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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

KPlayer is a KDE multimedia player.

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

CD player for Linux systems using Qt

Sonic-Rainbow is a Linux GUI DVD/VCD/Video File Player, CD Player, CD Ripper, MP3 Player, Ogg file player, Playlist Editor with HTTP CD/Album Lookup in one simple Linux KDE/Gnome/Xfce etc. application. Written by Gary Baker ( South Oz )

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.

This project is for the continued development of a digital Jukebox for consumer and later commercial use.

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

Open Source and freeware media player on Phonon with Qt 4.5.1

Freecity is a "Freeplayer Modification" for the french ISP "Free". Free's customers have a so-called freebox plugged to your TV, that transforms it to a multimedia center.

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.