Open Source Python Sound/Audio Software for BSD

LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to improve the psycho acoustics, quality and speed of MP3 encoding. Note: we provide source code only!

Audio toolkit for streaming, aiming at complex Internet radio systems. Our stream generator is highly extensible and flexible. Script based, it can be a fully automatic daemon streamer, but is also used for live shows with an user-friendly GUI.

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.

GNU Solfege is *free* ear training software written in Python 3.4 using the Gtk+ 3 toolkit. The program is designed to be easily extended with lesson files (data files), so the user can create new exercises.

Radio Tray is a streaming player for listening to online radios. Any bug or feature request should be reported in https://bitbucket.org/carlmig/radio-tray/issues

Convert text to International Morse Code. Input is ASCII text. Output can be: - . -..- - on the console, raw 8bit PCM suitable for piping to /dev/audio, .wav files or even (mp3|ogg). Good for headlines on your MP3 player or code practice.

NovaSR is an extremely lightweight and high-performance audio upsampling model that transforms low-quality 16 kHz audio into clearer, high-fidelity 48 kHz audio with remarkable speed and efficiency. At only about 50 KB in size, the model is orders of magnitude smaller than typical audio super-resolution networks, yet it achieves high quality and realtime performance thanks to its compact architecture and efficient convolutional design. NovaSR is especially valuable for post-processing tasks in speech enhancement, TTS pipelines, and dataset restoration where low sampling rates degrade perceived audio clarity; the minimal model size also makes it suitable for edge and embedded use cases where memory is at a premium. Its performance can reach thousands of times realtime on modern GPUs, allowing massive audio batches to be processed with negligible compute overhead.

spatial-media provides tools for working with spherical video and spatial audio metadata so players and platforms can correctly render immersive media. The utilities inject, inspect, and extract metadata in common container formats (MP4/WebM) to signal 360° projection type, stereoscopy mode, and spatial audio layout. Creators use it to prepare 360/VR180 assets for upload so services know whether a video is monoscopic, top-bottom stereo, or side-by-side, and whether ambisonic audio is present. By separating metadata handling from encoding, the tools slot into existing editing/export workflows without requiring specialized NLE support. They help ensure assets play back with the right projection, field of view, and head-tracked audio in compliant players. For archive and validation use cases, the scripts can also read existing flags to diagnose why a video isn’t being recognized as immersive.

Streamtuner2 is an internet radio station and video browser. It simply lists stations in categories from different directories. Launches your preferred media apps for playback. It's built in Python now, but retains UI similarity with the original StreamTuner 0.99

LiveAvatar is an open-source research and implementation project that provides a unified framework for real-time, streaming, interactive avatar video generation driven by audio and other control signals. It implements techniques from state-of-the-art diffusion-based avatar modeling to support infinite-length continuous video generation with low latency, enabling interactive AI avatars that maintain continuity and realism over extended sessions. The project co-designs algorithms and system optimizations, such as block-wise autoregressive processing and fast sampling strategies, to deliver real-time frame rates (e.g., ~45 FPS on appropriate GPU clusters) while handling non-stop generation without quality degradation. LiveAvatar focuses on delivering not just high-quality visuals but also the responsiveness necessary for immersive conversational experiences, making it suitable for advanced AI agents, virtual assistants, and interactive streaming contexts.

PersonaPlex is an open-source real-time conversational speech AI model that goes beyond traditional text chat by providing full-duplex speech-to-speech interaction, meaning it can listen and talk at the same time instead of waiting for you to finish speaking before responding. This architectural approach eliminates awkward pauses and makes conversations feel much more human-like, with natural behaviors such as overlapping speech, interruptions, and fluent turn-taking, traits that traditional AI assistants typically lack. PersonaPlex also supports persona and voice control, allowing developers to define the role and speaking style of the agent using text prompts and voice conditioning, making it suitable for applications like customized voice assistants, interactive character agents, or domain-specific conversational tools. Internally, it processes continuous audio streams in a hybrid input format so that speech understanding and generation occur jointly.

This program, called "rebuild_db", allows the iPod shuffle to be used without iTunes. It rebuilds the iPod shuffle's databases based on the actual content of the iPod's file system, without restrictions regarding the directory structure.

AudioCraft is a PyTorch library for text-to-audio and text-to-music generation, packaging research models and tooling for training and inference. It includes MusicGen for music generation conditioned on text (and optionally melody) and AudioGen for text-conditioned sound effects and environmental audio. Both models operate over discrete audio tokens produced by a neural codec (EnCodec), which acts like a tokenizer for waveforms and enables efficient sequence modeling. The repo provides inference scripts, checkpoints, and simple Python APIs so you can generate clips from prompts or incorporate the models into applications. It also contains training code and recipes, so researchers can fine-tune on custom data or explore new objectives without building infrastructure from scratch. Example notebooks, CLI tools, and audio utilities help with prompt design, conditioning on reference audio, and post-processing to produce ready-to-share outputs.

PyKaraoke is a cross-platform karaoke player. It currently supports CDG (MP3+G, OGG+G, WAV+G), MIDI (.KAR, .MID) and MPEG formats.

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

rePear is a tool that allows using an Apple iPod audio player without iTunes. The user can manage the audio files on the iPod with a normal file manager and rePear takes care that they can be played on the device.

A small, easy-to-use program to access itunesU media & podcasts in Linux and Android.

Audiere is a portable audio library which supports playing MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WAV, IT, XM, S3M, and MOD files. You can use it from C, C++, Python, Java, Delphi, and any language that supports XPCOM (JavaScript in Mozilla, for example).

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.

Python Audio Tools are a collection of audio handling programs. These include programs for CD extraction, track conversion from one audio format to another, track renaming and retagging, track identification, CD burning from tracks, and more.

Freevo is an open source HTPC media centre integrating PVR / DVR funtionality along with music, video, gaming, home automation and more. It is written in python and uses existing popular software such as mplayer, xine and vlc.

Volocian believes first and foremost that financial status shouldn’t be a barrier to entry in multimedia content creation. Whether you want to design a product or website, record a band, remix a song, or produce a feature length movie with professional post production graphics and effects, Volocian™ wants to help, even if you’re using borrowed hardware with no previous experience. We provide affordable products and services for any budget, including cost-free solutions for education and demo purposes, while everything we do is designed with ease of use and flexibility in mind, to suit everyone from novice hobbyists to expert professionals. Wherever possible, Volocian™ relies on free, open source, and cross-platform software to prevent vendor lock-in, planned obsolescence, and software as a service licensing. While we remain pragmatic about the use of proprietary software, as we’re aware of the feature limitations of some open source solutions, free solutions are preferred.

This is an ***old archive*** of tools developed for facilitating the use of Creative Commons licenses and metadata. --- For the most up to date representation of any of the projects listed here, please see: http://creativecommons.org/project/Developer.

Keystroke enables the transcription and logging of continuous media such as audio or video. It features media control (pause/play/seek) through keys to increase efficiency while transcribing and/or logging.

Second generation of XMMS music player.