GarageJam Music Studio Recording Software

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GarageJam is an open-source music recording studio for GNOME, allowing musicians to compose, record, and share original music seamlessly on the Internet.

The latest release is GarageJam 5.0.0 and supports immediate audio recording in Ogg Vorbis [.ogg] files into the Music/ folder, and generation of XSPF 1.0 playlist of the recorded file in GNOME.xspf into the Music/ folder as well as Metainfo editing in [.jam] XML files into the Music/ folder from a GTK+/GNOME Wizard with support for recording Ogg Vorbis [.ogg] files in the Gingerblue Recording Studio API.

Download

PlatformDownload LinkInstallation Command
Repositoryhttp://gitlab.gnome.org/okaamot/garagejam.gitgit clone http://gitlab.gnome.org/okaamot/garagejam.git
Source Codegaragejam-5.0.0.tar.xztar Jxvf garagejam-5.0.0.tar.xz && cd garagejam-5.0.0/ && ./configure && make && sudo make install
Fedora Core 42 aarch64SRPMsudo dnf install http://www.garagejam.org/fedora/RPMS/aarch64/garagejam-5.0.0-1.fc42.aarch64.rpm
Fedora Core 42 x86SRPMsudo dnf install http://www.garagejam.org/fedora/RPMS/x86_64/garagejam-4.0.0-1.fc42.x86_64.rpm
Ubuntu 24.04 LTSDEBsudo dpkg -i garagejam_4.0.0-1_amd64.deb
macOS 15 SequoiaDMGPKGN/A
MacPortsN/Asudo port install garagejam xorg-server

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-5.0.0.tar.xz

Fedora Core 42

sudo dnf install http://www.garagejam.org/fedora/RPMS/x86_64/garagejam-4.0.0-1.fc42.x86_64.rpm

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

http://www.garagejam.org/ubuntu/garagejam_4.0.0-1_amd64.deb

macOS 15.4 Beta (Sequoia)

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

GarageJam Record Window

GarageJam Player Window

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