MusicTrans is a powerful learning tool for playing any song. Take your favorite instrument, open your song and start learning it at your own pace.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Android Tablet




Riffstation is not available for Linux but there are a few alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is MusicTrans. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Sonic Visualiser or Tune Transcriber. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Riffstation and four of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement.
MusicTrans is a powerful learning tool for playing any song. Take your favorite instrument, open your song and start learning it at your own pace.




The Transcribe! application is an assistant for people who sometimes want to work out a piece of music from a recording, in order to write it out, or play it themselves, or both. It doesn't do the transcribing for you, but it is essentially a specialised player program which...


Sonic Visualiser is a free, open-source application for Windows, Linux, and Mac, designed to be the first program you reach for when want to study a music recording closely. It's designed for musicologists, archivists, signal-processing researchers, and anyone else looking...




Learn and transcribe music for free from your web browser (no install needed). Load MP3s or a YouTube video. Slow down music, change pitch, add marks, beats, loops and easily navigate the song.


Riffstation is a hosted tool, Sonic Annotator is not.