Projects sharing features with LyricsX

A minimal, beautifully designed music player for OS X.

BlackHole is a system-level virtual audio driver designed for macOS that enables real-time routing of digital audio signals between applications and hardware. By functioning as a kernel-level extension, it creates a virtual loopback interface that allows users to transfer sound streams across software environments without the need for physical cables or external hardware. The software distinguishes itself through its ability to aggregate multiple physical and virtual audio sources into a single, unified interface. This abstraction layer supports complex signal management, including the mirror

LosslessCut is a desktop application designed for the precise editing of video and audio files without re-encoding the underlying media streams. By performing stream copying and container remuxing, the software allows users to cut, merge, and rearrange media segments while maintaining the original bit-perfect quality of the source content. The application distinguishes itself by utilizing a stream-copying data pipeline that transfers raw media packets directly from source to destination, significantly reducing processing time compared to traditional transcoding workflows. It also functions as

Spotify & Apple Music in your macOS menu bar

This project is a high-performance, terminal-based media player designed for efficient audio and video playback. It utilizes a modular decoding core to handle a wide range of multimedia formats while offloading frame processing to platform-specific hardware-accelerated rendering pipelines to minimize CPU overhead. Beyond its standalone utility, the software functions as an embeddable multimedia engine, providing a native library interface that allows external applications to integrate its advanced decoding and rendering capabilities directly into their own interfaces. The player is distinguis

Audacity is a cross-platform digital audio workstation and multi-track audio editor. It serves as a comprehensive suite for capturing live audio input, refining sound files through splicing and effects, and mixing multi-track audio files using a non-destructive waveform interface. The project functions as a VST3 plugin host, providing a software environment to load and execute audio effects and virtual instruments for real-time signal processing. It also includes an audio spectrum analyzer for visualizing frequencies and waveforms to identify specific sonic characteristics. The software cove

macOS app for Hype Machine

MusicBrainz Picard is a metadata tagger and audio tag editor that identifies and tags audio files using the MusicBrainz community music database. It functions as a plugin-extensible tagging framework and a scriptable file organizer capable of reading and writing tags across various audio formats including MP3, FLAC, and WAV. The project is distinguished by its acoustic fingerprint identifier, which matches unknown music files to known recordings via sonic fingerprints. It features a custom scripting language for automating metadata transformations and organizing files into structured folder h

LyricGlow for macOS, an always-on-top Electron widget showing real-time, word-by-word synced lyrics with glow effects, plus artist metadata and album art. Works with Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music. LRC support, offline cache, and menu bar controls.

Headphones is an automated media collector and music library manager designed to monitor artists for new releases and automatically initiate downloads. It functions as a metadata aggregator that fetches artist and album details from online databases to maintain a comprehensive audio catalog. The system integrates with Usenet and torrent clients, including SABnzbd, to search for and retrieve music files. It coordinates these transfers by linking to external software to automate the growth of a digital music collection. The software manages local music organization through customizable folder

Music-dl is a multi-platform music downloader that searches and downloads audio tracks and playlists from Chinese streaming services to local storage. It aggregates results from multiple streaming APIs into a unified list, automatically selecting the highest available bitrate format, including lossless when available, and falling back to 320K or 128K as needed. The tool distinguishes itself by fetching accompanying lyrics and album cover art alongside audio files, and includes a terminal-based interactive player with keyboard shortcuts for pause, skip, and deletion. It supports filtering sear

Musify is a cross-platform music streaming client and offline audio player. It functions as a music playlist manager and synchronized lyrics viewer, allowing users to stream audio from online sources or play files stored locally on their device. The application features a real-time lyric display system that matches text to the timing of audio playback. It also includes a search interface that provides instant suggestions and results as the user types. The system supports the creation of custom playlists via external links and provides tools for offline music management. User preferences and

ViMusic is an Android media player and music streaming application designed as a client for YouTube Music. It provides a mobile interface for searching, playing, and organizing audio and video content from the service. The application integrates background playback and offline audio caching to allow music listening without an active internet connection. It includes a dedicated playlist manager for creating local collections and managing playback queues using remote content. The project covers a range of playback and organization capabilities, including artist and album bookmarking, synchroni

Namida is a multi-format media player, music library manager, and network media streamer. It provides a unified interface for playing local and remote audio and video files, serving as both a specialized client for YouTube content and a synchronized lyrics player. The project distinguishes itself through a dynamic theme engine that generates artwork-based visuals and a comprehensive set of audio processing tools, including gain normalization, equalizers, and crossfading. It also features a specialized system for retrieving and displaying time-synced lyrics in formats such as LRC and TTML. Br

MusicFreeDesktop is a plugin-based music player and streaming aggregator that provides a unified interface for searching and playing content from multiple music services. It functions as an extensible media framework, utilizing a protocol-based architecture and a metadata normalization layer to ensure consistent audio streaming and data display across different sources. The application features a customizable desktop interface that supports theme-driven styling and variable-based runtime configuration, allowing users to personalize the appearance and behavior of the software. It includes a st

RetroMusicPlayer is an Android music player designed to play audio files stored locally on the device, with navigation organized by song, album, artist, and folder based on embedded metadata. It supports streaming audio to remote speakers and responding to external controls for hands-free multi-room playback. The player distinguishes itself with dynamically generated smart playlists that update automatically based on listening history and user-defined rules, backed by a SQLite database. It can parse and display synchronized lyrics from LRC and other time-stamped formats, scrolling in lockstep

Metrolist is a music streaming application and library manager designed for high-fidelity audio and video playback. It functions as a collaborative audio player that enables real-time playback synchronization across multiple users through a request and approval system. The platform features an AI-driven lyrics translator that fetches time-synced lyrics and provides automated real-time translations. It also includes specialized integrations for Discord Rich Presence and a dedicated media client interface for Android Auto. The system manages music libraries with remote cloud storage synchroniz

OpenCC is a library and command-line tool for converting text between Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese Kanji. It operates at both the individual character and multi-character phrase levels, and applies region-specific vocabulary choices for Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong during conversion. The conversion engine resolves ambiguous character mappings using semantic and contextual rules, normalizes variant character forms for consistent orthography, and sequences multiple dictionary files into a configurable pipeline. It supports embedding custom conversion rules dire

This application is a high-performance media player designed for desktop environments, providing a unified interface for managing audio and video playback across local files and remote network streams. It supports a wide range of file formats and streaming protocols, utilizing native system frameworks and hardware-accelerated decoding to ensure synchronized, low-latency output. The player distinguishes itself through an extensible plugin architecture that allows for deep customization of the playback experience. Developers can build modular components to automate workflows, register custom co

Video player built using electron and node.js

HandBrake is an open-source media converter and video transcoding application designed to process digital video and audio files. It functions as a desktop utility that converts media from nearly any format into widely supported codecs, facilitating video format conversion and the optimization of files for specific playback requirements. The software serves as a tool for digital media archiving, allowing users to compress and preserve high-quality video into manageable formats. It also functions as a DVD and Blu-ray ripper, enabling the extraction and conversion of content from physical optica

Ardour is a digital audio workstation, multitrack audio mixer, and MIDI sequencer. It functions as a non-linear audio editor and a plugin host for running third-party effects and instruments. The system provides specialized capabilities for post-production audio scoring through video frame synchronization, as well as live performance sequencing for triggering clips and patterns in real-time. It also supports tactile mixing via control surface mapping and hardware controller configuration. The software covers a broad range of audio production needs, including multitrack recording, MIDI sequen

Cross-platform advanced subtitle editor

The advanced drum machine for Linux, macOS, and Windows

Jellyfin is a self-hosted media server that organizes digital media collections and streams content to various client devices over a local or remote network. It utilizes a client-server architecture that separates media processing and storage from user interfaces, communicating through a standardized web-based application programming interface. The platform is designed for cross-platform hosting, running consistently across Linux, Windows, and macOS through native binaries or containerized environments. It features a hardware-accelerated transcoding engine that offloads intensive video conver

QuickTime plug-in for multiple codecs by using ffmpeg.