Open Source Linux Audio Recording Software
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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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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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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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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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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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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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MusE is a Qt based audio/midi sequencer with editing and recording capabilities for linux.
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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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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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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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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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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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ReZound aims to be a stable, open source, and graphical audio file editor primarily for but not limited to the GNU/Linux operating system.
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Qt Sixisix Mixer
Linux gui mixer for Focusrite Scarlett 6i6
Qsismixer is a frontend gui to control the alsa mixer for Focusrite's Scarlett 6i6 USB sound card on Linux. It builds against the Qt5 framework and the Linux kernel's ALSA API. This is third party software that is not created, distributed, or sanctioned in any way by Focusrite. -
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jack-bridge
Audio and bluetooth stack for debian systems without systemd
jack-bridge provides a complete, lightweight audio stack for Debian-based Linux systems using JACK and ALSA without systemd, PulseAudio, or PipeWire. Perfect for users who want minimal dependencies and maximum control. Code generated by chat bots. Professional audio control interface Alsa Sound Connect (mxeq) with: Dynamic mixer controls - Automatically shows hardware controls for active device (Internal/USB) Built-in recorder - Record in mono/stereo at 44.1kHz or 48kHz, saves to ~/Music Bluetooth panel - Scan, pair, trust, connect devices with visual feedback Device switching - Change output between Internal/USB/HDMI/Bluetooth without restarting JACK. Audio Routing ALSA → JACK pipeline - All ALSA apps route through JACK. Persistent bridge ports - USB/HDMI/Bluetooth ports spawned on-demand. Jack Graph - Visually route audio to and from multiple apps and sources using jack-graph in. Bluetooth Audio Integration - Full A2DP/HFP/HSP support -
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soniK is an open source digital audio editor for Linux, using the KDE platform. soniK allows you to record, edit and process sounds on your computer.
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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.
