MuSE is an application for the mixing, encoding, and network streaming of
sound. MuSE can simultaneously mix up to 6 encoded audio bitstreams (from
files or network) plus a sound card input signal. The resulting stream can
be played locally on the sound card and/or encoded as an mp3 bitstream sent
to a broadcast server. MuSE offers an intuitive interface to be operated
realtime and can run in "slick" mode from command line.
Musepack is an audio compression format with a strong emphasis on high quality.
It's not lossless, but it is designed for transparency, so that you won't be
able to hear differences between the original wave file and the much smaller MPC
file.
It is based on the MPEG-1 Layer-2 / MP2 algorithms, but has rapidly developed
and vastly improved and is now at an advanced stage in which it contains heavily
optimized and patentless code.
PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and
Win32 systems. A sound server is basically a proxy for your sound applications.
It allows you to do advanced operations on your sound data as it passes between
your application and your hardware. Things like transferring the audio to a
different machine, changing the sample format or channel count and mixing
several sounds into one are easily achieved using a sound server.
The G.722 module is a bit exact implementation of the ITU G.722 specification
for all three specified bit rates - 64000bps, 56000bps and 48000bps. It passes
the ITU tests.
To allow fast and flexible interworking with narrow band telephony, the encoder
and decoder support an option for the linear audio to be an 8k samples/second
stream. In this mode the codec is considerably faster, and still fully
compatible with wideband terminals using G.722.
QUIMUP is a 'graphical' client for the music player daemon (MPD)
written in C++ and Qt5.
Features include:
* Support for (locally stored) albumart.
* Support for audio streams (url).
* Drag & drop playlist management.
* Database browser (artist, album, genre, folder & playlist mode)
* Database search (artist, album, genre & title mode).
* Quick search-and-select in the playlist.
* Mini-mode interface for basic control only.
* Open folder in external programs to edit tags etc.
* Generally a quick and clean application.
TiMidity++ is a MIDI player without external MIDI instruments.
This can also convert MIDI files to various formatted audio files
(ex. wav, au, etc..).
In addition to this port, "Gravis Ultra Sound" compatible patch files
(or SF2 format SoundFont) are required to play files.
Formerly, the original version of this program was written by Tuuka
Toivonen(until version 0.2i).
Now, Masanao Izumo and many hackers are developing "TiMidity++".
forked-daapd is a DAAP (iTunes), MPD (Music Player Daemon) and RSP (Roku) media
server. It is a complete rewrite of mt-daapd (Firefly Media Server).
It has support for AirPlay devices/speakers, Apple Remote (and compatibles),
MPD clients, Chromecast, network streaming, internet radio, Spotify and LastFM.
It does not support streaming video by AirPlay nor Chromecast.
DAAP stands for Digital Audio Access Protocol, and is the protocol used
by iTunes and friends to share/stream media libraries over the network.
RSP is Roku's own media sharing protocol. Roku are the makers of the
SoundBridge devices.
Creox is a real-time sound processor. You can plug your electric guitar
or any other musical instrument directly to the PC's sound card and
start experimenting with various sound effects. Creox offers nice
user-friendly KDE-based GUI, a preset support, a low-latency DSP engine,
and each effect parameter can be altered "on the fly".
As Creox is a JACK application, the output sound can be routed to the
other JACK-aware applications, and the audio input can be taken as the
output from the other JACK client.
hexter is a software synthesizer that models the sound generation of
a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer. It can easily load most DX7 patch bank
files, edit those patches via a built-in editor or MIDI sys-ex
messages (ALSA systems only), and recreate the sound of the DX7 with
greater accuracy than any previous open-source emulation (that the
author is aware of....)
hexter operates as a plugin for the DSSI Soft Synth Interface.
DSSI is a plugin API for software instruments (soft synths) with user
interfaces, permitting them to be hosted in-process by audio applications.
libshairport
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Created by Team XBMC
This is a fork of ShairPort written by James Laird <jhl@mafipulation.org>. The
XBMC team decided to fork ShairPort and make it into a library.
What it is
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This program emulates an AirPort Express for the purpose of streaming music from
iTunes and compatible iPods. It implements a server for the Apple RAOP protocol.
ShairPort does not support AirPlay v2 (video and photo streaming).
It supports multiple simultaneous streams, if your audio output chain (as
detected by libao) does so.