Comparison of audio player software
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The following comparison of audio players compares general and technical information for a number of software media player programs.
For the purpose of this comparison, "audio players" are defined as any media player which can only play audio files. Players capable of video playback are included under comparison of video player software, even if they are primarily well known for audio playback.
s the players understand, for receiving streaming media
content. Footnotes lead to information about capabilities of future versions of the players or plugins that provide such functionality.
formats the players understand.
s the players can play. Footnotes lead to information about capabilities of future versions of the players or plugins that provide such functionality.
Playback of Super Audio CD
is not possible for any media player, because no suitable hardware exists.
All media players capable of audio CD
playback will also play the Redbook
core of any HDCD
disc, providing no sound-quality benefits over standard audio CDs.
For the purpose of this comparison, "audio players" are defined as any media player which can only play audio files. Players capable of video playback are included under comparison of video player software, even if they are primarily well known for audio playback.
General
| Name | Author | First public release | Most recent stable version | Cost | Software license | Based Framework Multimedia framework A multimedia framework is a software framework that handles media on a computer and through a network. A good multimedia framework offers an intuitive API and a modular architecture to easily add support for new audio, video and container formats and transmission protocols... |
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| ALLPlayer ALLPlayer ALLPlayer is a Polish freeware media player developed by ALLPlayer.org It was designed to allow watching videos with subtitles in a variety of formats. ALLPlayer is originated and developed by ALLCinema Ltd. Partnership. Unlike other media players, it does not use Windows Media Player to play... |
Allplayer ltd | 1998 | 3.7 (24 December 2008) | ||||
| Amarok Amarok (audio) Amarok is a cross-platform free and open source music player for KDE, but is released independently of the central KDE Software Compilation release cycle... |
Mark Kretschmann | Jun 2003 | via Phonon Phonon (KDE) Phonon is the multimedia API provided by Qt and is the standard abstraction for handling multimedia streams within the KDE Software Compilation 4.... : GStreamer GStreamer GStreamer is a pipeline-based multimedia framework written in the C programming language with the type system based on GObject.GStreamer allows a programmer to create a variety of media-handling components, including simple audio playback, audio and video playback, recording, streaming and editing... , xine Xine xine is a multimedia playback engine for Unix-like operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. xine is built around a shared library that supports different frontend player applications. Another important feature of xine is the ability to manually correct the synchronization... , MPlayer MPlayer MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Versions for OS/2, Syllable, AmigaOS and MorphOS are also available. The Windows version works, with some minor... , VLC VLC media player VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to... , DirectShow DirectShow DirectShow , codename Quartz, is a multimedia framework and API produced by Microsoft for software developers to perform various operations with media files or streams. It is the replacement for Microsoft's earlier Video for Windows technology... , QuickTime QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and... |
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| aTunes ATunes aTunes is a free audio player with MPlayer as its playback engine. aTunes supports MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and other formats. aTunes allows users to edit tags, organize music and rip audio CDs easily.-Media Library:... |
Alex Aranda et al. | 2006 | Java Java (programming language) Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities... |
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| Audacious | Audacious Development Team | 30 Oct 2005 | C C (programming language) C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system.... , C++ C++ C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell... |
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| Audion Audion (software) Audion is an audio player by Panic. It was originally a commercial program, but with the dominance of Apple's iTunes, development was halted and it was released as freeware.-Design:... |
Panic Panic (company) Panic is an Oregon-based American software company that specializes in shareware applications for Mac OS X. It was founded by Steven Frank and Cabel Sasser.... |
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| Beep Media Player Beep Media Player The Beep Media Player was a free audio player, based on the XMMS multimedia player. The lead developer was Milosz “deadchip” Derezynski. The BMP is mainly a port of XMMS to GTK+ 2 and, as such, integrates better with the look and feel of more recent versions of GNOME, Xfce, and, if using the... |
Milosz Derezynski | 06 Jun 2004 | C C (programming language) C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system.... |
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| Calaym Calaym Calaym is a GUI for sound systems.Calaym has a graphical user interface, which manages the playlist, menus, options.... |
Jan Vorel | 11 August 2002 | 19 September 2011 | FModEx/FMod FMOD FMOD is a proprietary audio library made by Firelight Technologies that plays music files of diverse formats on many different operating system platforms, used in games and software applications to provide audio functionality.... / BASS |
VB6 / PureBasic PureBasic PureBasic is a commercially distributed procedural computer programming language and integrated development environment based on BASIC and developed by Fantaisie Software for Windows 32/64-bit, Linux 32/64-bit, and Mac OS X. An Amiga version is available, although it has been discontinued and... |
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| CDPlayer | Microsoft | Nov 1992 | 4.00.950 | ||||
| Clementine Clementine (software) Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer. It is a port of Amarok 1.4 to the Qt 4 framework and the GStreamer multimedia framework. It is available for Unix-like, Windows and Mac OS X... |
Clementine Team | March 2011 | C++ C++ C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell... |
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| cmus Cmus cmus is a small and fast console audio player for Unix-like operating systems.cmus is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License and operates exclusively through a text-only interface, built with ncurses.... |
Timo Hirvonen | 18 Jan 2005 | C C (programming language) C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system.... |
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| Cog Cog (software) Cog is an open source audio player for Mac OS X. The basic layout is a single-paned playlist interface with two retractable drawers, one for navigating the user's music folders and another for viewing audio file properties, like bitrate... |
Vincent Spader | 1 May 2006 | Objective-C Objective-C Objective-C is a reflective, object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language.Today, it is used primarily on Apple's Mac OS X and iOS: two environments derived from the OpenStep standard, though not compliant with it... |
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| Creative MediaSource | Creative Technology Creative Technology Creative Technology Ltd. is a Singapore-based global company headquartered in Jurong East, Singapore. The principal activities of the company and its subsidiaries consist of the design, manufacture and distribution of digitized sound and video boards, computers and related multimedia, and personal... |
2002 | 5.10.38 | —Bundled (requires Creative product) | |||
| Decibel Audio Player Decibel Audio Player Decibel Audio Player is an audio player written in Python, designed to be straightforward and easy to use. It is targeted at users of the GNOME desktop environment and follows the GNOME human interface guidelines.- Modules :... |
François Ingelrest | 13 May 2007 | 1.05 | GStreamer GStreamer GStreamer is a pipeline-based multimedia framework written in the C programming language with the type system based on GObject.GStreamer allows a programmer to create a variety of media-handling components, including simple audio playback, audio and video playback, recording, streaming and editing... |
Python Python (programming language) Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive... |
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| Exaile Exaile Exaile is a music player that was originally conceived to be similar in style and function to KDE's Amarok 1.4, but use the GTK+ widget toolkit rather than Qt... |
Adam Olsen | 24 May 2006 | GStreamer GStreamer GStreamer is a pipeline-based multimedia framework written in the C programming language with the type system based on GObject.GStreamer allows a programmer to create a variety of media-handling components, including simple audio playback, audio and video playback, recording, streaming and editing... |
Python Python (programming language) Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive... |
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| Flash MP3 Player Flash MP3 Player Flash MP3 Player is a web application that allows users to create a music player on their website. It is based on Flash and PHP, but it can be installed without any programming skills. Users are simply required to embed a piece of HTML code into their website and application automatically generates... |
Reality Software | 11 Mar 2008 | 1.00 | ||||
| foobar2000 Foobar2000 foobar2000 is a freeware audio player for Windows developed by Peter Pawlowski, a former freelance contractor for Nullsoft. It is known for its highly modular design and extensive SDK which allows third-party developers to do such things as completely replace the interface... |
Peter Pawlowski | Dec 2002 | (core), BSD (first-party components) |
C++ C++ C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell... |
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| JuK JuK JuK is a free software audio player by KDE, the default player since K Desktop Environment 3.2. JuK supports collections of MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files.... |
Scott Wheeler | Feb 2003 | C++ C++ C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell... |
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| Listen | Mehdi Abaakouk | 04 Mar 2006 | 0.6 | GStreamer GStreamer GStreamer is a pipeline-based multimedia framework written in the C programming language with the type system based on GObject.GStreamer allows a programmer to create a variety of media-handling components, including simple audio playback, audio and video playback, recording, streaming and editing... |
Python Python (programming language) Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive... |
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| Media Jukebox | J. River | 1998 | 14.0.166 (July 15, 2010) | ||||
| MediaMonkey Standard MediaMonkey MediaMonkey is a proprietary digital media player and media library application developed by Ventis Media Inc., for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems. By using plugins, it can be extended to handle video and other media formats as well.MediaMonkey is available in a... |
Ventis Media Inc. | 25 Aug 2003 | Delphi, C C (programming language) C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system.... |
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| MediaMonkey Gold MediaMonkey MediaMonkey is a proprietary digital media player and media library application developed by Ventis Media Inc., for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems. By using plugins, it can be extended to handle video and other media formats as well.MediaMonkey is available in a... |
Ventis Media Inc. | 25 Aug 2003 | US$19.95 | Delphi, C C (programming language) C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system.... |
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| MediaMonkey Lifetime MediaMonkey MediaMonkey is a proprietary digital media player and media library application developed by Ventis Media Inc., for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems. By using plugins, it can be extended to handle video and other media formats as well.MediaMonkey is available in a... |
Ventis Media Inc. | 25 Aug 2003 | US$29.95 | Delphi, C C (programming language) C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system.... |
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| MPXPLAY Mpxplay Mpxplay is a 32-bit console audio player for DOS and Windows operating systems.It supports AAC, AC3, ALAC, APE, FLAC, MP2/MP3, MPC, Vorbis, WMA, WV audio codecs, AIF and WAV/W64 files, and can play sound from videos using the AVI, ASF, MKV, MP4/MOV, MPG/VOB, OGG and TS containers. With plugins it... |
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| Music on Console Music on Console Music On Console is an ncurses-based console audio player for Linux/UNIX written by Damian Pietras. It is designed to be powerful and easy to use, with a command structure and window layout inspired by the Midnight Commander console file manager... |
Damian Pietras | 2002 | C C (programming language) C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system.... |
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| Music Player Daemon Music Player Daemon Music Player Daemon is a music player server.- Design :MPD simply runs in the background playing music from its playlist. Client programs communicate with MPD to manipulate playback, the playlist, and the database... |
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| MusicBee MusicBee MusicBee is a free digital media player and media library application for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems using the BASS Audio Library.-Features:... |
Steven Mayall | 04 Dec 2008 | 1.1.3599 (RC2) / 09 Nov 2009 | BASS Audio Library | VB.NET | ||
| musikCube MusikCube musikCube is a partially open source audio player. Originally created as a fork of wxMusik, it has since been expanded to include capabilities not available in wxMusik. Internally, musikCube uses the proprietary BASS audio library to provide playback support.... |
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| Napster Napster (pay service) Napster is an online music store and a Best Buy company. It was originally founded as a file sharing service. For more information about its founding mission as a free file sharing service, see Napster.-History:... |
William Christopher Gorog | Oct 2003 | 4.0.4.8 | US$9.95+ | |||
| Rhapsody Rhapsody (online music service) Rhapsody is an online music store subscription service, launched in December 2001, and available in the United States only. On April 6, 2010, Rhapsody officially declared its independence from RealNetworks. Downloaded files come with restrictions on their use, enforced by Helix, Rhapsody's version... |
RealNetworks RealNetworks RealNetworks, Inc. is a provider of Internet media delivery software and services based in Downtown Seattle, Washington, United States. The company is the creator of RealAudio, a compressed audio format; RealVideo, a compressed video format; RealPlayer, a media player; RealDownloader, a download... |
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| Rhythmbox Rhythmbox Rhythmbox is an audio player that plays and helps organize digital music. Originally inspired by Apple's iTunes, it is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework. However, Rhythmbox functions on desktop environments other than GNOME.-Music... |
Colin Walters | Apr 2004 | GStreamer GStreamer GStreamer is a pipeline-based multimedia framework written in the C programming language with the type system based on GObject.GStreamer allows a programmer to create a variety of media-handling components, including simple audio playback, audio and video playback, recording, streaming and editing... |
C C (programming language) C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system.... |
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| Sonique Sonique (media player) Sonique is an audio player application released as freeware for Microsoft Windows, capable of handling MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Microsoft Windows Media, audio CDs, and more.... |
Media Science | Nov 1998 | 1.96 (March 2002) | ||||
| Style Jukebox Style Jukebox Style Jukebox is a free media player for the Windows operating system, developed by Antiu M. Ionut Alexandru. It supports the most major audio and video formats, as well as DVD playback.-Features:... |
Antiu M. Ionut Alexandru | Jul 2009 | C# | ||||
| XMMS XMMS The X Multimedia System is a free audio player for Unix-like systems.-History:XMMS was originally written as X11Amp by Peter and Mikael Alm in November 1997. The player was made to resemble Winamp, which was first released in May that year. As such, XMMS has supported Winamp 2 "classic" skins... |
XMMS Team | Nov 1997 | original | C C (programming language) C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system.... |
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| Zinf Zinf Zinf is a free audio player released under the GNU General Public License. It runs on Unix-like operating systems and Windows.Zinf is a continuation of the FreeAmp project and uses the same source code.-Technical features:... |
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| Name | Author | First public release date | Stable version | Cost | Software license | Based Framework Multimedia framework A multimedia framework is a software framework that handles media on a computer and through a network. A good multimedia framework offers an intuitive API and a modular architecture to easily add support for new audio, video and container formats and transmission protocols... |
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Operating system requirement
This section lists the operating systems on which the player works. There may be multiple versions of a player for different operating systems.| Audio player | Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... |
Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... |
BSD Unix | Solaris | Other Unix Unix-like A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification.... |
DOS (FreeDOS, Dr-DOS) FreeDOS FreeDOS is an operating system for IBM PC compatible computers. FreeDOS is made up of many different, separate programs that act as "packages" to the overall FreeDOS Project... |
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| Amarok Amarok (audio) Amarok is a cross-platform free and open source music player for KDE, but is released independently of the central KDE Software Compilation release cycle... |
Amarok for Windows Download Page - not yet officially supported | OS X Amarok for Mac OS X Download Page - not yet officially supported | |||||
| aTunes ATunes aTunes is a free audio player with MPlayer as its playback engine. aTunes supports MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and other formats. aTunes allows users to edit tags, organize music and rip audio CDs easily.-Media Library:... |
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| Audion Audion (software) Audion is an audio player by Panic. It was originally a commercial program, but with the dominance of Apple's iTunes, development was halted and it was released as freeware.-Design:... |
Might be usable with Rosetta Rosetta (software) Rosetta was a lightweight and dynamic binary translator for Mac OS X which Apple released in 2006 when it transitioned the Macintosh from PowerPC to Intel processors. It allowed pre-existing software to run on the new systems without modification.... . |
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| Calaym Calaym Calaym is a GUI for sound systems.Calaym has a graphical user interface, which manages the playlist, menus, options.... |
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| cmus Cmus cmus is a small and fast console audio player for Unix-like operating systems.cmus is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License and operates exclusively through a text-only interface, built with ncurses.... |
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| Cog Cog (software) Cog is an open source audio player for Mac OS X. The basic layout is a single-paned playlist interface with two retractable drawers, one for navigating the user's music folders and another for viewing audio file properties, like bitrate... |
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| Clementine Clementine (software) Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer. It is a port of Amarok 1.4 to the Qt 4 framework and the GStreamer multimedia framework. It is available for Unix-like, Windows and Mac OS X... |
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| Decibel Audio Player Decibel Audio Player Decibel Audio Player is an audio player written in Python, designed to be straightforward and easy to use. It is targeted at users of the GNOME desktop environment and follows the GNOME human interface guidelines.- Modules :... |
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| Exaile Exaile Exaile is a music player that was originally conceived to be similar in style and function to KDE's Amarok 1.4, but use the GTK+ widget toolkit rather than Qt... |
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| foobar2000 Foobar2000 foobar2000 is a freeware audio player for Windows developed by Peter Pawlowski, a former freelance contractor for Nullsoft. It is known for its highly modular design and extensive SDK which allows third-party developers to do such things as completely replace the interface... |
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| JuK JuK JuK is a free software audio player by KDE, the default player since K Desktop Environment 3.2. JuK supports collections of MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files.... |
KDE on Windows Project - Part of kdemultimedia Kdemultimedia kdemultimedia is a KDE software package to work with multimedia.- List of components :* Dragon Player - A simple and usability-focused multimedia player * JuK - Jukebox and music manager* kio_audiocd* KMix - Sound Mixer... |
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| MediaMonkey MediaMonkey MediaMonkey is a proprietary digital media player and media library application developed by Ventis Media Inc., for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems. By using plugins, it can be extended to handle video and other media formats as well.MediaMonkey is available in a... |
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| MPXPLAY Mpxplay Mpxplay is a 32-bit console audio player for DOS and Windows operating systems.It supports AAC, AC3, ALAC, APE, FLAC, MP2/MP3, MPC, Vorbis, WMA, WV audio codecs, AIF and WAV/W64 files, and can play sound from videos using the AVI, ASF, MKV, MP4/MOV, MPG/VOB, OGG and TS containers. With plugins it... |
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| Music Player Daemon Music Player Daemon Music Player Daemon is a music player server.- Design :MPD simply runs in the background playing music from its playlist. Client programs communicate with MPD to manipulate playback, the playlist, and the database... |
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| MusicBee MusicBee MusicBee is a free digital media player and media library application for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems using the BASS Audio Library.-Features:... |
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| Musicmatch Jukebox Musicmatch Jukebox Y!Music Musicmatch Jukebox, a remake of the original Musicmatch Jukebox made by Musicmatch, Inc., is an audio player that manages a digital audio library... |
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| musikCube MusikCube musikCube is a partially open source audio player. Originally created as a fork of wxMusik, it has since been expanded to include capabilities not available in wxMusik. Internally, musikCube uses the proprietary BASS audio library to provide playback support.... |
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| Rhapsody Rhapsody (online music service) Rhapsody is an online music store subscription service, launched in December 2001, and available in the United States only. On April 6, 2010, Rhapsody officially declared its independence from RealNetworks. Downloaded files come with restrictions on their use, enforced by Helix, Rhapsody's version... |
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| Rhythmbox Rhythmbox Rhythmbox is an audio player that plays and helps organize digital music. Originally inspired by Apple's iTunes, it is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework. However, Rhythmbox functions on desktop environments other than GNOME.-Music... |
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| Sonique Sonique (media player) Sonique is an audio player application released as freeware for Microsoft Windows, capable of handling MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Microsoft Windows Media, audio CDs, and more.... |
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| XMMS XMMS The X Multimedia System is a free audio player for Unix-like systems.-History:XMMS was originally written as X11Amp by Peter and Mikael Alm in November 1997. The player was made to resemble Winamp, which was first released in May that year. As such, XMMS has supported Winamp 2 "classic" skins... |
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| Zinf Zinf Zinf is a free audio player released under the GNU General Public License. It runs on Unix-like operating systems and Windows.Zinf is a continuation of the FreeAmp project and uses the same source code.-Technical features:... |
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| Audio player | Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... |
Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... |
BSD Unix | Solaris | Other Unix Unix-like A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification.... |
DOS (FreeDOS, Dr-DOS) FreeDOS FreeDOS is an operating system for IBM PC compatible computers. FreeDOS is made up of many different, separate programs that act as "packages" to the overall FreeDOS Project... |
Features
| Audio player | Video playback | Outbound streaming | Skinnable | Media database | Gapless Gapless playback Gapless playback is the uninterrupted playback of consecutive audio tracks without intervening silence or clicks at the point of the track change. Gapless playback is common with compact discs, gramophone records, or tapes, but is not always available with other formats that employ compressed... audio decoding |
Visualizer Music visualization Music visualization, a feature found in electronic music visualizers and media player software, generates animated imagery based on a piece of music... |
Remote controllable | Intelligent playlists from database (based on criteria) |
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| Amarok Amarok (audio) Amarok is a cross-platform free and open source music player for KDE, but is released independently of the central KDE Software Compilation release cycle... |
Basic function with NMM Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware The Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware is a flow graph based multimedia framework. NMM allows a programmer to create distributed multimedia applications: local and remote multimedia devices or software components can be controlled transparently and integrated into a common multimedia... |
Context Browser uses CSS Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language... . |
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| Audion Audion (software) Audion is an audio player by Panic. It was originally a commercial program, but with the dominance of Apple's iTunes, development was halted and it was released as freeware.-Design:... |
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| Calaym Calaym Calaym is a GUI for sound systems.Calaym has a graphical user interface, which manages the playlist, menus, options.... |
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| cmus Cmus cmus is a small and fast console audio player for Unix-like operating systems.cmus is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License and operates exclusively through a text-only interface, built with ncurses.... |
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| Cog Cog (software) Cog is an open source audio player for Mac OS X. The basic layout is a single-paned playlist interface with two retractable drawers, one for navigating the user's music folders and another for viewing audio file properties, like bitrate... |
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| Clementine Clementine (software) Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer. It is a port of Amarok 1.4 to the Qt 4 framework and the GStreamer multimedia framework. It is available for Unix-like, Windows and Mac OS X... |
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| Exaile Exaile Exaile is a music player that was originally conceived to be similar in style and function to KDE's Amarok 1.4, but use the GTK+ widget toolkit rather than Qt... |
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| foobar2000 Foobar2000 foobar2000 is a freeware audio player for Windows developed by Peter Pawlowski, a former freelance contractor for Nullsoft. It is known for its highly modular design and extensive SDK which allows third-party developers to do such things as completely replace the interface... |
UIs may be switched. Shares Windows' themes by default. Additionally, a plugin (foo_looks) can skin foobar2000. | |||||||
| JuK JuK JuK is a free software audio player by KDE, the default player since K Desktop Environment 3.2. JuK supports collections of MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files.... |
Using DCOP DCOP DCOP, which stands for Desktop COmmunication Protocol, is a light-weight interprocess and software componentry communication system. The main point of this system is to allow applications to interoperate, and to share complex tasks... |
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| MediaMonkey MediaMonkey MediaMonkey is a proprietary digital media player and media library application developed by Ventis Media Inc., for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems. By using plugins, it can be extended to handle video and other media formats as well.MediaMonkey is available in a... |
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| MPXPLAY Mpxplay Mpxplay is a 32-bit console audio player for DOS and Windows operating systems.It supports AAC, AC3, ALAC, APE, FLAC, MP2/MP3, MPC, Vorbis, WMA, WV audio codecs, AIF and WAV/W64 files, and can play sound from videos using the AVI, ASF, MKV, MP4/MOV, MPG/VOB, OGG and TS containers. With plugins it... |
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| Music Player Daemon Music Player Daemon Music Player Daemon is a music player server.- Design :MPD simply runs in the background playing music from its playlist. Client programs communicate with MPD to manipulate playback, the playlist, and the database... |
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| MusicBee MusicBee MusicBee is a free digital media player and media library application for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems using the BASS Audio Library.-Features:... |
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| Musicmatch Jukebox Musicmatch Jukebox Y!Music Musicmatch Jukebox, a remake of the original Musicmatch Jukebox made by Musicmatch, Inc., is an audio player that manages a digital audio library... |
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| musikCube MusikCube musikCube is a partially open source audio player. Originally created as a fork of wxMusik, it has since been expanded to include capabilities not available in wxMusik. Internally, musikCube uses the proprietary BASS audio library to provide playback support.... |
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| Rhapsody Rhapsody (online music service) Rhapsody is an online music store subscription service, launched in December 2001, and available in the United States only. On April 6, 2010, Rhapsody officially declared its independence from RealNetworks. Downloaded files come with restrictions on their use, enforced by Helix, Rhapsody's version... |
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| Rhythmbox Rhythmbox Rhythmbox is an audio player that plays and helps organize digital music. Originally inspired by Apple's iTunes, it is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework. However, Rhythmbox functions on desktop environments other than GNOME.-Music... |
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| Sonique Sonique (media player) Sonique is an audio player application released as freeware for Microsoft Windows, capable of handling MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Microsoft Windows Media, audio CDs, and more.... |
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| XMMS XMMS The X Multimedia System is a free audio player for Unix-like systems.-History:XMMS was originally written as X11Amp by Peter and Mikael Alm in November 1997. The player was made to resemble Winamp, which was first released in May that year. As such, XMMS has supported Winamp 2 "classic" skins... |
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| Zinf Zinf Zinf is a free audio player released under the GNU General Public License. It runs on Unix-like operating systems and Windows.Zinf is a continuation of the FreeAmp project and uses the same source code.-Technical features:... |
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| Audio player | Video playback | Outbound streaming | Skinnable | Media Database | Gapless Gapless playback Gapless playback is the uninterrupted playback of consecutive audio tracks without intervening silence or clicks at the point of the track change. Gapless playback is common with compact discs, gramophone records, or tapes, but is not always available with other formats that employ compressed... Audio Decoding |
Visualizer Music visualization Music visualization, a feature found in electronic music visualizers and media player software, generates animated imagery based on a piece of music... |
Remote Controllable | Intelligent Playlists from database (based on criteria) |
Extended features
| Audio player | ReplayGain | Mass tagging Tag editor A tag editor is a piece of software that supports editing metadata of multimedia file formats, rather than the actual file content... |
Flexible taggingFlexible tagging means the ability to read or write custom tags, apart from the default ones like title, album and date. Users can use custom tags to provide additional information to media files. Custom tags work via ID3v2.4 ID3 ID3 is a metadata container most often used in conjunction with the MP3 audio file format. It allows information such as the title, artist, album, track number, and other information about the file to be stored in the file itself.... (via the TXXX tag field), Vorbis comment Vorbis comment A Vorbis comment is a metadata container used in the Vorbis, FLAC, Theora and Speex file formats. It allows information such as the title, artist, album, track number or other information about the file to be added to the file itself. However, as the official Ogg Vorbis documentation notes:- Format... s and APEv2. |
Time stretching Audio timescale-pitch modification Time stretching is the process of changing the speed or duration of an audio signal without affecting its pitch.Pitch scaling or pitch shifting is the opposite: the process of changing the pitch without affecting the speed... |
Pitch shifting | A-B repeat | Bookmark | Auto resume | Shutdown on play complete | Archive capability |
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| Amarok Amarok (audio) Amarok is a cross-platform free and open source music player for KDE, but is released independently of the central KDE Software Compilation release cycle... |
Through plugin: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Repeat+A+B?content=45993&PHPSESSID=a86dadfbbaf38573a7287e13947745e7 | |||||||||
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| Audion Audion (software) Audion is an audio player by Panic. It was originally a commercial program, but with the dominance of Apple's iTunes, development was halted and it was released as freeware.-Design:... |
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| Calaym Calaym Calaym is a GUI for sound systems.Calaym has a graphical user interface, which manages the playlist, menus, options.... |
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| cmus Cmus cmus is a small and fast console audio player for Unix-like operating systems.cmus is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License and operates exclusively through a text-only interface, built with ncurses.... |
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| Cog Cog (software) Cog is an open source audio player for Mac OS X. The basic layout is a single-paned playlist interface with two retractable drawers, one for navigating the user's music folders and another for viewing audio file properties, like bitrate... |
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| Clementine Clementine (software) Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer. It is a port of Amarok 1.4 to the Qt 4 framework and the GStreamer multimedia framework. It is available for Unix-like, Windows and Mac OS X... |
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| Exaile Exaile Exaile is a music player that was originally conceived to be similar in style and function to KDE's Amarok 1.4, but use the GTK+ widget toolkit rather than Qt... |
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| foobar2000 Foobar2000 foobar2000 is a freeware audio player for Windows developed by Peter Pawlowski, a former freelance contractor for Nullsoft. It is known for its highly modular design and extensive SDK which allows third-party developers to do such things as completely replace the interface... |
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| JuK JuK JuK is a free software audio player by KDE, the default player since K Desktop Environment 3.2. JuK supports collections of MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files.... |
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| MediaMonkey MediaMonkey MediaMonkey is a proprietary digital media player and media library application developed by Ventis Media Inc., for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems. By using plugins, it can be extended to handle video and other media formats as well.MediaMonkey is available in a... |
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| MPXPLAY Mpxplay Mpxplay is a 32-bit console audio player for DOS and Windows operating systems.It supports AAC, AC3, ALAC, APE, FLAC, MP2/MP3, MPC, Vorbis, WMA, WV audio codecs, AIF and WAV/W64 files, and can play sound from videos using the AVI, ASF, MKV, MP4/MOV, MPG/VOB, OGG and TS containers. With plugins it... |
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| MusicBee MusicBee MusicBee is a free digital media player and media library application for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems using the BASS Audio Library.-Features:... |
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| Musicmatch Jukebox Musicmatch Jukebox Y!Music Musicmatch Jukebox, a remake of the original Musicmatch Jukebox made by Musicmatch, Inc., is an audio player that manages a digital audio library... |
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| musikCube MusikCube musikCube is a partially open source audio player. Originally created as a fork of wxMusik, it has since been expanded to include capabilities not available in wxMusik. Internally, musikCube uses the proprietary BASS audio library to provide playback support.... |
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| Rhapsody Rhapsody (online music service) Rhapsody is an online music store subscription service, launched in December 2001, and available in the United States only. On April 6, 2010, Rhapsody officially declared its independence from RealNetworks. Downloaded files come with restrictions on their use, enforced by Helix, Rhapsody's version... |
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| Rhythmbox Rhythmbox Rhythmbox is an audio player that plays and helps organize digital music. Originally inspired by Apple's iTunes, it is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework. However, Rhythmbox functions on desktop environments other than GNOME.-Music... |
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| Sonique Sonique (media player) Sonique is an audio player application released as freeware for Microsoft Windows, capable of handling MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Microsoft Windows Media, audio CDs, and more.... |
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| XMMS XMMS The X Multimedia System is a free audio player for Unix-like systems.-History:XMMS was originally written as X11Amp by Peter and Mikael Alm in November 1997. The player was made to resemble Winamp, which was first released in May that year. As such, XMMS has supported Winamp 2 "classic" skins... |
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| Zinf Zinf Zinf is a free audio player released under the GNU General Public License. It runs on Unix-like operating systems and Windows.Zinf is a continuation of the FreeAmp project and uses the same source code.-Technical features:... |
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| Audio player | ReplayGain | Mass Tagging Tag editor A tag editor is a piece of software that supports editing metadata of multimedia file formats, rather than the actual file content... |
Flexible tagging | Time Stretching Audio timescale-pitch modification Time stretching is the process of changing the speed or duration of an audio signal without affecting its pitch.Pitch scaling or pitch shifting is the opposite: the process of changing the pitch without affecting the speed... |
Pitch Shifting | A-B Repeat | Bookmark | Auto Resume | Shutdown on play complete | Archive capability |
Audio format capability
Information about what audio formats the players understand. Footnotes lead to information about capabilities of future versions of the players or plugins/filters that provide such functionality.| Audio player | Lossy compression | Lossless compression | ||||||||||
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| MP3 MP3 MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression... |
WMA Windows Media Audio Windows Media Audio is an audio data compression technology developed by Microsoft. The name can be used to refer to its audio file format or its audio codecs. It is a proprietary technology that forms part of the Windows Media framework. WMA consists of four distinct codecs... |
RealAudio RealAudio RealAudio is a proprietary audio format developed by RealNetworks and first released in April 1995. It uses a variety of audio codecs, ranging from low-bitrate formats that can be used over dialup modems, to high-fidelity formats for music. It can also be used as a streaming audio format, that is... |
Vorbis Vorbis Vorbis is a free software / open source project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation . The project produces an audio format specification and software implementation for lossy audio compression... |
Musepack Musepack Musepack or MPC is an open source lossy audio codec, specifically optimized for transparent compression of stereo audio at bitrates of 160–180 kbit/s... |
AAC Advanced Audio Coding Advanced Audio Coding is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at similar bit rates.... |
AC3 | APE Monkey's Audio Monkey's Audio is a file format for audio data compression. Being a lossless format, Monkey's Audio does not discard data during the process of encoding, unlike lossy compression methods such as AAC, MP3, Vorbis and Musepack.... |
FLAC FLAC FLAC is a codec which allows digital audio to be losslessly compressed such that file size is reduced without any information being lost... |
ALAC Apple Lossless Apple Lossless Apple Lossless Apple Lossless (also known as ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec), or ALE (Apple Lossless Encoder) is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music. After initially being proprietary for many years, in late 2011 Apple open sourced... |
SHN Shorten Shorten is a file format used for compressing audio data. It is a form of data compression of files and is used to losslessly compress CD-quality audio files . Shorten is no longer developed and more recent lossless audio codecs such as FLAC, Monkey's Audio , TTA, and WavPack have become more... |
WV WavPack WavPack is a free, open source lossless audio compression format developed by David Bryant.-Features:WavPack compression can compress 8-, 16-, 24-, and 32-bit fixed-point, and 32-bit floating point audio files in the .WAV file format. It also supports surround sound streams and high frequency... |
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| Amarok Amarok (audio) Amarok is a cross-platform free and open source music player for KDE, but is released independently of the central KDE Software Compilation release cycle... |
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| Audion Audion (software) Audion is an audio player by Panic. It was originally a commercial program, but with the dominance of Apple's iTunes, development was halted and it was released as freeware.-Design:... |
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| Clementine Clementine (software) Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer. It is a port of Amarok 1.4 to the Qt 4 framework and the GStreamer multimedia framework. It is available for Unix-like, Windows and Mac OS X... |
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| Calaym Calaym Calaym is a GUI for sound systems.Calaym has a graphical user interface, which manages the playlist, menus, options.... |
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| cmus Cmus cmus is a small and fast console audio player for Unix-like operating systems.cmus is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License and operates exclusively through a text-only interface, built with ncurses.... |
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| Cog Cog (software) Cog is an open source audio player for Mac OS X. The basic layout is a single-paned playlist interface with two retractable drawers, one for navigating the user's music folders and another for viewing audio file properties, like bitrate... |
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| Exaile Exaile Exaile is a music player that was originally conceived to be similar in style and function to KDE's Amarok 1.4, but use the GTK+ widget toolkit rather than Qt... |
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| foobar2000 Foobar2000 foobar2000 is a freeware audio player for Windows developed by Peter Pawlowski, a former freelance contractor for Nullsoft. It is known for its highly modular design and extensive SDK which allows third-party developers to do such things as completely replace the interface... |
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| JuK JuK JuK is a free software audio player by KDE, the default player since K Desktop Environment 3.2. JuK supports collections of MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files.... |
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| Listen | Requires following fix: http://www.listen-project.org/ticket/722. | |||||||||||
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| MediaMonkey MediaMonkey MediaMonkey is a proprietary digital media player and media library application developed by Ventis Media Inc., for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems. By using plugins, it can be extended to handle video and other media formats as well.MediaMonkey is available in a... |
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| MPXPLAY Mpxplay Mpxplay is a 32-bit console audio player for DOS and Windows operating systems.It supports AAC, AC3, ALAC, APE, FLAC, MP2/MP3, MPC, Vorbis, WMA, WV audio codecs, AIF and WAV/W64 files, and can play sound from videos using the AVI, ASF, MKV, MP4/MOV, MPG/VOB, OGG and TS containers. With plugins it... |
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| Music Player Daemon Music Player Daemon Music Player Daemon is a music player server.- Design :MPD simply runs in the background playing music from its playlist. Client programs communicate with MPD to manipulate playback, the playlist, and the database... |
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| MusicBee MusicBee MusicBee is a free digital media player and media library application for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems using the BASS Audio Library.-Features:... |
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| Musicmatch Jukebox Musicmatch Jukebox Y!Music Musicmatch Jukebox, a remake of the original Musicmatch Jukebox made by Musicmatch, Inc., is an audio player that manages a digital audio library... |
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| musikCube MusikCube musikCube is a partially open source audio player. Originally created as a fork of wxMusik, it has since been expanded to include capabilities not available in wxMusik. Internally, musikCube uses the proprietary BASS audio library to provide playback support.... |
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| Rhapsody Rhapsody (online music service) Rhapsody is an online music store subscription service, launched in December 2001, and available in the United States only. On April 6, 2010, Rhapsody officially declared its independence from RealNetworks. Downloaded files come with restrictions on their use, enforced by Helix, Rhapsody's version... |
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| Rhythmbox Rhythmbox Rhythmbox is an audio player that plays and helps organize digital music. Originally inspired by Apple's iTunes, it is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework. However, Rhythmbox functions on desktop environments other than GNOME.-Music... |
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| Sonique Sonique (media player) Sonique is an audio player application released as freeware for Microsoft Windows, capable of handling MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Microsoft Windows Media, audio CDs, and more.... |
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| XMMS XMMS The X Multimedia System is a free audio player for Unix-like systems.-History:XMMS was originally written as X11Amp by Peter and Mikael Alm in November 1997. The player was made to resemble Winamp, which was first released in May that year. As such, XMMS has supported Winamp 2 "classic" skins... |
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| Zinf Zinf Zinf is a free audio player released under the GNU General Public License. It runs on Unix-like operating systems and Windows.Zinf is a continuation of the FreeAmp project and uses the same source code.-Technical features:... |
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| Audio player | MP3 MP3 MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression... |
WMA Windows Media Audio Windows Media Audio is an audio data compression technology developed by Microsoft. The name can be used to refer to its audio file format or its audio codecs. It is a proprietary technology that forms part of the Windows Media framework. WMA consists of four distinct codecs... |
RealAudio RealAudio RealAudio is a proprietary audio format developed by RealNetworks and first released in April 1995. It uses a variety of audio codecs, ranging from low-bitrate formats that can be used over dialup modems, to high-fidelity formats for music. It can also be used as a streaming audio format, that is... |
Vorbis Vorbis Vorbis is a free software / open source project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation . The project produces an audio format specification and software implementation for lossy audio compression... |
Musepack Musepack Musepack or MPC is an open source lossy audio codec, specifically optimized for transparent compression of stereo audio at bitrates of 160–180 kbit/s... |
AAC Advanced Audio Coding Advanced Audio Coding is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at similar bit rates.... |
AC3 | APE Monkey's Audio Monkey's Audio is a file format for audio data compression. Being a lossless format, Monkey's Audio does not discard data during the process of encoding, unlike lossy compression methods such as AAC, MP3, Vorbis and Musepack.... |
FLAC FLAC FLAC is a codec which allows digital audio to be losslessly compressed such that file size is reduced without any information being lost... |
ALAC Apple Lossless Apple Lossless Apple Lossless Apple Lossless (also known as ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec), or ALE (Apple Lossless Encoder) is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music. After initially being proprietary for many years, in late 2011 Apple open sourced... |
SHN Shorten Shorten is a file format used for compressing audio data. It is a form of data compression of files and is used to losslessly compress CD-quality audio files . Shorten is no longer developed and more recent lossless audio codecs such as FLAC, Monkey's Audio , TTA, and WavPack have become more... |
WV WavPack WavPack is a free, open source lossless audio compression format developed by David Bryant.-Features:WavPack compression can compress 8-, 16-, 24-, and 32-bit fixed-point, and 32-bit floating point audio files in the .WAV file format. It also supports surround sound streams and high frequency... |
Container format capability
Information about what container formats the players understand. Footnotes lead to information about capabilities of future versions of the players or filters that provide such functionality.| Audio player | AVI Audio Video Interleave Audio Video Interleave , known by its acronym AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback... |
ASF Advanced Systems Format Advanced Systems Format is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media... |
QuickTime QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and... |
Ogg Ogg Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The creators of the Ogg format state that it is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.The Ogg container format can multiplex... |
OGM | Matroska Matroska The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks in one file. It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows... |
MP4 MPEG-4 Part 14 MPEG-4 Part 14 or MP4 is a multimedia container format standard specified as a part of MPEG-4. It is most commonly used to store digital video and digital audio streams, especially those defined by MPEG, but can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images... |
MPEG-21 MPEG-21 The MPEG-21 standard, from the Moving Picture Experts Group, aims at defining an open framework for multimedia applications. MPEG-21 is ratified in the standards ISO/IEC 21000 - Multimedia framework .MPEG-21 is based on two essential concepts:... |
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| Amarok Amarok (audio) Amarok is a cross-platform free and open source music player for KDE, but is released independently of the central KDE Software Compilation release cycle... |
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| Audion Audion (software) Audion is an audio player by Panic. It was originally a commercial program, but with the dominance of Apple's iTunes, development was halted and it was released as freeware.-Design:... |
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| Calaym Calaym Calaym is a GUI for sound systems.Calaym has a graphical user interface, which manages the playlist, menus, options.... |
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| cmus Cmus cmus is a small and fast console audio player for Unix-like operating systems.cmus is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License and operates exclusively through a text-only interface, built with ncurses.... |
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| Cog Cog (software) Cog is an open source audio player for Mac OS X. The basic layout is a single-paned playlist interface with two retractable drawers, one for navigating the user's music folders and another for viewing audio file properties, like bitrate... |
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| foobar2000 Foobar2000 foobar2000 is a freeware audio player for Windows developed by Peter Pawlowski, a former freelance contractor for Nullsoft. It is known for its highly modular design and extensive SDK which allows third-party developers to do such things as completely replace the interface... |
Native Matroska Matroska The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks in one file. It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows... tag reading and writing |
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| JuK JuK JuK is a free software audio player by KDE, the default player since K Desktop Environment 3.2. JuK supports collections of MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files.... |
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| MediaMonkey MediaMonkey MediaMonkey is a proprietary digital media player and media library application developed by Ventis Media Inc., for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems. By using plugins, it can be extended to handle video and other media formats as well.MediaMonkey is available in a... |
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| MPXPLAY Mpxplay Mpxplay is a 32-bit console audio player for DOS and Windows operating systems.It supports AAC, AC3, ALAC, APE, FLAC, MP2/MP3, MPC, Vorbis, WMA, WV audio codecs, AIF and WAV/W64 files, and can play sound from videos using the AVI, ASF, MKV, MP4/MOV, MPG/VOB, OGG and TS containers. With plugins it... |
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| MusicBee MusicBee MusicBee is a free digital media player and media library application for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems using the BASS Audio Library.-Features:... |
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| Musicmatch Jukebox Musicmatch Jukebox Y!Music Musicmatch Jukebox, a remake of the original Musicmatch Jukebox made by Musicmatch, Inc., is an audio player that manages a digital audio library... |
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| musikCube MusikCube musikCube is a partially open source audio player. Originally created as a fork of wxMusik, it has since been expanded to include capabilities not available in wxMusik. Internally, musikCube uses the proprietary BASS audio library to provide playback support.... |
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| Rhapsody Rhapsody (online music service) Rhapsody is an online music store subscription service, launched in December 2001, and available in the United States only. On April 6, 2010, Rhapsody officially declared its independence from RealNetworks. Downloaded files come with restrictions on their use, enforced by Helix, Rhapsody's version... |
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| Rhythmbox Rhythmbox Rhythmbox is an audio player that plays and helps organize digital music. Originally inspired by Apple's iTunes, it is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework. However, Rhythmbox functions on desktop environments other than GNOME.-Music... |
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| Sonique Sonique (media player) Sonique is an audio player application released as freeware for Microsoft Windows, capable of handling MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Microsoft Windows Media, audio CDs, and more.... |
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| XMMS XMMS The X Multimedia System is a free audio player for Unix-like systems.-History:XMMS was originally written as X11Amp by Peter and Mikael Alm in November 1997. The player was made to resemble Winamp, which was first released in May that year. As such, XMMS has supported Winamp 2 "classic" skins... |
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| Zinf Zinf Zinf is a free audio player released under the GNU General Public License. It runs on Unix-like operating systems and Windows.Zinf is a continuation of the FreeAmp project and uses the same source code.-Technical features:... |
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| Audio player | AVI Audio Video Interleave Audio Video Interleave , known by its acronym AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback... |
ASF Advanced Systems Format Advanced Systems Format is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media... |
QuickTime QuickTime QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and... |
Ogg Ogg Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The creators of the Ogg format state that it is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.The Ogg container format can multiplex... |
OGM | Matroska Matroska The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks in one file. It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows... |
MP4 MPEG-4 Part 14 MPEG-4 Part 14 or MP4 is a multimedia container format standard specified as a part of MPEG-4. It is most commonly used to store digital video and digital audio streams, especially those defined by MPEG, but can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images... |
MPEG-21 MPEG-21 The MPEG-21 standard, from the Moving Picture Experts Group, aims at defining an open framework for multimedia applications. MPEG-21 is ratified in the standards ISO/IEC 21000 - Multimedia framework .MPEG-21 is based on two essential concepts:... |
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Scalable, composite and emulation format capabilities
| Audio player | Flash Adobe Flash Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast... |
RealPix | QuickTime Video Effects in mov | HTML+TIME(+VML) | Silverlight | smil/smi Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language SMIL , the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, is a W3C recommended XML markup language for describing multimedia presentations. It defines markup for timing, layout, animations, visual transitions, and media embedding, among other things... |
SVG | MIDI(smf) | MIDI(kar) | MIDI(xmf) | MIDI(rmi) | MIDI(xmi) | NSF NES Sound Format NSF is the DOS 8.3 filename Filename extension of the audio file format originally designated as NESM by the inventor Kevin Horton. This format was originally designed for playback in a custom hardware device named HardNES by the inventor... |
SPC SPC700 sound format An SPC700 sound file is a video game music file consisting of scores and music data from RAM used by the SPC700 sound chip on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System or Super Famicom... |
PSF Portable Sound Format The Portable Sound Format is a sound file format ripped directly from video games from a variety of game consoles. The format was originally used for Sony PlayStation video games, but has since been adapted to support other systems.... |
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| Amarok Amarok (audio) Amarok is a cross-platform free and open source music player for KDE, but is released independently of the central KDE Software Compilation release cycle... |
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| Audion Audion (software) Audion is an audio player by Panic. It was originally a commercial program, but with the dominance of Apple's iTunes, development was halted and it was released as freeware.-Design:... |
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| Calaym Calaym Calaym is a GUI for sound systems.Calaym has a graphical user interface, which manages the playlist, menus, options.... |
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| cmus Cmus cmus is a small and fast console audio player for Unix-like operating systems.cmus is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License and operates exclusively through a text-only interface, built with ncurses.... |
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| Cog Cog (software) Cog is an open source audio player for Mac OS X. The basic layout is a single-paned playlist interface with two retractable drawers, one for navigating the user's music folders and another for viewing audio file properties, like bitrate... |
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| foobar2000 Foobar2000 foobar2000 is a freeware audio player for Windows developed by Peter Pawlowski, a former freelance contractor for Nullsoft. It is known for its highly modular design and extensive SDK which allows third-party developers to do such things as completely replace the interface... |
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| JuK JuK JuK is a free software audio player by KDE, the default player since K Desktop Environment 3.2. JuK supports collections of MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files.... |
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| MediaMonkey MediaMonkey MediaMonkey is a proprietary digital media player and media library application developed by Ventis Media Inc., for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems. By using plugins, it can be extended to handle video and other media formats as well.MediaMonkey is available in a... |
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| MPXPLAY Mpxplay Mpxplay is a 32-bit console audio player for DOS and Windows operating systems.It supports AAC, AC3, ALAC, APE, FLAC, MP2/MP3, MPC, Vorbis, WMA, WV audio codecs, AIF and WAV/W64 files, and can play sound from videos using the AVI, ASF, MKV, MP4/MOV, MPG/VOB, OGG and TS containers. With plugins it... |
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| MusicBee MusicBee MusicBee is a free digital media player and media library application for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems using the BASS Audio Library.-Features:... |
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| Musicmatch Jukebox Musicmatch Jukebox Y!Music Musicmatch Jukebox, a remake of the original Musicmatch Jukebox made by Musicmatch, Inc., is an audio player that manages a digital audio library... |
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| musikCube MusikCube musikCube is a partially open source audio player. Originally created as a fork of wxMusik, it has since been expanded to include capabilities not available in wxMusik. Internally, musikCube uses the proprietary BASS audio library to provide playback support.... |
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| Rhapsody Rhapsody (online music service) Rhapsody is an online music store subscription service, launched in December 2001, and available in the United States only. On April 6, 2010, Rhapsody officially declared its independence from RealNetworks. Downloaded files come with restrictions on their use, enforced by Helix, Rhapsody's version... |
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| Rhythmbox Rhythmbox Rhythmbox is an audio player that plays and helps organize digital music. Originally inspired by Apple's iTunes, it is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework. However, Rhythmbox functions on desktop environments other than GNOME.-Music... |
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| Sonique Sonique (media player) Sonique is an audio player application released as freeware for Microsoft Windows, capable of handling MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Microsoft Windows Media, audio CDs, and more.... |
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| XMMS XMMS The X Multimedia System is a free audio player for Unix-like systems.-History:XMMS was originally written as X11Amp by Peter and Mikael Alm in November 1997. The player was made to resemble Winamp, which was first released in May that year. As such, XMMS has supported Winamp 2 "classic" skins... |
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| Zinf Zinf Zinf is a free audio player released under the GNU General Public License. It runs on Unix-like operating systems and Windows.Zinf is a continuation of the FreeAmp project and uses the same source code.-Technical features:... |
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| Audio player | Flash Adobe Flash Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast... |
RealPix | QuickTime Video Effects in mov | HTML+TIME(+VML) | Silverlight | smil/smi Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language SMIL , the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, is a W3C recommended XML markup language for describing multimedia presentations. It defines markup for timing, layout, animations, visual transitions, and media embedding, among other things... |
SVG | MIDI(smf) | MIDI(kar) | MIDI(xmf) | MIDI(rmi) | MIDI(xmi) | NSF NES Sound Format NSF is the DOS 8.3 filename Filename extension of the audio file format originally designated as NESM by the inventor Kevin Horton. This format was originally designed for playback in a custom hardware device named HardNES by the inventor... |
SPC SPC700 sound format An SPC700 sound file is a video game music file consisting of scores and music data from RAM used by the SPC700 sound chip on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System or Super Famicom... |
PSF Portable Sound Format The Portable Sound Format is a sound file format ripped directly from video games from a variety of game consoles. The format was originally used for Sony PlayStation video games, but has since been adapted to support other systems.... |
Protocol capabilities
Information about which internet protocolInternet Protocol
The Internet Protocol is the principal communications protocol used for relaying datagrams across an internetwork using the Internet Protocol Suite...
s the players understand, for receiving streaming media
Streaming media
Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a streaming provider.The term "presented" is used in this article in a general sense that includes audio or video playback. The name refers to the delivery method of the medium rather...
content. Footnotes lead to information about capabilities of future versions of the players or plugins that provide such functionality.
| Audio player | HTTP | RTSP Real Time Streaming Protocol The Real Time Streaming Protocol is a network control protocol designed for use in entertainment and communications systems to control streaming media servers. The protocol is used for establishing and controlling media sessions between end points... (RTSPU, RTSPT) |
MMS Microsoft Media Services Microsoft Media Server is the name of Microsoft's proprietary network streaming protocol used to transfer unicast data in Windows Media Services . MMS can be transported via UDP or TCP... (MMSU, MMST) |
Podcasting Podcasting A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication... |
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| Amarok Amarok (audio) Amarok is a cross-platform free and open source music player for KDE, but is released independently of the central KDE Software Compilation release cycle... |
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| Audion Audion (software) Audion is an audio player by Panic. It was originally a commercial program, but with the dominance of Apple's iTunes, development was halted and it was released as freeware.-Design:... |
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| Calaym Calaym Calaym is a GUI for sound systems.Calaym has a graphical user interface, which manages the playlist, menus, options.... |
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| cmus Cmus cmus is a small and fast console audio player for Unix-like operating systems.cmus is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License and operates exclusively through a text-only interface, built with ncurses.... |
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| Cog Cog (software) Cog is an open source audio player for Mac OS X. The basic layout is a single-paned playlist interface with two retractable drawers, one for navigating the user's music folders and another for viewing audio file properties, like bitrate... |
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| foobar2000 Foobar2000 foobar2000 is a freeware audio player for Windows developed by Peter Pawlowski, a former freelance contractor for Nullsoft. It is known for its highly modular design and extensive SDK which allows third-party developers to do such things as completely replace the interface... |
3rd party plugin for 0.9 allows reading RSS 2.0 feeds as playlists. No subscription/automatic update features. | ? | |||
| JuK JuK JuK is a free software audio player by KDE, the default player since K Desktop Environment 3.2. JuK supports collections of MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files.... |
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| MediaMonkey MediaMonkey MediaMonkey is a proprietary digital media player and media library application developed by Ventis Media Inc., for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems. By using plugins, it can be extended to handle video and other media formats as well.MediaMonkey is available in a... |
Present in version 3.0 currently going through Alpha Testing. | ? | |||
| MusicBee MusicBee MusicBee is a free digital media player and media library application for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems using the BASS Audio Library.-Features:... |
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| Musicmatch Jukebox Musicmatch Jukebox Y!Music Musicmatch Jukebox, a remake of the original Musicmatch Jukebox made by Musicmatch, Inc., is an audio player that manages a digital audio library... |
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| musikCube MusikCube musikCube is a partially open source audio player. Originally created as a fork of wxMusik, it has since been expanded to include capabilities not available in wxMusik. Internally, musikCube uses the proprietary BASS audio library to provide playback support.... |
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| Rhapsody Rhapsody (online music service) Rhapsody is an online music store subscription service, launched in December 2001, and available in the United States only. On April 6, 2010, Rhapsody officially declared its independence from RealNetworks. Downloaded files come with restrictions on their use, enforced by Helix, Rhapsody's version... |
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| Rhythmbox Rhythmbox Rhythmbox is an audio player that plays and helps organize digital music. Originally inspired by Apple's iTunes, it is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework. However, Rhythmbox functions on desktop environments other than GNOME.-Music... |
As of 0.9.2 it allows reading RSS as podcast source. Issues if links in RSS do not point directly to playable media. Automatic update of podcasts available. | upnp | |||
| Sonique Sonique (media player) Sonique is an audio player application released as freeware for Microsoft Windows, capable of handling MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Microsoft Windows Media, audio CDs, and more.... |
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| XMMS XMMS The X Multimedia System is a free audio player for Unix-like systems.-History:XMMS was originally written as X11Amp by Peter and Mikael Alm in November 1997. The player was made to resemble Winamp, which was first released in May that year. As such, XMMS has supported Winamp 2 "classic" skins... |
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| Zinf Zinf Zinf is a free audio player released under the GNU General Public License. It runs on Unix-like operating systems and Windows.Zinf is a continuation of the FreeAmp project and uses the same source code.-Technical features:... |
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| Audio player | HTTP | RTSP Real Time Streaming Protocol The Real Time Streaming Protocol is a network control protocol designed for use in entertainment and communications systems to control streaming media servers. The protocol is used for establishing and controlling media sessions between end points... (RTSPU, RTSPT) |
MMS Microsoft Media Services Microsoft Media Server is the name of Microsoft's proprietary network streaming protocol used to transfer unicast data in Windows Media Services . MMS can be transported via UDP or TCP... (MMSU, MMST) |
Podcasting Podcasting A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication... |
Other |
Playlist format capability
Information about which playlistPlaylist
In its most general form, a playlist is simply a list of songs. They can be played in sequential or shuffled order. The term has several specialized meanings in the realms of radio broadcasting and personal computers.-In radio:...
formats the players understand.
| Audio player | asx/wax/wvx Advanced Stream Redirector The Advanced Stream Redirector format is a type of XML metafile designed to store a list of Windows Media files to play during a multimedia presentation.... |
M3U M3U M3U is a computer file format that stores multimedia playlists. It is supported by many applications.An M3U file is a plain text file that specifies the locations of one or more media files. Each line carries one specification... |
pls PLS (file format) PLS is a computer file format that stores multimedia playlists. It is a more expressive format than basic M3U, as it can store information on the song title and length... |
xspf XSPF XML Shareable Playlist Format , pronounced spiff, is an XML-based playlist format for digital media, sponsored by the Xiph.Org Foundation.... |
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| Amarok Amarok (audio) Amarok is a cross-platform free and open source music player for KDE, but is released independently of the central KDE Software Compilation release cycle... |
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| Audion Audion (software) Audion is an audio player by Panic. It was originally a commercial program, but with the dominance of Apple's iTunes, development was halted and it was released as freeware.-Design:... |
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| Calaym Calaym Calaym is a GUI for sound systems.Calaym has a graphical user interface, which manages the playlist, menus, options.... |
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| cmus Cmus cmus is a small and fast console audio player for Unix-like operating systems.cmus is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License and operates exclusively through a text-only interface, built with ncurses.... |
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| Cog Cog (software) Cog is an open source audio player for Mac OS X. The basic layout is a single-paned playlist interface with two retractable drawers, one for navigating the user's music folders and another for viewing audio file properties, like bitrate... |
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| Exaile Exaile Exaile is a music player that was originally conceived to be similar in style and function to KDE's Amarok 1.4, but use the GTK+ widget toolkit rather than Qt... |
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| foobar2000 Foobar2000 foobar2000 is a freeware audio player for Windows developed by Peter Pawlowski, a former freelance contractor for Nullsoft. It is known for its highly modular design and extensive SDK which allows third-party developers to do such things as completely replace the interface... |
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| JuK JuK JuK is a free software audio player by KDE, the default player since K Desktop Environment 3.2. JuK supports collections of MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files.... |
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| MediaMonkey MediaMonkey MediaMonkey is a proprietary digital media player and media library application developed by Ventis Media Inc., for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems. By using plugins, it can be extended to handle video and other media formats as well.MediaMonkey is available in a... |
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| MPXPLAY Mpxplay Mpxplay is a 32-bit console audio player for DOS and Windows operating systems.It supports AAC, AC3, ALAC, APE, FLAC, MP2/MP3, MPC, Vorbis, WMA, WV audio codecs, AIF and WAV/W64 files, and can play sound from videos using the AVI, ASF, MKV, MP4/MOV, MPG/VOB, OGG and TS containers. With plugins it... |
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| MusicBee MusicBee MusicBee is a free digital media player and media library application for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems using the BASS Audio Library.-Features:... |
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| Musicmatch Jukebox Musicmatch Jukebox Y!Music Musicmatch Jukebox, a remake of the original Musicmatch Jukebox made by Musicmatch, Inc., is an audio player that manages a digital audio library... |
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| musikCube MusikCube musikCube is a partially open source audio player. Originally created as a fork of wxMusik, it has since been expanded to include capabilities not available in wxMusik. Internally, musikCube uses the proprietary BASS audio library to provide playback support.... |
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| Rhapsody Rhapsody (online music service) Rhapsody is an online music store subscription service, launched in December 2001, and available in the United States only. On April 6, 2010, Rhapsody officially declared its independence from RealNetworks. Downloaded files come with restrictions on their use, enforced by Helix, Rhapsody's version... |
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| Rhythmbox Rhythmbox Rhythmbox is an audio player that plays and helps organize digital music. Originally inspired by Apple's iTunes, it is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework. However, Rhythmbox functions on desktop environments other than GNOME.-Music... |
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| Sonique Sonique (media player) Sonique is an audio player application released as freeware for Microsoft Windows, capable of handling MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Microsoft Windows Media, audio CDs, and more.... |
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| XMMS XMMS The X Multimedia System is a free audio player for Unix-like systems.-History:XMMS was originally written as X11Amp by Peter and Mikael Alm in November 1997. The player was made to resemble Winamp, which was first released in May that year. As such, XMMS has supported Winamp 2 "classic" skins... |
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| Zinf Zinf Zinf is a free audio player released under the GNU General Public License. It runs on Unix-like operating systems and Windows.Zinf is a continuation of the FreeAmp project and uses the same source code.-Technical features:... |
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| Audio player | asx/wax/wvx Advanced Stream Redirector The Advanced Stream Redirector format is a type of XML metafile designed to store a list of Windows Media files to play during a multimedia presentation.... |
m3u8 M3U M3U is a computer file format that stores multimedia playlists. It is supported by many applications.An M3U file is a plain text file that specifies the locations of one or more media files. Each line carries one specification... |
pls PLS (file format) PLS is a computer file format that stores multimedia playlists. It is a more expressive format than basic M3U, as it can store information on the song title and length... |
xspf XSPF XML Shareable Playlist Format , pronounced spiff, is an XML-based playlist format for digital media, sponsored by the Xiph.Org Foundation.... |
Metadata capability
Information about what metadata, or tagging, formats the players understand. Most other containers have their own metadata format and the players usually use them. Footnotes lead to information about capabilities of future versions of the players or plugins that provide such functionality.| Audio player | ID3 ID3 ID3 is a metadata container most often used in conjunction with the MP3 audio file format. It allows information such as the title, artist, album, track number, and other information about the file to be stored in the file itself.... v1 |
ID3 ID3 ID3 is a metadata container most often used in conjunction with the MP3 audio file format. It allows information such as the title, artist, album, track number, and other information about the file to be stored in the file itself.... v2 |
APEv2 tag APEv2 tag An APE tag is a tag used to add metadata, such as the title, artist, or track number, to digital audio files.- APEv1 :The APEv1 tag was designed for the Monkey's Audio format.... |
Vorbis comment Vorbis comment A Vorbis comment is a metadata container used in the Vorbis, FLAC, Theora and Speex file formats. It allows information such as the title, artist, album, track number or other information about the file to be added to the file itself. However, as the official Ogg Vorbis documentation notes:- Format... |
Cue sheet | CD-Text CD-Text CD-Text is an extension of the Red Book Compact Disc specifications standard for audio CDs. It allows for storage of additional information on a standards-compliant audio CD... |
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| Amarok Amarok (audio) Amarok is a cross-platform free and open source music player for KDE, but is released independently of the central KDE Software Compilation release cycle... |
Understanding of ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2 and Vorbis comments is handled by an external library called TagLib. | Amarok does not understand embedded covers. | Only older 1.5.* versions work with CUE files, it may work in future versions of 2.*. | |||
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| Audion Audion (software) Audion is an audio player by Panic. It was originally a commercial program, but with the dominance of Apple's iTunes, development was halted and it was released as freeware.-Design:... |
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| Calaym Calaym Calaym is a GUI for sound systems.Calaym has a graphical user interface, which manages the playlist, menus, options.... |
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| cmus Cmus cmus is a small and fast console audio player for Unix-like operating systems.cmus is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License and operates exclusively through a text-only interface, built with ncurses.... |
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| Cog Cog (software) Cog is an open source audio player for Mac OS X. The basic layout is a single-paned playlist interface with two retractable drawers, one for navigating the user's music folders and another for viewing audio file properties, like bitrate... |
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| foobar2000 Foobar2000 foobar2000 is a freeware audio player for Windows developed by Peter Pawlowski, a former freelance contractor for Nullsoft. It is known for its highly modular design and extensive SDK which allows third-party developers to do such things as completely replace the interface... |
There is a plugin called CD-TEXT Reader adding such a feature. | |||||
| JuK JuK JuK is a free software audio player by KDE, the default player since K Desktop Environment 3.2. JuK supports collections of MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files.... |
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| MediaMonkey MediaMonkey MediaMonkey is a proprietary digital media player and media library application developed by Ventis Media Inc., for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems. By using plugins, it can be extended to handle video and other media formats as well.MediaMonkey is available in a... |
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| MPXPLAY Mpxplay Mpxplay is a 32-bit console audio player for DOS and Windows operating systems.It supports AAC, AC3, ALAC, APE, FLAC, MP2/MP3, MPC, Vorbis, WMA, WV audio codecs, AIF and WAV/W64 files, and can play sound from videos using the AVI, ASF, MKV, MP4/MOV, MPG/VOB, OGG and TS containers. With plugins it... |
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| MusicBee MusicBee MusicBee is a free digital media player and media library application for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems using the BASS Audio Library.-Features:... |
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| Musicmatch Jukebox Musicmatch Jukebox Y!Music Musicmatch Jukebox, a remake of the original Musicmatch Jukebox made by Musicmatch, Inc., is an audio player that manages a digital audio library... |
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| musikCube MusikCube musikCube is a partially open source audio player. Originally created as a fork of wxMusik, it has since been expanded to include capabilities not available in wxMusik. Internally, musikCube uses the proprietary BASS audio library to provide playback support.... |
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| Rhapsody Rhapsody (online music service) Rhapsody is an online music store subscription service, launched in December 2001, and available in the United States only. On April 6, 2010, Rhapsody officially declared its independence from RealNetworks. Downloaded files come with restrictions on their use, enforced by Helix, Rhapsody's version... |
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| Rhythmbox Rhythmbox Rhythmbox is an audio player that plays and helps organize digital music. Originally inspired by Apple's iTunes, it is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework. However, Rhythmbox functions on desktop environments other than GNOME.-Music... |
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| Sonique Sonique (media player) Sonique is an audio player application released as freeware for Microsoft Windows, capable of handling MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Microsoft Windows Media, audio CDs, and more.... |
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| XMMS XMMS The X Multimedia System is a free audio player for Unix-like systems.-History:XMMS was originally written as X11Amp by Peter and Mikael Alm in November 1997. The player was made to resemble Winamp, which was first released in May that year. As such, XMMS has supported Winamp 2 "classic" skins... |
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| Zinf Zinf Zinf is a free audio player released under the GNU General Public License. It runs on Unix-like operating systems and Windows.Zinf is a continuation of the FreeAmp project and uses the same source code.-Technical features:... |
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| Audio player | ID3 ID3 ID3 is a metadata container most often used in conjunction with the MP3 audio file format. It allows information such as the title, artist, album, track number, and other information about the file to be stored in the file itself.... v1 |
ID3 ID3 ID3 is a metadata container most often used in conjunction with the MP3 audio file format. It allows information such as the title, artist, album, track number, and other information about the file to be stored in the file itself.... v2 |
APEv2 tag APEv2 tag An APE tag is a tag used to add metadata, such as the title, artist, or track number, to digital audio files.- APEv1 :The APEv1 tag was designed for the Monkey's Audio format.... |
Vorbis comment Vorbis comment A Vorbis comment is a metadata container used in the Vorbis, FLAC, Theora and Speex file formats. It allows information such as the title, artist, album, track number or other information about the file to be added to the file itself. However, as the official Ogg Vorbis documentation notes:- Format... |
Cue sheet | CD-Text CD-Text CD-Text is an extension of the Red Book Compact Disc specifications standard for audio CDs. It allows for storage of additional information on a standards-compliant audio CD... |
Optical media capability
Information about what kinds of optical discOptical disc
In computing and optical disc recording technologies, an optical disc is a flat, usually circular disc which encodes binary data in the form of pits and lands on a special material on one of its flat surfaces...
s the players can play. Footnotes lead to information about capabilities of future versions of the players or plugins that provide such functionality.
Playback of Super Audio CD
Super Audio CD
Super Audio CD is a high-resolution, read-only optical disc for audio storage. Sony and Philips Electronics jointly developed the technology, and publicized it in 1999. It is designated as the Scarlet Book standard. Sony and Philips previously collaborated to define the Compact Disc standard...
is not possible for any media player, because no suitable hardware exists.
All media players capable of audio CD
Compact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
playback will also play the Redbook
Red Book (audio CD standard)
Red Book is the standard for audio CDs . It is named after one of the Rainbow Books, a series of books that contain the technical specifications for all CD and CD-ROM formats.The first edition of the Red Book was released in 1980 by Philips and Sony; it was adopted by the Digital Audio Disc...
core of any HDCD
High Definition Compatible Digital
High Definition Compatible Digital, or HDCD is a patented encode-decode process, now owned by Microsoft, that improves the audio quality of standard Redbook audio CDs, while retaining backward compatibility with existing Compact disc players....
disc, providing no sound-quality benefits over standard audio CDs.
| Audio player | Audio Digital audio Digital audio is sound reproduction using pulse-code modulation and digital signals. Digital audio systems include analog-to-digital conversion , digital-to-analog conversion , digital storage, processing and transmission components... |
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| CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... |
DVD-Audio DVD-Audio DVD-Audio is a digital format for delivering high-fidelity audio content on a DVD. DVD-Audio is not intended to be a video delivery format and is not the same as video DVDs containing concert films or music videos.... |
HDCD High Definition Compatible Digital High Definition Compatible Digital, or HDCD is a patented encode-decode process, now owned by Microsoft, that improves the audio quality of standard Redbook audio CDs, while retaining backward compatibility with existing Compact disc players.... |
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| Amarok Amarok (audio) Amarok is a cross-platform free and open source music player for KDE, but is released independently of the central KDE Software Compilation release cycle... |
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| aTunes ATunes aTunes is a free audio player with MPlayer as its playback engine. aTunes supports MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and other formats. aTunes allows users to edit tags, organize music and rip audio CDs easily.-Media Library:... |
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| Audion Audion (software) Audion is an audio player by Panic. It was originally a commercial program, but with the dominance of Apple's iTunes, development was halted and it was released as freeware.-Design:... |
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| Calaym Calaym Calaym is a GUI for sound systems.Calaym has a graphical user interface, which manages the playlist, menus, options.... |
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| cmus Cmus cmus is a small and fast console audio player for Unix-like operating systems.cmus is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License and operates exclusively through a text-only interface, built with ncurses.... |
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| Cog Cog (software) Cog is an open source audio player for Mac OS X. The basic layout is a single-paned playlist interface with two retractable drawers, one for navigating the user's music folders and another for viewing audio file properties, like bitrate... |
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| foobar2000 Foobar2000 foobar2000 is a freeware audio player for Windows developed by Peter Pawlowski, a former freelance contractor for Nullsoft. It is known for its highly modular design and extensive SDK which allows third-party developers to do such things as completely replace the interface... |
(plugin)http://dvdadecoder.sourceforge.net/ | (plugin)http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_dsp_hdcd | |
| JuK JuK JuK is a free software audio player by KDE, the default player since K Desktop Environment 3.2. JuK supports collections of MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files.... |
Requires K3B K3b K3b is a CD and DVD authoring application by KDE for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides a graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD/DVD, as well as more advanced tasks such as burning eMoviX... |
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| MediaMonkey MediaMonkey MediaMonkey is a proprietary digital media player and media library application developed by Ventis Media Inc., for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems. By using plugins, it can be extended to handle video and other media formats as well.MediaMonkey is available in a... |
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| MusicBee MusicBee MusicBee is a free digital media player and media library application for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems using the BASS Audio Library.-Features:... |
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| Musicmatch Jukebox Musicmatch Jukebox Y!Music Musicmatch Jukebox, a remake of the original Musicmatch Jukebox made by Musicmatch, Inc., is an audio player that manages a digital audio library... |
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| musikCube MusikCube musikCube is a partially open source audio player. Originally created as a fork of wxMusik, it has since been expanded to include capabilities not available in wxMusik. Internally, musikCube uses the proprietary BASS audio library to provide playback support.... |
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| Rhapsody Rhapsody (online music service) Rhapsody is an online music store subscription service, launched in December 2001, and available in the United States only. On April 6, 2010, Rhapsody officially declared its independence from RealNetworks. Downloaded files come with restrictions on their use, enforced by Helix, Rhapsody's version... |
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| Rhythmbox Rhythmbox Rhythmbox is an audio player that plays and helps organize digital music. Originally inspired by Apple's iTunes, it is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop using the GStreamer media framework. However, Rhythmbox functions on desktop environments other than GNOME.-Music... |
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| Sonique Sonique (media player) Sonique is an audio player application released as freeware for Microsoft Windows, capable of handling MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Microsoft Windows Media, audio CDs, and more.... |
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| XMMS XMMS The X Multimedia System is a free audio player for Unix-like systems.-History:XMMS was originally written as X11Amp by Peter and Mikael Alm in November 1997. The player was made to resemble Winamp, which was first released in May that year. As such, XMMS has supported Winamp 2 "classic" skins... |
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| Zinf Zinf Zinf is a free audio player released under the GNU General Public License. It runs on Unix-like operating systems and Windows.Zinf is a continuation of the FreeAmp project and uses the same source code.-Technical features:... |
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| Audio player | CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,... |
DVD-Audio DVD-Audio DVD-Audio is a digital format for delivering high-fidelity audio content on a DVD. DVD-Audio is not intended to be a video delivery format and is not the same as video DVDs containing concert films or music videos.... |
HDCD High Definition Compatible Digital High Definition Compatible Digital, or HDCD is a patented encode-decode process, now owned by Microsoft, that improves the audio quality of standard Redbook audio CDs, while retaining backward compatibility with existing Compact disc players.... |
| Audio Digital audio Digital audio is sound reproduction using pulse-code modulation and digital signals. Digital audio systems include analog-to-digital conversion , digital-to-analog conversion , digital storage, processing and transmission components... |
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See also
- List of codecs
- Open source codecs and containersOpen source codecs and containersThis is a listing of open-source implementations of media formats—usually called codecs. Many of the codecs listed implement media formats that are restricted by patents and are henceforth not open formats. For example, x264 is a widely used open source implementation of the heavily patent...
- Comparison of audio codecsComparison of audio codecsThe following tables compare general and technical information for a variety of audio formats and audio compression formats. For listening tests comparing the perceived audio quality of audio formats and codecs, see the article Codec listening test....
- Comparison of container formatsComparison of container formatsThis table compares features of container formats. To see which multimedia players support which container format, look at comparison of media players.-Information:-Audio formats supported:-Video formats supported:-Caption formats supported:...
- Comparison of portable media playersComparison of portable media playersThe following comparison of portable media players compares general and technical information for notable digital playback devices.- General :- Technical specifications :- Syncing and transfer :- Wifi Connectivity :- Audio formats :...