Open Source C++ MP3 Software for Linux

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

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

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

Zinf is the continuation of FreeA*p and has all the same features as FreeA*mp: MP3, Vorbis, WAV and audio CD playback, streaming (SHOUTcast, Icecast, RTP) support, a powerful musicbrowser/playlist editor, a themed interface and a RMP download manager.

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

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

Kaffeine is full featured Media Player for KDE. It supports all kinds of local and network media and digital video broadcasting (DVB). At the moment Kaffeine can use xine-lib or GStreamer as backend.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

mdb (media database) organizes your ogg and mp3 audio files. mdb copies playlists of 1000's of tracks almost instantly. This allows a simple intuitive approach to constructing complex playlists. mdb uses external audio players.