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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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MusE is a Qt based audio/midi sequencer with editing and recording capabilities for linux.
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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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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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jfMusic
Tracked Music Editor
Tracked Music Editor Supports WAV, DLS files. Supports recording from MIDI devices. -
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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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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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WebcamStudio For GNU/Linux
A multifeatured virtual webcam software to broadcast over the Internet
========================= WEBCAMSTUDIO IS NO MORE MAINTAINED ========================= We are looking for someone to take over. If interested please contact: soylent.tv@gmail.com WebcamStudio is a multifeatured virtual webcam software that can be used with Skype or a flash website like UStream, to create a professional looking broadcast, including banners, animations, transit animations and icons, etc... This tool is not meant as a video editor but as a live video mixer giving you the possibilities to change the look of the broadcast on the fly. For more info about the WebcamStudio project, please visit our Wiki Home page: https://sourceforge.net/p/webcamstudio/wiki/Home/ IMPORTANT: ======= The former homepages of the project: http://code.google.com/p/webcamstudio http://ws4gl.org should be considered only as a reference to old project news, forums, info etc. Have in mind that some of these old links may not work anymore. -
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Sweep is an audio editor and live playback tool. It supports PCM (WAV, AIFF etc.), Ogg Vorbis, Speex and MP3, with multichannel editing and LADSPA effects. Inside lives a pesky little virtual stylus called Scrubby who enjoys mixing around in your file
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8 Sounds USB
Summary
XMOS based, USB2 audio card, low power consumption, small form factor, 8 synchronous input channels and 4 stereo output channels.
