Open Source C++ MP3 Software

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.

Tuniac is an iTunes style media player/manager for Windows. Advanced playlist editor, search as you type and queue support. Supports: MPEG-1 Audio (mp3, mp2, mp1) FLAC (flac, fla, oga, ogg) Advanced Audio Coding (aac, m4a, m4b, mp4) Apple Lossless Audio Codec aka ALAC (m4a) Windows Media Audio (wma) Vorbis (ogg) Opus (opus) WavPack (wv) TAK Audio (tak) TrueAudio (tta) Monkeys Audio (ape, mac) Musepack (mpc, mp+, mpp) OptimFrog (ofr, ofs) Shorten (shn) Dolby Digital (ac3) DSD (dff, dfs) PCM (wav, aif) CD Audio (cda) Speex (spx) MOD Formats (mod, mo3, xm, it, s3m, mtm) Game Audio Formats (adx, umx) MIDI (mid) Supporting radio streaming of most the above formats.

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.

Album List is a WinAMP general plugin that takes a directory tree and turns it into a list of albums. This allows easy navigation among albums stored in different directories, especially those stored on CDs.

Mixxx has moved to http://www.mixxx.org. Please visit our official site for the latest updates, as our SourceForge page is completely out of date.

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.

Lightweight GTK3 audio player supporting MIDI, WAV, MP3, OGG, FLAC, AIFF, and Opus formats. Features OPL3 FM synthesis for authentic MIDI playback, drag-and-drop playlist queue, real-time spectrum visualization, 10-band equalizer, and M3U playlist support. Built with SDL2 audio backend for cross-platform compatibility across Linux and Windows. Includes intuitive controls with keyboard shortcuts, 5-second seek buttons, and efficient format conversion. Perfect for musicians and audio enthusiasts needing reliable playback of both modern and legacy audio formats. Multi-threaded architecture ensures smooth performance. MIT License.

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

AlsaPlayer is a new type of PCM player. It is heavily multi-threaded and tries to excercise the ALSA library and driver quite a bit. It has some very interesting features unique to Linux/Unix players. For the last updates and the current development, check https://github.com/alsaplayer/alsaplayer

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).

Reproductor de Audio portable basado en la librería BASS, Liviano, Rápido y simple de usar. Ahora soporta multiples lenguajes. Portable audio player based on BASS library, Lightweight, Fast and easy to use. Now supports multiple languages.

Amarok - advanced audio player for KDE.

mp3 library, advanced ID3V1 and ID3V2 tagger, player. Organize a large mp3 library, over 40,000 songs. Speech synthesis and tag backup utilities. Scripts to maintain and organize song files.

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.

A set of reusable libraries and programs for the Apple Newton MessagePad, including XML/HTML parsers, an HTTP library and RSS/HTML viewers as well as GTD and organizer packages.

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.

This plugin allows winamp to talk to mIRC and Klient. You can have your irc client do things when the song changes in winamp. You can also control winamp from within your irc client.

This has now moved to GitHub! https://github.com/sam-truscott/wumpusopenal Output Plug-in for Winamp 5 that utilises OpenAL. Written primarily for Windows Vista and Windows 7 users to get Hardware Acceleration support.

This project covers the development of 3rd-party tools for the "Wilson S1MP3 Player", some chinese device manufactured by Actions, with very low customer support. Generally you will find here development tools to access and alter the device firmware.

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

DarkVis the Open Source OpenGL based Winamp Visualization Plugin.

Tools, Apps and Docs related to Final Scratch

The MCT Player is an advanced media player which takes advantage of the IP Multicast Internet. The player merges several layered streams and applies error correction techniques to provide the end user a high quality experience.

SoundScape: a winamp visualization plugin written in OpenGL. It sports a waveform oscilloscope, fractal terrain, and an amorphous blob that pulsates to the music.