JavaScript Audio

Open-source JavaScript projects categorized as Audio

Top 23 JavaScript Audio Projects

  1. howler.js

    Javascript audio library for the modern web.

    Project mention: How I Built a Real-Time Multiplayer Chess Game with Video Calling Using Next.js, Socket.IO & WebRTC | dev.to | 2026-04-25

    Small detail, big impact. I used Howler.js for game sounds — move clicks, check alerts, game start/end chimes:

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  3. screenity

    The free and privacy-friendly screen recorder with no limits 🎥

  4. mediacms

    MediaCMS is a modern, fully featured open source video and media CMS, written in Python/Django and React, featuring a REST API.

    Project mention: Show HN: MediaCMS v6 – open-source video platform with trimmer and RBAC | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-18
  5. motionity

    The web-based motion graphics editor for everyone 📽

  6. freyr-js

    A tool for downloading songs from music streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music.

    Project mention: SoundCloud just banned VPN access | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-15

    > record the audio during playback and manually enter the metadata

    there are more elegant solutions similar to yt-dlp. scdl is very user friendly and automatically embeds metadata.

    https://github.com/scdl-org/scdl

    https://github.com/miraclx/freyr-js

  7. wad

    Web Audio DAW. Use the Web Audio API for dynamic sound synthesis. It's like jQuery for your ears. (by rserota)

  8. daw

    GridSound (1.58.5) is a work-in-progress free browser-based digital audio workstation following the Web Audio API 🎛🎹🎵✨ -- If you can, please sponsor us a little on our Patreon ❤️

  9. pizzicato

    Library to simplify the way you create and manipulate sounds with the Web Audio API.

  10. Eole-foobar-theme

    Eole blows gently into your ear his nicest melodies.

  11. jam

    🍓 Jam is your own open source Clubhouse for mini conferences, friends, communities (by jam-systems)

  12. noisecraft

    Browser-based visual programming language and platform for sound synthesis.

  13. waveform-data.js

    Audio Waveform Data Manipulation API – resample, offset and segment waveform data in JavaScript.

  14. opus-recorder

    A library for encoding and decoding web audio as OggOpus.

  15. p5.js-sound

    p5.sound brings the Processing approach to Web Audio and p5.js. Demos:

  16. vue-plyr

    A Vue component for the plyr (https://github.com/sampotts/plyr) video & audio player.

  17. standardized-audio-context

    A cross-browser wrapper for the Web Audio API which aims to closely follow the standard.

  18. CPod

    (UNMAINTAINED) A simple, beautiful podcast app for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

  19. react-music-player

    [Stop the maintenance] :musical_note: Maybe the best beautiful HTML5 responsive player component for react :)

  20. web-audio-samples

    Web Audio API samples by Chrome Web Audio Team

  21. slashy

    Supercharge Notion with custom commands to record, draw, and more ✍️

  22. MidiWriterJS

    ♬ A JavaScript library which provides an API for programmatically generating and creating expressive multi-track MIDI files and JSON.

  23. tonejs-instruments

    A small instrument sample library with quick-loader for tone.js

  24. hedron

    Perform live shows with your three.js creations (by nudibranchrecords)

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).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Audio projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 howler.js 25,300
2 screenity 18,308
3 mediacms 4,963
4 motionity 4,038
5 freyr-js 2,291
6 wad 1,980
7 daw 1,826
8 pizzicato 1,712
9 Eole-foobar-theme 1,690
10 jam 1,312
11 noisecraft 1,193
12 waveform-data.js 1,082
13 opus-recorder 994
14 p5.js-sound 907
15 vue-plyr 792
16 standardized-audio-context 776
17 CPod 768
18 react-music-player 761
19 web-audio-samples 746
20 slashy 624
21 MidiWriterJS 600
22 tonejs-instruments 527
23 hedron 513

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