Category Archives: Player

Audio File Players

Fluajho ~ Linux sf2 Player

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“Fluajho” (with jh as in pleasure) means fluid in Esperanto. It is a simple sf2 soundfont host/player for Linux. Behind the scenes the Fluidsynth library is at work, hence the name. .sf2 is an old file format for making MIDI signals audible through virtual instruments, although it is still in moderate use today.

Why does Fluajho exist? There are many soundfont players for Linux, most of them even based on Fluidsynth. Fluajho was written for a clearly defined use case: Load an .sf2 in the New Session Manager (Agordejo) and save the soundfont in the session directory. This makes it possible to archive the session, for example as a backup or to share it. You can load one soundfont file per Fluajho instance. Each instance holds 16 of the soundfonts instruments that can be assigned to 16 MIDI channels. Finally connect external sequencers, such as Laborejo, Patroneo or Vico, through JACK-Midi to play the instruments.

www.laborejo.org/fluajho

MyOwnPlayer ~ Organizer, Player & Tagger

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This is a very simple application to organize your files.

MoP does not use a database. It focuses on the files. The aim is to quickly and easily clean up your MP3 tags and filenames but, more important, to find the covers that are missing.

Where other softwares uses the “Album” to retrieve a cover, MoP uses the Artist AND the Title. So when you have huges collections of singles or compilations, you are able to find the covers for that song only.
Of course, it can search for albums covers as well.

MoP as a built in RegEx engine that will allow you to extract the missing tags based on the file name. You will also be able to rename your misformed MP3 files based on the tags according to any pattern you provide.

MoP will always be improved ….. As it will be my main application to manage and edit my huge MP3 collection. I will be more than happy to receive critics, suggestions and demands to make it evolve 🙂

Features:
  • Organize music media files
  • Edit main tags (Artist, Title, Album, Genre, Cover)
  • Search Covers ON-LINE based on the artist and title, NOT ONLY on albums
  • Plays Media file (obviously)

https://sourceforge.net/projects/myownplayer/

CloudTunes ~ Web Player For The Cloud

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CloudTunes provides a unified interface for music stored in the cloud (YouTube, Dropbox, etc.) and integrates with Last.fm, Facebook, and Musicbrainz for metadata, discovery, and social experience. It is similar to services like Spotify, except instead of local tracks and the fixed Spotify catalog, CloudTunes uses your files stored in Dropbox and music videos on YouTube.

https://github.com/jakubroztocil/cloudtunes

AudioStation ~ Old School Player

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With AudioStation you can easily listen to the most common music files like mp3 and wav etc. Just click on the music file and AudioStation will automatically start playing your favorite music.

Features:

  • With original Creative Labs™ sample files (reggae.mid, jaz.mid, etc.)
  • Support for multiple playlists (wpl, pls, m3u, etc.)
  • Track repeat and random shuffle functions
  • Supporting languages: English & Dutch
  • Plays all common audio files like mp3, wav, mid, etc.
  • Midi Player, Wav Player, Mp3 Player & CD Player
  • Also support for cda, m4a, ra, rm, act, caf, wsaud, w64, ogg, amo, voc
  • With Floppy, Tape and CD-ROM animations
  • Working mixing sliders
  • With audio record function
  • With audio capture function to record speaker sound
  • Support for Commodore64 sound files (sid)

www.audiostation.org
sourceforge.net/projects/audio-rack-media-player

RuneAudio ~ Hardware Audio Player

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RuneAudio is a free and open source software that turns embedded hardware into Hi-Fi music players. We want to make a cheap, low-consumption and silent mini-PC perform as an high fidelity digital source. RuneAudio features a custom-built Linux distribution (RuneOS) and a web player (RuneUI) which allows to remote control playback and setup options, from multiple devices (desktop PC, netbook, tablet, smartphone).

Features:

  • Easy to install and use
  • A custom built, optimized and small footprint Linux-based OS (RuneOS)
  • Runs on a variety of embedded platforms
  • Works with almost every model of USB DAC in commerce
  • Bitperfect and gapless playback of common audio formats (FLAC, WAVE, MP3, AAC, ALAC, etc.)
  • Supports native DSD playback with DSD-over-PCM
  • Playback from network drives (over CIFS and NFS protocols) and USB drives (FAT32 and NTFS)
  • Playback of web radio streams
  • Built-in web interface (RuneUI) for playback and setup control
  • Can be controlled from a lot of third party clients (desktop and mobile)
  • Supports USB Audio Class 2
  • Optimized to reduce SD card wearing

sourceforge.net/projects/runeaudio

Tuniac ~ iTunes Styled Windows Player

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Tuniac is an iTunes style media player / manager for Windows, with an advanced playlist editor, search as you type and queue support.

Features:

  • Search as you type
  • Advanced queueing
  • Supports many audio formats
  • OpenGL Sonique Visual Plugin renderer
  • Small cpu and memory footprint

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)
  • radio streaming of most the above formats.

Bongo ~ GNU Emacs Media Player

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Bongo is a flexible and usable media player for GNU Emacs. If you store your music collection locally and use structured file names, then Bongo is a great way for you to play music from within Emacs.

https://github.com/dbrock/bongo/

BallroomDJ ~ Ballroom Audio Player

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BallroomDJ is a ballroom music player. It is designed to be able to play music the entire evening without intervention. Use for your personal training, dance studio, and ballroom, dancesport, Argentine tango, country western, or west coast swing events.

yplayer ~ Desktop YouTube Audio Player

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Stream audio from YouTube. Plays only the audio from YouTube videos, this reduces bandwidth and improves performance.

https://github.com/haikelfazzani/yplayer

Tomahawk ~ Metadata Based Player

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Tomahawk is a free multi-source and cross-platform music player. An application that can play not only your local files, but also stream from services like Spotify, Beats, SoundCloud, Google Music, YouTube and many others. You can even connect with your friends’ Tomahawks, share your musical gems or listen along with them. Let the music play!

Tomahawk is basically a player for music metadata. At its core it decouples the metadata about a song from the source and reassembles it for each user based on their individual music accessibility and rights. In short, given the name of a song and artist, Tomahawk will find the right source, for the right user at the right time. This fundamentally different approach to music enables a range of new music consumption and sharing experiences previously not possible.

Music Sources:
  • Local music library (MP3, Ogg, FLAC and many other formats)
  • Networked music libraries (other connected computers)
Subscription Music Services
Free Streaming / Music Promotion Platforms
Network/Cloud storage

Third party-developed resolvers have also been written for services like YouTube, Qobuz and others. We’ve also heard of digital music distributors writing their own for their internal CMSes to help them navigate and preview their content. That’s cool.

https://github.com/tomahawk-player/tomahawk

Shairport Sync ~ Unix AirPlay Player

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Shairport Sync is an AirPlay audio player – it plays audio streamed from iTunes, iOS, Apple TV and macOS devices and AirPlay sources such as Quicktime Player and ForkedDaapd, among others.

Audio played by a Shairport Sync-powered device stays synchronised with the source and hence with similar devices playing the same source. In this way, synchronised multi-room audio is possible for players that support it, such as iTunes and the macOS Music app.

Shairport Sync runs on Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. It does not support AirPlay video or photo streaming.

github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync
github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync/wiki

JavaMOD ~ Java MOD Player

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This Java Modplayer plays *.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.

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 as a console application, with its swing GUI.

www.javamod.de
sourceforge.net/projects/javamod