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

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.

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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

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/

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

aTunes is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform player and manager, with support for online radios, podcasts and CD ripping.

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

Voya Media is a free cross-platform media player that easily plays your music, pictures and videos.

An easy to use PHP system, requires no databases. It can display all, or selected files and subdirectories in a specified directory. Comes in both a basic listing version, and a much more extravagant management version with users and permission schemes.

Flash Shoucast player. For easy embed and stream shoutcast radio from webpage or as an standalone app. Further development will be connecting the player to an mysql database for login and changing stream details for the player.

MRNs MP3system is written in mIRC and it has heavy statistical features, tries to play your best mp3 (based on several values) and outputs some statistics to http-files.

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.

Transana is a cross-platform tool for the transcription and qualitative analysis of audio and video data. It also provides the ability to identify and organize analytically interesting portions of videos, as well as attach keywords to those video clips.

XBMC Media Center is a free cross-platform media player software and entertainment system application framework for Linux, Mac, and Windows. XBMC is capable of playing back and streaming all popular video, audio, and picture formats out-of-the-box.

A user friendly alarm clock written in the Qt framework. The user can deside which time the alarm is set to go off. In addition the user can set a purpose of the alarm, a note, and add audio files for the alarm. This way you can decide if you like to wake up with a beating heart to the sound of hard rock. Or maybe you are the kind that prefers the more soft and sensitive alarms. With Zalarm this is all up to you. The reason for adding notes to the alarm is simple. Maybe by the time you go to bed you have a brilliant idea, or there is something you have to remember by the time you wake up. This feature let you get reminded of this. When the alarm goes off, you will in addition to the alarm get a pop-up message. The message contains your predefined notes. This however is completely optional. Enjoy!