drumstick

mpg123-base

teamspeak-client

dvda-author

mpg321

teamspeak-server

easyeffects

mplay

tempest_for_eliza

easytag

mt-daapd

terminatorx

ecasound

multimux

timemachine

elisa

munt-mt32emu-alsadrv

timidity++

erec

mup

timidity-eawpatches

ezstream

muse

timidity-freepats

fapg

musepack-tools

tk707

flac-image

musescore

toolame

flac123

music-file-organizer

ttaenc

flack

musique

tudor-volumed

flacon

ncmpc

twolame

flake

ncmpcpp

upmpdcli

fluid-soundfont

ncspot

vb2rip

fluidsynth

nickvision-tagger

vbrfixc

fmdrv

normalize

vimpc

fmit

ogg2mp3

vkeybd

fmtools

oggtst

vlevel

frescobaldi

ogmtools

vlorb

gbsplay

openmpt123

vmpk

gigedit

opus-tools

volumeicon

gimmix

orpheus

volwheel

glurp

owntone

vorbis-tools

gmorgan

pamix

vorbisgain

gmtp

paprefs

vsound

gnomad

pasystray

wav2json

gnome-music

patchage

wavbreaker

gnome-sound-recorder

pavucontrol

wavegain

gnump3d

pavucontrol-qt

wavpack

gogglesmm

pavumeter

wavplay

gom

peercast

wavsplit

gpodder

pianobar

whipper

gqradio

picard

wildmidi

grip

picoxine

wmsound-data

gsm

pithos

xfmpc

gst123

playerctl

xineadump

gstreamripper

pms

xmms2

gtick

pnmixer

xwax

gtkguitune

poc

yarock

guitarix

podcatcher

yoshimi

helm

podget

zynaddsubfx

helvum

podracer