How to Install Audacity 2.2.1 on Ubuntu 17.04, 18.04 via PPA

   Audacity is free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing.
Compilation instructions for Audacity are provided in the source code:

• Windows: win\compile.txt
• macOS: mac/Build.txt
• GNU/Linux: INSTALL.

Audacity 2.2.1 Changelog: 

• Updated message translations for nineteen languages
• Several bugs/annoyances in 2.2.0 are now fixed, most importantly:
• Chains once again apply properly
• Auto-scrolling works when adjusting selection boundaries

Install Kid3 Audio Editor 3.5.1 Improved High-DPI Support on Ubuntu 17.04

   Kid3 is an open-source cross-platform audio tag editor for many audio file formats. It supports DSF, MP3, Ogg, FLAC, MPC, MPEG-4 (mp4/m4a/m4b), AAC, Opus, SPX, TrueAudio, APE, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AIFF, tracker modules.

Features

• Edit ID3v1.1 tags
• Edit all ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 frames
• Convert between ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags
• Edit tags in MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, DSF, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Opus, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AIFF files and tracker modules (MOD, S3M, IT, XM)
• Edit tags of multiple files, e.g. the artist, album, year and genre of all files of an album typically have the same values and can be set together.

How to install Flacon 3.0.0 – Audio File Encoder on Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04

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

Features

•     Supported input formats: WAV, FLAC, APE, WavPack, True Audio (TTA).
•     Supported out formats: FLAC, WAV, WavPack, AAC, OGG or MP3.
•     Replay Gain analysis (album-gain and track-gain modes).
•     Multi-threaded conversion process.

How to install Flacon 2.1.1 – Audio File Encoder on Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04

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

Features

•     Supported input formats: WAV, FLAC, APE, WavPack, True Audio (TTA).
•     Supported out formats: FLAC, WAV, WavPack, AAC, OGG or MP3.
•     Replay Gain analysis (album-gain and track-gain modes).
•     Multi-threaded conversion process.

How to Install Hydrogen 0.9.7 – Advanced Drum Machines on Ubuntu

    Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine and pattern based programming app that is available for Ubuntu, Linux and Windows as well. This free and open source app is used to create the sound of drums, cymbals, other percussion instruments.

Hydrogen 0.9.7  Changelog:

• The color of the SongEditors squares is now configurable
• Added support for midi cymbal choking
• Added support for midi hihat pressure control
• Added hihat pressure groups
• Added basic non session manager support

How to install MuseScore 2.1 Released! on Ubuntu 16.04 & Higher

   MuseScore 2.1, a free music notation software, was released today with new note input modes and a huge list of bug-fixes.

MuseScore 2.1 Changelog:

•     New note input modes allow you to play music on a MIDI keyboard in real time and have MuseScore transcribe both pitches and rhythms, either using the built-in metronome or your foot pedal to keep the tempo
•     New input mode to allow entry of rhythm first, pitches later

How to Install Kid3 Tag Editor 3.4.5 on Ubuntu 16.04, 16.10

   Kid3 is an open-source cross-platform audio tag editor for many audio file formats. It supports DSF, MP3, Ogg, FLAC, MPC, MPEG-4 (mp4/m4a/m4b), AAC, Opus, SPX, TrueAudio, APE, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AIFF, tracker modules.

Features

•     Edit ID3v1.1 tags
•     Edit all ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 frames
•     Convert between ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags
•     Edit tags in MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, DSF, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Opus, Speex,

How To Install Install Quod Libet 3.8.0 on Ubuntu 16.04, 16.10

   Quod Libet is a GTK+-based audio player written in Python, using the Mutagen tagging library. It’s designed around the idea that you know how to organize your music better than we do. It lets you make playlists based on regular expressions (don’t worry, regular searches work too). It lets you display and edit any tags you want in the file, for all the file formats it supports.

    The latest version available is QuodLibet 3.8.0, which has been recently released, bringing a huge list of changes:

• concurrent.futures required (usually called python-futures, python-concurrent.futures or python2-futures in distros)
• libgpod4 is no longer used

How to Install Aria Maestosa Midi Tracker/Editor 1.4.13 on Ubuntu 16.04, 16.10

    Aria Maestosa is an open-source (GPL) midi sequencer/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.

   Aria Maestosa runs on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux/Unix. It is translated in many languages including French, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Russian.

Aria Maestosa 1.4.13 Changelog:

• Fix encoding issue when exporting to midi on windows
• Fix track name encoding when exporting to MIDI
• Fix song name and copyright encoding when exporting to MIDI

How to Install Kid3 Tag Editor 3.4.4 in Ubuntu 16.04, 16.10

   Kid3 is an open-source cross-platform audio tag editor for many audio file formats. It supports DSF, MP3, Ogg, FLAC, MPC, MPEG-4 (mp4/m4a/m4b), AAC, Opus, SPX, TrueAudio, APE, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AIFF, tracker modules.

Features

•     Edit ID3v1.1 tags
•     Edit all ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 frames
•     Convert between ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags
•     Edit tags in MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, DSF, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Opus, Speex,

How to Install Audio Recorder 1.6-2 on Ubuntu 16.10

Audio Recorder is a great free application allows you to record audio from your sound card, microphones, browsers, webcams, music players, Skype calls, and everything plays out of your loudspeakers.

This program supports several output formats such as OGG, M4A, FLAC, MP3, MP2, WAV, SPX. More features:

•     a system tray indicator (enable it in settings page)
•     automatic control via MPRIS2-compatible media players