Playerctl is a command-line utility and library for controlling media players that implement the MPRIS D-Bus Interface Specification. Playerctl makes it easy to bind player actions, such as play and pause, to media keys. You can also get metadata about the playing track such as the artist and title for integration into status line generators or other command-line tools.

Libgig is a C++ library for loading, modifying existing and creating new Gigasampler (.gig) files and DLS (Downloadable Sounds) Level 1/2 files, KORG sample based instruments (.KSF and .KMP files), SoundFont v2 (.sf2) files and AKAI sampler data. The package includes a couple of command line tools based on the library.

This package provides the LV2 plugin "GxSaturator", a saturation effect.

libdiscid is a C library for creating MusicBrainz and freedb disc IDs from audio CDs. It reads a CD's table of contents (TOC) and generates an identifier which can be used to lookup the CD at MusicBrainz. Additionally, it provides a submission URL for adding the disc ID to the database and gathers ISRCs and the MCN (=UPC/EAN) from disc.

This module searches the MusicBrainz database through their web service at musicbrainz.org.

This package provides an Emacs major mode for editing GNU LilyPond music scores.

amsynth is an easy-to-use software synthesizer with a classic subtractive synthesizer topology. Its features include: dual oscillators (sine, saw, square, noise) with hard sync; 12 and 24 dB/oct resonant filters (low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, notch); mono, poly, legato keyboard modes; dual ADSR envelope generators for filter and amplitude; LFO which can modulate the oscillators, filter, and amplitude; distortion and reverb effects.

Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard is a MIDI events generator and receiver. It doesn't produce any sound by itself, but can be used to drive a MIDI synthesizer (either hardware or software, internal or external). You can use the computer's keyboard to play MIDI notes, and also the mouse. You can use the Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard to display the played MIDI notes from another instrument or MIDI file player.

Flacon extracts individual tracks from one big audio file containing an entire CD of music and saves them as separate audio files. To do this, it uses information from the appropriate CUE file. Also, Flacon makes it possible to conveniently revise or specify tags both for all tracks at once or for each tag separately.

ZPlugins is a collection of audio DSP plugins intended to be bundled with the Zrythm digital audio workstation (DAW).

MusicBrainz Picard is a music tagging application, supporting multiple formats, looking up tracks through metadata and audio fingerprints.

MediaFile is a simple interface to the metadata tags for many audio file formats. It wraps Mutagen, a high-quality library for low-level tag manipulation, with a high-level, format-independent interface for a common set of tags.

Aria Maestosa is a MIDI sequencer and editor. It lets you compose, edit and play MIDI files with a few clicks in a user-friendly interface offering score, keyboard, guitar, drum and controller views.

This package provides the LV2 plugin "GxSlowGear", a slow gear audio effect to produce volume swells.

GNU Denemo is a music notation editor that provides a convenient interface to the powerful music engraving program Lilypond. Music can be typed in using the computer keyboard, played in using a MIDI keyboard, or even input via a microphone connected to the sound card. The final product is publication-quality music notation that is continuously generated in the background while you work.

A Python interface to Last.fm and other API-compatible websites such as Libre.fm.

Music21 is a set of tools for helping scholars and other active listeners answer questions about music quickly and simply.

FMIT is a graphical utility for tuning musical instruments, with error and volume history, and advanced features.

This is the continuation of the official Discogs API client for Python. It enables you to query the Discogs database for information on artists, releases, labels, users, Marketplace listings,and more. It also supports OAuth 1.0a authorization, which allows you to change user data such as profile information, collections and wantlists,inventory, and orders.

Mamba is a virtual MIDI keyboard and MIDI file player/recorder for the JACK Audio Connection Kit. It comes with predefined keymaps for QWERTZ, QWERTY and AZERTY keyboards and also allows custom ones.

Exaile is a music player with a simple interface and powerful music management capabilities. Features include automatic fetching of album art, lyrics fetching, streaming internet radio, tabbed playlists, smart playlists with extensive filtering/search capabilities, and much more.

Audacious is an audio player descended from XMMS. Drag and drop folders and individual song files, search for artists and albums in your entire music library, or create and edit your own custom playlists. Listen to CD’s or stream music from the Internet. Tweak the sound with the graphical equalizer or experiment with LADSPA effects. Enjoy the modern GTK-themed interface or change things up with Winamp Classic skins. Use the plugins included with Audacious to fetch lyrics for your music, to set an alarm in the morning, and more.

LMMS is a digital audio workstation. It includes tools for sequencing melodies and beats and for mixing and arranging songs. LMMS includes instruments based on audio samples and various soft sythesizers. It can receive input from a MIDI keyboard.

pysmf is a Python extension module for reading and writing Standard MIDI files, based on libsmf.