GNU Radio is a free & open-source software development toolkit that provides signal processing blocks to implement software radios. It can be used with readily-available low-cost external RF hardware to create software-defined radios, or without hardware in a simulation-like environment. It is widely used in research, industry, academia, government, and hobbyist environments to support both wireless communications research and real-world radio systems.
GNU Radio is a free software development toolkit that provides signal processing blocks to implement software-defined radios and signal processing systems. It can be used with external radio frequency (RF) hardware to create software-defined radios, or without hardware in a simulation-like environment. It is widely used in hobbyist, academic, and commercial environments to support both wireless communications research and real-world radio systems.
Lidify is built for music lovers who want the convenience of streaming services without sacrificing ownership of their library. Point it at your music collection, and Lidify handles the rest: artist discovery, personalized playlists, podcast subscriptions, and seamless integration with tools you already use like Lidarr and Audiobookshelf.
Stream your library – FLAC, MP3, AAC, OGG, and other common formats work out of the box
Automatic cataloging – Lidify scans your library and enriches it with metadata from MusicBrainz and Last.fm
Audio transcoding – Stream at original quality or transcode on-the-fly (320kbps, 192kbps, or 128kbps)
Ultra-wide support – Library grid scales up to 8 columns on large displays
BassBoom is a music player made with C# using the fast mpg123 library as the native backend that handles the music playback and song information, including the playback device information.
This library is a viable library aimed for cross-platform music playing because we’ve selected mpg123 as the MP3 backend library for its ease of use and for its fast music playback. This library is frictionless as it aims for stability and cross-platform compatibility.
In addition to your regular music files, BassBoom also supports online MPEG radio stations that you can use to play your own favorite radio stations, as long as they don’t use AAC or any other codec that BassBoom doesn’t support.
Winyl is a free digital audio player and music library application for organizing and playing audio on Windows.
Winyl offers great new ways to organize and enjoy all your music. Listen to music and radio, rate your favorite tracks, create playlists, browse song lyrics, tag music, all of this is very simple in Winyl.
Winyl uses the least system resources, it starts and working very fast. It’s the best choice for a laptop or netbook.
OooPlayer is a free audio player for Microsoft® Windows®. It has a clean, lightweight user interface and it is also friendly with your computer resources. It is one of the best candidates if you’re looking for an alternative to Winamp® or just looking for a simple, easy-to-use music and radio player. It’s written in Delphi and uses Bass library and its plugins from www.un4seen.com
The listed versions are clean, without no bundles/installers and it has support for most popular audio formats (see below in the features section). This player is released under the GNU General Public License version 2.0 and is available in two versions: installer and portable.
Features:
user-friendly and with a low impact on resource usage
support for most audio formats: MP3, FLAC, OGG, MPC, WMA, AC3, SPX, AAC, ALAC, APE, TTA, OFR, WV, OPUS, TAK etc.
support for gapless playback (uninterrupted playback of sequential/consecutive audio tracks)
support for M3U and M3U8 playlists
integrated lyric downloader (it doesn’t work with certain files such as covers)
save your own playlists in M3U, M3U8 or PPF format
built-in support for radio stations (huge list available) including details about the current radio
multiple options available: shuffle, repeat, search, jump, find etc.
VintageRadio is a GUI front-end for the fm command-line application included with fmtools <http://benpfaff.org/fmtools>. It is written in [incr Tcl/Tk], an object-oriented extension package for Tcl/Tk. VintageRadio is not part of fmtools.
Features:
A vintage 70s-era look, inspired by a number of stereo tuners and receivers with the classic silver face.
A rotary tuning dial that actually works.
Ability to store up to 6 stations as presets.
Keyboard shortcuts for all application functionality.
Libretime is an open source radio automation and broadcasting solution helping communities get on-air with ease. LibreTime makes it easy to run your own online or terrestrial radio station. It is a community managed fork of the AirTime project.
KRadio is an Internet and/or AM/FM radio application for KDE Frameworks 5. It has support for V4L and V4L2 radio devices, internet radio, RDS, lirc remote control, MP3 and Ogg/Vorbis recording, TimeShift playing, alarms and much more. Try it out!
Features:
Linux Radio Devices with V4L1 / V4L2 support (incl. PVR cards and RDS)
This is ‘Great Little Radio Player’. It is a robust internet radio station streamer. It connects to web sites offering radio streaming and lets you play radio stations directly from that location. Developed for Windows, Linux and MacOSX.
Radio Tray is an online radio streaming player that runs on a Linux system tray. Its goal is to have the minimum interface possible, making it very straightforward to use. Radio Tray is not a full featured music player, there are plenty of excellent music players already. However, there was a need for a simple application with minimal interface just to listen to online radios. And that’s the sole purpose of Radio Tray.
Features:
plays most media formats (based on gstreamer libraries)