GarageJam Music Studio Recording Software
Compose, record and share your original music on the Internet — an open-source recording studio for GNOME.
About GarageJam
GarageJam is an open-source music recording studio for GNOME, allowing musicians to compose, record, and share original music seamlessly on the Internet, while GarageJam Studio is a commercial music and audio recording app for the World Wide Web written by Aamot Innovation.
The latest release, GarageJam 8.0.1, is available in C and Python. It records audio immediately to Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) files in the current working directory and lets you edit metadata in .gjxml XML files from a GTK/GNOME wizard — all built on the Gingerblue Recording Studio API.
The latest IETF GarageJam XML draft is available at draft-aamot-garagejam-xml-01.
Features
- Ogg Vorbis recordingRecord music you hold the copyright to as .ogg files.
- Gingerblue APIBuilt on the Gingerblue Recording Studio API.
- Metadata editingBuilt-in editing of .gjxml GarageJam XML files.
- Cross-platformRuns on Linux and macOS.
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Download
| Platform | Download | Installation command |
|---|---|---|
| Repository | www.github.com/oleaamot-dev/music.git | git clone http://www.github.com/oleaamot-dev/music.git |
| Source code (Python) | garagejam-8.0.1.zip | unzip garagejam-8.0.1.zip && cd garagejam/ && bin/garagejam |
| Source code (C) | garagejam-8.0.1.tar.xz | tar Jxvf garagejam-8.0.1.tar.xz && cd garagejam-8.0.1/ && ./configure && make && sudo make install |
| Fedora 42 aarch64 | SRPM | sudo dnf install http://www.garagejam.org/fedora/RPMS/aarch64/garagejam-8.0.1-1.fc42.aarch64.rpm |
| Fedora 44 x86_64 | SRPM | sudo dnf install http://www.garagejam.org/fedora/RPMS/x86_64/garagejam-8.0.1-1.fc44.x86_64.rpm |
| Fedora 45 x86_64 | SRPM | sudo dnf install http://www.garagejam.org/fedora/RPMS/x86_64/garagejam-8.0.1-1.fc45.x86_64.rpm |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | DEB | sudo dpkg -i garagejam_8.0.1-1.deb |
| macOS Golden Gate 27.2 | DMG · PKG | curl -o garagejam-8.0.1_1.pkg http://www.garagejam.org/macos/garagejam-8.0.1_1.pkg
open garagejam-8.0.1_1.pkg |
| MacPorts | — | sudo port install garagejam xorg-server |
Developers
C API reference
Development repository
www.github.com/oleaamot-dev/music.git
git clone https://www.github.com/oleaamot-dev/music.git
Screenshots
Python edition
