Open Source Linux Audio Recording Software
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Audio Recording Software for Linux
View 9 business solutionsBrowse free open source Audio Recording software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Audio Recording software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Audacity
A free multi-track audio editor and recorder
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Audacity is free software, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Programs like Audacity are also called open source software, because their source code is available for anyone to study or use. There are thousands of other free and open source programs, including the Firefox web browser, the LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice office suites and entire Linux-based operating systems such as Ubuntu -
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OBS Studio
Open source software for live streaming and recording
OBS Studio, also known as Open Broadcaster Software, is a free and open source software program for live streaming and video recording. Features of the software include device/source capture, recording, encoding and broadcasting. Stream on Windows, Mac or Linux. This software is commonly used by video game streamers on the popular streaming platform Twitch. -
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butt (broadcast using this tool)
Icecast and Shoutcast broadcasting client
NOTE: This site is not maintained anymore. If you want to get the latest news and releases please visit https://danielnoethen.de/butt. butt (broadcast using this tool) is an easy to use, multi OS streaming tool. It supports ShoutCast and IceCast and runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows. The main purpose of butt is to stream live audio data from your computers Mic or Line input to an Shoutcast or Icecast server. Recording is also possible. It is NOT intended to be a server by itself or automatically stream a set of audio files. -
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Qtractor
An Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer
Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ around the Qt framework. The target platform will be Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio, and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI, -
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Streamripper records shoutcast-compatible streams. For shoutcast style streams it finds the "meta data" or track separation data, and uses that as a marker for where the track should be separated.
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WaveSurfer is an open source tool for sound visualization and manipulation. Typical applications are speech/sound analysis and sound annotation/transcription. WaveSurfer may be extended by plug-ins as well as embedded in other applications.
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Rosegarden
MIDI sequencer for Linux with music notation and audio
The MIDI sequencer that features a rich understanding of music notation along with basic support for digital audio -
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PortMedia was created to develop and share cross-platform, open-source I/O libraries for digital media including MIDI, video, and audio. Only a few things were released under the PortMedia umbrella. These are now hosted by the github.com/Portmidi/ project, where you can find the lastest versions of PortMidi, portsmf (Standard MIDI File support and more), and see github.com/rbdannenberg/scorealign for MIDI and/or Audio score alignment.
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Internet DJ Console
A feature packed DJ console and internet radio client for Linux users
Conceived as an internet radio Shoutcast/Icecast client and DJ console IDJC has two main media players, a background track player, effects buttons, crossfader, webm, aac, ogg, and mp3 streaming, stream automation timers, aux input, voice and VoIP integration. Media file formats include: mp3, ogg, flac, wma, wav, m4a, m3u, xspf, pls, and cue sheet support, IRC track and station announcements, uses jack audio connection kit to provide a flexible audio chain. This list of features is by no means complete. More info at the project homepage. -
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Frinika
Free open source DAW, MIDI sequencer, software synthesizers
Frinika is a free, complete music workstation software for Linux, Windows, Mac OSX and other operating systems running Java. It features sequencer, soft-synths, realtime effects and audio recording. -
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wineasio
ASIO to JACK driver for WINE
WineASIO provides an ASIO to JACK driver for WINE. ASIO is the most common Windows low-latency driver, so is commonly used in audio workstation programs. For best results with Ubuntu, install the kxstudio repos - http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/ - and install wineasio from there. -
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oreka
Enterprise telephony recording and retrieval system
Enterprise telephony recording and retrieval system with web based user interface. The project currently supports recording voice from VoIP SIP, Cisco Skinny (aka SCCP), raw RTP and audio sound device and runs on multiple operating systems and database systems. It can record audio from most PBX and telephony systems such as BroadWorks, Metaswitch, Asterisk, FreeSwitch, OpenSIPS, Avaya, Nortel, Mitel, Siemens, Cisco Call Manager, Cosmocom, NEC, etc... It is amongst others being used in Call Centers and Contact Centers for Quality monitoring (QM) purposes. -
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FlashWavRecorder
Simple flash file for recording audio and saving as a WAV
FlashWavRecorder is a Flash-based tool that enables recording audio from a user's microphone and exporting it as a WAV file in real time. It uses Flash Player to access audio input and communicate with JavaScript to control recording sessions from the browser. This was especially useful before native browser audio APIs became widely supported and remains relevant in legacy systems requiring Flash-based audio capture. -
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termtosvg
Record terminal sessions as SVG animations
termtosvg is a Unix terminal recorder written in Python that renders your command line sessions as standalone SVG animations. Produce lightweight and clean-looking animations embeddable on a project page. Custom color themes, terminal UI, and animation controls via SVG templates. Compatible with asciinema recording format. termtosvg is compatible with Linux, macOS and BSD OSes, requires Python >= 3.5 and can be installed using pip. -
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Krut Computer Recorder is a screencast tool to record audio and video from your computer screen into .mov-files and .wav-files. It can be used to e.g. make video tutorials or record games. It could also be used to record streaming video and audio.
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KRadio
The KDE Frameworks 5 Internet/AM/FM Radio App
KRadio is an Internet and/or AM/FM radio application for KDE Frameworks 5. It has support for V4L and V4L2 radio devices, internet radio, RDS, lirc remote control, MP3 and Ogg/Vorbis recording, TimeShift playing, alarms and much more. Try out! -
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Great Little Radio Player
'Great Little Radio Player' is a robust internet radio station stremer
This is 'Great Little Radio Player'. It is a robust internet radio station streamer. It connects to web sites offering radio streaming and lets you play radio stations directly from that locations. We develop for Windows, Linux and MacOSX. -
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Echo Voice Recorder
Simple Voice Recorder Application for Debian Based Linux Systems
This is a good audio recording app that's extremely lightweight and requires minimal dependencies. It records your microphone and, if desired, your system sounds. https://github.com/shampuan/Echo-Voice-Recorder 5 audio formats: wav, mp3, ogg, flac, aac. 7 language options: Azerbaijani, German, English, Spanish, French, Turkish (default), Russian. -
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Pearl MATE Studio Deluxe 12
Professional Audio Recording Studio
The PearlMATE Studio Deluxe 12 contains everything preinstalled (NOT BLOTED) , but simply everything you need tat is used in commercial recording studios. From Multi DAWS and Audio Editors installed many more available for free in our repository. Mastering tools pre-installed and of course many plugins for mixing. Now defaulting to the working pipewire over pulseaudio and it works perfecty. Carla preinstalled and just waiting for you to add your Windows Audio Plugins to the System. We use Yadbridge to Index the Windows Plugins no more failed VST lookups anymore. Outside Audio, which we just scratched the surface, Preinstalled Firefox, Google Chrome and Edge. The coomplete Pearl system Tools for updates and installing 1,000's of apps all for FREE. Gparted + more for harddisk care. Wasta-Remastersys for backing up your live Pearl running system to a bootable iso. Many more feature like Ventoy, Samba Network Sharing Tools so much more ..Enjoy! -
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You-Get
Dumb downloader that scrapes the web
You-Get is a small command-line utility for downloading media (video, audio and images) from the Web when there are no other means to do so. It can download video and audio files from such popular web sites as YouTube, Twitter, Niconico, Vimeo, Flickr, Instagram and a whole lot more. You-Get is a great option for when you want to enjoy your favorite videos, audio or images from the internet without having to open any web browsers or get interrupted by ads. It’s also a good choice for when you want to get rid of any closed-source technology or proprietary JavaScript code from running on your computer. -
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Radiorecorder Web GUI
Web GUI to schedule recording of shoutcast streams with streamripper
Radiorecorder Web GUI is a web interface to schedule record jobs for shoutcast-compatible streams with streamripper. It's use a webserver with PHP as backend, that provides a RESTful API. As frontend you only need a recent browser with JavaScript. Feature of web user interface: * adaptive user interface (resizable layout, sort entries, hide columns) * manage schedules (create, edit, copy, delete) * manage stations (create, edit, pre-listen¹, delete, reorder) * manage recorded files (rename, save, playback¹, delete) ¹) need HTML5 browser and depending on audio format -
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Drumstick MIDI Monitor
MIDI monitor for Linux
Drumstick MIDI Monitor is a MIDI monitor for Linux using ALSA sequencer and Qt5 user interface. -
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Disc-cover provides an easy way to produce covers for audio CDs non-interactively. It scans audio CDs and uses information from the CDDB or CDINDEX database to build a back and front cover for the CD using LaTeX to produce high quality PDF or PS.
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ReZound aims to be a stable, open source, and graphical audio file editor primarily for but not limited to the GNU/Linux operating system.
