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.

A multimedia player for tomtom GPS.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

A front-end to various audio players, including mpg123. It includes playlists, skins (themes), and many other options.

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

This is a patch for mkisofs so that it can write mp3 files in a correct order. This is intended to create CDs full of mp3 to be read in portable CD players, like the eXpanium.

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.

IRMP3 is a multimedia audio jukebox for Linux that it easily integrates into home, car, and mobile environments (where a keyboard/screen interface may not always be available).

A small program to manage (and play through mpg321, not included) mp3 files stored anywhere on your hard disk. Standard C compiled on Linux, but may work on other environments.

OsnofianLinux is a set of small distributions intended to fit on 1.44Mb floppy disk, in the boot sector of a CDROM, hard drive or even on a USB stick. Check the project homepage for more details and projects info.

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.

DarkVis the Open Source OpenGL based Winamp Visualization Plugin.

Java access to USB, currently using kernel 2.4 Linux-USB support. There is a "core" API for accessing USB devices, and simple tools including a USB viewer in Swing. Applications are being developed separately, including digital camera support.