| Port | Description |
| abcde | command-line utility to rip and encode audio cds |
| adplay | console-based OPL2 audio player |
| adplug | AdLib sound player library |
| alac_decoder | basic Apple Lossless Audio Codec decoder |
| amused | minimalistic music player |
| aqualung | advanced music player |
| ario | GTK3 MPD client inspired by Rhythmbox |
| ascd | cd player for Afterstep or Window Maker |
| aucatctl | control aucat and/or sndiod volume |
| audacity | free audio editor |
| audiality2 | realtime audio and music engine for games |
| beets | CLI tools to manage music collections |
| calf | CALF LADSPA plugins |
| cantata | Qt-based MPD client |
| caps-plugins | CAPS LADSPA plugins |
| cassette | unofficial Yandex Music client |
| cd-discid | retrieve CDDB ID from a disc |
| cdparanoia | CDDA reading utility with extra data verification features |
| celt | experimental ultra-low delay audio codec |
| checkmate | check mp3 files for errors |
| chromaprint | audio fingerprint extraction library |
| clementine | music player |
| cmixer | simple curses mixer |
| cmt | computer music toolkit |
| cmu-sphinx3 | acoustic decoder for CMU Sphinx3 speech recognition system |
| cmu-sphinxbase | common libraries for the CMU speech recognition engines |
| cmus | ncurses-based music player |
| cozy | gtk3 audiobook player |
| cplay | simple curses audio player |
| csound | sound and music computing system |
| cuetools | tools for handling audio-file cue sheets and toc files |
| curseradio | curses interface for browsing and playing radio streams |
| d11amp | simple MP3 player |
| deadbeef | DeaDBeeF is an audio player |
| deadbeef-plugin-mpris2 | deadbeef plugin for mpris2 support |
| disc-cover | creates cover for audio cds using cddb and latex |
| dumb | IT/MOD/XM player and library |
| easytag | tag editor for various audio file formats |
| espeak | compact speech synthesizer |
| faad | MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AAC decoder |
| fdk-aac | modified Fraunhofer FDK AAC encoder and decoder |
| ffmpeg-normalize | audio normalization |
| flac | free lossless audio codec |
| flac123 | command-line FLAC player |
| flite | text to speech utility |
| fluidsynth | SoundFont2 software synthesizer |
| freealut | OpenAL Utility Toolkit |
| furnace | multi-system chiptune tracker |
| generaluser-gs-soundfont | GM and GS compatible SoundFont bank for MIDI |
| glyr | music related metadata searchengine |
| gmpc | GNOME music player client |
| gmpc-plugins | bundle of plugins for gmpc |
| goattracker | crossplatform music editor for creating Commodore 64 music |
| gogglesmm | music collection manager and player |
| gonic | music streaming server / subsonic server API implementation |
| gqmpeg | front-end to various audio players |
| gradio | internet radio browser and player |
| grip | front-end to external cd audio rippers and mp3 encoders |
| gsm | GSM audio codec library and converter |
| gsound | GObject library for playing system sounds |
| herrie | minimalistic console-based audio player |
| hydrogen | software drum machine |
| id3ed | interactive console id3 tag editor |
| id3lib | library for manipulating ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags |
| iir1 | DSP IIR realtime filter library |
| jack | low latency sound server |
| keyfinder-cli | estimate the musical key of an audio file |
| ladspa | Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API |
| lame | lame ain't an MP3 encoder |
| liba52 | free library for decoding ATSC A/52 streams, aka AC-3 |
| libao | portable audio output library |
| libbs2b | Bauer stereophonic-to-binaural DSP |
| libcanberra | implementation of the Freedesktop sound theme spec. |
| libcdaudio | multi-platform cd player development library |
| libcddb | library to access data on a CDDB server |
| libcdio | compact disk input and control library |
| libcdio-paranoia | fork of cdparanoia that uses libcdio for CDROM access |
| libcue | CUE sheet parser library |
| libdca | free DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder |
| libdiscid | create MusicBrainz DiscIDs from audio CDs |
| libebur128 | library implementing the EBU R128 loudness standard |
| libgpod | library to access the contents of an iPod |
| libid3tag | library for reading ID3 tags |
| libkeyfinder | library for estimating the musical key of digital audio |
| liblastfm | Qt-based C++ library for the Last.fm webservices |
| liblo | Lightweight Open Sound Control (OSC) implementation |
| libmad | high-quality MPEG audio decoder |
| libmikmod | mikmod sound library |
| libmodplug | library for decoding mod-like music formats |
| libmp3splt | library to split mp3/ogg files without decoding |
| libmpd | mpd client library |
| libmpdclient | library for interfacing MPD |
| libmusicbrainz5 | library for audio metadata lookup (v5) |
| libmysofa | SOFA (Spatially Oriented Format for Acoustics) file reader |
| libnjb | communicate with some Creative and Dell audio players |
| libofa | Open Fingerprint Architecture library |
| libogg | Ogg bitstream library |
| libopenmpt | OpenMPT based module player library and command-line player |
| libopusenc | high-level API for encoding .opus files |
| libsamplerate | audio sample rate conversion library |
| libsidplay | C64 music player and SID chip emulator library |
| libsmackerdec | decoder for smacker audio files |
| libsndfile | library to handle various audio file formats |
| libsoxr | fast and high quality sample-rate conversion (SoX Resampler) |
| libvorbis | audio compression codec library |
| libworkman | multi-platform CD-Player library |
| libxmp | module player library |
| lilv | library for simple use of LV2 plugins in applications |
| lmms | music studio with tracking, sampling and MIDI |
| lv2 | open standard for audio plugins |
| mac | Monkey's audio lossless codec |
| madplay | command-line MPEG audio decoder and player |
| mcp-plugins | MCP LADSPA plugins |
| metronome | simple metronome |
| midish | command line MIDI sequencer and filter |
| mikmod | module audio player |
| milkytracker | Fasttracker II inspired MOD tracker |
| moc | console audio player |
| morseplayer | morse player |
| mp3applygain | apply gain information to mp3 audio data |
| mp3blaster | text console audio player with an interactive interface |
| mp3cddb | embedding CDDB information in MP3s |
| mp3cut | cut and cat MP3 files |
| mp3info | MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor |
| mp3splt | split mp3/ogg files without decoding |
| mp3splt-gtk | graphical mp3/ogg file splitter |
| mp3wrap | utility for mp3 wrapping |
| mpc | command line client for mpd |
| mpd | Music Player Daemon |
| mpdscribble | mpd client to scrobble track info to last.fm |
| mpg123 | fast console MPEG audio player and decoder library |
| mpg321 | clone of mpg123, a command-line mp3 player |
| mscore | WYSIWYG music notation software (MuseScore) |
| mt-daapd | multi-threaded DAAP server |
| multimux | create multichannel WAV audio files |
| mumble | low-latency voice chat client |
| munt | software synthesizer emulating pre-GM MIDI devices |
| musepack | decoder, encoder and replaygain for musepack files |
| musikcube | terminal-based music player |
| musique | graphical music player focused on a clean ui |
| navidrome | modern music server and streamer |
| ncmpc | curses based frontend for mpd |
| ncmpcpp | ncurses mpd client inspired by ncmpc |
| ncspot | ncurses Spotify client |
| nncmpp | terminal/X11 MPD client |
| normalize | audio file volume normalizer |
| nosefart | nsf (Nintendo sound) file player |
| noson | C++ library for accessing SONOS devices |
| noson-app | fast and smart SONOS controller |
| nspmod | MOD/S3M/MTM tracker that does its own DSP |
| ocp | UNIX port of Open Cubic Player |
| openal | cross-platform 3D audio API |
| opencore-amr | implementation of the Adaptive Multi Rate speech codec |
| opennap | opensource Napster(tm) server |
| opus | IETF audio codec |
| opus-tools | encode, inspect, and decode Opus files |
| opusfile | high-level decoding and seeking API for Opus files |
| p5-Audio-CD | interface to libcdaudio |
| p5-Audio-FLAC-Header | interface to FLAC header metadata |
| p5-Audio-M4P | M4P/MP4/M4a audio/video tools |
| p5-Audio-MPD | module for communicating with MPD servers |
| p5-Audio-MPD-Common | bunch of common helper classes for MPD |
| p5-Audio-Musepack | object-oriented interface to Musepack/APE file information |
| p5-Audio-Scan | fast audio metadata and tag reader for Perl |
| p5-Audio-Scrobbler | submit tracks to last.fm/audioscrobbler |
| p5-Audio-WMA | read WMA/ASF metadata |
| p5-CDDB-File | parse a CDDB/freedb data file |
| p5-CDDB_get | perl interface to query for cddb-information |
| p5-MP3-ID3v1Tag | edit id3v1 tags from an audio mpeg layer 3 |
| p5-MP3-Info | read MPEG1-Layer3 tags |
| p5-MP3-Tag | read tags of MP3 audio files |
| p5-MP4-Info | fetch info from MPEG-4 files |
| p5-MPEG-Audio-Frame | class for weeding out MPEG audio frames from a file handle |
| p5-Music-Audioscrobbler-MPD | module to submit songs to last.fm from MPD |
| p5-Music-Audioscrobbler-Submit | module providing routines to submit songs to last.fm |
| p5-MusicBrainz-DiscID | Perl interface for the MusicBrainz libdiscid library |
| p5-Ogg-Vorbis-Header | object-oriented interface to Ogg Vorbis information |
| p5-Ogg-Vorbis-Header-PurePerl | interface to Ogg Vorbis information, fully written in Perl |
| p5-POE-Component-Client-MPD | complete MPD client library |
| p5-cddb | interface to CDDB and freedb servers |
| p5-gnupod | collection of perl scripts to manage your iPod |
| p5-libvorbis | Perl extension for Ogg Vorbis streams |
| pacpl | PAC (Perl Audio Converter) |
| parlatype | minimal audio player for manual speech transcription |
| paulstretch | program for extreme audio stretching |
| pavucontrol | PulseAudio volume mixer |
| pcaudiolib | C API to different audio devices |
| pd | real-time graphical programming language for multimedia |
| pianobar | command-line client for Pandora Internet Radio |
| picard | automatic audio files tagger using the MusicBrainz database |
| pithos | Pandora client for GNOME |
| pms | curses based frontend for mpd |
| portaudio-svn | portable cross-platform audio API |
| portmidi | library for real time input and output of MIDI data |
| puddletag | spreadsheet-like audio file tagger |
| pulseaudio | cross-platform networked sound server |
| pulseaudio-qt | Qt bindings for libpulse |
| py-acoustid | Python bindings for Chromaprint and the Acoustid API |
| py-audio | Python bindings for PortAudio |
| py-audioop-lts | manipulate raw audio data |
| py-discid | Python binding of libdiscid |
| py-discogs-client | Python interface to Discogs website |
| py-eyed3 | module and program for processing ID3 tags |
| py-last | Python last.fm library |
| py-mediafile | read and write audio file tags in Python |
| py-mpd2 | Python client interface for MPD |
| py-musicbrainzngs | python bindings for musicbrainz NGS webservice |
| py-mutagen | Python module to handle audio metadata |
| py-speechrecognition | Python library for performing speech recognition |
| py-standard-aifc | read/write AIFF audio files |
| py-standard-chunk | read IFF chunked data |
| py-tagpy | Python bindings to TagLib audio file tag library |
| py-tinytag | library for reading music meta data |
| qsynth | Qt GUI Interface for FluidSynth |
| quodlibet | audio player and tagger for GTK+ with regex support |
| rgain | multi-format tools and Python module for ReplayGain |
| rhythmbox | integrated music management application for GNOME |
| rnnoise | recurrent neural network for audio noise reduction |
| rtunes | Streams audio to Apple AirPort Express device |
| rubberband | audio time-stretching and pitch-shifting library |
| ruby-taglib | reads and writes metadata/tags for many audio formats |
| ruby-vorbis_comment | ruby library for reading/writing vorbis comments |
| s-cdda | access information and track data of audio CDs |
| s-cdda-to-db | perl program that creates a music database via s-cdda |
| schismtracker | open-source reimplementation of Impulse Tracker |
| scmpc | client for MPD to submit tracks to Last.fm |
| sdl2-audiolib | SDL2 audio decoding, resampling and mixing library |
| shairport-sync | AirPlay audio player |
| shntool | multi-purpose wave data processing utility |
| shorten | fast compression for waveform files |
| sidplay | Commodore 64 music player and SID chip emulator |
| siosw | ncurses audio device switcher for sndio |
| siren | text-based audio player |
| snack | Tcl/Tk snack sound toolkit |
| sndiortp | play RTP streams or send recorded audio over RTP |
| solfege | solfege and ear training program |
| sonata | GTK+ client for the Music Player Daemon |
| sound-theme-freedesktop | XDG sound theme |
| soundtouch | tempo/pitch audio processing library |
| soundtracker | music tracking tool for X11 |
| sox | Sound eXchange, the Swiss Army knife of audio manipulation |
| speech-dispatcher | common interface to speech synthesis |
| speex | patent-free speech codec |
| speexdsp | speech processing DSP library |
| spotify-player | Spotify TUI client |
| spotify-qt | lightweight Spotify client using Qt |
| spotifyd | Spotify client running as UNIX daemon |
| squeezecenter | streaming audio server for Squeezebox network music players |
| squeezelite | lightweight headless squeezebox player |
| sratom | library for serialising LV2 atoms to/from RDF |
| streamripper | rip shoutcast streams to local mp3s |
| subsonic-cli | control subsonic api from cli |
| suil | lightweight C library for loading & wrapping LV2 plugin UIs |
| swh-plugins | LADSPA plugins from Steve Harris |
| taglib | managing meta-data of audio formats |
| tagtool | Ogg Vorbis and MP3 files tagger |
| tap-plugins | TAP LADSPA plugins |
| tempest | sends AM radio signals using a monitor |
| termsonic | Subsonic client running in your terminal |
| timidity | MIDI to WAV renderer and player |
| tracker | MOD player |
| twolame | optimised MPEG Audio Layer 2 (MP2) encoder |
| umurmur | minimalistic Mumble server |
| vamp-plugin-sdk | audio plugin API |
| vgmplay | command line audio player for VGM files |
| vgmstream | play back various video game streamed audio formats |
| vlorb | audio CD to audio file encoder |
| vo-amrwbenc | VisualOn AMR-WB encoder library |
| vorbis-tools | play, encode, and manage Ogg Vorbis files |
| vorbisgain | add tags to Ogg Vorbis files to adjust the volume |
| wavpack | audio codec for lossless, lossy and hybrid compression |
| whisper.cpp | automatic speech recognition (openai whisper model) |
| wmmp | wm-dockapp to control MPD |
| wmmp3 | wm-dockapp; front end for an mp3 player |
| wmtune | premier dockable radio tuner |
| xcd | Tcl/Tk CD player |
| xcdplayer | CD player for X11 |
| xmcd | Motif CD player |
| xmms2 | audio player daemon with library management |
| xmms2-scrobbler | last.fm client for xmms2 |
| xmp | extended module player |
| ympd | Music Player Daemon web client |
| ymuse | GTK front-end for MPD |
| yt-audio | youtube-dl wrapper to manage youtube audio |
| yt-audio-cli | yt-dlp wrapper to manage youtube audio |
| zmusic | gzdoom music library as standalone form for reuse |
| zynaddsubfx | synth capable of making a countless number of instruments |