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abcde Command-line utility to rip and encode an audio CD
abcmidi Music utilities for abc
adplug AdLib emulator library supporting many formats
alsa-lib Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA)
alsa-plugins-oss Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) - OSS plugin
alsa-plugins-pulse Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) - PulseAudio plugin
alsa-utils Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) utilities
amaroc Command line interface to amarok
amarok KDE audio player
amp Another mp3 player
ampache Web-based Audio file manager
applerecords Java DAAP client
arts Analog Real-Time Synthesizer
audacious Media player based on BMP and XMMS
audacious-plugins Plugins for Audacious media player
audacity Audio editor
aumix Set mix levels (ncurses interface only)
aumix-gtk Set mix levels (ncurses and GTK+ 2.0 interfaces)
bladeenc Free MPEG Audio Layer 3 encoder (not decoder)
bmp Beep Media Player (fork of XMMS to work with GTK+ 2.x)
bmp-esound BMP plugin to output sound through the esound daemon
bmp-mac BMP plugin for Monkey's Audio files
bmp-musepack BMP plugin for Musepack (mpc) files
bmp-pulse BMP output plugin for the PulseAudio sound server
bmpx Audio player to be used with a frontend or as a daemon
cam Cpu's Audio Mixer [curses based]
cd-discid Read CD to obtain CDDB discid information
cdd Program for reading CD audio from SCSI/ATAPI CD-ROM drives
cddb-bundle CDDB client bundle
cddbd Internet CD Database Server
cdparanoia CDDA reading utility with extra data verification features
cdplayer GNUstep CD player with CDDB support
celt Ultra-low-delay, high-quality audio codec (experimental)
cmp3 Curses based frontend to mpg123
cmus Cmus is an ncurses based music player with a lot of features
cplay Curses front-end for various audio players
cripple Command line CD ripper/encoder wrapper with cddb support
cs4235 Modifies the 3D mode on Crystal CS4235 sound cards
csound4 Software synthesizer and sequencer
csound4-manual Csound4 Reference Manual
csound5 Software synthesizer and sequencer
csound5-manual Csound5 Reference Manual
daapd Server for DAA protocol (iTunes)
dap Digital audio recording and processing package
darkice IceCast, IceCast2 and ShoutCast live audio streamer
disc-cover Generation of CD covers
distmp3 Distributed mp3 encoding across multiple hosts
easyh10 Database tool for the iRiver H10 digital audio player
easytag GTK+ tag editor for MP3, Ogg Vorbis files, and others
easytag-current GTK+ tag editor for MP3, Ogg Vorbis files, and others (development version)
eawpatches Eric A. Welsh' patches (audio samples) for TiMidity
emixer mpg123-frontend that can mix two mp3 streams, and fade between them
esound The Enlightened sound daemon
espeak Speech synthesizer
exaile Music player
faac AAC audio encoder
faad2 AAC decoding library
festival Advanced multi-lingual speech synthesis system
festival-doc Festival documentation, in (tex)info, html, dvi and ps formats
festlex-cmu CMU American English pronunciation dictionary for Festival
festlex-oald Oxford Advanced Learner's pronunciation dictionary for Festival
festlex-ogi Composite pronunciation dictionary from ogi.edu for festival
festlex-poslex English lexicon suitable for use with Festival
festogi-spanish Festival Spanish (Mexican) language support routines (in scheme)
festvox-abc Mexican Spanish male voice for the festival speech synthesis system
festvox-aec American English male voice for the festival speech synthesis system
festvox-don British English male voice for the festival speech synthesis system
festvox-el11 Castilian Spanish male voice for the festival speech synthesis system
festvox-en1 MBROLA based British English male voice for festival
festvox-hvs Mexican Spanish female voice for the festival
festvox-jph American English male voice for the festival speech synthesis system
festvox-kal16 16khz American English male voice for festival
festvox-kal8 8khz American English male voice for festival
festvox-ked16 16khz American English male voice for festival
festvox-ked8 8khz American English male voice for festival
festvox-mwm American English male voice for the festival speech synthesis system
festvox-ogirab British English male voice for the festival speech synthesis system
festvox-rab16 16khz British English male voice for festival
festvox-rab8 6khz British English male voice for the festival
festvox-tll American English female voice for the festival speech synthesis system
festvox-us1 MBROLA based American English female voice for festival
festvox-us2 MBROLA based Americal English male voice for festival
festvox-us3 MBROLA based American English male voice for festival
firefox-bin-realplayer (V) RealAudio and RealVideo player plugin for firefox-bin
flac Free lossless audio codec
flac123 Command-line program for playing FLAC audio files
flac2mp3 Script to convert flac to mp3
flite Small and fast run-time synthesis engine
fluidsynth Software synthesizer based on SoundFont2
freealut OpenAL Utility Toolkit
freepats Free patches (audio samples) for TiMidity
freezetag Id3 tag editor for GTK+-1.2.0 and higher
gimmix Graphical Music player daemon (MPD) client
gkrellm-volume Gkrellm2 volume mixer plugin
gkrellm-xmms GKrellM2 plugin to remotely control XMMS
glurp Graphical GTK+2-based client for musicpd
gmp3info Utility to read and modify the ID3 tags of MP3 files
gmpc GNOME client for the Music Player Daemon
gnome-audio Set of audio files for GNOME
gnome-speech GNOME 2 text-to-speech API
gnome-speech-espeak GNOME 2 text-to-speech API
gnome-vfs-cdda GNOME Virtual File System (v2) - cdda plugin
gogo Very fast lame-based mp3 encoder, i386 only
goom Visual effects generator for mp3 players
gqmpeg GTK+ front end to mpg123
gqmpeg-devel GTK+ front end to mpg123
gqmpeg-skins Skins for gqmpeg
gramofile Tool for ripping audio from vinyl
gsm Audio converter and library for converting u-law to gsm encoding
gst-plugins0.10-a52 Open source multimedia framework - a52 plugin
gst-plugins0.10-alsa Open source multimedia framework - alsa plugin
gst-plugins0.10-cdparanoia Open source multimedia framework - cdparanoia plugin
gst-plugins0.10-dts Open source multimedia framework - dts plugin
gst-plugins0.10-esound Open source multimedia framework - esound plugin
gst-plugins0.10-faad Open source multimedia framework - faad plugin
gst-plugins0.10-flac Open source multimedia framework - flac plugin
gst-plugins0.10-fluendo-mp3 MP3 decoder for gstreamer
gst-plugins0.10-jack Open source multimedia framework - jack plugin
gst-plugins0.10-libvisual Open source multimedia framework - libvisual plugin
gst-plugins0.10-mad Open source multimedia framework - mad plugin
gst-plugins0.10-musepack Open source multimedia framework - musepack plugin
gst-plugins0.10-oss Open source multimedia framework - oss plugin
gst-plugins0.10-pulse Open source multimedia framework - pulse plugin
gst-plugins0.10-sid Open source multimedia framework - sid plugin
gst-plugins0.10-spc Open source multimedia framework - spc plugin
gst-plugins0.10-speex Open source multimedia framework - speex plugin
gst-plugins0.10-vorbis Open source multimedia framework - vorbis plugin
gst-plugins0.10-wavpack Open source multimedia framework - wavpack plugin
gst-plugins0.8-artsd Open source multimedia framework - artsd plugin
gst-plugins0.8-cdparanoia Open source multimedia framework - cdparanoia plugin
gst-plugins0.8-esound Open source multimedia framework - esound plugin
gst-plugins0.8-faad Open source multimedia framework - faad plugin
gst-plugins0.8-lame Open source multimedia framework - lame plugin
gst-plugins0.8-mad Open source multimedia framework - mad plugin
gst-plugins0.8-oss Open source multimedia framework - oss plugin
gst-plugins0.8-vorbis Open source multimedia framework - vorbis plugin
gtick Metronome application using GTK2+
gtkmserv Gtk-based GUI client for the audio/mserv package
gtkpod GUI for iPod using GTK2
guspatches GUS (Gravis Ultrasound) patches (audio samples) for TiMidity
herrie Minimalistic, ncurses-based audio player
hydrogen Real time drum machine/sequencer
icecast Live streaming audio server
icecast1 Internet broadcasting system using Mpeg Layer III streaming
ices-mp3 Source client for a streaming server
id3 ID3 v1.1 tag editor
id3ed Edit id3 description tags in mpeg3 files
id3lib Library for manipulating ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags
id3v2 Command line editor for id3v2 tags
ifp-line Command-line interface to iRiver MP3 players
jack JACK audio connection kit
jack-rack Effects rack for JACK
juke Simple ncurses based jukebox
kid3 KDE ID3 tagger
kmp Qt client for the Music Player Daemon
ladspa Linux Audio Developers Simple Plugin API
lame Fast, high quality MP3 encoder
liba52 Free ATSC A/52 stream decoder library
libao Cross-platform audio library
libao-alsa Cross-platform audio library (OSS plugin)
libao-arts Cross-platform audio library (arts plugin)
libao-esound Cross-platform audio library (esound plugin)
libao-macosx Cross-platform audio library (MacOS X plugin)
libao-nas Cross-platform audio library (nas plugin)
libao-oss Cross-platform audio library (OSS plugin)
libao-pulse Cross-platform audio library (pulse plugin)
libao-sun Cross-platform audio library (Sun audio plugin)
libaudiofile Sound library for SGI audio file
libcanberra Desktop event sound library
libcdaudio Multi-platform CD player development library
libcddb Library to access data on a CDDB server
libdca DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder
libdiscid Library for creating MusicBrainz DiscIDs
libgpod Library for accessing iPod onboard databases, playlists, etc
libhydrogen Shared library for the Hydrogen drum machine
libid3tag ID3 tag library, part of MAD (MPEG Audio Decoder)
libmad High-quality MPEG audio decoder
libmikmod MikMod Sound Library
libmodplug Library for decoding mod-like music formats
libmp3splt Utility library for MP3 splitting/manipulation
libmpcdec Portable Musepack decoder library
libmpd Library to access mpd (musicpd)
libmpeg3 (V) MPEG decoding library
libmpg123 MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3 decoder library
libmusepack Portable Musepack decoder library
libmusicbrainz MusicBrainz (user-maintained community music metadatabase) library
libofa Open Fingerprint Architecture library
libopendaap DAAP client library
libopenspc Library and player for SPC sound files
libsamplerate Sample rate converter library
libshout Connects and sends data to icecast servers
libsidplay Sidplay Library
libsidplay2 Sidplay2 Library
libsndfile Library for reading and writing audio files
libspiff XML Shareable Playlist Format (XSPF) library
libtunepimp Library to support MusicBrainz enabled tagging
libvisual Abstraction library between applications and audio visualisation plugins
libvisual-bmp Libvisual Beep Media Player plugin
libvisual-plugins Plugins for libvisual
libvisual-xmms XMMS plugin for libvisual
libvisual0.2 Abstraction library between applications and audio visualisation plugins (0.2 branch)
libvisual0.2-plugins Plugins for libvisual
libvorbis Library for the Ogg Vorbis audio encoding format
liteamp Light-weight Music Player for GNOME2
liveice Source client for Icecast
lmms Linux MultiMedia Studio
mac Monkey's Audio support library (for .ape files)
mad Meta-package for MAD (MPEG Audio Decoder)
mad123 Command-line MPEG audio player
madman Powerful audio manager for large collections
madplay High-quality MPEG audio decoder
malint MPEG audio stream validator
maplay MPEG audio player/decoder for layer I and II MPEG audio streams
mbrola MBROLA diphone synthesizer executable
mbrolavox-en1 British English male voice for MBROLA
mbrolavox-us1 American English female voice for MBROLA
mbrolavox-us2 American English male voice for MBROLA
mbrolavox-us3 American English male voice for MBROLA
mikmod MOD player for UNI IT XM S3M MOD MTM STM DSM MED FAR ULT 669 files
mixer.app Another mixer intended for the windowmaker dockapp
mkcdtoc Script to create .toc files for cdrdao
moc Curses based console audio player
moc-devel Curses based console audio player
moss MP3/OGG Streaming Server
mp3_check mp3 file checker
mp32ogg Convert MP3 files to Ogg Vorbis files
mp3asm MPEG 1/2/2.5 audio layer 1,2,3 frame level editor
mp3blaster MP3 console curses-based player
mp3check Check MP3 files for consistency
mp3cut Tools to concatenate and split MP3 files
mp3info MP3 header and tag information tool
mp3splt Command line utility to split MP3 (VBR supported) and OGG files
mp3to Convert MP3 files to various other audio formats
mpc Command-line client for musicpd
mpegaudio MPEG/audio Layer 1 and Layer 2 encoder/decoder package
mpg123 Command-line player for mpeg layer 1, 2 and 3 audio
mpg123-esound Command-line player for mpeg layer 1, 2 and 3 audio with EsounD
mpg123-nas Command-line player for mpeg layer 1, 2 and 3 audio with NAS output
mpg321 Free replacement for mpg123
mpgtx (V) Split and join MPEG files in various ways
mppenc Musepack encoder
mserv Local centralised music server environment
mserv_irman Control mserv mp3 jukebox program via infra-red remote
mserv-devel Local centralised music server environment
mstream Mserv player package to queue tracks to IceS
mt-daapd Server for DAAP (iTunes)
muse Multiple Streaming Engine
musicbrainz Second generation incarnation of the CD Index (2.x series)
musicpd Remote controllable audio player
nas Network Audio System
nas-auscope Network Audio System Protocol Filter
ncmpc Curses client for Music Player Daemon
nicotine (V) Client for soulseek, a peer-to-peer network for music
normalize Audio file volume normalizer (wav,mp3,ogg)
nosefart Player for NES Sound Format (NSF) files
nspmod MOD/S3M/MTM tracker that does its own DSP, uses VoxWare v2.90+
oggasm Perform batch conversion of mp3s into oggs
openal 3D positional spatialized sound library
p5-Audio-CD Audio-CD perl module for use with disc-cover
p5-Audio-Wav Perl modules for reading & writing Microsoft WAV files
p5-CDDB High-level interface to the Compact Disc Database
p5-CDDB_get Perl interface to query for CDDB information
p5-CDDB-File Parses a CDDB/freedb data file
p5-MP3-Info Manipulate/fetch info from MP3 audio files
p5-MP3-Tag This is a perl module to read/write tags of mp3-files
p5-MPEG-Audio-Frame Class for weeding out MPEG audio frames out of a file handle
p5-MusicBrainz-Client Provide access to the libmusicbrainz client library
p5-MusicBrainz-Queries Provide access to the Music Brainz RDF Query Constants
padevchooser Tray area icon for the PulseAudio sound server
paman GTK frontend for the PulseAudio sound server
paprefs Configuration dialog for the PulseAudio sound server
pavucontrol Volume control tool (mixer) for the PulseAudio sound server
pavumeter Volume meter for the PulseAudio sound server
portaudio Portable cross-platform Audio API
portaudio-devel Portable cross-platform Audio API
pulseaudio Sound server for POSIX and Win32 systems
py-ao Python bindings for libao
py-cddb Python module to access the CDDB online database
py-daap Python binding for DAAP
py-karaoke Free Python-based karaoke player
py-mad Python bindings for libmad
py-mpd Python mpd client library
py-musicbrainz Python interface to the MusicBrainz XML web service
py-musique Interface to the iTunes Music Store
py-mutagen Audio metadata handling for Python
py-ogg Python bindings for OGG library
py-vorbis Python bindings for Vorbis library
py-xmms Python interface to XMMS
qjackctl JACK Audio Connection Kit Qt4 GUI
qsynth Qt GUI Interface to FluidSynth
qtplay QuickTime command-line player
rexima Curses-based interactive mixer
rhythmbox Music management application for GNOME
rio Utility to display and manage files on the Diamond Rio PMP300
rio500 Utilities to manage your Diamond Rio 500 MP3 player
rioutil Program and library to interface with Rio 600, 800, Nike psa[play
rip Command-line based audio CD ripper and encoder
rosegarden Notation editor & MIDI sequencer
rplay Network audio player
rsynth Public Domain Speech Synthesis System
rtunes Streams audio to an Apple AirPort Express device
ruby-SDL (V) Ruby extension library to use SDL library
SDL_mixer Multi-channel audio mixer library
SDL_sound SDL library to handle the decoding of different file formats
shntool Lossless audio compressor wrapper tool
shorten Lossless audio compressor
sidplay Tools for playing sidtunes
sidplay2 Tool for playing sidtunes
snd X based sound editor
solfege Practice several musical ear training exercises
sonata Elegant GTK2 client for the Music Player Daemon
sound-juicer CD ripping tool
sound-theme-freedesktop Set of audio files for FreeDesktop
sox SOund eXchange - universal sound sample translator
speex Open-source, patent-free voice codec
spiralloops Loop based sampler
spiralsynth Polyphonic analogue softsynth
splay Audio player/decoder that decodes MPEG Layer I,II,III and WAV files
streamripper Splits SHOUTcast stream into tracks
streamtuner Stream directory browser
sweep Full-featured digital sound editor
taglib Library for accessing id tags in mp3 and ogg files
tcd Audio CD player using ncurses and SDL
tcl-snack The Snack Sound Toolkit
terminatorx Realtime audio synthesizer
tfmxplay Console TFMX (amiga games sound file format) player
timidity MIDI to WAV renderer and player
toolame Optimized MPEG 1/2 layer 2 audio encoder
tosha Read CD digital audio data through the SCSI bus
tracker MOD player
tremor Fixed point decoding library for the Ogg Vorbis audio encoding format
tremor-tools Ogg Vorbis encoder and player
trm Acoustic signature generator
tunapie Directory browser for Internet radio and TV streams
tunesbrowser Front-end for DAAP client
twolame Optimised MPEG Audio Layer 2 (MP2) encoder based on tooLAME
ubs Uninterrupted Broadcasting System
vorbis-tools Ogg Vorbis encoder and player
vorbisgain ReplayGain technology for Vorbis
wavesurfer Tool for sound visualization and manipulation
wavpack Audio codec for lossless, lossy and hybrid compression
wmmixer Mixer designed for WindowMaker (dockapp)
wmmp Window Maker dock app for interfacing MPD
wmmp3 Front-end for mpg123 in a Window Maker dockapp
wmsmixer Another mixer designed for WindowMaker (dockapp)
wmusic WindowMaker dockable remote for XMMS
wsoundprefs WSoundServer configuration utility
wsoundserver Sound server for windowmaker
xanalyser Frequency spectrum analyser for X
xcdplayer CD player for X
xfce4-mixer Xfce mixer plugin
xfce4-xmms-plugin Xfce XMMS plugin
xhippo Generic playlist manager for UNIX
xine-arts The aRts audio output plugin for xine-lib
xine-esound The esound audio output plugin for xine-lib
xine-pulse The PulseAudio output plugin for xine-lib
xmcd Motif CD player
xmix Mixer for X Window System
xmmix X interface to the audio mixer device
xmms X Multimedia System - an audio player with a Winamp GUI
xmms-alarm Plugin which allows XMMS to be used as an alarm clock
xmms-arts XMMS plugin to output sound through the aRts sound daemon
xmms-bezier OpenGL XMMS plugin
xmms-blursk Visualization plugin for XMMS inspired by Blur Scope
xmms-bump-scope Moving light embossing oscilloscope
xmms-crossfade Crossfading/Gapless Plugin for XMMS
xmms-dflowers XMMS plugin for dual flower scope
xmms-dscope XMMS plugin for dual scope
xmms-dspectogram XMMS plugin for dual spectogram
xmms-dspectral XMMS plugin for dual spectral analyzer
xmms-esound XMMS plugin to output sound through the esound daemon
xmms-faad XMMS plugin for faad
xmms-flac FLAC XMMS plugin
xmms-fmradio Use a Radio Tuner card in XMMS
xmms-funtimedancer XMMS plugin displaying an animation
xmms-gdancer XMMS plugin to animate characters to the beat of the music
xmms-infinity Psychedelic visualization plug-in for xmms
xmms-iris OpenGL Spectrum Analyzer with theme engine and fullscreen modes
xmms-jakdaw Very customizable XMMS plugin with nice effects
xmms-jess XMMS plugin with Blur, image distortion, and others
xmms-liveice Audio streaming plugin for XMMS
xmms-mac XMMS plugin for Monkey's Audio files
xmms-mad Input plugin for XMMS that uses libmad
xmms-madspin Based on the madspin winamp plugin
xmms-meta-input XMMS plugin wrapper for shell scripts
xmms-meta-timidity XMMS meta input script for timidity
xmms-modplug XMMS plugin based on modplug
xmms-musepack XMMS plugin for musepack (mpc) files
xmms-neato Circle effect XMMS plugin
xmms-nebulus Xmms plugin that uses OpenGL
xmms-osx XMMS plugin for OSX native audio output
xmms-paranormal Extremely customizable (pseudo-programmable) XMMS plugin
xmms-sid XMMS plugin for SID (Commodore 64) music
xmms-synaesthesia Port of Synaesthesia to an XMMS plugin
xmms-tv-scope 3D Representation of a waveform
xmms-vismsa Vis plugin similar to the Spectrum Analyser from Open Cubic Player
xmms-wma WMA input plugin for XMMS
xmmsctrl Small utility to control xmms from the command line
xmp Player for many different Amiga and PC module formats
xmradio Radio application for Brooktree 848 compatible TV cards
xsidplay Commodore 64 music player and SID chip emulator for X11
xwave Audio player/recorder/editor for the X Window System