Open Source C++ MP3 Software

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!

Clementine is a multi-platform music player and library organizer inspired by Amarok 1.4. It has a fast and easy-to-use interface, and allows you to search and play music from your local library, internet radio, songs you’ve uploaded to cloud storage, and more! Use this as an open source alternative to itunes or spotify.

Tuniac is an iTunes style media player/manager for Windows. Advanced playlist editor, search as you type and queue support. Supports: MPEG-1 Audio (mp3, mp2, mp1) FLAC (flac, fla, oga, ogg) Advanced Audio Coding (aac, m4a, m4b, mp4) Apple Lossless Audio Codec aka ALAC (m4a) Windows Media Audio (wma) Vorbis (ogg) Opus (opus) WavPack (wv) TAK Audio (tak) TrueAudio (tta) Monkeys Audio (ape, mac) Musepack (mpc, mp+, mpp) OptimFrog (ofr, ofs) Shorten (shn) Dolby Digital (ac3) DSD (dff, dfs) PCM (wav, aif) CD Audio (cda) Speex (spx) MOD Formats (mod, mo3, xm, it, s3m, mtm) Game Audio Formats (adx, umx) MIDI (mid) Supporting radio streaming of most the above formats.

Mixxx is a free and open-source DJ software that enables DJs to create professional live mixes using digital music files. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, making it accessible to DJs across all major platforms. Mixxx supports both beginners using just a laptop and experienced DJs using advanced hardware setups. Built-in BPM and key detection help DJs quickly find compatible tracks and achieve smooth transitions. With strong community-driven development, Mixxx is continuously improved by DJs and programmers from around the world. As a fully open-source project, Mixxx is and will always remain free to use.

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

QUIMUP is a client for the music player daemon (MPD) written in C++ and QT6. New version 2.1.0 fixes some problems and adds two new features: 1. Album art size can be set (within limits). 2. User actions to run commands or scripts on files or directories. DEB package for Debian (12 or testing) / Kubuntu 24.04 RPM packages for Fedora (40) and openSUSE (Tumbleweed) Tarball for manual installation of the binary. Tarball with source code.

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

MP3Studio is a toolwindow plugin for Visual Studio.net 2003 and 2005. MP3Studio can manage and play MP3 files from a dockable window inside your development environment.

Album List is a WinAMP general plugin that takes a directory tree and turns it into a list of albums. This allows easy navigation among albums stored in different directories, especially those stored on CDs.

This software allows you to view a multimedia library (audio, video) with 3D interface. It can play multimedia files with an internal player or by calling any other external player (ex: VLC, Winamp, Foobar, Media player ...) It supports plugins and skin.

The target of this project is the development of a Linux Kernel Driver for using the Creative Nomad II Mp3 Portable Player under systems using Linux as OS. Also, the development of a C/C++ library to develop applications that use the device.

sumi (formerly xtunes) is a comprehensive digital music system. It supports ripping cds, burning cds, playing mp3s, organizing digital music in a library with playlists.

Audacity Audio Monitor (customized version of Audacity). The existing audacity is modified to support following functionality: - RTSP streaming to fetch the RTP data over UDP and plot the audio stream on the graph. - HTTP streaming to fetch the mp4 audio data using HTTP and plot the audio stream on the graph. - Display the tag label information on the graph.Tag information will be written to local disk file. - Audacity Audio Monitor shall have control buttons embedded in the player. These buttons shall enable the operator to manipulate the audio streams. The following control buttons shall be provided by the Audio Monitor: Play, Pause, Stop, and Zoom in, Zoom out, Mute, Unmute, Add Label, Edit Label, and Exit Audacity.

Lightweight GTK3 audio player supporting MIDI, WAV, MP3, OGG, FLAC, AIFF, and Opus formats. Features OPL3 FM synthesis for authentic MIDI playback, drag-and-drop playlist queue, real-time spectrum visualization, 10-band equalizer, and M3U playlist support. Built with SDL2 audio backend for cross-platform compatibility across Linux and Windows. Includes intuitive controls with keyboard shortcuts, 5-second seek buttons, and efficient format conversion. Perfect for musicians and audio enthusiasts needing reliable playback of both modern and legacy audio formats. Multi-threaded architecture ensures smooth performance. MIT License.

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 KDE ioslave for the Creative Nomad JukeBox MP3 player. The NJB appears as a filesystem from within Konqueror allowing mp3s to be copied to and from the NJB as usual. Playlists appear as text files and can be edited.

A live DJing system for the Jack sound server architecture. The system includes players for various audio file formats and playlist management.

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.

pjbExploder - Software for uploading, downloading and controlling your PJB100 MP3 player.

mp3 library, advanced ID3V1 and ID3V2 tagger, player. Organize a large mp3 library, over 40,000 songs. Speech synthesis and tag backup utilities. Scripts to maintain and organize song files.

This has now moved to GitHub! https://github.com/sam-truscott/wumpusopenal Output Plug-in for Winamp 5 that utilises OpenAL. Written primarily for Windows Vista and Windows 7 users to get Hardware Acceleration support.

Amarok - advanced audio player for KDE.

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.

Ml_sony is a plugin for winamp to support sony's network players. This plugin is able to send and extract mp3 from the player. Support for play in winamp from the device will be added later on.

Quick(Qt) Online Music Player - one player for different online music hostings. qomp's main features: * search and play music from several online music hostings (Yande.Music, myzuka.ru, poiskm.me, cuteRadio); * play music from local filesystem; * Last.fm scrobbling; * MPRIS support(Linux only); * System tray integration; * proxy-server support; * playlists support; * crossplatform (Windows, OS X, Linux, Android).