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Top 23 C Music Projects
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Hi, I'm the developer of kew which works for linux, macOs, Android and FreeBSD.
The two best places to buy music in my opinion are qobuz and bandcamp.
https://github.com/ravachol/kew
I encourage you to go check out my app because it really whips the llama's ass.
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Project mention: Show HN: Cartoony AI Voices on ESP32 with Pitch Shifting | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-05
I show how to use Pitch shifting supported by the arduino-audio-tools[1] and ElatoAI[2] library on ESP32 to get OpenAI Realtime and Gemini Live Voices to sound like cartoons like Alvin and the Chipmunks or Hulk.
[1] https://github.com/pschatzmann/arduino-audio-tools
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Project mention: Show HN: Pianoterm – Run shell commands from your Piano. A Linux CLI tool | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-02
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opencubicplayer
Open Cubic Player (unix fork). Music visualizer for various tracked music formats (amiga modules, S3M, IT), chiptunes and other formats related to demoscene
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shellbeats
CLI music player for Linux/Mac. Stream YouTube audio and mp3 download. Minimal, fast, keyboard driven.
Project mention: Show HN: Shellbeats just music streaming from terminal | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-09 -
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Simple-SDL2-Audio
A simple SDL2 audio library without SDL_Mixer for playing music and multiple sounds natively in SDL2
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Project mention: Show HN: A small, simple music theory library in C99 | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-19
Nitpicking:
https://github.com/thelowsunoverthemoon/mahler.c/blob/4ebfe8...
Should that type have been mah_acci instead of int? mah_acci doesn't seem to be used anywhere.
Also, have you considered using compound literal syntax for some of the function calls that take in structs as arguments?
https://cppreference.com/w/c/language/compound_literal.html
struct mah_scale scale = mah_get_scale(
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GTUltra
GTUltra - Extensively modified GoatTracker Stereo (2.76) version. With many new features. See the GTUltra.PDF file for full details
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
C Music discussion
C Music related posts
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Show HN: Shellbeats just music streaming from terminal
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Show HN: A small, simple music theory library in C99
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Ask HN: How to go back to listening to MP3s?
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MODPlayRISCV – Playing tracker Music on ultra-low-end RISC-V MCUs
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I made a 10¢ MCU Talk
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Show HN: Cartoony AI Voices on ESP32 with Pitch Shifting
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Droneboy: Drone Music Application for Gameboy
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Music projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | aubio | 3,711 |
| 2 | audioFlux | 3,317 |
| 3 | kew | 2,754 |
| 4 | arduino-audio-tools | 2,291 |
| 5 | minimp3 | 1,910 |
| 6 | schismtracker | 1,500 |
| 7 | hifiberry-os | 1,210 |
| 8 | tulipcc | 914 |
| 9 | soundsync | 891 |
| 10 | midimonster | 582 |
| 11 | Gwion | 579 |
| 12 | klystrack | 531 |
| 13 | opencubicplayer | 425 |
| 14 | AmpliPi | 337 |
| 15 | music_visualizer | 249 |
| 16 | shellbeats | 236 |
| 17 | knobby | 211 |
| 18 | Simple-SDL2-Audio | 186 |
| 19 | HippoPlayer | 134 |
| 20 | mahler.c | 130 |
| 21 | GTUltra | 112 |
| 22 | gen-rack | 105 |
| 23 | Droneboy | 98 |
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