Awesome Music

A categorized collection of awesome music libraries, tools, frameworks and software.

Contributions and suggestions are always welcome! Please take a look at the contribution guidelines and quality standard first.

Thanks to all contributors, you're awesome and this project wouldn't be possible without you!

• Awesome Music
• Audio Editing
• Audio Libraries
• Audio Tools
• Free Music Scores
• MIDI Tools & Libraries
• Music Notation
• Music Programming
• Music Theory
• Standards
• Other Awesomeness
• Related lists

Audio Editing

• Audacity - a free, cross-platform digital audio editor.
• Ardour - a cross-platform digital audio workstation emphasizing audio recording.
• LMMS - another cross-platform digital audio workstation, more oriented towards making beats.
• OpenUtau - A free, cross-platform singing voice synthesis framework.
• snd - Snd is a sound editor modelled loosely after Emacs.
• Stargate DAW - A cross-platform, all-in-one digital audio workstation and plugin suite, optimized for EDM production.
• TuneFlow - a next-gen DAW that helps you generate melody, beats, or a whole song, while still being able to edit them.

Audio Libraries

• audio.js - audio.js is a drop-in javascript library that allows HTML5's <audio> tag to be used anywhere.
• audioFlux - A library for audio and music analysis, feature extraction.
• chord-mark - reference implementation of ChordMark, a text notation format for lyrics, chords and rhythm.
• howler.js - a Javascript audio library for the modern web.
• JSyn - an audio synthesis software API for Java.
• Librosa - a python package for music and audio analysis, providing the building blocks necessary to create music information retrieval systems.
• midi.js - a framework for creating web-based MIDI apps.
• mxml - MusicXML parsing and layout library.
• PortAudio - a free, cross-platform, open-source, audio I/O library.
• RustAudio - an aggregate of free and useful Audio, DSP and music libraries written in Rust.
• Soundpipe - a lightweight DSP library written in C.

Audio Tools

• Auralytics - an open-source personal Spotify analytics tool.
• Beets - a powerful command-line music organizer and manipulator.
• Cecilia - a Pyo-based graphical environment for music and signal processing.
• cyanrip - rips and encodes standard audio CDs with the least effort required from user. Cross platform.
• fre:ac - free audio converter. It supports audio CD ripping and tag editing.
• Jack - command-line CD ripper.
• K3b - is a full-featured CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning and ripping application.
• Koel - an open-source personal audio streaming server.
• Lame - a high quality, free and open-source MP3 encoder.
• lltag - automatic command-line mp3/ogg/flac file tagger and renamer.
• matchering - сontainerized web application and library for automated reference audio mastering.
• MusicBrainz - Open Encyclopedia for Music information and Metadata, providing a unique ID for everything
• Musikernel - a futuristic audio production platform (hardware support, APIs, hosts, plugins and more)
• Rubyripper - is a secure digital audio extraction application ("cd ripper") for Unix-like operating systems.
• SoX - a free open-source command line utility for playing, converting and manipulating audio files.
• split2flac - split flac/ape/wv/wav + cue sheet into separate tracks