Open Source Windows Audio Recording Software

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

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.

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.

OREMO is audio recording software for the UTAU program. OREMO allows users to: Record against a tone for samples all on the same note Use lists of sounds to make sorting recordings easier Create all types of voicebanks Use tools like BGM OREMO is the main audio recording software that STUDIO OGIEN uses in-house. It requires Windows XP or later.

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.

WaveShop is an audio editor for Windows XP/Vista/7/8. Unlike many similar apps, WaveShop is bit-perfect, meaning samples aren't altered unless they need to be. Editing a portion of an audio file only affects that portion; the rest of the file is untouched. Blocks of audio can be cut and pasted without changing their contents at all. This is especially useful for patching a finished master without corrupting its dither.

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.

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.

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.

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.

iSpy uses your USB webcams, IP cams, capture cards, desktops and microphones to detect and record movement or sound and provides security, surveillance, monitoring and alerting services. Media is recorded directly to H264 mp4 files or AVI files. iSpy can stream live and recorded video over the local network, over the web using the ispyconnect portal and to mobile devices and third party software (like gadgets and MediaPortal). iSpy also includes a server project that lets you connect to USB webcams and microphones running on other computers. iSpyConnect provides subscription based SMS, MMS, Email, YouTube uploads and Remote Access. LAN usage of iSpyConnect is free.

Red Dot Forever is an extremely simple program to record MIDI files. It has no advanced editing features -- but if you just want to RECORD, listen back to what you PLAYed, and finally SAVE your recording to disk, then Red Dot Forever is all you need.

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.

StreamHijacker is a small Open Source stream ripper application and you can easly save audio or video contents from the internet radios or video servers without any modifications or data loss. It's supports ShoutCast and IceCast protocols.

========================= 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.

XMOS based, USB2 audio card, low power consumption, small form factor, 8 synchronous input channels and 4 stereo output channels.

This project has evolved from its original version into Calimero (a new Windows desktop wallpaper manager). Details here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kalimero/ WallPaper (alias crawlpaper) is a desktop changer (NOT a screensaver) which includes a web crawler for picture download, an audio stream ripper, an audio player, a mini mp3 tag editor,etc. Also included support for .zip and .rar files and an interface to the BerkleyDB code for small databases.

Record online streams using MPlayer, VLC or any other recorder of your choosing. Join, tag and post process as you please. Schedule recordings of your favorite internet radio shows and download full streams to your hard drive. Requires .NET 3.5SP1.

DSPack is a set of Components and class to write Multimedia Applications using MS Direct Show and DirectX technologies. DSPack 2.3 is designed to work with DirectX 9 on Win9X, ME, 2000, and Windows XP operating systems using Delphi 5,6,7 and BCB6.

StreamRipStar is a java written graphical frontend (gui) for streamripper, which saves separate options for each stream. In addition is has a scheduler and can load stream from the web.

streamripper GUI is a application to run streamripper console with many flags and options from a graphical window.

PromptCast is a dead-simple teleprompter intended for use when recording webcam video and/or screencasts. Put your webcam under your monitor and position PromptCast right above it to make your recordings easier and give them that professional touch.

KStreamRipper (formaly KRadioRipper) is a program for recording Internet radios and other streams which comes with a stream catalog. Itt can split the stream and create an own file for each track - with corresponding metadata.

The SpatGRIS is a plugin (Mac AU/VST and VST Windows format) designed to compose multichannel space. It allows the user to spatialize the sound in 2D (up to 16 speakers) or in 3D (up to 128 speakers) under a dome of speakers (with the ServerGRIS, available here on SourceForge). SpatGRIS is a fusion of two former plugins by the GRIS: OctoGRIS and ZirkOSC with a lot of new features. SpatGRIS has been developed by the Groupe de Recherche en Immersion Spatiale (GRIS) directed by Robert Normandeau and based at the Faculty of Music at Université de Montréal. SpatGRIS and ServerGRIS are still available here but they are not supported anymore. They have been replaced by the duo ControlGRIS/SpatGRIS3 also available at SourceFORGE (August 2021) Have a look at the them: https://sourceforge.net/projects/spatgris3/

m3w is an audio streamer for the www. m3w streams audio data to servers like icecast. shoutcast, or darwin. It takes data from the sound card, encodes (using lame) and sends it. m3w aims for high reliability, top quality, and ease of use.