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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.

Alogg 'alogg' is a library which makes it easier to use Ogg/Vorbis streams with Allegro. It offers facilities to decode, stream, and encode Ogg/Vorbis streams, and integrates those facilities with Allegro's datafile and sample loading routines. 'alogg' comes with a sample player, streamer, and encoder based on Allegro's sound routines.

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).

BoPHP BoPHP is a Web interface for Boss Ogg. It plays Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and Flac files, and transparently uses SQLite as a database backend. Its artist/album/song scheme is particularly useful for large collections. It has a powerful import system based on filename and/or tags, and uses libao for output. The package currently supports OSS, Alsa, esd, arts, and others. Clients communicate via a powerful XML-RPC interface. Queue size is unlimited, and users can select what happens to the queue when it's empty or finished.

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.

Crip 'crip' is a terminal-based ripper/encoder/tagger tool for creating Ogg Vorbis/FLAC/MP3 files under UNIX/Linux. It is well-suited for someone seeking to make a lot of files from CDs and have them all properly labeled and professional-quality with a minimum of hassle and yet still have flexibility and full control over everything. Current versions of crip support only Ogg Vorbis and FLAC; if you want to make MP3 files you must use crip-1.0.

Dirogg dirogg is a script to migrate your entire music collection to the Ogg Vorbis format. It's a recursive script, meaning that you run it from the top level of your music directories, and it will automatically recurse and convert all MP3 files to Ogg.

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.

Ezstream Ezstream is a command line source client for the Icecast media streaming server. It can stream Ogg Vorbis and MP3 audio, as well as Ogg Theora video, either "as-is"; without reencoding (which uses very little CPU time) or it can use external decoders and encoders to convert virtually any media format into one of the supported streaming formats. Ezstream supports metadata, streaming from standard input, playlists, and external playlist scripts or programs, and more.

Flac2ogg 'flac2ogg' converts FLAC or shorten files to Ogg Vorbis. It retains the FLAC tags as well.

GNU FM GNU FM is a piece of software you can install on your own web server, to run a music community site, similar to Libre.fm or Last.fm. You can use it for your family, your business, your band, or just for yourself.

GNUMP3d GNUMP3d is a small, portable, and robust server for streaming MP3s, OGGs, and other audio files. It presents a simple and attractive interface to Web browsers, which allows you to navigate through your music collection. Individual files may be streamed, as can whole directory trees. Other features include the ability to see your most popular tracks, and to search your collection for songs.

GetID3 'getID3()' is a PHP script that extracts useful information from MP3s and other multimedia file formats. It can extract information like the play time, bitrate, and resolution from almost 40 different file formats. It can also parse information from ID3v1, ID3v2, Ogg Vorbis, Lyrics3 v1 & v2, RIFF (AVI, WAV, CDA, CART, BWF), APE, ReplayGain, PNG, and GIF tags, and can write ID3v1, ID3v2, APE2, FLAC, and Ogg Vorbis tags.

Gimmix Gimmix is a light-weight frontend to music player daemon written in C using GTK+2. Gimmix has the following features:

• Simple and clean interface.
• Compact and full view modes.
• Library Browser.
• Library Search (Search by Artist, Album, Filename etc)
• Playlist management (manage mpd playlists)
• ID3v2 Tag editing support.
• Support for controlling gimmix through keyboard
• System tray icon support.
• Notification support (Displays the currently playing song in systray).
• Small memory footprint.

Gina Gina is a modified version of the Zina MP3 streamer/jukebox. It takes a collection of MP3s stored in a genre/artist/album/song format and creates a full-featured Web interface. It has been tested on Apache 2.0.47, PHP 4.3.1, and MySQL 4.0.13. Its features include streaming or downloading of MP3/Ogg files, album cover support and artist picture support, the ability to download albums as a ZIP file, random playing of songs from specified genres, "featured" (random) albums on the main page, and playlist support.

Gmusicbrowser gmusicbrowser is a jukebox for large collections of MP3 and Ogg files. It is fast, even with tens of thousands of songs, has easy access to related songs (same artist/album/title), supports multiple genres per song, ratings, and customisable flags. It has a powerful browser window with filter history, dynamic filters with unlimited nesting of conditions, mass-tagging, and more.