Open Source Linux CD Playing Software

Grip is a GTK-based CD-player and CD-ripper / MP3 encoder. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built in, but can also use external rippers (such as cdda2wav). Encoder presets are provided for oggenc, bladeenc, lame, l3enc, xingmp3enc, mp3encode, gogo, flac, faac and opusenc. The main developers can be found in #grip on Libera (irc.libera.chat).

Audio player, transcoder and cd ripper for Mac OS X, Windows, Unix, and Linux. Plays and creates ogg, flac, mp3, aac, m4a, mp4, wav, and aif, and plays wma. 31-band equalizer, repeat loop, variable pitch/tempo, ram or ramdisk preload, more.

libcdaudio is an unmaintained but portable library that provides wrapper functions to audio CD drives and CDDB and CDIndex database access. cdcd is a commandline CD player using libcdaudio's CDDB and CDIndex functions.

A portable, modular music player and converter using the BASS framework for Windows XP/.../10/11. The following input formats are supported: aac, ac3, aif, ape, dff, dsf, dts, fla, flac, kar, m4a, m4a, m4b, mac, mid, midi, mod, mp1, mp2, mp3, mp4, oga, ogg, ogg, opus, rmi, wav, wma, wv. The following output formats are supported: flac, m4a, mp3, ogg, opus, wv. Gapless and fading (with crossfading) input modes are supported. DirectSound, WASAPI and ASIO output modes are supported. 10 band equalizer with build in and custom presets. Tempo control. A high quality resampler based on the soxr library. Cue sheets can be played and split using the converter. Various archive files can be played directly.

AlsaPlayer is a new type of PCM player. It is heavily multi-threaded and tries to excercise the ALSA library and driver quite a bit. It has some very interesting features unique to Linux/Unix players. For the last updates and the current development, check https://github.com/alsaplayer/alsaplayer

Patches xmms for on the fly recoding id3 tags, m3u playlists, and file names from one encoding to another. Support ID3 tag editing, playlist sorting, encoding autodetection. Configuration available under encodings page of standard xmms preferences.

Kaffeine is full featured Media Player for KDE. It supports all kinds of local and network media and digital video broadcasting (DVB). At the moment Kaffeine can use xine-lib or GStreamer as backend.

Zinf is the continuation of FreeA*p and has all the same features as FreeA*mp: MP3, Vorbis, WAV and audio CD playback, streaming (SHOUTcast, Icecast, RTP) support, a powerful musicbrowser/playlist editor, a themed interface and a RMP download manager.

autorun automagically recognizes all available CDROMs in the system, mounts them upon insertion of a media and executes a possible autorun executable on the CD. The user can remove the media; autorun will call unmount after that.

KPlayer is a KDE multimedia player.

Control a CD drive (transport) via the DSA protocol.

OpenCD SDL is a simple CD Player written with SDL Librarie in ANSI C, so it can compile on many OS. OpenCD SDL est un simple Lecteur CD écrit avec la bibliothèque SDL en ANSI C, donc on peut le compiler sur tous les systèmes.

dcd is a simple, programmable, intelligent CD player for the Linux console.

A small, dockable sound-mixer + CD-player for X, designed with the Window Maker dock in mind. Originally written by Oliver Graf, but no longer maintained by him. This project exists to provide on-going support and maintenance for WMRack.

UPDATE april 2017: We have now accuired access to the old grip project here on SF. Coding will therefore move back to the original project page, sometime during easter (april 2017) Grip is a GTK-based CD-player and CD-ripper / MP3 encoder. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built in, but can also use external rippers. This is a fork of the old Grip project. The original name is the same, only the project name and tarball releases is different. it is intended to be a dropin replacement of the old Grip.

A Ripper and encoder frontend for Linux. Requires sndlibfile and lame.so to work.

The MCT Player is an advanced media player which takes advantage of the IP Multicast Internet. The player merges several layered streams and applies error correction techniques to provide the end user a high quality experience.

DLNA server (multiplatform) for personal computers with support of high resolution DSD, FLAC and WAV files (OGG, WMA and MP3 is also supported). Stream your personal files to various stream players using LAN or wireless WLAN (Wi-Fi).

muzikQ is a curses/SDL_mixer based audio player currently supporting mp3 & ogg, has features such as song rating, playlists, ssh and telnet control, & is platform independent.

Apolos is a small program to listen to music CDs, and is planned to be able to rip them also. Its written in C for GNU/Linux using GTK+ as the GUI.

BeatForce is a computer dj-ing system with 2 players, song database supporting muti table playlists, mixer with manual/auto fade. Sampler and cdda support. The players can handle mp3, ogg and cdda files. The user interface is SDL based, with theme suppor

CCM (CCM is a Console Mediacenter) is an interface to execute your favourite media via shell. It's based on mplayer and it's written in python. The goal of this project is to create an integrated mediacenter for the linuxboxes without X server running

A GTK+ gui for cdrecord and mkisofs aimed at being easy to use for inexeperienced users.

The development of a major mode for (X)Emacs for interfacing with audio CDs using a server/client approach.

The Pioneer DVF07 (or 727) 300 Disc CD changer has support for text titles and artists in the player. This connects to FreeDB.org and downloads the text to the player. While this is Win32 software, only the GUI is not portable. You could whip up a command