Debian Multimedia Players packages

Audacious is a fork of beep-media-player which supports Winamp skins and many codecs.

In the default install, the following codecs are supported:

• MP3
• Ogg Vorbis / Theora
• AAC and AAC+
• FLAC
• ALAC
• Windows Media (WMA)
• WAVE

Additionally, Audacious is extendable through plugins, and contains other useful features like LIRC support. Support for many more codecs can also be added through plugins.

This package contains the core player and its localization.

This plugin adds support for MPEG, MPEG2, DVD, DivX, Ogg/Vorbis and many more formats to any Gecko-based web browser (Firefox, Galeon, etc.). The decoding process is done by VLC and the output window is embedded in a webpage or directly in the browser window. There is also support for fullscreen display and javascript control.

VLC is the VideoLAN project's media player. It plays MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, WebM, FLAC, MP3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, podcasts, and multimedia streams from various network sources.

The command line tool bs1770gain is a loudness scanner compliant with ITU-R BS.1770 and its flavors EBU R128, ATSC A/85, and ReplayGain 2.0. It helps normalizing the loudness of audio and video files to the same level.

Cantata is a graphical front-end for the music player daemon, MPD. It provides many tools to view and manage the music collection including:

• library - sorted by album, artist, track, directory
• albums with cover art
• user defined playlists
• dynamic playlists
• streams, internet radio
• lyrics
• artist information from Wikipedia
• device support for USB mass storage, MTP and CDs

C* Music Player is a modular and very configurable ncurses-based audio player. It has some interesting features like configurable colorscheme, mp3 and ogg streaming, it can be controlled with an UNIX socket, filters, album/artists sorting and a vi-like configuration interface.

It currently supports different input formats:

• Ogg Vorbis
• MP3 (with libmad)
• FLAC
• Wav
• Modules (with libmodplug)
• Musepack
• AAC
• Windows Media Audio

FAAD2 is the fastest ISO AAC audio decoder available. FAAD2 correctly decodes all MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 MAIN, LOW, LTP, LD and ER object type AAC files.

This package contains a command line interface to play AAC or MP4 files.

Tagger for whole-album FLAC files with embedded CUE sheets. Data for the tags is retrieved from the MusicBrainz service. Tags are written as VORBIS comments or standalone CUESHEET files, and the application has the ability to rename a file based on the tags using a user-specified template.

flactag can be run either interactively (to allow the user to select which of the results to tag the file with), or in batch mode (allowing files to be checked regularly for changes, and optionally to apply these changes automatically).

FreetuxTV is a media player for watching and recording TV on a PC. It gives access to a large and growing database of free WebTV, WebRadio, and WebCam channels in more than 20 languages, along with television services provided by ISPs to their subscribers.

It relies on VLC for its multimedia codecs.

Gecko Media Player is a browser plug-in that uses GNOME MPlayer and Mplayer to play media in a browser. It uses the NS4 API and is therefore compatible with all NS4 derived browsers: Iceweasel, Firefox, Iceape, Epiphany, Galeon, Midbrowser, Xulrunner as well as with Konqueror, Opera and Google Chromium.

It is the modern replacement for mplayerplug-in (from the same author).

Glyr is a library to retrieve music-related metadata from several online providers (Amazon, Discogs, Musicbrainz...).

It can be used in media player programs to download cover art, lyrics, biography and much more.

This package contains a command-line interface to the library.

Gmerlin is a multiformat media player with tree-like virtual directory structure, where you can save your files, webstreams or whatever. It handles even large media collections gracefully. Hardware devices appear also in the tree so you can open Audio-CDs, (S)VCDs, DVDs and DVB-broadcasts.

The applications include

• The GUI player: A multiformat media player with tree-like virtual directory structure, where you can save your files, webstreams or whatever. Gmerlin handles even large media collections gracefully. Hardware devices appear also in the tree so you can open Audio-CDs, (S)VCDs, DVDs and DVB-broadcasts.
• Gmerlin transcoder: Feature rich transcoder, which supports audio, video, subtitles and chapters.
• Gmerlin alsamixer: An Alsa mixer with support for multiple cards and detachable mixer controls.
• Gmerlin visualizer: Run visualization plugins from your soundcard
• Plugin configurator: Configure gmerlin plugins for programs which can't do this themselves.

Gmerlin is a multiformat media player with tree-like virtual directory structure, where you can save your files, webstreams or whatever. It handles even large media collections gracefully. Hardware devices appear also in the tree so you can open Audio-CDs, (S)VCDs, DVDs and DVB-broadcasts.

This package includes the "extra" set of Gmerlin's plugins, which contains the MJPEG encoders.

Gmerlin is a multiformat media player with tree-like virtual directory structure, where you can save your files, webstreams or whatever. It handles even large media collections gracefully. Hardware devices appear also in the tree so you can open Audio-CDs, (S)VCDs, DVDs and DVB-broadcasts.

This package includes ffmpeg based encoders to be used by Gmerlin, enabling gmerlin-transcoder to encode more file formats.

Gmerlin is a multiformat media player with tree-like virtual directory structure, where you can save your files, webstreams or whatever. It handles even large media collections gracefully. Hardware devices appear also in the tree so you can open Audio-CDs, (S)VCDs, DVDs and DVB-broadcasts.

This package includes the "good" set of Gmerlin's plugins, which contains only non-proprietary and patent-free encoders.

Gmerlin_avdecoder is a general purpose media decoding library. It was written as a support library for gmerlin, but it can also be used by other applications.

This package contains the decoder plugins for gmerlin that are based on Gmerlin_avdecoder.

gmusicbrowser is a powerful graphical browser which supports libraries with a very large number of songs (over 10,000).

It can use multiple inputs and has native support for MP3, Ogg, and FLAC files. It also supports mass-renaming and mass-retagging of a song library, multiple genres per song, ratings, and customizable labels.

gmusicbrowser has a customizable window layout, and comes with plugins to use Last.fm, retrieve lyrics, or find album pictures and WebContext (using the Mozilla or WebKit engines to display the artist's page on Wikipedia and search for lyrics with Google).

The power of MPlayer combined with a friendly interface for your desktop. You can play all your multimedia (audio, video, CD, DVDs, and VCDs, streams etc. with full DVD and MKV chapter support), organize, sort and create playlists, take screenshots while playing videos, be notified about media changes, retrieve cover art and more. Gnome-MPlayer fully supports subtitles giving the ability to specify preferred audio and subtitle languages.

The player can be used to play media on websites from your browser when used with Gecko Mediaplayer and is the modern replacement for mplayerplug-in (from the same author).

GPAC stands for GPAC Project on Advanced Content (a recursive acronym). It is an Open Source multimedia framework for research and academic purposes. The project covers different aspects of multimedia, with a focus on presentation technologies (graphics, animation and interactivity).

This package contains the following utilities:

• MP4Box

Groove Basin runs on a server optionally connected to speakers. Guests can control the music player by connecting with a laptop, tablet, or smart phone. Further, users can stream their music libraries remotely.

Groove Basin comes with a fast, responsive web interface that supports keyboard shortcuts and drag drop. It also provides the ability to upload songs, download songs, and import songs by URL, including YouTube URLs.

Groove Basin supports Dynamic Mode which automatically queues random songs, favoring songs that have not been queued recently.

Groove Basin automatically performs ReplayGain scanning on every song using the EBU R128 loudness standard, and automatically switches between track and album mode.

Groove Basin supports the MPD protocol, which means it is compatible with MPD clients. There is also a more powerful Groove Basin protocol which you can use if the MPD protocol does not meet your needs.

Groove Basin supports Last.fm scrobbling.

Guayadeque is a lightweight and easy-to-use music player that supports smart playlists and huge music collections.

Main features include:

• Play mp3, ogg, flac, wma, mpc, mp4, ape, etc.
• Read and write tags in all supported formats.
• Allow to catalogue your music using labels. Any track, artist or album can have as many labels you want.
• Smart play mode that add tracks that fit your music taste using the tracks currently in play list.
• Ability to download covers manually or automatically
• Suggest music using last.fm service.
• Allow fast access to any music file by genre, artist, album, etc
• Play shoutcast radios.
• Allow to subscribe to podcasts and download all new episodes automatically or manually.
• Dynamic or static play lists.
• Tracks tag editor with automatically fetching of tags information for easily completion.
• Lyrics downloads from different lyrics providers.
• Easily expandable contextual links support. With it you can find information about a track, an artist or an album on your favourite site.
• Easily expandable contextual commands support. For example you can right click on any album and click in option to record the album in a burning application.
• Option to copy the selection you want to a directory or device using a configurable pattern.
• Last.fm audioscrobbling support.
• Partial GNOME session support to detect when GNOME session is about to close and save the play list so it can continue next time with the same tracks.
• Allow to resume play status and position when closed and reopened.
• You can rate the tracks from 0 to 5 stars.
• MPRIS D-Bus interface support so it can easily controlled from music applets for example and many more.

isrcsubmit is a command line utility to extract International Standard Recording Codes (ISRC) from audio CDs. It allows one to submit the extracted data to MusicBrainz. ISRCs are used to uniquely identify sound and music video recordings.

isrcsubmit supports multiple backends to extract ISRCs: libdiscid (the default) and cdrdao for discs that do not store ISRCs in the subchannel information.

A valid MusicBrainz account is required to submit ISRCs.

The mjpeg programs are a set of tools that can do recording of videos and playback, simple cut-and-paste editing and the MPEG compression of audio and video under Linux.

The mjpeg programs are a set of tools that can do recording of videos and playback, simple cut-and-paste editing and the MPEG compression of audio and video under Linux.

This package contains the GTK+ frontend.

moc (music on console) is a full-screen player designed to be powerful and easy to use.

Supported file formats are: MP3, OGG Vorbis, FLAC, OPUS, WAVE, SPEEX, Musepack (MPC), AIFF, AU (and other less popular formats supported by libsndfile). New formats support is under development.

Other features: simple mixer, colour themes, searching the menu (the playlist or a directory) like M-s in Midnight Commander, the way MOC creates titles from tags is configurable, optional character set conversion for file tags using iconv(), OSS or ALSA output.

Mopidy plays music from local disk, Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Play Music, and more. You can edit the playlist from any phone, tablet, or computer using a variety of MPD and web clients.

This package provides a Mopidy extension for playing music from the Internet Archive.

Mopidy plays music from local disk, Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Play Music, and more. You can edit the playlist from any phone, tablet, or computer using a variety of MPD and web clients.

This package provides a Mopidy extension for playing music from your local music archive. Mopidy-Local builds an index of your archive's metadata ahead of time, and can thus provide features like search.

Mopidy is a music server which can play music from multiple sources, like your local hard drive, radio streams, and from Spotify and SoundCloud.

This package provides a Mopidy local library extension that uses an SQLite database for keeping track of your local media. This extension lets you browse your music collection by album, artist, composer and performer, and provides full-text search capabilities based on SQLite's FTS modules.

Mopidy plays music from local disk, Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Play Music, and more. You can edit the playlist from any phone, tablet, or computer using a variety of MPD and web clients.

This package provides a Mopidy extension for controlling Mopidy from MPD clients.

Mopidy plays music from local disk, Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Play Music, and more. You can edit the playlist from any phone, tablet, or computer using a variety of MPD and web clients.

This package provides a Mopidy extension that lets you browse podcasts distributed as RSS feeds and play individual episodes in a variety of audio formats. Podcasts are mapped to albums, while podcast episodes are shown as tracks in Mopidy, with metadata converted to Mopidy's native data model where applicable. OPML 2.0 subscription lists and directories are also supported for multi-level browsing.

Mopidy plays music from local disk, Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Play Music, and more. You can edit the playlist from any phone, tablet, or computer using a variety of MPD and web clients.

This package provides a Mopidy extension for searching and browsing podcasts on Apple iTunes Store.

Mopidy plays music from local disk, Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Play Music, and more. You can edit the playlist from any phone, tablet, or computer using a variety of MPD and web clients.

This package provides a Mopidy extension for playing music from the SomaFM music streaming service.

MP3FS is a read-only FUSE filesystem which transcodes audio formats (currently FLAC) to MP3 on the fly when opened and read.

It is also a novel alternative to traditional mp3 encoder applications. Users can use their favorite file browser to select the files they want encoded and copy them somewhere.

The MP4v2 library provides an API to create and modify mp4 files as defined by ISO-IEC:14496-1:2001 MPEG-4 Systems. This file format is derived from Apple's QuickTime file format that has been used as a multimedia file format in a variety of platforms and applications. It is a very powerful and extensible format that can accommodate practically any type of media.

MP4v2 was originally bundled with mpeg4ip library, but has been moved into its own maintained library due to a combination of the cessation of support of mpeg4ip and the usefulness of this library on its own.

This package contains the command line frontends.

MPD_Sima is a Python script meant to feed your MPD playlist with tracks from artists similar to your currently playing track, provided that these artists are found in MPD library. Similar artists are fetched from last.fm.

MPD_sima can queue track, top track or whole album for similar artists.

This client allows you to never run out of music when your playlist queue is getting short.

This package provides a MPD AudioScrobbler client supporting the 2.0 protocol specs.

It uses libmpdclient to retrieve the song data from MPD and libcurl to post it to Last.fm or Libre.fm.

Simple libmpeg2 application which can decode and play ES, PS, and TS video streams. Includes extract_mpeg2 demuxer and various output drivers.

This package provides the mpeg2dec and extract_mpeg2 tools.

mpg123 is a real time MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 audio player/decoder for layers 1, 2 and 3 (MPEG 1.0 layer 3 also known as MP3).

This package contains output plugins for several audio systems, including OSS4, the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA), JACK, PortAudio, PulseAudio, OpenAL and the Network Audio System (NAS).

This is a port of the Open Cubic Player to UNIX from DOS. Provides a nice textbased frontend, with some few optional features in graphical. Plays modules, sids, wave, audio CD, midi, ogg, flac, adlib, mp3, ahx, hvl, and ym.

Plays audio sources to transcribe them in your favourite text application. Speed of playback can be changed without changing the pitch and on pause it will rewind for a few seconds according to your preferences. Parlatype can be controlled with the "Play" button from your keyboard even if its window is not focused.

Sayonara is a small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, supported by the Qt framework. One of Sayonara's goals is intuitive and easy usablility.

Application that can play audio cues and trigger MIDI events primarily developed for theatre productions.

Features:

• 8 channels per_cue routing.
• Playback through ALSA or JACK.
• Load/Save cue list.
• Hot key for any cue.
• Application controllable by MIDI.

Silan is a standalone application to analyze audio files for silence and print ranges of detected signals.

It supports a variety of audio-formats and codecs by making use of libsndfile and ffmpeg/libav for reading audio-data.

Signal threshold and hold-off time can be freely configured. The output can be formatted with samples or seconds as unit or printed as audacity label file.

Qt5 front-end for mplayer and forks, with basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more. One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave... don't worry, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume...

Qt Mplayer front-end, with basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more. One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave... don't worry, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume...

This package contains additional icon themes.

SMTube is a stand-alone graphical application which allows one to search and download Youtube videos. Although it is part of the SMPlayer project, it can be used with any multimedia player such as mpv, MPlayer, VLC, Totem or Dragon Player.

streamtuner2 is a browser for radio station directories. It can fetch lists from SHOUTcast, Xiph.org, Live365, Jamendo, DMOZ, basic.ch, Punkcast. And it lists stream entries by category or genre. It reuses existing audio players, and recording is delegated to streamripper.

It mimics the original streamtuner 0.99.99, but is easier to extend because it's written entirely in Python. It's already in a stable and useable form.

This package contains useful documentation for the VideoLAN streaming solution: the VLC Play HOWTO (a complete guide to using VLC as a media player), the VLC Streaming HOWTO (a guide to using VLC as a streaming solution), the VLS user guide and the VideoLAN FAQ.

VLC is the VideoLAN project's media player. It plays MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, WebM, FLAC, MP3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, podcasts, and multimedia streams from various network sources.

VLC can also be used as a streaming server that duplicates the stream it reads and multicasts them through the network to other clients, or serves them through HTTP.

VLC has support for on-the-fly transcoding of audio and video formats, either for broadcasting purposes or for movie format transformations. Support for most output methods is provided by this package, but features can be added by installing additional plugins:

• vlc-plugin-access-extra
• vlc-plugin-fluidsynth
• vlc-plugin-jack
• vlc-plugin-notify
• vlc-plugin-samba
• vlc-plugin-skins2
• vlc-plugin-svg
• vlc-plugin-video-splitter
• vlc-plugin-visualization

VLC is the VideoLAN project's media player. It plays MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, WebM, FLAC, MP3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, podcasts, and multimedia streams from various network sources.

These plugins add support for JACK to the VLC media player. To activate the audio output module, use the --aout jack' flag or select thejack' audio output plugin from the preferences menu. For the jack input, use `vlc jack://channels=...:ports=...'

Audacious is a fork of beep-media-player which supports winamp skins and many codecs.

In the default install, the following codecs are supported:

• MP3
• Ogg Vorbis
• AAC and AAC+
• FLAC
• Windows Media (WMA)
• Many module formats and much more!

Additionally, Audacious is extendable through plugins, and contains other useful features like LIRC support.

This package contains the plugins for Audacious.

• Audio CD reading
• MPEG support (mp3)
• Ogg Vorbis support
• Windows Media support (WMA)
• AAC support
• FLAC support
• ALAC support
• WAVE support
• ALSA output
• OSS output
• Disk writer output
• And many more!

These include programs for CD extraction, track conversion from one audio format to another, track renaming and retagging, track identification, CD burning from tracks, and more. Supports internationalized track filenames and metadata using Unicode. Works with high-definition, multi-channel audio as well as CD-quality. Track conversion uses multiple CPUs or CPU cores if available to greatly speed the transcoding process. Track metadata can be retrieved from FreeDB, MusicBrainz or compatible servers.

EasyTAG is an utility for viewing, editing and writing the tags of different audio files, using a GTK+ interface.

Currently EasyTAG supports the following:

• View, edit, write tags of MP3, MP2 files (ID3 tag), FLAC files (FLAC Vorbis tag), Ogg Opus, Ogg Speex and Ogg Vorbis files (Ogg Vorbis tag), MP4/M4A/AAC files (MPEG-4 Part 10 tag), and MusePack, Monkey's Audio files (APE tag);
• Auto tagging: parse file and directory names using masks to automatically fill in tag fields;
• Cover art support for all formats;
• Rename files from the tag fields (using masks) or by loading a text file;
• Process selected files of the selected directory;
• Ability to browse subdirectories;
• Recursion for tagging, removing, renaming, saving, etc;
• Can set a field (artist, title, ...) on all other selected files;
• Read file header information (bitrate, time, ...) and display it;
• Undo and redo last changes;
• Ability to process tag fields and file names (convert letters into uppercase, lowercase, etc);
• Ability to open a directory or a file with an external program;
• CDDB support (from http protocol);
• A tree based browser;
• A list to select files;
• A playlist generator window;
• A file searching window;
• Simple and explicit interface.

EasyTAG is an utility for viewing, editing and writing the tags of different audio files, using a GTK+ interface.

This is the extension for the Nautilus file manager.

Kodi, formerly known as XBMC is an award winning free and open source software media-player and entertainment hub for all your digital media. Kodi is available for Linux, Mac OS X (Leopard, Tiger and Apple TV) and Microsoft Windows, as well as the original Xbox game console. Created in 2003 by a group of like minded programmers, Kodi is a non-profit project run and developed by volunteers located around the world. More than 50 software developers have contributed to Kodi, and 100-plus translators have worked to expand its reach, making it available in more than 30 languages.

While Kodi functions very well as a standard media player application for your computer, it has been designed to be the perfect companion for your HTPC. Supporting an almost endless range of remote controls, and combined with its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, Kodi feels very natural to use from the couch and is the ideal solution for your home theater. Once installed, your computer will become a fully functional multimedia jukebox.

This package contains the kodi binaries.

Pragha is a Lightweight Music Player for GNU/Linux, based on Gtk, sqlite, and completely written in C, constructed to be fast, light, and simultaneously tries to be complete without obstructing the daily work.

The vdr-plugin-vnsiserver provides PVR backend services for Kodi clients using the kodi-pvr-vdr-vnsi addon. Via VNSI (VDR-Network-Streaming-Interface) Kodi connects to this plugin and can access various VDR functions like timers, channels, live-TV-streaming and recordings.

GNU MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run. You can think of it as a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.

Baka MPlayer is a free and open source, cross-platform, libmpv based multimedia player. Its simple design reflects the idea for an uncluttered and enjoyable environment for watching tv shows. Features:

• Gesture seeking.
• Smart playlist.
• Dim Desktop.
• Hardware accelerated playback (vdpau, vaapi, vda).
• Youtube playback support (and others).
• Multilingual support (we are looking for translators!).
• And more...

A music player with focus on speed, simplicity and music discovery.

Castnow is a command-line utility that can be used to play back media files on your Chromecast device. It supports playback of local video files, YouTube clips, videos on the web and torrents. You can also re-attach a running playback session.

A soundcloud player written in Ruby with Ncurses for graphical interface and mpg123 for playback.

DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is an audio player for GNU/Linux with X11, and it also support command line.

Despotify is an independent open source client for the Spotify streaming music platform, which provides on-demand access to music from a number of major and independent record labels. To use despotify, a Spotify Premium account is required.

The source package builds three binaries: libdespotify0, libdespotify0-dev, and despotify.

The binary package "despotify" provides two console front-ends, and one HTTP REST front-end. The two library packages are self-explanatory. I intend to investigate also building the python and ruby bindings, but I have not yet looked into that.

For answers about the legal situation and the relationship of despotify with the official proprietary distribution, please see http://despotify.se/faq/.

Eina (or eina-player for avoid collision with libeina from e17) is a simple and extensible music player.

Current music players are focused on managing your music collection, while using mandatory criteria about how they organize it.

Eina does not care about it at all. If your are an organized person, chances are your music collection is organized too, and you won't like to spend your time rearranging it to follow your player's specific rules. In addition, having those players to arrange music that's randomly stored, named or tagged, is usually counterproductive.

• Based on gtk+ 3 and gstreamer 0.10.
• Extensible via plugins, next version will support python and javascript plugins thanks to libpeas.
• Small memory footprint.
• System integration with support for notifications, XDG-compilant, stock icons.
• Follows as close as possible Gnome HIG guidelines.

Eina developer, me, is totally open to collaboration to get Eina into Debian, so ask or report anything.

flash-player-mp3 is an audio player for MP3 file, intended for diffusion on websites. It's highly customizable.

All best features in one player. Foobnix small, fast, customizable, powerful music player with user-friendly interface.

Main features player: Support for CUE (also wv, iso.wv) is the best under Linux (zavlab) Formats MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND ... Converter any format to any (mp3, ogg, mp2, ac3, m4a, wav) Scrobbler tags with music and radio Find and play music and videos Equalizer Online music download manager Shortcuts Displays the album cover, lyrics, photo artist Integration with VKontakte (displaying all the friends and their music, downloading music from the group vkontakte) * Integration with Last.FM (Show plays the best songs, favorite songs, artists)

Fueco is usefull to understand ffmpeg and mencoder. It can convert to .ogg, to .wav, to ac3 video, etc...

The AudioManager is meant to abstract audio in an IVI setting in a way that creates a common API allowing an independence from routing mechanisms. Designed to handle both dynamic and static sources and sinks it provides an API upwards to other applications, like HMI. The AudioManager is not another routing mechanism however.

The Coveramazon plugin is a a metadata provider for gmpc which downloads cover art and album information.

GStreamer-Sharp are C# bindings to GStreamer. This version of the bindings has been written from scratch, mainly by Stephan Sundermann in GSoC, based on bindinator (a new GObject-Introspection-based code-generation approach). This version of the bindings is a "preview" (0.99.0) which means it will be API-unstable until its final version (1.0), and it targets GStreamer 1.0 API. Soname of the bound library is libgstreamer-1.0.so.0.

Banshee v2.9.1 is the first version which consumes this binding, for example.

ha-audacious is a port of the "Highly Advanced" Winamp chiptune plugin to Audacious. It can play GSF and MiniGSF format chiptunes through emulation for the highest amount of possible accuracy.

Last.fm's collection of applications for streaming and scrobbling music.

Laudio is an HTML5 Music Player which can be accessed by anyone, from anywhere with a webbrowser and internet connection. Laudio is easy to use simply add a music directory, scan music directory and enjoy.

User accounts can be added to restrict usage to registered users.

In spite of being described by upstream authors as unofficial/alternative, gstreamer-java is currently the java binding available at gstreamer language bindings page [1]. [1] http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/bindings/

Miniaudio (formerly mini_al) is a single file library for audio playback and capture. It's written in C (compilable as C++) and released into the public domain.

A graphical editor that allows you to replay or remove selected parts (frames) of an MP3 file.

MPX is a media player which provides a very easy-to-use interface and usage semantics for all tasks, while having extensive standards and services support under the hood (MusicBrainz, Last.fm radio/scrobbling, HAL, DBus), yet keeping the details out of the way of the user.

MPX is a media player that features support for specifications like XDS DnD, XSPF and DBus. MPX is highly interoperable and integrates well with other applications and a variety of desktop environments.

MPX guys are writing a successor to MPX now called mpx. I intend to package it once it becomes usable. So, the same long description as MPX will mostly apply here, as it's basically the same idea, but with newer code.

MTPSync is used to syncronize files/music with a MTP device (as supported by libmtp)

Feature:

• Graphical or console interface
• Syncronising Music
• Syncronising Playlists (local playlists stored in m3u format)
• Syncronising Videos
• Syncronising Zencasts
• Syncronising Organiser (calendar/contacts/tasks)
• Syncronising Pictures

NOTE: It already have a debian package avilable for download on the home page.

Mudkip-player is a combination of the Audacious 1.5 and BMPx (old XMMS-like version) codebases. It behaves like XMMS and includes a few useful enhancements. Mudkip is based on GStreamer and is not compatible with XMMS plugins, but includes select features from both BMPx and Audacious.

A good substitute for songbird.

OSD Lyrics is inspired by lrcdis. It is a third-party lyrics display program, and focus on OSD lyrics display. OSD Lyrics currently supports following media players: Amarok 2.0 and 1.4 (1.4 is disabled by default, use --enable-amarok1 to compile) Audacious Banshee Exaile (Both 0.2 and 0.3) JuK MOC 2.5 (High CPU Usage) Muine new! Qmmp (with MPRIS plugin enabled) Quod Libet MPD Rhythmbox Songbird (with MPRIS extension installed) XMMS2 OSD Lyrics can download lyrics from following web sites: Sogou Qianqian MiniLyrics

Panucci is an ideal player for audiobooks and podcasts. It has an resuming function to continue at the last timestamp. It interacts well with gpodder.

This package should provide the mplayer backend for phonon, like the gstreamer and the xine ones.

Playdar is a music content resolver service - run it on every computer you use, and you'll be able to listen to all the songs you would otherwise be able to find manually by searching though all your computers, hard disks, online services, and more.

Pogo plays your music. Nothing else. It is both fast and easy-to-use. The clear interface uses the screen real-estate very efficiently. Other features include: Fast search on the harddrive and in the playlist, smart album grouping, cover display, desktop notifications and no music library. Pogo is a fork of Decibel Audio Player and supports most common audio formats. It is written in Python and uses GTK+ and gstreamer.

Pythm (Python + Rhythm) is a media player frontend, designed to control gstreamer, mplayer or mpd with one GUI on mobile devices such as OpenMoko's FreeRunner.

Xplayer is part of X-App project, is a simple yet featureful media player which can read a large number of file formats. It features :

• Shoutcast, m3u, asx, SMIL and ra playlists support
• DVD (with menus), VCD and Digital CD (with CDDB) playback
• TV-Out configuration with optional resolution switching
• 4.0, 5.0, 5.1 and stereo audio output
• Full-screen mode (move your mouse and you get nice controls) with Xinerama, dual-head and RandR support
• Aspect ratio toggling, scaling based on the video's original size
• Full keyboard control
• Simple playlist with repeat mode and saving feature
• GIO integration
• Screenshot of the current movie
• Brightness and Contrast control
• Visualisation plugin when playing audio-only files
• Video thumbnailer
• Works on remote displays
• DVD, VCD and OGG/OGM subtitles with automatic language selection
• Extensible with plugins

This package provides uniformity across the XFCE, Mate & LXDE desktpos often preferred on older computers.