Awesome Audio Over IP

A curated list of awesome Audio over IP and AES67 tools and resources.

In the professional audio sector, Audio over IP (AoIP) is about transmitting uncompressed, low-latency audio over an IP (layer 3) network. Popular examples of protocols are Dante, AES67 and Ravenna.

This list is WIP. The AoIP ecosystem is still growing and there is rather sparse tooling available at the moment. Right now this list (and maybe the whole topic) does not match the requirements to be an official awesome list. Also have a look at the other lists, if looking for inspiration.

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first (TL;DR: Has to be actively maintained and awesome).

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Contents

• Other Lists
• Tools
• Organizations
• Standards
• Education
• Unverified

Other Lists

• AES67 Wishlist - Popular wishlist for AES67 software, which inspired this list.
• Curated Web Page - Read-only "curated list of AES67 resources" by Philipp Hartung.
• Networked Audio Products - A census of AoIP products, conducted every year.
• Awesome Audiovisual - AV list containing a little AoIP.
• Awesome Broadcasting - EBU list contianing a little AoIP.

Tools

• Network Audio Controller - Reverse engineered Dante Controller on the command line.
• Pipewire AES67 - Show AES67 streams as native audio devices on Linux.
• Merging ALSA RAVENNA/AES67 Driver - Open source driver that doesn't accept contributions.
• AES67 Linux Daemon - Fork of Merging's driver with an open source web server.
• AES67 Monitor - Cross plattform AES67 monitoring app.
• JackTrip - An open source tool for transmitting real-time audio over LAN and WAN.
• LinuxPTP - PTP IEEE 1588 for Linux. Provides various tools, e.g. ptp4l and phc2sys.

Closed Source

• Aneman - Audio NEtwork MANager, the Ravenna equivalent for Dante controller.
• PTP Track Hound - PTP network traffic analysis tool (cross-platoform, basic free version available).

Organizations

• IPMX - A proposed set of open standards and specifications for control, copy protection, connection management and security.
• Audinate - Its proprietary Dante technology is the most popular AoIP solution by far.
• Ravenna - Second most popular AoIP solution, which is more open than Dante.

Standards

• AES67, public draft - The open standard for Audio over IP.
• NMOS - REST APIs for controlling network media devices.
• SMPTE ST 2110-30, public version - AES67 based audio transport in a video stream. Adds some contrains to AES67.

Education

• Dante Certification - Understanding Dante helps understanding AoIP. The training requires an account. I recommend lv 1 and lv 2.
• Ravenna Ressources - Webinars and slides by Andreas Hildebrand about Ravenna, AES67, SMPTE 2110, PTP and IPMX.
• Connecting Dante with AES67 - Setting up AES67 from a Dante device isn't very straight forward, here's a guide from Yamaha as an example.

Unverified

• List of things that sound good, but I was unable to try out or assess. Will vanish if this list will ever mature.
• PAM - FOSS AES67 capable audio monitor.
• Snapcast - FOSS project for a Sonos-like multiroom solution, using a custom TCP-based protocol.