Open Source Python Sound/Audio Software

LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to improve the psycho acoustics, quality and speed of MP3 encoding. Note: we provide source code only!

Spleeter is the Deezer source separation library with pretrained models written in Python and using Tensorflow. It makes it easy to train music source separation models (assuming you have a dataset of isolated sources), and provides already trained state of the art models for performing various flavours of separation. 2 stems and 4 stems models have state of the art performances on the musdb dataset. Spleeter is also very fast as it can perform separation of audio files to 4 stems 100x faster than real-time when run on a GPU. We designed Spleeter so you can use it straight from command line as well as directly in your own development pipeline as a Python library. It can be installed with Conda, with pip or be used with Docker.

Audio toolkit for streaming, aiming at complex Internet radio systems. Our stream generator is highly extensible and flexible. Script based, it can be a fully automatic daemon streamer, but is also used for live shows with an user-friendly GUI.

EasyABC allows the user to create, edit, view, play, convert music written in the ABC music notation language. The program was written in Python 2.7 and WxPython by Nils Liberg and runs on Windows, OSX, and Linux. Nils Liberg is no longer supporting this open source package, however I have volunteered to continue its support and development.

DeepSpeech is an open source embedded (offline, on-device) speech-to-text engine which can run in real time on devices ranging from a Raspberry Pi 4 to high power GPU servers. DeepSpeech is an open-source Speech-To-Text engine, using a model trained by machine learning techniques based on Baidu's Deep Speech research paper. Project DeepSpeech uses Google's TensorFlow to make the implementation easier. A pre-trained English model is available for use and can be downloaded following the instructions in the usage docs. If you want to use the pre-trained English model for performing speech-to-text, you can download it (along with other important inference material) from the DeepSpeech releases page.

GNU Solfege is *free* ear training software written in Python 3.4 using the Gtk+ 3 toolkit. The program is designed to be easily extended with lesson files (data files), so the user can create new exercises.

spotDL finds songs from Spotify playlists on YouTube and downloads them - along with album art, lyrics and metadata.

Radio Tray is a streaming player for listening to online radios. Any bug or feature request should be reported in https://bitbucket.org/carlmig/radio-tray/issues

Library for performing speech recognition, with support for several engines and APIs, online and offline. Recognize speech input from the microphone, transcribe an audio file, save audio data to an audio file. Show extended recognition results, calibrate the recognizer energy threshold for ambient noise levels (see recognizer_instance.energy_threshold for details). Listening to a microphone in the background, various other useful recognizer features. The easiest way to install this is using pip install SpeechRecognition. The first software requirement is Python 2.6, 2.7, or Python 3.3+. This is required to use the library. PyAudio is required if and only if you want to use microphone input (Microphone). PyAudio version 0.2.11+ is required, as earlier versions have known memory management bugs when recording from microphones in certain situations. To hack on this library, first make sure you have all the requirements listed in the "Requirements" section.

Download music from Spotify and other music sources.

Streamtuner2 is an internet radio station and video browser. It simply lists stations in categories from different directories. Launches your preferred media apps for playback. It's built in Python now, but retains UI similarity with the original StreamTuner 0.99

PyKaraoke is a cross-platform karaoke player. It currently supports CDG (MP3+G, OGG+G, WAV+G), MIDI (.KAR, .MID) and MPEG formats.

FF Multi Converter is a simple graphical application which enables you to convert audio, video, image and document files between all popular formats, using and combining other programs. It uses ffmpeg for audio/video files, unoconv for document files and ImageMagick for image file conversions.

Audiere is a portable audio library which supports playing MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WAV, IT, XM, S3M, and MOD files. You can use it from C, C++, Python, Java, Delphi, and any language that supports XPCOM (JavaScript in Mozilla, for example).

Podcastfy is an open-source Python package that transforms multi-modal content (text, images) into engaging, multi-lingual audio conversations using GenAI. Input content includes websites, PDFs, youtube videos as well as images. Unlike UI-based tools focused primarily on note-taking or research synthesis (e.g. NotebookLM), Podcastfy focuses on the programmatic and bespoke generation of engaging, conversational transcripts and audio from a multitude of multi-modal sources enabling customization and scale.

Quod Libet is a cross-platform audio/music management program. It provides many ways to view your local library, and supports streaming audio and feeds (podcasts, etc). It has extremely flexible metadata editing and searching capabilities. With over 90 plugins included, you can extend and integrate with almost anything, or write your own! Ex Falso is a bare-bones tag editor with the same editing interface as Quod Libet. Quod Libet is a GTK+-based audio player written in Python, using the Mutagen tagging library. It’s designed around the idea that you know how to organize your music better than we do. It lets you make playlists based on regular expressions (don’t worry, regular searches work too). It lets you display and edit any tags you want in the file, for all the file formats it supports. Unlike some, Quod Libet will scale to libraries with tens of thousands of songs. It also supports most of the features you’d expect from a modern media player.

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.

Manipulate audio with a simple and easy high level interface. You can pass an optional bitrate argument to export using any syntax ffmpeg supports. Any further arguments supported by ffmpeg can be passed as a list in a 'parameters' argument, with switch first, argument second. Note that no validation takes place on these parameters, and you may be limited by what your particular build of ffmpeg/avlib supports. You can open and save WAV files with pure python. For opening and saving non-wav files, like mp3, you'll need ffmpeg or libav. Any operations that combine multiple AudioSegment objects in any way will first ensure that they have the same number of channels, frame rate, sample rate, bit depth, etc.

Tauon is a modern, streamlined music player app that's packed with features! An emphasis on playlists and drag-and-drop importing puts you in control of your music library. Faded volume control, 24-bit FLAC support, and gapless playback provide the ultimate listening experience. Excellent CUE sheet support, an original smart playlist system, and network playback from koel or Airsonic servers. Last.fm, Listenbrainz, and Maloja scribbling. MPRIS2 support for desktop integration. Tauon is a playlist-oriented music player that makes the assumption that folders are albums. (You may find the words "album" and "folder" used interchangeably within the interface and documentation) While some features and interface elements may not be immediately intuitive, I hope that once you are familiar, you will find that Tauon is pleasant, fast, and fun to use.

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.

This program, called "rebuild_db", allows the iPod shuffle to be used without iTunes. It rebuilds the iPod shuffle's databases based on the actual content of the iPod's file system, without restrictions regarding the directory structure.

Canorus is a free cross-platform music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics, import/export filters to formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MusiXTeX and LilyPond

Airtime lets you take total control of your radio station via the web with intelligent archive management, powerful search, an easy playlist builder, a simple scheduling calendar and rock-solid automated playout. Features include Smart Blocks, live assist modes, WAV, FLAC, AAC, MP3 and OGG support, fades, cues, playlists, programme calendar, Icecast, Shoutcast and Soundcloud integration, DJ and station manager roles, JQuery widgets, Liquidsoap playout, and a record and rebroadcast functionality. Powerful media archive features 'watch' folders to allow stations to magically synchronise files, auto-import files and has multiple directory support. Airtime is free to download, runs on Ubuntu and Debian, and users can interact with it through any web browser. Airtime now comes with an 'easy install' package.

puddletag is an audio tag editor (primarily created) for GNU/Linux similar to the Windows program, Mp3tag. Unlike most taggers for GNU/Linux, it uses a spreadsheet-like layout so that all the tags you want to edit by hand are visible and easily editable. The usual tag editor features are supported like extracting tag information from filenames, renaming files based on their tags by using patterns and basic tag editing. Then there’re Functions, which can do things like replace text, trim it, do case conversions, etc. Actions can automate repetitive tasks. Doing web lookups using Amazon (including cover art), Discogs (does cover art too!), FreeDB and MusicBrainz is also supported. There’s quite a bit more, but I’ve reached my comma quota. Supported formats: ID3v1, ID3v2 (mp3), MP4 (mp4, m4a, etc.), VorbisComments (ogg, flac), Musepack (mpc), Monkey’s Audio (.ape) and WavPack (wv).