aTunes

aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems, ...

Currently plays mp3, ogg, wma, wav, flac, mp4 and radio streaming, allowing users to easily edit tags, organize music and rip Audio CDs.

The first time you start aTunes, you will be prompted to select your music repository. After choosing the folder containing all of the music files you wish to add, aTunes will search for your songs, open the main window, and display your songs from within the repository.

Features

• Building a playlist
• Managing a playlist
• Karaoke mode
• Shuffle mode
• Repeat mode
• Navigator
• Repository
• Favorites
• Device
• Radio
• Podcast feeds
• Tags and information about songs, artists and albums
• And more

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K3b - The CD/DVD Kreator

K3b was created to be a feature-rich and easy to handle CD burning application. It consists of basicly three parts:

1. The projects: Projects are created from the file menu and then filled with data to burn.
2. The Tools: The tools menu offers different tools like CD copy or DVD formatting.
3. Context sensitive media actions: When clicking on the Icon representing a CD/DVD drive K3b will present it's contents and allow some further action. This is for example the way to rip audio CDs.

The features are presented in no particular order and the list might be incomplete...

• Creating data cds:

• Add files and folders to your data cd project via drag'n'drop.
• Remove files from your project, move files within your project.
• Create empty direcories within your project.
• Write data cds on-the-fly directly without an image file or with image file. It's also possible to just create the image file and write it to cd later.
• Rockridge and Joliet support.
• Rename files in your project.
• Let K3b rename all the mp3/ogg files you add to your project to a common format like "artist - title.mp3".
• For advanced users: support for nearly all the mkisofs options.
• Verifying the burned data.
• Support for multible El-Torito boot images.
• Multisession support

• Creating audio cds:
  

• Pluggable audio decoding. Plugins for WAV, MP3, FLAC, and Ogg Vorbis are included.
• CD-TEXT support. Will automagically be filled in from tags in audio files.
• Write audio cds on-the-fly without decoding audio files to wav before.
• Normalize volume levels before writing.
• Cut audio tracks at the beginning and the end.

• Creating Video CDs:

VCD 1.1, 2.0, SVCD

CD-i support (Version 4)

• Creating mixed-mode CDs:
  

• CD-Extra (CD-Plus, Enhanced Audio CD) support.
• data and audio project features.

• Creating eMovix CDs

• CD Copy
  

• Copy single and multi session data CDs
• Copy Audio CDs
• Copy Enhanced Audio CDs (CD-Extra)
• Copy CD-Text
• Add CD-Text from cddb
• CD Cloning mode for perfect single session CD copies

• DVD burning:
  

• Support for DVD-R(W) and DVD+R(W)
• Creating data DVD projects
• Creating eMovix DVDs
• Formatting DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs

• CD Ripping:
  

• CDDB support via http, cddbp and local cddb directory.
• Sophisticated pattern system to automatically organize the ripped tracks in directories and name them according to album, title, artist, and track number.
• CD-TEXT reading. May be used instead of CDDB info.
• K3b stores CDDB info of the ripped tracks which will automatically be used as CD-TEXT when adding the ripped files to an audio project.
• Plugin system to allow encoding to virtually every audio format. Plugins to encode to Ogg Vorbis, Mp3, FLAC, and all formats supported by SoX included.

• DVD Ripping and DivX/XviD encoding
• Save/load projects.
• Blanking of CDR-Ws.
• Retrieving Table of contents and cdr information.
• Writing existing iso images to CD or DVD with optional verification of the written data.
• Writing cue/bin files created for CDRWIN
• DVD copy (no video transcoding yet)

• Enhanced CD device handling:

• Detection of max. writing and reading speed.
• Detection of Burnfree and Justlink support.
• Good media detection and optional automatic CD-RW and DVD-RW blanking

• KParts-Plugin ready.

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BonkEnc

BonkEnc is a free audio converter and CD ripper which integrates various popular formats and encoders. It currently supports MP3, MP4/M4A, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC and Bonk files.

BonkEnc makes it easy to convert your audio CDs to MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files which you can use in your hardware player or with your favorite audio software. The program supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database and CDText and automatically writes song information to ID3v2 or Vorbis comment tags. BonkEnc is available for free.

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winLAME

winLAME is an encoder for several audio formats, including mp3 (MPEG Layer 3), Ogg Vorbis and more. winLAME lets you set up the encoding process with an easy-to-use wizard-style user interface.

winLAME supports many input audio formats, and uses the LAME mp3 encoding library for encoding and the MAD decoding library for decoding. See the features page for a list of all supported formats.

winLAME has the following features:

• Encoding and decoding of many audio formats, including:

.mp3 via LAME mp3 encoder (encoding) and MAD (decoding)

.ogg Ogg Vorbis

.aac via libfaac/libfaad

.wav, .aiff, .au, .voc and many more, via libsndfile

.wma via Windows Media Audio codec

.flac via FLAC library

• Uses LAME features, including:

• high quality and optimized mp3 encoding
• nogap encoding of continuous-mix-cd's
• optimized 3DNow! and SSE routines
• ID3 v1 and v2 tagging

• Easy-to-use wizard-like user interface style for easy encoding setup
• CD Audio extraction (aka. CD ripping), including freedb support
• Presets for fast settings setup
• User interface translations to english and german language
• Batch Processing
• Detailed HTML Help File
• Easy install- and uninstall process
• Small size

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Burn

Burn your files to a disc so you can access them later on. Choose different filesystems so you can share your files with people with different operating systems. Change advanced settings like, file permissions, the disc icon, file dates and more on the fly in Burns inspector.

Let the music be with you. Create standard Audio-CD discs with ease. Just drop your audio files in Burns audio list. Want more music on your disc, Burn can create MP3 discs. More and more players support these discs. Higher quality, no problem, Burn can create DVD-Audio discs, which can contain more and higher quality files.

Burn offers advanced options like CD-Text and mp3 tag editing to personalize your disc.

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InfraRecorder

InfraRecorder is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration. InfraRecorder is released under GPL version 3.

Features

• Create custom data, audio and mixed-mode projects and record them to physical discs as well as disc images.
• Supports recording to dual-layer DVDs.
• Blank (erase) rewritable discs using four different methods.
• Record disc images (ISO and BIN/CUE).
• Fixate discs (write lead-out information to prevent further data from being added to the disc).
• Scan the SCSI/IDE bus for devices and collect information about their capabilities.
• Create disc copies, on the fly and using a temporary disc image.
• Import session data from multi-session discs and add more sessions to them.
• Display disc information.
• Save audio and data tracks to files (.wav, .wma, .ogg, .mp3 and .iso).

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CDex

CDex can extract the data directly (digital) from an Audio CD, which is generally called a CD Ripper or a CDDA utility. The resulting audio file can be a plain WAV file (useful for making compilation audio CDs) or the ripped audio data can be compressed using an audio encoder. Many encoders are supported, to name a few:

• Lame MP3 encoder
• Internal MP2 encoder
• APE lossles audio format
• Ogg Vorbis encoder
• The Windows MP3 encoder (Fraunhofer MP3 encoder)
• NTT VQF encoder
• FAAC encoder
• Windows WMA8 encoder

In addition, WAV files on the hard drive can be converted to a Compressed Audio File (and visa versa). CDex also supports many audio file tag formats like the ID3V1 and ID3V2 tags, which can be automatically inserted as part of the ripping process.

Feature List

• Direct recording of multiple tracks
• Read / store album information from/to the cdplayer.ini file
• Read / store album information from/to a local and/or remote CD Database (CDDB)
• Support CD-Text (if your CD-drive supports it)
• Advanced jitter correction (based on the cd-paranoia ripping library)
• Indicates track progress and jitter control
• Normalization of audio signal
• Supports many CD-Drive from many manufacters
• Conversion of external WAV files
• Support for M3U and PLS play list files
• Best of all, it's free (GPL license, source code available)
• Serveral languages are supported

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