| abcde | A frontend command-line utility that grabs tracks off a CD, encodes them to ogg or mp3 format, and tags them, all in one go. | |
| alsa-firmware | ALSA firmware package | |
| alsaplayer | A heavily multi-threaded PCM player that tries to excercise the ALSA library and driver quite a bit | |
| alsa-tools | ALSA tools package | |
| alsa-utils | An alternative implementation of Linux sound support | |
| amarok | The powerful music player for KDE | |
| ardour | A multichannel hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation | |
| ario | A GTK client for MPD (Music player daemon) inspired by Rhythmbox but much lighter and faster | |
| asunder | a graphical CD ripper and encoder | |
| audacious | Lightweight, advanced audio player focused on audio quality | |
| audacity | A program that lets you manipulate digital audio waveforms | |
| audex | A CDDA extraction tool with a ftp upload function for KDE | |
| aumix | A color text mode sound mixer with GPM support | |
| banshee | Music management and playback for GNOME | |
| canorus | A free music score editor | |
| cdcd | A commandline cd-player | |
| cd-discid | A backend utility to get CDDB discid information from a CD-ROM disc | |
| cdparanoia | Compact Disc Digital Audio extraction tool | |
| chuck | Concurrent, on-the-fly audio programming language. | |
| clementine | A music player and library organizer | |
| cmus | A very feature-rich ncurses-based music player | |
| denemo | A music score editor | |
| easytag | Utility for viewing, editing and writing ID3 tags of your MP3 files | |
| ecasound | A software package designed for multitrack audio processing | |
| flac123 | A command-line program for playing FLAC audio files | |
| fluidsynth | A real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications | |
| gigedit | Gigasampler instrument editor | |
| gmpc | A GTK2 client for MPD | |
| gnome-alsamixer | Gnome ALSA mixer | |
| gnump3d | A streaming server for MP3s, OGG vorbis files, movies and other media formats. | |
| goobox | CD player and ripper for GNOME | |
| gpodder | A podcast receiver/catcher | |
| grip | A cd-player and ripper for the Gnome desktop | |
| gsm | Shared libraries for GSM 06.10 lossy speech compression | |
| hydrogen | Advanced Drum Machine | |
| id3 | Utility to edit id3v1 and id3v2 tags | |
| id3v2 | Utility to edit id3v2 tags | |
| jack | A low-latency audio server | |
| kaudiocreator | A program for ripping and encoding Audio-CDs, encoding files from disk | |
| kid3 | An MP3, Ogg/Vorbis and FLAC tag editor for KDE | |
| kradio | A comfortable KDE internet and AM/FM radio application | |
| lame | A high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder | |
| lash | A session management system for JACK and ALSA | |
| lilypond | An automated music engraving system | |
| linuxsampler | Professional-grade audio sampler alternative to Gigasampler | |
| lmms | The Linux MultiMedia Studio. | |
| mac | APE codec and decompressor | |
| mcdp | Small console cd player | |
| milkytracker | Fast Tracker II inspired music tracker | |
| mixxx | Free, open source software for digital DJ'ing. | |
| moc | An ncurses console audio player with support for the mp3, ogg, and wave formats | |
| mp32ogg | A perl script to convert MP3 files to Ogg Vorbis files | |
| mp3gain | Lossless mp3 normalizer with statistical analysis | |
| mp3info | An MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor | |
| mp3splt | Commandline tool for splitting mp3 and ogg files without decoding | |
| mp3splt-gtk | Split mp3 and ogg files without decoding | |
| mp3unicode | A command line utility to convert ID3 tags in mp3 files between different encodings | |
| mp3wrap | Tool for wrapping mp3 files. A free independent alternative to AlbumWrap | |
| mpck | Reads MP3 files and tries to determine if they are correct | |
| mpd | Flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music | |
| mpdscribble | An mpd client which submits track info to last.fm | |
| mpg123 | A console based real time MPEG Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3 | |
| mumble | A voice chat application similar to TeamSpeak | |
| murmur | The voice chat application server for Mumble | |
| musepack-tools | Musepack decoder/encoder | |
| ncmpc | A ncurses (command line) interface for MPD | |
| ncmpcpp | An almost exact clone of ncmpc with some new features. | |
| normalize | A tool for adjusting the volume of WAV files to a standard level | |
| ogmtools | Information, extraction or creation for OGG media streams | |
| paprefs | A simple GTK-based configuration dialog for PulseAudio | |
| patchage | A modular patch bay for audio and MIDI systems | |
| pavucontrol | A GTK volume control tool for PulseAudio | |
| phonon | The multimedia framework for KDE | |
| pragha | A lightweight GTK+ music manager - fork of Consonance Music Manager. | |
| pulseaudio | A featureful, general-purpose sound server | |
| pulseaudio-alsa | ALSA Configuration for PulseAudio | |
| pympd | A Rhythmbox-like PyGTK+ client for Music Player Daemon | |
| qjackctl | A Qt front-end for the JACK low-latency audio server | |
| qmmp | Qt4 based audio-player | |
| qmpdclient | A Qt4 client for MPD | |
| qsynth | Qt GUI for FluidSynth | |
| qtmpc | Qt4-based front-end for MPD | |
| qtractor | Audio/MIDI multitrack sequencer | |
| quodlibet | An audio player written in pygtk | |
| rexima | A curses-based interactive mixer. | |
| rhythmbox | An iTunes-like music playback and management application | |
| ripperx | GTK program to rip and encode mp3 files | |
| rosegarden | MIDI/audio sequencer and notation editor | |
| rubyripper | Secure audiodisc ripper | |
| shell-fm | A console based player for the streams provided by Last.FM | |
| shntool | A multi-purpose WAVE data processing and reporting utility | |
| skype-call-recorder | Open source tool that allows you to record your Skype calls on Linux | |
| snd | An advanced sound editor | |
| solfege | Music education and ear training software | |
| sonata | Elegant GTK+ music client for MPD | |
| soundconverter | A simple sound converter application for GNOME | |
| sound-juicer | A cd ripper application | |
| soundkonverter | Front-end to various audio converters | |
| sox | The Swiss Army knife of sound processing tools | |
| streamripper | Records and splits streaming mp3 into tracks | |
| sweep | Sound editing and mixing program | |
| timidity++ | A MIDI to WAVE converter and player | |
| timidity-freepats | A free and open set of instrument patches for use with softsynths | |
| toolame | An optimized mpeg 1/2 layer 2 audio encoder | |
| twolame | An optimized MPEG Audio Layer 2 (MP2) encoder | |
| volumeicon | Volume control for your system tray. | |
| volwheel | Tray icon to change volume with the mouse | |
| vorbisgain | A utility that computes the ReplayGain values for Ogg Vorbis files. | |
| vorbis-tools | Extra tools for Ogg-Vorbis | |
| wavegain | A command line tool to normalize sound files | |
| wavpack | Audio compression format with lossless, lossy, and hybrid compression modes | |
| xmms2 | complete rewrite of the popular music player | |
| xwax | Open-source vinyl emulation software for Linux. | |
| zynaddsubfx | Opensource software synthesizer capable of making a countless number of instruments. |