Audio Forge 1.5.0: Online Rooms, Experimental AI Director, and Native Linux Support

Audio Forge 1.5.0 is here, and it is one of the largest releases so far.

This update opens Audio Forge beyond the local table with Online Rooms, adds the first experimental version of AI Director, brings native Linux support, and refreshes several parts of the app that users touch every session: login, profile management, wheels, icons, recording, State Links, the store, and more.

Some of the work is visible immediately. Some of it is under the hood. Together, it makes Audio Forge more flexible, more portable, and better prepared for the next stage of the app.

Online Rooms: Share Your Soundboard Live

Audio Forge Rooms lets you share your soundboard audio with listeners over the internet.

Until now, Audio Forge was mainly a local soundboard: perfect for in-person games, streaming setups, Stream Deck control, and local automation. Rooms adds a new way to use it: create a room, share the link, and let remote players listen live while you control the session from your own app.

This is especially useful for:

• Online TTRPG sessions where the GM wants one central audio source.
• Hybrid tables with some players in the room and others remote.
• Groups that do not want to route game audio through a voice chat bot.
• Sessions where music, ambiance, and sound effects should stay synchronized for everyone.

Rooms include listener management, room links, optional passwords, chat, connection status, and quality information. The app also handles reconnects and regional routing so the feature can stay practical during a real game, not just in a demo.

Free rooms are available with limited capacity, while subscribers get more room flexibility and unlimited listener slots.

Experimental AI Director

1.5.0 also introduces the first experimental version of AI Director.

The idea is simple: Audio Forge can listen during your TTRPG session, understand what is happening, and help control the soundboard automatically. It can switch music, enable ambiance, and trigger effects based on the scene at the table.

Important note: Audio Forge is not using AI to generate music, ambiance, or sound effects. The AI Director only listens and reacts. The audio content in Audio Forge remains human-made.

AI Director runs locally on supported devices. The setup process checks whether your device is likely to handle it, downloads the required local AI models, lets you choose the spoken language, and includes a test step before you use it in a session. What is said at the table stays on your device: the listening, transcription, and scene analysis are processed locally and are not sent to a remote AI service.

Because this is experimental, expect it to evolve. Local AI is demanding: performance depends heavily on the device, memory, model choice, and platform. That is why the feature includes device checks, model management, benchmark tools, and clear setup feedback instead of pretending every device will behave the same way.

For GMs, the goal is not to replace manual control. It is to reduce the moments where you have to stop thinking about the scene and start searching for the right button.

Native Linux Support

Audio Forge now supports Linux as a first-class desktop platform.

The Linux version is distributed as an AppImage, with an installer script that can install it for your user account and add Audio Forge to your application launcher:

curl -fsSL https://slashpaf.com/audioforge/install.sh | sh

The installer also checks for recommended runtime dependencies used by advanced features such as audio conversion, recording, secure authentication storage, Google sign-in, and AppImage execution.

This means Audio Forge is now available on Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS, with the same core soundboard workflow across platforms.

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Cleaner Login and Profile Screens

The login and account experience has been reworked.

The new screens are cleaner, more consistent across platforms, and easier to understand. Account management now supports clearer sign-in states, password reset, login method management, reauthentication flows, and platform-specific behavior where needed.

This matters more than it might sound. Audio Forge now spans desktop, mobile, purchases, packs, rooms, subscriptions, and cloud-backed account features. A clearer account screen makes all of that easier to manage.

Better Wheels, Icons, and Layout Control

1.5.0 includes several improvements for customizing the main soundboard view:

• Customizable minimum and maximum wheel sizes.
• More control over when the Anvil layout switches between one-wheel and two-wheel display.
• Better desktop defaults for wheel sizing.
• Tuned icon layout and sizing on the wheels.
• A new icon picker replacing the previous picker plugin.
• Stable icon references for better long-term compatibility.

These changes are especially useful on tablets, desktop monitors, and unusual window sizes. If you run Audio Forge in Unified View, on a second screen, or in a streamed layout, the app should now be easier to tune to your setup.

Audio, State Links, and Recording Improvements

This release also improves several existing systems:

• State Links and saved states handle more edge cases, including imports and active library behavior.
• Multiple active libraries are better supported across playback, transitions, and saved states.
• Audio transitions are more reliable, including timed transitions, playlist loops, and hard cuts.
• Echoes now have better volume control and UI synchronization.
• Microphone recording has been improved on desktop, including Linux support and clearer dependency feedback.
• Local API volume scaling and state updates received fixes after the Stream Deck release.

These are the kinds of changes that do not always get a headline, but they make the app feel more dependable during a session.

Backend and Platform Work

A large part of 1.5.0 is infrastructure work:

• Store and purchase handling were improved across platforms.
• Subscription checks were strengthened.
• Firebase and authentication behavior were cleaned up, especially for desktop.
• Several dependency paths were simplified or replaced.
• The web platform build was removed from the app project to reduce maintenance weight.
• Linux-specific Firebase, auth, recording, file handling, and remote config paths were added.
• AI model download, speech recognition, local inference, and audio capture services were added.

This is not glamorous release-note material, but it is the work that makes bigger features possible without turning the app brittle.

Why 1.5.0 Matters

Audio Forge started as a practical soundboard for GMs: import your sounds, organize them, layer music and ambiance, trigger effects, and stay focused on the table.

1.5.0 keeps that core, but expands what the app can be:

• Rooms make Audio Forge useful for remote listeners.
• AI Director explores hands-free soundboard control.
• Linux support brings the app to another major desktop platform.
• Login, profile, store, and backend improvements make the wider ecosystem more solid.
• Wheel and icon customization gives GMs more control over the interface they use every session.

It is a big release because it touches almost every layer: audio, UI, accounts, platforms, networking, AI, packaging, and the release pipeline.

Get Audio Forge 1.5.0

Update now to try Online Rooms, the experimental AI Director, native Linux support, and the new customization improvements:

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Have feedback, questions, or a room setup to share? Join the community on Discord.

If you are new to Audio Forge, it is a flexible, GM-friendly soundboard for TTRPGs. You can import your own audio, layer music and ambiance, trigger one-shots, save full scenes with State Links, use Stream Deck controls, connect to external tools, and now share live audio with remote players through Online Rooms.