Open Source C MP3 Software

This is the fast and Free (LGPL license) real time MPEG Audio Layer 1, 2 and 3 decoding library and console player. It uses floating point or integer math, along with several special optimizations (3DNow, SSE, ARM, ...) to make it most efficient.

LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to improve the psycho acoustics, quality and speed of MP3 encoding. Note: we provide source code only!

MAD is a high-quality fixed-point MPEG audio decoder with 24-bit output. The implementation is entirely new, based on the ISO/IEC standards, and performs especially well on systems without native floating-point support.

CoolPlayer - Blazing fast audio player. Features: Skins, Simple user interface, Playlist editor, Internet streaming, File Renamer, Fast mp3->wav converter, Smallest executable, Continuous play (no pause between tracks), programmed in C

cmus, also known as the C* Music Player is a small yet fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems. It comes with a number of great features, such as gapless playback, ReplayGain support, MP3 and Ogg streaming, easy-to-use directory browser, powerful playlist filters / live filtering and more. cmus also supports several input and output plugins. Input plugins include: Ogg Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Opus, Musepack, WavPack, WAV, AAC, MP4, audio CD and more. Output plugins include: PulseAudio, ALSA, OSS, JACK, RoarAudio, CoreAudio, libao, among others.

A multimedia player for tomtom GPS.

mpg321 is a completely Free drop-in replacement for mpg123. It has been designed to work as a drop-in replacement for mpg123, for the use of front ends, shell scripts, etc. It does all mp3 decoding using the high-quality integer-only MAD library.

A simple graphical MTP client for UNIX and UNIX like systems. It supports all MTP based devices including MP3 players, Media Players, Tablets and Mobile Phones.

Mp3 decoder to convert mp3 files into wav file. Works well on Linux, Windows and Android. Can perform fast fourier transforms on decoded audio data. Under research & development by WeaveBytes

Freevo is an open source HTPC media centre integrating PVR / DVR funtionality along with music, video, gaming, home automation and more. It is written in python and uses existing popular software such as mplayer, xine and vlc.

A cool visual effects program that runs on almost every multimedia players.

Winamp MP3 output plugin based on LAME. Now you can encode your MP3 files directly from Winamp.

Provide a user-level API (C library) for communicating with the Creative NOMAD Jukebox MP3 players and Dell DJs under Linux, *BSD and Windows. The protocol in question is colloquially known as "PDE" (Portable Digital Entertainment). It includes simple

This project covers the development of 3rd-party tools for the "Wilson S1MP3 Player", some chinese device manufactured by Actions, with very low customer support. Generally you will find here development tools to access and alter the device firmware.

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

DarkVis the Open Source OpenGL based Winamp Visualization Plugin.

A utility designed for the use of interfacing with Rio's third through fifth generations of portable mp3 players; Rio 600/800/900/S-Series/Riot/psa[play/Fuse/Chiba/Cali/Nitrus.

A port of the Linux kernel and tools to the iPod.

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.

Project ZeroSlackr is a custom iPodLinux installation system. The aim of the project is to provide a simple, coherent, easy-to-use and newbie friendly method of installing iPodLinux on iPods and trying out various emulators, apps, tools and and content.

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.

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.

Precise MPEG Audio Decoder - Open source (GPL) - Small - Fast - Very Precise and Very Accurate - Floating-point and Fixed-point varieties - Works with Linux and Windows - Examples for using the library - Sample Input DLL for WinAmp - Sample command-line player - Decoding library derived from mpg123

The Rockbox project produces an open source firmware replacement for portable Digital Music Players, currently supporting Archos, iriver and iPod models with more platforms being worked on.

SnackAmp is a powerful multi-platform audio music (mp3, ogg ,wav, streams ...) player and organizer for large music collections. Manage your entire collection, including ID3 tagging and auto-playlisting. Integrated web server for remote control/strea