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CD Rippers
Windows
| Name
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License
|
Website
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Description
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| CUERipper
|
GPL
|
here
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A secure ripper for Windows that includes Accurate Stream functionality. Forum
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| dBpoweramp
|
commercial
|
here
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A secure ripper for Windows that includes Accurate Stream functionality.
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| EAC
|
Free
|
here
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A secure ripper for Windows, C2 error pointers, Accurate Stream, etc.
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| fre:ac
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GPL
|
here
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fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. Plus supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database which allows you query song information.
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Mac OS X
| Name
|
License
|
Website
|
Description
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| Max
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GPL
|
here
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A secure ripper for OS X that uses additional cdparanoia functionality
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| XLD
|
GPL
|
here
|
X Lossless Decoder(XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. Can convert between many lossless and lossy formats. Plugin oriented design, for easy exchange for new encoders.
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Linux
| Name
|
License
|
Website
|
Description
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| abcde
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GPL
|
here
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A command-line based ripper with cdparanoia functionality
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| cdparanoia
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BSD, GPL
|
here
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One of the first secure standalone rippers for the Linux platform
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| Grip
|
GPL
|
here
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An open-source Gnome interface ripper that uses cdparanoia functionality
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| Rubyripper
|
GPL
|
here
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A secure ripper for Linux that uses additional cdparanoia functionality
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| Whipper
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GPL
|
here
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A secure ripper for the Linux command-line built on cdparanoia
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CD/DVD Writers
Windows
| Name
|
Unicode
|
License
|
Website
|
Description
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| Burrrn (CDA only)
|
N
|
Free
|
|
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| CDBurnerXP
|
|
Free
|
here
|
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| DeepBurner
|
N
|
GPL
|
here
|
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| InfraRecorder
|
N
|
GPL
|
here
|
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Mac OS X
| Name
|
Unicode
|
License
|
Website
|
Description
|
| DVD-Audio Tools
|
Y
|
GPL
|
here
|
Open-source DVD-Audio authoring application
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| FireStarter FX
|
N
|
Free
|
here
|
Free OS X Cocoa CD writing application
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| X-CD-Roast
|
N
|
Free
|
here
|
New OS X port of this Linux CD writing application
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| Burn
|
N
|
Free
|
here
|
Versatile CD/DVD authoring application
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Linux
| Name
|
Unicode
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License
|
Website
|
Description
|
| CDRDAO
|
N
|
GPL
|
here
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Cdrdao records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode
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| DVD-Audio Tools
|
Y
|
GPL
|
here
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Open-source DVD-Audio authoring application
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| GnomeBaker
|
N
|
GPL
|
here
|
Popular open-source Gnome interface CD/DVD writing application
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| K3b
|
N
|
GPL
|
here
|
Popular open-source KDE CD writing application for Linux platform
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| X-CD-Roast
|
Y
|
GPL
|
here
|
New open-source Gnome interface CD/DVD writing application
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| Brasero
|
N
|
GPL
|
here
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Brasero is a application to burn CD/DVD for the Gnome Desktop.(Gnome Default)
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Multimedia Players
Windows
| Name
|
License
|
Website
|
Description
|
| foobar2000
|
Free, BSD
|
here
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Advanced tagging, plugin capabilities, and kernel streaming support
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| MediaMonkey
|
Free, Shareware
|
here
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Supports many Winamp plugins
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| VUplayer
|
Free
|
here
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Supports many popular digital audio codecs and MOD tracker formats
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| Winamp
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Free, Shareware
|
here
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Popular audio player for Windows
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|
| VLC
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LGPL
|
here
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VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
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| MusicBee
|
Free,
|
here
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The Ultimate Music Manager and Player, MusicBee supports podcasts, web radio stations and SoundCloud integration.
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Players / Source code
| Name
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License
|
Website
|
Description
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| MusikCube
|
BSD
|
here
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Supports dynamic playlists and advanced SQL capabilities
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Mac OS X
| Name
|
License
|
Website
|
Description
|
| foobar2000
|
Free
|
here
|
Most of the features implemented are known to work reasonably well.
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| VOX
|
Free
|
here
|
Mac Music Player for Hi-Res music through the popular sources.
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| Cog
|
GPL
|
here
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An open-source digital audio player for OS X.
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| Play
|
GPL
|
here
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Play is an application for playing and managing audio files.
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| VLC
|
LGPL
|
here
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VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
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Linux
| Name
|
License
|
Website
|
Description
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| Amarok
|
GPL
|
here
|
Popular open-source KDE audio player similiar to Foobar2000
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| Audacious
|
BSD
|
here
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Audacious is an open source audio player
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| Clementine
|
GPL
|
here
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Cross platform media player, a port of Amarok 1.4 to the Qt 4 and GStreamer framework, can be controlled with a Wii remote
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| DeaDBeeF
|
GPL
|
here
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Lightweight music player for Linux, GUI similar to Foobar2000
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| Quod Libet
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GPL-2.0
|
here
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GTK+-based audio player written in Python, using the Mutagen tagging library. It’s designed around the idea that you know how to organize your music better than we do. It lets you make playlists based on regular expressions (don’t worry, regular searches work too). It lets you display and edit any tags you want in the file, for all the file formats it supports.
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| Rhythmbox
|
GPL
|
here
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GNOME music player
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| VLC
|
LGPL
|
here
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VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, |Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
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| XMMS
|
GPL
|
here
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Popular open-source audio player similiar to Winamp
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command-line(Shell) players
| Name
|
License
|
Website
|
Description
|
| mpg123
|
LGPL
|
here
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mpg123 is a real time MPEG audio player/decoder
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| mplayer for windows
|
GPL v2
|
here
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MPlayer is a free and open source media player.
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| mpv
|
GPL v2
|
here
|
mpv is a free (as in freedom) media player for the command line. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types. also mpv comes with easy user interface. supported platforms Windows, Linux, Mac.
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Tagging Utilities
Windows
| Name
|
License
|
Website
|
Description
|
| MP3 Book Helper
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Free
|
here
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Tags ID3v1, ID3v2.3, and Vorbis comments. Features: FreeDB, unicode, guessing and matching, and supporting PAR, SFV, SV, and NFO generation.
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| MP3tag
|
Free
|
here
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Tags all files supporting ID3, APEv2, and Vorbis Comments, not only MP3s
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| Tag & Rename
|
Shareware
|
here
|
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| TagScanner
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Free
|
here
|
Tag editor with built-in audio player.
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| WMP Tag Plus 2.0
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Free
|
here
|
Software to integrate other tag format than ID3 into Microsoft Windows Media Player 11.
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Mac OS X
| Name
|
License
|
Website
|
Description
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| Tag
|
GPL
|
here
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An open-source tagging application for OS X
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Linux
| Name
|
License
|
Website
|
Description
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| Beets
|
MIT
|
here
|
Cross-platform open source tagging application written in Python, CLI only. Uses the Musicbrainz and Mutagen libraries, still in beta. Mostly automatic, minimal user input required. Many features and plugins. (Read the documentation)
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| EasyTAG
|
GPL
|
here
|
Gnome tagging utility
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| Ex Falso
|
GPL-2.0
|
here
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Ex Falso displays and edits audio metadata tags. Supported formats include MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack (MPC), WavPack, and MOD/XM/IT.
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| Puddletag
|
GPLv3
|
here
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Puddletag is a Linux audio tag editor similar to Mp3tag
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Lossy Audio Encoders/Decoders
Lossy audio main focus is to shrink large files to small, lossy is ideal for internet transport and on the go device (Mobile Phone / Players).
| Name
|
License
|
Website
|
Description
|
Forum
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| MP3
|
GPL
|
About / Source / Windows
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LAME is a lossy audio compression.
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MP3 Forum
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| Ogg Vorbis
|
GPL
|
About / Source / Windows
|
Ogg Vorbis is a lossy audio compression.
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Ogg Vorbis Forum
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| Musepack
|
GPL
|
here
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Musepack is a lossy audio compression.
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Musepack (MPC) Forum
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| Opus
|
GPL
|
here
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Opus is a totally open, royalty-free codec. It is primarily designed for interactive speech and music transmission over the Internet.
|
opus Forum
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| qaac
|
GPL
|
here
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qaac is a command line AAC/ALAC encoder frontend based on Apple encoder.
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qaac.AAC Forum
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- Lame/Ogg Builds (Windows)
Looking for Windows Builds, Options available to you : *Developer Site, *Git, *Hydrogenaudio Forum, *Rarewares
In addition, the Lancer suite — a highly SSE-optimized suite of utilities and libraries — are available at this page (in Japanese). See this section for information about the different builds.
Lossless Audio Encoders/decoders
Lossless Audio is aimed towards high quality audio, also suitable for high quality backups.
| Name
|
License
|
Website
|
Description
|
Forum
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| FLAC
|
GPL
|
here
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FLAC is a lossless audio compression.
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flac Forum
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| Monkey's Audio
|
|
here
|
Monkey's Audio is a lossless audio compression. also Monkey's Audio has a nice GUI converter, ideal for converting (.WAV to .APE)
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|
| WavPack
|
GPL
|
here
|
WavPack is a hybrid lossless wavefile compressor.
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WavPack Forum
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Looking for Windows Builds, Options available to you : *Developer Site, *Git, *Hydrogenaudio Forum, *Rarewares
Transcoders
Note: Although these tools may convert from one encoding to another, please remember that transcoding to any lossy encoding will result in a degraded quality.
Processing utilities
Windows
| Name
|
License
|
Website
|
Description
|
| lossyWAV
|
GPL
|
here
|
lossyWAV is a lossy pre-processor for PCM (uncompressed) WAV files. It reduces bit depth of the input signal, which, when used in conjunction with certain lossless codecs, reduces the bitrate of the encoded file significantly.
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Linux
| Name
|
License
|
Website
|
Description
|
| lossyWAV for POSIX
|
GPL
|
here
|
A POSIX build for lossyWAV.
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File Archiver - Plugins
Windows
| Name
|
License
|
Website
|
Description
|
| WavPack7z
|
|
here
|
WavPack7z is a plugin for the popular 7-Zip archiver. It allows you to pack uncompressed PCM audio data using the highly efficient WavPack compression algorithm.
discussion in the forum
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