From the first read-through to the final curtain. Organize music and effects, prepare every entrance, and take control of your show's sound.
A tool for the people backstage: theater companies, drama schools, and small productions.
Bring a whole folder of music and effects into your library, search by name, and preview a track before deciding. Add each one to the sequence, tag it with a color category from a floating picker, and leave notes on any cue.
Set start and end points on the waveform and build each cue's effects chain: fade-in and fade-out, reverb, delay, chorus, distortion, and a 3-band equalizer. Drag the blocks (or use the arrows) to choose the order the sound passes through them. Loop an atmosphere until it is time for the next cue.
Space advances to the next cue (or resumes a paused one), Shift+Space goes back one, and Esc pauses. Keys 1 to 0 and Q to P trigger the first twenty cues directly. The footer always shows what is playing and what comes next.
Automatic leveling keeps tracks at a steady volume, and the master volume goes from 0 to 150%. Pick your computer's audio output (interface, sound card, or headphones) right in Settings, when your system allows it. If a cue shows as playing but the sound is gone, the Restart audio button in Settings brings the output back without losing the position.
On desktop, your project saves itself after every change and the Projects screen lists your recent ones. Complete export creates one .lpe file with the sequence and audio, ready to open on another computer.
A guided tour inside the app walks through the main features, in English or Portuguese. When a new version is out, the app tells you and you decide when to install it. Never in the middle of a show.
Three steps, recorded in the real Live Player app. Play or pause each walkthrough.
Click "Load audio" and choose a folder. Use the + button beside each track to build your show's running order.
Drag the start or end handle on the waveform. Turn on "Loop" to repeat a section while the scene unfolds.
Press Space to advance. Esc pauses; Space resumes; Shift+Space goes back one cue. Number keys also trigger cues directly.
Live Player Free costs nothing, never expires, and needs no sign-up or card. Download the version for your system.
To run a show, yes: the desktop app has versions for Windows (x64 or ARM64; installer or portable, no install), macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon), and Linux (x86_64 or ARM64). Download it in the Download section above. This site also has a free demo in your browser (we recommend Chrome on desktop) that needs no installation.
Play and adjust the example audio: trimming, loops, fades, effects, keyboard shortcuts. The demo does not import your audio, open or save projects, and nothing you do in it is kept. Reload and the example starts over. Creating, saving, and exporting projects happens in the desktop app.
No. Live Player plays one cue at a time. Triggering another cue stops the previous one. This workflow suits shows with sequential music and sound-effect entrances.
MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, OGG, FLAC, and AIF/AIFF. In practice it depends on what your computer's system can decode; files that fail to open show an error in the library without affecting the rest.
No. Audio is processed on your computer and Live Player Free works offline. The internet is only used to check for updates and for the first activation of a paid license; after that the app works offline. Nothing is checked when you press Space or during a performance.
On your computer. The working project is a .lpp file that saves itself after every change, and the audio lives in a local cache shared between projects. Nothing is uploaded or synced between computers.
Use "Export complete project" in the ☰ menu. It creates a portable .lpe file with the sequence and all available audio. On the other computer, open the .lpe with ☰ > Settings > Open project (or double-click the file).
The installed app checks for new versions on launch and in Help > Updates. Downloading and installing is always your call, only with playback stopped and the project saved, and packages are verified by signature. The Windows portable version and .deb/.rpm packages do not update themselves: download again from this site.
If a cue shows as playing but there is no sound (it happens on some computers after sleep), open ☰ > Settings and click Restart audio. The cue carries on from where it was. The app also rebuilds the audio output by itself after the computer wakes up, never while a cue is playing.
Stage effects (bell, applause, rain, door knock, doorbell, clock, wind and whistle) and two public-domain classical pieces: Grieg, In the Hall of the Mountain King, and Vivaldi, Summer (Presto). You can use them in rehearsal without worrying about copyright.
Live Player Free costs nothing, forever, with unlimited shows and cues and every essential feature. Pro and Organization licenses are a one-time payment with 2 years of updates included (see the License terms). Buying licenses is not open on this website yet.
Open Live Player, bring in your audio, and prepare the first scene.