Open Source Audio & Music Apps for Windows

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

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.

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

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...

Cross-platform free audio player and library organizer supporting local and internet radio playback, smart playlists, projectM visualizations, tagging, and transcoding.

Spotify, native and fast. One lightweight Rust app for your whole library, local playback, and Spotify Connect on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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

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

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

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 -...

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.

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

Provides fully offline audio and video transcription with local AI models, batch processing, real-time preview, multi-format export, translation, and privacy on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

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

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

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.

Audio player and music organizer supporting advanced playback, wide format compatibility, streaming from Tidal, Qobuz, Subsonic, and album cover fetching.

Nuclear is a free, open-source music player without ads or tracking. Search for any song or artist, build playlists, and start listening.

Free and open-source software to boost sound quality, volume, and bass. Including an equalizer, effects, and presets for customized audio.

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

Open source self-hosted streamer with Subsonic API compatibility, low resource usage, multi-user support, remote access, and broad audio format streaming.

A cross-platform GUI for yt-dlp made in Electron and Node.js .