Open Source C 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).

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.

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.

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

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 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 Originally written by Oliver Graf, but no longer maintained by him.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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Aamir Media player plays 30 formats of audio/video files with very small size but with great functionality.

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

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

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

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

This project is not actively maintained because other solutions (and a complete lack of time) have arisen. GMMS: XMMS inspired media player that aims for full gnome integration. Gstreamer is used as the backend.

General Sound Interface (GSI). This is a sound interface capable of controlling every detail of sound playing. It can use the following interfaces: OSS, Ultrasound (Linux 2.0.x & 2.1.x), FreeBSD (pcm), and generic /dev/audio.

HAL UI is a user interface for a diskless linux computer

Simple, gstreamer based media player and framework.

The Linux Media Center (LMC) is an attempt to create a clone of Windows Media Player. It'll be having almost all the features of WMP and many more. It'll be play audio as well as video. It is being written using the GTK libraries and GStreamer.

Just an Organizer to organize your whole MP3 and MP4 that are on your machine. You can sort by artist/song/album/etc., read and write Metadata, rip and play CD's

NotifyCD is a small system tray based CDDB supporting CD player for Windows 9x/NT/2000.