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VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for a wide range of audio and video formats, as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. It doesn't need any external codec or program to work.
The MPlayer media player can play a wide variety of media formats. It can also save streamed content to a file. A companion program, MEncoder, can take an input stream or file and transcode it into several different output formats, optionally applying various transforms along the way.
Audacity is a free audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to record live audio, convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, and edit sound files.
LilyPond is a music notation program that produces scores that are engraved with traditional layout rules. It has no graphical user interface, relying instead on input files to specify notes, pitches, and lengths, but you can install the program Denemo to get a GUI.
InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning application for Windows! It lets you create and burn data and audio disc images, work with rewritable and multisession discs, and extract WAV and ISO image files from discs. You can also use it with the LAME MP3 encoder to save audio CD tracks.
Songbird is a cross-platform music player based on Mozilla code. It lets you play, manage, and discover music. You can customize its appearance with skins, and create dynamic playlists that automatically update based on criteria you set. Supports some media players and can support iPods with an extension.
TuxGuitar is a multi-track tablature editor, score writer, and MIDI sequencer written in Java, designed to help guitarists write, edit, and play songs. It has its own file format, and can also import and export Guitar Pro files, import Power Tab and TablEdit tabulatures, and export tabulatures as LilyPond scores, ASCII, MusicXML, and Adobe PDF. It can also load and export MIDI files.
aTunes is a full-featured Java-based audio player and manager. It plays MP3, Ogg, WMA, WAV, FLAC, and MP4 files and streaming Internet radio. It also lets users edit tags, organize music, and rip audio CDs.
VirtualDub is a video capture and processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (but not write) MPEG-1, and also handle sets of BMP images.
Csound is a sound design, music synthesis and signal processing system, providing facilities for composition and performance over a wide range of platforms. It is not restricted to any style of music, having been used for many years in the creation of classical, pop, techno, ambient, experimental, and (of course) computer music, as well as music for film and television.
UltraStar Deluxe is a karaoke game inspired by the Singstar game on the Playstation. It allows as many as six players to sing along with music using microphones in order to score points based on the pitch of their voice and the rhythm of their singing.
BestPractice is a musician's audio time-stretching practice tool, to slow down or speed up music from an MP3 file or CD. Ordinarily sound is distorted when slowed down or sped up; BestPractice tries to correct this, so you can slow down and speed up music while keeping the original pitch. It can also change the pitch of the music without affecting its tempo.
The NoteEdit music score editor supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of written notes, chord markings, and lyrics. It provides import and export filters to many formats, including MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MUP, PMX, MusiXTeX, and LilyPond.
Rosegarden is an audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment. Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on Linux, ideal for composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home recording environments.
MusE is a MIDI/Audio sequencer with recording and editing capabilities written by Werner Schweer. MusE aims to be a complete multitrack virtual studio for Linux, it is published under the GNU General Public License. MusE has among other things support for Midi and audio sequencing. It is based on the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture and Jack. You can use several sound cards to access external midi devices and record/playback them with MusE.
OpenSong manages chords and lyrics sheets (lead sheets) and presents lyrics (and custom slides) using a projector. It can automatically transpose chords to any key. Also presents any passage of the Bible, verse by verse.
Traverso DAW is a cross-platform multitrack audio recording and editing suite for both home and professional use. It handles everything from recording to CD mastering, and lets you use effects plugins, move audio clips, and create new tracks during playback.
Denemo is a music notation editor that lets you rapidly enter notation for typesetting via the LilyPond music engraver. It can export notation to LilyPond and ABC music formats, as well as PDF, PNG, and MIDI, and acts as a front end for Csound score files.
Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine. Its main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming. Hydrogen has a user-friendly, modular, fast, and intuitive graphical interface based on Qt3. There is a sample-based stereo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au, and .aiff formats, or compressed FLAC file.
Canorus is a free extensible music score editor. It supports note writing, import/export of various file formats, MIDI input and output, scripting and more! Using a Qt4 framework Canorus offers a fast and modern GUI and cross-platformability. Canorus runs on Linux, Windows and MacOSX.