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Abcde 'abcde' is a frontend to cdparanoia, wget, cd-discid, id3, and your favorite Ogg/MP3/Flac encoder (Oggenc is the default). With one comand, it grabs a CD, converts each track to Ogg/MP3/Flac, and comments or ID3-tags each file. It supports multiple output in a single CD read, volume normalization, gapless encoding (with Lame), parallelization, SMP, HTTP proxies, customizable filename organization and munging, playlist generation, and remote distributed encoding via distmp3.

Agatha Agatha is a Web-based MP3 playing system that allows the home user or office group to stream music, create, manage, and share play lists, and control the playing of music on a remote system. It does not require a database and has full play-on-server support.

Ampache Ampache is a Web-based Audio file manager. It is implemented with MySQL, and PHP. It allows you to view, edit, and play your audio files via the web. It has support for playlists, artist and album views, album art, random play, playback via Http/On the Fly Transcoding and Downsampling, Vote based playback, Mpd and Icecast, Integrated Flash Player, as well as per user themes and song play tracking. You can also Link multiple Ampache servers togeather using XML-RPC. Ampache supports GETTEXT translations and has a full translation of many languages

Aqualung Aqualung is an advanced music player originally targeted at the GNU/Linux operating system, today also running on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and other platforms. It plays audio CDs, internet radio streams and podcasts as well as soundfiles in just about any audio format and has the feature of inserting no gaps between adjacent tracks. It also supports high quality sample rate conversion between the file and the output device, when necessary.

Audacity Audacity is a cross-platform multitrack audio editor that lets you record sounds directly or import Ogg, WAV, AIFF, AU, IRCAM, or MP3 files. It features a few simple effects, all of the editing features you should need, and unlimited undo. The GUI is built with wxWidgets and the audio I/O currently uses PortAudio.

Audio Utils A collection of bash and perl scripts that help convert audio files.

• aac2ogg - a quick and dirty AAC to OGG Vorbis converter.
• wma2ogg - simple bash script that uses mplayer to convert ugly WMA files to OGG Vorbis.
• reencode - a simple bash script that lets you re-encode MP3 files to higher/lower bitrates. Useful when the resulting MP3 file is going to be on a low-memory device (ie. "MP3" players).

Audio codec 2 'Audio codec' is part of the LAME project, which is the source code for a fully GPL'd MP3 encoder. The project's goal is to improve the psychoacoustics, noise shaping and speed of MP3.

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.

Bookcase Bookcase is a collection manager for KDE. It includes default collections for books, bibliographies, comic books, videos, music, coins, stamps, trading cards, and wines; it also allows custom collections and unlimited user-defined fields. The collection may be sorted by any property. Names are formatted automatically. Filters limit the visible entries by definable criteria. User can edit the default XSLT file for full customization for printing. Automatic ISBN validation is included. 'bookcase' can import CSV, Bibtex, and Bibtexml and export CSV, HTML, Bibtex, Bibtexml, and PilotDB.

BurnCDDA 'burnCDDA' is a console frontend to cdrdao, cdrecord, mpg123, oggdec, mppdec, normalize, and mp3_check. It can be used to create audio CDs from an M3U playlist (the playlist format of XMMS). It supports MP3, OGG Vorbis, Musepack, and WAV files, and it might be the easiest way to copy an audio CD.

Cantus 'Cantus' is a tool for tagging and renaming MP3 and OGG/Vorbis files. Its features include mass tagging and renaming of MP3s, the ability to generate a tag out of the filename, filter definitions for renaming, recursive actions, CDDB (Freedb) lookup (no CD needed), the ability to copy between ID3V1 and ID3V2 tags, and more.

Christine Christine lets you play your audio and video files in the same application. In a very very easy way. As christine is inteded to be small, and cute we currently had no support for internet radio station, but we will in the future.

Cutmp3 'cutmp3' is a small command line MP3 editor. It lets you select sections of an MP3 interactively or via a timetable and save them to separate files without quality loss. Silence and ID3 tag searching are also possible. For playback it uses mpg123. The program works with VBR files and files bigger than 2GB.

Digital DJ DigitalDJ is an SQL-based mp3-player frontend designed to work with Grip. When Grip encodes mp3 files, it places all song information into an SQL database. DigitalDJ then uses this information to create playlists based on various criteria. * Manage a database of CDs in MP3 format * Interacts with Grip to add song information as you rip * Create playlists based on song properties such as Artist/Disc/Genre/Tempo * Play songs via an external MP3-player * Condensed mode with small screen footprint and scrolling display * Nifty BPM-O-Matic beats-per-minute calculator * Keeps track of number of plays and last play for song/disc/artist

E-xmms E-xmms is a Enlightenment applet that interfaces with XMMS. It will compare the previous and current states to determine if window painting should be done.

EasyTAG EasyTAG is an utility for viewing, editing, and writing tags for your MP3, MP2, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC files using a nice simple GTK+ user interface. Features include (among others):

View, edit, write MP3, MP2, FLAC (supporting ID3v2 and ID3v1.x
specifications) and Ogg Vorbis tags
Auto tagging: parse filename and directory to automatically complete
the fields (using masks)
Ability to rename mp3 file from tag (using masks)
Can process all the files in a selected directory
Ability to browse subdirectories
Recursion for tagging, removing, renaming, saving
Can set a field (artist, title,...) to all other files
Reads and displays file header information (bitrate, time, etc.)
Auto completion of the date if partial information is entered
Can undo last changes
Can process fields of tag and file name (convert letters into
uppercase, lowercase, ...)
Loads files for character translation
Tree based browser
List to select files
Simple and explicit interface
Menu bar and shortcuts
Displays messages in status bar
French, German, Russian, Dutch, Hungarian, Swedish, Italian and
Japanese and Ukranian translations

Euterpe Euterpe is a media archive searching applet. It takes a search string from either the current selection or a query dialog and searches for matching file names, playing any it finds. Multiple archive directories are supported. All actions are configurable.

Exaile Exaile is a media player aiming to be similar to KDE's AmaroK, but for GTK+. It incorporates many of the features from AmaroK (and other media players) like automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via the wikipedia, last.fm support, and optional iPod support (assuming you have python-gpod installed). In addition, it includes a built in shoutcast directory browser, tabbed playlists (so you can have more than one playlist open at a time), blacklisting of tracks (so they don't get scanned into your library), downloading of guitar tablature from fretplay.com, and submitting played tracks on your iPod to last.fm.

FIcy 'fIcy' is a command line icecast/shoutcast stream grabber. Its goal is to cleanly and automatically rip a stream into user-customizable files. It will work with any ICY-compatible stream, so you can save the stream to disk, pipe the output to a media player, or do both.

FUPlayer 2 FUPlayer is a full featured music manager and player for the GNOME desktop. With it, you can play music from your hard drive, create playlists, do real file management using its Trash, and play, rip, and burn audio CDs. It features an interface similar to those of many modern manager-style players, but with many improvements, such as true non-modal search and browse functionality, find-as-you-type, and drag destination highlighting. It aims to be extremely user friendly and efficient to use.