Applications: Audio

Audio-related applications

These applications help with the recording, manipulation and playback of audio files. Are you writing the definitive twenty-first century song? Now you can do it in Haiku!

Audio apps A

Amarok

The audio player by KDE

Amarok is a free, cross-platform, versatile, powerful and feature-rich music player and collection manager. Features:

• Dynamic playlists matching different criteria
• Collection managing with rating support
• Support for basic iPod, MTP and UMS music player devices
• Integrated Internet services: last.fm, Magnatune, Ampache and more.
• Scripting support
• Cover manager
• Replay gain support

ArmyKnife

The all-in-one metadata editor for audio and MPEG files

ArmyKnife is an application that lets you edit the metadata of audio and MPEG files, both Haiku file attributes and in-file tags. You can copy data to and from tags and attributes, and rename files according to attributes or fill attributes according to file name. Now also with support for cover art!

Audacious

An advanced audio player

Audacious is an open source audio player. A descendant of XMMS, Audacious plays your music how you want it, without stealing away your computer’s resources from other tasks. Drag and drop folders and individual song files, search for artists and albums in your entire music library, or create and edit your own custom playlists. Listen to CD’s or stream music from the Internet. Tweak the sound with the graphical equalizer or experiment with LADSPA effects. Enjoy the modern GTK-themed interface or change things up with Winamp Classic skins. Install the Audacious Plugins package to fetch lyrics for your music, to set an alarm in the morning, and more.

Audacity

Audio software for multi-track recording and editing

Audacity can be used to perform a number of audio editing and recording tasks such as making ringtones, mixing stero tracks, transferring tapes and records to computer or CD, splitting recordings into separate tracks and more.

Audio apps B

BeAe

A well featured audio editor

BeAE is an audio editor with features like silencing, fading in/out, analyzing, etc.

BePodder

A media aggregator (and more)

BePodder helps you to find, subscribe to, and download multimedia contents. It allows you to easily enjoy audio, video, images and news published around the web in RSS format. It's a Podcaster software. BePodder includes many cool features:

• Easy to use yet powerful graphical user interface
• Handles all news/podcast feeds in RSS 0.9, 2.0, Atom, RDF and iTunes
• Fully integrated with Haiku's BFS file system
• Integrated podcast, videoblog, imagefeeds, BitTorrentfeeds, newsfeeds and Internationalfeeds, built-in OPML directories with thousands of feeds
• Advanced channels/lists management with drag and drop support
• Easy to integrate with other applications like BitTorrent / Installer / Unzip / etc.
• Players integration with a new 'Auto' option
• BePodder is 100% adwares/spywares free
• You don't need an iPod or any kind of MP3 player to use and enjoy BePodder
• Proxy support
• Automatic channels check
• Up to 5 enclosure downloads at the same time (multi-threading)

BurnItNow

An application to burn audio and data discs

BurnItNow is a GUI frontend for cdrecord and mkisofs. It burns data and ISO images, and blanks rewritable RW media (the blanking depends very much on the used hardware and its configuration). It creates Audio CDs from drag & dropped WAV files and burns pre-authored DVD-Audio and DVD-Video.

Audio apps C

Cantata

Qt based client for Music Player Daemon

Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound files while being controlled by its network protocol. Cantata is a full featured Qt based client for Music Player Daemon.

CDPlayer

A 'remote control' for the CD-ROM drive

CDPlayer is like a remote control for the CD-ROM drive. It completely by-passes Haiku's media services. If your CD-ROM drive doesn't support that or its audio outputs aren't connected to speakers (or routed through your soundcard), you won't hear a thing ... Modern computers only rarely fulfill these requirements. In that case you're better off mounting the CD in Tracker and use MediaPlayer to play back the audio files in its wav folder.

Clementine

Modern music player and library organizer based on Amarok 1.4 and Qt5

Clementine Music Player is a multiplatform music player. It is inspired by Amarok 1.4, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music. Now with Podcast support including integration and synchronization with gpodder.net. Music from Soundcloud and jazzradio.com is available in the Internet tab in the sidebar, as well as any songs you've uploaded to Google Drive. Clementine Music Player will also now show moodbars for the music you play from your local disc. Clementine Music Player Features:

• Search and play your local music library.
• Listen to internet radio from Spotify, Grooveshark, Last.fm, SomaFM, Magnatune, Jamendo, SKY.fm, Digitally Imported, JAZZRADIO.com, Soundcloud, and Icecast.
• Search and play songs you've uploaded to Google Drive.
• Create smart playlists and dynamic playlists.
• Tabbed playlists, import and export M3U, XSPF, PLS and ASX.
• CUE sheet support.
• Play audio CDs.
• Visualisations from projectM.
• Lyrics and artist biographies and photos.
• Transcode music into MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, FLAC or AAC.
• Edit tags on MP3 and OGG files, organise your music.
• Fetch missing tags from MusicBrainz.
• Discover and download Podcasts.
• Download missing album cover art from Last.fm and Amazon.
• Cross-platform - works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
• Native desktop notifications on Linux (libnotify) and Mac OS X (Growl).
• Remote control using a Wii Remote, MPRIS or the command-line.
• Copy music to your iPod, iPhone, MTP or mass-storage USB player.
• Queue manager.

Clockwerk

A multimedia compositing tool

Clockwerk has been in development from January 2006 to July 2008 by Mindwork (www.mindwork.de) as one of the main in-house components of an application suite to realize distributed multimedia playback on Haiku client machines. With Clockwerk you can combine audio, video and images for presentation or save in any audio/video format supported by Haiku.

Audio apps D

Drum Circle

Simple sequencer with Hippie AI

A simple MIDI sequencer with a knack for simulating Hippie Drum Circles. Tweek the Tweekables and have fun!

Audio apps F

ffmpegGUI

A graphical front-end for ffmpeg

ffmpegGUI is a tool for transcoding and converting audio/video files using the multiplatform ffmpeg suite. While ffmpeg is extremely powerful, it can be intimidating to construct the correct parameters on the commandline. ffmpegGUI's native interface lets you choose source and output files, set audio/video codecs and container format, bitrate, framerate, samplerate etc., change video resolution and crop the picture. You can also make a lossless '1:1 copy' of the audio or video track to quickly transcode to another container format. ffmpegGUI assembles the resulting ffmpeg commandline, that you can then tweak manually or copy to use in your own scripts if needed. Or you simply click 'Start' to begin the encoding. You can also create encoding jobs to process them all in a batch later. Currently included container formats/codecs:

• Video containers: avi, mkv, mp4, mpeg-1, ogg, webm
• Audio containers: mp3, oga, wav
• Video codecs: mjpeg, mpeg4, theora, vp8, vp9, wmv1, wmv2
• Audio codecs: aac, ac3, dts, flac, mp3, pcm16, vorbis (only with video codec theora)

Flacon

Extracts audio tracks from an audio CD image to separate tracks

Flacon extracts individual tracks from one big audio file containing the entire album of music and saves them as separate audio files. To do this, it uses information from the appropriate CUE file. Besides, Flacon makes it possible to conveniently revise or specify tags both for all tracks at once or for each tag separately.

Freac

A free and open source audio converter

fre:ac is a free and open source audio converter. It comes with an integrated tag editor and converts between various formats. Features include:

• Support for MP3, MP4/AAC, Opus, FLAC and other formats
• Integrated player and tag editor
• Support for playlists, cue sheets and chapters
• Fast, multi-threaded conversion engine
• Ability to convert to multiple formats at once
• Can verify lossless input and output files
• Support for freedb/CDDB queries and submits
• Support for using command line codecs
• User interface available in 40+ languages
• Optional command line interface

Audio apps H

Handbrake

A tool to convert video from nearly any format to modern codecs

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder. Convert from many common multimedia file formats, including unprotected DVD or BluRay sources to a handful of modern output file formats.

HivelyTracker

A tracker program based upon the AHX format

HivelyTracker is a tracker program based upon the AHX format created in the mid '90s by Dexter and Pink of Abyss. The format was relatively popular, and many songs were created and used in scene productions and games. AHX was designed to create a very SID-like sound on the Amiga. HivelyTracker can import and export modules and instruments in the AHX format, but it also improves on AHX in several ways and therefore has its own instrument and module formats.

Hydrogen

An advanced drum machine

Hydrogen is a software synthesizer which can be used alone, emulating a drum machine based on patterns, or via an external MIDI keyboard/sequencer software. Hydrogen also runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Main features:

• Pattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to chain patterns into a song.
• Unlimited instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities.
• Sample Editor, with basic cut and loop functions.
• Time-line with variable tempo.
• MIDI learning via Shift+MouseClick on many gui-cotrollers combined with a midi settings editor.
• Unique human velocity, human time, pitch and swing functions.

Audio apps K

Kasts

Kirigami-based podcast player

Kasts is a convergent podcast application that looks good on desktop and mobile. Its main features are:

• Episode management through play queue
• Sync playback positions with other clients through gpodder.net or gpodder-nextcloud
• Variable playback speed
• Search for podcasts
• Full system integration: e.g. inhibit system suspend while listening

Kid3

Audio Tag Editor

With Kid3, an audio tag editor, you can edit tags in MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, DSF, FLAC, Opus, MPC, APE, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AIFF and tracker files. All frames in the ID3 tags of MP3 files can be edited, and it is possible to convert between ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4. Synchronized lyrics can be edited, imported and exported to LRC Karaoke files. The tags of multiple files can be set together. It is possible to generate tags from file names or the contents of other tag fields and to generate file names from tags and rename folders from tags. Automatic case conversion and string replacement help to keep tags consistent. Album data can be imported from gnudb.org, MusicBrainz, Discogs, Amazon; automatic batch import is available for multiple folders. It is also possible to export data and generate play lists.

Kwave

A sound editor for KDE

Kwave is a sound editor built on KDE Frameworks 5. Features:

• With Kwave you can record, play back, import and edit many sorts of audio files including multi channel files
• Kwave includes some plugins to transform audio files in several ways and presents a graphical view with a complete zoom and scroll capability

Audio apps L

LMMS

Cross-platform music production software

LMMS is a free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio®, which allow you to produce music with your computer. This includes the creation of melodies and beats, the synthesis and mixing of sounds, and arranging of samples. You can have fun with your MIDI-keyboard and much more; all in a user-friendly and modern interface.

Audio apps M

Medo

A media editor exclusively built for Haiku

Medo is a modern video editor with customisable OpenGL GLSL plugin based effects. There are many bundled media effects, including:

• Colour grading effects (saturation, exposure, temperature etc.)
• Colour correction curves and white balance
• Support for Adobe LUT (Look Up Tables)
• Create masks and keyframes
• Several transitions
• Several special effects (blur, night vision, Chroma Key etc.)
• Spatial tools to transform media (scale, rotate, position, crop)
• Multiple text effects, including 3D extruded fonts
• Audio effects (20 band equaliser, fade, IIR Filter)

MIDI Keyboard

An on-screen MIDI Keyboard

A simple on-screen MIDI keyboard. It allows showing octave numbers and setting up cords and displays the current note. You can set the the receive/transmit channel and control input and output devices.

MidiSynth

A simple software MIDI keyboard

MidiSynth is a simple software MIDI keyboard using Haiku's built-in synthesizer or any connected MIDI In or Out device. It can be played with the mouse and/or the computer's keyboard, and also has an interface (In and Out) to MIDI hardware and any apps that use MidiKit2. You can choose the SoundFont to use, or disable the Haiku synthesizer altogether when you connect to some other Midi Out device. MidiSynth supports chords, which are defined in a file and can be enabled by selecting a chord from a the Chords menu. You can even remap the keys on your keyboard.

MilkyTracker

Fasttracker II inspired music tracker

MilkyTracker is an open source, multi-platform music application for creating .MOD and .XM module files. It attempts to recreate the module replay and user experience of the popular DOS program Fasttracker II, with special playback modes available for improved Amiga ProTracker 2/3 compatibility.

MPlayer

A movie player which runs on many systems

It plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV and even H.264 movies. Another great feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, AAlib, DirectFB, but you can use GGI, SDL (and this way all their drivers), VESA (on every VESA compatible card, even without X11!) and some low level card-specific drivers (for Matrox, 3Dfx and ATI), too! Most of them support software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen. MPlayer supports displaying through some hardware MPEG decoder boards, such as the Siemens DVB, DXR2 and DXR3/Hollywood+. MPlayer has an onscreen display (OSD) for status information, nice big antialiased shaded subtitles and visual feedback for keyboard controls. European/ISO 8859-1,2 (Hungarian, English, Czech, etc), Cyrillic and Korean fonts are supported along with 12 subtitle formats (MicroDVD, SubRip, OGM, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle, JACOsub, PJS and our own: MPsub). DVD subtitles (SPU streams, VOBsub and Closed Captions) are supported as well.

MPV

A free, open source, and cross-platform media player

MPV is a media player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. It supports a wide variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.

Mumble

Low latency encrypted VoIP client

Mumble is a low-latency, high quality voice chat program primarily intended for gaming. Features include a encrypted connection with Public/private-key authentication and noise suppression. To use Mumble, you need a mumble server. You can either join a public existing server or host your own.

MuseScore

Free music composition and notation software

This application is used to create, play, and print beautiful sheet music

Audio apps O

Open Cubic Player

Open Cubic Player

A music player ported from DOS.

Audio apps P

Picard

MusicBrainz music tagger

Tag your music with the next generation MusicBrainz tagger.

• Multiple formats - Picard supports all popular music formats, including MP3, FLAC, OGG, M4A, WMA, WAV, and more.
• AcoustID - Picard uses AcoustID audio fingerprints, allowing files to be identified by the actual music, even if they have no metadata.
• CD lookups - Picard can lookup entire music CDs with a click.
• Plugin support - If you need a particular feature, you can choose from a selection of available plugins or write your own.

Audio apps Q

QMMP

Qt-based audio player with winamp/xmms skins support

This program is an audio-player, written with the help of the Qt library. The user interface is similar to winamp or xmms.

QMPlay2

A video and audio player which can play most formats and codecs

QMPlay2 is a video and audio player. It can play all formats supported by FFmpeg, libmodplug (including J2B and SFX). It also supports Audio CD, raw files, Rayman 2 music and chiptunes. It contains YouTube and MyFreeMP3 browsers.

Quimup

A simple Qt5 frontend to MPD

A Qt5 client for the music player daemon (MPD) written in C++.

QWinFF

A GUI for FFMPEG

FFmpeg can read audio and video files in various formats and convert them into other formats. QwinFF features an intuitive graphical interface and a rich set of presets to help you convert media files within a few clicks. Advanced users can also adjust conversion parameters in detail.

Audio apps S

Samedi

Play back audio samples via MIDI

Samedi is a little app to load audio samples into up to 8 pads and assign them to MIDI notes. The samples can then be played back by pressing the set key on your MIDI keyboard. Alternatively, Samedi also reacts to the number keys on your computer keyboard. A set of 8 audio samples and their mapped MIDI note can be saved as 'Ensemble'. IMPORTANT: If you experience relatively long delays between hitting a key and hearing a sound, your sound driver's buffers may be too large. See Samedi's Help how to solve this issue.

Sawteeth

A Soft-synthesizer with tracker

Sawteeth is a soft-synth (with tracker) for Haiku, meant to either create cool synth sounds to use in Cubase and such, or cute chip-tunes. It uses no samples but only generated waveforms.

Schism Tracker

Free reimplementation of Impulse Tracker

Schism Tracker is a free reimplementation of Impulse Tracker, a program used to create high quality music without the requirements of specialized, expensive equipment, and with a unique "finger feel" that is difficult to replicate in part. The player is based on a highly modified version of the Modplug engine, with a number of bugfixes and changes to improve IT playback. Where Impulse Tracker was limited to i386-based systems running MS-DOS, Schism Tracker runs on almost any platform that SDL supports, and has been successfully built for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, FreeBSD, AmigaOS, BeOS, and even the Wii. Most development is currently done on 64-bit Linux. Schism will most likely build on any architecture supported by GCC4 (e.g. alpha, m68k, arm, etc.) but it will probably not be as well-optimized on many systems.

Sequitur

An advanced MIDI sequencer

Sequitur is a BeOS-native MIDI sequencer with a MIDI processing add-on architecture. It allows you to record, compose, store, and play back music from your computer. Sequitur is designed for people who like to tinker with their music. It facilitates rapid, dynamic, and radical processing of your performance. Features:

• An add-on architecture for processing MIDI and performing MIDI effects. Change a track's velocity, apply echo, add chorus, change its key signature, etc.
• MIDI processing is integrated with editing: Paint with echo effects, paint chords in key, etc.
• Easily rearrange songs with familiar phrase operations.
• Customize your interface with skinning.
• Achieve special effects with tool properties: Turn on gradual delete and slowly rub out MIDI events.
• Record, edit, and playback note, program change, control change, and pitch bend MIDI data.
• Read and write standard MIDI files.

SkyMPC

A QT client for Music Player Daemon

Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound files while being controlled by its network protocol. SkyMPC is a simple MPD client, powered by Qt.

SMPlayer

Great Qt GUI front-end for MPlayer/mpv

SMPlayer is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the award-winning MPlayer, which is capable of playing almost all known video and audio formats. But apart from providing access for the most common and useful options of MPlayer, SMPlayer adds other interesting features like the possibility to play Youtube videos or download subtitles.

Strawberry

A music player and music collection organizer

Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer. It is a fork of Clementine released in 2018 aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. Main features:

• smart and dynamic playlists in multiple formats
• album cover art from Last.fm, Musicbrainz, Discogs, Musixmatch, Deezer, Tidal, Qobuz and Spotify
• song lyrics from AudD AudD, Genius, Musixmatch, ChartLyrics, lyrics.ovh and lololyrics.com
• get tags from MusicBrainz
• edit tags
• audio equalizer
• audio analyzer
• transcode to multiple audio formats
• stream internet radio for Subsonic-compatible servers

StreamRadio

Find and listen to internet radio stations

StreamRadio helps you find and listen to internet radio streams.

Audio apps T

Tenacity

An easy-to-use, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder

Tenacity is an easy-to-use, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder for Windows, macOS, Linux and other operating systems and is developed by a group of volunteers as open-source software.

Toner

A tone generator

Toner, a tone generator for aligning levels in your playback system.

Audio apps V

VLC media player

The popular cross-plattform media player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

Voxophone

An online radio player

Voxophone is an online radio player application for Haiku.

Audio apps W

WaveEdit

A waveform editor for the E370 and E352 Eurorack synthesizer modules

WaveEdit is a free tool on PC/Mac/Linux that allows powerful creation and editing of wavetables for the E352 and E370 VCOs. Using standard WAV formats, the editor includes a full toolbox of shortcuts. An audio Preview is available to audition the waves before loading into the module.

Audio apps X

XRS

A simple rhythm station for creating music loops

XRS is a simple Rhythm Station. You can use it to create music compositions and loops of your preferred elettronic music genres.

Audio apps Y

ytdl_gui

A simple-to-use, cross-platform graphical interface for youtube-dl

YouTubeDL-GUI is a cross-platform graphical interface for youtube-dl, a downloader for online media sharing services like YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, and more. It is based on Qt and aims to be simple-to-use, while still providing various options like file formats and quality levels.

Audio apps Z

ZXTune

Crossplatform chiptunes player

Player of computer music from ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari, Commodore and more.