Open Source Perl Sound/Audio Software

eGuideDog project develops free software for the blind. Currently, we focus on WebSpeech, Ekho TTS and WebAnywhere.

Yandex Music Download is a tool designed to download music tracks from the Yandex Music service. It enables users to save their favorite songs locally for offline listening, providing an alternative to streaming.

SlimServer, better known as Logitech Media Server, is a lightweight, extensible music server that indexes your library and streams audio to hardware players and software clients around the house. It scans folders for music and cover art, builds fast search indexes, and serves rich metadata to web, mobile, and player UIs. Playback can be synchronized across rooms with per-player volume and latency controls, and it supports a wide range of formats via built-in decoders and on-the-fly transcoding. A powerful plugin system adds services like internet radio, podcasts, and streaming platforms, as well as utilities for alarms, lyrics, and advanced tagging. Administration happens through a friendly web interface, with options for library rescans, playlist management, and performance tuning on small devices like the Raspberry Pi. Written largely in Perl and designed to be cross-platform, it runs happily on Linux, macOS, Windows, and many NAS appliances, making it a dependable hub for whole-home

xoscope is a digital oscilloscope using input from a sound card or EsounD and/or a ProbeScope/osziFOX and will soon support Bitscope hardware. Includes 8 signal displays, variable time scale, math, memory, measurements, and file save/load.

MARF is a general cross-platform framework with a collection of algorithms for audio (voice, speech, and sound) and natural language text analysis and recognition along with sample applications (identification, NLP, etc.) of its use, implemented in Java.

A Linux CLI tool for converting multiple audio types from one format to another. It supports the following audio formats: 3G2, 3GP, 8SVX, AAC, AC3, ADTS, AIFF, AL, AMB, AMR, APE, AU, AVR, BONK, CAF, CDR, CVU, DAT, DTS, DVMS, F32, F64, FAP, FLA, FLAC, FSSD, GSRT, HCOM, IMA, IRCAM, LA, MAT, AUD, MAT4, MAT5, M4A, M4R, MP2, MP3, MP4, MP4A, MPC, MPP, NIST, OFF, OFR, OFS, OPUS, OGA,OGG, PAF, PRC, PVF, RA, RAM, RAW, RF64, SD2, SF, SHN, SMP, SND,SOU, SPX, SRN, TAK, TTA, TXW, VOC, VMS, VQF, W64, WAV, WMA, and WV. It can also extract audio from the following video extensions: RM, RV, ASF, DivX, MPG, MKV, MPEG, AVI, MOV, OGM, OGV, QT, VCD, SVCD, M4V, NSV, NUV, PSP, SMK, VOB, FLV, WEBM and WMV. Parallel Processing, a CD ripping function with CDDB support, batch conversion, tag preservation for most supported formats, independent tag reading & writing, service menus for KDE Dolphin/Konqueror, Gnome Nautilus script, and action scripts for Nemo/Thunar are also provided.

Jukebox for large collections of music files, written in perl, use gstreamer, mplayer or mpg321/ogg123/flac123 for playback

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.

Provide a user-level API (C library) for communicating with the Creative NOMAD Jukebox MP3 players and Dell DJs under Linux, *BSD and Windows. The protocol in question is colloquially known as "PDE" (Portable Digital Entertainment). It includes simple

Converts a toc generated by cdrdao (or similar) to a .cue as known from tools like EAC. Works only for CD_DA toc.

Streambox is a web interface for live mp3 streaming. It can be installed on a linux machine with one or more soundcards. Streambox is meant to be used as the only interface to the machine: it does not need a keyboard or monitor. Also StreamBOX is a CD

This project develops an open source editor for Clavia Nord Modular and Micro Modular synthesizers.

Variations is a digital music library software system that provides online access to streaming audio and scanned score images with a flexible access control framework to ensure respect for intellectual property.

Obsequieieum is a streaming MP3 jukebox via RTP/multicast and icecast. The web/network interface makes it a great tool for sharing your music collection with coworkers and neighbors.

Peep is a network monitoring tool that represents network information via an audio interface. Network diagnostics are made not only based on single network events but whether the network sounds "normal".

cdr is a CD ripper for Linux. It's a simple program with a no-frills console interface. It does one thing well -- the user interface -- and leaves the rest to other components with the same philosophy.

mp3burn is a simple command line tool for making audio CDs from mp3s, oggs or FLACs without filling up your disk with .wav files. It requires perl, mpg123, oggenc, flac and cdrecord.

Source code from the Research Institute for Signals, Systems and Computational Intelligence http://fich.unl.edu.ar/sinc

Second generation of XMMS music player.

A simple program to scan a list of (sub)directories, creating a report from an HTML template. Also calculates simple statistics and each song's playing time. Should work on any perl-ized OS; see homepage for demo.

soundgrab is a perl script which allows the user to interactively select and save their favorite portions of a long volume of ogg or raw audio data. The idea is to make it easy to take for example a three hour radio broadcast and reduce it to a few named

mplay is a console based frontend to MPlayer. It has great features like adjustable colors, browsable playlist, progressbar, status informations, remembers the position before quitting, ID3-tag editor, interactive help, extended streaming functions.....

mkcdtoc is a command-line utility to create toc-files for cdrdao. It reads a list of audio files in simple text or M3U format. The program can be extended via plugins. There is plugins to fill CD-TEXT blocks and perform audio file conversion.

MSCP (Media Server Control Panel) is a management interface for Icecast2 with comprehensive functionality. An administrator can create users and then edit access rights, set the number of listener slots, enable or disable AutoDJ, etc. Users may change several parameters of the Icecast2 server and the AutoDJ on a web-based interface. Audio compression formats supported by the AutoDJs are MP3, OGG/Vorbis and FLAC. Audio streaming formats supported by the AutoDJs are MP3, OGG/Vorbis and AAC+. Stream Transcoder broadcast formats: MP3, OGG, OPUS MSCP does not require an SQL server and runs on an independent web server. It also sets Icecast2 to 100% Shoutcast-compatible mode.

In combination with the Apache web server and mod_perl, Apache::MP3 lets you create a virtual jukebox of your MP3, WAV and Ogg Vorbis music files, browse them over the web, create playlists, and stream them.