Explore Audio Apps

Articles about Linux music players, DAWS, sound converters, transcription aids, and more can be found under this tag.

Turntable is a Universal Scrobbler App for Linux

Want an easy way to “scrobble” music on Linux, no matter which music player you use? If so, check out a new app called Turntable. It even doubles up as a desktop widget.

29 April 2025

GNOME 48 Expands Core Apps With New Audio Player

When GNOME 48 is released in March it will debut with a brand-new audio player. Per a recent merge request, Decibels graduates from GNOME Incubator to GNOME Core Apps as part of GNOME 48, making […]

14 January 2025
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Ardour 8.8 (Open Source DAW) Drops Fresh Fixes & Features

Ardour is one of the most popular and powerful open-source digital audio workstations (DAW) around, and a major new update was recently made available. Now, I can’t profess to be some kind of music-making maestro, […]

7 October 2024
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Audacity 3.6 Add Master Effects, New Compressor & Limiter + More

A new version of the open-source, cross-platform audio editor Audacity is available to download, kitted out with some major new features. Audacity 3.6 introduces support for master effects. These adjust the sound of project as […]

17 July 2024
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AI Audio Effects, Including Voice Transcription, Come to Audacity

Intel has released an array of AI effects for the open-source audio editor Audacity. Intel’s OpenVINO AI plugins for Audacity (to give them their official name) have been designed to work offline and locally, meaning […]

3 January 2024

This App Records System Audio & Microphone Together in Ubuntu

Looking to record system sounds and your microphone at the same time on Ubuntu, and save it to a single audio file? Reco is a free, open-source audio recording app for Linux, written in Vala […]

3 December 2023
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Audacity 3.4 Released with New Music Workflows, Time Stretch Tool

A brand new version of Audacity, the open-source audio workstation, has been released. Audacity 3.4 includes a number of new features and improvements, include new music workflows that will greatly enhance the editor’s appeal with […]

2 November 2023
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This Linux Audio Player isn’t for Playing Music

Want to playback a lecture recording, transcribe an interview, or listen to a podcast episode without adding it to your music library? Check out Decibels, a novel new audio player for Linux written in Typescript […]

31 October 2023

Professional DAW ‘Studio One’ is Now on Linux (Public Beta)

PreSonus has made Studio One, their powerful digital audio workstation, available on Linux for the very first time! Studio One is a (closed-source) all-in-one DAW that lets you create music from scratch using virtual instruments, […]

2 October 2023

Apply Real-Time Effects to Audio on Ubuntu with This App

Many moons ago I covered a neat audio tool called PulseEffects, which made it easy to modify the sound output of any app on a global or per-app basis. As you may infer from the […]

25 May 2023
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Ear Tag (GTK Audio Tag Editor) Gets a Major Performance Boost

A quick run-through of what's been added to Ear Tag, a beautifully designed utility for editing the metadata of audio files quickly, and easily on Linux.

27 December 2022
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Use ‘Ear Tag’ to Quickly Edit Audio Tags on Linux

Keep your music files tagged correctly with Ear Tag, a lightweight Linux app that built for quickly editing metadata for single audio files – I love it!

7 December 2022