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Adcd Adcd is a CD player for GNU/Linux with a ncurses (text mode) interface. It features all the functions expected in a compact disc player, including playing selected tracks, random playing and loop mode. Also features a non-interactive mode for those who want to play their CDs while using the console for something else.

Autorun 'autorun' automagically recognizes all available CDROMs in the system, mounts them upon insertion of a media and executes a possible autorun executable on the CD. The user can remove the media; autorun will call unmount after that.

Biblos 'Biblos' is a powerful indexing tool for managing a cd/mp3 collection as well as local directories. It records full information about each file on the specified media and has a powerful searching tool that can help you find specific files. You can also select a list of files/dirs from the database and Biblos will help you copy them from the source media to the directory choosen.

Breeze 'breeze' aims to be a fast and powerful CD Digital-Audio Player. It may run as either a console app or as a daemon. It can control a cdrom that is playing live, can change track to the next or previous one, jcan jump backward or forward, and set a playlist and your information about cdda.

CD-ROM Control CD-Rom Control is a GUI for mounting, unmounting, and ejecting the CD-Rom drive. It includes an autostart feature which will automatically bring up either a CD listing in a graphical file manager, an HTML page in a browser, and DVD support.

CDfs 'CDfs' is a file system that 'exports' all tracks and boot images on a CD as normal files. These files can then be mounted (e.g. for ISO and boot images), copied, played (audio tracks), etc. Its main goal is to 'unlock' information in old ISO sessions. The file system also lets you access data on faulty multi session disks, e.g. disks with multiple single sessions instead of a multi session.

Cdcd cdcd is a CLI CD player designed to incorporate all the features of the X and curses based CD players without having to use a clunky push button interface or having a console hogged with a curses-based CD player. cdcd can accept commands directly from the command line, or in a query mode similar to telnet or ftp. CDDBP and HTTP mode CDDB support is inlcuded, and now CD Index support as well. cdcd also supports CD-ROM changers on GNU/Linux 2.1 or 2.2 systems. You can run cdcd with a command as the argument (eg cdcd play), which is a great way to use cdcd and cron together to make a CD alarm clock. If you run cdcd without arguments you will be given the cdcd command prompt.

Cdrom Cdrom is a small/lightweight CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive controlling utility. It supports several features like automatic mounting/unmounting (if needed), speed control, drive capability, CD status, and more. The author notes that cdrom was programmed under Linux 2.4, and has not been tested with newer kernel versions, including the 2.6 branch.

Cymbaline 'Cymbaline' is an intelligent learning (weighted playlists) music player. It sets a score for each track based on your listening habits, and you can set thresholds to create playlists with your favorite tracks automagically. It is particularly useful if you have a large playlist which you don't want to micromanage, if you want to listen to music in the background) perhaps with random selections that you like), or if you have a collection of albums, not singles. In random mode, it will play your favorite tracks more often. 'Cymbaline' also allows album-based navigation: you can start playing the next album, skip 2 albums ahead, go to a specific album, etc. There is also a random queue mode where you see a list of randomly chosen tracks that play consecutively.

Disc-Cover 'disc-cover' scans audio cds and uses information from the cddb database to build a back and front cover for the cd by connecting with a cddb server to get the title, artist, and list of track titles (and extended information where available). Documentation is in Dutch, German, Spanish, and English. It supports caching of cddb entries in directory that can be shared with other cddb-aware programs. You can produce covers without typing in all the information. The cover can be output in Latex, Dvi, Pdf, Postscript, Cddb entry, HTML, text, and a format to use with cdlabelgen. You can optionally put a picture on the front cover; the program supports almost any image format. You can also assign different colors to different items such as titles or track numbers.

Eject 'Eject' is a program for ejecting removable media under software control. It can also control the auto-eject feature of some drives and some multi-disc CD_ROM changers, can be used to switch CDs on an IDE/ATAPI CD changer, and can close the disc tray of some CD_ROM drives. See the README file that comes with the distribution for devices and configurations that the program is known to work with.

Emms 'Emms' is a project to produce a clean and small application to play multimedia files from Emacs using external players. The core provides a simple playlist and the functionality to use all of EMMS's other features. It provides common user commands and interfaces for other parts. It thinks in tracks, where a track is the combination of a type and a name - e.g. the track type 'file has a name that is the file name. Other track types are possible. To get to tracks, the core needs sources; the file emms-source-file.el provides simple sources to interact with the file system. Once EMMS has the sources in the playlist, it needs a player to play them. 'emms-player-simple.el' defines a few useful players, and lets you define others in a simple way.

GTKtalog GTKtalog browses a CD-ROM database. Each disk, folder and file has a size, date, category, description, and content parameter and can be completely edited or deleted. The file search module can search on filename, foldername with name, category description, date, filesize, and content parameter. Each filetype has its own icon. It is possible to use programs like tar, arj, zip, or scripts to extract information from files to include in the database. Gtktalog can mount, scan, umount, and eject a CD-ROM in the background.

Grip Grip is a CD player and CD ripper/MP3-encoder for the GNOME desktop. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built in, but can also use external rippers (such as cdda2wav). It also provides an automated frontend for MP3 encoders (presets for lame, bladeenc, l3enc, xingmp3enc, mp3encode, and gogo), letting you take a disc and transform it easily straight into MP3s. The Ogg Vorbis format is also supported. Internet disc lookups are supported for retrieving track information from disc database servers. Grip works with DigitalDJ to provide a unified, "computerized" version of your music collection.

Ikkes Volume Manager Ivman is a generic handler for HAL events. Originally for automounting, it can now be used to run arbitrary commands when events or conditions occur or properties are modified on your hardware (e.g., run a command when you close your laptop's lid, run a command when a particular device is attached or a particular CD is inserted, etc).

JACK Audio Connection Kit JACK is a low-latency audio server. It can connect a number of different applications to an audio device, as well as allowing them to share audio between themselves. Its clients can run in their own processes (i.e., as normal applications), or can they can run within the JACK server (as a "plugin"). JACK is different from other audio server efforts in that it has been designed from the ground up to be suitable for professional audio work. This means that it focuses on two key areas: synchronous execution of all clients, and low latency operation.

Lazy 'Lazy' is a console-based CD player with freedb support. It provides artist, album, and song name display, looking at the main freedb-server for unrecognized songs. It can also extract audio digitally if the CD-ROM drive does not have an analog audio cable.

Libcdio This library is to encapsulate CD-ROM reading and control. Applications wishing to be oblivious of the OS- and device-dependant properties of a CD-ROM can use this library. Some support for disk image types like BIN/CUE and NRG is available, so applications that use this library also have the ability to read disc images as though they were CD's. Immediate uses are VCDImager, a navigation-capable Video CD plugin and CD-DA plugin for the media player xine. A sample utility, cdinfo, is included which displays CD info. If libcddb (http://libcddb.sourceforge.net) is available, the cdinfo program will display CDDB matches on CD-DA discs.

Moosic Moosic is a music player that focuses on easy playlist management. It consists of a server process that maintains a queue of music files to play and a client program which sends commands to the server. The server continually runs through its playlist, popping items off the top of the list and playing each with an external program. The client is a simple command-line utility which allows you to perform powerful operations upon the server's queue, including the addition of whole directory trees, automatic shuffling, and item removal according to regular expressions. The server comes configured to play MP3, Ogg, MIDI, MOD, and WAV files.

Mpc 'mpc' (Music Player Command) is a command-line tool for interfacing Music Player Daemon (MPD). It uses bash tab completion and can use the output of other programs as input via piping.