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Top 23 JavaScript Audio Projects
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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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mediacms
MediaCMS is a modern, fully featured open source video and media CMS, written in Python/Django and React, featuring a REST API.
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> 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
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wad
Web Audio DAW. Use the Web Audio API for dynamic sound synthesis. It's like jQuery for your ears. (by rserota)
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daw
GridSound (2.59.3) 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 ❤️
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AppSignal
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jam
🍓 Jam is your own open source Clubhouse for mini conferences, friends, communities (by jam-systems)
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waveform-data.js
Audio Waveform Data Manipulation API – resample, offset and segment waveform data in JavaScript.
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standardized-audio-context
A cross-browser wrapper for the Web Audio API which aims to closely follow the standard.
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react-music-player
[Stop the maintenance] :musical_note: Maybe the best beautiful HTML5 responsive player component for react :)
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MidiWriterJS
♬ A JavaScript library which provides an API for programmatically generating and creating expressive multi-track MIDI files and JSON.
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SaaSHub
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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).
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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 | 25,331 |
| 2 | screenity | 18,477 |
| 3 | mediacms | 5,048 |
| 4 | motionity | 4,038 |
| 5 | freyr-js | 2,321 |
| 6 | wad | 1,981 |
| 7 | daw | 1,843 |
| 8 | pizzicato | 1,712 |
| 9 | Eole-foobar-theme | 1,710 |
| 10 | jam | 1,312 |
| 11 | noisecraft | 1,206 |
| 12 | waveform-data.js | 1,086 |
| 13 | opus-recorder | 995 |
| 14 | p5.js-sound | 909 |
| 15 | vue-plyr | 788 |
| 16 | standardized-audio-context | 776 |
| 17 | CPod | 770 |
| 18 | react-music-player | 761 |
| 19 | web-audio-samples | 748 |
| 20 | slashy | 624 |
| 21 | MidiWriterJS | 603 |
| 22 | tonejs-instruments | 527 |
| 23 | hedron | 513 |
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