Are your looking for something pretty to look at when playing music? Check out Cavalier, a (relatively) new audio visualizer for Linux desktops.
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Ubuntu by default play a short alert sound when you plug in/out USB drive, power supply, or hit tab function key in terminal. This is useful for indicating certain type of system messages and events, but it’s easy to mute these type of sounds in case you don’t like them. And, here’s the quick tutorial […]
Want to display audio/music visualizer on the desktop? This extension can do the job for Ubuntu 22.10, Fedora 37, Arch/Manjaro Linux with GNOME. It’s “Sound Visualizer” extension for Gnome Shell based on Gstreamer specially for Wayland. And, it’s working good in my case in Ubuntu 22.04, though it’s said for Gnome v43. Besides for music […]
Audacity audio editor got a new major update few days ago, features real-time effects and VST3 support. In the new 3.2.0 release, there’s a new “Effects” button in the tracks menu, allowing to place realtime effects. However, it does not yet ship with any effect so far. User has to get effects via plugins, though […]
Audacity 3.2 is here almost a year after the Audacity 3.1 series and it introduces several exciting new features like real-time effects for the Audio Units, LADSPA, LV2, and VST3 plugins, support for VST3 effects, support for the WavPack open audio com…
PipeWire is becoming the norm in audio and video handling among GNU/Linux distributions as more and more of them are switching to it as the default server for handling audio, video streams, and hardware, as well as its powerful session and policy manager WirePlumber. From my perspective, because of the above, PipeWire is getting a […]
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HBud is billed as a simple music/video/karaoke app. It’s written in Python, uses GTK4 for its GUI framework, and GStreamer for its multimedia backend. HBud is published under an open source license. Linux has a myriad of multimedia playback software available with a truly impressive range of dedicated music players, dedicated video players, as well […]
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There are lists of applications that I can’t afford to miss after setting up newly installed distributions, and one of them is EasyEffects, which enhances the audio quality to the next level. Without it, I don’t get the real vibe from the music. If you have ever used the EasyEffects, you will know it requires a […]
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Kid3, the popular Qt audio tag editor, released version 3.9.2 today. PPA updated for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and Ubuntu 18.04. The new Kid3 3.9.2 is a bug-fix release. Though, there are new features including .dff support, an audio format developed by Sony and Philips for Super Audio CD (SACD). New features also include support […]
DeaDBeeF is an audio player software that is free and open-source with an interface that is customizable and supports themes, and it can play music from CDs and files in many different formats, including MP3, FLAC, and Ogg Vorbis, and WAV. Let’s …
Audacious 4.2 finally goes stable! Here are the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu users. This release is a bit late, since the beta has been released for 5 months. As you may already known, Audacious 4.2 feature new dark theme, as well as Flat icon in both light and dark. You […]
Ubuntu’s default Rhythmbox music player got new release updates a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu via PPA. Rhythmbox released version v3.4.5 last month and v3.4.6 days ago after more than 2 years of development. Compare to previous Rhythmbox 34.4, Soundcloud plugin and mmkeys plugin have been removed since they are […]
There are quite a few audio tag editing applications for Linux. Tagger is a new one with modern GTK4 user interface. Kid3, puddletag, and easytag editors are really good. But for GNOME (the default desktop environment for Ubuntu, Fedora Workstation), Tagger looks more native due to GTK4 and libadwaita. The app provides a simple and […]
There are quite a few music player applications for Linux. Amberol and G4Music are two of them with really good looking UI design. Amberol: Amberol is a GTK4 app uses libadwaita library as well as gaussian blurred cover background for the beautiful app window. The player aims to be as small, unintrusive, and simple as […]
Audacity 3.1.3 is here with several new features and many bug fixes, but most importantly it brings a huge performance boost when loading projects. Due to this under-the-hood change, the devs claim that Audacity will load projects with up to 50x faster compared to the Audacity 3.1.0 release. For the new features, this release adds […]
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Ardor usually takes center stage when it comes to open-source digital audio workstations (DAW). However, that does not mean that it is the only option, Today, we are going to take the opportunity to present Stargate, another application the same type of recent creation (more or less) that aims to be “a comprehensive audio production […]
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This guide explains how to use FFmpeg multimedia framework to do various audio, video transcoding and conversion operations with examples.
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JamesDSP for Linux is an open source Qt audio effect processor for PipeWire and PulseAudio. Use it to enhance the music you listen to by adding reverberation, bass boost and other filters using a parametric or fixed band equalizer. It also allows you t…
This tutorial shows you how to install free audio recording software on Ubuntu 20.04 and how to use it to record audio streams on your PC or Notebook.
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Highlights of the PulseAudio 15.0 release include support for the LDAC and AptX Bluetooth codecs for A2DP, support for the high-quality SBC XQ configuration variants, native support for HFP Bluetooth profiles, as well as support for Bluetooth A2DP AVRCP Absolute Volume to control the volume of the connected A2DP device. This major release also improves […]
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