Projects

BitTorrent

BitTorrent is a tool for copying files from one machine to another. FTP punishes sites for being popular. Since all uploading is done from one place, a popular site needs big iron and big bandwidth. With BitTorrent, clients automatically mirror files they download, making the publisher's burden ... [More] almost nothing. Prior to version 6.0, BitTorrent was written in Python, and was free software. The source code for versions 4.x and 5.x are released under the BitTorrent Open Source License, a modified version of the Jabber Open Source License. Versions up to and including 3.4.2 were distributed under the MIT license. Version 5.3 was relicensed under the GPL. [Less]

Songbird

Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development. We're working on creating a non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible tool that will help enable new ways to playback, manage, and discover music. There are lots of ways to contribute your time to the ... [More] project. We'd love your help! There are several features we're proud of, but we'll be the first to admit that others need ironing out, are experimental, or are just plain missing. There's still a lot to do. [Less]

Jack Audio Connection Kit

JACK is a low-latency audio server. It can connect a number of different applications to an audio device, as well as allowing them to share audio between themselves. Its clients can run in their own processes (i.e., as normal applications), or can they can run within the JACK server (as a ... [More] "plugin"). JACK is different from other audio server efforts in that it has been designed from the ground up to be suitable for professional audio work. This means that it focuses on two key areas: synchronous execution of all clients, and low latency operation. [Less]

SoX - Sound eXchange

SoX is the Swiss Army knife of sound processing tools. It converts audio files among various standard audio file formats and can apply different effects and filters to the audio data.

Miro

Miro is a free application that turns your computer into an internet TV video player. Downloads are available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Miro is still in beta which means that there are some bugs, but we're moving quickly to fix them and will be releasing updates on a regular basis.

Performous

Performous is an open-source karaoke, band and dancing game where one or more players perform a song and the game scores their performances. Performous supports songs in UltraStar, Frets on Fire and StepMania formats. Microphones and instruments from SingStar, Guitar Hero and Rock Band as well as some dance pads are autodetected.

Sonic Visualiser

Sonic Visualiser is an application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files. It combines powerful waveform and spectral visualisation tools with automated feature extraction plugins and annotation capabilities.

Frets on Fire

Frets on Fire is an excellent opensource clone of Guitar Hero for Windows, Linux, and OSX. It can import songs from a Guitar Hero I or II disc, can play user-created songs, or lets you to create your own songs with its song editor. For hardcore players, your results are automatically posted to the ... [More] World Charts on the website, so that you can see how awesome you are. (Written in Python using bindings to many fast C libraries.) [Less]

MuseScore

MuseScore is a free WYSIWYG music score typesetter for Windows, Mac and Linux, licenced under GNU GPL.

Library and GUI for Apple's iPod

gtkpod is a platform-independent GUI for Apple's iPod using GTK 2. It allows you to import your existing iTunes database, add/delete songs/playlists, edit ID3 tags, modify the iTunes database without having the iPod connected, and synchronize at a later time. It also features international ... [More] charset support for ID3 tags, detects when adding already existing songs, and more. [Less]