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 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.

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

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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

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