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Audio / MP3 Software
Audacity is free, cross-platform open source software for recording and editing sounds. download page
CDex is a CD-Ripper, extracting digital audio data from an Audio CD. download page
Mp3Splt is a cross-platform utility to split mp3 and ogg files selecting a begin and an end time position. download page
Mixxx is an cross-platform, open source DJ tool designed for both professional and amateur DJs alike. download page
Audiobook Cutter is an easy-to-use tool which splits large MP3 audiobook files into smaller ones without re-encoding. The split points are determined automatically based on silence detection. download page
MP3Gain is open source cross-platform software to analyze MP3 files so that they have the same perceived volume. download page
Tactile12000 is a 3-D, interactive simulation of a DJ setup - two turntables and a mixer. You can crossfade, backspin, and speed up and slow down music, including full-length WAVE and MP3 songs, on your computer. It is a cross-platform application for both Windows and Macintosh. download page
BonkEnc is a CD ripper, audio encoder and converter for various formats. It can produce MP3, MP4/M4A, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Bonk and FLAC files. download page
CD-DA X-Tractor is a CD ripper for 32-bit Windows platforms. It features intelligent jitter correction, internet CDDB support, on-the-fly MP3 encoding via BladeEnc or Lame_enc. download page
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- Ogg Vorbis - Ogg Vorbis is a professional audio encoding and streaming technology with all the benefits of Open Source.
- Musepack [GNU LGPL, BSD] - Musepack is an audio compression format with a strong emphasis on high quality.
- LAME [GNU LGPL] - LAME is considered the best MP3 encoder at mid-high bitrates and at VBR
- AudioCoding - free MPEG-4 audio codecs
- Mp3Wrap [GNU GPL] - Mp3Wrap is a free independent alternative to AlbumWrap.
- Alba Extractor [GNU GPL] - This
tool wraps a set of mp3 files into a single mp3 album, for ease of sharing on
WinMx,
NapShare and similar programs. - PeerCast [GNU GPL] - PeerCast is a simple, free way to listen to radio and watch video on the Internet. It uses P2P technology to let anyone become a broadcaster without the costs of traditional streaming.
- GNUMP3d [GNU GPL] - GNUMP3d is a streaming server for MP3s, OGG vorbis files, movies and other media formats.
- Mp3 Tag Tools [GNU GPL] - Free ID3 Tag Editing tool for Windows.
- MusicBrainz Tagger [GNU GPL] - MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site.
- GramoFile [GNU GPL] - GramoFile is a computer program, running under the Linux operating system (and some other UNIX-like OSses and even DOS/Windows now!), with the main goal of putting the sound of for example gramophone records on CDs.
- FFmpeg [GNU LGPL] - FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.
- JAZZ++ [GNU GPL] - JAZZ++ is a full featured, audio capable midi sequencer for Linux and Windows.
- Mixere [GNU GPL] - Mixere is a free, open-source application for mixing audio files. It runs on Windows NT/2000/XP, and supports WAV, AIFF, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Flac, and Mod audio files.
- Open Sound World [Other/Proprietary License] - Open Sound World, or OSW, is a scalable, extensible programming environment that allows musicians, sound designers and researchers to process sound in response to expressive real-time control.
- split3pm - split3pm is a tool to extract music segments from a larger MP3 file. For example, you might have a long radio capture in MP3 format and you want to cut out a piece of music from it.