GarageJam Music Studio Recording Software

GarageJam is an open-source music recording studio for GNOME, allowing musicians to compose, record, and share original music seamlessly on the Internet, while Gingerblue Studio is a commercial Music Recording and Audio Recording App for World Wide Web written by Aamot Innovation.

The latest release is GarageJam 6.0.1 and supports immediate audio recording in Ogg Vorbis [.ogg] files into the current working directory folder, and generation of XSPF 1.0 playlist of the recorded file in GNOME.xspf into the current working directory folder as well as Metainfo editing in [.jam] XML files into the current working directory folder from a GTK+/GNOME Wizard with support for recording Ogg Vorbis [.ogg] files in the Gingerblue Recording Studio API.

The latest IETF GarageJam XML standard is available from https://www.garagejam.org/rfc/draft-aamot-garagejam-xml-01.

Download

Features

• 🎵 Record Music that you hold the copyright to in Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) format
• 🎛️ Supports Gingerblue Recording Studio API
• 📁 Auto-generates XSPF 1.0 playlists
• ✏️ Built-in Metadata Editing
• 🔄 Cross-platform support (Linux, macOS)

Application Programming Interface

Gingerblue Recording Studio API 8.0

Development Repository

http://gitlab.gnome.org/okaamot/garagejam.git

Distribution Packages

Source Code

http://www.garagejam.org/src/garagejam-6.0.1.tar.xz

Fedora Core 42

sudo dnf install http://www.garagejam.org/fedora/RPMS/x86_64/garagejam-5.0.0-1.fc42.x86_64.rpm

Fedora Core 43

sudo dnf install http://www.garagejam.org/fedora/RPMS/x86_64/garagejam-6.0.1-1.fc43.x86_64.rpm

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

http://www.garagejam.org/ubuntu/garagejam_5.0.0-1_amd64.deb

macOS Tahoe 26.3

http://www.garagejam.org/mac/garagejam-5.0.0.dmg

http://www.garagejam.org/mac/garagejam-5.0.0.pkg

MacPorts

sudo port install garagejam xorg-server

Developer API

C (HTML)

http://www.garagejam.org/doc/

C (PDF)

http://www.garagejam.org/doc/garagejam-1.0.0.pdf

Screenshots

Copyright © 2026 Aamot Innovation