Com-Phone Story Maker vs Timidity AE
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
Com-Phone Story Maker
Com-Phone Story Maker helps you create multimedia narratives, combining photos, audio and text in exciting ways to tell digital stories. The app's simple interface helps you create your own photo slideshows to document your life; send to other devices running the application or play back locally; create templates; export as a movie; upload to YouTube; or, save a web version to self-publish. Each story can include any number of media frames. Each individual frame of the story can include an image or photo, up to three layered audio or music tracks, and text content. Anything in a frame can be edited at any time – for example, you can pause audio recording and then resume later, or load pictures from your media library. All elements of each frame are optional. For example, Com-Phone can also be used as an annotated photo diary, a simple audio recorder, a text and sound tool for discussion about current events, or even a multimedia survey app. A simple printable user manual is available at: https://digitaleconomytoolkit.org/manuals/com-phone.pdf. Com-Phone is completely free, with no adverts and no unnecessary permissions. The app is open source as part of the Com-Me toolkit – you can fork any of the Com-Me tools on GitHub: https://github.com/communitymedia. For more information about the Com-Me project, see: https://digitaleconomytoolkit.org.
Timidity AE
Multimedia player focused on playing MIDI files. Instead of built-in Android MIDI playing features, it uses Timidity++ engine and allows specifying soundfonts and options. Included soundfont 8Rock11e seems to have non-free license "Distribute freely. Don't disassemble." Features include: * High quality MIDI file playback far superior to Android's built in Synth * Support for multiple user-set SoundFonts or patch sets * Multi-track mixer with support for per-track instrument and volume adjustment (only available for MIDI and MOD files) * Tempo, pitch, voice, and resampling controls * Create, save, and load custom instrument and volume configurations * Additional support for Amiga MOD files as well as the formats Android natively supports (mp3, ogg, flac, etc) * Export MIDI or MOD files to wav * Compressed .sfArk and .sfArk.exe SoundFont extraction * Notification with playback buttons (Honeycomb or later) * Folder and playlist based music organization * Dark and light themes
| Feature | Com-Phone Story Maker | Timidity AE |
|---|---|---|
| License | LGPL-3.0-only | GPL-2.0-only |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | Media PlayerVideo | Media PlayerVideo |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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