A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion sounds, drum beats, and patterns. We feature our recommended free and open source drum machines.
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Category: Multimedia
mStream – personal music streaming server
mStream is a personal music streaming server that lets you access your music collection from any compatible web browser or mobile app.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Soundboards
A soundboard is a useful tool that showcases various sound clips—think effects, jingles, voice snippets, and music—arranged in a grid layout for easy access.
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6 Best Free and Open Source Sound Systems
A sound system is software that manages the use of and access to audio devices (usually a sound card). It commonly runs as a background process.
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Autokit – drum machine plugin and standalone app
Autokit is a sample-based drum machine that runs as a standalone application or as a VST3 and CLAP plugin.
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fooyin v0.12.0 adds audio conversion and new visualisations
fooyin v0.12.0 adds audio conversion, new visualisations and playback improvements.
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cls – terminal-based soundboard
cls is a terminal-based soundboard that combines file management with command-driven audio playback.
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Soundboard – desktop audio mixing application
Soundboard is a desktop audio mixing application for playing sound clips through voice chats and games.
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Revisited: mpz – Linux music player
We revisit mpz to assess its new gapless playback, equalizer and internet radio features, and whether the player is now worth recommending.
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15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Music Tag Editors
Tag editors are frequently used to correct and organise multimedia files and they support popular digital audio formats.
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27 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Music Players
All music libraries are different, and the right open source music player can make a world of difference – especially if you’ve a large collection. We recommend the best terminal-based music players.
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htagcli – view, edit and validate metadata tags
htagcli is a command-line utility for viewing, editing and validating metadata tags in audio files.
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NTag – graphical audio file tag editor
NTag is a graphical audio file tag editor written in Java. It lets users view and edit metadata, artwork and extended tag fields.
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MECOMP – music player designed for large, locally stored music collections
MECOMP (Metadata Enhanced Collection Oriented Music Player) is a music player designed for large, locally stored music collections
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7 Best Free and Open Source Digital Asset Management Software
Digital asset management (DAM) allows organization to obtain greater value from creative digital assets like images and videos by making them easy to organize, access, catalogue, find, retrieve and distribute.
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SparkPlayer – visually appealing media player
SparkPlayer is a terminal media player with album art, video playback, playlists, visualizers and extensive theme support.
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Vocalinux – voice dictation application
Vocalinux is a voice dictation application that lets you enter text into virtually any Linux application by speaking into a microphone.
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koan – audiophile music player
koan is a terminal-based music player designed for high-quality local and streamed audio playback. Written in Rust with a Ratatui interface.
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UnoPim Digital Asset Management – Laravel-based extension
UnoPim Digital Asset Management is a Laravel-based extension for the UnoPim product information management platform.
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Providence – component of CollectiveAccess
Providence is the back-end cataloguing and collections management component of CollectiveAccess.
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