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LAME (LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder) is a research project for learning about and improving MP3 encoding technology. LAME includes an MP3 encoding library, simple frontend application, a much-improved psycho-acoustic model (GPSYCHO), and a graphical
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frame analyzer (MP3x). Please note that any commercial use (including distributing the LAME encoding engine in a free encoder) may require a patent license from Thomson Multimedia. [Less]
Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple's iTunes. It is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media framework.
Rhythmbox has a number of
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features, including:
* Easy to use music browser
* Searching and sorting
* Comprehensive audio format support through GStreamer
* Internet Radio support
* Playlists [Less]
Import, organize, play, and share your music using Banshee's simple, powerful interface.
Rip CDs, play and sync your iPod, create playlists, and burn audio and MP3 CDs. Most portable music devices are supported.
Banshee also has support for podcasting, smart playlists, music recommendations, and much more.
HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, cross-platform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.
gtkpod is a platform-independent GUI for Apple's iPod using GTK 2. It allows you to import your existing iTunes database, add/delete songs/playlists, edit ID3 tags, modify the iTunes database without having the iPod connected, and synchronize at a
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later time. It also features international charset support for ID3 tags, detects when adding already existing songs, and more. [Less]
projectM is an advanced music visualizer with OpenGL acceleration orginally based on Ryan Geiss's Milkdrop. It currently supports Linux, Windows, and OSX.
An java based itunes clone with the killing feature: "Be able to DOWNLOAD music from any DAAP music network in your network neighbourhood"
The MPEG4IP package provides a set of tools to encode, stream, and playback audio and video. It uses the MPEG-4 standards for audio and video, and the IETF standards for streaming. The included player can either playback from local MP4 file or stream from a remote server via RTP/RTSP.
The musik project is a cross platform media management and playback system that provides a separate core and UI, an easy to use and extensible C++ API, powerful batch tagging and renaming, an embedded SQL database, and threaded playback and crossfading.
MusicTracker is a plugin for Pidgin (previously known as Gaim) which displays the music track currently playing in the status message of various accounts such as AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Gtalk (Jabber), etc., i.e. any protocol Pidgin supports custom statuses
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on. Support for a wide range of audio players on both Windows and Linux platforms is planned. Currently supported players: Amarok, Rhythmbox, Audacious, XMMS, MPC/MPD, Exaile, Banshee, Quod Libet on Linux. Winamp, Windows Media Player (9+), iTunes, Foobar2000 (incomplete support) on Windows.
FeaturesAllows you to customize the status string with various fields extracted from your media player such as artist, album, track, duration, progress bar, etc. Works around Pidgin's lack of support for MSN status messages by using the nickname instead. Different status messages for various media player states such as Playing, Paused and Stopped. Supports per-account status format customization. Optional Profanity filter for words in the status. Changes in version 0.4.1Added Banshee and Quod Libet support. Fixed bug that caused disable option to not work for MSN. Disabling musictracker for a protocol now clears the previous status set by musictracker. Also works for 'Tools->MusicTracker->Toggle Status Changing' option. Updated Exaile support to work with latest version (0.2.9). Full ChangeLog here. RequirementsPidgin 2.0.0 or above on Linux or Windows. For building from source on Linux: Pidgin development headers and libraries, DBUS-Glib development bindings, PCRE library. Any of the players mentioned above (more players will be supported as requests come in, so please use the Issues facility! Patches are welcome too.) (Note for XMMS/Audacious: Song title needs to be formatted as '%p | %a | %t' in player Preferences. Delimiter choice '|' can be changed in musictracker settings.)
RemarksDistributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or higher. MusicTracker was originally started as a fork of Gaim-CurrentTrack (presently known as Pidgin-CurrentTrack) to support media players on Linux, and thus has portions of code adopted from that project. It is not affiliated with Google in any way. [Less]