Multimedia
Codecs
See the main article: Codecs.
Image
Image viewers
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of image viewers.
Framebuffer image viewers
fbi — Image viewer for the linux framebuffer console.
https://www.kraxel.org/blog/linux/fbida/ || fbida
fbv — Very simple graphic file viewer for the framebuffer console.
http://s-tech.elsat.net.pl/fbv/ || fbv
fim — Highly customizable and scriptable framebuffer image viewer based on fbi.
https://www.nongnu.org/fbi-improved/ || fimAUR
jfbview — Framebuffer PDF and image viewer based on Imlib2. Features include Vim-like controls, rotation and zoom, zoom-to-fit, and fast multi-threaded rendering.
https://github.com/jichu4n/jfbview || jfbviewAUR
Graphical image viewers
CoreImage — Simple lightweight easy to use image viewer based on Qt. Part of C-Suite.
https://cubocore.org/ || coreimageAUR
Deepin Image Viewer — Image viewer for Deepin desktop.
https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-image-viewer/ || deepin-image-viewer
Ephoto — A light image viewer based on EFL.
https://www.enlightenment.org/about-ephoto || ephoto
Eye of GNOME — Image viewing and cataloging program, which is a part of the GNOME desktop environment.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EyeOfGnome || eog
Eye of MATE — Simple graphics viewer for the MATE desktop.
https://github.com/mate-desktop/eom || eom
EyeSight — Image viewer for the Hawaii desktop environment.
https://github.com/hawaii-desktop/eyesight || eyesightAUR
feh — Fast, lightweight image viewer that uses imlib2.
https://github.com/derf/feh https://feh.finalrewind.org || feh
Geeqie — Image browser and viewer (fork of GQview) that adds additional functionality such as support for RAW files.
GPicView — Simple and fast image viewer for X, which is part of the LXDE desktop.
http://lxde.sourceforge.net/gpicview/ || gpicview
Gwenview — Fast and easy to use image viewer for the KDE desktop.
https://apps.kde.org/gwenview/ || gwenview
ida — X11 application (Motif based) for viewing images. Install the optional dependencies as needed.
https://www.kraxel.org/blog/linux/fbida/ || fbida
image-roll — Simple and fast GTK image viewer with basic image manipulation tools.
https://github.com/weclaw1/image-roll || image-rollAUR
imv — Lightweight image viewer with support for Wayland and animated GIFs which uses FreeImage.
https://sr.ht/~exec64/imv/ || imv
Koko — Image viewer designed for desktop and touch devices.
https://apps.kde.org/koko/ || kokoAUR
KuickShow — Fast and convenient image viewer for KDE.
https://userbase.kde.org/KuickShow || kuickshow
LxImage-Qt — The LXQt image viewer.
https://github.com/lxde/lximage-qt || lximage-qt
meh — meh is a small, simple, super fast image viewer using raw XLib.
https://www.johnhawthorn.com/meh/ || meh-gitAUR
Mirage — PyGTK image viewer featuring support for crop and resize, custom actions and a thumbnail panel.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mirageiv.berlios/ || mirageAUR
nomacs — Qt image viewer. It is feature-rich but starts fast and can be configured to show additional widgets or only the image.
nsxiv — Simple image viewer based on imlib2 that works well with tiling window managers. Community fork of sxiv.
https://codeberg.org/nsxiv/nsxiv || nsxivAUR
PhotoQt — Fast and highly configurable image viewer with a simple and nice interface.
https://photoqt.org/ || photoqtAUR
pqiv — GTK 3 based command-line image viewer with a minimal UI supporting images in compressed archives, rewrite of qiv.
https://github.com/phillipberndt/pqiv/ || pqiv
qimgv — Fast and easy to use Qt5 image viewer. Supports webm/mp4 playback via mpv.
https://github.com/easymodo/qimgv/ || qimgvAUR
qeh — Actually fast and simple image viewer. Like feh but faster and simpler, and support for more formats.
https://github.com/sandsmark/qeh/ || qeh-gitAUR
Quick Image Viewer — Very small and fast image viewer based on GTK and imlib2.
qView — Qt image viewer designed with minimalism and usability in mind.
https://interversehq.com/qview/ || qviewAUR
Ristretto — Fast and lightweight image viewer for the Xfce desktop environment.
https://docs.xfce.org/apps/ristretto/start || ristretto
shufti — shufti non-destructively saves and restores the zoom level, rotation, window size, desktop location and viewing area on a per-image/file location basis
https://github.com/danboid/shufti || shuftiAUR
sxiv — Simple image viewer based on imlib2 that works well with tiling window managers.
https://github.com/muennich/sxiv || sxiv
Viewnior — Minimalistic GTK image viewer featuring support for flipping, rotating, animations and configurable mouse actions.
https://siyanpanayotov.com/project/viewnior || viewnior
Vimiv — An image viewer with vim-like keybindings. It is written in python3 using the Gtk3 toolkit.
https://karlch.github.io/vimiv/ || vimiv
Vimiv (Qt port) — An image viewer with vim-like keybindings. It is written in python3 and PyQt5.
https://karlch.github.io/vimiv-qt/ || vimiv-qtAUR
vpv — Image viewer designed for scientific image visualization.
https://github.com/kidanger/vpv || vpvAUR
Xloadimage — Classic X image viewer.
https://sioseis.ucsd.edu/xloadimage.html || xloadimage
Image organizers
See also Wikipedia:Image organizer.
Deepin Album — Photo manager for viewing and organizing pictures, for Deepin desktop.
https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-album || deepin-album
digiKam — KDE-based image organizer with built-in editing features via a plugin architecture. digiKam asserts it is more full featured than similar applications with a larger set of image manipulation features including RAW image import and manipulation.
https://www.digikam.org/ || digikam
Frogr — Small application for the GNOME desktop that allows users to manage their accounts in the Flickr image hosting website.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Frogr || frogrAUR
GNOME Photos — Access, organize, and share your photos on GNOME.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Photos || gnome-photos
gThumb — Image viewer and browser for the GNOME desktop.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gthumb || gthumb
KPhotoAlbum — Digital image cataloging software that supports annotation, browsing, searching and viewing of digital images and videos.
https://www.kphotoalbum.org/ || kphotoalbum
Memories — Image viewer and manager designed for elementary OS.
https://anufrij.org/memories/ || showmypicturesAUR
Pantheon Photos — Photo organizer for Pantheon.
https://launchpad.net/pantheon-photos || pantheon-photos
PhotoPrism — Personal Photo Management powered by Go and Google TensorFlow
https://photoprism.app/ || photoprismAUR
Phototonic — Fast and functional image viewer and browser (Qt).
https://github.com/oferkv/phototonic/ || phototonic
Pix — Image gallery and image viewer that can be used to open images with other applications like an image editor, add tags to the files, add annotations to pictures, rotate and share them.
https://apps.kde.org/pix/ || maui-pix
Pix — Image viewer and browser based on gthumb. X-Apps Project.
https://github.com/linuxmint/pix || pixAUR
Rapid Photo Downloader — Download photos and videos from cameras, memory cards and portable storage devices.
https://www.damonlynch.net/rapid/ || rapid-photo-downloader
Shotwell — A digital photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Shotwell || shotwell
Image processing
CairoSVG — SVG to PNG, PDF, PS converter.
https://cairosvg.org/ || python-cairosvg
Converseen — Qt-based batch image converter and resizer.
https://converseen.fasterland.net/ || converseen
CropGUI — GTK utility for lossless cropping and rotation of jpeg files
https://github.com/jepler/cropgui || cropguiAUR
dcraw — Converts many camera RAW formats.
https://dechifro.org/dcraw/ || dcraw
G'MIC — Full-featured open-source framework for image processing, providing several different user interfaces to convert/manipulate/filter/visualize generic image datasets, ranging from 1d scalar signals to 3d+t sequences of multi-spectral volumetric images, including 2d color images.
GraphicsMagick — Fork of ImageMagick designed to have API and command-line stability. It also supports multi-CPU for enhanced performance and thus is used by some large commercial sites (Flickr, etsy) for its performance.
http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ || graphicsmagick
ImageMagick — Command-line image manipulation program. It is known for its accurate format conversions with support for over 100 formats. Its API enables it to be scripted and it is usually used as a backend processor.
https://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php || imagemagick
PosteRazor — Cut an image or PDF into pieces which can be printed and assembled to a poster
https://posterazor.sourceforge.io/ || posterazor
Image compression
Console
Guetzli — A perceptual JPEG encoder, aiming for excellent compression density at high visual quality.
https://github.com/google/guetzli || guetzli
jpegoptim — JPEG optimization utility providing lossless and lossy compression.
https://www.kokkonen.net/tjko/projects.html#jpegoptim || jpegoptim
optipng — Lossless PNG compressor.
https://optipng.sourceforge.net/ || optipng
oxipng — Lossless multithreaded PNG compressor.
https://github.com/shssoichiro/oxipng || oxipng
pngcrush — Tool for optimizing the compression of PNG files.
https://pmt.sourceforge.io/pngcrush/ || pngcrush
pngquant — Lossy compression of PNG images.
https://pngquant.org/ || pngquant
zopflipng — Highly efficient PNG optimisation tool using Google's zopfli library
https://github.com/google/zopfli || zopfli
Graphical
Curtail — GTK-based image compressor, supporting PNG and JPEG file types.
https://github.com/Huluti/Curtail || curtail
Image Optimizer — Simple lossless image optimizer built with Vala and Gtk for Elementary OS.
https://github.com/GijsGoudzwaard/Image-Optimizer || image-optimizer-gitAUR
Trimage — Qt-based tool for optimizing PNG and JPG files.
https://trimage.org/ || trimageAUR
Raster graphics editors
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of raster graphics editors.
AzPainter — Painting software for illustration drawing.
https://gitlab.com/azelpg/azpainter || azpainterAUR
CorePaint — Simple bitmap painting tool to produce very simple graphics. Part of C-Suite.
https://cubocore.org/ || corepaintAUR
Deepin Draw — Lightweight drawing tool for Deepin desktop.
https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-draw || deepin-draw
Drawing — Drawing application for the GNOME desktop, using Cairo and GdkPixbuf for basic drawing operations.
https://github.com/maoschanz/drawing || drawing
Drawpile — Collaborative drawing program that allows multiple users to sketch on the same canvas simultaneously.
https://drawpile.net/ || drawpileAUR
GIMP — Image editing suite in the vein of proprietary editors such as Adobe Photoshop. GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) has been started in the mid 1990s and has acquired a large number of plugins and additional tools.
Gpaint — Paintbrush clone for GNOME.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gpaint/ || gpaintAUR
GrafX2 — Bitmap paint program specialized in 256 color drawing.
http://grafx2.chez.com/ || grafx2
ImEditor — Simple and versatile image editor.
https://imeditor.github.io/ || imeditorAUR
KolourPaint — Free raster graphics editor for KDE, similar to Microsoft's Paint application before Windows 7, but with some additional features such as support for transparency. Part of kde-applications and kde-graphics groups.
http://kolourpaint.org/ || kolourpaint
Krita — Digital painting and illustration software included based on the KDE platform.
Milton — Infinite-canvas paint program.
https://www.miltonpaint.com/ || miltonAUR
mtPaint — Graphics editing program geared towards creating indexed palette images and pixel art.
https://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/ || mtpaint
MyPaint — Free software graphics application for digital painters.
PhotoFlare — Simple but powerful image editor originally inspired by PhotoFiltre.
https://photoflare.io/ || photoflare
https://pinta-project.com/ || pinta
Pixelitor — Advanced image editor with support for layers, layer masks, text layers, multiple undo, blending modes, cropping, Gaussian blurring, unsharp masking, histograms, etc.
https://pixelitor.sourceforge.io/ || pixelitorAUR
Swappy — Wayland native snapshot editing tool.
https://github.com/jtheoof/swappy || swappy
XPaint — Color image editing tool which features most standard paint program options.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sf-xpaint/ || xpaintAUR
Some image viewers and organizers like digiKam, Ephoto, GNOME Photos, gThumb, ida, nomacs, Pantheon Photos, Phototonic and Shotwell also provide some basic image manipulation functionality.
Specialized photo editors
A Photo Tool (Libre) — Photo editor with easy to use basic image editing tools.
https://www.ahola.me/aphototoollibre.html || aphototoollibreAUR
darktable — Photography workflow and RAW development application.
https://www.darktable.org/ || darktable
Filmulator — Simple raw photo editor based on the process of developing film.
https://filmulator.org/ || filmulatorAUR
FOSStriangulator — Tool for making triangulated illustrations out of photos.
https://github.com/FOSStriangulator/FOSStriangulator || fosstriangulatorAUR
Hugin — Panorama photo stitcher.
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ || hugin
LightZone — Professional-level digital darkroom and photo editor comparable to Photoshop Lightroom.
http://lightzoneproject.org/ || lightzoneAUR
Luminance HDR — Open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging.
https://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/ || luminancehdr
nUFRaw — Utility to read and manipulate raw images from digital cameras using DCRaw.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/nufraw/ || gimp-nufraw
Oqapy — Photographic workflow application.
https://oqapy.eu/ || oqapyAUR
Rawstudio — Raw-image converter written in GTK.
https://rawstudio.org/ || rawstudioAUR
RawTherapee — A powerful cross-platform raw image processing program.
https://www.rawtherapee.com/ || rawtherapee
Showfoto — Photo editor with powerful image editing tools.
https://www.digikam.org/ || digikam
Photo geotagging
Geotag — Match date/time information from photos with location information from a GPS unit or from a map.
https://geotag.sourceforge.net/ || geotag
Geotagging — Photography geotagging tool to synchronize photos with gps track log (GPX).
https://github.com/jmlich/geotagging || geotaggingAUR
GottenGeography — Easy to use photo geotagging application for the GNOME desktop.
https://launchpad.net/gottengeography || gottengeography
GPicSync — Inserts location in your pictures metadata from a GPS tracklog.
https://github.com/FrancoisSchnell/GPicSync || gpicsyncAUR
GPSCorrelate — Correlate (geotagging) digital camera photos with GPS data in GPX format.
https://github.com/freefoote/gpscorrelate || gpscorrelate
Vector graphics editors
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of vector graphics editors.
Dia — GTK-based diagram creation program.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dia || diaAUR
diagrams.net — Diagram drawing application built on web technology. Based on the Electron platform.
https://www.diagrams.net/ || drawio-desktopAUR
Dot Matrix — The glyph playground of creativity from simple lines.
https://github.com/lainsce/dot-matrix/ || dot-matrixAUR
Figma — Unofficial desktop application for Figma collaborative design tool. Based on the Electron platform.
https://github.com/Figma-Linux/figma-linux || figma-linuxAUR
Gravit Designer — Proprietary vector design application. Based on the Electron platform.
https://designer.io/ || gravit-designer-binAUR
Inkscape — Vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file format.
https://inkscape.org/ || inkscape
Karbon — Vector graphics editor, part of the Calligra Suite.
https://www.calligra.org/karbon/ || calligra
LibreOffice Draw — Vector graphics editor and diagramming tool included in the LibreOffice suite similar to Microsoft Visio.
https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/draw/ || libreoffice-still or libreoffice-fresh
Mockitt — Proprietary online design, prototyping, and collaboration platform. Based on the Electron platform.
https://mockitt.wondershare.com/ || mockittAUR
OpenOffice Draw — Vector graphics editor and diagramming tool included in the OpenOffice suite.
https://www.openoffice.org/product/draw.html || openoffice-binAUR
Pencil Project — GUI prototyping and mockup tool. Based on the Electron platform.
https://pencil.evolus.vn/ || pencilAUR
sK1 — Replacement for Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw, oriented for "prepress ready" PostScript & PDF output.
https://sk1project.net/ || sk1AUR
SvgVi — SVG viewer and editor using XML declarations.
https://gitlab.com/pwmc/svgvi || svgviAUR
yEd — General-purpose proprietary diagramming program for flowcharts, network diagrams, UML diagrams, BPMN diagrams, mind maps, organization charts, and Entity Relationship diagrams.
https://www.yworks.com/products/yed || yedAUR
Xfig — Interactive drawing tool.
https://mcj.sourceforge.net/ || xfigAUR
Font editors
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of font editors.
Birdfont — Font editor which lets you create vector graphics and export TTF, EOT and SVG fonts.
https://birdfont.org/ || birdfont
FontForge — Outline font editor.
https://fontforge.github.io/ || fontforge
TruFont — Font-editing application.
https://trufont.github.io/ || trufontAUR
2D animation
enve — Flexible, user expandable 2D animation software.
https://maurycyliebner.github.io/ || enve-gitAUR
Glaxnimate — Vector 2D animation software, mainly for Lottie and TGS formats, but have a good standard animated SVG export
https://glaxnimate.mattbas.org/ || glaxnimateAUR
OpenToonz — 2D animation creation software.
https://opentoonz.github.io/e/ || opentoonz
Pencil2D — Easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations.
https://www.pencil2d.org/ || pencil2d
qStopMotion — Application for creating stop-motion animation movies. The users will be able to create stop-motions from pictures imported from a camera or from the harddrive and export the animation to different video formats such as mpeg or avi.
https://qstopmotion.org/ || qstopmotion
Scribl — Application to create simple video lectures that combine audio with hand-drawn animation.
https://www.scribl.ink/ || scriblAUR
Stopmotion — Application to create stop-motion animations. It helps you capture and edit the frames of your animation and export them as a single file.
http://linuxstopmotion.org/ || stopmotionAUR
Synfig Studio — 2D animation software, designed as powerful industrial-strength solution for creating film-quality animation using a vector and bitmap artwork.
https://www.synfig.org/ || synfigstudio
TupiTube Desk — Desktop application to create and share 2D animations, focused on kids and teenagers.
https://www.maefloresta.com/ || tupitube
Aseprite — Pixel art 2d animation
https://www.aseprite.org/ || asepriteAUR
Pixelorama — Pixel art 2d animation
https://orama-interactive.itch.io/pixelorama || pixeloramaAUR
The drawing application Krita and the 3D editor Blender (Grease Pencil mode) have both 2D animation features too.
3D computer graphics
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of 3D computer graphics software.
Art of Illusion — 3D modeling and rendering studio written in Java.
http://www.artofillusion.org/ || aoiAUR
Blender — Fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite capable of 3D modeling, texturing, and animation, among other things.
https://www.blender.org/ || blender
CloudCompare — 3D point cloud and mesh processing software.
https://cloudcompare.org/ || cloudcompareAUR
Dust3D — 3D modeling software. It helps you create a 3D watertight base model in seconds. Use it to speed up your character modeling in game making, 3D printing, and so on.
https://dust3d.org/ || dust3dAUR
F3D — A fast and minimalist KISS 3D viewer. Supported file formats: VTK (legacy and XML), STL, GLTF, PLY, OBJ, 3DS, …
Goxel — Open Source 3D voxel editor.
MakeHuman™ — Parametrical modeling program for creating human bodies.
http://www.makehumancommunity.org/ || makehumanAUR
MeshLab — System for processing and editing 3D triangular meshes.
https://www.meshlab.net/ || meshlabAUR
Sweet Home 3D — Interior design software application for the planning and development of floor plans
http://sweethome3d.com/ || sweethome3d
POV-Ray — Script-based raytracer for creating 3D graphics.
https://www.povray.org/ || povray
VoxelShop — Extremely intuitive and powerful software to modify and create voxel objects.
https://github.com/simlu/voxelshop || voxelshopAUR
Wings 3D — Advanced subdivision modeler that is both powerful and easy to use.
http://www.wings3d.com/ || wings3dAUR
Color pickers and palettes
Agave — Colorscheme designer tool for GNOME.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170327063642/http://home.gna.org/colorscheme/ || agaveAUR
Chameleon — Simple color picker for X11 which outputs colors to stdout.
https://github.com/seebye/chameleon || chameleon-gitAUR
ColorGrab — Cross-platform color picker.
https://github.com/nielssp/colorgrab || colorgrabAUR
Color Palette — Tool for viewing the GNOME color palette as defined by the design guidelines.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/design/palette || paletteAUR
colorpicker — Click on a pixel on your screen and print its color value in RGB. Written for X11.
https://github.com/Jack12816/colorpicker || colorpickerAUR
Color Picker — Simplistic color picker for the Pantheon desktop.
https://github.com/RonnyDo/ColorPicker || color-pickerAUR
Coulr — Color box to help developers and designers.
https://github.com/Huluti/Coulr || coulrAUR
Deepin Picker — Color picker tool for Deepin desktop.
https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-picker/ || deepin-picker
delicolour — Lightweight GTK 3 color finder.
https://github.com/eepp/delicolour || delicolourAUR
Gcolor3 — Simple GTK 3 color selector.
https://www.hjdskes.nl/projects/gcolor3/ || gcolor3
GPick — Advanced color picker tool.
http://www.gpick.org/ || gpick
KColorChooser — Simple application to select the color from the screen or from a pallete. Part of kde-graphics.
https://apps.kde.org/kcolorchooser/ || kcolorchooser
Kontrast — Tool to check contrast for colors that allows verifying that your colors are correctly accessible. Part of kde-accessibility.
https://apps.kde.org/kontrast/ || kontrast
MATE Color Selection — Choose colors from the palette or the screen. Run with
mate-color-select
.
https://mate-desktop.org/ || mate-desktop
Pick — Simple color picker tool for the Linux desktop.
https://www.kryogenix.org/code/pick || pick-colour-pickerAUR
PrestoPalette — An artist's tool for creating harmonious color palettes.
https://github.com/PrestoPalette/PrestoPalette || prestopaletteAUR
xcolor — Lightweight color picker for X11.
https://soft.github.io/xcolor/ || xcolor
Screenshot
See Screen capture#Screenshot software.
Digital camera managers
See gPhoto#Installation.
Audio
Audio systems
See also the main article Sound system and Wikipedia:Sound server.
Audio players
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of audio player software.
Many applications in the #Video players section also support audio playback.
Server
Music Player Daemon — Audio player that has a server-client architecture. In order to interface with it, a separate client is needed.
https://www.musicpd.org/ || mpd
Funkwhale — self-hosted, modern, free and open-source music server, heavily inspired by Grooveshark. Instances can be federated.
https://funkwhale.audio/ || funkwhaleAUR
Sonospy — A music server for Sonos that allows you overcome the 65,000 local track limit and also offers various customization options.
https://github.com/henkelis/sonospy/wiki/Welcome-to-Sonospy || sonospy-gitAUR
Console
cmus — Very feature-rich ncurses-based music player.
https://cmus.github.io/ || cmus
Cplay — Curses front-end for various audio players (ogg123, mpg123, mpg321, splay, madplay, and mikmod, xmp, and sox).
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Cplay || cplayAUR
davis — A CLI client for mpd, written in Rust.
https://github.com/SimonPersson/davis || davisAUR
Herrie — Minimalistic console-based music player with native AudioScrobbler support.
https://github.com/EdSchouten/herrie || herrieAUR
MOC — Ncurses console audio player with support for the MP3, OGG, and WAV formats.
MPFC — Gstreamer-based audio player with curses interface.
https://code.google.com/archive/p/mpfc/ || mpfcAUR
mpg123 — Fast free MP3 console audio player for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, HP-UX and nearly all other UNIX systems (also decodes MP1 and MP2 files).
https://www.mpg123.org/ || mpg123
vitunes — Curses-based music player and playlist manager with vim-like keybindings.
http://vitunes.org/ || vitunesAUR
whistle — Curses-based commandline audio player.
https://github.com/ap0calypse/whistle/ || whistle-gitAUR
XMMS2 — Complete rewrite of the popular music player.
Graphical
GStreamer-based
Blanket — Improve focus and increase your productivity by listening to different sounds.
https://github.com/rafaelmardojai/blanket || blanket
Byte — Music player designed for elementary OS.
https://github.com/alainm23/byte || byteAUR
Clementine — Amarok 1.4 clone, ported to Qt5. See also Strawberry (below).
https://www.clementine-player.org/ || clementine
Cozy — Modern audio book player for Linux using GTK 3.
https://cozy.geigi.de/ || cozy-audiobooksAUR
Exaile — GTK clone of Amarok.
https://www.exaile.org/ || exaileAUR
GNOME Music — Music is the new GNOME music playing application. It aims to combine an elegant and immersive browsing experience with simple and straightforward controls.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Music || gnome-music
Guayadeque — Full featured media player that can easily manage large collections and uses the GStreamer media framework.
https://www.guayadeque.org/ || guayadequeAUR
Lollypop — A GNOME music player.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Lollypop || lollypop
Melody — Music player for listening to local music files, online radios and audio CD's.
https://anufrij.org/melody/ || playmymusicAUR
Pantheon Music — Simple, fast, and good looking music player. The official elementary music player.
https://github.com/elementary/music || pantheon-music
Parlatype — Minimal audio player for manual speech transcription, for GNOME. It plays audio sources to transcribe them in your favorite text application.
https://www.parlatype.org/ || parlatypeAUR
Pragha — A lightweight two-panel GTK music manager written in C.
https://pragha-music-player.github.io/ || pragha
Quod Libet — Audio player written with GTK, Python and GStreamer with support for regular expressions in playlists.
https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/ || quodlibet
Rhythmbox — GTK clone of iTunes, used by default in GNOME.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Rhythmbox || rhythmbox
Sayonara — Small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, uses the Qt framework.
https://sayonara-player.com/ || sayonara-playerAUR
Strawberry — Fork of Clementine aimed at audio enthusiasts and music collectors. Uses Qt6.
https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/ || strawberry
Tauon Music Box — Modern, comfortable and streamlined music player for the playback of your music collection.
https://tauonmusicbox.rocks/ || tauon-music-boxAUR
Phonon-based
Amarok — Mature Qt-based player known for its plethora of features.
https://amarok.kde.org/ || amarokAUR
JuK — JuK is an audio jukebox application, supporting collections of MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files.
Yarock — Modern looking music player, packed with features, that doesn’t depend on any specific desktop environment. Yarock is designed to provide an easy and pretty music browser based on cover art.
https://seb-apps.github.io/yarock/ || yarockAUR
Other
Aqualung — Advanced music player, which plays audio CDs, internet radio streams and podcasts as well as soundfiles in just about any audio format and has the feature of inserting no gaps between adjacent tracks.
https://aqualung.jeremyevans.net/ || aqualungAUR
Audacious — Winamp clone like Beep and old XMMS versions.
https://audacious-media-player.org/ || audacious
DeaDBeeF — Light and fast music player with many features, no GNOME or KDE dependencies, supports console-only, as well as a GTK GUI, comes with many plugins, and has a metadata editor.
https://deadbeef.sourceforge.io/ || deadbeefAUR
Deepin Music — Awesome music player with brilliant and tweakful UI Deepin-UI based.
https://www.deepin.org/en/original/deepin-music/ || deepin-music
Drumstick MIDI File Player — MIDI file player based on Drumstick.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dmidiplayer/ || dmidiplayerAUR
Elisa — Simple music player by the KDE community aiming to provide a nice experience for its users.
https://apps.kde.org/elisa/ || elisa
gmusicbrowser — Open-source jukebox for large collections of MP3/OGG/FLAC files.
https://gmusicbrowser.org/ || gmusicbrowserAUR
Goggles Music Manager — Music collection manager and player that automatically categorizes your music, supports gapless playback, features easy tag editing, and internet radio support. Uses the Fox toolkit.
https://gogglesmm.github.io/ || gogglesmm
LXMusic — A minimalist xmms2-based music player.
https://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXMusic || lxmusic
museeks — Minimalistic and easy to use music player. Based on the Electron platform.
https://museeks.io/ || museeks-binAUR
Musique — Just another music player, only better.
https://flavio.tordini.org/musique || musiqueAUR
Qmmp — Qt-based multimedia player with a user interface that is similar to Winamp or XMMS.
https://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/ || qmmp
Soundux — Soundboard that features a simple user interface.
https://soundux.rocks/ || sounduxAUR
Vvave — Tiny Qt music player to keep your favorite songs at hand.
https://vvave.kde.org/ || vvave
Internet radio listeners
GNOME Radio — Easily find live radio programs based on geographical location of radio broadcasters on the Internet.
http://www.gnomeradio.org/ || gnome-radioAUR
Goodvibes — Lightweight internet radio player.
https://gitlab.com/goodvibes/goodvibes || goodvibesAUR
Radiotray-NG — Internet radio player systray applet.
https://github.com/ebruck/radiotray-ng || radiotray-ngAUR
Shortwave — GTK 3 application for finding and listening to internet radio stations.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Shortwave || shortwaveAUR
Tuner — Minimalist radio station player.
https://github.com/louis77/tuner || tunerAUR
Music streaming clients
Cider — An open source and community oriented Apple Music client for Windows, Linux, macOS, and more. Based on the Electron platform.
https://cider.sh/ || ciderAUR
Google Play Music Desktop Player — Beautiful cross platform desktop player for Google Play Music. Based on the Electron platform.
https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-/ || gpmdpAUR
Headset — Desktop application that turns YouTube into a world class music streaming service. Based on the Electron platform.
https://headsetapp.co/ || headsetAUR
MellowPlayer — A free, open source and cross-platform Qt-based desktop application that runs web-based music streaming services in its own window and provides integration with your desktop.
https://colinduquesnoy.gitlab.io/MellowPlayer/ || mellowplayerAUR
Nuclear — Modern music player focused on streaming from free sources. Based on the Electron platform.
http://nuclear.gumblert.tech/ || nuclear-player-binAUR
pianobar — Console-based frontend for the online radio Pandora.
https://6xq.net/projects/pianobar/ || pianobar
Pithos — Python/GTK Pandora Radio desktop client.
https://pithos.github.io/ || pithosAUR
Spotify — Proprietary music streaming service. It supports local playback and streaming from Spotify's vast library (requires a free account).
https://www.spotify.com/ || spotifyAUR
Audio tag editors
Console
Beets — Music library organizer, tagger and more.
Demlo — Batch music tagger, encoder, renamer and more.
https://gitlab.com/ambrevar/demlo || demloAUR
id3 — Command-line utility to edit ID3 1.x and 2.x tags.
https://squell.github.io/id3/ || id3AUR
id3v2 — Command line editor for id3v2 tags.
http://id3v2.sourceforge.net/ || id3v2
MP3Info — MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor.
https://ibiblio.org/mp3info/ || mp3info
MP3Unicode — Command line utility to convert ID3 tags in mp3 files between different encodings.
http://mp3unicode.sourceforge.net/ || mp3unicode
Taffy — Simple command-line tag editor for many audio formats.
https://github.com/jangler/taffy || taffyAUR
Tagutil — CLI tool to edit music file's tag. It aims to provide both an easy-to-script interface and ease of use interactively.
https://github.com/kAworu/tagutil || tagutilAUR
Graphical
Audio Tag Tool — Tool to edit tags in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files.
https://github.com/impegoraro/tagtool || tagtoolAUR
Coquillo — Metadata editor for various audio formats.
https://github.com/sjuvonen/coquillo || coquilloAUR
EasyTag — Utility for viewing, editing and writing ID3 tags of music files, supports many audio formats.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EasyTAG || easytag
Ex Falso — Cross-platform free and open source audio tag editor and library organizer. Run with
exfalso
.
https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/ || quodlibet
GabTag — Audio tagging tool written in GTK.
https://github.com/lachhebo/gabtag || gabtagAUR
Kid3 — MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV and AIFF files tag editor.
https://kid3.kde.org/ || KDE: kid3, Qt: kid3-qt
KTag Editor — ID3v tag editor developed in Qt5 framework. Supported files are mp3, wav, ogg, wma, flac, asf.
https://karoljkocmaros.blogspot.com/p/ktag-editor.html || ktageditorAUR
MP3Info GUI — MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor. The graphical interface can be launched with the
gmp3info
command.
https://ibiblio.org/mp3info/ || mp3info
NickvisionTagger — GTK Music file tag editor. Can load tags from MusicBrainz database. Works with mp3, ogg, flac, wma, and wav. Convert filenames to tags and tags to filenames.
https://github.com/nlogozzo/NickvisionTagger || nickvision-taggerAUR
Picard — Cross-platform audio tag editor written in Python (the official MusicBrainz tagger).
https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ || picard
NTag — Graphical tag editor focused on everyday life use cases.
https://github.com/nrittsti/ntag || ntagAUR
Puddletag — Replacement for the famous MP3tag for Windows.
https://docs.puddletag.net/ || puddletagAUR
Qoobar — Universal Qt-based audio tagger (specialized for classical music).
http://qoobar.sourceforge.net/en/index.htm || qoobarAUR
Tag Editor — A tag editor with Qt GUI and command-line interface supporting MP4/M4A/AAC (iTunes), ID3v1/ID3v2, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC and Matroska.
https://github.com/Martchus/tageditor || tageditorAUR
Thunar Media Tags Plugin — Adds special features for media files to the Thunar File Manager, including the ability to edit tags.
https://goodies.xfce.org/projects/thunar-plugins/thunar-media-tags-plugin || thunar-media-tags-plugin
Lyrics
Lyrics players
Floodlight Presenter — Presentation and lyrics program for churches to display lyrics and media.
https://floodlight.gitlab.io/ || floodlight-presenterAUR
Give Me Lyrics — See the lyrics of the song that is playing, from any application.
https://github.com/muriloventuroso/givemelyrics || givemelyricsAUR
OSD Lyrics — Lyric show compatible with various media players.
https://github.com/osdlyrics/osdlyrics || osdlyrics
Lyrics downloaders
clyrics — Extensible lyrics fetcher, with daemon support for cmus and mocp.
https://github.com/trizen/clyrics || clyricsAUR
glyrc — Command-line music related metadata searchengine, including support for downloading lyrics.
https://github.com/sahib/glyr || glyr
Lyrics editors
Karaoke Lyrics Editor — Lyrics editor and CD+G/video exporter for Karaoke.
https://www.ulduzsoft.com/linux/karaoke-lyrics-editor/ || karlyriceditorAUR
LyricsX — Lyrics editor.
https://github.com/timxx/lyricsx || lyricsxAUR
Audio converters
Caudec — A multiprocess command line audio converter that supports many formats (FLAC, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Windows codecs and many more)
https://caudec.cocatre.net/ || caudecAUR
Ecasound — Command line tools designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling.
https://nosignal.fi/ecasound/ || ecasound
FFaudioConverter — Batch audio converter and effects processor. It can convert files or whole folders containing music and video files to other audio formats with FFmpeg.
https://github.com/Bleuzen/FFaudioConverter || ffaudioconverterAUR
Flacon — Extracts individual tracks from one big audio file containing the entire album of music and saves them as separate audio files.
https://flacon.github.io/ || flaconAUR
fre:ac — Audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders.
https://freac.org/ || freacAUR
Gnac — Audio converter for GNOME.
http://gnac.sourceforge.net/ || gnac
SoundConverter — A graphical application to convert audio files into different formats.
https://soundconverter.org/ || soundconverter
soundKonverter — Qt-based GUI front-end to various audio converters.
https://github.com/dfaust/soundkonverter || soundkonverter
SoX — Command line utility that can convert various formats of computer audio files into other formats.
https://sox.sourceforge.net/ || sox
Audio editors
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of digital audio editors.
Audacity — Program that lets you manipulate digital audio waveforms.
https://www.audacityteam.org/ || audacity
GNOME Sound Recorder — The Sound Recorder application enables you to record and play .flac, .ogg (OGG audio, or .oga), and .wav sound files.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/SoundRecorder || gnome-sound-recorder
Gnome Wave Cleaner — Digital audio editor to denoise, dehiss and amplify audio files.
http://gwc.sourceforge.net/ || gwcAUR
Kwave — Sound editor for KDE.
http://kwave.sourceforge.net/ || kwave
mhWaveEdit — Graphical program for editing, playing and recording sound files.
https://github.com/magnush/mhwaveedit/ || mhwaveeditAUR
Mp3splt — Utility to split mp3, ogg vorbis and native FLAC files selecting a begin and an end time position, without decoding.
http://mp3splt.sourceforge.net/ || CLI: mp3splt, GUI: mp3splt-gtk
ocenaudio — Proprietary cross-platform, easy to use, fast and functional audio editor.
https://www.ocenaudio.com/en/ || ocenaudio-binAUR
Play it Slowly — Play back audio files at a different speed or pitch.
https://29a.ch/playitslowly || playitslowly
Polyphone — A soundfont editor to create and edit a musical instrument based on samples, using the sf2 format.
https://www.polyphone-soundfonts.com/ || polyphone
Snd — Advanced sound editor modeled loosely after Emacs.
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/ || snd
Swami — A SoundFont editor
http://www.swamiproject.org || swamiAUR
Sweep — Audio editor and live playback tool.
http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/ || sweep
WaveSurfer — Tool for sound visualization and manipulation. Typical applications are speech/sound analysis and sound annotation/transcription.
https://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/ || wavesurferAUR
Digital audio workstations
See also Professional audio.
Ardour — Multichannel hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation.
Bitwig Studio — Proprietary professional digital audio workstation.
https://www.bitwig.com/en/home.html || bitwig-studioAUR
Frinika — Digital audio workstation, features sequencer, soft-synths, realtime effects and audio recording.
https://www.frinika.com/ || frinikaAUR
LMMS — Digital audio workstation which allows you to produce music with your computer.
MusE — MIDI/Audio sequencer (digital audio workstation) with recording and editing capabilities, aims to be a complete multitrack virtual studio for Linux.
https://muse-sequencer.github.io// || muse
Non — Modular digital audio workstation composed of four main parts: Timeline, Sequencer, Mixer and Session Manager.
https://non.tuxfamily.org/ || non-timeline, non-sequencer, non-mixer, new-session-manager
Qtractor — Qt-based hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application that aims to provide digital audio workstation software simple enough for the average home user, and yet powerful enough for the professional user.
https://qtractor.sourceforge.io/qtractor-index.html || qtractor
REAPER — Proprietary digital audio workstation, offering a full multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering toolset.
https://www.reaper.fm/ || reaper
Rosegarden — Digital audio workstation program developed with ALSA and Qt that acts as an audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriter and musical composition and editing tool.
https://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ || rosegarden
Tracktion Waveform — Proprietary digital audio workstation, specifically designed for the needs of modern music producers.
https://www.tracktion.com/ || tracktion-waveformAUR
Audio analyzers
audioprism — Spectrogram tool for PulseAudio input and WAV files.
https://github.com/vsergeev/audioprism || audioprismAUR
BRP-PACU — Dual channel FFT based acoustic analysis tool to help engineers analyze live professional sound systems using the transfer function.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/brp-pacu/ || brp-pacuAUR
Baudline — Proprietary time-frequency and spectrogram analyzer
http://www.baudline.com/index.html || baudline-binAUR
FMIT — Graphical utility for tuning your musical instruments, with error and volume history and advanced features.
https://gillesdegottex.github.io/fmit/ || fmitAUR
Friture — Real-time audio analyzer.
https://friture.org/ || fritureAUR
Mousai — Simple application for identifying songs using the API of audd.io.
https://github.com/SeaDve/Mousai || mousaiAUR
rtspeccy — Real time audio spectrum analyzer.
https://www.uninformativ.de/git/rtspeccy/ || rtspeccy-gitAUR
sndpeek — Real-time audio visualization tool.
https://soundlab.cs.princeton.edu/software/sndpeek/ || ALSA: sndpeek-alsaAUR, JACK: sndpeek-jackAUR
SongRec — Unofficial Shazam client to recognize audio from an arbitrary audio file or from the microphone, written in Rust.
https://github.com/marin-m/SongRec || songrec
Sonic Visualiser — Viewing and analyzing the contents of music audio files.
https://www.sonicvisualiser.org/ || sonic-visualiser
Spek — A barebones interface for ffmpeg's spectogram png output, helps to analyse your audio files by showing their spectrogram.
http://spek.cc/ || spekAUR
Scorewriters
See also LilyPond#Front-ends and Wikipedia:Comparison of scorewriters.
Canorus — 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.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/canorus/ || canorusAUR
Impro-Visor — Music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised.
https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/improvisor/ || impro-visorAUR
LilyPond — Music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible.
https://lilypond.org/ || lilypond
MuseScore — Create, playback, and print sheet music.
https://musescore.org/ || musescore
TuxGuitar — Multitrack guitar tablature editor and player.
http://tuxguitar.com.ar/ || tuxguitarAUR
Audio synthesis environments
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of audio synthesis environments.
Blue — Music composition environment for Csound, written in Java.
https://blue.kunstmusik.com/ || csound-blueAUR
Cabbage — Framework for audio software development using simple markup text and the Csound audio synthesis language.
https://cabbageaudio.com/ || cabbage-binAUR
Cardinal — Virtual modular synthesizer plugin based on the VCV Rack, includes lots of virtualized Eurorack modules.
https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal || cardinal
ChucK — Strongly-timed, concurrent, and on-the-fly music programming language.
https://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ || chuck
Csound — Sound and music computing system.
CsoundQt — Frontend for Csound featuring a highlighting editor with autocomplete, interactive widgets and integrated help.
https://csoundqt.github.io/ || csoundqt
FoxDot — Live Coding with Python and SuperCollider.
Pure Data — Real-time music and multimedia environment.
http://msp.ucsd.edu/software.html || pd
Sonic Pi — Code-based music creation and performance tool.
https://sonic-pi.net/ || sonic-pi
SuperCollider — Platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition, used by musicians, artists, and researchers working with sound.
https://supercollider.github.io/ || supercollider
VCV Rack — Virtual Eurorack DAW. Use a plugin systems to add more Eurorack emulated modules.
https://vcvrack.com/ || vcvrackAUR
Sound generators
This section contains drum machines, software samplers and software synthesizers.
ADLMIDI — OPL3/OPN2 synthesizer using ADLMIDI.
https://github.com/jpcima/adljack || adljack
ADLplug — FM Yamaha OPL3 synthesizer for ADLMIDI.
https://github.com/jpcima/ADLplug || adlplug
Agordejo — Music and audio production session manager based on NSM.
https://www.laborejo.org/agordejo/ || agordejo
ams — Alsa Modular Synth. Realtime modular synthesizer and effect processor.
http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/ || ams
amsynth — Analog Modelling SYNTHesizer. Easy-to-use software synthesizer with a classic subtractive synthesizer topology.
https://amsynth.github.io/ || amsynth
DIN — Sound synthesizer and musical instrument.
https://dinisnoise.org/ || din
Drumstick — Set of MIDI tools: drum grid, MIDI player, virtual piano.
https://drumstick.sourceforge.io/ || drumstick
Element — A modular LV2/VST3 audio plugin host.
https://kushview.net/element/ || element
Fluajho — SF2 soundfont sample player for JACK based on Fluidsynth.
https://www.laborejo.org/fluajho/ || fluajho
FluidSynth — Real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications.
https://www.fluidsynth.org/ || fluidsynth
Geonkick — Synthesizer that can synthesize elements of percussion. The most basic examples are: kicks, snares, hit-hats, shakers, claps.
https://gitlab.com/iurie-sw/geonkick || geonkick
Gigedit — Graphical instrument editor for sample based virtual instruments, based on the GigaStudio/Gigasampler file format.
http://doc.linuxsampler.org/Gigedit/ || gigedit
GrandOrgue — Virtual pipe organ sample player application supporting a HW1 compatible file format.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ourorgan/ || grandorgue-gitAUR
GSequencer — Provides various tools to play, create, edit and mix your own music. It features a step sequencer, piano roll, automation and wave-form editor.
https://nongnu.org/gsequencer/ || gsequencerAUR
Helm — Software synthesizer to create electronic music on your computer.
https://tytel.org/helm/ || helm-synth
Hydrogen — Advanced drum machine to create drum sequences.
https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen || hydrogen
JSampler — Java GUI for LinuxSampler software audio sampler.
http://jsampler.sourceforge.net/ || jsampler
OPNplug — FM Yamaha OPN2 synthesizer for OPNMIDI.
https://github.com/jpcima/ADLplug || opnplug
Patroneo — Easy to use pattern based midi sequencer.
https://www.laborejo.org/patroneo/ || patroneo
PySynth — Suite of simple music synthesizers and helper scripts written in Python 3.
https://mdoege.github.io/PySynth/ || python-pysynth-gitAUR
QMidiArp — Advanced MIDI arpeggiator, programmable step sequencer and LFO.
http://qmidiarp.sourceforge.net/ || qmidiarp
QmidiCtl — MIDI remote controller application that sends MIDI data over the network, using UDP/IP multicast.
https://qmidictl.sourceforge.io/ || qmidictl
QmidiNet — MIDI network gateway application that sends and receives MIDI data over the network, using UDP/IP multicast.
https://qmidinet.sourceforge.io/ || qmidinet
QMidiRoute — MIDI router and processor for ALSA.
http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/ || qmidiroute
Qsampler — Qt GUI for LinuxSampler software audio sampler.
https://qsampler.sourceforge.io/ || qsampler
Qsynth — Qt GUI for Fluidsynth.
https://qsynth.sourceforge.io/ || qsynth
Qwertone — Simple music synthesizer (like a toy-piano), but based on usual qwerty-keyboard for input.
https://gitlab.com/azymohliad/qwertone || qwertone-gitAUR
QXGEdit — Qt GUI for editing MIDI System Exclusive files for XG devices (eg. Yamaha DB50XG).
https://qxgedit.sourceforge.io/ || qxgedit
setBfree — DSP tonewheel organ.
https://setbfree.org/ || setbfree
SpectMorph — Analyze samples of musical instruments and combine them (morphing).
http://spectmorph.org/ || spectmorph
TiMidity++ — Software synthesizer, which can play MIDI files by converting them into PCM waveform data.
https://timidity.sourceforge.net/ || timidity++
Vee One Suite — Old-school software instruments: synthv1, a polyphonic subtractive synthesizer; samplv1, a polyphonic sampler synthesizer; drumkv1, yet another drum-kit sampler; padthv1, a polyphonic additive synthesizer.
https://www.rncbc.org/ || synthv1, samplv1, drumkv1, padthv1
Vico — Minimalistic Midi sequencer that is intended to be used in parallel with other software.
https://www.laborejo.org/vico/ || vico
VMPK — Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard. MIDI events generator and receiver. It can use midi SoundFonts to generate sound by itself, or can be used to drive a MIDI synthesizer.
https://vmpk.sourceforge.io/ || vmpk
Yoshimi — Software synthesizer, a fork of ZynAddSubFX.
http://yoshimi.sourceforge.net/ || yoshimi
ZynAddSubFX — Fully featured software synthesizer capable of making a countless number of instruments, from some common heard from expensive hardware to interesting sounds that you will boost to an amazing universe of sounds.
https://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.io/ || zynaddsubfx
Music trackers
Buzztrax — Music studio to compose songs using only a computer with a soundcard.
https://www.buzztrax.org/ || buzztraxAUR
FamiStudio — Very simple music editor for the Nintendo Entertainment System or Famicom.
https://famistudio.org/ || famistudioAUR
FastTracker II — A clone of the same tracker name using SDL2 in C.
https://16-bits.org/ft2.php || ft2-clone
Furnace — A chiptune tracker compatible with DefleMask modules. Emulates a variety of sound chips.
https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace || furnace
klystrack — Tracker for making C64/NES/Amiga-style chiptunes on a modern platform.
https://kometbomb.github.io/klystrack/ || klystrack-gitAUR
MilkyTracker — Music application for creating .MOD and .XM module files.
https://milkytracker.titandemo.org/ || milkytracker
OpenMPT — Tracker software to create and play back some great music on your computer.
https://openmpt.org/ || openmptAUR
ProTracker 2 — A clone of the original tracker from the amiga. Written using SDL2 in C.
https://16-bits.org/pt2.php || pt2-clone
Radium — Music editor with a new type of interface.
https://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/ || radiumAUR
Schism Tracker — Create high quality music without the requirements of specialized, expensive equipment, and with a unique "finger feel" that is difficult to replicate in part.
http://schismtracker.org/ || schismtracker
SunVox — Small, fast and powerful modular synthesizer with pattern-based sequencer (tracker).
https://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/ || sunvoxAUR
DJ
Giada — Minimal, hardcore audio tool for DJs, live performers and electronic musicians.
https://giadamusic.com/ || giadaAUR
IDJC — Powerful yet easy to use source-client for individuals interested in streaming live radio shows over the Internet using Shoutcast or Icecast servers.
http://idjc.sourceforge.net/ || idjcAUR
Linux Show Player — Powerful and feature-rich software to arrange cue lists. Designed for theater plays and live music shows.
https://www.linux-show-player.org/ || linux-show-playerAUR
Luppp — Music creation tool, intended for live use. The focus is on real time processing and a fast and intuitive workflow.
http://openavproductions.com/luppp/ || luppp
Mixxx — Integrates the tools DJs need to perform creative live mixes with digital music files.
Seq24 — Minimal loop based MIDI sequencer for a live performance with a very simple interface for editing and playing MIDI 'loops'.
http://filter24.org/seq24/ || seq24-bzrAUR
xwax — Digital Vinyl System (DVS) for Linux. It allows DJs and turntablists to playback digital audio files (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC and more), controlled using a normal pair of turntables via timecoded vinyls.
Audio effects
Calf Plugin Pack for JACK — Process and produce sounds using a set of plugins with JACK interface. (
calfjackhost
)
https://calf-studio-gear.org/ || calf
Carla — Audio plugin host, with support for many audio drivers and plugin formats.
https://kxstudio.linuxaudio.org/Applications:Carla || carla
guitarix — Virtual guitar amplifier for JACK.
https://guitarix.org/ || guitarix
EasyEffects — Apply effects to audio applications and input sources over PipeWire (or PulseAudio with legacy package).
https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects || easyeffects, pulseeffects-legacy-gitAUR
Rakarrack — Richly featured multi-effects processor emulating a guitar effects pedalboard.
https://rakarrack.sourceforge.net/ || rakarrackAUR
Audio visualizers
Barva — Visualizer for PulseAudio that pulses the background of your terminal.
https://github.com/Kharacternyk/barva/ || barva-gitAUR
C.A.V.A. — Console-based audio visualizer for ALSA, MPD and PulseAudio.
https://github.com/karlstav/cava/ || cavaAUR
Cavalcade — GTK GUI for C.A.V.A.
https://github.com/worron/cavalcade/ || cavalcade-gitAUR
cli-visualizer — Highly configurable CLI-based audio visualizer.
https://github.com/dpayne/cli-visualizer || cli-visualizerAUR
GLava — OpenGL audio spectrum visualizer. Its primary use case is for desktop windows or backgrounds.
https://github.com/wacossusca34/glava || glava
GLMViz — Fully configurable OpenGL music visualizer.
https://github.com/hannesha/GLMViz || glmviz-gitAUR
Le Biniou — User-friendly, powerful music visualization / VJing tool.
https://biniou.net/ || lebiniouAUR
projectM — Music visualizer which uses 3D accelerated iterative image-based rendering.
https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm || projectm-pulseaudio
VSXu — OpenGL-based (hardware-accelerated), modular programming environment with its main purpose to visualize music and create graphic effects in real-time.
https://www.vsxu.com/ || vsxuAUR
Remote audio
jammr — Play jam sessions with musicians around the world over the internet.
https://jammr.net/ || jammrAUR
Jamulus — Enables musicians to perform real-time jam sessions over the internet.
https://jamulus.io/ || jamulusAUR
netaudio — List, configure, and control Audinate Dante network audio devices.
https://github.com/chris-ritsen/network-audio-controller || python-netaudioAUR
Noson — Fast and smart controller for SONOS devices.
https://janbar.github.io/noson-app/ || noson-appAUR
SonoBus — Application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network.
https://sonobus.net/ || sonobusAUR
Upplay — Qt-based UPnP audio control point.
https://lesbonscomptes.com/upplay/ || upplayAUR
Volume control
See also PulseAudio#Front-ends and JACK Audio Connection Kit#Comparison of JACK control GUIs.
alsamixer — Soundcard mixer for ALSA soundcard driver, with ncurses interface.
https://alsa-project.org/ || alsa-utils
AlsaVolume — Tray ALSA volume changer written using gtkmm.
https://github.com/Vitozz/cppAlsaVolume || cpp-alsa-volumeAUR
AMixST — Volume wheel using ALSA and Qt5.
https://github.com/FenixFyreX/amixst || amixstAUR
Emixer — Utility to control volume levels. Part of Enlightenment.
https://www.enlightenment.org/about-enlightenment || enlightenment
GNOME ALSA Mixer — ALSA mixer for GNOME.
https://launchpad.net/gnome-alsamixer || gnome-alsamixerAUR
GVolWheel — Audio mixer which lets you control the volume through a tray icon.
https://github.com/Junker/gvolwheel || gvolwheelAUR
KMix — KDE volume control program.
https://apps.kde.org/kmix/ || kmix
MATE Volume Control — Audio mixer application and system tray applet for MATE to mix audio and adjust volume levels of various audio mixer devices.
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-media || mate-media
PNMixer — A fork of Obmixer. It has many new features such as ALSA channel selection, connect/disconnect detection, shortcuts, etc.
https://github.com/nicklan/pnmixer/wiki || pnmixerAUR
QasTools — Collection of desktop applications for the Linux sound system ALSA. It provides QasMixer (mixer), QasHctl (HCTL mixer) and QasConfig (configuration browser).
https://gitlab.com/sebholt/qastools || qastools
Retrovol — Retro-looking volume setting tray applet.
https://github.com/pizzasgood/retrovol || retrovolAUR
Volctl — Per-application system tray applet volume control for PulseAudio.
https://buzz.github.io/volctl/ || volctlAUR
Volnoti — A lightweight volume notification daemon for GNU/Linux and other POSIX operating systems.
https://github.com/davidbrazdil/volnoti || volnotiAUR