Audio:

aTunes is a feature packed audio player and manager, developed in the Java programming language, so it can be executed on multiple platforms.

Exaile is a music player for GTK+ written in Python. It incorporatesfeatures such as automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm submission support, and optional iPod support via a plugin.

Amarok is the music player for Linux and Unix with an intuitive interface. Amarok makes playing the music you love easier than ever before - and looks good doing it.

Import, organize, play, and share your music using Banshee’s simple, powerful interface. Banshee has been packaged for a variety of Linux distributions.

Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web. It provides a public playground for Web media mash-ups by providing developers with both desktop and Web APIs, developer resources and fostering Open Web media standards.

MusikCube works well as an alternative to iTunes to manage your music collection. ” It helps you just listen to what you want to hear,while offering innovative features not seen elsewhere.”

EasyTAG is a utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, MP4/AAC, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack, Monkey’s Audio and WavPack files. Its simple and nice GTK+ interface makes tagging easier under GNU/Linux or Windows.

CDex is a tool that enables you to extract digital data directly from an Audio CD into plain WAV files (useful for making compilation audio CDs) or compressed using an audio encoder.

Juice is the premier podcast receiver, allowing users to capture and listen to podcasts anytime and create their own audio channels on the fly. Highly recommended application.

Podcast Generator is a web based podcast publishing script that allows your to upload media files (audio-video) via a web form along with episode information to create a podcast feed.

Audacity is open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is a solid cross-platform sound editor supporting mulitple formats with an intuitive graphic user interface.

Traverso is a cross platform multitrack audio recording and editing suite, with an innovative User Interface. Its a complete solution from recording to CD mastering.

Ardour is a digital audio workstation that you can use to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. It also allows you to produce CDs and mix video soundtracks, and it’s great for testing out new ideas about music and sound.

Rosegarden is a professional audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment. This is a strong contender when it comes to working with Midi.

Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux. It’s main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.