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PipeWire: Wim Taymans Yes Yes (FreeBSD) a media daemon, unifying JACK Audio Connection Kit, PulseAudio, and GStreamer: MIT License: PortAudio & PortMidi: Ross Bencina Yes Yes Yes a cross-platform, open-source C language library for real-time audio & midi I/O MIT License: PulseAudio: Yes Yes Yes (Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD) Yes
EasyEffects (formerly known as PulseEffects) is a free and open-source GTK application for Unix-like systems which provides a large array of audio effects and filters to apply to input and output audio streams.
PipeWire is a server for handling audio, video streams, and hardware on Linux. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was created by Wim Taymans at Red Hat . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It handles multimedia routing and pipeline processing.
PulseAudio is a network-capable sound server program distributed via the freedesktop.org project. It runs mainly on Linux, including Windows Subsystem for Linux on Microsoft Windows and Termux on Android; various BSD distributions such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS; as well as Illumos distributions and the Solaris operating system.
1.3.7 (2020-07-04) Free libvorbis, [38] aoTuV, [39] FFmpeg - Yes No No No No WavPack: Conifer Software 1998 5.7.0 (2024-02-29) Free WavPack, [40] FFmpeg: Music archival Yes No Yes No No Windows Media Audio: Microsoft: 1999 11.0 Free for consumer licensees of the Windows operating system [citation needed] Free for licensees of the Windows ...
FOSS stands for "Free and Open Source Software". There is no one universally agreed-upon definition of FOSS software and various groups maintain approved lists of licenses. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is one such organization keeping a list of open-source licenses. [1] The Free Software Foundation (FSF) maintains a list of what it ...
LDAC is an alternative to Bluetooth SIG's SBC codec. Its main competitors are Huawei's L2HC, Qualcomm's aptX-HD/aptX Adaptive and the HWA Union/Savitech's LHDC. [1]LDAC utilizes a type of lossy compression [2] [3] by employing a hybrid coding scheme based on the modified discrete cosine transform [4] and Huffman coding [5] to provide more efficient data compression.
The following comparison of audio players compares general and technical information for a number of software media player programs. For the purpose of this comparison, "audio players" are defined as any media player explicitly designed to play audio files, with limited or no support for video playback.