Digital audio workstation (DAW) for composing and producing music. Includes a sequencer and mixer. Offers many functions for editing audio files, such as time-stretching and pitch-shifting, and supports VST plug-ins. Restricted Light version (Core) also available.
Streams music to computers and smartphones. Offers charts, new releases and recommendations for a range of music genres, and enables you to create and save personal playlists. Available as an Android app, app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch and HD version for iPad.
Media player for SMIL files. Supports the standard SMIL versions 2.0 and 3.0, but doesn’t provide support for Windows Media or Real Media proprietary formats. Also available as a plug-in for Firefox and Safari.
Archive with additional multimedia software for Ubuntu. Contains software that’s not included in the Ubuntu distribution for legal reasons. Offers various codecs, libraries, firmware files and multimedia applications. Comprises packets for Ubuntu versions 8.04 (Hardy Heron), 9.10 (Karmic Koala), 10.01 (Lucid Lynx) and 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat).
Online entertainment service with which you can buy music, films and games. For mobile music use there are apps for Android tablets and Android smartphones.
Free multimedia framework that provides basic functions for processing multimedia data streams. Written in C, it uses the GObject software library. Can be extended with plug-ins.
This tool forms random collections of music files (in MP3, FLAC, OGG and WAV formats) into one large file. You can then specify how long the pieces are to last, the pauses and the number of repeats. Fast and secure download from The H
Contains a collection of open-source programs for desktops, multimedia, games, tools, graphics, internet, office, programming and security. You can download the DVD as an image (ISO) file.
Framework for the audio outputs for Posix operating systems. Supports modern sound hardware and recognises a second set of stereo speakers that, from version 3.3, can be set separately in the kernel.
A non-platform-specific video convertor, written in Java and based on FFmpeg. Can convert any of the formats supported by ffmpeg and provides functions for automatically downloading and converting YouTube videos. Available in several languages. Fast and secure download from The H
On-line utility that transfers images from connected webcams to the browser and creates a URL via which the transfers from other computers or mobile phones can be traced.
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