Players & Recorders

• Audio
  • AdLib-S3M Player example program for QuickBASIC
  • AlsaPlayer "...a new type of PCM player...heavily multi-threaded...tries to exercise the ALSA library and driver..."
  • Amarok excellent feature-rich music player for Linux
  • Ambisonics Player Java-based b-format player from Roger Klaveness
  • Aqualung a new music player from Tom Szilagyi
  • FMOD music and effects system, supports large variety of playback types
  • Gnomoradio media player and p2p app/project, promotes free music
  • Manauton audio recorder for manual or autonomous recording
  • MPST Digital Jukebox Linux-based embedded CD/MP3/OGG ripper/player/burner box made for a non-Linux user's home entertainment system
  • MusicMatch Jukebox an "all-in-one" MP3 encoder/player with integral CD burner, requires WINE libs
  • PDAudio Recorder PDA- and laptop-based recording software from Core Sound
  • PSG Player a program for playing Atari tunes
  • QARecord "... simple multithreaded stereo recording tool" from Dr. Matthias Nagorni
  • Quark "... an audio player, for geeks, by geeks"
  • SnackAmp multiformat player handles MP3/WAV/Ogg files, requires the SNACK toolkit
  • Songs Sed's "... little tool used to record and mix audio files"
  • Sound Recorder simple utility for recording from soundcard
  • TinySID "The world's smallest SID player", from the great Giant Sisters
  • Yarec yet another recorder/player, supports WAV and AIFF formats
  • bplay a buffered player for various soundfiles
  • erec Joel Yliluoma's "polydriving recording server", an interesting program for recording raw audio stream from the soundcard
  • flRec the fast, light recorder from the Matteo Lucarelli
  • krecord simple WAV recorder/player for KDE from Gerd Knorr
  • listener a program that "... listens for sound... starts recording automatically... automatically stops when things become silent again"
  • rawrec/rawplay "...buffered raw audio recording/playing" at the Linux command prompt
  • soundgrab "interactively select and save sections of an audio file"
  • streamixer package of several audio stream tools, from Joel Yliluoma a.k.a Bisqwit
  • tplay threaded and buffering audio player (RIFF/WAV, AU, raw PCM)
  • vsr C code for a command-line sound recorder, from Serguei Patchkovskii
  • xhippo a generic playlist manager for a variety of UNIX sound players and formats
  • zgsmplay "a curses-based real-time GSM file player..."

• Multimedia
  • Codeweaver Crossover Plugin at long last, Quicktime5 (and more) for Linux Web browsers
  • LiMp0o hardware/software Linux multimedia player
  • MpegTVPlayer also known as mtv, "...a real-time software MPEG Video Player (with audio/sync)..."
  • MPlayer media player for Linux, supports a variety of video and audio formats
  • XAnim the venerable xanim plays a wide variety of sound & video formats
  • XMMS excellent player for MP3, MOD, WAV and other formats
  • XMovie DVD and Quicktime movie player, supports JPEG Photo, YUV2, and raw RGB modes, with stereo audio in PCM, ulaw, or IMA4 formats
  • Xtheater media player for MPEG video and audio, network streams, VCDs, AVI and ASF files
  • xine a most excellent multiformat audio/video player