Luke Baker, Author at LinuxLinks

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.

sndio is a small audio and MIDI framework part of the OpenBSD project and ported to FreeBSD, Linux and NetBSD.

The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and MIDI functionality to the Linux operating system.

Morphosis is a document conversion app written using GTK4 and Libadwaita. Conversions are performed by Pandoc and WebKitGTK.

Wora is billed as a beautiful player for audiophiles. It’s written in TypeScript and published under an open source license.

Tambourine Music Player is described as a music player for your local music library. It’s written in Kotlin.

Tauon is billed as the music player of today! It’s that and more. A superb music player with every feature under the sun.

JuK (pronounced “jook”) is a jukebox and music manager for the KDE desktop similar to jukebox software on other platforms such as iTunes.

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 15 high quality free and open source audio editors.

MPD is a powerful server-side application for playing music. Here’s our verdict on the finest web-based MPD clients.

Retrotube is a web application that enables you to control your music library with a retro user interface.

Control Music Player Daemon (cryMPD) is a minimalistic web-based MPD client.

CYP is a web-based frontend for MPD, the Music Player Daemon.

Sola MPD is a web based client written in TypeScript that needs to be deployed to a machine on your local network.

radion is an internet radio TUI client, written in Bash. This is free and open source software. There’s also a Python version available.