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RobinJ
Asked: 2011-12-10 10:34:06 +0800 CST

Are there any good music mixers available, equivalent to Windows "MP3 Tunes"?

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In Windows my dad used to have a program called MP3 Tunes. I have tried running it with Wine, and it worked. But strange things kept happening to the program, so it's not a reliable way to play music.

Basically I just want to have 2 players (in a single window) with these features:

  • Preloading tracks in a player without immediately starting them.
  • Fading from one track to the other.
  • A timer on each player.

These features are also desired, but not required:

  • Microphone input.
  • Prelistening before loading a song in a player (through a seperate sound card).
  • Pitch/Tempo control.
  • Just being able to browse folders in the filesystem (without things like a music library).

Here are some screenshots of the program to clarify what I'm looking for: MP3 Tunes v2 (v1 was much better) The largest accurate screenshot I found of v1

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2 Answers

  1. Take a look at the java based Ultramixer.

    Ultramixer

    Features of the free version:

    • AAC/M4A file support
    • Fullscreen and tray mode
    • MiniMode Player
    • Variable pitch range (up to -/+ 50%)
    • Database-driven file archive
    • Realtime-BPM Counter
    • Support of skinning for the user interface
    • Cue points
    • 3-Band-Equalizer / EQ-Kill-Buttons
    • Import / Export of M3U lists
    • FileArchive detail search
    • Manual Talkover
    • Monitoring over headhones
    • Multi-soundcard support
    • Automix function
    • Switchable fading modes

    Installation instructions from Ultramixer community forum.

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  2. I'm not sure where to look if you want an application that has only those features, but there are a couple of very robust audio mixing solutions for Linux, closer in functionality to Garageband for OSX.

    Try Ardour, billed as "a complete digital audio workstation"

    Ardour 2.5 showing plugins, crossfade editing and both main windows, and on the far right, the QJackctl connection dialog for JACK.

    Or LMMS - the Linux Multimedia Studio.

    sample browser, Song-Editor, Beat+Bassline-Editor and some controllers

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