Open Source Mac Sound/Audio 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

Create data discs with advanced data settings. Create video and audio discs, Burn will convert if needed. Create DVD-Video discs. Recreate discs. Burn doesn't reinvent the wheel, it uses many powerful open source Unix utilities and is also open source.

Kid3 audio tag editor can edit the tags of MP3, Ogg, FLAC, MPC & WMA files in an efficient way, convert between ID3v1 and ID3v2, set the tags of multiple files, generate tags from file names or vice versa and import from freedb, MusicBrainz and Disco

Official development of GrandOrgue has moved to GitHub, please visit https://github.com/GrandOrgue/grandorgue that is our new home! GrandOrgue is a sample based pipe organ simulator. When connected to MIDI keyboards and an audio system, it can accurately simulate the sound of a real pipe organ. This application has builds for Linux, Windows and OS X.

EasyABC allows the user to create, edit, view, play, convert music written in the ABC music notation language. The program was originally written in Python 2.7 and WxPython by Nils Liberg and runs on Windows, OSX, and Linux. Jan Wybren de Jong has converted to run on Python 3.8 or higher. Frédéric Aupépin has been supporting EasyABC on OSX. EasyABC depends upon other external programs like abc2midi, abcm2ps, fluidsynth. If you install the Windows or Mac executables most of these programs are automatically included.

fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper for various formats and encoders. It features MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, and Bonk format support, integrates freedb/CDDB, CDText and ID3v2 tagging and is available in several languages.

Media Converter is a plugin based video and audio converter. It uses FFmpeg as its engine, which allows it to convert to a lot of formats.

MuseScore is the leading free & open source music notation software for Windows, Mac and Linux. It is easy to use and makes beautiful sheet music. MuseScore is often praised as a cost effective alternative for Sibelius and Finale. Support MuseScore at http://musescore.org/en/donate Like MuseScore on Facebook: http://facebook.com/musescore

UMPlayer is a cross-platform multimedia player supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It boasts many advanced features such as built-in subtitle search and YouTube player.

SimplyBurns is a Mac OS X application with a GUI, which allows the user to burn CD / DVD media.

Universal Media Server is a DLNA-compliant UPnP Media Server Universal Media Server supports all major operating systems, with versions for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The program streams or transcodes many different media formats with little or no configuration. UMS is powered by MEncoder, FFmpeg, tsMuxeR, AviSynth, MediaInfo and more, which combine to offer support for a wide range of media formats Check out the list of media renderers here: http://www.universalmediaserver.com/about/

European digital radio & television uses the DVB standard to broadcast its data. Project X gives you a look behind the transmissions and tries its best to handle & repair many stream types and shows what went wrong on reception.

Shutter Encoder is an video, audio and image converter based on FFmpeg and other great tools. It has been designed by video editors in order to be as accessible and efficient as possible. It's a swiss knife tool for any video editor. Link to website & downloads : https://www.shutterencoder.com - Without conversion: Cut without re-encoding, Replace audio, Rewrap, Conform, Merge, Extract, Subtitling, Video inserts - Sound conversions: WAV, AIFF, FLAC, ALAC, MP3, AAC, AC3, OPUS, OGG - Editing codecs: DNxHD, DNxHR, Apple ProRes, QT Animation, GoPro CineForm, Uncompressed YUV - Output codecs: H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, AV1, OGV - Broadcast codecs: XDCAM HD422, AVC-Intra 100, XAVC, HAP - Old codecs: DV PAL, MJPEG, Xvid, WMV, MPEG - Archiving codec: FFV1 - Images creation: JPEG, Image - Burn & Rip: DVD, Blu-ray, DVD RIP - Analysis: Loudness & True Peak, Audio normalization, Cut detection, Black detection, Media, VMAF - Download: Web video

Jajuk is a jukebox for all platforms. The goal of this project is to provide a fully-featured application to advanced users with large or scattered music collections. (Note: the codebase is now hosted at http://gitorious.org/jajuk/jajuk .)

Canorus is a free cross-platform music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics, import/export filters to formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MusiXTeX and LilyPond

Live MP3/OGG/AAC Flash Player for Icecast and Shoutcast. It has some interesting and necessary features like reconnect on network errors to make sure users never get silence and cache management to avoid memory memory consumption. Works with Flash 10.1 and newer.

ChessDB is a free open-source chess database for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and most UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems. ChessDB is based on code from Scid http://scid.sourceforge.net/ - a project for which there have been no updates for several years. In

DGuitar is a Guitar Pro (*.GP4,*.GP3,GTP) viewer and player that works under Linux, MacOs, Solaris, BSD, Windows, or any other operating system with Java Runtime 1.4.X. http://DGuitar.sourceforge.net If you are a JAVA developer visit this page https://bitbucket.org/mauriciograciag/dguitar/overview

iPodder is a media aggregator which automatically downloads files to your computer or portable device, leaving you 'one-click-away' from latest media feeds. Based on the iPodder idea of Adam Curry.

Firefly Client is a standalone java client for Firefly Media Server. This software allows to remotely connect to a Firefly Media Server given the server name and the port.

KurzFiler is a software for editing the files of the Kurzweil sampler series. It is mainly intended for users of these great instruments.

BallroomDJ 4 is a complete rewrite of BallroomDJ. BallroomDJ 4 is a ballroom music player (but can be used for other purposes). It is designed with the goal of being able to play music the entire evening without intervention.

The goal of this project is to develop educational software for music teachers and their students. It contains ear training, score writing, and dictations, and aims to be easy to use.

Get your database online quickly using configuration not code. Use this secure, scalable and proven enterprise technology to publish any relational data, any custom process on the internet. MySQL, Java, XML, XSL. xHTML GUI, beta voiceXML and WML/WAP.

Mr. Random is a utility useful for filling a portable MP3 audio player with music randomly selected from a larger collection situated on a computer hard drive. Filtering and history are supported. Skinnable using SkinLF. Java 6.0 is required to run.