Open Source Music Players

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!

MAD is a high-quality fixed-point MPEG audio decoder with 24-bit output. The implementation is entirely new, based on the ISO/IEC standards, and performs especially well on systems without native floating-point support.

libxmp is a library that renders module files to PCM data. xmp is a module player for Unix-like systems, based on libxmp, that plays over 90 mainstream and obscure module formats from Amiga, Atari, Acorn, Apple IIgs and PC, including Protracker (MOD), Scream Tracker 3 (S3M), Fast Tracker II (XM) and Impulse Tracker (IT) files.

Aria Maestosa is a midi sequencer/editor. It lets you compose, edit and play midi files with a few clicks in a user-friendly interface offering score, keyboard, guitar, drum and controller views. Git repository: https://github.com/ariamaestosa/ariamaestosa

A portable MP3/WMA/OGG/FLAC file manager for Sony players. Simply copy it on your usb player and use it wherever you are! It is an alternative to SonicStage. (Was NW-E00x Mp3 File Manager...)

Subsonic is a web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music and video collection. More than 20 apps are available for Android, iPhone, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Roku, Chumby, Sonos etc. Supports virtually all media formats, converting files on the fly. Also includes a Podcast receiver and jukebox feature allowing you to control what's playing on your computer from your mobile phone.

UMPlayer is a cross-platform multimedia player supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It boasts many advanced features such as built-in subtitle search and YouTube player.

MusicPlayer2 is a simple music-player application (or prototype) implemented in — presumably — a web or desktop environment, intended to give users a clean, functional interface for managing and playing audio files. The project likely implements basic playlist management, playback controls (play, pause, skip), and possibly UI features to browse or organize music. Because many smaller music-player projects aim for simplicity, MusicPlayer2 may focus on providing a lightweight, minimal-dependency audio player compared to larger, heavy multimedia suites. For people who want quick playback of local files, basic playlists, or a hassle-free, minimal UI music experience, MusicPlayer2 is positioned as a no-frills solution. As an open-source repo, it allows modification — for example customizing UI, hooking up additional features (equalizer, library scanning), or integrating with other apps.

"Squeezebox is the smartest way to stream MP3s and Internet radio to your stereo without loss of sound quality." (Slim Devices) SoftSqueeze is a java software implementation of the Squeezebox allowing your PC to stream the same music as your Squeezebox. The source code for Softsqueeze is now on github. https://github.com/ralph-irving/softsqueeze3 The sourceforge cvs repository marked as read-only.

PyKaraoke is a cross-platform karaoke player. It currently supports CDG (MP3+G, OGG+G, WAV+G), MIDI (.KAR, .MID) and MPEG formats.

This is a Commodore 64 emulator specialized for sound reproduction. It is also a SID player for music collections like HVSC and CGSC. It is a full C64 emulator and can play games of the GameBase64 project as well.

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.

rePear is a tool that allows using an Apple iPod audio player without iTunes. The user can manage the audio files on the iPod with a normal file manager and rePear takes care that they can be played on the device.

Soundboard makes building/executing sound cues for theatrical performance a snap. With a mix of sound, fade, stop, pause, and resume cues, you can create elegant designs, and execute them with the simple push of a button. Soundboard is designed for portability and ease of use with a straightforward interface that will help those who aren't audio specialists create designs like a pro.

MidiQuickFix allows you to directly edit the events in a Midi file. It is intended to make it easy to find and fix problems, such as setting volume and pan values for a track, without the need for a complex Midi sequencing program.

DGuitar is a Guitar Pro (*.GP4,*.GP3,GTP) viewer and player that works under Linux, MacOs, Solaris, BSD, Windows, or any other operating system with Java Runtime 1.4.X. http://DGuitar.sourceforge.net If you are a JAVA developer visit this page https://bitbucket.org/mauriciograciag/dguitar/overview

sc68 is an Atari ST and Amiga music player. The sc68 is a Atari-ST and Amiga music player. It comes as a command line music player as well as libraries for developers and various plugins for well know programs.

Free mplayer-based Music Player with a built-in Song Database, Websearch, Streaming and Download Tools and several Audio Effects including Speed Control, Pitch Change, Dynamics Processing, "Live"-, Headphone- and Karaoke Filters and Distortion ...

Exit 66 Jukebox is a web based jukebox program for MP3 files. It runs silently in the background and can be accessed by any machine on your local network.

ABC is a text-based music notation language. This project aims to promote the ABC music notation language by providing cross-platform, open-source tools for manipulating, displaying and playing (via MIDI) ABC files. This project is here for historic reasons and there is not too much activity now. The abcmidi project is updated more frequently.

PLIB is a set of libraries that are designed to help developers of interactive 3D applications such as games. All PLIB libraries are portable to just about every modern Operating System. PLIB includes OpenGL GUI and scene graph, portable audio, portable

A Java Utility to edit and create new game content for Might and Magic 8 with support for 6 and 7. This is an extension of the no-longer-developed UnLod java utility for MM8. MM8LevelEditor is no longer actively developed. A new MMLevelEditor is being re

XBMC Skinning Project is a side-project for hosting open source skins and skinning tools for XBMC Media Center. Any skin author/developer may apply to join to get write access to this projects CVS/SVN/GIT, tracking tools, file publishing, and more.

Just download the above zip file, extract it and then open the respective index.html file on your favourite internet browser and follow the instructions shown.

This Java Modplayer playes *.mod, *.xm, *.s3m, *.stm, *.wow, *.it (all with interpolation), MP3s, *.sid, *.ogg, *.flac, *.ape, WAV, MIDI, RMI, AU, AIFF. It also supports playlists like PLS, M3U and cue-sheets. Since Version 2.8 support for OPL2/OPL3 emulation was added to play AdLib ROL-Files, LAA, CMF, DRO and SCI files. To start the player you may just double click the jar or use: java -jar ./javamod.jar or (for just commandline) java -cp ./javamod.jar de.quippy.javamod.main.CommandLine. This player can be run als a console application, with its swing gui. The formal applet support is gone. Applets are not supported in most browsers anymore.