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NeXTStep

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Software from the Princeton Sound Kitchenofferings from http:silvertone.princeton.edu~paulPaul Lansky and crew
Sound and Music Programs for NeXTStepThe NeXT lives on ! (But will this software ever run under http:www.gnustep.orgGNUStep ?)
cmusiccmusic is an acoustic compiler program

Network Audio

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Audio and Apachea paper from Sander van Zoest describing the use of Apache as a server for streaming media
BGMa background music player for PBX systems
Cyber Radio 1a system for live Internet audio broadcast
EsounDthe Enlightened Sound Daemon, "can mix several audio streams into one device"
Flashplug-in for Linux Netscape, plays Flash files on Shockwave-enabled Web sites
Fluid Streaming Serverstreaming MP3 server for network broadcast
Freecastpeer-to-peer streaming system for OggVorbis audio and video
GStreamerGStreamer * Network Audio
GStreamer Pipeline Editor"allows easy, graphical construction, inspection, and operation of media processing pipelines", r..
Helix DNA Producer"a multi-format media-encoding engine for creating streaming broadcasts, on-demand streaming cont..
Ice Sound Managersound server software for the http:www.icewm.orgIceWM window manager
IceDJ"...is a set of scripts for running an Icecast radio station with tight integration with an accom..
IcecastIcecast * Network Audio
Internet Radio Toolkita suite of command-line tools for unimultibroadcasting MP3 streams over the Internet (HTTP and RT..
Kickartssimple KDE panel applet to control the aRts sound server
LDASthe Low Delay Audio Streamer, software from Asbj
LiveMixaudio streams mixing program, requires PostgreSQL
MASthe Multimedia Audio Server, a network audio server for X, from Shiman Associates
MPDthe Music Player Daemon, whose "... design focus is on integrating a computer into a stereo syste..
MPEG4IP"...provides an end to end system to explore MPEG-4 multimedia"
MozPluggerautoplay embedded audio and MIDI files in the Mozilla Web browser
MuSEapplication for mixing, encoding, and streaming of MP3 audio
NASthe Network Audio System (Another descriptive page is located http:nswt.tuwien.ac.athtdocsbaudoin..
NetStreamerstreaming audio over LAN and ISDN networks
Network Audio Front-enda streaming-audio alternative to RealAudio
Now Playing !network server for MP3 audio
Open Mash"...supports the Mash streaming media toolkit and...applications based on the Internet Mbone tool..
Peep!a network monitoring tool that represents network information via audio output
PeerCastP2P audiovideo broadcasting for everyone
Polypaudioadvanced sound server for NIX-like systems
R-BOSSis the Radio Broadcasting Open Source System, a project from Radio Free Asia
RAPplays RealAudio without X, excellent for the http:lynx.browser.orgLynx browser
RATthe Robust Audio Tool for Internet audio conferences
RPlayfeature-rich UDPTCP network audio system
RaWrappercontrols X11-based streaming-audio (such as RealPlayer) from the command line
RadioSuite HDa Linux-based hard-disk storage system (hardsoftware) for high-performance network broadcasting
RealAudiothe "Real" thing, for Linux too...
RealPlayer G2alpha version available for Linux
Sabre Flight Simulatornow has a Linux sound server
Shout pluginsenables listening to Shoutcast from Netscape
ShoutCastProxyShoutCast multiplexer, lets multiple clients listen to the same ShoutCast session using only sing..
ShoutcastShoutcast * Network Audio
Sound Server Ideassome thoughts from Fredrik Ohrstrom
Soundshamea free implementation of the SGI sound server, from Guenter Geiger
TeraCasta lightweight server for streaming multimedia, from Entera
USoundthe "Useful Sound Daemon" from Matt Campbell, "... provides low-latency mixing of multiple audio ..
WSoundToolsaudio server software for the Window Maker window manager
WWRWorld Wide Radio, a low-bandwidth Internet radio clientserver
X Audio Systemspecifications for "platform-independent, device-independent, network transparent audio services"..
aRtsaRts * Network Audio
darkiceversatile live HTTP audio streamer
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icesa JACK-aware module for Icecast
javashout"...a program for shouting MP3s to a shoutcast server"
mod_mp3a module that gives MP3 streaming capabilities to the Apache Web server
ninjamnetwork jam session software from Torben Hohn
pongserver"...a bunch of clientserver programs that talk to one another...about the current location of the..
qVIX/CU30audiovisual conferencing software
scrEamertakes sound played through EsounD, encodes it to MP3 in real time, and sends it to a Shoutcast se..
shout_toolsthree CGI programs which provide real-time information about the current song playing on a Shoutc..

Normalizing

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UtilitiesUtilities * Soundfile Editors and Utilities * Denoising * Normalizing
Xpandnice PythonGlade GUI for dynamics compressionexpansion, requires SoX and normalize
calcampcalculates what factor a sample needs for amplification to maximum volume (requires libsndfile)
normalize"a WAV file volume normalizer"
wavnormutility to normalize 16-bit stereo WAV files

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OggVorbis

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Freecastpeer-to-peer streaming system for OggVorbis audio and video
JOrbisVorbis decoder in pure Java
OggVorbis Playerfile player with GTK interface
OggVorbis Tag Editorincludes a patch for editing tags in XMMS
Vocoditorcomment editor for OggVorbis files, requires Perl and Gtk
Vorbis Development<em>the<em> place for Vorbis developers
Vorbis Xtremesite dedicated to news about OggVorbis
Vorbis.comthe home site for "...a music compression format similar to if not better than MP3..."
Vorbixis a "multi-file OggVorbis comment editorencoder..."
darkiceversatile live HTTP audio streamer
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mp32ogga PERL script to convert MP3s to Ogg Vorbis files
squelchnice OggVorbis audio player with playlist and tag editor, requires Qt

OpenAL

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ALPY3D sound kit, based op OpenAL, with a Python binding
Linux audio tools:Linux audio tools: * Tools To Make Tools * EsounD * OpenAL
OpenALopen-source audio library for games and multimedia applications, sponsored by Creative Labs and L..
OpenAL++
PHAT"a collection of GTK+ widgets geared toward pro-audio apps", from Pete Bessman and friends
PHPAudioFile"...a class that is designed to recognize attributes of audio files"
PKAudioPatrick Stinson's "...sound library that uses a TCP socket to communicate with its daemon process"
PLiba suite of game libraries with OpenGL and C++ interfaces, from Steve Baker
PenguinSoundcross-platform audio library with applications suite (includes a sample editor and a MOD tracker)
Perl audio processing modulesjust what it says...
Programmer's Guide To OSSexcellent resource for Linux sound
PyXAudioPython wrapper for the XAudio MP3 library
Q-Audio/Q-MIDIuseful extensions to the Q programming language
RPC Code Generatoruseful code from dyne:org developer Jaromil
RTS Toolstools for setting and getting realtime priority
Radio Hard Diskunique application from the MidiShare team
Realtime Linux Security Module (LSM)"... an installable kernel module that enables realtime capabilities for any 2.6.x kernel without..
Revolution-12a package that implements a network-transparent control framework for the http:www.arrakis-system..
Ruby/AudioHans Fugal's "library that makes dealing with audio data a little easier...in Ruby"
SBEmubrief description of SoundBlaster emulation in http:www.dosemu.orgDOSemu
SDLthe famous Simple Directmedia Layer library development project
SDL_sounda library to handle decoding of soundfile formats such as WAV and MP3
SL Sound Librarylibrary for playing, mixing, and modifying sound samples in realtime, designed especially for gam..
SQ80 Toolkitutility to readwrite Ensoniq SQ80 disks under Linux
SSSDthe Simple Sound for Small Devices library, "... a portable, cross-platform API for sound playbac..
Secret Rabbit Codea sample rate conversion library from Erik de Castro Lopo
Snacka module to add sound IO and visualization commands to TclTk
Snd utilssoundfile utilities from the CARL cmusic distribution, revived by Charlie Baker
SndObj/pySndObjVictor Lazzarini's "object-oriented cross-platform audio development tools and sample programs.....
SoundMana TclTk soundfile utility, provides GUI for simple file management
SoundToucha library for high-quality time-stretching and pitch-shifting
Tritonusan implementation of the http:www.javasoft.comproductsjava-mediasoundindex.htmlJavaSound API, fro..
UTIMEmicro-second resolution timing for Linux
Vsoundcreates a virtual audio loopback cable
WAV-PRG and Audiotaputilities for working with Commodore C64 tapes and TAP files
XAP"an audio plugin API for instruments and effects... currently in the process of being designed b..
XVolume"...a simple Xlib volume control..."
ameteraudio level meter (requires ALSA) from Laurent Georget
aubioa library for audio labelling, from Paul Brossier
audiofsemulates a file system for audio CDs
ccAudio"a portable general purpose C++ class library for manipulating audio files and audio data"
ccAudio2an improved version of the former ccAudio, from the Bayonne GNULinux telephony project
cdrom_speedlets the user decrease CD-ROM drive speed, "...especially suitable for playing MP3's from your CD..
dmSDKthe digital media SDK from SGI, now for Linux
gtkVUmetersoftware from the Wet Toad
hdrbenchmeasures high-performance audio multitrack recordingplayback
latency testanalyzes scheduling latencies of programs running in realtime under high system loads
libaioa platform abstraction layer for digital audio IO
libakailibrary useful for extracting samples from Akai sound discs
libaudioosstransparent OSSFree emulation on top of NAS
libfilthdigitalanalog filter design library from Anders Johansson
libfishsound"... a simple programming interface for decoding and encoding audio data using the Xiph.Org codec..
libgditherSteve Harris's "...library for performing audio dithering on PCM samples"
libgigis "... a C++ cross-platform loader library for Gigasampler and DLS files"
libloSteve Harris's "easy to use OSC (Open Sound Control) implementation written in C"
liboggz"... provides a simple programming interface for reading and writing Ogg files and streams", from..
libsndfilelibrary for reading and writing many different soundfile formats, from Erik de Castro Lopo
media_apia forum for discussing portable sound and MIDI programming interfaces
paulstretchhigh-quality time-stretching software from the industrious Paul Nasca
rt-scriptfinds and reorders audio process IRQs and IDs to increase priority, from Emanuel Rumpf
rt_watchdogFlorian Schmidt's "watchdog daemon that kills runaway SCHED_FIFO tasks"
set_rlimitsJonathan Woithe's software that "gives unpriviledged users access to realtime scheduling via the ..
sndlibis Bill Schottstaedt's library for the Snd soundfile editor
sounddsimple sound system for adding background sound to applications
tichstuffis a collection of headers and libraries needed to port SGI sound apps to Linux
tkSoundis Dan Ellis's TclTk toolkit for waveform display and manipulation
tranzportArthur Choung's documentation and code for programming Frontier Design's Tranzport wireless USB d..
wdatWayne Hoxie's utility that "reads and writes to an audio capable SCSI DDS DAT drive"

Other Documentation And Newsworthy Items

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2181 Audio DSP Dev Kit Price Set to Riseprice hikes courtesy Analog Devices
64 Studio: Building a native 64-bit creative distributionanother fine article from Daniel James
A Profile of SoundTrackera look at Michael Krause's excellent music module tracker
A Sound Server For Xthe Slashdot crowd opines
A Streaming Media Player For The Rest Of UsJoe Barr's review of Xine
AAC at 128kbps Public Listening Testan on-line listening test to "... find what encoder performs best encoding AAC at 128kbps CBR"
AGNULA Libre MusicA project to help spread "... sensibility on the topics of Libre Software, with specific attentio..
AGNULA/DeMuDi + Pd (Pure Data) Installation Notesinstructions from Derek Holzer and friends
ALSA Wiki Pagegood tutorial on writing an ALSA client
Achieving Low-Latency Response Times Under Linux DocumentationBy Dave Phillips, written 11/17/2000.
Apple Sues Sorenson Over QuickTime CodecLinus exclaims "Gott in Himmel!"
Audio Librea PDF file of the first installment from Daniel James's new column for http:www.linuxuser.co.ukLi..
Audio Processing PipelinesAdrian J. Chung tells how it's done
Best Soundcard For DJing With Linuxpoll results at OpenJay.org
Broadcast2000 Brings DV Editing To LinuxCurtis Lee Fulton tells us how it's done
Build It: Digital Audio WorkstationDave Salvator tells how its done for readers of ExtremeTech
Building A Solid-state Mini-ITX Linux Recording StudioHenry Kingman describes his experience to readers of LinuxDevices.com
Building Sounds for your Applications with SoundTrackersage advice from the experts at LinuxPlanet
Community-Based Recording Studios: A Look into the Futurea Linux Journal article by Tom Poe
Computer Music and the Linux Operating System: A Report from the Frontfreely available PDF of my article for the Computer Music Journal
Converting 78 rpm Records to Modern Media on Linuxa descriptive text from James Tappin
CreamWare Wants You!experienced programmers needed by CreamWare for porting their SFP to Linux and OSX
Creating Audio CDs With Linuxan in-depth hands-on HOWTO
CrossOver Brings QuickTime to Linuxdescribes the excellent plugin from CodeWeavers
Csound for Linuxhow it was back in 1999...
Delta/Terratec/Hoontech Audio Card Comparisonthe view from Jan Depner's site
Der Pinguin SingtFrank Barknecht reports on the state of Linux audio for readers of c't (Note: Reference entry onl..
Der Pinguin auf dem Weg ins TonstudioFrank Barknecht interviews Paul Davis for DeutschlandRadio (in German)
Developing and Using Snd: Editing Sound Under Linuxa descriptive tutorial
Digital Rights ManagementDaniel James asks the question in Sound On Sound
Drivers, IRQs, and PCI latencyexcellent article by Dan Robbins (of Gentoo Linux) delivers the straight story
Driving One's Own Audio DeviceAlessandro Rubini tells us how it's done
Editing Audio In LinuxIan Smith-Heisters shows us how to do it
FAVE raves: A new event for free software creativityDaniel James covers the event
FLAC Joins Xiph.orglossless compression format joins the free software world (you might also want to read the http:s..
FOSS Audio Toolsa survey of by Vedran Vucic
Fervent Software's Studio To Go!a review from Brad Fuller
Final Scratch Starts Hitting Store Shelvesa report from Harmony Central
Fine-tuning MPlayerArpad Gereoffy shows us how
Free Music Homepagea manifesto regarding music as a free commodity a la Linux and the GPL
Free Software and Multimedia 2001: A Report from Firenzenotes on the proceedings from yours truly
GNU/Linux DVD Player Reviewa look-see from Jon Kent
Hard copyHard copy * Other Documentation And Newsworthy Items
Hardware Review: Rio Centrala Slashdot review of the ultimate MP3 machine
Hot On The Wire - The FreeBoB Projectnews from Daniel James
Inside a Luxury Synth: Creating the Linux-Powered Korg OASYSPeter Kim takes a look within
Interview with Hannu Savolainen and Dev Mazumdargetting to know the OSSLinux guys at http:www.opensound.com4Front Technologies
Introduction to Linux AudioFilippo Pappalardo spills the facts for readers of OSNews
Introduction to MIDI programming in LinuxExcellent information from Craig Stuart Sapp
L'heure de Jazz++excellent hands-on article from Katja Socher in LinuxFocus
LAC2004: A Report From KarlsruheDaniel James gives us the scoop
Learning to use AudacityJoe Barr makes the attempt for readers of NewsForge
Linus Merges ALSA Into 2.5.4O frabjous day !
Linux 2.6: A Breakthrough for Embedded SystemsBrandon White gives us the low-down
Linux Audio Development: A Report from Karlsruhenotes from the first meeting of the Linux Audio Developers group
Linux Audio Plug-Ins: A Look Into LADSPAintroductory text for users and developers
Linux Audio Software ReviewAlexandre Prokoudine sends the straight story to Russian readers
Linux Audio Users GuideSolid information collected and organized by Patrick Shirkey
Linux Computer Music Surveya list of software and other projects related to Linux as a platform for computer music
Linux DVD PlayersDLP (that's me) looks at what's out there
Linux Laptop Sound Configurationan O'ReillyNet article describing sound setup for an HP Omnibook 4150
Linux MIDI Demonstrationexcellent descriptive pages from George Hansper
Linux Multimediaa brief survey by Sander van Vugt
Linux Multimedia with PD and GEMa report on using the PdGEM powerhouse for audiovideo processing
Linux Plays Starring Role in 'Sinbad'a brief description of the first all-made-with-Linux movie from DreamWorks
Linux Scheduler LatencyClark Williams compares and contrasts the preemptive kernel and the low-latency patches
Linux Sound SupportJeff Trantner's report from 1994
Linux Soundcard Driversa brief guide for users and developers
Linux Userincludes a series of excellent articles on Linux audio by Daniel James
Linux in the Professional Recording StudioSteve Cook relates his exhilarating experiences
Linux-SoundeditorenFrank Barknecht reviews Linux sound editors for c't, issue 112004
Linux-based Musical Keyboard Workstation Debutsa Slashdot report on new hardware from http:www.lionstracs.comLionstracs
Linux-based Radio TimeshiftingLi Yan-fa tells how to do it with ecasound
Listening Comparisons For Audio Codecs At 64kbpsinteresting results from an on-line public test from http:www.hydrogenaudio.orgHydrogen Audio
MIDI Wire Packetization Protocolbrought to you by SAOL guru John Lazzaro
MMididescribes tools for MIDI over the MBONE multicast network
Mackie Digs In with Tracktionand promises a Linux version is on the way...
Making A Song With FestivalJuan Linietsky relates his experiences
Mediastation at MusikMesse2004video demo of the Lionstracs Mediastation at MusikMesse2004
Michael Iber: On Free Software And Contemporary MusicGoetz Dipper's radio transcript; text in German only
Mirror ImageSound on Sound profiles Ron Parker's use of Linux audio software at his http:www.multitrack.usMir..
Modular synthesis with AlsaModularSynth 1.5.4Modular synthesis and its implementation in Dr. Matthias Nagorni's synthesizer
Mplayer: The Project from HellJoe Barr's less-than-satisfactory experience with my favorite MPEGAVIASF player
Mstation InterviewsJohn Littler chats with Conrad Parker of Sweep fame and Erik de Castro Lopo, author of libsndfile..
Multiple ICE1712 Sound Cards + ALSAvaluable information from Petter Sundl
Museum Sound Powered By Linuxnotes on a project from Benno Senoner
Music Journals, Magazines, Newspapers and Periodicalsnot Linux-specific, but a great resource
Music Typesetting on Linux: The People Behind LilyPondChris Cannam interviews Han-wen Nienhuys and Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Music to Feed Your Soul
NetMIDIan interesting proposal from David Slomin for using TCPIP as a basis for a MIDI network protocol
Network Musical Performanceperspectives from sfront's John Lazzaro and John Wawrzynek
Noisy Pythonbrief overview of some soundapps for Python
Notation Editors Under Linuxa look at notation editors for producing sheet music under Linux (especially focused on MUP), by ..
On-line articlesOn-line articles * Other Documentation And Newsworthy Items
On-line articles by Dave PhillipsOn-line articles by Dave Phillips * Other Documentation And Newsworthy Items
One Cable To Rule Them All - mLAN Audio Networkinga report from Daniel James
Open Source Music Softwarevery good article by Daniel James now in Sound On Sound's on-line archive
OpenAL Explaineda survey of the project's status in the year 2000
Opening Up the PlayStation 2 with Linuxvery brief look at a new development kit from Sony
PCMCIA Audio for NetBSDreport on a driver now available for http:www.eigerlabs.comEiger Labs PCMCIA sound card
Playing with PdJim Aikin tells the readers of Electronic Musician how it's done
Porting SGI Audio Applications to Linuxa report on some early work
Preemptible Kernel Patch Acceptedmore kernel good news
Product Review: The CodeWeavers CrossOver Plugina look at a remarkable plugin that brings QuickTime support to Linux
Professional Audio Closer to Linuxheads-up article on OSNews
Putting Together A Complete Multimedia Architecture For UNIXan interesting discussion on the linuxpower site
Quick Tootstutorials for users of Linux sound and MIDI software
RTMix/Linux in Organised Soundarticle includes mention of Ivica Bukvic's excellent software
RTcmix for Linux: Part 1Dave Topper's excellent introductory article for The Linux Journal
RealNetworks Announces Helix"the first comprehensive, open standard for digital media delivery", or so they say...
RealNetworks releases Helix DNA Producer source codebig news from the Real people
Realtime Audio on SuSE Linux Pro 9.2 HOWTOthe straight scoop from Dan Harper
Rockin' in the Free (Software) Worlda look at the software available for Linux guitarists
Ron ParkerSound On Sound article by Daniel James focuses on the use of Ardour, JACK, and JAMin in a profess..
Rosegarden Developers InterviewHoward Wen chats with the minds behind the software
Sculptor: A Real Time Phase VocoderNick Bailey describes his very cool software
Setting Up A Multitrack Audio Recording StudioAlex Heizer describes a basic Linux home recording system
Snake dance: The Kamaelia streaming media systema description from Daniel James
Songs in the Key of F12nice Wired article with reference to Geoff Matters of GDAM
Sound And Vision: Max Matthewsbrief heads-up article from SFweekly.com
Sound Card Support for Linux with Laptopsa survey from Werner Heuser
Sound HOWTOby Jeff Tranter
Sound Playing HOWTOby Yoo C. Chung
Sound Savings: Portable Audio Recorder Takes On Tapegood article regarding PDAudio from Len Moskowitz's CoreSound
Sound and Music Softwarea category review for http:freshmeat.netfreshmeat
Soundings: Explorations In Linux Soundgood article by Larry Ayers for the Linux Gazette
Sounds Expo: Linux DAW - A Realityan interviewvideo with Daniel James and Damien Cirotteau at the London Sounds Expo
Sounds from Another PlanetAllan Metts introduces Planet CCRMA to the readers of Electronic Musician
Streaming Media With Linuxin-depth article on using software for both the client and server sides
The Linux Reconfigurable DAWnews about a very interesting project from R. W. Hawkins
The Linux Recording StudioAaron Trumm reveals his plans in the May 2004 issue of the Linux Journal
The Linux Softsynth Roundupthe shape of things in May 2003, another Linux Journal article from yours truly
The Linux Soundfile Editor Roundupa survey of the field from DLP's point of view...
The Mandrake Audio Workstation HOWTOuseful advice from Austin Acton
The Project Studio Handbookdocumentation and HOWTOs related to music and sound engineering, mastering, processing, etc.
The State Of Recordable DVDspointers from Slashdot readers
The Trouble with Vorbisinteresting propositions, with commentary from the Kuro5hin crowd
Tux In The Studioinstructions on home recording with Linux, from Dave Fancella
Using VST Plugins In Linuxa new Quick Toot from yours truly
Using the Hammerfall HDSP on Linuxoutstanding HOWTO from Peter Todd
WayBack Machinethis link (and http:web.archive.orgwebhttp:www.linuxsound.atthis one too) connects you to a listi..
Which Sounds Better, MP3 or Ogg ?very good comparison notes from Slashdot readers
Writing Audio Applications With JACK - A Tutorial/Journalexcellent instruction from James Shuttleworth
Yamaha Validates MontaVista Vision for Next-Generation Digital Audio Productsgood news for modern penguins...
ltsbJulian Classen's guide to the Linux text-based studio project