Open Source Audio & Music Apps

Free open-source multi-track audio editor and recorder with 32-bit float processing. Supports many formats and plugins for Windows, macOS, Linux.

Lightweight and open-source app for YouTube, PeerTube, SoundCloud, and more. No Google Account needed, supports 4K and background audio streaming with downloads.

Cross-platform multimedia framework performing decoding, encoding, transcoding, muxing, demuxing, streaming, filtering, and playback for nearly all media formats.

Command line program that's a youtube-dl fork that downloads videos from YouTube and over 1000 sites. The main focus of this project is adding new features and patches while also keeping up to date with the original project.

Free cross-platform DAW supporting VST plugins, MIDI, and lossless audio. Offers music loopers and sequencers with privacy, no ads, and offline capability.

Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer. It is a port of Amarok 1.4 to the Qt 4 framework and the GStreamer multimedia framework, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and...

Download videos from YouTube and over 1000 sites using a platform-independent command-line tool, requiring Python. Integration with other programs is possible.

Free, open source speech-to-text app for desktop, works fully offline, prioritizes privacy, extensibility, cross-platform support, and accessibility.

A free and open source podcastmanager for Android, allowing you to subscribe to podcasts (via iTunes database & OPML), automatically download episodes using powerful mechanisms and listen to them the way you like (speed, balance adjustments, etc).

Picard is the next generation MusicBrainz tagging application. This new tagging concept is album oriented, as opposed to track/file oriented like the ClassicTagger was. Picard is written in Python, which is a cross-platform language, and makes use of cross-platform libraries -...

Free cross-platform music client for desktop and mobile enabling manual playback, YouTube streaming, playlist creation, time-synced lyrics, and no ads.

With this app, you can easily download files from anywhere. Enjoy fast, free downloads with seamless browser extension support.

FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed...

Tenacity is an easy-to-use, privacy-friendly, FLOSS, cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder for Windows, macOS, Linux and other operating systems.

Free, open-source audio player for Unix-like systems offering high audio quality, support for multiple codecs, Internet radio, plugins, and customizable interface.

fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various formats and codecs. It will convert between MP3, MP4/M4A, FLAC, Vorbis, Opus, AAC, WAV, WMA and other formats.

Open-source, self-hosted streaming platform supports Android, iOS, podcasts, uploads, sharing, no ads or tracking, federated across decentralized instances.

Create, notate, and playback music with free, open-source software for Windows, Mac, and Linux supporting MIDI, MusicXML, PDF export, and community sharing.

Advanced volume mixer for Windows 10 and 11 providing per-app control, device switching, audio visualization, hotkeys, automatic updates, and modern interface.

Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer. It is a fork of Clementine released in 2018 aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. The name is inspired by the band Strawbs. It's written in C++ using the Qt framework.

Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application. Record, edit, and mix on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

Free streaming player sourcing music from YouTube, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, and more, with lyrics, downloading, radio mode, ad-skipping, and Last.fm scrobbling.

MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing this web site, or you can access the data from a client program — for example, a CD player program can use...

Cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl, enabling video downloads from YouTube and over 1000 sites; features multi-language UI and video cutting.

Mixxx integrates the tools DJs need to perform creative live mixes with digital music files.