Open Source Audio Editing Software

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Audacity is free software, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Programs like Audacity are also called open source software, because their source code is available for anyone to study or use. There are thousands of other free and open source programs, including the Firefox web browser, the LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice office suites and entire Linux-based operating systems such as Ubuntu

Finds problems in MP3 files and helps the user to fix many of them using included tools. Looks at both the audio part (VBR info, quality, normalization) and the tags containing track information (ID3.) Also includes a tag editor and a file renamer.

WaveShop is an audio editor for Windows XP/Vista/7/8. Unlike many similar apps, WaveShop is bit-perfect, meaning samples aren't altered unless they need to be. Editing a portion of an audio file only affects that portion; the rest of the file is untouched. Blocks of audio can be cut and pasted without changing their contents at all. This is especially useful for patching a finished master without corrupting its dither.

Fast batch audio processor for automatic loudness adjustment and audio files splitting. The software automatically normalizes a batch of files to a given RMS volume, and can split tracks in several ones by detecting low level ("noise") chunks. It embeds : - a multi-band limiter, - an Automatic Gain Control, - an automated 10 bands equalizer, - a classic 3 bands semi-parametric equalizer, - a noise gate, - a trimming function, - user preset management. Portable version needs VC 2015 RunTime to be installed https://www.microsoft.com/fr-fr/download/details.aspx?id=48145 You use LASTAR for your mobile music library ? Try now the new Android player with its real-time embedded algorithm ! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arthelion.loudplayer&hl=fr

Sonic Visualiser is an application for inspecting and analysing the contents of music audio files. It combines powerful waveform and spectral visualisation tools with automated feature extraction plugins and annotation capabilities.

MPC Maid ("MM") is a software editor for the Akai MPC 500, MPC 1000, and MPC 2500. It is Mac, PC, and Linux-compliant and makes the edition of MPC programs files easy. It also features a semi-automatic slicing tool to chop loops into slices.

Snd is a sound editor.

FabFilter Pro-Q 4 is the ultimate equalizer plugin for professional music production, mixing, and mastering. Combining pristine sound quality with innovative interface design, Pro-Q 4 offers up to 24 bands of parametric EQ with various filter types, dynamic EQ capabilities, built-in spectrum analysis, and intelligent features like Auto Listen and Spectrum Grab. The plugin supports VST, VST3, AU, and AAX formats for seamless integration into any DAW. Key features include natural phase modes, per-band dynamic EQ, mid/side and stereo processing, extensive metering options, full-screen mode with surgical precision, and over 3000 factory presets covering all mixing scenarios.

AudioSlicer is a Cocoa GUI application that finds all silences in an audio file and allows you to split it into several smaller audio files and to name/tag them properly. For now only MP3 is supported but other formats may come in the future.

Kwave is a sound editor for the KDE environment. It is written with KDE/QT and is extendable through a powerful plugin interface. For the moment it supports .wav files and many other formats, recording/playback via PulseAudio, Qt Multimedia, OSS and ALSA and some simple effects

In applications such as audio denoising, music transcription, music remixing, and audio-based forensics, it is desirable to decompose a single-channel recording into its respective sources. To perform such tasks, we present a new software tool to perform source separation by painting on time-frequency visualizations of sound. Initial results shows the software can achieve state-of-the-art separation results compared to prior work.

Both the Midas M32 and Behringer X32 share the same design of show management using the console GUI, M32-Edit and X32-Edit apps. This app provides an alternative method to manage these show files (cues, scenes and snippets). It provides an easier method of reorganizing and importing/exporting of files.

iTunes Store file validator is an open source addon for Windows. It is aimed for iTunes users who are keen on maintaining or having the goal of achieving iTunes Store file standard tags for all the tracks in their iTunes Music Library.

VLevel is a dynamic compressor which amplifies the quiet parts of music. It uses a look-ahead buffer, so the changes are gradual and the audio never clips. It is a command line filter and a LADSPA plugin, so it works with XMMS.

CECILIA is an environment for music and signal-processing that uses Csound as its underlying audio processing engine. One can think of CECILIA as a completely programmable sound-processing tool, with real-time interactive processing on soundfiles or live

Aural Probe is a sample librarian tool for computer musicians/audio engineers. Automatically and non-destructively index your disorganised sample collection from a list of folders into categories (kick, snare, hihats etc.) based on folder/filename wildcard matches. Easily audition samples, load/save favourites, and drag-and-drop straight into your sequencer.

Pumilio is a web-based sound analysis and archive system for almost any kind of sound file with tools to see the spectrogram of the sound, select regions for further analysis and insertion in a database, filtering, and many other manipulations.

LAoE is a rich featured graphical audiosample-editor, based on multi-layers, floating-point samples, volume-masks, variable selection-intensity, and many plugins suitable to manipulate sound, such as filtering, retouching, resampling...

mplib is a small, cross-platform C library that is able to handle ID3 tags version 1 and 2. Keywords: id3, mp3, mpeg, tagging

GNUitarra is a light-fast all-in-one helper for the guitar player. Has more than +4000 scale types, +60 chord types, +60 string instruments (i.e bass). Can automake solos, learning excersises, etc. Works even in a 386!

KGuitar is powerful KDE-based music tabulature editor with support of guitar, drums, classic note scores, MIDI synthesizer output, chord, scales, modes, melody and rhythm construction and analysis tools, lots of tab effects, Guitar Pro files import.

Mp3 Editing and Auditing Toolkit. This is a toolkit designed to make mp3 collection management on a massive scale alot easier. This toolkit handles everything from massive tagging, to list generatoration and organization.

A (java swing) desktop utility for cutting and joining MP3 files. <br/><b><a href="http://wanto.f2o.org/projects/mp3knife/">latest info here</a></b>

AMM - Another Mp3 Manager - Manages Information about your Mp3s, find duplicate Mp3s, get Information from ID3v1-Tags, ID3v2-Tags and from filename, ...

Audacity Policial (aka Audacity Police) is an extension of Audacity sound editor that was created to help police and justice investigations based on phone call and environmental recordings, supporting audio analysis and transcription.