powerZwitch's Top 10 FOSS: Audio

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • Xfce
    Audacious screenshot 1
  2. Audacity icon
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    Free open-source multi-track audio editor and recorder with 32-bit float processing. Supports many formats and plugins for Windows, macOS, Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • AppImageHub
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Haiku
    Editing Audio
    Audacity 2.2.0 in default Light theme running on Windows 10
    Recording with Audacity 2.2.0 in Dark theme on Windows 10
    +4
    Audacity 2.2.0 MIDI playback running on macOS
  3. Bosca Ceoil is all about looping, and designed that way at its heart. Songs are built up from lots of tiny 16 note patterns – the intended workflow is that you loop over these single patterns until you have something you like, then you start making variations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Adobe AIR
    Easy to use music sequencer
    Instruments
    Scales and chords
    +1
    Built-in help
  4. Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer. It is a port of Amarok icon 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    Clementine with lyrics pane
    Icecast radio stations
    Smart playlists and kittens
  5. LinuxSampler - free, open source pure software audio sampler with professional grade features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    fantasia frontend
    fantasia frontend
    qsampler frontend
    +1
    js classic frontend
  6. LMMS icon
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    Free cross-platform DAW supporting VST plugins, MIDI, and lossless audio. Offers music loopers and sequencers with privacy, no ads, and offline capability.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • Haiku
    • Flatpak
    LMMS screenshot 1
    LMMS screenshot 1
    LMMS screenshot 2
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    LMMS screenshot 3
  7. Qmmp icon
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    Qmmp is an audio-player, written with help of Qt library. The user interface is similar to Winamp icon Winamp or xmms.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Xfce
    • Haiku
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    Qmmp screenshot 1
  8. A extensible Music player with Podcast support, web radio, playlists and many more. As it is written in Python, writing new plug-ins is really easy.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Debian
    • Xfce
    The paned browser, providing a customizable hierarchy of filters for finding your music
    The album browser, giving a visual anchor for a large library
    The cover grid browser, giving an even more visual anchor for libraries
    +6
    The Soundcloud browser.
  9. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
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    Schism Tracker screenshot 1
    Schism Tracker screenshot 2
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    Schism Tracker screenshot 3
  10. Traverso DAW is an audio recording and editing program which is very well suited to record a single voice, a band, an ensemble, a whole orchestra or any other source of music! Both the home and professional user will find Traverso attractive, it's clean interface is easy to...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    Traverso DAW screenshot 1
    Traverso DAW screenshot 1

Comments

nns
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The "Turkey Tyranny" which is the Centralized CAs like Let's Encrypt icon Let's Encrypt above. Encryption on transmission is good, but never forget who issues the certificates as well. Let's Encrypt (sic) is Linux Foundation thing, and so Microsoft and the NSA controls it. Being based on the United States, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named can also censor it (1, 2.)

Dr. Andy Farnell debunked the myth of centralized CAs. Like I've said above, watch who issues the certificates. If you outsource it to a cabal/cartel of CAs, or one universal CA, you've fallen into a censorship trap disguised as "security", since a malicious site can also just request a free or paid certificate (some company are willing to sell it - easy money for just some random bytes). Speaking of CAs, they are nothing but Chat Control - serving the "Big Brother" and not you.

Transport Layer Security is fine, outsourcing them is not. Outsourced HTTPS is a monopoly which no one realizes, except Gemini (protocol). The Gemspace chose to self-sign instead because of this monopoly.

Lu9
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ah great, as if we didnt already have enough reasons to hate let's encrypt. "a certificate costs a whole kidney so let's help the poor internet user by making the free alternative absolutely awful Entirely On Purpose" - let's Not encrypt!

Gu