[[Audio::mp3]]

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.

Achoz: will offer search and tools to reduce your data, keep it clean, fast and easy. in alpha development stage.

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.

Airtime: Think of a radio station. Airtime is software that allows multiple people to run it over the internet. Airtime helps them manage the audio archive, upload files, create shows, manage staff, edit the programme calendar and cue playout. Designed specifically for independent media, it's free software.

Amarok: Amarok is a cross-platform multimedia player that uses the Phonon sound server framework to play audio media and streams, and features a fresh and efficient approach to playlist handling. The emphasis is on the quick and easy user interface, allowing for fast access to the media library.

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.

Audacious: Audacious is a free software audio player. A descendant of XMMS, Audacious plays your music how you want it, without stealing away your computer’s resources from other tasks. Drag and drop folders and individual song files, search for artists and albums in your entire music library, or create and edit your own custom playlists. Listen to CD’s or stream music from the Internet. Tweak the sound with the graphical equalizer or experiment with LADSPA effects. Enjoy the modern GTK-themed interface or change things up with Winamp Classic skins. Use the plugins included with Audacious to fetch lyrics for your music, to set an alarm in the morning, and more.

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.

Av-caster: From the project's README on 29 October 2021: AvCaster is built upon the JUCE framework, utilizing gStreamer as the media backend and libircclient as the chat backend. It is currently capable of recording to file or streaming to an RTMP server with screen capture (full-screen), webcam (full-screen or overlay), and audio (mono or stereo). It is moderately configurable, with preset configurations for streaming via popular servers such as livecoding.tv, and allows custom user-defined configurations to be stored as additional presets. This initial target is GNU/Linux, but it has been designed for portability and includes starter projects for AndroidStudio, CodeBlocks, VisualStudio, and xCode IDEs.

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.

Bongo: Bongo is a flexible and usable buffer-oriented media player for GNU Emacs.

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.

Cmus: cmus (C* Music Player) is a small, fast and powerful console audio player for Unix-like operating systems. It supports almost all common file formats, SHOUTcast/Icecast streaming, and multiple output plugins. cmus features multiple media library views, a playqueue, a directory browser, powerful filters, and vi-style search and keybindings. The text-only design reduces the resources needed to run the program, making it a strong choice for older or less-powerful computers as well as systems where a graphical environment is not available.

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.

DeaDBeeF: DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is a graphical, yet lightweight audio player.

Digger: Digger automatically plays songs from your music collection matching your selection criteria. You can adjust what you think of the currently playing song to enable appropriate retrieval in a wide range of listening contexts. Digger helps you get back into your music collection.

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

Dtas: Command-line tools for audio playback, processing, and whatever else related to audio. dtas follows the worse-is-better philosophy and acts as duct tape to combine existing command-line tools for flexibility and ease-of-development. dtas is currently implemented in Ruby (and some embedded shell), but may use other languages in the future. Currently, primarily wraps sox commands but may also use ecasound (or any command-line driven audio processing tools).

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 and Ogg Vorbis tags
can edit more tag fields : Title, Artist, Album, Disc Album, Year, Track Number, Genre, Comment, Composer, Original Artist/Performer, Copyright, URL and Encoder name
auto tagging: parse filename and directory to automatically complete the fields (using masks)
ability to rename files and directories from the tag (using masks) or by loading a text file
process selected files of the selected directory
ability to browse subdirectories
recursion for tagging, removing, renaming, saving, etc.
can set a field (artist, title, …) to all other selected files
read file header information (bitrate, time, …) and display them
auto completion of the date if a partial is entered
undo and redo last changes
can process fields of tag and file name (convert letters into uppercase, lowercase, ...)
ability to open a directory or a file with an external program
a tree based browser or a view by Artist & Album
a list to select files
a playlist generator window
a file searching window
simple and explicit interface
optional Nautilus extension
Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian translation languages

Emms: EMMS is the Emacs Multimedia System. It is a small front-end which can control one of the supported external players. Thus, it supports whatever formats are supported by your music player. It also supports tagging and playlist management, all behind a clean and light user interface. The latest version is available via GNU ELPA. To install this package, run in Emacs: M-x package-install RET emms RET

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.

Ffem: Media is an Emacs front-end for command line media players. This major mode currently supports only mplayer.

Ffmpeg

FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. Its components include:

ffmpeg – Converts one video file format to another and supports grabbing and encoding in real time from a TV card.
ffserver – HTTP (RTSP is being developed) multimedia streaming server for live broadcasts that supports time shifting.
ffplay – simple media player based on SDL and the ffmpeg libraries
ffprobe – a media file prober
libavcodec – library containing all FFmpeg audio/video encoders and decoders (most developed from scratch for best performances and high reusability)
libavfilter – video and audio filtering library
libavformat – library of parsers and generators for all common audio/video formats
libavutil – utility library containing functions used by all FFmpeg components
libswscale – video scaler and pixel format converter
libswresample – audio resampler and sample format converter
libpostproc – video post-processing library

Ffmpeg-broadcaster: this project contains two analogous shell scripts for broadcasting live any of desktop screen capture, webcam, audio, static images, text overlay through RTMP/flash/wowza servers such as livecoding.tv and concertwindow.com ffmpeg implementation - full-featured and works quite well gstreamer implementetion - work in progress

Furnace: The biggest multi-system chiptune tracker ever made! Emulates the audio chips of several classic pieces of hardware and brings them into an easy to use tracker interface!

GFLame

GFlame is easy to use GTK2 Front-end for lame encoder written in C++, for just a couple of hours. It is developed using Glade2 GUI designer, and gtkmm2 wrapping engine for GTK+.
GFlame v0.1 is tested with lame v3.95 MMX. This version is fully functional, but requires more lame options to be supported, such as raw pcm input, recompression, streaming, resampling etc.
FEATURES:

Multiple files for encoding.
Manual or preset encoding control for each file.
ID3 Tag editor.

GPodder: gPodder is a Podcast receiver/catcher written in Python and pyGTK. It manages podcast feeds for you, and automatically downloads all podcasts from as many feeds as you like. If you are interested in Podcast feeds, simply put the feed URLs into gPodder and it will download all episodes for you automatically. If there is a new episode, it will get it for you. It supports download resume, if the server supports it.

Garlic-player: The garlic player is a SMIL compatible media player software for digital signage. It displays different digital signage content, such as images, videos, and interactive applications, on a screen. The garlic-player can be used and administrated locally or remote via Internet.

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.

Gnome Simple Stateful Music Player: Gnome Simple Stateful Music Player is a small, simple music player that keeps out of your way whenever possible. It remembers what you were playing when you exited, and continues in the same place the next time you start. It doesn't build a database of your audio tracks: instead it works with your files and directories directly.

Gnomoradio: The Gnomoradio project is creating an online network where artists can promote and share their music freely and willingly. By eliminating many of the exclusionary tactics of the mainstream music industry, musicians now have a chance to interact directly with their listeners and receive valuable exposure.

Gnormalize: gnormalize is a front end to the normalize tool, ripper, an encoder, and an audio converter. It decodes MP3, MP4 (or M4A or AAC), MPC (or MPP or MP+), OGG, APE, or FLAC files to wave, then normalizes the wave and re-encodes it. It can also rip audio CDs, encode audio data, convert audio formats between MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, APE, and FLAC, and change the encoding properties and edit Meta Info (like title, artist, album, etc.) of the final normalized files.

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.

Goggles Music Manager: Goggles Music Manager is a music collection manager and player that automatically categorizes MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and Musepack files based on genre, artist, album, and song. There is no need to create playlists of any kind. Just select one or more artists and albums to start playing your music.

Gronk: Gronk is a Web-based MP3 jukebox. It generates heavily-hyperlinked Web pages listing all of your ripped CDs, by extracting information from CDDB data. These Web pages allow easy selection of songs or albums to play, and when nothing has been explicitly selected, it selects songs randomly. Playback is done via either XMMS or mpg123. It is built around static HTML pages, not a database.

Herrie: Herrie is a command line music player. It has a split-screen file manager and playlist interface and supports a number of file formats (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, wave, FLAC, etc). It also has some nice features, including a chroot() function for untrusted setups (remote logins, parties, etc). AudioScrobbler is also implemented using Curl.

ID3.py: ID3.py is an object-oriented Python module for manipulating the so-called ID3 informational tags on MP3 files, which include such data as artist, track title, genre, et cetera. ID3.py is extremely easy to use, and is intended for folks who are developing MP3 encoder wrapper programs or browsers in Python.

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