Note: As of May 2002 I will no longer list many new MP3 applications. Please see the listings on Freshmeat and Linux.MP3 Tools for more up-to-date catalogs of players and other MP3 software.
MPEG Players & Encoders
- Encoders
- 8Hz-MP3 a free MPEG audio encoder
- BladeEnc an MP3 encoder from Tord Jansson
- GOGO MP3 encoder for x86, based on LAME
- Hannover MPEG encoder free MP3 encoder
- LAME source code for an encoder licensed under the GPL
- MP3 Encoder reads WAV files and encodes to MP3, from Andreas Johansson
- NotLAME an MP3 encoder based on the LAME patch
- TwoLAME MPEG-2 encoder from Nicholas Humfrey
- toolame optimized encoder based on LAME
- Players
- MAD Robert Leslie's GPL'd MPEG audio decoder
- MJS console-based MP3 jukebox system
- MP3Blaster excellent console MP3 player
- Tk3Play a Tk MP3 audio player
- WHAMp MP3 player, uses mpglib and Gtk
- Xtheater multiformat (including MPEG) audio/video player
- Zinf simple powerful audio player formerly known as FreeAMP, supports MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, WAV and CD audio, SHOUTcast/Icecast HTTP streaming
- mpg321 totally free drop-in replacement for mpg123
- newplayer 1.1 curses-based MP3 player
- mpg123
- Utilities and Miscellaneous Software
- Abcde front-end for cdparanoia, wget, cd-discid, id3, and any MP3 encoder
- Beam-it! identifies your CDs and adds them to My.MP3.com
- Cantus excellent tag editor for MP3, OGG, and FLAC files
- Crystality Plugin interesting realtime MP3 remastering software from Rafal Bosak
- DigitalDJ an SQL-based MP3 player front-end from Mike Oliphant, designed to work with his Grip
- DigitalDJ Enhanced feature-rich version of Mike Oliphant's Linux jukebox
- GTKmp3make Gtk front-end for mp3make, includes support for bladenc
- GlobeCom Jukebox CD-to-MP3 ripper, database organizer, playlist coordinator and much more
- Jooky an MP3 controller, works via ncurses, TCP/IP, or LIRC
- KBlade a KDE front-end for BladeEnc
- Kmp3te program for viewing and editing tags to MP3 files
- Maaate an analysis toolkit for MPEG audio files; Bewdy is a visualization GUI for Maaate
- Mp3Make "a program that glues together...cd-to-mp3 rippers and encoders and...a cddb database"
- MP3SB project plans for building an MP3 server box
- MP3c "...a front-end for every grab program and MP3 encoder"
- MP3toWAV a converter from Detlef Krause
- MpCut visualizes the power levels in each frame of an MP3 file, select and cut unwanted frames, then save the selected frames to a separate MP3 file
- Mplinuxman file I/O for an MPMAN MP3 portable player (models MP-F50 and MP-F60)
- Streamripper "...connects to streaming MP3 servers and downloads the tracks to your hard drive"
- WMAmpMenu utility to place X11Amp playlists in Window Maker root menu
- Xmp3Burn burn audio CDs directly from MP3 files
- dekagen a command line tool to automate ripping CDs and converting to MP3 or OGG/Vorbis format
- findmp3 utility to locate MP3 files by artist, title, album, genre, etc. within a directory/subdirectories, from Folkert van Heusden
- freezetag Gtk+ based id3 tag editor for MP3 files
- mp3tools "...a set of utilities for working with MPEG audio files"
- Rio Utilities
- Krio KDE interface for the Rio player
- Rio Support software from author Steve Oualline
- Rio500 Linux drivers for managing the Diamond Rio MP3 player
- Snow* a GUI for the Snowblind Alliance rio utility
- Walk500 management tool for your Rio500 player, requires the Gnome libraries
- grio is "...a GNOME tool for managing your Diamond Rio PMP300 MP3 player"
- rio-linux a translation of the Rio utility to K&R-formatted 8-space-tabbed C for Linux
- riofill a Perl script to fill a Rio with a random selection of MP3s
- Documentation Etc.