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Mp3tag

2012-12-22T21:58:34Z

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{{Software Infobox
| name = MP3tag
| logo =
| screenshot = [[Image:MP3tag-screenshot.png|250px|MP3tag screenshot]]
| caption = powerful and easy-to-use tool to edit metadata
| maintainer = Florian Heidenreich
| stable_release = [http://www.mp3tag.de/en/download.html v2.54] (2012-12-22)
| preview_release = [http://developer.mp3tag.de/ 2.52a] (2012-10-07)
| operating_system = Windows
| use = Metadata
| license = Freeware
| website = [http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ http://www.mp3tag.de]
}}

=Introduction=
'''MP3tag''' is an powerful [[Metadata|metadata]] editor for lots of common audio formats. You can rename files based on the [[Tagging|tag]] information, replace characters or words from tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists.

The program supports online freedb database lookups for selected files, allowing you to automatically gather proper tag information for select files or CDs.

==Features==

* Write [[ID3v1.1]]-, [[ID3v2]]-, [[APEv2]]-Tags and [[Vorbis_Comment|Vorbis Comments]] to multiple files at once
* Full Unicode support
* Support for embedded cover art
* Automatically create playlists
* Recursive subfolders support
* Remove parts or the entire tag of multiple files
* Rename files based on the tag information
* Import tags from filenames
* Format tags and filenames
* Replace characters or words from tags and filenames
* Regular Expressions
* Export tag information to user-defined formats (like html, rtf, csv, xml)
* Import tag information from online databases like freedb or Amazon (also by text-search)
* Import tag information from local freedb databases
* Support for [[ID3v2|ID3v2.3]] (ISO-8859-1 and UTF-16) and [[ID3v2|ID3v2.4]] with [[UTF-8]]

==Supported formats==

* Advanced Audio Coding ([[AAC|aac]])
* Free Lossless Audio Codec ([[FLAC|flac]])
* Monkey's Audio ([[APE|ape]])
* Mpeg Layer 3 ([[MP3|mp3]])
* MPEG-4 ([[MP4|mp4]] / [[M4A|m4a]] / m4b / [[iTunes]] compatible)
* Musepack ([[MPC|mpc]])
* Ogg Vorbis ([[Ogg_Vorbis|ogg]])
* OptimFROG ([[OptimFROG|ofr]])
* OptimFROG DualStream (ofs)
* Speex ([[Speex|spx]])
* TAK ([[TAK]])
* True Audio (tta)
* Windows Media Audio ([[WMA|wma]])
* WavPack ([[WavPack|wv]])

==Operating Systems==
* Win XP
* Win 2003
* Win Vista
* Win 2008

Windows 2000 is no longer supported as of version 2.40. Version 2.39 is still available on the download page at the MP3tag website.

==External links==
* [http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ Mp3tag: Homepage]
* [http://www.mp3tag.de/en/download.html Mp3tag: Download]
* [http://www.anytag.de/forums/ Mp3tag: official forum]
* [http://www.mp3tag.de/en/changelog.html Mp3tag: changelog]
* [http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Mp3tagGuide Mp3tagGuide - Slim Devices]
* [http://www.anytag.de/forums/index.php?showtopic=1794 Mp3tag: additional Web Sources]

[[Category:Software]]
[[Category:Tag editors]]

Aliasing

2012-12-20T22:29:30Z

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Aliasing occurs when a signal is samples in which there are [[frequency]] components above half the [[sampling rate]] (see [[Nyquist rate]]). What happens is that these frequencies are undersampled and therefor indistinguishable from frequencies below half the sampling rate (for example an input Frequency of 30kHz with a sampling rate of 44100 becomes a frequency of 44100-30000=14100Hz when the signal is reconstructed). This is similar to the effect you see when something that is rotating very fast is filmed (it can appear to be rotate backwards or very slow for example).

==References==
* <s>Aliasing example</s> this is a java applet designed to illustrate the concept of aliasing of a sinosudial signal via visual approach.

[[Category:Signal Processing]]

Resampling

2012-12-20T22:22:24Z

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== Resampling or Sample Rate Conversion ==
Digital audio is always sampled, which means that any digital audio file is created with a fixed sample rate (and resolution). [[Red Book]] [[Compact Disc Digital Audio|Audio CD]]'s sample rate is 44.1kHz (16-bits resolution). Audio on [[DVD]]s is sampled at 96kHz (24-bit resolution). '''Resampling''' or ''Sample Rate Conversion'' is required when one wants to convert a digital audio file (i.e. an analog audio signal that has already been digitized) from a given sample rate into a different sample rate (resolution can stay the same or change). Upsampling (aka interpolation) is the process of converting from a lower to higher sample rate (e.g. from 44.1 kHz to 48 kHz); downsampling (aka decimation) is the process of converting from a higher to a lower sample rate (e.g. from 96 kHz to 48 kHz).

Resampling can also be used to describe resolution changes (changes in bit depth, e.g. from 16-bit to 24-bit, or from 24-bit to 16-bit).

Low-quality resampling algorithms, whether upsampling or downsampling, can introduce artifacts which are clearly audible in the resampled audio file. A typical low-quality, but extremely fast resampling algorithm will just be based on linear interpolation. High-quality resampling algorithms use more CPU time, since they require translation to the frequency domain. Modern PC processors (~2 GHz clock) can easily deal with very high-quality resampling in real time. Sound cards that do resampling in real time require a good DSP.

Resampling is very often required and is in fact part of the audio mastering process for CDs, since professional audio equipment uses 96kHz or 192kHz for masters, whereas the Red Book Audio CD spec uses a 44.1kHz sample rate. Different media are recorded at different sample rates (CD at 44.1kHz, DAT at 48kHz, DVD audio at 96kHz, etc). Digitally mixing different sources sampled at different rates will require resampling to a common rate and resolution.

Many PC audio cards (most notably the 10k1 and 10k2 based Creative Labs ones) and AC97 codecs can only input, output or internally process audio data at 48kHz and forcefully resample any digital audio data at one stage or another. Sometimes the audio software or the drivers will add a resampling step (e.g. ALSA when software mixing, see [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=47591 this thread]).

== References ==
* Digital Audio Resampling Home Page: http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~jos/resample/
* PeakPro 5 Sample Rate Converter Comparison with Other Audio Applications, Bias Inc., December 2005: X
* Sample Rate Conversion Comparisons (96kHz to 44.1kHz): http://src.infinitewave.ca/
* iZotope 64-bit SRC Precise Sample Rate Conversion: http://www.izotope.com/tech/src/
* Sox Sampling rate conversion. W. G. Unruh 2006: http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/soundcard/resample.html
* An Analysis of Sample Rate Conversion in Sox, Andreas Wilde, 19. Dec. 2003: http://www.leute.server.de/wilde/resample.html
* Lyons, Richard G. Understanding Digital Signal Processing. Indiana: Prentice Hall, March 2004: Edition: 3rd ISBN 0-13-108989-7
* Secret Rabbit Code (aka libsamplerate): http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/index.html

[[Category:Signal Processing]]

Pre-emphasis

2012-12-20T22:14:22Z

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'''Pre-emphasis''' is the first part of a noise reduction technique in which a signal's weaker, higher frequencies are boosted before they are transmitted or recorded onto a storage medium. Upon playback, a '''de-emphasis''' filter is applied to reverse the process. The result is a higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR); the original frequencies are restored, but noise that was introduced by the storage medium, transmission equipment, or analog/digital conversions is quieter than it would have been if no filtering had been done. Pre- and de-emphasis can be collectively referred to as just '''emphasis'''.

Emphasis was sometimes used in digital storage media in the late 1970s through early 1980s, including on a small percentage of [[Compact Disc Digital Audio|audio CD]]s. Emphasis is akin to Dolby noise reduction for tapes, or the RIAA equalization curve for vinyl records.

==Pre-emphasis on audio CD==
Some early digital recording & playback equipment, including CD players, used 14-bit converters, even though they were dealing with 16-bit audio. Some also used noisy "brick wall" filters to remove frequencies higher than the Nyquist frequency (22050 Hz). The resulting noise introduced by these converters and filters could be made relatively quiet by using pre-emphasis: boosting the signal (especially the higher frequencies) in the recording before it was put onto CD, and embedding flags in the disc's subcode to tell a CD player to apply de-emphasis on playback. Some CD players even had a de-emphasis button that could be used to manually apply de-emphasis, but now it's just a built-in feature of the analog outputs of nearly all dedicated audio CD players. By the late 1980s, pre-emphasis stopped being used because reliable 16-bit DACs with oversampling and other technologies minimized the conversion & filtering noise without the need for pre-processing the recording.

Most major-label CDs with pre-emphasis were manufactured in Japan in the early and mid-1980s. Relatively recent forum posts indicates that pre-emphasis is still used on newly manufactured CDs by some indie labels, mainly for classical titles.

A pre-emphasis flag for each track is normally stored in the subcode along with the audio data. It's also supposed to be stored in the table of contents (TOC), but many CDs have TOCs that say there's no pre-emphasis when in fact the subcode says there is.

==Pre-emphasis on audio CD in computers==
CD drives in computers aren't exactly like regular CD players.

Some drives, especially older internal drives on desktop/tower PCs, have analog audio outputs which connect directly to a soundcard via a special cable. In this situation, the drive's own DAC is converting the CD's audio data into analog signals, and the OS or soundcard provide a "CD" volume control specifically for this signal. When audio is being fed to the soundcard this way, or listened to through a headphone connector on the drive itself, then the drive is ''probably'' doing its own de-emphasis.

Most OSes and drives nowadays, by default, instead use a digital interface to send the raw audio data straight from the disc, through the drive's regular connectors (IDE/ATAPI, SCSI, USB, whatever) and into the operating system, which passes it along to whatever program needs it. This is the only method used in DAE (digital audio extraction). During playback, the soundcard's DAC is converting the CD's audio data into analog signals, and the volume control for it is usually just the Wave volume control, as is used for most other sounds originating inside the computer. The soundcard usually has no ability to do de-emphasis, and even if it could, it has no access to info about the presence of pre-emphasis, because it's just being fed the waveform data, not the disc's subcode.

In other words, even though a CD drive may be capable of detecting pre-emphasis flags in the disc's subcode and/or TOC, this information is usually completely ignored when sending audio data through the digital interface. So when you play a CD through your computer, or use CD ripping software to get the audio content, you're probably getting the pre-emphasized audio data. Since it has not been de-emphasized, it will probably sound too "bright" and/or hissy (although your audio equipment or your damaged ears may keep you from noticing). Therefore you may want to do de-emphasis processing yourself.

===De-emphasis processing===
De-emphasis was designed to be performed in the analog domain by physical electrical components. However, digital audio data can be mathematically manipulated to simulate the effect of analog signal processing, sometimes with a greater degree of accuracy than is possible with physical components, depending on the method used.

There are various methods for applying digital de-emphasis, each with pros & cons. They all basically amount to turning down the upper midrange & treble with a special EQ curve that bottoms out at about -10 dB @ 20+ kHz. This can be done during playback with a simple equalizer setting, or processing extracted audio data before or after it is written to files. The biggest problems with these methods (as with any digital signal processing) are precision, accuracy, and noise. Forum posts indicate EQs in media players tend to be very inaccurate and noisy; a filter designed specifically for de-emphasis is preferable.

Some CD ripping software will detect pre-emphasis flags in the subcode (if the drive supports it) and can apply a digital de-emphasis filter:
* '''iTunes''' (Mac OS & Windows) - recent versions detect pre-emphasis in subcode and apply de-emphasis automatically for both playback and ripping.
* '''Windows Media Player''' (Windows) - recent versions detect pre-emphasis in subcode and apply de-emphasis automatically, but just for playback, not ripping.
* '''cdda2wav''' (multi-platform) - a command-line app (part of the cdrtools package) which can be invoked with a <code>-T</code> parameter to apply de-emphasis as it rips; e.g. <code>cdda2wav -D 0,0,0 -B -T</code> (first use <code>cdda2wav -scanbus</code> to figure out the right device values for the <code>-D</code> option).

Some audio processing software can apply a de-emphasis filter to already-extracted audio (files on disk), producing new files:
* '''WaveEmph''' (Windows) - processes one WAV file at a time, and can optionally apply a volume gain at the same time. Note: after unzipping, right-click on the .exe and set Win98 compatibility before running it for the first time.
* '''SoX''' (multi-platform) - a command-line app which can be invoked with a <code>deemph</code> parameter to apply a de-emphasis filter; e.g. <code>sox input.wav output.wav deemph</code>.
* '''foobar2000''' (Windows) - this media player's built-in converter function can apply a de-emphasis filter if it is configured to use the [http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_convolve foo_convolve] DSP plug-in, in turn configured with [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=76191 a special impulse file] (or [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=67376&view=findpost&p=620372 a simpler one]) and auto level adjust disabled.

==Pre-emphasis in cue sheets==
Pre-emphasis can be specified in a [[cue sheet]] using <code>FLAGS PRE</code>. This will tell the CD burning software to set the pre-emphasis flags in the subcode and TOC of a CD to be burned.

==External links==
;The following threads & articles contain useful information:
* http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=88541
* http://www.digital-inn.de/exact-audio-copy-english/19034-pre-emphasis-use-eac.html
* http://www.dsprelated.com/showmessage/2587/1.php
* http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=38312&view=findpost&p=338577
* http://club.myce.com/f57/will-clarity-quality-copied-cds-remain-exactly-same-64708/#post400909

[[Category:Signal Processing]]

ABX

2012-12-20T22:03:52Z

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'''ABX''' is a method for determining by listening whether two wav files are audibly different from each other. The method is most useful for listening to potential differences near the threshold of audibility. A key feature of this method is that the tests are performed "[[blind test|blind]]," or without the listener's knowledge of what the file-under-test is. Another key feature is that the influence of chance on the results can be reduced by performing multiple tests (trials).

The tester assigns one file to the "a" button, the other file to the "b" button, and then the abx program randomly assigns either the first or the second file to the "x" button. The listener can listen to a, b, or x, in any order, as many times as he wishes, then decides whether x is the same as a or the same as b. That's one trial.

An ABX session consists of multiple trials to reduce the probability that a particular result is the result of chance rather than the listener actually hearing a difference. For example, if a listener correctly identifies x after only one trial, the probability of that occurring by chance is 50%. However, if the listener were to correctly identify x five times out of five trials, the probability of that occurring by chance is 0.5^5 = 0.03 (3%).

ff123 has a <s>ff123 page</s> which calculates (by simulation) the type 1 error, or the probability of concluding that a perceptible difference exists when one does not:

''A difference is concluded to be heard when 13 correct identifications out of 16 trials is achieved. 0.01 is used as the critical type I error.''

In ''sensory evaluation techniques, 3rd ed.'' [1] by Meilgaard, Civille, and Carr, this type of test is referred to as a "duo-trio," but the procedure is the inverse of the abx, and multiple people are used instead of multiple trials.
: ''"Present to each subject an identified reference sample, followed by two coded samples, one of which matches the reference sample. Ask subjects to indicate which coded sample matches the reference. Count the number of correct replies and refer to table t10 for interpretation."''

Meilgaard, et al, go on to state that
: ''"As a general rule, the minimum is 16 subjects, but for less than 28, the beta error is high. Discrimination is much improved if 32, 40, or a larger number can be employed."''

Note: The beta error is the type II error, or the probability of concluding that no perceptible difference exists when one does.

Since ABX tests typically involve only a single listener performing multiple trials, the number of trials should be kept reasonably small to prevent listener fatigue from affecting the results. '''16 trials is generally agreed to provide a good balance''', and corresponds with Meilgaard's recommendation for multiple listeners in a duo-trio test, at least as far as minimizing type I errors is concerned. Typically, 0.01 is used as the critical type I error. So that would mean that a difference is concluded to be heard when 13 correct identifications out of 16 is achieved.

=Programs for Performing Blind Listening Tests=

* <s>WinABX/WinABA</s>
* <s>Blind Audio Comparison and Rating</s>
* <s>PC ABX and ABX info</s>
* [http://abx-comparator.berlios.de/ ABX-comparator for Linux/GNOME]

==Notes==
1 ^ Sensory Evaluation Techniques. pg. 69-71.

==References==

* Meilgaard, Morten, Gail Vance Civille, and B. Thomas Carr. Sensory Evaluation Techniques. CRC. June 1999. Edition: 3rd. ISBN: 9780849302763
*ff123. ABX, Probability of Experiment Being the Same as Random Guesses. Discussion Of Audio Compression. July 23rd, 2002. (Accessed June 5, 2008)

[[Category:Listening Tests]]

Download page

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All programs mentioned anywhere in the wiki can be downloaded here.
See also the [[:Category:Software|Software Category]] article for more software not listed here.

==CD Rippers==
===Windows===
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|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:300px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[CDex]]
| GPL
| [http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source ripper for Windows that uses cdparanoia functionality
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[DBpowerAMP with AccurateRip|dBpoweramp]]
| commercial
| [http://www.dbpoweramp.com/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for Windows that includes Accurate Stream functionality.
|-
! align="left" | [[EAC]]
| Free
| [http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for Windows, C2 error pointers, Accurate Stream, etc.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[fre:ac ]]
| GPL
| [http://www.freac.org/ here]
| align="left" |
fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. Plus supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database which allows you query song information.
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:350px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Max]]
| GPL
| [http://sbooth.org/Max/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for OS X that uses additional cdparanoia functionality
|-
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[XLD]]
| GPL
| [http://tmkk.pv.land.to/xld/index_e.html here]
| align="left" | X Lossless Decoder(XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. Can convert between many lossless and lossy formats. Plugin oriented design, for easy exchange for new encoders.
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:320px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | abcde
| GPL
|[http://code.google.com/p/abcde/ here]
| align="left" | A command-line based ripper with cdparanoia functionality
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[cdparanoia]]
| BSD, GPL
| [http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ here]
| align="left" | One of the first secure standalone rippers for the Linux platform
|-
! align="left" | Grip
| GPL
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/grip/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source Gnome interface ripper that uses cdparanoia functionality
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Rubyripper]]
| GPL
| [http://code.google.com/p/rubyripper/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for the Linux that uses additional cdparanoia functionality
|}

==CD/DVD Writers==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:185px;" | Name
! style="width:80px;" | Unicode
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Burrrn]] (CDA only)
| N
| Free
| [http://www.burrrn.net/ here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | CDBurnerXP
|
| Free
| [http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ here]
|
|-
! align="left" | DeepBurner
| N
| GPL
| [http://www.deepburner.com/ here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Express Burn
| N
| commercial
| [http://www.nch.com.au/burn/index.html here]
| align="left" | A free version of this software is available for non-commercial use only. The free version does not expire but will only burn normal CDs.
|
|-
! align="left" | InfraRecorder
| N
| GPL
| [http://infrarecorder.org/ here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Nero]]
| N
| commercial
| [http://www.nero.com/eng/ here]
| align="left" |
|-style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
|
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:130px;" | Name
! style="width:80px;" | Unicode
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:310px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | DVD-Audio Tools
| Y
| GPL
| [http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Open-source DVD-Audio authoring application
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | FireStarter FX
| N
| Free
| [http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=FireStarter_FX here]
| align="left" | Free OS X Cocoa CD writing application
|-
! align="left" | X-CD-Roast
| N
| Free
| [http://www.xcdroast.org/xcdr098/xcdrosX.html here]
| align="left" | New OS X port of this Linux CD writing application
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Burn
| N
| Free
| [http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html/ here]
| align="left" | Versatile CD/DVD authoring application
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:130px;" | Name
! style="width:80px;" | Unicode
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:260px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | CDRDAO
| N
| GPL
| [http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Cdrdao records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | DVD-Audio Tools
| Y
| GPL
| [http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Open-source DVD-Audio authoring application
|-
! align="left" | GnomeBaker
| N
| GPL
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnomebaker/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source Gnome interface CD/DVD writing application
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[K3b]]
| N
| GPL
| [http://www.k3b.org/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source KDE CD writing application for Linux platform
|-
! align="left" | X-CD-Roast
| Y
| GPL
| [http://www.xcdroast.org here]
| align="left" | New open-source Gnome interface CD/DVD writing application
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Brasero
| N
| GPL
| [http://projects.gnome.org/brasero/ here]
| align="left" | Brasero is a application to burn CD/DVD for the Gnome Desktop.(Gnome Default)
|}

==Multimedia Players==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[foobar2000]]
| Free, BSD
| [http://www.foobar2000.org/ here]
| align="left" | Advanced tagging, plugin capabilities, and kernel streaming support
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[MediaMonkey]]
| Free, Shareware
| [http://www.mediamonkey.com/ here]
| align="left" | Supports many Winamp plugins
|-
! align="left" | VUplayer
| Free
| [http://www.vuplayer.com/ here]
| align="left" | Supports many popular digital audio codecs and MOD tracker formats
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Winamp]]
| Free, Shareware
| [http://www.winamp.com/ here]
| align="left" | Popular audio player for Windows
| align="left" |
|-
! align="left" | [[VLC]]
| Free
| [http://www.videolan.org/vlc// here]
| align="left" | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
|}

===Players / Source code ===
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|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | MusikCube
| BSD
| [http://www.musikcube.com/ here]
| align="left" | Supports dynamic playlists and advanced SQL capabilities
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[wxMusik]]
| GPL
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/musik.berlios/ here]
| align="left" |A cross-platform open-source audio player
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | Cog
| GPL
| [http://cogosx.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source digital audio player for OS X.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Play
| GPL
| [http://sbooth.org/Play/ here]
| align="left" |Play is an application for playing and managing audio files.
|-
! align="left" | [[VLC]]
| Free
| [http://www.videolan.org/vlc// here]
| align="left" | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Amarok]]
| GPL
| [http://amarok.kde.org/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source KDE audio player similiar to Foobar2000
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Audacious
| GPL
| [http://audacious-media-player.org/ here]
| align="left" |Audacious is an open source audio player
|-
! align="left" | Clementine
| GPL
| [http://www.clementine-player.org/ here]
| align="left" | Cross platform media player, a port of [[Amarok]] 1.4 to the Qt 4 and GStreamer framework, can be controlled with a Wii remote
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | DeaDBeeF
| GPL
| [http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Lightweight music player for Linux, GUI similar to [[Foobar2000]]
|-
! align="left" | [[Rhythmbox]]
| GPL
| [http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox/ here]
| align="left" | GNOME music player
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[VLC]]
| Free
| [http://www.videolan.org/vlc// here]
| align="left" | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, |Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
|-
! align="left" | [[XMMS]]
| GPL
| [http://www.xmms.org/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source audio player similiar to Winamp
|}

=== Console players ===
* mpg123 [http://www.mpg123.org/ Homepage] [http://www.mpg123.org/download.shtml Downloads]

==Tagging Utilities==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | Frontah
| Free
| [http://home.vxu.se/mdati00/frontah/ here]
| align="left" | Transcode and tag editor for ID3v1.x, ID3v2.x, Lyrics3, Vorbis Comment, APEv1 & APEv2 tags. Supports ANSI, UTF8 and UTF16 text encoding depends on tag type.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | MetatOGGer
| Free
| [http://www.luminescence-software.org/ here]
| align="left" | Tags MP3 ([[ID3]]), Ogg files (Vorbis comment, including Ogg FLAC and Speex), Musepack, Windows Media, WavPack et Monkey's Audio
|-
! align="left" | MP3 Book Helper
| Free
| [http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Tags [[ID3v1]], ID3v2.3, and Vorbis comments. Features: FreeDB, unicode, guessing and matching, and supporting PAR, SFV, SV, and NFO generation.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[MP3tag]]
| Free
| [http://www.mp3tag.de/ here]
| align="left" | Tags all files supporting [[ID3]], [[APEv2]], and [[Vorbis_Comment|Vorbis Comments]], not only MP3s
|-
! align="left" | [[Tag.exe]]
| GPL
| [http://www.synthetic-soul.co.uk/tag/ here]
| align="left" | Command-line universal tagger for Windows
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Tag & Rename
| Shareware
| [http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm here]
|
|-
! align="left" | TagScanner
| Free
| [http://www.xdlab.ru/en/index.htm here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | WMP Tag Plus 2.0
| Free
| [http://bmproductions.fixnum.org/wmptagplus/ here]
| align="left" | Software to integrate other tag format than [[ID3]] into Microsoft Windows Media Player 11.
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | Tag
| GPL
| [http://sbooth.org/Tag/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source tagging application for OS X
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Beets]]
| MIT
| [http://beets.radbox.org/ here]
| align="left" | Cross-platform open source tagging application written in Python, CLI only. Uses the Musicbrainz and Mutagen libraries, still in beta. Mostly automatic, minimal user input required. Many features and plugins. (Read the documentation)
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | EasyTAG
| GPL
| [http://easytag.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Gnome tagging utility
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" |
|}

==Encoders, Decoders, Etc.==
All basic tools needed to make use of the audio formats supported here.

===[[MP3]]===
* [[LAME]] encoder/decoder: [http://www.rarewares.org/mp3.html download pre-compiled binaries here]. Also check the [[Lame Compiles|Latest recommended version]] page.
* [[MP3Gain]], a ReplayGain-like utility: [http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/download.php download here]

===Ogg [[Vorbis]]===
Currently, all recommended Ogg Vorbis utilities are available at the [http://www.rarewares.org/ogg.html Rarewares Ogg Vorbis page]. The following tools are important:

* '''OggEnc2''': A command-line Ogg Vorbis encoder that can be used with most CD rippers.

* '''OggDec''': Command-line decoder.

* '''[[OggDropXPd]]''': An easy to use, drag'n'drop encoder/decoder with support for automatic tagging, renaming and playlist creation on encoding.

* ''Encoding DLLs'': For encoding within CDex or WinLame.

* '''VorbisGain''': The [[ReplayGain]] utility for Ogg Vorbis.

In addition, the [[Lancer]] suite — a highly SSE-optimized suite of utilities and libraries — are available at [http://homepage3.nifty.com/blacksword/ this page] ''(in Japanese)''. See [[Lancer#Platform-specific Builds|this section]] for information about the different builds.

=== [[Opus]] ===
* http://www.opus-codec.org/
* discussion at the [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=96954/ Forum]

===[[Musepack]] (MPC)===
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=win Download MPC for Windows]
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=lin Download MPC for Linux]
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=osx Download MPC for Mac OS X]
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=src Download MPC source code]

* [http://forum.musepack.net/showthread.php?t=395 Forum announcement of SV8 release]

===[[FLAC]]===
* CoolEdit / Adobe Audition Filter supporting FLAC: [http://www.vuplayer.com/other.php download here]
* Various FLAC-related utilities (incl. ReplayGain utility): [http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html FLAC's SourceForge Download page]

=== qaac ===
* qaac - [https://sites.google.com/site/qaacpage/cabinet Download] / discussion in the [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=85135 Forum]

==Transcoders==
''Note: Although these tools may convert from one encoding to another, please remember that [[transcoding]] to any [[lossy]] encoding will result in a degraded quality.''
* BeSweet: http://besweet.notrace.dk/
* [[fre:ac ]]
* dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC): http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
* [[foobar2000]] - foobar2000 Free Encoder Pack http://www.foobar2000.org/encoderpack
* TAudioConverter - [http://sourceforge.net/projects/taudioconverter/ Download] / discussion in the [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=98327 Forum]
* MediaCoder: http://www.mediacoderhq.com/
* [[Winamp]]
* WinLAME: http://winlame.sourceforge.net/

==Processing utilities==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:400px;" | Description
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[lossyWAV]]
| GPL
| [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=56129&view=findpost&p=504087 here]
| align="left" | lossyWAV is a lossy pre-processor for [[Wikipedia:Pulse-code modulation|PCM]] (uncompressed) WAV files. It reduces [[Wikipedia:Audio bit depth|bit depth]] of the input signal, which, when used in conjunction with certain lossless codecs, reduces the bitrate of the encoded file significantly.
|}

==Drivers==
===ASPI===
* Ahead Nero ASPI Driver: [ftp://ftp6.nero.com/wnaspi32.dll download]
* Adaptec Windows ASPI Package: [http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/_eol/scsi_sw/aspi-4.70/ official website]
* ForceASPI [http://radified.com/ASPI/forceaspi.htm radified.com]
* ASPI4all [http://www.cdr-zone.com/software/aspi_layers/aspi4all.html CDR-Zone.COM]
* FrogAspi [http://www.frogaspi.org/ official website]
* VOB ASAPI Driver 1.3: [http://www.rarewares.org/files/ASAPI.exe download]

===Sound===
* ALSA Project [http://www.alsa-project.org/ official website]
* kX Project [http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/ official website]

==Links==
* [http://www.rarewares.org/ RareWares]

[[Category:Software]]

Download page

2012-12-19T16:55:23Z

87.112.81.64: /* Encoders, Decoders, Etc. */ qaac added to the "Encoders, Decoders" section.

All programs mentioned anywhere in the wiki can be downloaded here.
See also the [[:Category:Software|Software Category]] article for more software not listed here.

==CD Rippers==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:300px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[CDex]]
| GPL
| [http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source ripper for Windows that uses cdparanoia functionality
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[DBpowerAMP with AccurateRip|dBpoweramp]]
| commercial
| [http://www.dbpoweramp.com/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for Windows that includes Accurate Stream functionality.
|-
! align="left" | [[EAC]]
| Free
| [http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for Windows, C2 error pointers, Accurate Stream, etc.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[fre:ac ]]
| GPL
| [http://www.freac.org/ here]
| align="left" |
fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. Plus supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database which allows you query song information.
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:350px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Max]]
| GPL
| [http://sbooth.org/Max/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for OS X that uses additional cdparanoia functionality
|-
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[XLD]]
| GPL
| [http://tmkk.pv.land.to/xld/index_e.html here]
| align="left" | X Lossless Decoder(XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. Can convert between many lossless and lossy formats. Plugin oriented design, for easy exchange for new encoders.
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:320px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | abcde
| GPL
|[http://code.google.com/p/abcde/ here]
| align="left" | A command-line based ripper with cdparanoia functionality
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[cdparanoia]]
| BSD, GPL
| [http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ here]
| align="left" | One of the first secure standalone rippers for the Linux platform
|-
! align="left" | Grip
| GPL
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/grip/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source Gnome interface ripper that uses cdparanoia functionality
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Rubyripper]]
| GPL
| [http://code.google.com/p/rubyripper/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for the Linux that uses additional cdparanoia functionality
|}

==CD/DVD Writers==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:185px;" | Name
! style="width:80px;" | Unicode
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Burrrn]] (CDA only)
| N
| Free
| [http://www.burrrn.net/ here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | CDBurnerXP
|
| Free
| [http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ here]
|
|-
! align="left" | DeepBurner
| N
| GPL
| [http://www.deepburner.com/ here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Express Burn
| N
| commercial
| [http://www.nch.com.au/burn/index.html here]
| align="left" | A free version of this software is available for non-commercial use only. The free version does not expire but will only burn normal CDs.
|
|-
! align="left" | InfraRecorder
| N
| GPL
| [http://infrarecorder.org/ here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Nero]]
| N
| commercial
| [http://www.nero.com/eng/ here]
| align="left" |
|-style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
|
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:130px;" | Name
! style="width:80px;" | Unicode
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:310px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | DVD-Audio Tools
| Y
| GPL
| [http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Open-source DVD-Audio authoring application
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | FireStarter FX
| N
| Free
| [http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=FireStarter_FX here]
| align="left" | Free OS X Cocoa CD writing application
|-
! align="left" | X-CD-Roast
| N
| Free
| [http://www.xcdroast.org/xcdr098/xcdrosX.html here]
| align="left" | New OS X port of this Linux CD writing application
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Burn
| N
| Free
| [http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html/ here]
| align="left" | Versatile CD/DVD authoring application
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:130px;" | Name
! style="width:80px;" | Unicode
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:260px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | CDRDAO
| N
| GPL
| [http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Cdrdao records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | DVD-Audio Tools
| Y
| GPL
| [http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Open-source DVD-Audio authoring application
|-
! align="left" | GnomeBaker
| N
| GPL
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnomebaker/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source Gnome interface CD/DVD writing application
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[K3b]]
| N
| GPL
| [http://www.k3b.org/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source KDE CD writing application for Linux platform
|-
! align="left" | X-CD-Roast
| Y
| GPL
| [http://www.xcdroast.org here]
| align="left" | New open-source Gnome interface CD/DVD writing application
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Brasero
| N
| GPL
| [http://projects.gnome.org/brasero/ here]
| align="left" | Brasero is a application to burn CD/DVD for the Gnome Desktop.(Gnome Default)
|}

==Multimedia Players==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[foobar2000]]
| Free, BSD
| [http://www.foobar2000.org/ here]
| align="left" | Advanced tagging, plugin capabilities, and kernel streaming support
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[MediaMonkey]]
| Free, Shareware
| [http://www.mediamonkey.com/ here]
| align="left" | Supports many Winamp plugins
|-
! align="left" | VUplayer
| Free
| [http://www.vuplayer.com/ here]
| align="left" | Supports many popular digital audio codecs and MOD tracker formats
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Winamp]]
| Free, Shareware
| [http://www.winamp.com/ here]
| align="left" | Popular audio player for Windows
| align="left" |
|-
! align="left" | [[VLC]]
| Free
| [http://www.videolan.org/vlc// here]
| align="left" | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
|}

===Players / Source code ===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | MusikCube
| BSD
| [http://www.musikcube.com/ here]
| align="left" | Supports dynamic playlists and advanced SQL capabilities
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[wxMusik]]
| GPL
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/musik.berlios/ here]
| align="left" |A cross-platform open-source audio player
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | Cog
| GPL
| [http://cogosx.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source digital audio player for OS X.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Play
| GPL
| [http://sbooth.org/Play/ here]
| align="left" |Play is an application for playing and managing audio files.
|-
! align="left" | [[VLC]]
| Free
| [http://www.videolan.org/vlc// here]
| align="left" | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Amarok]]
| GPL
| [http://amarok.kde.org/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source KDE audio player similiar to Foobar2000
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Audacious
| GPL
| [http://audacious-media-player.org/ here]
| align="left" |Audacious is an open source audio player
|-
! align="left" | Clementine
| GPL
| [http://www.clementine-player.org/ here]
| align="left" | Cross platform media player, a port of [[Amarok]] 1.4 to the Qt 4 and GStreamer framework, can be controlled with a Wii remote
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | DeaDBeeF
| GPL
| [http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Lightweight music player for Linux, GUI similar to [[Foobar2000]]
|-
! align="left" | [[Rhythmbox]]
| GPL
| [http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox/ here]
| align="left" | GNOME music player
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[VLC]]
| Free
| [http://www.videolan.org/vlc// here]
| align="left" | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, |Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
|-
! align="left" | [[XMMS]]
| GPL
| [http://www.xmms.org/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source audio player similiar to Winamp
|}

=== Console players ===
* mpg123 [http://www.mpg123.org/ Homepage] [http://www.mpg123.org/download.shtml Downloads]

==Tagging Utilities==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | Frontah
| Free
| [http://home.vxu.se/mdati00/frontah/ here]
| align="left" | Transcode and tag editor for ID3v1.x, ID3v2.x, Lyrics3, Vorbis Comment, APEv1 & APEv2 tags. Supports ANSI, UTF8 and UTF16 text encoding depends on tag type.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | MetatOGGer
| Free
| [http://www.luminescence-software.org/ here]
| align="left" | Tags MP3 ([[ID3]]), Ogg files (Vorbis comment, including Ogg FLAC and Speex), Musepack, Windows Media, WavPack et Monkey's Audio
|-
! align="left" | MP3 Book Helper
| Free
| [http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Tags [[ID3v1]], ID3v2.3, and Vorbis comments. Features: FreeDB, unicode, guessing and matching, and supporting PAR, SFV, SV, and NFO generation.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[MP3tag]]
| Free
| [http://www.mp3tag.de/ here]
| align="left" | Tags all files supporting [[ID3]], [[APEv2]], and [[Vorbis_Comment|Vorbis Comments]], not only MP3s
|-
! align="left" | [[Tag.exe]]
| GPL
| [http://www.synthetic-soul.co.uk/tag/ here]
| align="left" | Command-line universal tagger for Windows
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Tag & Rename
| Shareware
| [http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm here]
|
|-
! align="left" | TagScanner
| Free
| [http://www.xdlab.ru/en/index.htm here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | WMP Tag Plus 2.0
| Free
| [http://bmproductions.fixnum.org/wmptagplus/ here]
| align="left" | Software to integrate other tag format than [[ID3]] into Microsoft Windows Media Player 11.
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | Tag
| GPL
| [http://sbooth.org/Tag/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source tagging application for OS X
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Beets]]
| MIT
| [http://beets.radbox.org/ here]
| align="left" | Cross-platform open source tagging application written in Python, CLI only. Uses the Musicbrainz and Mutagen libraries, still in beta. Mostly automatic, minimal user input required. Many features and plugins. (Read the documentation)
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | EasyTAG
| GPL
| [http://easytag.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Gnome tagging utility
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" |
|}

==Encoders, Decoders, Etc.==
All basic tools needed to make use of the audio formats supported here.

===[[MP3]]===
* [[LAME]] encoder/decoder: [http://www.rarewares.org/mp3.html download pre-compiled binaries here]. Also check the [[Lame Compiles|Latest recommended version]] page.
* [[MP3Gain]], a ReplayGain-like utility: [http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/download.php download here]

===Ogg [[Vorbis]]===
Currently, all recommended Ogg Vorbis utilities are available at the [http://www.rarewares.org/ogg.html Rarewares Ogg Vorbis page]. The following tools are important:

* '''OggEnc2''': A command-line Ogg Vorbis encoder that can be used with most CD rippers.

* '''OggDec''': Command-line decoder.

* '''[[OggDropXPd]]''': An easy to use, drag'n'drop encoder/decoder with support for automatic tagging, renaming and playlist creation on encoding.

* ''Encoding DLLs'': For encoding within CDex or WinLame.

* '''VorbisGain''': The [[ReplayGain]] utility for Ogg Vorbis.

In addition, the [[Lancer]] suite — a highly SSE-optimized suite of utilities and libraries — are available at [http://homepage3.nifty.com/blacksword/ this page] ''(in Japanese)''. See [[Lancer#Platform-specific Builds|this section]] for information about the different builds.

=== [[Opus]] ===
* http://www.opus-codec.org/
* discussion at the [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=96954/ Forum]

===[[Musepack]] (MPC)===
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=win Download MPC for Windows]
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=lin Download MPC for Linux]
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=osx Download MPC for Mac OS X]
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=src Download MPC source code]

* [http://forum.musepack.net/showthread.php?t=395 Forum announcement of SV8 release]

===[[FLAC]]===
* CoolEdit / Adobe Audition Filter supporting FLAC: [http://www.vuplayer.com/other.php download here]
* Various FLAC-related utilities (incl. ReplayGain utility): [http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html FLAC's SourceForge Download page]

== qaac ==
* qaac - [https://sites.google.com/site/qaacpage/cabinet Download] / discussion in the [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=85135 Forum]

==Transcoders==
''Note: Although these tools may convert from one encoding to another, please remember that [[transcoding]] to any [[lossy]] encoding will result in a degraded quality.''
* BeSweet: http://besweet.notrace.dk/
* [[fre:ac ]]
* dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC): http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
* [[foobar2000]] - foobar2000 Free Encoder Pack http://www.foobar2000.org/encoderpack
* TAudioConverter - [http://sourceforge.net/projects/taudioconverter/ Download] / discussion in the [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=98327 Forum]
* MediaCoder: http://www.mediacoderhq.com/
* [[Winamp]]
* WinLAME: http://winlame.sourceforge.net/

==Processing utilities==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:400px;" | Description
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[lossyWAV]]
| GPL
| [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=56129&view=findpost&p=504087 here]
| align="left" | lossyWAV is a lossy pre-processor for [[Wikipedia:Pulse-code modulation|PCM]] (uncompressed) WAV files. It reduces [[Wikipedia:Audio bit depth|bit depth]] of the input signal, which, when used in conjunction with certain lossless codecs, reduces the bitrate of the encoded file significantly.
|}

==Drivers==
===ASPI===
* Ahead Nero ASPI Driver: [ftp://ftp6.nero.com/wnaspi32.dll download]
* Adaptec Windows ASPI Package: [http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/_eol/scsi_sw/aspi-4.70/ official website]
* ForceASPI [http://radified.com/ASPI/forceaspi.htm radified.com]
* ASPI4all [http://www.cdr-zone.com/software/aspi_layers/aspi4all.html CDR-Zone.COM]
* FrogAspi [http://www.frogaspi.org/ official website]
* VOB ASAPI Driver 1.3: [http://www.rarewares.org/files/ASAPI.exe download]

===Sound===
* ALSA Project [http://www.alsa-project.org/ official website]
* kX Project [http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/ official website]

==Links==
* [http://www.rarewares.org/ RareWares]

[[Category:Software]]

Download page

2012-12-19T16:43:45Z

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All programs mentioned anywhere in the wiki can be downloaded here.
See also the [[:Category:Software|Software Category]] article for more software not listed here.

==CD Rippers==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:300px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[CDex]]
| GPL
| [http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source ripper for Windows that uses cdparanoia functionality
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[DBpowerAMP with AccurateRip|dBpoweramp]]
| commercial
| [http://www.dbpoweramp.com/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for Windows that includes Accurate Stream functionality.
|-
! align="left" | [[EAC]]
| Free
| [http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for Windows, C2 error pointers, Accurate Stream, etc.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[fre:ac ]]
| GPL
| [http://www.freac.org/ here]
| align="left" |
fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. Plus supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database which allows you query song information.
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:350px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Max]]
| GPL
| [http://sbooth.org/Max/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for OS X that uses additional cdparanoia functionality
|-
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[XLD]]
| GPL
| [http://tmkk.pv.land.to/xld/index_e.html here]
| align="left" | X Lossless Decoder(XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. Can convert between many lossless and lossy formats. Plugin oriented design, for easy exchange for new encoders.
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:320px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | abcde
| GPL
|[http://code.google.com/p/abcde/ here]
| align="left" | A command-line based ripper with cdparanoia functionality
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[cdparanoia]]
| BSD, GPL
| [http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ here]
| align="left" | One of the first secure standalone rippers for the Linux platform
|-
! align="left" | Grip
| GPL
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/grip/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source Gnome interface ripper that uses cdparanoia functionality
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Rubyripper]]
| GPL
| [http://code.google.com/p/rubyripper/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for the Linux that uses additional cdparanoia functionality
|}

==CD/DVD Writers==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:185px;" | Name
! style="width:80px;" | Unicode
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Burrrn]] (CDA only)
| N
| Free
| [http://www.burrrn.net/ here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | CDBurnerXP
|
| Free
| [http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ here]
|
|-
! align="left" | DeepBurner
| N
| GPL
| [http://www.deepburner.com/ here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Express Burn
| N
| commercial
| [http://www.nch.com.au/burn/index.html here]
| align="left" | A free version of this software is available for non-commercial use only. The free version does not expire but will only burn normal CDs.
|
|-
! align="left" | InfraRecorder
| N
| GPL
| [http://infrarecorder.org/ here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Nero]]
| N
| commercial
| [http://www.nero.com/eng/ here]
| align="left" |
|-style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
|
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:130px;" | Name
! style="width:80px;" | Unicode
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:310px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | DVD-Audio Tools
| Y
| GPL
| [http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Open-source DVD-Audio authoring application
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | FireStarter FX
| N
| Free
| [http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=FireStarter_FX here]
| align="left" | Free OS X Cocoa CD writing application
|-
! align="left" | X-CD-Roast
| N
| Free
| [http://www.xcdroast.org/xcdr098/xcdrosX.html here]
| align="left" | New OS X port of this Linux CD writing application
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Burn
| N
| Free
| [http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html/ here]
| align="left" | Versatile CD/DVD authoring application
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:130px;" | Name
! style="width:80px;" | Unicode
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:260px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | CDRDAO
| N
| GPL
| [http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Cdrdao records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | DVD-Audio Tools
| Y
| GPL
| [http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Open-source DVD-Audio authoring application
|-
! align="left" | GnomeBaker
| N
| GPL
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnomebaker/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source Gnome interface CD/DVD writing application
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[K3b]]
| N
| GPL
| [http://www.k3b.org/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source KDE CD writing application for Linux platform
|-
! align="left" | X-CD-Roast
| Y
| GPL
| [http://www.xcdroast.org here]
| align="left" | New open-source Gnome interface CD/DVD writing application
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Brasero
| N
| GPL
| [http://projects.gnome.org/brasero/ here]
| align="left" | Brasero is a application to burn CD/DVD for the Gnome Desktop.(Gnome Default)
|}

==Multimedia Players==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[foobar2000]]
| Free, BSD
| [http://www.foobar2000.org/ here]
| align="left" | Advanced tagging, plugin capabilities, and kernel streaming support
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[MediaMonkey]]
| Free, Shareware
| [http://www.mediamonkey.com/ here]
| align="left" | Supports many Winamp plugins
|-
! align="left" | VUplayer
| Free
| [http://www.vuplayer.com/ here]
| align="left" | Supports many popular digital audio codecs and MOD tracker formats
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Winamp]]
| Free, Shareware
| [http://www.winamp.com/ here]
| align="left" | Popular audio player for Windows
| align="left" |
|-
! align="left" | [[VLC]]
| Free
| [http://www.videolan.org/vlc// here]
| align="left" | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
|}

===Players / Source code ===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | MusikCube
| BSD
| [http://www.musikcube.com/ here]
| align="left" | Supports dynamic playlists and advanced SQL capabilities
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[wxMusik]]
| GPL
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/musik.berlios/ here]
| align="left" |A cross-platform open-source audio player
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | Cog
| GPL
| [http://cogosx.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source digital audio player for OS X.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Play
| GPL
| [http://sbooth.org/Play/ here]
| align="left" |Play is an application for playing and managing audio files.
|-
! align="left" | [[VLC]]
| Free
| [http://www.videolan.org/vlc// here]
| align="left" | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Amarok]]
| GPL
| [http://amarok.kde.org/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source KDE audio player similiar to Foobar2000
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Audacious
| GPL
| [http://audacious-media-player.org/ here]
| align="left" |Audacious is an open source audio player
|-
! align="left" | Clementine
| GPL
| [http://www.clementine-player.org/ here]
| align="left" | Cross platform media player, a port of [[Amarok]] 1.4 to the Qt 4 and GStreamer framework, can be controlled with a Wii remote
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | DeaDBeeF
| GPL
| [http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Lightweight music player for Linux, GUI similar to [[Foobar2000]]
|-
! align="left" | [[Rhythmbox]]
| GPL
| [http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox/ here]
| align="left" | GNOME music player
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[VLC]]
| Free
| [http://www.videolan.org/vlc// here]
| align="left" | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, |Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
|-
! align="left" | [[XMMS]]
| GPL
| [http://www.xmms.org/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source audio player similiar to Winamp
|}

=== Console players ===
* mpg123 [http://www.mpg123.org/ Homepage] [http://www.mpg123.org/download.shtml Downloads]

==Tagging Utilities==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | Frontah
| Free
| [http://home.vxu.se/mdati00/frontah/ here]
| align="left" | Transcode and tag editor for ID3v1.x, ID3v2.x, Lyrics3, Vorbis Comment, APEv1 & APEv2 tags. Supports ANSI, UTF8 and UTF16 text encoding depends on tag type.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | MetatOGGer
| Free
| [http://www.luminescence-software.org/ here]
| align="left" | Tags MP3 ([[ID3]]), Ogg files (Vorbis comment, including Ogg FLAC and Speex), Musepack, Windows Media, WavPack et Monkey's Audio
|-
! align="left" | MP3 Book Helper
| Free
| [http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Tags [[ID3v1]], ID3v2.3, and Vorbis comments. Features: FreeDB, unicode, guessing and matching, and supporting PAR, SFV, SV, and NFO generation.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[MP3tag]]
| Free
| [http://www.mp3tag.de/ here]
| align="left" | Tags all files supporting [[ID3]], [[APEv2]], and [[Vorbis_Comment|Vorbis Comments]], not only MP3s
|-
! align="left" | [[Tag.exe]]
| GPL
| [http://www.synthetic-soul.co.uk/tag/ here]
| align="left" | Command-line universal tagger for Windows
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Tag & Rename
| Shareware
| [http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm here]
|
|-
! align="left" | TagScanner
| Free
| [http://www.xdlab.ru/en/index.htm here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | WMP Tag Plus 2.0
| Free
| [http://bmproductions.fixnum.org/wmptagplus/ here]
| align="left" | Software to integrate other tag format than [[ID3]] into Microsoft Windows Media Player 11.
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | Tag
| GPL
| [http://sbooth.org/Tag/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source tagging application for OS X
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Beets]]
| MIT
| [http://beets.radbox.org/ here]
| align="left" | Cross-platform open source tagging application written in Python, CLI only. Uses the Musicbrainz and Mutagen libraries, still in beta. Mostly automatic, minimal user input required. Many features and plugins. (Read the documentation)
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | EasyTAG
| GPL
| [http://easytag.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Gnome tagging utility
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" |
|}

==Encoders, Decoders, Etc.==
All basic tools needed to make use of the audio formats supported here.

===[[MP3]]===
* [[LAME]] encoder/decoder: [http://www.rarewares.org/mp3.html download pre-compiled binaries here]. Also check the [[Lame Compiles|Latest recommended version]] page.
* [[MP3Gain]], a ReplayGain-like utility: [http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/download.php download here]

===Ogg [[Vorbis]]===
Currently, all recommended Ogg Vorbis utilities are available at the [http://www.rarewares.org/ogg.html Rarewares Ogg Vorbis page]. The following tools are important:

* '''OggEnc2''': A command-line Ogg Vorbis encoder that can be used with most CD rippers.

* '''OggDec''': Command-line decoder.

* '''[[OggDropXPd]]''': An easy to use, drag'n'drop encoder/decoder with support for automatic tagging, renaming and playlist creation on encoding.

* ''Encoding DLLs'': For encoding within CDex or WinLame.

* '''VorbisGain''': The [[ReplayGain]] utility for Ogg Vorbis.

In addition, the [[Lancer]] suite — a highly SSE-optimized suite of utilities and libraries — are available at [http://homepage3.nifty.com/blacksword/ this page] ''(in Japanese)''. See [[Lancer#Platform-specific Builds|this section]] for information about the different builds.

=== [[Opus]] ===
* http://www.opus-codec.org/
* discussion at the [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=96954/ Forum]

===[[Musepack]] (MPC)===
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=win Download MPC for Windows]
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=lin Download MPC for Linux]
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=osx Download MPC for Mac OS X]
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=src Download MPC source code]

* [http://forum.musepack.net/showthread.php?t=395 Forum announcement of SV8 release]

===[[FLAC]]===
* CoolEdit / Adobe Audition Filter supporting FLAC: [http://www.vuplayer.com/other.php download here]
* Various FLAC-related utilities (incl. ReplayGain utility): [http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html FLAC's SourceForge Download page]

==Transcoders==
''Note: Although these tools may convert from one encoding to another, please remember that [[transcoding]] to any [[lossy]] encoding will result in a degraded quality.''
* BeSweet: http://besweet.notrace.dk/
* [[fre:ac ]]
* dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC): http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
* [[foobar2000]] - foobar2000 Free Encoder Pack http://www.foobar2000.org/encoderpack
* TAudioConverter - [http://sourceforge.net/projects/taudioconverter/ Download] / discussion in the [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=98327 Forum]
* MediaCoder: http://www.mediacoderhq.com/
* [[Winamp]]
* WinLAME: http://winlame.sourceforge.net/

==Processing utilities==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:400px;" | Description
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[lossyWAV]]
| GPL
| [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=56129&view=findpost&p=504087 here]
| align="left" | lossyWAV is a lossy pre-processor for [[Wikipedia:Pulse-code modulation|PCM]] (uncompressed) WAV files. It reduces [[Wikipedia:Audio bit depth|bit depth]] of the input signal, which, when used in conjunction with certain lossless codecs, reduces the bitrate of the encoded file significantly.
|}

==Drivers==
===ASPI===
* Ahead Nero ASPI Driver: [ftp://ftp6.nero.com/wnaspi32.dll download]
* Adaptec Windows ASPI Package: [http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/_eol/scsi_sw/aspi-4.70/ official website]
* ForceASPI [http://radified.com/ASPI/forceaspi.htm radified.com]
* ASPI4all [http://www.cdr-zone.com/software/aspi_layers/aspi4all.html CDR-Zone.COM]
* FrogAspi [http://www.frogaspi.org/ official website]
* VOB ASAPI Driver 1.3: [http://www.rarewares.org/files/ASAPI.exe download]

===Sound===
* ALSA Project [http://www.alsa-project.org/ official website]
* kX Project [http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/ official website]

==Links==
* [http://www.rarewares.org/ RareWares]

[[Category:Software]]

Foobar2000:Foobar2000

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{{title|foobar2000}}

{{Software Infobox|
|name = foobar2000
|logo = [[Image:foobar2000 Logo.png|48px]]
|screenshot = [[Image:Foobar2000-1.0-default-ui.png|250px]]
|caption = Screenshot of foobar2000 v1.0 using the default user interface
|maintainer = Peter Pawlowski
|stable_release = 1.1.18
|preview_release = 1.2 beta 2
|operating_system = Windows
|use = Media Player
|license = Proprietary, BSD
|website = [http://www.foobar2000.org/ www.foobar2000.org]
}}

'''foobar2000''' is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.

'''The latest stable version is:''' [http://www.foobar2000.org/download v1.1.18]

'''The latest Preview version is:''' [http://www.foobar2000.org/download v1.2 beta 2]

== Platforms ==

foobar2000 has been written specifically for the Windows platform, and there are no plans to port it to any others. However, although not officially supported, it is known to run on [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=54933 Linux] and [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=77261 Mac OS X] through Wine and WineBottler, respectively.

== Features ==
* Powerful open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player, including the ability to fully replace the user interface.
* Full Unicode support: File names, user interface, tagging, etc.
* [[ReplayGain]] support: Both playback and writing ReplayGain information to file tags.
* [[Gapless playback]].
* Advanced [[tagging]] capabilities - through built-in [[foobar2000:Properties|Properties dialog]] and various optional tagging-related components.
* Built-in [[foobar2000:Preferences:Media Library|Media Library]] functionality.
** Intuitive [[foobar2000:Query syntax|query syntax]] for searching the Media Library.
** [[foobar2000:Autoplaylist|Autoplaylist]] support: Generate dynamically updating playlists based on queries.
* [[foobar2000:Preferences:General:Keyboard Shortcuts|Customizable keyboard shortcuts]].
* Support for transcoding all supported audio formats using the [[Foobar2000:Converter|Converter component]] (requires external command-line encoder executables for different output formats).
* [[Secure_ripping|Secure]] [[foobar2000:Ripping CDs|CD ripping]].
* Streaming support.
* Efficient handling of large playlists.
* [[foobar2000:Components/Default_user_interface_%28foo_ui_std%29|User interface]] with simple configuration to create even complex layouts quickly and easily.
* Highly customizable display of track information using [[foobar2000:Titleformat_Introduction|title formatting scripts]].

==Supported audio formats==
Natively supported ("out-of-the-box"):
* [[MP1]], [[MP2]], [[MP3]], [[MP4]], [[Musepack]], [[AAC]], [[Ogg Vorbis]], [[FLAC]] / Ogg FLAC, [[Speex]], [[WavPack]], [[WAV]], [[AIFF]], [[AU|AU/SND]], [[CDDA]], [[WMA]], [[Matroska]], [[ALAC]], [[MMS]], [[RSTP]], [[Opus]].
Supported through optional components:
* [[TTA]], [[Monkey's Audio]], [[MOD]], [[SPC]], [[Shorten]], [[OptimFROG]], [[AC3]], [[DTS]], [[PSF]], [[NSF]], [[XID]], [[XA]], [[TAK]], [[AMR]], ''etc.''

In addition, foobar2000 can also play audio files within ZIP and RAR archives (typically compressed) directly, ''i.e.'' without requiring the user to extract the files first. More archive formats are supported ''via'' additional components: [http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_unpack_lha LHA/LZH], [http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_unpack_7z 7-Zip], [http://kode54.foobar2000.org/ JMA]

== Using foobar2000 ==

=== Important pages ===
* [http://www.foobar2000.org/FAQ foobar2000 FAQ]
* [[foobar2000:components|foobar2000 Components]]
* [[foobar2000:Encouraged Tag Standards|foobar2000 Encouraged Tag Standards]]
* [[foobar2000:FAQ|foobar2000 FAQ (unofficial)]]
* [http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Category:Foobar2000_Guides foobar2000 Guides (category)]
* [http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Category:Foobar2000_Preferences foobar2000 Preferences (category)]

=== Specific guides ===

'''Preferences'''
* [[foobar2000:Preferences|Preferences dialog]]

'''Metadata'''
* [[foobar2000:Properties|Tag editing: the Properties dialog]]
* [[foobar2000:Query syntax|Query Syntax]]: details of Syntax for querying metadata.

'''Title formatting'''
* [[foobar2000:Title Formatting Introduction|Introduction to titleformat scripts]]
* [[foobar2000:Title Formatting Reference|Titleformat Reference]]: reference guide to all fields and functions
* [[foobar2000:Titleformat Examples|Titleformat Examples]]: user-submitted code for various purposes; submit your own!

'''Others'''
* [[foobar2000:File operations|File operations dialog]]: move, copy, rename, and delete files from within foobar2000
* [[foobar2000:Commandline Guide|Commandline usage]]

=== External Guides ===
* [http://foobar2000.xrea.jp/ fb2k Wiki Page] for Japanese users.
* [http://winamp2foobar.blogspot.com Winamp To Foobar Guide] with information relevant for general users also.

=== Technical information ===
* [[foobar2000:ID3 Tag Mapping|ID3 Tag Mapping]]
* [[foobar2000:Metadata Compatibility|Metadata Compatibility]]: information about compatibility with metadata written by other applications

== Important Links ==
=== Official Site ===
* [http://www.foobar2000.org foobar2000.org: Homepage]
* [http://www.foobar2000.org/download foobar2000.org: Download]
* [http://www.foobar2000.org/components foobar2000.org: Components]

=== Community ===
* Official IRC Channel: #foobar2000 on [http://freenode.net/ freenode]
* [http://forums.foobar2000.org/ Official foobar2000 forum]
* [http://foobar-users.de/ German Support Forum]
* [http://foobar2000.pl/ Polish Support Forum]
* [http://www.fforum.ru/index.php?showforum=59 Russian-language forum]
* [http://www.foobar2000.ru/forum/ Another Russian-language forum]

=== Appearance ===
* [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=61333 Default UI .fth Thread] Fast way to clone another's DUI Configuration.
* [[foobar2000:Preferences:Columns UI/Appearance|Columns UI appearance customization guides]]
* [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=31027 Columns UI configurations]

[[Category:foobar2000]]
[[Category:Media Players|foobar2000]]
[[Category:CD Rippers]]
[[Category:Software]]
[[Category:Tag editors]]

Topic Index

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* For a more structured 'table of contents', use the '''[[Main Page#Categories|Categories List]]'''.
* Please see [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=12979&st=25&p=247441&#entry247441 this thread] for a discussion of the future structure of this wiki. If you have thoughts, comments, suggestions, etc., please join in this discussion. In the meantime, please feel free to fill in gaps in the information below.
* See also [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=28658 the style related discussion thread] in the forums.

= General Information =
== General Guides ==
* [[Create a long-term archive]]
* [[Secure ripping|Secure Ripping]]
* [[Enabling DMA]]
* [[Choosing_the_best_codec.|Choosing the best codec]]
* [[Lossless_comparison|Lossless Comparison]]

== EAC Guides ==
* Configuring [[EAC Drive Configuration|EAC and CD-ROM Drives]]
* Configuring [[EAC and Lame]]
* Configuring [[EAC and AAC | EAC and Nero AAC]]
* Configuring [[EAC and Ogg Vorbis | EAC and Vorbis]]
* Configuring [[EAC and Musepack]]
* Configuring [[EAC and WavPack]]
* Configuring [[EAC and FLAC]]
* Configuring [[EAC and Monkey's Audio]]
* Configuring [[EAC and Cue Sheets]]
* Configuring EAC and [[REACT]]

== CDex Guides ==
* Configuring [[CDex Drive Configuration|CDex and CD-ROM Drives]]
* Configuring [[CDex and FLAC]]

== AAC Guides ==
* [[AAC_FAQ|AAC FAQ]] frequently asked questions in reguard to AAC the latest industry standard.
* [[AAC encoders|AAC Encoders]] known AAC encoder/decoder implementations and configuring them (Apple Itunes, Nero AAC, etc)
* [[Linux and Nero AAC]] a short guide for configuring Nero AAC encoder to run under Linux.

== Vorbis Guides ==
* [[Recommended_Ogg_Vorbis|Recommended encoders and settings for Vorbis]].
* [[Lancer|Ogg Vorbis Acceleration Project]] information reguarding optimized Vorbis binaries.
* [[OggDropXPd|OggDropXPd]] guide for encoding with John 33's popular drag-n-drop frontend.
* [[Compiling_aoTuV|Compiling AoTuV]] compiling the AoTuV binaries under Linux.

= Audio Codecs =
== [[Lossy]] ==
* [[Advanced Audio Coding]] (AAC)
* [[AC3]]
* [[ATRAC3]]
* [[DTS]]
* [[MP2]]
* [[MP3]]
* [[Musepack]] (MPC, MP+)
* (Ogg) [[Vorbis]]
* [[QDesign]]
* [[VQF]]
* [[Windows Media Audio]] (WMA)

== [[Lossless]] ==
* [[ALAC|Apple Lossless]]
* [[ALS|Audio Lossless Coding]]
* [[DTS-HD|DTS Master Audio]]
* [[Free Lossless Audio Codec]] (FLAC)
* [[Lossless Audio]] (LA)
* [[Lossless Predictive Audio Compression]] (LPAC)
* [[Monkey's Audio]]
* [[OptimFROG]]
* [[Lossless comparison#RealAudio Lossless|RealAudio Lossless]]
* [[Shorten]]
* [[TTA|True Audio]]
* [[WavPack]]
* [[Windows Media Audio|WMA Lossless]]

= [[Metadata]] (Tags) =
* [[APEv1]]
* [[APEv2]]
* [[ID3v1]]
* [[ID3v1.1]]
* [[ID3v2]]
* [[Vorbis Comment]]

= Media Extractors =
== CD Extractors ==
* [[Audiograbber]] (Win32)
* [[CDex]] (Win32)
* [[cdparanoia]] (Posix)
* [[dBpowerAMP with AccurateRip]] (Win32)
* [[Exact_Audio_Copy|Exact Audio Copy]] (Win32)
* [[Grip]] (Posix)
* [[iTunes]] (Win32/Mac OS/X)
* [[MediaMonkey]] (Win32)
* [[Max]] (Mac OS/X)
* [[XLD]] (Mac OS/X)
* [[PlexTools]] (Win32)
* [[Rubyripper]] (Posix/Mac OS/X)

== DVD Extractors ==
* [http://pessoal.onda.com.br/rjamorim/SetupDVDDecrypter_3.5.4.0.exe DVD Decrypter] (Win32)
* DVD-A / CPPM Decrypter (Win32/Posix)

= Media Players =
== Windows ==
* [[Apollo]]
* [[dBpowerAMP]]
* [[Foobar2000:Foobar2000|foobar2000]]
* [[iTunes]]
* [[MediaMonkey]]
* [[musikCube]]
* [[Quintessential Player]]
* [[VUplayer]]
* [[Winamp]]
* [[Windows Media Player]]
* [[wxMusik]]
* [[XMPlay]]
* [[WMPTSE]] (with WMP)

== Linux/BSD ==
* [[Amarok]]
* [[BMP]]
* [[JuK]]
* [[LAMIP]]
* [[Muine]]
* [[Music Player Daemon (MPD)]]
* [[Quod Libet]]
* [[Rhythmbox]]
* [[wxMusik]]
* [[XMMS]]

== Mac OS X (Non-BSD Specific) ==
* [[iTunes]]
* [[skiTunes]]
* [[Whamb]]

== Other ==
* [[CL-Amp]] (BeOS)

= Audio Editors =
== Windows ==
* [[Adobe Audition]] (previously known as ''Cool Edit'')
* [[Audacity]]
* [[Goldwave]]
* [http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/products/soundforgefamily.asp Sony Sound Forge] (Previously released by Sonic Foundry)

== Linux/BSD ==
* [[Ardour]]
* [[Audacity]]
* [[ReZound]]

== Mac OS X (Non-BSD Specific) ==
* [[Ardour]]
* [[Audacity]]

== Other ==
* [http://timidity.sourceforge.net/ Timidity++] (MIDI to PCM (WAV) converter) Timidity++ synthesizes MIDI files (sequences) in real-time using Gravis UltraSound Soundfont patches (loosly based upon Wavetable Synthesis) to common digital audio file formats such as, WAV, AU, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, etc. Useful for those who want to bypass FM Synthesizers on their sound card's to hear MIDI sequence as it was intended to be heard.)

= Testing Software =
== Subjective Perceptual ==
* [[ABC/HR]]
* [[PCABX]]

== Objective ==
''Note: Might be good to put something here about the problems of quality comparisons using graphs, frequency sweeps, etc.''

* [[EAQUAL]]
* [[Rightmark_Audio_Analyzer|Rightmark Audio Analyzer]]

= Audio Hardware =
== PC Audio ==
* [[Terratec EWX 24/96]]
* [[M-Audio Audiophile 24/96]]
* [[M-Audio Revolution 5.1]]
* [[M-Audio Revolution 7.1]]
* [[Chaintech AV-710]]
* [[E-MU 0404 24/192]]
* [[ASUS Xonar D1]]
* [[ASUS Xonar D2/PM]]

== Notebook Audio ==
* [[Echo Indigo IO 24/96]]

== Firewire ==
* [[E-MU 1212M 24/192]]
* [[M-Audio Firewire 410]]

== HiFi ==
* [[M-Audio Fast Track USB]]
* [[Slim Devices Squeezebox]]
* [[Slim Devices Transporter]]
* [[Hermstedt AG Hifidelio]]
* [[Olive Musica]]

== MIDI Interfaces ==
* M-Audio MIDISport Uno 1x1
* M-Audio MIDISport 2x2
* MOTU 5x5 Micro Lite
* MOTU Fastlane USB

== Digital Audio Players ==
=== Portable Flash ===
''(These players make use of a internal flash drive.)''
* [[Apple iPod]] Nano
* [[Apple iPod]] Shuffle
* Creative MuVo
* iRiver iFP Series
* MPIO lFP Series
* [[Rio Carbon]]

=== Portable HD ===
''(These players make use of a internal harddrive.)''
* [[Apple iPod]] with ''([http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/TargetStatus#iriver_H110_H115_H120_H140 Rockbox firmware])''
* [[Archos Jukebox with Rockbox Software]]
* [[Cowon iAudio]] with ''([http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/TargetStatus#iAudio_X5 Rockbox firmware])''
* [[iRiver H-Series]] with ''([http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/TargetStatus#iriver_H110_H115_H120_H140 Rockbox firmware])''
* [[MPIO H-Series]]
* [[Neuros]]
* [[Rio Karma]]
* [[Sandisk]] with ''([http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/TargetStatus#iAudio_X5 Rockbox firmware])''

=== Portable CD ===

=== Car Players ===
''(Car stereos that can read MP3, Vorbis, WMA, etc.).''
* [[Aiwa CDC-MP3]]
* [[Yakumo Ultrasound]]

===DVD Players===
* [[Neuston's Maestro DVX-1201]]

=== Firmware ===
* [[Rockbox]]

= Audio Theory =
== Analog Audio ==
* [[Tube Amplifiers]]
* [[Vinyl_Playback_and_Recording|Vinyl Audio]]

== Digital Audio ==
* [[Solid State Amplifiers]]
* [[ReplayGain]]

== Testing Methodology ==
* [[ABX]]
* [[EAQUAL]]

= Audio Development =
''note: Let's start with basic development tools (compilers, engineering tools, dev. libraries) until we think of more tools to add. I am also adding external links to books, tutorials, etc under resources.''

== Tools ==
* [http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/ MATLAB 7.0] commercial software for algorithmic design, developement, engineering, and scientific computing. (multi-platform support)
* [http://www.octave.org/ GNU Octave] open-source alternative software (GPL) to MATLAB for numerical computations, engineering, and scientific computing. (multi-platform support)
* [http://www.fftw.org/ FFTW] Is a C subroutine library for computing the Discrete Fourier transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions on real and complex inputs.
* [http://gcc.gnu.org/ GCC] THE GNU compiler collection for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada.
* [http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html GNU Emacs] an extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. Great for writing all types of source code especially on Unix. (multi-platform support)
* [http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html DevCPP] free front-end IDE and compiler for the C and C++ languages. Delphi and C source code available. (Win 9x, NT, 2000, and XP)

== Resources ==
* [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showforum=30 Scientific/R&D Forums] for Psychoacoustic, DSP, Electrical Engineering, theory, and coding related questions. (most questions are generally answered)
* [http://www.aes.org/ AES] The Audio Engineering Society website. Home of year-round world AES conferences.
* [http://www.dspguru.com/info/books/favor.htm DSP Tutorials] this site provides another good introduction in to the area of DSP.
* [http://www.musicdsp.org/archive.php?classid=2 Music-DSP] source-code archive for analysis, filters, effects and synthesis. (C, C++, and Java code)
* [http://www.itakura.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/HRTF/ HRTF] A database of measurements and research papers on Head Related Transfer Functions for 3D-Audio. (PDF, Audio)
* [http://www.midi.org/about-midi/specshome.shtml MIDI Specifications] MIDI 1.0, the new MusicXMF specification, and SP-MIDI for third generation 3GPP mobile devices (PDF)
* [http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article2008.asp OpenAL] a beginners tutorial on writing code using OpenAL for audio programming in computer games and other applications. (C, C++).
* [http://www.alsa-project.org/ ALSA Project] (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) bringing audio and MIDI capabilities to Linux.
* [http://www.engmath.dal.ca/courses/engm6610/notes/notes.html A Really friendly guide to Wavelets] A good introduction to wavelets aimed towards engineer, requires a fair amount of background knowledge.

== Books/Research ==
* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3540231595/qid=1135380559/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/102-1730075-7300931?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 Psychoacoustics - Facts and Models] author's Zwicker, Fastl, and Hugo, revised 2005 third edition. The book for comprehensive psychoacoustics models and figures.
* [http://www.eas.asu.edu/~spanias/papers/paper-audio-tedspanias-00.pdf Perceptual Audio Coding] authors A. Painter and T. Spanias. A comprehensive paper on percepual audio coding (PDF)
* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0780334493/103-2094923-9567001?v=glance&n=283155&%5Fencoding=UTF8&me=ATVPDKIKX0DER&no=283155&st=books Speech Communications Human and Machine] this book provides a good introduction to speech coding, inlcuding anaylsis, recognition, and perception. This text is a very good introduction for beginners.
* [http://www.dspguide.com/ Scientist and Engineer's Guide to DSP] author Steve Smith, a great guide for beginners new to the subject of DSP (free online text)(PDF)
*[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0792391810/ref=ase_theinternetdatac/103-9882844-5344648?v=glance&s=books Vector Quantization] authors Gersho and Gray. Good read for understanding how VQ and arithmetic coding work.

= Audio Resources =
== Websites ==
''Note: Let's include a small description to the side for now, so that we have something to work with when this section becomes large enough for its own page''

* http://www.audiocoding.com (Page with a wiki on technical audio topics, homepage of FAAC and FAAD2, also has an AAC forum.)
* <s>ff123.net</s> (Lots of general information on various MP3 implementations, test samples, testing methodology information, homepage of ABC/HR)
* http://www.head-fi.org (general information/board about head phones and portable audio players)
* http://www.rarewares.org (Downloads for many audio and media tools)
* <s>rjamorim.com/rrw/</s> (Download old versions of foobar2000 and other audio and media tools)
* http://www.rockbox.org/ (Open-source jukebox firmware for numerous DAP and architectures, GNU/GPL License).
* http://www.dapreview.net/ (Reviews of some of the most popular digital audio players out there)
* http://www.anythingbutipod.com/ (Thorough reviews of some of the most popular digital audio players out there)

== Articles/Debates ==
* [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=31759&st=0 DVD-A vs. SACD debate]
* [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=38041&st=0 Subjective vs. Objective testing]
* [http://www.ambisonic.net/pdf/ambidvd2001.pdf 5.1 surround vs. Ambisonics comparison]

== Listening Tests ==
* <s>Roberto's listening tests</s>
* [[Listening_Tests|Inventory of several listening tests, mainly on HA.org]]

= Other Topics =
== Video ==
* [[MPEG-4 Visual]]
* [[Real Video]]
* [[Theora]]
* [[Tarkin]]
* [[Snow]]
* [[VP6]]
* [[Windows Media Video]]

== [[Container format]]s ==
* [[ASF]]
* [[AVI]]
* [[Matroska]]
* [[MOV]]
* [[MP4]]
* [[Ogg]]

= Glossary =
* [[Glossary_Of_Audio_Terms|Glossary of Audio Terms]]

= Introduction & User Guides =
''A starting place for new users to audio, with guides to compression and CD ripping and a glossary of all common terms.''

* [[Glossary Of Audio Terms]]
* [[FAQ]]
* [[Audio format guide]]
* Ripping Guides
** [[EAC]] (Win32)
** [[CDex]] (Win32)
** [[DBpowerAMP with AccurateRip]] (Win32)
** [[Plextools]] (Win32)
** [[Max]] (Mac OS/X)
** [[XLD]] (Mac OS/X)
** [[Rubyripper]] (Posix/Mac OS/X)
* [[Tagging]]
* [[ReplayGain]]



= Audio Codecs =
''Pros/cons, Recommended settings, Useful tools, etc.''

*'''[[:Category:Codecs|The Technical/Codecs Category]]'''


= Container Formats =
''What is a [[container format]]?''

* [[Matroska]]
* [[MP4]]
* [[Ogg]]


= Audio Hardware & CD Ripping =
*''CD Tools, Secure Ripping, Soundcard Quality''
** [[Secure ripping]]
** Ripping Guide
*** [[EAC]]
*** [[CDex]]
*** [[DBpowerAMP with AccurateRip]]
*** [[Plextools]]
** [[CD copy protection]]
** [[CD Hardware]]
* Vinyl records and turntables
** [[Introduction to Vinyl|Introduction]]
** [[Advantages of Vinyl]]
** [[Disadvantages of Vinyl]]
** [[Vinyl Myths]]
** [[Purchasing Vinyl LPs and Components|Purchasing]]
** Record Player Components
*** [[Turntable]]
*** [[Cartridge]]
*** [[Phono preamplifier]]
** [[Evaluating Vinyl Sound Quality]]
** [[Vinyl Playback and Recording|Playback and Recording]]
** [[Vinyl Maintenance|Maintenance]]
** [[Vinyl Forum Posts and FAQs|FAQs]]
** [[Vinyl Glossary|Glossary]]
** [[Vinyl Links|Links]]
** [[Vinyl Mastering|Mastering]]
* [[Soundcard|Soundcards]]
* [[Other hardware]]



= Tests =
* [[EAC Vs CDex SecureMode]] (by Pio2001)
* [[EAC Vs CDex SecureMode II]] (by westgroveg)
* [[Listening Tests]]


=Downloads=
''Where to obtain the software discussed in HAK.''

* [[Download page]]


= Using HAK =
* [[Help:Contents|Wiki User Guide]]
* Play around at the [[Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase:Sandbox|Sandbox]] to try your formatting skills. Everything goes here and everything can/may be deleted.
* Contributors should read [[Help:Editing|editing help]].

Topic Index

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* For a more structured 'table of contents', use the '''[[Main Page#Categories|Categories List]]'''.
* Please see [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=12979&st=25&p=247441&#entry247441 this thread] for a discussion of the future structure of this wiki. If you have thoughts, comments, suggestions, etc., please join in this discussion. In the meantime, please feel free to fill in gaps in the information below.
* See also [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=28658 the style related discussion thread] in the forums.

= General Information =
== General Guides ==
* [[Create a long-term archive]]
* [[Secure ripping|Secure Ripping]]
* [[Enabling DMA]]
* [[Choosing_the_best_codec.|Choosing the best codec]]
* [[Lossless_comparison|Lossless Comparison]]

== EAC Guides ==
* Configuring [[EAC Drive Configuration|EAC and CD-ROM Drives]]
* Configuring [[EAC and Lame]]
* Configuring [[EAC and AAC | EAC and Nero AAC]]
* Configuring [[EAC and Ogg Vorbis | EAC and Vorbis]]
* Configuring [[EAC and Musepack]]
* Configuring [[EAC and WavPack]]
* Configuring [[EAC and FLAC]]
* Configuring [[EAC and Monkey's Audio]]
* Configuring [[EAC and Cue Sheets]]
* Configuring EAC and [[REACT]]

== CDex Guides ==
* Configuring [[CDex Drive Configuration|CDex and CD-ROM Drives]]
* Configuring [[CDex and FLAC]]

== AAC Guides ==
* [[AAC_FAQ|AAC FAQ]] frequently asked questions in reguard to AAC the latest industry standard.
* [[AAC encoders|AAC Encoders]] known AAC encoder/decoder implementations and configuring them (Apple Itunes, Nero AAC, etc)
* [[Linux and Nero AAC]] a short guide for configuring Nero AAC encoder to run under Linux.

== Vorbis Guides ==
* [[Recommended_Ogg_Vorbis|Recommended encoders and settings for Vorbis]].
* [[Lancer|Ogg Vorbis Acceleration Project]] information reguarding optimized Vorbis binaries.
* [[OggDropXPd|OggDropXPd]] guide for encoding with John 33's popular drag-n-drop frontend.
* [[Compiling_aoTuV|Compiling AoTuV]] compiling the AoTuV binaries under Linux.

= Audio Codecs =
== [[Lossy]] ==
* [[Advanced Audio Coding]] (AAC)
* [[AC3]]
* [[ATRAC3]]
* [[DTS]]
* [[MP2]]
* [[MP3]]
* [[Musepack]] (MPC, MP+)
* (Ogg) [[Vorbis]]
* [[QDesign]]
* [[VQF]]
* [[Windows Media Audio]] (WMA)

== [[Lossless]] ==
* [[ALAC|Apple Lossless]]
* [[ALS|Audio Lossless Coding]]
* [[DTS-HD|DTS Master Audio]]
* [[Free Lossless Audio Codec]] (FLAC)
* [[Lossless Audio]] (LA)
* [[Lossless Predictive Audio Compression]] (LPAC)
* [[Monkey's Audio]]
* [[OptimFROG]]
* [[Lossless comparison#RealAudio Lossless|RealAudio Lossless]]
* [[Shorten]]
* [[TTA|True Audio]]
* [[WavPack]]
* [[Windows Media Audio|WMA Lossless]]

= [[Metadata]] (Tags) =
* [[APEv1]]
* [[APEv2]]
* [[ID3v1]]
* [[ID3v1.1]]
* [[ID3v2]]
* [[Vorbis Comment]]

= Media Extractors =
== CD Extractors ==
* [[Audiograbber]] (Win32)
* [[CDex]] (Win32)
* [[cdparanoia]] (Posix)
* [[dBpowerAMP with AccurateRip]] (Win32)
* [[Exact_Audio_Copy|Exact Audio Copy]] (Win32)
* [[Grip]] (Posix)
* [[iTunes]] (Win32/Mac OS/X)
* [[MediaMonkey]] (Win32)
* [[Max]] (Mac OS/X)
* [[XLD]] (Mac OS/X)
* [[PlexTools]] (Win32)
* [[Rubyripper]] (Posix/Mac OS/X)

== DVD Extractors ==
* [http://pessoal.onda.com.br/rjamorim/SetupDVDDecrypter_3.5.4.0.exe DVD Decrypter] (Win32)
* DVD-A / CPPM Decrypter (Win32/Posix)

= Media Players =
== Windows ==
* [[Apollo]]
* [[dBpowerAMP]]
* [[Foobar2000:Foobar2000|foobar2000]]
* [[iTunes]]
* [[MediaMonkey]]
* [[musikCube]]
* [[Quintessential Player]]
* [[VUplayer]]
* [[Winamp]]
* [[Windows Media Player]]
* [[wxMusik]]
* [[XMPlay]]
* [[WMPTSE]] (with WMP)

== Linux/BSD ==
* [[Amarok]]
* [[BMP]]
* [[JuK]]
* [[LAMIP]]
* [[Muine]]
* [[Music Player Daemon (MPD)]]
* [[Quod Libet]]
* [[Rhythmbox]]
* [[wxMusik]]
* [[XMMS]]

== Mac OS X (Non-BSD Specific) ==
* [[iTunes]]
* [[skiTunes]]
* [[Whamb]]

== Other ==
* [[CL-Amp]] (BeOS)

= Audio Editors =
== Windows ==
* [[Adobe Audition]] (previously known as ''Cool Edit'')
* [[Audacity]]
* [[Goldwave]]
* [http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/products/soundforgefamily.asp Sony Sound Forge] (Previously released by Sonic Foundry)

== Linux/BSD ==
* [[Ardour]]
* [[Audacity]]
* [[ReZound]]

== Mac OS X (Non-BSD Specific) ==
* [[Ardour]]
* [[Audacity]]

== Other ==
* [http://timidity.sourceforge.net/ Timidity++] (MIDI to PCM (WAV) converter) Timidity++ synthesizes MIDI files (sequences) in real-time using Gravis UltraSound Soundfont patches (loosly based upon Wavetable Synthesis) to common digital audio file formats such as, WAV, AU, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, etc. Useful for those who want to bypass FM Synthesizers on their sound card's to hear MIDI sequence as it was intended to be heard.)

= Testing Software =
== Subjective Perceptual ==
* [[ABC/HR]]
* [[PCABX]]

== Objective ==
''Note: Might be good to put something here about the problems of quality comparisons using graphs, frequency sweeps, etc.''

* [[EAQUAL]]
* [[Rightmark_Audio_Analyzer|Rightmark Audio Analyzer]]

= Audio Hardware =
== PC Audio ==
* [[Terratec EWX 24/96]]
* [[M-Audio Audiophile 24/96]]
* [[M-Audio Revolution 5.1]]
* [[M-Audio Revolution 7.1]]
* [[Chaintech AV-710]]
* [[E-MU 0404 24/192]]
* [[ASUS Xonar D1]]
* [[ASUS Xonar D2/PM]]

== Notebook Audio ==
* [[Echo Indigo IO 24/96]]

== Firewire ==
* [[E-MU 1212M 24/192]]
* [[M-Audio Firewire 410]]

== HiFi ==
* [[M-Audio Fast Track USB]]
* [[Slim Devices Squeezebox]]
* [[Slim Devices Transporter]]
* [[Hermstedt AG Hifidelio]]
* [[Olive Musica]]

== MIDI Interfaces ==
* M-Audio MIDISport Uno 1x1
* M-Audio MIDISport 2x2
* MOTU 5x5 Micro Lite
* MOTU Fastlane USB

== Digital Audio Players ==
=== Portable Flash ===
''(These players make use of a internal flash drive.)''
* [[Apple iPod]] Nano
* [[Apple iPod]] Shuffle
* Creative MuVo
* iRiver iFP Series
* MPIO lFP Series
* [[Rio Carbon]]

=== Portable HD ===
''(These players make use of a internal harddrive.)''
* [[Apple iPod]] with ''([http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/TargetStatus#iriver_H110_H115_H120_H140 Rockbox firmware])''
* [[Archos Jukebox with Rockbox Software]]
* [[Cowon iAudio]] with ''([http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/TargetStatus#iAudio_X5 Rockbox firmware])''
* [[iRiver H-Series]] with ''([http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/TargetStatus#iriver_H110_H115_H120_H140 Rockbox firmware])''
* [[MPIO H-Series]]
* [[Neuros]]
* [[Rio Karma]]
* [[Sandisk]] with ''([http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/TargetStatus#iAudio_X5 Rockbox firmware])''

=== Portable CD ===

=== Car Players ===
''(Car stereos that can read MP3, Vorbis, WMA, etc.).''
* [[Aiwa CDC-MP3]]
* [[Yakumo Ultrasound]]

===DVD Players===
* [[Neuston's Maestro DVX-1201]]

=== Firmware ===
* [[Rockbox]]

= Audio Theory =
== Analog Audio ==
* [[Tube Amplifiers]]
* [[Vinyl_Playback_and_Recording|Vinyl Audio]]

== Digital Audio ==
* [[Solid State Amplifiers]]
* [[ReplayGain]]

== Testing Methodology ==
* [[ABX]]
* [[EAQUAL]]

= Audio Development =
''note: Let's start with basic development tools (compilers, engineering tools, dev. libraries) until we think of more tools to add. I am also adding external links to books, tutorials, etc under resources.''

== Tools ==
* [http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/ MATLAB 7.0] commercial software for algorithmic design, developement, engineering, and scientific computing. (multi-platform support)
* [http://www.octave.org/ GNU Octave] open-source alternative software (GPL) to MATLAB for numerical computations, engineering, and scientific computing. (multi-platform support)
* [http://www.fftw.org/ FFTW] Is a C subroutine library for computing the Discrete Fourier transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions on real and complex inputs.
* [http://gcc.gnu.org/ GCC] THE GNU compiler collection for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada.
* [http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html GNU Emacs] an extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. Great for writing all types of source code especially on Unix. (multi-platform support)
* [http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html DevCPP] free front-end IDE and compiler for the C and C++ languages. Delphi and C source code available. (Win 9x, NT, 2000, and XP)

== Resources ==
* [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showforum=30 Scientific/R&D Forums] for Psychoacoustic, DSP, Electrical Engineering, theory, and coding related questions. (most questions are generally answered)
* [http://www.aes.org/ AES] The Audio Engineering Society website. Home of year-round world AES conferences.
* [http://www.dspguru.com/info/books/favor.htm DSP Tutorials] this site provides another good introduction in to the area of DSP.
* [http://www.musicdsp.org/archive.php?classid=2 Music-DSP] source-code archive for analysis, filters, effects and synthesis. (C, C++, and Java code)
* [http://www.itakura.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/HRTF/ HRTF] A database of measurements and research papers on Head Related Transfer Functions for 3D-Audio. (PDF, Audio)
* [http://www.midi.org/about-midi/specshome.shtml MIDI Specifications] MIDI 1.0, the new MusicXMF specification, and SP-MIDI for third generation 3GPP mobile devices (PDF)
* [http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article2008.asp OpenAL] a beginners tutorial on writing code using OpenAL for audio programming in computer games and other applications. (C, C++).
* [http://www.alsa-project.org/ ALSA Project] (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) bringing audio and MIDI capabilities to Linux.
* [http://www.engmath.dal.ca/courses/engm6610/notes/notes.html A Really friendly guide to Wavelets] A good introduction to wavelets aimed towards engineer, requires a fair amount of background knowledge.

== Books/Research ==
* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3540231595/qid=1135380559/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/102-1730075-7300931?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 Psychoacoustics - Facts and Models] author's Zwicker, Fastl, and Hugo, revised 2005 third edition. The book for comprehensive psychoacoustics models and figures.
* [http://www.eas.asu.edu/~spanias/papers/paper-audio-tedspanias-00.pdf Perceptual Audio Coding] authors A. Painter and T. Spanias. A comprehensive paper on percepual audio coding (PDF)
* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0780334493/103-2094923-9567001?v=glance&n=283155&%5Fencoding=UTF8&me=ATVPDKIKX0DER&no=283155&st=books Speech Communications Human and Machine] this book provides a good introduction to speech coding, inlcuding anaylsis, recognition, and perception. This text is a very good introduction for beginners.
* [http://www.dspguide.com/ Scientist and Engineer's Guide to DSP] author Steve Smith, a great guide for beginners new to the subject of DSP (free online text)(PDF)
*[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0792391810/ref=ase_theinternetdatac/103-9882844-5344648?v=glance&s=books Vector Quantization] authors Gersho and Gray. Good read for understanding how VQ and arithmetic coding work.

= Audio Resources =
== Websites ==
''Note: Let's include a small description to the side for now, so that we have something to work with when this section becomes large enough for its own page''

* http://www.audiocoding.com (Page with a wiki on technical audio topics, homepage of FAAC and FAAD2, also has an AAC forum.)
* http://www.ff123.net (Lots of general information on various MP3 implementations, test samples, testing methodology information, homepage of ABC/HR)
* http://www.head-fi.org (general information/board about head phones and portable audio players)
* http://www.rarewares.org (Downloads for many audio and media tools)
* http://www.rjamorim.com/rrw/ (Download old versions of foobar2000 and other audio and media tools)
* http://www.rockbox.org/ (Open-source jukebox firmware for numerous DAP and architectures, GNU/GPL License).
* http://www.dapreview.net/ (Reviews of some of the most popular digital audio players out there)
* http://www.anythingbutipod.com/ (Thorough reviews of some of the most popular digital audio players out there)

== Articles/Debates ==
* [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=31759&st=0 DVD-A vs. SACD debate]
* [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=38041&st=0 Subjective vs. Objective testing]
* [http://www.ambisonic.net/pdf/ambidvd2001.pdf 5.1 surround vs. Ambisonics comparison]

== Listening Tests ==
* <s>Roberto's listening tests</s>
* [[Listening_Tests|Inventory of several listening tests, mainly on HA.org]]

= Other Topics =
== Video ==
* [[MPEG-4 Visual]]
* [[Real Video]]
* [[Theora]]
* [[Tarkin]]
* [[Snow]]
* [[VP6]]
* [[Windows Media Video]]

== [[Container format]]s ==
* [[ASF]]
* [[AVI]]
* [[Matroska]]
* [[MOV]]
* [[MP4]]
* [[Ogg]]

= Glossary =
* [[Glossary_Of_Audio_Terms|Glossary of Audio Terms]]

= Introduction & User Guides =
''A starting place for new users to audio, with guides to compression and CD ripping and a glossary of all common terms.''

* [[Glossary Of Audio Terms]]
* [[FAQ]]
* [[Audio format guide]]
* Ripping Guides
** [[EAC]] (Win32)
** [[CDex]] (Win32)
** [[DBpowerAMP with AccurateRip]] (Win32)
** [[Plextools]] (Win32)
** [[Max]] (Mac OS/X)
** [[XLD]] (Mac OS/X)
** [[Rubyripper]] (Posix/Mac OS/X)
* [[Tagging]]
* [[ReplayGain]]



= Audio Codecs =
''Pros/cons, Recommended settings, Useful tools, etc.''

*'''[[:Category:Codecs|The Technical/Codecs Category]]'''


= Container Formats =
''What is a [[container format]]?''

* [[Matroska]]
* [[MP4]]
* [[Ogg]]


= Audio Hardware & CD Ripping =
*''CD Tools, Secure Ripping, Soundcard Quality''
** [[Secure ripping]]
** Ripping Guide
*** [[EAC]]
*** [[CDex]]
*** [[DBpowerAMP with AccurateRip]]
*** [[Plextools]]
** [[CD copy protection]]
** [[CD Hardware]]
* Vinyl records and turntables
** [[Introduction to Vinyl|Introduction]]
** [[Advantages of Vinyl]]
** [[Disadvantages of Vinyl]]
** [[Vinyl Myths]]
** [[Purchasing Vinyl LPs and Components|Purchasing]]
** Record Player Components
*** [[Turntable]]
*** [[Cartridge]]
*** [[Phono preamplifier]]
** [[Evaluating Vinyl Sound Quality]]
** [[Vinyl Playback and Recording|Playback and Recording]]
** [[Vinyl Maintenance|Maintenance]]
** [[Vinyl Forum Posts and FAQs|FAQs]]
** [[Vinyl Glossary|Glossary]]
** [[Vinyl Links|Links]]
** [[Vinyl Mastering|Mastering]]
* [[Soundcard|Soundcards]]
* [[Other hardware]]



= Tests =
* [[EAC Vs CDex SecureMode]] (by Pio2001)
* [[EAC Vs CDex SecureMode II]] (by westgroveg)
* [[Listening Tests]]


=Downloads=
''Where to obtain the software discussed in HAK.''

* [[Download page]]


= Using HAK =
* [[Help:Contents|Wiki User Guide]]
* Play around at the [[Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase:Sandbox|Sandbox]] to try your formatting skills. Everything goes here and everything can/may be deleted.
* Contributors should read [[Help:Editing|editing help]].

Music Player Daemon

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'''Music Player Daemon''' ('''MPD''') is an open-source music playback and playlist handling daemon. It can be controlled via local clients or remotely.

== Supported formats ==
* [[MP3]], (Ogg) [[Vorbis]], [[Free Lossless Audio Codec|FLAC]], [[Advanced Audio Coding|AAC]], [[MOD]], [[RIFF WAVE|WAV]] and [[Musepack]]

== Features ==
* [[Tags]]
* [[ReplayGain]]
* Gapless playback

== Supported languages ==
* English.

== Supported platforms ==
* Linux/BSD

== External links ==
* [http://musicpd.org/ Homepage]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/musicpd/ Download]

[[Category:Media Players]]

WMP Tag Support Extender

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{{Software Infobox
| name = Windows Media Player Tag Support Extender
| logo =
| screenshot = [http://wmptagext.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html Screenshot]
| caption = WMP plug-in extending tag capabilities
| maintainer = MaB_fr
| stable_release = 1.4
| preview_release = none
| operating_system = Windows
| use = WMP plug-in
| license = Public domain + source
| website = [http://wmptagext.sourceforge.net/ wmptagext.sourceforge.net]
}}

'''Windows Media Player Tag Support Extender''' (WMPTSE) is a plug-in to [[Windows Media Player]] to allow more [[tags]] support than the default [[WMA]] + [[ID3]] within the player.

It supports version 9.x, 10.x and 11.0 of [[Windows Media Player]].

The current version (1.3) supports [[Vorbis comment]], [[APEv2]] and [[FLAC]] and [[MPEG4]].

== Supported Tag Formats ==
* [[FLAC]]
* [[APE]]
* [[Vorbis comment]] - READ-ONLY
* [[MPEG4]] - READ-ONLY

Additional tagging formats may be supported through a plug-in API (known as [[WMPTSE API]])

== Supported Filetypes ==
* [[FLAC]] - Free Lossless Audio Codec(*.flac)
* [[APE]] - Monkey's Audio (*.ape)
* [[MPC]] - MusePack (*.mpc)
* [[WavPack]] (*.wv)
* [[OptimFROG]] (*.ofr)
* [[Ogg Vorbis]] - Ogg files (*.ogg) - READ-ONLY
* [[AAC]] - Advanced Audio Coding (*.aac) - READ-ONLY
* [[M4A]],[[MP4]] - MPEG4 Audio (*.m4a) - READ-ONLY

== Extensibility ==
WMPTSE provide options to add tagging based on file extension.

It allows tagging in files who usually don't support it, such as exotic (but useful) tagging of [[AC3]], [[DTS]] and [[LPCM]] files, or less useful like .txt, JPEG file tagging and more.

Tag support is pluggable. Each "tag support dll" responds to the [[WMPTSE API]].

== Guide & Howtos ==
* [[WMPTSE - How to change the plug-in properties]]
* [[WMPTSE - How to add support for a filetype]]
* [[WMPTSE - How to add support for a tag format]]

== Price ==
The sofware is free.

== External links ==
* [http://wmptagext.sourceforge.net/ WMPTSE homepage]
* [http://wmptagext.sourceforge.net/download.html WMPTSE download page]
* [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?s=e03ece01d79f55a3f390268762345f0f&showtopic=38400&st=275 HydrogenAudio thread]

[[Category:Software]]
[[Category:Media Players]]

Whamb

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{{Infobox Software
| name = Whamb
| screenshot =
| caption = Cocoa based media player for Mac OS/X
| maintainer = Stéphane Thiell
| stable_release = 1.0
| preview_release = 1.1.1
| operating_system = Mac OS/X
| use = Media Player
| license = Free
| website =
}}

=Introduction=
'''Whamb''' is an cocoa based audio player for Mac OS X. Freeware/donationware.

==Features==
* Easy of use, and a look and feel
* Hierarchical playlists (Finder-like) with sync option (to keep your playlist up-to-date)
* Very high audio quality and fidelity output
* Player's window fully skinnable (several skins provided)
* Fast: Whamb uses less CPU time than any other media player
* Easy playlists and songs sharing using Apple's Rendezvous technology!
* IPv6 supported (for streaming)
* Reliable: real-time decoding option

== Supported formats ==

* MP3, Ogg Vorbis (with Icecast streaming)
* Audio CD

== Supported languages ==

* English
* French

== Supported platforms ==

* Mac OS X (10.2 "Jaguar" or higher)

[[Category:Media Players]]

Hydrogenaudio Listening Tests

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One of the most visible ways that HydrogenAudio members have shown their enthusiasm for audio quality and their respect for [[TOS 8|scientific principles]] over the years is by organizing and participating in public blind listening tests of lossy codecs and presenting statistical analyses of the results. These results show the advantages and disadvantages of different formats and encoders and help identify which are "state of the art."

[[Private Listening Tests|Private listening tests]] also provide useful data, but the public HydrogenAudio tests are a rarity in having enough participants to both average out variations among individual listeners and still have statistically significant results.

Note that a listening test cannot really compare formats or encoder "brands." Instead, it compares particular versions of particular encoders at particular bitrates. Results will differ with different encoders, newer versions of the same encoders, or different bitrates. Use caution when extrapolating, and use the most recent results when extrapolating to the newest encoder versions.

'''Note:''' There would be no point in listening tests of [[lossless]] encoders; the decoded results are bit-identical to the original uncompressed recordings. [[Lossless comparison|Lossless encoder comparisons]] instead consider technical aspects such as compression ratio and encode/decode speed.

All tests are sorted by date, newest first. All dates are in [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html ISO8601 format].

=Multiformat Tests=

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="text-align:center;"
|- style="background:#aaffff"
! Date !! Title Samples !! Performed by !! Codecs !! Links
|-
| 2011-04-10
| 64-kbps General
| igorc
| [[Vorbis]] [[aoTuV]], Quicktime HE-[[AAC]], [[Opus]]
| [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=87785 HA Thread] [http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/igorc/results.html Complete Result]
|-
| 2007-08-16
| 64-kbps General
| Sebastian Mares
| [[Vorbis]] [[aoTuV]], Nero [[AAC]], [[WMA]] Pro
| [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=56397 HA Thread] [http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/sebastian/mf-64-1/results.htm Complete Result]
|-
| 2006-11-22
| 48-kbps General
| Sebastian Mares
| [[Vorbis]] [[aoTuV]], Nero [[AAC]], [[WMA]] Pro, [[WMA]] Standard
| [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=50408 HA Thread] [http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/sebastian/mf-48-1/results.htm Complete Result]
|-
| 2006-01-13
| 128-kbps General
| Sebastian Mares
| iTunes & Nero [[AAC]], [[LAME]] [[MP3]], [[Vorbis]] [[aoTuV]], [[WMA]] Pro
| [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=40607&view=findpost&p=357117 HA Thread] [http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/sebastian/mf-128-1/results.htm Complete Result]
|}

=Single-format Tests=

==[[AAC]]==

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="text-align:center;"
|- style="background:#ffaaaa"
! Date !! Title Samples !! Performed by !! Codecs !! Links
|-
| 2011-08-20
| 96-kbps General
| igorc
| CT, Fraunhofer IIS, Nero, QuickTime TVBR & CVBR
| [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=89765 HA Thread] [http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/igorc/aac-96-a/results.html Complete result]
|-
| 2006-02-20
| 48-kbps HE-AAC General
| Gabriel
| 3gpp (v1), CT (v1 & v2), Nero (v1 & v2)
| [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=42679&hl= HA Thread] [http://www.mp3-tech.org/tests/aac_48/results.html Complete Result]
|-
| 2006-02-05
| 48-kbps HE-AAC Classical
| Ivan Dimkovic
| Nero HE-AAC v1 & v2
| [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=41191&hl= HA Thread]
|}

==[[MP3]]==

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="text-align:center;"
|- style="background:#aaffaa"
! Date !! Title Samples !! Performed by !! Codecs !! Links
|-
| 2008-10-17
| 130-kbps General
| Sebastian Mares
| [[LAME]] 3.97, [[LAME]] 3.98.2, [[iTunes]], [[FhG]], [[Helix]]
| [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=66564 HA Thread] [http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/sebastian/mp3-128-1/results.htm Complete Result]
|}

=External Tests=
Other people have held listening tests in venues outside of Hydrogenaudio (although the organizers of the tests tend to be HA members :). The results of these tests are found below:

* <s> ff123's site on audio testing and listening tests</s> (most recent test 2002-07-27)
* <s> Roberto's Public Listening Tests</s> (most recent test 2004-07-11)
* [http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/sebastian/ Sebastian Mares' Listening Tests] (most recent test updated 2008-11-22)
* [http://www.soundexpert.info/ SoundExpert Listening Tests] (continually updated)

[[Category:Listening Tests]]

ATRAC

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ATRAC (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding) is a proprietary audio compression technology developed by Sony for usage in their MiniDisc line of digital audio players. It actually relates to three different audio compression technologies related among themselves, but with incompatibilities. It uses quadrature mirror filters and modified discrete cosine transform to represent encoded audio.

ATRAC (also called ATRAC1) was developed in 1991, and used in the first MiniDisc players in the early nineties. It used bitrates of 292kbps for stereo audio and 146 for mono. Several subversions were released, from 1 to 4.5, and all of them are backwards and forwards compatible. It's reported that it only started sounding good after version 3.

ATRAC3 was released by Sony in 2000. It offers much better performance than ATRAC1, with reasonable quality at 132kbps. It's not backwards compatible with ATRAC1.

ATRAC3 was used as default audio codec for mid-high bitrates in Real Audio 8. Since Real Audio 10, the default codec is [[AAC]]. It is also being used at Sony's [http://musicstore.connect.com/ Connect] music store.

In 2003, Sony released ATRAC3plus, the third backwards-incompatible revision of their codec. They promise to deliver transparency at 48kbps with this new codec (of course, that's an absurd claim).

==Links==

*[http://www.sony.net/Products/ATRAC3/ ATRAC3] official website at Sony.net
*[http://www.minidisc.org/ Minidisc.org] - Resources and forums about MiniDisc and ATRAC
*<s> rjamorim conduced a listening test</s> featuring ATRAC3 at 132kbps.

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Musepack

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= Introduction =
'''Musepack''' is a lossy audio compression scheme created by Andree Buschmann. He started work on the codec in 1998 (then called MP+) because he was unsatisfied with the audio quality of MP3 codecs at the time. It is strongly based on the [[MPEG-1]] Layer-2 ([[MP2]]) algorithms, with 32 subbands of the same bandwidth, but with several significant improvements. Musepack is optimized for "transparency". The format doesn't compete well at lower, 'streaming' bitrates such as 32/48/64kbps. This is due to MPC being a [[subband]] [[codec]] as well as the fact that very little optimization has gone into such low [[bitrate]]s. However, as can be seen in various 128kbit/s listening tests (see below), despite the fact that MPC has been optimized little for such bitrates it is in the same class of other modern competitors such as [[AAC]] and (Ogg) [[Vorbis]].

== Pros ==
* Suffers from different "problem cases" than most other formats (less pre-echo)
* Very fast encoding/decoding
* Designed to be very good by default at --standard setting.
* Open source
* Portable playback by Pocket-PCs, Palm OS-based and Windows CE/Windows Mobile-based devices, even Smartphones, see <s>http://tcpmp.corecodec.org</s>
* Portable playback on digital audio players with Rockbox support, see http://www.rockbox.org
* Support & development forum at http://www.Musepack.net

== Cons ==
* Marginal support (yet) on portable players
* No support for [[sampling rate]]s above 48khz

= Technical details =
== Supported input formats ==
* channels: 1 to 8
* bit depths: 1 to 32 bit linear [[PCM]]
* sample rates: 32kHz, 37.8kHz, 44.1kHz, 48kHz (44.1 and 48 are highly tuned)
* [[WAV]], raw [[PCM]], a lot of [[lossless]] compressed audio formats like [[FLAC]], [[LPAC]], [[Monkey's_Audio|APE]], [[OptimFROG]], [[SZIP]] and Shorten ([[SHN]])

== Encoder Functions ==
[[MPC Encoder Functions]]

= Links =
== User oriented links ==
* [http://musepack.net Musepack.net] - a general info, news and software site.
* [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=1927 Users' HowTo MPC guide at HydrogenAudio]
* [http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=EAC_and_Musepack#Software_Needed EAC and Musepack]

== Technical links ==
* [http://trac.musepack.net/wiki Specifications]
* [http://svn.musepack.net/ Source code]

== Listening test involving MPC ==
* [[Listening Tests]] page
* <s> ff123's 128kbit/s group listening test</s>
* <s> ff123's second 128kbit/s group listening test</s>
* <s> rjamorim's 128kbit/s test</s>

Please note that some of these tests, while valid, used encoder versions which have now been superseded. You should make your own decision about the comparative quality of MPC, listening to clips of music in the style you prefer.

Also note that these are tests at low bitrates; an area where MPC is not particularly optimized. The encoder was designed by the author to be very good at the --standard setting, thus little to no low [[bitrate]] tuning has gone into the [[codec]], opposite to that of [[AAC]], (Ogg) [[Vorbis]], [[WMA]] and others which focus more on this region. However, as can be seen in the various listening test pages, MPC competes surprisingly well with the rest of them.

[[Category: Codecs]]
[[Category: Lossy]]
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VQF

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TwinVQ is an audio encoding technology developed at NTT (Nippon Telephone and Telegraph). It uses an unique technology called Vector Quantization (VQ) for encoding.

The format using the TwinVQ technology is called VQF. There are several limitations in this format: 2 channels at most, no VBR, extremely slow, few support. It can pretty safely be considered dead these days.

TwinVQ, on the other hand, is still alive as part of the MPEG4 audio standard, being featured at extremely small bitrates (8-16kbps).

At some point during late nineties, Yamaha bought the VQF technology from NTT and created their own encoder, SoundVQ.

It has features like batch encoding and recording from line-in. Quality in high quality mode is reasonable, but encoding is extremely slow. Also, it only works for 90 days then expires.

Yamaha discontinued offering their SoundVQ software line after the obvious failure of the format in becoming popular.

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Free Lossless Audio Codec

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{{Codec Infobox
| name = FLAC
| logo = [[Image:FLAC logo.gif]]
| type = lossless
| purpose = Popular open source patent free lossless compression scheme.
| maintainer = Josh Coalson, Xiph Community
| recommended_encoder = FLAC encoder
| recommended_text = FLAC v1.2.1
| website = http://flac.sourceforge.net/
}}
'''Free Lossless Audio Codec''' ('''FLAC''') is a codec for lossless audiocompression.
Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to [[MP3]], but [[lossless]], meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio, and you can play back compressed FLAC files in your favorite player (or your car or home stereo, if supported) just like you would an MP3 file.

== General aspects of the format ==
FLAC is freely available and supported on most operating systems, including Windows, UNIX (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, OS X, IRIX), BeOS, OS/2, and Amiga. There are build systems for autotools, MSVC, Watcom C, and Project Builder.

The FLAC project consists of:
* the stream format
* reference encoders and decoders in library form
* flac, a command-line program to encode and decode FLAC files
* metaflac, a command-line metadata editor for FLAC files
* input plugins for various music players

When it's said that FLAC is ''free'', it means more than just that it is available at no cost. It means that the specification of the format is fully open to the public to be used for any purpose, although the FLAC project reserves the right to set the FLAC specification and certify compliance. It also means that neither the FLAC format nor any of the implemented encoding/decoding methods are covered by any known patent. And it means that all the source code is available under open-source licenses. It is the first truly open and free lossless audio format.

Some claim FLAC is the most widely used lossless compression format on UNIX systems, though it seems more likely that shn retains that honor on all OS platforms. FLAC files also can be placed inside an Ogg container using libOggFLAC and libOggFLAC++.

== Features ==
* '''Lossless:''' The encoding of audio (PCM) data incurs no loss of information, and the decoded audio is bit-for-bit identical to what went into the encoder. Each frame contains a 16-bit CRC of the frame data for detecting transmission errors. The integrity of the audio data is further insured by storing an MD5 signature of the original unencoded audio data in the file header, which can be compared against later during decoding or testing.
* '''Fast:''' FLAC is asymmetric in favor of decode speed. Decoding requires only integer arithmetic, and is much less compute-intensive than for most perceptual codecs. Real-time decode performance is easily achievable on even modest hardware.
* '''Hardware support:''' Because of FLAC's free reference implementation and low decoding complexity, FLAC is currently the only lossless codec that has any kind of hardware support.
* '''Streamable:''' Each FLAC frame contains enough data to decode that frame. FLAC does not even rely on previous or following frames. FLAC uses sync codes and CRCs (similar to MPEG and other formats), which, along with framing, allow decoders to pick up in the middle of a stream with a minimum of delay.
* '''Seekable:''' FLAC supports fast sample-accurate seeking. Not only is this useful for playback, it makes FLAC files suitable for use in editing applications.
* '''Flexible metadata:''' New metadata blocks can be defined and implemented in future versions of FLAC without breaking older streams or decoders. Currently there are metadata types for tags, cue sheets, and seek tables. Applications can write their own APPLICATION metadata once they register an ID.
* '''Suitable for archiving:''' FLAC is an open format, and there is no generation loss if you need to convert your data to another format in the future. In addition to the frame CRCs and MD5 signature, flac has a verify option that decodes the encoded stream in parallel with the encoding process and compares the result to the original, aborting with an error if there is a mismatch.
* '''Convenient CD archiving:''' FLAC has a ''cue sheet'' metadata block for storing a CD table of contents and all track and index points. For instance, you can rip a CD to a single file, then import the CD's extracted cue sheet while encoding to yield a single file representation of the entire CD. If your original CD is damaged, the cue sheet can be exported later in order to burn an exact copy.
* '''Error resistant:''' Because of FLAC's framing, stream errors limit the damage to the frame in which the error occurred, typically a small fraction of a second worth of data. Contrast this with some other lossless codecs, in which a single error destroys the remainder of the stream.

== Pros ==
* Portable to many systems
* Source open and freely licenced
* Hardware support (PhatBox, Kenwood MusicKeg, Rio Karma, etc. See below)
* Streaming support
* Extremely fast decoding
* Supports multichannel and high resolution streams
* Supports [[ReplayGain]]
* Supports cue-sheet (with some limitations)
* Gaining wide use as successor to [[Shorten]]

== Cons ==
* Compresses less efficiently than other popular modern compressors ([[Monkey's Audio]], [[OptimFROG]])
* Higher compression modes slow, for little gain over the default setting.

== Hardware and software that support FLAC ==
For a more comprehensive list see the [http://flac.sourceforge.net/links.html FLAC links page].

=== Hardware ===
==== Home stereo ====
* Olive's [http://www.olive.us/ Symphony] wireless digital music center
* [http://www.numark.com/ Numark]'s DJ equipment (HDX and CDX turntables, HDMIX mixer)
* [http://www.sonos.com/ Sonos Digital Music System]
* Slim Devices' [http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_squeezebox.html Squeezebox] networked audio players

==== Portable ====
* [[Apple iPod]] with [[Rockbox]] firmware
* [[iAudio M3]], M5 and X5
* [[iRiver]] iHP-120/iHP-140 with [[Rockbox]] firmware
* [[Iwod G10]]
* [[Rio Karma]]
* TrekStor's [http://www.trekstor.de/en/products/detail_mp3.php?pid=66 Vibez]
* Devices running Android 3.1+

=== Software ===
==== Players ====
* [[foobar2000]]
* [[JRiver Media Center]]
* [[MediaMonkey]]
* [http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ MPlayer]
* [http://www.mythtv.org/ MythTV]
* [http://www.videolan.org/ VLC]
* [http://www.vuplayer.com/vuplayer.htm VUPlayer]
* [[Winamp]]
* [[XMMS]]
* [http://www.un4seen.com/ XMplay]

==== Frontends (Windows) ====
* Custom [http://members.home.nl/w.speek/flac.htm Windows Frontend] (by Speek)
* [http://home.vxu.se/mdati00/frontah/ Frontah] by Madah

==== Frontends (Mac) ====
* [http://www.sbooth.org/Max/ Max]

==== Converters ====
* [http://www.dbpoweramp.com/ dBpowerAMP] Music Converter / Audio Player / CD Writer
* [http://www.mediamonkey.com/ MediaMonkey] Music Manager / Audio Player / CD Writer

==== Editors ====
* [[Adobe Audition]]
* [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave]

==== CD writers/rippers ====
* [http://www.nero.com/eng/ Nero]
* [http://arson.sourceforge.net/ Arson]
* [http://www.burrrn.net Burrrn] Audio CD burner
* [[Exact Audio Copy]] CD Ripper
* [http://cdexos.sourceforge.net CDex] CD ripper
* [http://www.cdwave.com/ CD Wave]
* [http://cdburnerxp.se/ CDburner XP] CD writer
* [http://www.mediamonkey.com/ MediaMonkey] - CD ripper/writer

==== Taggers ====
* [http://members.home.nl/w.speek/download/Tag.zip Case's Tag] command line tagger
* [http://www.jtclipper.eu/thegodfather/ The GodFather] Tagger / Music manager
* [http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html Mp3tag] Universal Tag Editor
* [http://sbooth.org/Tag/ Tag] — for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
* [http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html#metaflac metaflac] - for general metadata (including Vorbis comments) maintenance
* [http://www.mediamonkey.com MediaMonkey] - [[MediaMonkey]] Tagger / Music manager (Including Multiple and Linked Album Art support)

==== Other tools ====
* [http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/ mkvtoolnix] - tool to multiplex FLAC streams inside the Matroska container
* [http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html#metaflac metaflac] - for general metadata (including Vorbis comments) maintenance, also to calculate [[ReplayGain]] values for FLAC files lacking such

...and many more; see the [http://flac.sourceforge.net/links.html#software FLAC software section] and [http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html#extras download section] for a more comprehensive list.

== Frequently asked questions ==
''Question:'' Does the compression level affect decompression speed?

''Short Answer'': No.

''Long Answer'': In truth, the compression level does affect the decompression speed, but the difference between the various compress levels can barely be measured and is too small to be noticed, even on low-end machines.

''Question:'' What is the best compression level for encoding my music?

''Short Answer'': The default setting, 5.

''Long Answer'': Encoding at the default setting will give the best balance between compression and encoding speed. Encoding at 8 can more than quadruple the encoding time, while having an insignificant effect on compression.

== See also ==
* [[Lossless]]
* [[Lossless comparison]]

== Externals links ==
* [http://flac.sourceforge.net/ FLAC website]
* [http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html FLAC download]
* [http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html Detailed description of the FLAC format]
* [http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html FLAC documentation]
* [http://flac.sourceforge.net/faq.html FLAC FAQ]
* <s> Omion's FLAC "File Size vs. Decoding Speed" test</s> - a very thorough test on [[Free Lossless Audio Codec#Frequently Asked Questions|the influence of the chosen encoding level on the decoding speed of FLAC]]; the only one so far to have covered FLAC's --super-secret-totally-impractical-compression-level to this extent as well.

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[[Category:Encoder/Decoder]]

Lossless

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Compression is '''lossless''' when decoding the compressed data gives a result which is identical bit-by-bit to the uncompressed original.

Generic file compression formats, like ZIP or RAR, are lossless. However, trying to compress raw audio with those generally results in files which are only slightly- if at all- smaller than the originals. Lossless audio formats take advantage of knowledge about real-world audio data to provide compression ratios averaging around 50% on most music.

[[Lossy]] encoders only attempt to approximate the sound of the original waveform rather than preserving all the information present in it. Losslessly compressed audio will therefore unavoidably be larger than audio compressed with any reasonable [[lossy]] encoder. However, this disadvantage is offset by lossless files' ability to be [[transcoding|transcoded]] to other lossless formats without any quality degradation.

== Popular lossless formats ==
* [[Apple Lossless]] ([[ALAC]])
* [[Free Lossless Audio Codec]] (FLAC)
* [[Lossless Audio]] (LA)
* [[Lossless Predictive Audio Compression]] (LPAC)
* [[Meridian Lossless Packing]] (MLP)
* [[Monkey's Audio]] (APE)
* [[OptimFROG]]
* [[RK Audio]] (RKAU)
* [[Shorten]] (SHN)
* [[TAK]]
* [[TTA]]
* [[WavPack]]
* [[Windows Media Audio|WMA lossless]]

== Oddball Formats ==
There are several old lossless formats that aren't really deserving of having an article all for themselves. Reasons are: lack of widespread support, lack of features, bad efficiency and, most importantly, it seems noone is really interested in them.

Most of those would have disappeared by now, but they are being preserved for posterity at [[User:Rjamorim|rjamorim]]'s

Advanced Digital Audio (ADA)

Marian's a-Pac

AudioZip

Dakx WAV

Entis Lab MIO

LiteWave

Pegasus SPS

RKaudio

Split2000

Sonarc

VocPack

WavArc

WaveZip/MUSICompress

Note that currently '''no single format can be considered best for all applications'''. Rather, the best format depends on the ''intended use'', as well as a number of other factors (such as licensing and file structure). For example, Shorten and FLAC are widely used for sharing live music because of their cross-platform support and speed. Monkey's Audio is popular among Windows users for its superior compression ratio.

== Comparisons ==
''Note the specific assumptions and limitations of each comparison; in particular, results are sensitive to the music selected'''

; [[Lossless comparison]] : A comparision focusing more on codec features and less on absolute encoding efficiency. Also features a table comparing most popular codecs based on their features.

; http://members.home.nl/w.speek/comparison.htm : Performance Comparison of Lossless Audio Compressors - Compares file size, encode speed, decode speed for [[APE]], [[FLAC]], [[LPAC]], [[WavPack]], Shorten ([[SHN]]), [[RKAU]], [[OptimFROG]], [[LA]], [[WMA | WMA Lossless]]. Updated 5-2003

; http://www.bobulous.org.uk/misc/lossless_audio_2006.html : Lossless audio formats - A comparison of the rip-and-encode speed and album file size of six different lossless formats: [[WAV|uncompressed Wave]], [[FLAC]], [[WavPack]], [[SHN|Shorten]], [[APE|Monkey's Audio]], and [[OptimFROG]]. First published on 22nd May 2006.

[[Category:Codecs]]

Monkey's Audio

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=Introduction=
Monkey's Audio (APE) is a free [[lossless]] audio compression format with a highly competitive compression algorithm, and is used primarily by Windows users. Although software is available for Linux, Monkey's Audio is not as popular among this operating system's users. Monkey's Audio suffers from slow decompression speeds as compared to other lossless audio codecs.

Monkey's Audio uses a combination of traditional lossless compression tactics ([[linear prediction]] and [[channel coupling]]) and a simple [[Neural network]]. To store the output values of its prediction step it uses [[Range coding]], modified to work well with more or less continuous values.

Monkey's Audio's main competitor is [[FLAC]], which has more features than Monkey's Audio (streaming support, for example) and hardware support to its advantage, though its efficiency in compression is not as great.

Monkey's Audio is released under a "custom" license that allows you to do pretty much anything with the source code, on the provision that you ask the author for permission.

==Related Articles==
* [[Lossless_comparison|Lossless Codec Comparison]] by Rjamorim
* [[EAC_and_Monkeys_Audio | Configuring EAC and Monkey's Audio]]

==External links==
* [http://www.monkeysaudio.com/ Monkey's Audio: Homepage]
* [http://www.bebits.com/app/3318 Monkey's Audio Package] for BeOS

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RK Audio

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'''RK Audio''' ('''RKAU''') is a [[lossless]] (and [[lossy]]) audio compressor. It was developed by Mark Taylor together with RK (a general purpose data compressor) and RKim (a lossless image compressor).

At some point, some years ago, it featured the best compression levels among the lossless audio encoders. But then development halted and competitors like [[Monkey's Audio]], [[OptimFROG]] and [[Lossless Audio]] caught on.

It was closed source. Added to that, it was very slow on decoding and had few features. So, it never became a really popular format.

Recently, RKsoft was revived by Mark Taylor, now with the name MSoftware, so there is hope RKAU development will start again.

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TTA

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'''TTA''' (True Audio) audio codec is a free, simple real-time [[lossless]] audio encoder/decoder, based on adaptive prognostic filters which has shown satisfactory results comparing to majority of modern analogs.

==TTA Compressor==

* Down to 30-60% [[lossless]] audio data compression
* Real-time encoding/decoding algorithm
* Fast decoding and encoding
* Multiplatform
* Open source code and documentation
* Hardware support

TTA performs [[lossless]] compression on multichannel 8, 16 and 24 bit data of the [[WAV]] audio files. Being "lossless" means that no data/quality is lost in the compression - when uncompressed, the data will be identical to the original. The compression ratios of TTA depend on the type of music file being compressed, but the compression size will generally range between 30% - 70% of the original. TTA format supports both [[ID3]]v1 and [[ID3]]v2 information tags.

==The Project==

The TTA project provides:

* Free and simple data format
* Plugins for the most popular media players
* TTA DirectShow filters
* Tau Producer - GUI based compressor for Windows
* Set of the C/C++ TTA development libraries

==Addtional Reading==
* [http://www.true-audio.com True Audio Software Project]
* [[Lossless_comparison|Lossless Codec Comparison]]

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WavPack

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'''WavPack''' is a free, open source [[lossless]] audio compression format developed by David Bryant.

== Description ==
WavPack (pronounced "wave-pack") allows users to compress (and restore) all [[PCM]] audio formats including 8, 16, and 24-bit ints; 32-bit floats; [[mono]], [[stereo]], and [[multichannel]]; [[sampling rate]]s from 6 to 192 kHz. Like other lossless compression schemes the data reduction varies with the source, but it is generally between 25 % and 50 % for typical popular music and somewhat better than that for classical music and other sources with greater dynamic range.

WavPack also incorporates a unique "hybrid" mode that provides all the advantages of lossless compression with an additional bonus. Instead of creating a single file, this mode creates both a relatively small, high-quality lossy file that can be used all by itself, and a "correction" file that (when combined with the lossy file) provides full lossless restoration. For some users this means never having to choose between lossless and lossy compression!

== Feature Summary ==
* Fast and efficient encoding and decoding
* [[Open source]], released under a BSDish license
* Multiplatform
* Hardware support
* Error robustness
* Streaming support
* Supports multichannel audio and high resolutions
* Hybrid/lossy mode
* Tagging support ([[ID3v1]], [[APE]])
* Supports [[RIFF]] chunks
* Supports embedded CUE sheets
* Includes MD5 hashes for quick integrity checking
* Ability to create self extracting files for Win32 platform
* [[ReplayGain]] compatible

== History ==
David Bryant started development on WavPack in mid-1998, with the release of version 1.0. This first version compressed and decompressed audio losslessly, nothing else, but by then it already featured one of the best efficiency versus speed ratio among lossless encoders.

Very soon after the release of version 1.0, Bryant released v. 2.0, which featured lossy encoding (using only quantization for data reduction – no psychoacoustic process was applied to the stream).

In 1999, the developer released version 3.0, which featured novelties such as a fast mode (with reduced compression ratio), compression of RAW files and error detection using CRC checksums.

WavPack development is still going on, and a major feature added in late 3.x versions is the hybrid mode, where the encoder generates a lossy file + a correction file, so that both can be decompressed back to the original PCM stream.

WavPack 4 has been recently released. It included important changes, such as fast seeking, multichannel support, high resolution audio support, etc. turning it into one of the most full featured and modern lossless audio compressors.

== Software support ==
=== Players ===
* NullSoft [[Winamp]] (plugin with ReplayGain & Media Library support) and Winamp-compatible players
* [[foobar2000]] Advanced Audio Player (official encoding/decoding addon, with ReplayGain & Cuesheets support)
* [http://www.vuplayer.com/vuplayer.htm VUPlayer] (official plugin, supports encoding)
* [[Windows Media Player]] and other directshow-based players (MPC, TCMP, RadLight) (with [http://corewavpack.corecodec.org/ CoreWavPack] directshow filter)
* [http://koti.welho.com/hylinen/apollo/ Apollo] Audio Player (plugin with ReplayGain support)
* [http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html XMplay] (official plugin)
* [http://cogosx.sourceforge.net/ Cog] Audio player for MacOS X.
* [[XMMS]] (with Kuniklo's plugin)
* [http://fondriest.frederic.free.fr/realisations/lamip/ LAMIP] (official plugin)
* [http://mpxplay.sourceforge.net/ MPXplay] for DOS!
* [http://aqualung.sourceforge.net/ Aqualung] for GNU/Linux
* [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html VLC Player]
* Cowon [http://www.jetaudio.com/ JetAudio Player]

=== Frontends ===
* Custom [http://members.home.nl/w.speek/wavpack.htm Windows Frontend] (by Speek)
* [http://home.vxu.se/mdati00/frontah/ Frontah] by Madah

=== Converters ===
'''Note:''' ''Several players, like Cowon JetAudio, foobar2000 and VUplayer, can also convert from other formats to WavPack)''

* [http://www.dbpoweramp.com/ dBpowerAMP] Music Converter / Audio Player / CD Writer (official addon)
* Cowon [http://www.jetaudio.com/ JetAudio Player]

=== Editors ===
* [[Adobe Audition]] and Cool Edit (filter with 32-bit floats & extra info save support)

=== CD writers/rippers ===
* [http://www.nero.com/eng/ Nero]
* [http://www.burrrn.net Burrrn] Audio CD burner
* [[Exact Audio Copy]] CD Ripper
* [http://cdexos.sourceforge.net CDex] CD ripper
* Cowon [http://www.jetaudio.com/ JetAudio Player]

=== Taggers ===
* [http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html Mp3tag] Universal Tag Editor
* [http://www.jtclipper.eu/thegodfather/ The GodFather] Tagger / Music manager
* [[Tag.exe|Case's Tag]] command line tagger

=== Other tools ===
* [http://www.burrrn.net/mrq/ Mr. QuestionMan]
* [http://www.bitattack.ro/ai/ Audio Identifier]
* [http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/ mkvtoolnix] – tool to multiplex WavPack streams inside the Matroska container
''It's worth mentioning the [[Matroska]] guys decided to concentrate on WavPack as the lossless compressor of choice for their container. Quite an honor... :-)''

== Hardware Support ==
* iRiver iHP-120/iHP-140 with the open source [http://www.rockbox.org Rockbox firmware]
* [http://www.rokulabs.com/products/photobridge/features.php Roku PhotoBridge HD] (with [http://www.wavpack.com/downloads.html plugin])

== Technology description ==
To ensure high-speed operation, WavPack uses a very simple predictor that is implemented entirely in integer math. In its "fast" mode the prediction is simply the arithmetic extrapolation of the previous two samples. For example, if the previous two samples were -10 and 20, then the prediction would be 50. For the default mode a simple adaptive factor is added to weigh the influence of the earlier sample on the prediction. In our example the resulting prediction could then vary between 20 for no influence to 50 for full influence. This weight factor is constantly updated based on the audio data's changing spectral characteristics, which is why it is called "adaptive".

The prediction generated is then subtracted from the actual sample to be encoded to generate the error value. In mono mode this value is sent directly to the coder. However, stereo signals tend to have some correlation between the two channels that can be further exploited. Therefore, two error values are calculated that represent the difference and average of the left and right error values. In the "fast" mode of operation these two new values are simply sent to the coder instead of the left and right values. In the default mode, the difference value is always sent to the coder along with one of the other three values (average, left, or right). An adaptive algorithm continuously determines the most efficient of the three to send based on the changing balance of the channels.

The developer has developed a unique data encoder for WavPack that he believes is better than Rice coding in two different areas. It is impossible to encode more efficiently than Rice coding because it represents the optimal bit coding (sometimes known as the Huffman code) for this type of data. WavPack's encoder is slightly less efficient than this, but only by about 0.15 bits/sample (or less than 1% for 16-bit data). The first advantage of WavPack's coder is that it does not require the data to be buffered ahead of encoding, instead it converts each sample directly to bitcodes. This is more computationally efficient and it is better in some applications where coding delay is critical. The second advantage is that it is easily adaptable to lossy encoding because all significant bits (except the implied "one" MSB) are transmitted directly. In this way it is possible to only transmit, for example, the 3 most significant bits (with sign) of each sample. In fact, it is possible to transmit only the sign and implied MSB for each sample with an average of only 3.65 bits/sample.

This coding scheme is used to implement the "lossy" mode of WavPack. In the "fast" mode the output of the non-adaptive decorrelator is simply rounded to the nearest codable value for the specified number of bits. In the default mode the adaptive decorrelator is used (which reduces the average noise about 1 dB) and also both the current and the next sample are considered in choosing the better of the two available codes (which reduces noise another 1 dB).

The developer has decided to not use any floating-point arithmetic in WavPack's data path because he believes that integer operations are less susceptible to subtle chip to chip variations that could corrupt the lossless nature of the compression, the Pentium floating point bug being a blatant example of this. It is possible that a lossless compressor that used floating-point math could generate different output when running on that faulty Pentium. Even disregarding actual bugs, floating-point math is complicated enough that there could be subtle differences between "correct" implementations that could cause trouble for this type of application. To further ensure confidence in the integrity of WavPack's compression, the encoder includes a 32-bit error detection code to the generated streams.

WavPack source code is very portable. It has been compiled on several Unices (Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Compaq Tru64, HP-UX...) as well as Windows, DOS and OpenVMS. It works on architectures such as x86, ARM, PowerPC, SPARC, DEC Alpha, PA-RISC, MIPS, Motorola 68k...

== External links ==
* [http://www.wavpack.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.rarewares.org/lossless.html Unofficial multiplatform versions] at RareWares
* [[Lossless_comparison|Lossless Codec Comparison]]
* [[EAC_and_WavPack | Configuring EAC and Wavpack]]

[[Category:Codecs]]
[[Category:Lossless]]

VLC media player

2012-12-15T21:01:07Z

87.112.81.64: Updated version number.

{{title|VLC Media Player}}
{{Infobox Software
| name = VLC Media Player
| logo =
| screenshot =
| caption = Cross-platform media player
| maintainer = VLC team
| stable_release = 2.0.5 (Twoflower)
| preview_release = -
| operating_system = Cross-platform
| use = Media Player
| license = GNU
| website = http://www.videolan.org/
}}

=Introduction=
'''VLC''' is a software project, which produces free and open source software for multimedia, released under the GNU General Public License.

==Features==

== Features ==
* VLC is popular for its ability to play the video content of incomplete, unfinished, or damaged video downloads before the files have been fully downloaded. (For example, files still downloading via [[BitTorrent (protocol)|BitTorrent]], [[eMule]], or [[Gnutella]]). It also plays [[m2t]] MPEG Transport Streams (.TS) files while they are still being digitized from an [[HDV]] camera via a [[FireWire]] cable, making it possible to monitor the video as it is being played. This is because it is a packet-based player.
* The player also has the ability to use libcdio to access [[.iso]] files so that the user can play files on a [[disk image]], even if the user's operating system does not have the capability of working directly with .iso images.
* VLC supports all codecs and all file formats supported by [[FFmpeg]]. This means that [[VOB|DVD Video]] and [[MPEG-4]] playback as well as support for [[Ogg]] and [[Matroska]] (MKV) file formats work "out of the box". However, this feature is not unique to VLC, as any player using the FFmpeg libraries, including [[MPlayer]] and [[xine-lib]]-based players, can play those formats without need for external codecs. VLC also supports codecs that are not included in FFmpeg.
* VLC is one of the [[free software]] and [[open source]] DVD players that ignores [[DVD region code#Software DVD players|DVD region coding]], making it a region free player, even on locked RPC-2 firmware.
* VLC media player has some filters that can distort, rotate, split, [[deinterlace]], mirror videos, create display walls, or add a logo overlay. It can also produce video output as [[ASCII art]].
* VLC media player can play [[High-definition video|high definition]] recordings of [[D-VHS]] tapes duplicated to a computer using CapDVHS.exe. This offers another way to archive all D-VHS tapes with the DRM copy freely tag.
* Using a [[FireWire]] connection from cable boxes to computers, VLC can stream live, unencrypted content to a monitor or HDTV.
* VLC media player can display the playing video as the [[Computer wallpaper|desktop wallpaper]], like [[Windows DreamScene]], but this feature is not currently available on [[Linux]].
* VLC media player can do screencasts and record the desktop.
* On Microsoft Windows, VLC also supports the Direct Media Object (DMO) framework and can therefore make use of some third-party [[Dynamic-link library|DLLs]].
* VLC can be installed and run directly from a flash or other external drive.
* VLC can be extended through scripting. It uses the [[Lua (programming language)|Lua]] scripting language.

==Screenshots==
*[http://images.videolan.org/vlc/screenshots/0.9.2/osx-0.9.2-ASS-softsubs.jpg OS X] this is a screenshot of VLC in Mac OS X opening matroshka+subtitles
*[http://images.videolan.org/vlc/screenshots/0.9.2/vista_colorthreshold.jpg Vista] this is a screenshot of script of Vista VLC interface and filters
*[http://images.videolan.org/vlc/screenshots/0.9.2/qt-info.jpg KDE debian] this is a screenshot of VLC in Use during compiz cube.

==Supported formats==
*[http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html Supported formats]

==Supported platforms==

* Cross-Platform

==External links==

*[http://www.videolan.org/ official website]
*[http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ Download VLC]

[[Category:Software]]
[[Category:Media Players]]

Download page

2012-12-15T20:28:08Z

87.112.81.64: Colour & Internal linking, software changes.

All programs mentioned anywhere in the wiki can be downloaded here.
See also the [[:Category:Software|Software Category]] article for more software not listed here.

==CD Rippers==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:300px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[CDex]]
| GPL
| [http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source ripper for Windows that uses cdparanoia functionality
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[DBpowerAMP with AccurateRip|dBpoweramp]]
| commercial
| [http://www.dbpoweramp.com/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for Windows that includes Accurate Stream functionality.
|-
! align="left" | [[EAC]]
| Free
| [http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for Windows, C2 error pointers, Accurate Stream, etc.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[fre:ac ]]
| GPL
| [http://www.freac.org/ here]
| align="left" |
fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. Plus supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database which allows you query song information.
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:350px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Max]]
| GPL
| [http://sbooth.org/Max/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for OS X that uses additional cdparanoia functionality
|-
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[XLD]]
| GPL
| [http://tmkk.pv.land.to/xld/index_e.html here]
| align="left" | X Lossless Decoder(XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. Can convert between many lossless and lossy formats. Plugin oriented design, for easy exchange for new encoders.
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:320px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | abcde
| GPL
|[http://code.google.com/p/abcde/ here]
| align="left" | A command-line based ripper with cdparanoia functionality
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[cdparanoia]]
| BSD, GPL
| [http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ here]
| align="left" | One of the first secure standalone rippers for the Linux platform
|-
! align="left" | Grip
| GPL
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/grip/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source Gnome interface ripper that uses cdparanoia functionality
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Rubyripper]]
| GPL
| [http://code.google.com/p/rubyripper/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for the Linux that uses additional cdparanoia functionality
|}

==CD/DVD Writers==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:185px;" | Name
! style="width:80px;" | Unicode
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Burrrn]] (CDA only)
| N
| Free
| [http://www.burrrn.net/ here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | CDBurnerXP
|
| Free
| [http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ here]
|
|-
! align="left" | DeepBurner
| N
| GPL
| [http://www.deepburner.com/ here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Express Burn
| N
| commercial
| [http://www.nch.com.au/burn/index.html here]
| align="left" | A free version of this software is available for non-commercial use only. The free version does not expire but will only burn normal CDs.
|
|-
! align="left" | InfraRecorder
| N
| GPL
| [http://infrarecorder.org/ here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Nero]]
| N
| commercial
| [http://www.nero.com/eng/ here]
| align="left" |
|-style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
|
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:130px;" | Name
! style="width:80px;" | Unicode
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:310px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | DVD-Audio Tools
| Y
| GPL
| [http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Open-source DVD-Audio authoring application
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | FireStarter FX
| N
| Free
| [http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=FireStarter_FX here]
| align="left" | Free OS X Cocoa CD writing application
|-
! align="left" | X-CD-Roast
| N
| Free
| [http://www.xcdroast.org/xcdr098/xcdrosX.html here]
| align="left" | New OS X port of this Linux CD writing application
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Burn
| N
| Free
| [http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html/ here]
| align="left" | Versatile CD/DVD authoring application
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:130px;" | Name
! style="width:80px;" | Unicode
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:260px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | CDRDAO
| N
| GPL
| [http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Cdrdao records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | DVD-Audio Tools
| Y
| GPL
| [http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Open-source DVD-Audio authoring application
|-
! align="left" | GnomeBaker
| N
| GPL
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnomebaker/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source Gnome interface CD/DVD writing application
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[K3b]]
| N
| GPL
| [http://www.k3b.org/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source KDE CD writing application for Linux platform
|-
! align="left" | X-CD-Roast
| Y
| GPL
| [http://www.xcdroast.org here]
| align="left" | New open-source Gnome interface CD/DVD writing application
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Brasero
| N
| GPL
| [http://projects.gnome.org/brasero/ here]
| align="left" | Brasero is a application to burn CD/DVD for the Gnome Desktop.(Gnome Default)
|}

==Multimedia Players==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[foobar2000]]
| Free, BSD
| [http://www.foobar2000.org/ here]
| align="left" | Advanced tagging, plugin capabilities, and kernel streaming support
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[MediaMonkey]]
| Free, Shareware
| [http://www.mediamonkey.com/ here]
| align="left" | Supports many Winamp plugins
|-
! align="left" | VUplayer
| Free
| [http://www.vuplayer.com/ here]
| align="left" | Supports many popular digital audio codecs and MOD tracker formats
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Winamp]]
| Free, Shareware
| [http://www.winamp.com/ here]
| align="left" | Popular audio player for Windows
| align="left" |
|-
! align="left" | [[VLC]]
| Free
| [http://www.videolan.org/vlc// here]
| align="left" | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
|}

===Players / Source code ===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | MusikCube
| BSD
| [http://www.musikcube.com/ here]
| align="left" | Supports dynamic playlists and advanced SQL capabilities
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[wxMusik]]
| GPL
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/musik.berlios/ here]
| align="left" |A cross-platform open-source audio player
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | Cog
| GPL
| [http://cogosx.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source digital audio player for OS X.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Play
| GPL
| [http://sbooth.org/Play/ here]
| align="left" |Play is an application for playing and managing audio files.
|-
! align="left" | [[VLC]]
| Free
| [http://www.videolan.org/vlc// here]
| align="left" | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Amarok]]
| GPL
| [http://amarok.kde.org/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source KDE audio player similiar to Foobar2000
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Audacious
| GPL
| [http://audacious-media-player.org/ here]
| align="left" |Audacious is an open source audio player
|-
! align="left" | Clementine
| GPL
| [http://www.clementine-player.org/ here]
| align="left" | Cross platform media player, a port of [[Amarok]] 1.4 to the Qt 4 and GStreamer framework, can be controlled with a Wii remote
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | DeaDBeeF
| GPL
| [http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Lightweight music player for Linux, GUI similar to [[Foobar2000]]
|-
! align="left" | [[Rhythmbox]]
| GPL
| [http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox/ here]
| align="left" | GNOME music player
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[VLC]]
| Free
| [http://www.videolan.org/vlc// here]
| align="left" | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, |Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
|-
! align="left" | [[XMMS]]
| GPL
| [http://www.xmms.org/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source audio player similiar to Winamp
|}

=== Console players ===
* mpg123 [http://www.mpg123.org/ Homepage] [http://www.mpg123.org/download.shtml Downloads]

==Tagging Utilities==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | Frontah
| Free
| [http://home.vxu.se/mdati00/frontah/ here]
| align="left" | Transcode and tag editor for ID3v1.x, ID3v2.x, Lyrics3, Vorbis Comment, APEv1 & APEv2 tags. Supports ANSI, UTF8 and UTF16 text encoding depends on tag type.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | MetatOGGer
| Free
| [http://www.luminescence-software.org/ here]
| align="left" | Tags MP3 ([[ID3]]), Ogg files (Vorbis comment, including Ogg FLAC and Speex), Musepack, Windows Media, WavPack et Monkey's Audio
|-
! align="left" | MP3 Book Helper
| Free
| [http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Tags [[ID3v1]], ID3v2.3, and Vorbis comments. Features: FreeDB, unicode, guessing and matching, and supporting PAR, SFV, SV, and NFO generation.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[MP3tag]]
| Free
| [http://www.mp3tag.de/ here]
| align="left" | Tags all files supporting [[ID3]], [[APEv2]], and [[Vorbis_Comment|Vorbis Comments]], not only MP3s
|-
! align="left" | [[Tag.exe]]
| GPL
| [http://www.synthetic-soul.co.uk/tag/ here]
| align="left" | Command-line universal tagger for Windows
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Tag & Rename
| Shareware
| [http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm here]
|
|-
! align="left" | TagScanner
| Free
| [http://www.xdlab.ru/en/index.htm here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | WMP Tag Plus 2.0
| Free
| [http://bmproductions.fixnum.org/wmptagplus/ here]
| align="left" | Software to integrate other tag format than [[ID3]] into Microsoft Windows Media Player 11.
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | Tag
| GPL
| [http://sbooth.org/Tag/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source tagging application for OS X
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Beets]]
| MIT
| [http://beets.radbox.org/ here]
| align="left" | Cross-platform open source tagging application written in Python, CLI only. Uses the Musicbrainz and Mutagen libraries, still in beta. Mostly automatic, minimal user input required. Many features and plugins. (Read the documentation)
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | EasyTAG
| GPL
| [http://easytag.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Gnome tagging utility
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" |
|}

==Encoders, Decoders, Etc.==
All basic tools needed to make use of the audio formats supported here.

===[[MP3]]===
* [[LAME]] encoder/decoder: [http://www.rarewares.org/mp3.html download pre-compiled binaries here]. Also check the [[Lame Compiles|Latest recommended version]] page.
* [[MP3Gain]], a ReplayGain-like utility: [http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/download.php download here]

===Ogg [[Vorbis]]===
Currently, all recommended Ogg Vorbis utilities are available at the [http://www.rarewares.org/ogg.html Rarewares Ogg Vorbis page]. The following tools are important:

* '''OggEnc2''': A command-line Ogg Vorbis encoder that can be used with most CD rippers.

* '''OggDec''': Command-line decoder.

* '''[[OggDropXPd]]''': An easy to use, drag'n'drop encoder/decoder with support for automatic tagging, renaming and playlist creation on encoding.

* ''Encoding DLLs'': For encoding within CDex or WinLame.

* '''VorbisGain''': The [[ReplayGain]] utility for Ogg Vorbis.

In addition, the [[Lancer]] suite — a highly SSE-optimized suite of utilities and libraries — are available at [http://homepage3.nifty.com/blacksword/ this page] ''(in Japanese)''. See [[Lancer#Platform-specific Builds|this section]] for information about the different builds.

=== [[Opus]] ===
* http://www.opus-codec.org/
* discussion at the [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=96954/ Forum]

===[[Musepack]] (MPC)===
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=win Download MPC for Windows]
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=lin Download MPC for Linux]
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=osx Download MPC for Mac OS X]
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=src Download MPC source code]

* [http://forum.musepack.net/showthread.php?t=395 Forum announcement of SV8 release]

===[[FLAC]]===
* CoolEdit / Adobe Audition Filter supporting FLAC: [http://www.vuplayer.com/other.php download here]
* Various FLAC-related utilities (incl. ReplayGain utility): [http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html FLAC's SourceForge Download page]

==Transcoders==
''Note: Although these tools may convert from one encoding to another, please remember that [[transcoding]] to any [[lossy]] encoding will result in a degraded quality.''
* BeSweet: http://besweet.notrace.dk/
* [[fre:ac ]]
* dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC): http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
* [[foobar2000]] - foobar2000 Free Encoder Pack http://www.foobar2000.org/encoderpack
* MediaCoder: http://www.mediacoderhq.com/
* [[Winamp]]
* WinLAME: http://winlame.sourceforge.net/

==Processing utilities==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:400px;" | Description
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[lossyWAV]]
| GPL
| [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=56129&view=findpost&p=504087 here]
| align="left" | lossyWAV is a lossy pre-processor for [[Wikipedia:Pulse-code modulation|PCM]] (uncompressed) WAV files. It reduces [[Wikipedia:Audio bit depth|bit depth]] of the input signal, which, when used in conjunction with certain lossless codecs, reduces the bitrate of the encoded file significantly.
|}

==Drivers==
===ASPI===
* Ahead Nero ASPI Driver: [ftp://ftp6.nero.com/wnaspi32.dll download]
* Adaptec Windows ASPI Package: [http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/_eol/scsi_sw/aspi-4.70/ official website]
* ForceASPI [http://radified.com/ASPI/forceaspi.htm radified.com]
* ASPI4all [http://www.cdr-zone.com/software/aspi_layers/aspi4all.html CDR-Zone.COM]
* FrogAspi [http://www.frogaspi.org/ official website]
* VOB ASAPI Driver 1.3: [http://www.rarewares.org/files/ASAPI.exe download]

===Sound===
* ALSA Project [http://www.alsa-project.org/ official website]
* kX Project [http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/ official website]

==Links==
* [http://www.rarewares.org/ RareWares]

[[Category:Software]]

Meridian Lossless Packing

2012-12-14T17:22:40Z

87.112.81.64: /* External links */ meridian support - white_paper, Link Update.

'''Meridial Lossless Packing''' ('''MLP''') is a [[lossless]] compression scheme developed by the british pro-audio developer and manufacturer Meridian specially for inclusion in the [[DVD-Audio]] format.

It's a completely closed format - there is no source code or format documentation available. Also, the encoder is quite expensive (US$ 2500 as of October 2005).

Compression efficiency is quite bad for CD content (16 bit, 44100 Hz, stereo), being outperformed by [[Shorten]] and even RAR. It is somewhat better for high resolution content (multichannel, 24 bit, 96 kHz), but still beaten by, e.g., [[WavPack]] -h in both speed and compression. Compression is very slow.

== External links ==
* [http://www.meridian-support.com/white_papers.htm meridian-support] MLP Lossless Compression white-paper.
* [[Lossless comparison|Lossless Codec Comparison]]

[[Category:Codecs]]
[[Category:Lossless]]

Free Lossless Audio Codec

2012-12-14T16:05:22Z

87.112.81.64: clean Up on (dead / broken ) links.

{{Codec Infobox
| name = FLAC
| logo = [[Image:FLAC logo.gif]]
| type = lossless
| purpose = Popular open source patent free lossless compression scheme.
| maintainer = Josh Coalson, Xiph Community
| recommended_encoder = FLAC encoder
| recommended_text = FLAC v1.2.1
| website = http://flac.sourceforge.net/
}}
'''Free Lossless Audio Codec''' ('''FLAC''') is a codec for lossless audiocompression.
Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to [[MP3]], but [[lossless]], meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio, and you can play back compressed FLAC files in your favorite player (or your car or home stereo, if supported) just like you would an MP3 file.

== General aspects of the format ==
FLAC is freely available and supported on most operating systems, including Windows, UNIX (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, OS X, IRIX), BeOS, OS/2, and Amiga. There are build systems for autotools, MSVC, Watcom C, and Project Builder.

The FLAC project consists of:
* the stream format
* reference encoders and decoders in library form
* flac, a command-line program to encode and decode FLAC files
* metaflac, a command-line metadata editor for FLAC files
* input plugins for various music players

When it's said that FLAC is ''free'', it means more than just that it is available at no cost. It means that the specification of the format is fully open to the public to be used for any purpose, although the FLAC project reserves the right to set the FLAC specification and certify compliance. It also means that neither the FLAC format nor any of the implemented encoding/decoding methods are covered by any known patent. And it means that all the source code is available under open-source licenses. It is the first truly open and free lossless audio format.

Some claim FLAC is the most widely used lossless compression format on UNIX systems, though it seems more likely that shn retains that honor on all OS platforms. FLAC files also can be placed inside an Ogg container using libOggFLAC and libOggFLAC++.

== Features ==
* '''Lossless:''' The encoding of audio (PCM) data incurs no loss of information, and the decoded audio is bit-for-bit identical to what went into the encoder. Each frame contains a 16-bit CRC of the frame data for detecting transmission errors. The integrity of the audio data is further insured by storing an MD5 signature of the original unencoded audio data in the file header, which can be compared against later during decoding or testing.
* '''Fast:''' FLAC is asymmetric in favor of decode speed. Decoding requires only integer arithmetic, and is much less compute-intensive than for most perceptual codecs. Real-time decode performance is easily achievable on even modest hardware.
* '''Hardware support:''' Because of FLAC's free reference implementation and low decoding complexity, FLAC is currently the only lossless codec that has any kind of hardware support.
* '''Streamable:''' Each FLAC frame contains enough data to decode that frame. FLAC does not even rely on previous or following frames. FLAC uses sync codes and CRCs (similar to MPEG and other formats), which, along with framing, allow decoders to pick up in the middle of a stream with a minimum of delay.
* '''Seekable:''' FLAC supports fast sample-accurate seeking. Not only is this useful for playback, it makes FLAC files suitable for use in editing applications.
* '''Flexible metadata:''' New metadata blocks can be defined and implemented in future versions of FLAC without breaking older streams or decoders. Currently there are metadata types for tags, cue sheets, and seek tables. Applications can write their own APPLICATION metadata once they register an ID.
* '''Suitable for archiving:''' FLAC is an open format, and there is no generation loss if you need to convert your data to another format in the future. In addition to the frame CRCs and MD5 signature, flac has a verify option that decodes the encoded stream in parallel with the encoding process and compares the result to the original, aborting with an error if there is a mismatch.
* '''Convenient CD archiving:''' FLAC has a ''cue sheet'' metadata block for storing a CD table of contents and all track and index points. For instance, you can rip a CD to a single file, then import the CD's extracted cue sheet while encoding to yield a single file representation of the entire CD. If your original CD is damaged, the cue sheet can be exported later in order to burn an exact copy.
* '''Error resistant:''' Because of FLAC's framing, stream errors limit the damage to the frame in which the error occurred, typically a small fraction of a second worth of data. Contrast this with some other lossless codecs, in which a single error destroys the remainder of the stream.

== Pros ==
* Portable to many systems
* Source open and freely licenced
* Hardware support (PhatBox, Kenwood MusicKeg, Rio Karma, etc. See below)
* Streaming support
* Extremely fast decoding
* Supports multichannel and high resolution streams
* Supports [[ReplayGain]]
* Supports cue-sheet (with some limitations)
* Gaining wide use as successor to [[Shorten]]

== Cons ==
* Compresses less efficiently than other popular modern compressors ([[Monkey's Audio]], [[OptimFROG]])
* Higher compression modes slow, for little gain over the default setting.

== Hardware and software that support FLAC ==
For a more comprehensive list see the [http://flac.sourceforge.net/links.html FLAC links page].

=== Hardware ===
==== Home stereo ====
* Olive's [http://www.olive.us/ Symphony] wireless digital music center
* [http://www.numark.com/ Numark]'s DJ equipment (HDX and CDX turntables, HDMIX mixer)
* [http://www.sonos.com/ Sonos Digital Music System]
* Slim Devices' [http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_squeezebox.html Squeezebox] networked audio players

==== Portable ====
* [[Apple iPod]] with [[Rockbox]] firmware
* [[iAudio M3]], M5 and X5
* [[iRiver]] iHP-120/iHP-140 with [[Rockbox]] firmware
* [[Iwod G10]]
* [[Rio Karma]]
* TrekStor's [http://www.trekstor.de/en/products/detail_mp3.php?pid=66 Vibez]
* Devices running Android 3.1+

=== Software ===
==== Players ====
* [[foobar2000]]
* [[JRiver Media Center]]
* [[MediaMonkey]]
* [http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ MPlayer]
* [http://www.mythtv.org/ MythTV]
* [http://www.videolan.org/ VLC]
* [http://www.vuplayer.com/vuplayer.htm VUPlayer]
* [[Winamp]]
* [[XMMS]]
* [http://www.un4seen.com/ XMplay]

==== Frontends (Windows) ====
* Custom [http://members.home.nl/w.speek/flac.htm Windows Frontend] (by Speek)
* [http://home.vxu.se/mdati00/frontah/ Frontah] by Madah

==== Frontends (Mac) ====
* [http://www.sbooth.org/Max/ Max]

==== Converters ====
* [http://www.dbpoweramp.com/ dBpowerAMP] Music Converter / Audio Player / CD Writer
* [http://www.mediamonkey.com/ MediaMonkey] Music Manager / Audio Player / CD Writer

==== Editors ====
* [[Adobe Audition]]
* [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave]

==== CD writers/rippers ====
* [http://www.nero.com/eng/ Nero]
* [http://arson.sourceforge.net/ Arson]
* [http://www.burrrn.net Burrrn] Audio CD burner
* [[Exact Audio Copy]] CD Ripper
* [http://cdexos.sourceforge.net CDex] CD ripper
* [http://www.cdwave.com/ CD Wave]
* [http://cdburnerxp.se/ CDburner XP] CD writer
* [http://www.mediamonkey.com/ MediaMonkey] - CD ripper/writer

==== Taggers ====
* [http://members.home.nl/w.speek/download/Tag.zip Case's Tag] command line tagger
* [http://www.jtclipper.eu/thegodfather/ The GodFather] Tagger / Music manager
* [http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html Mp3tag] Universal Tag Editor
* [http://sbooth.org/Tag/ Tag] — for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
* [http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html#metaflac metaflac] - for general metadata (including Vorbis comments) maintenance
* [http://www.mediamonkey.com MediaMonkey] - [[MediaMonkey]] Tagger / Music manager (Including Multiple and Linked Album Art support)

==== Other tools ====
* [http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/ mkvtoolnix] - tool to multiplex FLAC streams inside the Matroska container
* [http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html#metaflac metaflac] - for general metadata (including Vorbis comments) maintenance, also to calculate [[ReplayGain]] values for FLAC files lacking such

...and many more; see the [http://flac.sourceforge.net/links.html#software FLAC software section] and [http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html#extras download section] for a more comprehensive list.

== Frequently asked questions ==
''Question:'' Does the compression level affect decompression speed?

''Short Answer'': No.

''Long Answer'': In truth, the compression level does affect the decompression speed, but the difference between the various compress levels can barely be measured and is too small to be noticed, even on low-end machines.

''Question:'' What is the best compression level for encoding my music?

''Short Answer'': The default setting, 5.

''Long Answer'': Encoding at the default setting will give the best balance between compression and encoding speed. Encoding at 8 can more than quadruple the encoding time, while having an insignificant effect on compression.

== See also ==
* [[Lossless]]
* [[Lossless comparison]]

== Externals links ==
* [http://flac.sourceforge.net/ FLAC website]
* [http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html FLAC download]
* [http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html Detailed description of the FLAC format]
* [http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html FLAC documentation]
* [http://flac.sourceforge.net/faq.html FLAC FAQ]
* <s>[http://people.ucsc.edu/~rswilson/flactest Omion's FLAC "File Size vs. Decoding Speed" test]</s> - a very thorough test on [[Free Lossless Audio Codec#Frequently Asked Questions|the influence of the chosen encoding level on the decoding speed of FLAC]]; the only one so far to have covered FLAC's --super-secret-totally-impractical-compression-level to this extent as well.

[[Category:Lossless]]
[[Category:Encoder/Decoder]]

Lossless comparison

2012-12-14T15:23:54Z

87.112.81.64: /* Oddball Formats */ clean up, removed the links of the oddball secyion , kept only the names II.

The '''lossless comparison page''' aims to gather information about lossless codecs available so users can make an informed decision as to what lossless codec to choose for their needs.

== Introduction ==
Given the enormous amount of [[lossless]] audio compressor choices available, it is a very difficult task to choose the one most suited for each person's needs.

Several people only take into consideration compression performance when choosing a codec. But as the following table and article shows, there are several other features worth taking into consideration when making that choice.

For example, users wanting good multiplatform compatibility and robustness (E.G, people sharing live recordings) would favour [[WavPack]] or [[FLAC]]. Another user, looking for the very highest compression available, would go with [[OptimFROG]]. Someone wanting portable support would use [[FLAC]] or [[ALAC]], and so on.

En fin, this is not a matter worth getting too worked up about. If you later find out the codec you chose isn't the best for your needs, you can just transcompress to another format, without risk of losing quality.

'''Note:''' for latest comparison of lossless compression, scroll down to the [[Lossless comparison#External links|Links section of this page]].

== Comparison Table ==


{| cellspacing="2" style="text-align:center; border:1px solid blue;"
|width="120px"|'''Features'''
| width="95px" style="background: #00FFFF" | FLAC
| width="95px" style="background: #00FFFF" | WavPack
| width="95px" style="background: #00FFFF" | TAK
| width="95px" style="background: #00FFFF" | Monkey's
| width="95px" style="background: #00FFFF" | OptimFROG
| width="95px" style="background: #00FFFF" | ALAC
| width="95px" style="background: #00FFFF" | WMA
|-
|align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Encoding speed
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | fast
| style="background: #00FF00" | very fast
| style="background: #00FF00" | very fast
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | fast
| style="background: #FF9900" | slow
| style="background: #FFFFFF" | average
| style="background: #FFFFFF" | average
|-
|align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Decoding speed
| style="background: #00FF00" | very fast
| style="background: #00FF00" | very fast
| style="background: #00FF00" | very fast
| style="background: #FFFFFF" | average
| style="background: #FFFFFF" | average
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | fast
| style="background: #FFFFFF" | average
|-
|align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Compression*
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | 58.70%
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | 58.0%
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | 57.0%
| style="background: #00FF00" | 55.50%
| style="background: #00FF00" | 54.70%
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | 58.50%
| style="background: #00FF00" | 56.30%
|-
|align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Flexibility**
| style="background: #00FF00" | very good
| style="background: #00FF00" | very good
| style="background: #00FF00" | very good
| style="background: #00FF00" | very good
| style="background: #00FF00" | very good
| style="background: #FF9900" | bad
| style="background: #FF9900" | bad
|-
|style="background: #FFFFFF" |  
|-
|align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Error handling
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FFFFFF" |  
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
|-
|align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Seeking
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
|-
|align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Tagging
| style="background: #00FF00" | Vorbis tags
| style="background: #00FF00" | ID3/APE
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | APEv2 (exp.)
| style="background: #00FF00" | ID3/APE
| style="background: #00FF00" | ID3/APE
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | iTunes
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | ASF
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Hardware support
| style="background: #00FF00" | very good
| style="background: #FF9900" | limited
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #FF9900" | limited
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | good
| style="background: #FF9900" | limited
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Software support
| style="background: #00FF00" | very good
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | good
| style="background: #FFFFFF" | average
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | good
| style="background: #FFFFFF" | average
| style="background: #FFFFFF" | average
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | good
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Hybrid/lossy
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | ReplayGain
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FFFFFF" | sort of
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | RIFF chunks
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FFFFFF" |  
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FFFFFF" |  
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Streaming
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Pipe support
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Open source
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes (third-party)
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Multichannel
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | High resolution
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | OS support
| style="background: #00FF00" | All
| style="background: #00FF00" | All
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | Win/Linux Wine
| style="background: #00FF00" | All
| style="background: #00FF00" | Win/Mac/Linux
| style="background: #00FF00" | All
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | Win/Mac
|}

''(table continued below)''

{| cellspacing="2" style="text-align:center; border:1px solid blue;"
|width="120px"|'''Features'''
| width="95px" style="background: #00FFFF" | Shorten
| width="95px" style="background: #00FFFF" | LA
| width="95px" style="background: #00FFFF" | TTA
| width="95px" style="background: #00FFFF" | LPAC
| width="95px" style="background: #00FFFF" | MPEG-4 ALS
| width="95px" style="background: #00FFFF" | MPEG-4 SLS
| width="95px" style="background: #00FFFF" | Real Lossless
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Encoding speed
| style="background: #00FF00" | very fast
| style="background: #FF9900" | slow
| style="background: #00FF00" | very fast
| style="background: #FFFFFF" | average
| style="background: #FFFFFF" | average
| style="background: #FF9900" | slow
| style="background: #FF9900" | slow
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Decoding speed
| style="background: #00FF00" | very fast
| style="background: #FF9900" | slow
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | fast
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | fast
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | fast
| style="background: #FF9900" | slow
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | fast
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Compression*
| style="background: #FF9900" | 63.50%
| style="background: #00FF00" | 53.50%
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | 57.10%
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | 57.20%
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | 57.10%
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | ?
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | 57.0%
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Flexibility**
| style="background: #FF9900" | bad
| style="background: #FFFFFF" | average
| style="background: #FF9900" | bad
| style="background: #FF9900" | bad
| style="background: #00FF00" | very good
| style="background: #FF9900" | bad
| style="background: #FF9900" | bad
|-
|! style="background: #FFFFFF" |  
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Error handling
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FFFFFF" |  
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Seeking
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FF9900" | slow
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Tagging
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | ID3v1
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | ID3
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | proprietary
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Hardware support
| style="background: #FF9900" | limited
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #FF9900" | limited
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Software support
| style="background: #00FF00" | very good
| style="background: #FF9900" | bad
| style="background: #FFFFFF" | average
| style="background: #FFFFFF" | average
| style="background: #FF9900" | bad
| style="background: #FF9900" | bad
| style="background: #FF9900" | bad
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Hybrid/lossy
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | ReplayGain
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | RIFF chunks
| style="background: #FF9900" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FFFFFF" |  
| style="background: #FFFFFF" |  
| style="background: #FFFFFF" |  
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Streaming
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #FFFFFF" |  
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Pipe support
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #FFFFFF" |  
| style="background: #FFFFFF" |  
| style="background: #FFFFFF" |  
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Open source
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | Multichannel
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | High resolution
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #00FF00" | yes
| style="background: #FF9900" | no
|-
| align="left" style="background: #FFFF99" | OS support
| style="background: #00FF00" | All
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | Win/Linux
| style="background: #00FF00" | All
| style="background: #CCFFCC" | Win/Linux/Sol
| style="background: #00FF00" | All
| style="background: #00FF00" | All
| style="background: #00FF00" | Win/Mac/Linux
|}

<nowiki>*</nowiki> The Compression ratio is calculated with the division of compressed size by uncompressed size * 100. So, lower is better.

Encoding speed, Decoding speed and Compression ratio are based on each encoder's default settings.

<nowiki>**</nowiki> Flexibility refers to the amount of encoding choices offered to the users (Fast/low compression, Slow/high compression and everything inbetween)

These are the most popular lossless codecs, in alphabetical order:

== Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) ==
http://www.apple.com/itunes/import.html

[[ALAC]] is a codec developed by Apple for usage in [[Apple iPod|iPod]] and AirPort Express.

=== ALAC pros ===
* Very fast decoding
* [[Open source]] (encoding and decoding via FFmpeg and [[CueTools|CUETools]], decoding only via [http://craz.net/programs/itunes/alac.html a standalone decoder])
* Hardware support ([[Apple iPod|iPod]], AirPort Express)
* Streaming support
* Tagging support (QT tags)
* Excellent hardware-software-lossy format integration with [[iTunes]]/iPod.
* Supports [[multichannel]] audio and [[high resolution]]s

=== ALAC cons ===
* Limited software support
* No hybrid/lossy mode

=== ALAC Other features ===
* Fits in the [[MP4]] container
* Can be used with the AirPort Express gadget

== Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) ==
http://flac.sourceforge.net/

[[FLAC]] is a lossless codec developed by Josh Coalson. It's part of the Xiph multimedia portfolio, along with [[Ogg]], [[Vorbis]], [[Speex]] and [[Theora]].

=== FLAC pros ===
* [[Open source]]
* Very fast decoding
* Fast encoding
* Hardware support ([[Rio Karma|Karma]], Phatbox, etc.)
* Very good software support
* Error robustness
* Streaming support
* Supports [[multichannel]] audio and [[high resolution]]s
* Tagging support (FLAC tags)
* Supports [[RIFF]] chunks
* Pipe support
* [[ReplayGain]] compatible

=== FLAC cons ===
* No hybrid/lossy mode

=== FLAC Other features ===
* Supports embedded CUE sheets (with [http://flac.sourceforge.net/faq.html#general__no_cuesheet_tags limitations])
* Includes MD5 hashes for quick integrity checking
* Fits the [[Ogg]] and [[Matroska]] containers

== LosslessAudio (LA) ==
http://www.lossless-audio.com/

[[LA]] is a lossless codec developed by Michael Bevin.

=== LA pros ===
* Very high compression
* Tagging support ([[ID3v1]])
* Supports [[RIFF]] chunks
* Pipe support

=== LA cons ===
* Closed source
* Very slow encoding and decoding
* Doesn't support [[multichannel]] audio and [[high resolution]]s
* No hardware support
* No hybrid/lossy mode
* Bad software support
* Doesn't support [[ReplayGain]]

'''''It's important to mention that the LA foobar plugin is buggy and doesn't produce lossless streams!'''''

== Lossless Predictive Audio Coder (LPAC) ==
* [http://www.nue.tu-berlin.de/menue/mitarbeiter/ehemalige_mitarbeiter/tilman_liebchen/lpac_-_lossless_audio_codec_for_windows_and_linux/ LPAC website]

[[Lossless Predictive Audio Coder]] (LPAC) is a lossless codec developed by Tilman Liebchen. Development of it has been halted in favour of development of [[MPEG-4]] ALS.

=== LPAC pros ===
* Reasonable compression ratios
* [[High resolution]] audio support
* Supports [[RIFF]] chunks

=== LPAC cons ===
* Closed source
* No error robustness
* Slow seeking
* No tagging
* No [[multichannel]] support
* No hybrid/lossy mode
* No hardware support
* Doesn't support [[ReplayGain]]

== Monkey's Audio (APE) ==
http://www.monkeysaudio.com/

[[Monkey's Audio]] is a very efficient lossless compressor developed by Matt Ashland.

=== APE pros ===
* [[Open source]]
* High efficiency
* Good software support
* Simple and user friendly. Official GUI provided.
* Java version (multiplatform)
* Tagging support ([[ID3v1]], [[APE tags]])
* [[High resolution]] audio support
* Supports [[RIFF]] chunks (only in the GUI encoder)
* Pipe support (only in a [http://www.etree.org/shnutils/shntool/ special] version)

=== APE cons ===
* No [[multichannel]] support
* No error robustness
* No hybrid/lossy mode
* Limited hardware support (Rockbox, some Cowon players); poor battery life due to complicated decoding [http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SoundCodecMonkeysAudio MP3 player benchmarks]
* Higher compression levels are extremely CPU intensive
* Doesn't support [[ReplayGain]]

=== APE Other features ===
* Includes MD5 hashes for quick integrity checking
* Supports APL image link files (similar to CUE sheets)

== MPEG-4 SLS ==
MPEG-4 SLS allows audio encoding from lossless scalable to [[AAC]].

=== SLS pros ===
* Transcoding to standard AAC or any higher lossy bitrate at the speed of copying a file
* Scalable decoding from lossless, to any bitrate down to the AAC core track
* Best lossless compression available when you count the AAC track (~5% gain over any other lossless compression + AAC)
* [[High resolution]] audio support
* Multi channel audio support
* [[Open source]] (MPEG-4 Reference code)
* Embedded in standard MP4 files, so supports same tagging and ReplayGain features as AAC does.

=== SLS cons ===
* No usable software available yet
* Pure lossless compression not the best there is
* Seems to be slow in encoding and decoding, but we have to wait for released software

=== SLS Other features ===
* Transform based lossless codec with optional LC AAC core track

== OptimFROG (OFR) ==
http://losslessaudiocompression.com/

[[OptimFROG]] is a lossless format developed by Florin Ghido to become the champion in audio compression.

=== OFR pros ===
* Very high compression
* Good software support
* Error robustness
* Streaming support
* Supports [[high resolution]]s
* Hybrid/lossy mode
* Tagging support ([[ID3]], [[APE tags]])
* Supports [[RIFF]] chunks
* [[ReplayGain]] compatible

=== OFR cons ===
* Closed source
* No [[multichannel]] audio support
* No hardware support
* Quite slow decoding

=== OFR Other features ===
* Supports 32bit float streams
* Includes MD5 hashes for quick integrity checking

== RealAudio Lossless (RAL) ==
http://www.realnetworks.com/products/codecs/realaudio.html

RealAudio lossless is the lossless codec developed by Real Networks for their multimedia portfolio

=== RAL pros ===
* Very fast decoding
* Streaming support
* Tagging support (proprietary)

=== RAL cons ===
* Closed source
* No [[multichannel]] and [[high resolution]] audio support
* Little software support (Real Player)
* No hardware support
* Compression efficiency not on par with other lossless codecs
* No hybrid/lossy mode
* No pipe support
* Doesn't support [[ReplayGain]]

== Shorten (SHN) ==
http://www.etree.org/shnutils/shorten/

[[Shorten]] is a very old and featureless lossless codec developed by Tony Robinson at SoftSound.

=== SHN pros ===
* [[Open source]]
* Fast decoding
* Very good software support
* Supports [[RIFF]] chunks
* Pipe support

=== SHN cons ===
* Quite inefficient
* No [[multichannel]] or [[high resolution]] audio support
* No hybrid/lossy mode
* No error robustness
* Not streamable
* No hardware support
* No native tagging
* Doesn't support [[ReplayGain]]

== True Audio (TTA) ==
http://www.true-audio.com/

[[TTA]] is a new lossless codec developed by a team of russian programmers.

=== TTA pros ===
* [[Open source]]
* Good efficiency
* Hardware support (obscure DVD player)
* Supports [[multichannel]] audio and [[high resolution]]s
* Tagging support ([[ID3]])
* [[ReplayGain]] compatible
* Error robustness

=== TTA cons ===
* No streaming support
* No hybrid/lossy mode
* Doesn't support [[RIFF]] chunks
* No pipe support

=== TTA Other features ===
* Fits the [[Matroska]] container

== WavPack (WV) ==
http://www.wavpack.com/

[[WavPack]] is a fast and featureful lossless codec developed by David Bryant.

=== WV pros ===
* [[Open source]]
* Very fast decoding
* Very fast encoding
* Good efficiency
* Error robustness
* Streaming support
* Hardware support ([http://www.rockbox.org/ RockBox])
* Supports [[multichannel]] audio and [[high resolution]]s
* Hybrid/lossy mode
* Tagging support ([[ID3v1]], [[APE tags]])
* Supports [[RIFF]] chunks
* Ability to create self extracting files for Win32 platform
* Pipe support
* Good software support
* [[ReplayGain]] compatible

=== WV cons ===
* Limited hardware player support

=== WV Other features ===
* Supports 32bit float streams
* Supports embedded CUE sheets
* Includes MD5 hashes for quick integrity checking
* Can encode in both symmetrical and assymmetrical modes.
* Fits the [[Matroska]] container

== Windows Media Audio Lossless (WMAL) ==
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/codecs/audio.aspx

WMA Lossless is the lossless codec developed by Microsoft to be featured in their Windows Media codec portfolio.

=== WMAL pros ===
* Streaming support
* Very good software support
* Hardware support (All Microsoft Zunes though older models may need firmware updates, also supported by some non-Microsoft devices like the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabeat Gigabeat V and S line from Toshiba].
* Supports [[multichannel]] audio and [[high resolution]]s.
* Tagging support (proprietary)
* Pipe support

=== WMAL cons ===
* Closed source
* No hybrid/lossy mode
* Doesn't support [[RIFF]] chunks
* Doesn't support [[ReplayGain]]

=== WMAL Other features ===
* Fits the [[ASF]] container

== Oddball Formats ==
There are several old lossless formats that aren't being featured in the article above. Reasons are: lack of widespread support, lack of features, bad efficiency and, most importantly, it seems no one is really interested in them.

Most of those would have disappeared by now, but they are being preserved for posterity at [[User:Rjamorim|rjamorim]]'s

Advanced Digital Audio (ADA)

Bonk

Marian's a-Pac

AudioZip

Dakx WAV

Entis Lab MIO

LiteWave

Pegasus SPS

RK Audio (RKAU)

Sonarc

VocPack

WavArc

WaveZip/MUSICompress

== See also ==
* [[Lossless]]

== External links ==
=== Other lossless compressions comparisons ===
''Sorted based on last '''update''' date.''

* <s>[http://uclc.info/LossLess.pdf Johan De Bock's speed oriented comparison]</s> - best choices speedwise are indicated in green, mostly electronic music (last updated 2006-07-22)
* <s>[http://web.inter.nl.net/users/hvdh/lossless/lossless.htm Hans Heijden's]</s> -- used as reference to build the table (last updated 2006-07-07)
* [http://synthetic-soul.co.uk/comparison/lossless/ Synthetic Soul's comparison] (last update 2007-07-28)
* [http://synthetic-soul.co.uk/comparison/josef/ Josef Pohm's comparison, hosted by Synthetic Soul] (last update 2006-05-29)
* [http://www.bobulous.org.uk/misc/lossless_audio_2006.html Bobulous' lossless audio comparison] — a look at six lossless formats in terms of speed and file size (last updated 2006-05-22)
* <s>[http://uclc.info/lossless_audio_compression_test.htm Johan De Bock's size oriented comparison]</s> - aimed only at the maximum compression setting for each codec (based on a somewhat limited set of samples, however) (last updated 2006-05-19)
* <s>[http://guruboolez.free.fr/lossless/ Guruboolez']</s> -- comparing only classical music (last updated 2005-02-27)
* [http://members.home.nl/w.speek/comparison.htm Speek's] (last updated 2005-02-07)

=== More on lossless compressions ===
* <s>[http://losslessaudioblog.com/ The Lossless Audio Blog]</s> - by windmiller, is a reliable and complete source of news about lossless compression.
* Go to the [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=33226 Hydrogenaudio thread] to discuss this article.

[[Category:Guides]]

Lossless

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Compression is '''lossless''' when decoding the compressed data gives a result which is identical bit-by-bit to the uncompressed original.

Generic file compression formats, like ZIP or RAR, are lossless. However, trying to compress raw audio with those generally results in files which are only slightly- if at all- smaller than the originals. Lossless audio formats take advantage of knowledge about real-world audio data to provide compression ratios averaging around 50% on most music.

[[Lossy]] encoders only attempt to approximate the sound of the original waveform rather than preserving all the information present in it. Losslessly compressed audio will therefore unavoidably be larger than audio compressed with any reasonable [[lossy]] encoder. However, this disadvantage is offset by lossless files' ability to be [[transcoding|transcoded]] to other lossless formats without any quality degradation.

== Popular lossless formats ==
* [[Apple Lossless]] ([[ALAC]])
* [[Free Lossless Audio Codec]] (FLAC)
* [[Lossless Audio]] (LA)
* [[Lossless Predictive Audio Compression]] (LPAC)
* [[Meridian Lossless Packing]] (MLP)
* [[Monkey's Audio]] (APE)
* [[OptimFROG]]
* [[RK Audio]] (RKAU)
* [[Shorten]] (SHN)
* [[TAK]]
* [[TTA]]
* [[WavPack]]
* [[Windows Media Audio|WMA lossless]]

== Oddball Formats ==
There are several old lossless formats that aren't really deserving of having an article all for themselves. Reasons are: lack of widespread support, lack of features, bad efficiency and, most importantly, it seems noone is really interested in them.

Most of those would have disappeared by now, but they are being preserved for posterity at [[User:Rjamorim|rjamorim]]'s

Advanced Digital Audio (ADA)

Marian's a-Pac

AudioZip

Dakx WAV

Entis Lab MIO

LiteWave

Pegasus SPS

RKaudio

Split2000

Sonarc

VocPack

WavArc

WaveZip/MUSICompress

Note that currently '''no single format can be considered best for all applications'''. Rather, the best format depends on the ''intended use'', as well as a number of other factors (such as licensing and file structure). For example, Shorten and FLAC are widely used for sharing live music because of their cross-platform support and speed. Monkey's Audio is popular among Windows users for its superior compression ratio.

== Comparisons ==
''Note the specific assumptions and limitations of each comparison; in particular, results are sensitive to the music selected'''

; <s>http://web.inter.nl.net/users/hvdh/lossless/lossless.htm</s> : Includes an interesting graph of encode/decode speeds vs. file size on the All Albums page

; [[Lossless comparison]] : A comparision focusing more on codec features and less on absolute encoding efficiency. Also features a table comparing most popular codecs based on their features.

; http://members.home.nl/w.speek/comparison.htm : Performance Comparison of Lossless Audio Compressors - Compares file size, encode speed, decode speed for [[APE]], [[FLAC]], [[LPAC]], [[WavPack]], Shorten ([[SHN]]), [[RKAU]], [[OptimFROG]], [[LA]], [[WMA | WMA Lossless]]. Updated 5-2003

; http://www.bobulous.org.uk/misc/lossless_audio_2006.html : Lossless audio formats - A comparison of the rip-and-encode speed and album file size of six different lossless formats: [[WAV|uncompressed Wave]], [[FLAC]], [[WavPack]], [[SHN|Shorten]], [[APE|Monkey's Audio]], and [[OptimFROG]]. First published on 22nd May 2006.

== External Links ==
* <s>[http://www.losslessaudioblog.com/ The Lossless Audio Blog]</s> Lossless Audio News & Information Site.

[[Category:Codecs]]

Download page

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All programs mentioned anywhere in the wiki can be downloaded here.
See also the [[:Category:Software|Software Category]] article for more software not listed here.

==CD Rippers==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:300px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[CDex]]
| GPL
| [http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source ripper for Windows that uses cdparanoia functionality
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[DBpowerAMP with AccurateRip|dBpoweramp]]
| commercial
| [http://www.dbpoweramp.com/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for Windows that includes Accurate Stream functionality.
|-
! align="left" | DeepRipper
| GPL
| [http://www.deepburner.com/ here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[EAC]]
| Free
| [http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for Windows, C2 error pointers, Accurate Stream, etc.
|-
! align="left" | [[fre:ac ]]
| GPL
| [http://www.freac.org/ here]
| align="left" |
fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. Plus supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database which allows you query song information.
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:350px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Max]]
| GPL
| [http://sbooth.org/Max/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for OS X that uses additional cdparanoia functionality
|-
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[XLD]]
| GPL
| [http://tmkk.pv.land.to/xld/index_e.html here]
| align="left" | X Lossless Decoder(XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. Can convert between many lossless and lossy formats. Plugin oriented design, for easy exchange for new encoders.
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:320px;" | Description
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | abcde
| GPL
|[http://code.google.com/p/abcde/ here]
| align="left" | A command-line based ripper with cdparanoia functionality
|-
! align="left" | [[cdparanoia]]
| BSD, GPL
| [http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ here]
| align="left" | One of the first secure standalone rippers for the Linux platform
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Grip
| GPL
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/grip/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source Gnome interface ripper that uses cdparanoia functionality
|-
! align="left" | [[Rubyripper]]
| GPL
| [http://code.google.com/p/rubyripper/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for the Linux that uses additional cdparanoia functionality
|}

==CD/DVD Writers==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:185px;" | Name
! style="width:80px;" | Unicode
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Burrrn]] (CDA only)
| N
| Free
| [http://www.burrrn.net/ here]
|
|-
! align="left" | CDBurnerXP
|
| Free
| [http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | DeepBurner Free
| N
| GPL
| [http://www.deepburner.com/ here]
|
|-
! align="left" | DeepBurner Pro
|
| Shareware
| [http://www.deepburner.com/ here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Express Burn
| N
| non-commercial(free)
| [http://nch.com.au/burn/index.html here]
| align="left" | A free version of this software is available for non-commercial use only. The free version does not expire but will only burn normal CDs.
|
|-
! align="left" | Express Burn (Plus Edition)
|
| commercial
| [http://www.nch.com.au/burn/index.html here]
|
|-style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | InfraRecorder
| N
| GPL
| [http://infrarecorder.org/ here]
|
|-
! align="left" | [[Nero]]
| N
| commercial
| [http://www.nero.com/eng/ here]
| align="left" |
|-style="background-color: #eeeeee;"

|
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:130px;" | Name
! style="width:80px;" | Unicode
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:310px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | DVD-Audio Tools
| Y
| GPL
| [http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Open-source DVD-Audio authoring application
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | FireStarter FX
| N
| Free
| [http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=FireStarter_FX here]
| align="left" | Free OS X Cocoa CD writing application
|-
! align="left" | X-CD-Roast
| N
| Free
| [http://www.xcdroast.org/xcdr098/xcdrosX.html here]
| align="left" | New OS X port of this Linux CD writing application
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Burn
| N
| Free
| [http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html/ here]
| align="left" | Versatile CD/DVD authoring application
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:130px;" | Name
! style="width:80px;" | Unicode
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:260px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | CDRDAO
| N
| GPL
| [http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Cdrdao records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | DVD-Audio Tools
| Y
| GPL
| [http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Open-source DVD-Audio authoring application
|-
! align="left" | GnomeBaker
| N
| GPL
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnomebaker/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source Gnome interface CD/DVD writing application
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[K3b]]
| N
| GPL
| [http://www.k3b.org/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source KDE CD writing application for Linux platform
|-
! align="left" | X-CD-Roast
| Y
| GPL
| [http://www.xcdroast.org here]
| align="left" | New open-source Gnome interface CD/DVD writing application
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Brasero
| N
| GPL
| [http://projects.gnome.org/brasero/ here]
| align="left" | Brasero is a application to burn CD/DVD for the Gnome Desktop.(Gnome Default)
|}

==Multimedia Players==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[foobar2000]]
| Free, BSD
| [http://www.foobar2000.org/ here]
| align="left" | Advanced tagging, plugin capabilities, and kernel streaming support
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[MediaMonkey]]
| Free, Shareware
| [http://www.mediamonkey.com/ here]
| align="left" | Supports many Winamp plugins
|-
! align="left" | VUplayer
| Free
| [http://www.vuplayer.com/ here]
| align="left" | Supports many popular digital audio codecs and MOD tracker formats
|-
! align="left" | [[Winamp]]
| Free, Shareware
| [http://www.winamp.com/ here]
| align="left" | Popular audio player for Windows
| align="left" |
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[VLC]]
| Free
| [http://www.videolan.org/vlc// here]
| align="left" | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
|}

===Players / Source code ===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | MusikCube
| BSD
| [http://www.musikcube.com/ here]
| align="left" | Supports dynamic playlists and advanced SQL capabilities
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[wxMusik]]
| GPL
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/musik.berlios/ here]
| align="left" |A cross-platform open-source audio player
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | Cog
| GPL
| [http://cogosx.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source digital audio player for OS X.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Play
| GPL
| [http://sbooth.org/Play/ here]
| align="left" |Play is an application for playing and managing audio files.
|-
! align="left" | [[VLC]]
| Free
| [http://www.videolan.org/vlc// here]
| align="left" | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:220px;" | Description
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Amarok]]
| GPL
| [http://amarok.kde.org/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source KDE audio player similiar to Foobar2000
|-
! align="left" | Audacious
| GPL
| [http://audacious-media-player.org/ here]
| align="left" |Audacious is an open source audio player
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Clementine
| GPL
| [http://www.clementine-player.org/ here]
| align="left" | Cross platform media player, a port of [[Amarok]] 1.4 to the Qt 4 and GStreamer framework, can be controlled with a Wii remote
|-
! align="left" | DeaDBeeF
| GPL
| [http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Lightweight music player for Linux, GUI similar to [[Foobar2000]]
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Rhythmbox]]
| GPL
| [http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox/ here]
| align="left" | GNOME music player
|-
! align="left" | [[VLC]]
| Free
| [http://www.videolan.org/vlc// here]
| align="left" | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, |Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[XMMS]]
| GPL
| [http://www.xmms.org/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source audio player similiar to Winamp
|}

=== Console players ===
* mpg123 [http://www.mpg123.org/ Homepage] [http://www.mpg123.org/download.shtml Downloads]

==Tagging Utilities==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
|-
! align="left" | Frontah
| Free
| [http://home.vxu.se/mdati00/frontah/ here]
| align="left" | Transcode and tag editor for ID3v1.x, ID3v2.x, Lyrics3, Vorbis Comment, APEv1 & APEv2 tags. Supports ANSI, UTF8 and UTF16 text encoding depends on tag type.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
|-
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | MetatOGGer
| Free
| [http://www.luminescence-software.org/ here]
| align="left" | Tags MP3 ([[ID3]]), Ogg files (Vorbis comment, including Ogg FLAC and Speex), Musepack, Windows Media, WavPack et Monkey's Audio
|-
! align="left" | MP3 Book Helper
| Free
| [http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Tags [[ID3v1]], ID3v2.3, and Vorbis comments. Features: FreeDB, unicode, guessing and matching, and supporting PAR, SFV, SV, and NFO generation.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[MP3tag]]
| Free
| [http://www.mp3tag.de/ here]
| align="left" | Tags all files supporting [[ID3]], [[APEv2]], and [[Vorbis_Comment|Vorbis Comments]], not only MP3s
|-
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
|-
! align="left" | [[Tag.exe]]
| GPL
| [http://www.synthetic-soul.co.uk/tag/ here]
| align="left" | Command-line universal tagger for Windows
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Tag & Rename
| Shareware
| [http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm here]
|
|-
! align="left" | TagScanner
| Free
| [http://www.xdlab.ru/en/index.htm here]
|
|-
! align="left" | WMP Tag Plus 2.0
| Free
| [http://bmproductions.fixnum.org/wmptagplus/ here]
| align="left" | Software to integrate other tag format than [[ID3]] into Microsoft Windows Media Player 11.
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | Tag
| GPL
| [http://sbooth.org/Tag/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source tagging application for OS X
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Beets]]
| MIT
| [http://beets.radbox.org/ here]
| align="left" | Cross-platform open source tagging application written in Python, CLI only. Uses the Musicbrainz and Mutagen libraries, still in beta. Mostly automatic, minimal user input required. Many features and plugins. (Read the documentation)
|-
! align="left" | EasyTAG
| GPL
| [http://easytag.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Gnome tagging utility
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" |
|}

==Encoders, Decoders, Etc.==
All basic tools needed to make use of the audio formats supported here.

===[[MP3]]===
* [[LAME]] encoder/decoder: [http://www.rarewares.org/mp3.html download pre-compiled binaries here]. Also check the [[Lame Compiles|Latest recommended version]] page.
* [[MP3Gain]], a ReplayGain-like utility: [http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/download.php download here]

===Ogg [[Vorbis]]===
Currently, all recommended Ogg Vorbis utilities are available at the [http://www.rarewares.org/ogg.html Rarewares Ogg Vorbis page]. The following tools are important:

* '''OggEnc2''': A command-line Ogg Vorbis encoder that can be used with most CD rippers.

* '''OggDec''': Command-line decoder.

* '''[[OggDropXPd]]''': An easy to use, drag'n'drop encoder/decoder with support for automatic tagging, renaming and playlist creation on encoding.

* ''Encoding DLLs'': For encoding within CDex or WinLame.

* '''VorbisGain''': The [[ReplayGain]] utility for Ogg Vorbis.

In addition, the [[Lancer]] suite — a highly SSE-optimized suite of utilities and libraries — are available at [http://homepage3.nifty.com/blacksword/ this page] ''(in Japanese)''. See [[Lancer#Platform-specific Builds|this section]] for information about the different builds.

=== Opus ===
* http://www.opus-codec.org/
* discussion at the [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=96954/ Forum]

===[[Musepack]] (MPC)===
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=win Download MPC for Windows]
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=lin Download MPC for Linux]
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=osx Download MPC for Mac OS X]
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=src Download MPC source code]

* [http://forum.musepack.net/showthread.php?t=395 Forum announcement of SV8 release]

===[[FLAC]]===
* CoolEdit / Adobe Audition Filter supporting FLAC: [http://www.vuplayer.com/other.php download here]
* Various FLAC-related utilities (incl. ReplayGain utility): [http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html FLAC's SourceForge Download page]

==Transcoders==
''Note: Although these tools may convert from one encoding to another, please remember that [[transcoding]] to any [[lossy]] encoding will result in a degraded quality.''
* BeSweet: http://besweet.notrace.dk/
* [[fre:ac ]]
* dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC): http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
* [[foobar2000]] - foobar2000 Free Encoder Pack http://www.foobar2000.org/encoderpack
* MediaCoder: http://www.mediacoderhq.com/
* [[Winamp]]
* WinLAME: http://winlame.sourceforge.net/

==Processing utilities==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:400px;" | Description
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[lossyWAV]]
| GPL
| [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=56129&view=findpost&p=504087 here]
| align="left" | lossyWAV is a lossy pre-processor for [[Wikipedia:Pulse-code modulation|PCM]] (uncompressed) WAV files. It reduces [[Wikipedia:Audio bit depth|bit depth]] of the input signal, which, when used in conjunction with certain lossless codecs, reduces the bitrate of the encoded file significantly.
|}

==Drivers==
===ASPI===
* Ahead Nero ASPI Driver: [ftp://ftp6.nero.com/wnaspi32.dll download]
* Adaptec Windows ASPI Package: [http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/_eol/scsi_sw/aspi-4.70/ official website]
* ForceASPI [http://radified.com/ASPI/forceaspi.htm radified.com]
* ASPI4all [http://www.cdr-zone.com/software/aspi_layers/aspi4all.html CDR-Zone.COM]
* FrogAspi [http://www.frogaspi.org/ official website]
* VOB ASAPI Driver 1.3: [http://www.rarewares.org/files/ASAPI.exe download]

===Sound===
* ALSA Project [http://www.alsa-project.org/ official website]
* kX Project [http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/ official website]

==Links==
* [http://www.rarewares.org/ RareWares]

[[Category:Software]]

Meridian Lossless Packing

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'''Meridial Lossless Packing''' ('''MLP''') is a [[lossless]] compression scheme developed by the british pro-audio developer and manufacturer Meridian specially for inclusion in the [[DVD-Audio]] format.

It's a completely closed format - there is no source code or format documentation available. Also, the encoder is quite expensive (US$ 2500 as of October 2005).

Compression efficiency is quite bad for CD content (16 bit, 44100 Hz, stereo), being outperformed by [[Shorten]] and even RAR. It is somewhat better for high resolution content (multichannel, 24 bit, 96 kHz), but still beaten by, e.g., [[WavPack]] -h in both speed and compression. Compression is very slow.

== External links ==
* <s>[http://www.meridian-audio.com/p_mlp_in.htm MLP's official site at Meridian]</s>
* [[Lossless comparison|Lossless Codec Comparison]] by Rjamorim

[[Category:Codecs]]
[[Category:Lossless]]

RK Audio

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Hydrogenaudio Listening Tests

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One of the most visible ways that HydrogenAudio members have shown their enthusiasm for audio quality and their respect for [[TOS 8|scientific principles]] over the years is by organizing and participating in public blind listening tests of lossy codecs and presenting statistical analyses of the results. These results show the advantages and disadvantages of different formats and encoders and help identify which are "state of the art."

[[Private Listening Tests|Private listening tests]] also provide useful data, but the public HydrogenAudio tests are a rarity in having enough participants to both average out variations among individual listeners and still have statistically significant results.

Note that a listening test cannot really compare formats or encoder "brands." Instead, it compares particular versions of particular encoders at particular bitrates. Results will differ with different encoders, newer versions of the same encoders, or different bitrates. Use caution when extrapolating, and use the most recent results when extrapolating to the newest encoder versions.

'''Note:''' There would be no point in listening tests of [[lossless]] encoders; the decoded results are bit-identical to the original uncompressed recordings. [[Lossless comparison|Lossless encoder comparisons]] instead consider technical aspects such as compression ratio and encode/decode speed.

All tests are sorted by date, newest first. All dates are in [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html ISO8601 format].

=Multiformat Tests=

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="text-align:center;"
|- style="background:#aaffff"
! Date !! Title Samples !! Performed by !! Codecs !! Links
|-
| 2011-04-10
| 64-kbps General
| igorc
| [[Vorbis]] [[aoTuV]], Quicktime HE-[[AAC]], [[Opus]]
| [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=87785 HA Thread] [http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/igorc/results.html Complete Result]
|-
| 2007-08-16
| 64-kbps General
| Sebastian Mares
| [[Vorbis]] [[aoTuV]], Nero [[AAC]], [[WMA]] Pro
| [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=56397 HA Thread] [http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/sebastian/mf-64-1/results.htm Complete Result]
|-
| 2006-11-22
| 48-kbps General
| Sebastian Mares
| [[Vorbis]] [[aoTuV]], Nero [[AAC]], [[WMA]] Pro, [[WMA]] Standard
| [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=50408 HA Thread] [http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/sebastian/mf-48-1/results.htm Complete Result]
|-
| 2006-01-13
| 128-kbps General
| Sebastian Mares
| iTunes & Nero [[AAC]], [[LAME]] [[MP3]], [[Vorbis]] [[aoTuV]], [[WMA]] Pro
| [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=40607&view=findpost&p=357117 HA Thread] [http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/sebastian/mf-128-1/results.htm Complete Result]
|}

=Single-format Tests=

==[[AAC]]==

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="text-align:center;"
|- style="background:#ffaaaa"
! Date !! Title Samples !! Performed by !! Codecs !! Links
|-
| 2011-08-20
| 96-kbps General
| igorc
| CT, Fraunhofer IIS, Nero, QuickTime TVBR & CVBR
| [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=89765 HA Thread] [http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/igorc/aac-96-a/results.html Complete result]
|-
| 2006-02-20
| 48-kbps HE-AAC General
| Gabriel
| 3gpp (v1), CT (v1 & v2), Nero (v1 & v2)
| [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=42679&hl= HA Thread] [http://www.mp3-tech.org/tests/aac_48/results.html Complete Result]
|-
| 2006-02-05
| 48-kbps HE-AAC Classical
| Ivan Dimkovic
| Nero HE-AAC v1 & v2
| [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=41191&hl= HA Thread]
|}

==[[MP3]]==

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="text-align:center;"
|- style="background:#aaffaa"
! Date !! Title Samples !! Performed by !! Codecs !! Links
|-
| 2008-10-17
| 130-kbps General
| Sebastian Mares
| [[LAME]] 3.97, [[LAME]] 3.98.2, [[iTunes]], [[FhG]], [[Helix]]
| [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=66564 HA Thread] [http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/sebastian/mp3-128-1/results.htm Complete Result]
|}

=External Tests=
Other people have held listening tests in venues outside of Hydrogenaudio (although the organizers of the tests tend to be HA members :). The results of these tests are found below:

* <s>[http://ff123.net/ ff123's site on audio testing and listening tests]</s> (most recent test 2002-07-27)
* <s>[http://www.rjamorim.com/test/index.html Roberto's Public Listening Tests]</s> (most recent test 2004-07-11)
* [http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/sebastian/ Sebastian Mares' Listening Tests] (most recent test updated 2008-11-22)
* [http://www.soundexpert.info/ SoundExpert Listening Tests] (continually updated)

[[Category:Listening Tests]]

Download page

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All programs mentioned anywhere in the wiki can be downloaded here.
See also the [[:Category:Software|Software Category]] article for more software not listed here.

==CD Rippers==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:300px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[CDex]]
| GPL
| [http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source ripper for Windows that uses cdparanoia functionality
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[DBpowerAMP with AccurateRip|dBpoweramp]]
| commercial
| [http://www.dbpoweramp.com/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for Windows that includes Accurate Stream functionality.
|-
! align="left" | DeepRipper
| GPL
| [http://www.deepburner.com/ here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[EAC]]
| Free
| [http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for Windows, C2 error pointers, Accurate Stream, etc.
|-
! align="left" | [[fre:ac ]]
| GPL
| [http://www.freac.org/ here]
| align="left" |
fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. Plus supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database which allows you query song information.
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:350px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Max]]
| GPL
| [http://sbooth.org/Max/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for OS X that uses additional cdparanoia functionality
|-
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[XLD]]
| GPL
| [http://tmkk.pv.land.to/xld/index_e.html here]
| align="left" | X Lossless Decoder(XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. Can convert between many lossless and lossy formats. Plugin oriented design, for easy exchange for new encoders.
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:320px;" | Description
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | abcde
| GPL
|[http://code.google.com/p/abcde/ here]
| align="left" | A command-line based ripper with cdparanoia functionality
|-
! align="left" | [[cdparanoia]]
| BSD, GPL
| [http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ here]
| align="left" | One of the first secure standalone rippers for the Linux platform
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Grip]]
| GPL
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/grip/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source Gnome interface ripper that uses cdparanoia functionality
|-
! align="left" | [[Rubyripper]]
| GPL
| [http://code.google.com/p/rubyripper/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for the Linux that uses additional cdparanoia functionality
|}

==CD/DVD Writers==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:185px;" | Name
! style="width:80px;" | Unicode
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Burrrn]] (CDA only)
| N
| Free
| [http://www.burrrn.net/ here]
|
|-
! align="left" | CDBurnerXP
|
| Free
| [http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | DeepBurner Free
| N
| GPL
| [http://www.deepburner.com/ here]
|
|-
! align="left" | DeepBurner Pro
|
| Shareware
| [http://www.deepburner.com/ here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Express Burn
| N
| non-commercial(free)
| [http://nch.com.au/burn/index.html here]
| align="left" | A free version of this software is available for non-commercial use only. The free version does not expire but will only burn normal CDs.
|
|-
! align="left" | Express Burn (Plus Edition)
|
| commercial
| [http://www.nch.com.au/burn/index.html here]
|
|-style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | InfraRecorder
| N
| GPL
| [http://infrarecorder.org/ here]
|
|-
! align="left" | [[Nero]]
| N
| commercial
| [http://www.nero.com/eng/ here]
| align="left" |
|-style="background-color: #eeeeee;"

|
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:130px;" | Name
! style="width:80px;" | Unicode
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:310px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[DVD-Audio Tools]]
| Y
| GPL
| [http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Open-source DVD-Audio authoring application
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | FireStarter FX
| N
| Free
| [http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=FireStarter_FX here]
| align="left" | Free OS X Cocoa CD writing application
|-
! align="left" | [[X-CD-Roast]]
| N
| Free
| [http://www.xcdroast.org/xcdr098/xcdrosX.html here]
| align="left" | New OS X port of this Linux CD writing application
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Burn
| N
| Free
| [http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html/ here]
| align="left" | Versatile CD/DVD authoring application
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:130px;" | Name
! style="width:80px;" | Unicode
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:260px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | CDRDAO
| N
| GPL
| [http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Cdrdao records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | DVD-Audio Tools
| Y
| GPL
| [http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Open-source DVD-Audio authoring application
|-
! align="left" | [[GnomeBaker]]
| N
| GPL
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnomebaker/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source Gnome interface CD/DVD writing application
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[K3b]]
| N
| GPL
| [http://www.k3b.org/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source KDE CD writing application for Linux platform
|-
! align="left" | [[X-CD-Roast]]
| Y
| GPL
| [http://www.xcdroast.org here]
| align="left" | New open-source Gnome interface CD/DVD writing application
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Brasero]]
| N
| GPL
| [http://projects.gnome.org/brasero/ here]
| align="left" | Brasero is a application to burn CD/DVD for the Gnome Desktop.(Gnome Default)
|}

==Multimedia Players==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[foobar2000]]
| Free, BSD
| [http://www.foobar2000.org/ here]
| align="left" | Advanced tagging, plugin capabilities, and kernel streaming support
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[MediaMonkey]]
| Free, Shareware
| [http://www.mediamonkey.com/ here]
| align="left" | Supports many Winamp plugins
|-
! align="left" | VUplayer
| Free
| [http://www.vuplayer.com/ here]
| align="left" | Supports many popular digital audio codecs and MOD tracker formats
|-
! align="left" | [[Winamp]]
| Free, Shareware
| [http://www.winamp.com/ here]
| align="left" | Popular audio player for Windows
| align="left" |
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[VLC]]
| Free
| [http://www.videolan.org/vlc// here]
| align="left" | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
|}

===Players / Source code ===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | MusikCube
| BSD
| [http://www.musikcube.com/ here]
| align="left" | Supports dynamic playlists and advanced SQL capabilities
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[wxMusik]]
| GPL
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/musik.berlios/ here]
| align="left" |A cross-platform open-source audio player
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | Cog
| GPL
| [http://cogosx.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source digital audio player for OS X.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Play
| GPL
| [http://sbooth.org/Play/ here]
| align="left" |Play is an application for playing and managing audio files.
|-
! align="left" | [[VLC]]
| Free
| [http://www.videolan.org/vlc// here]
| align="left" | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:220px;" | Description
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Amarok]]
| GPL
| [http://amarok.kde.org/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source KDE audio player similiar to Foobar2000
|-
! align="left" | Audacious
| GPL
| [http://audacious-media-player.org/ here]
| align="left" |Audacious is an open source audio player
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Clementine]]
| GPL
| [http://www.clementine-player.org/ here]
| align="left" | Cross platform media player, a port of [[Amarok]] 1.4 to the Qt 4 and GStreamer framework, can be controlled with a Wii remote
|-
! align="left" | [[DeaDBeeF]]
| GPL
| [http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Lightweight music player for Linux, GUI similar to [[Foobar2000]]
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Rhythmbox]]
| GPL
| [http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox/ here]
| align="left" | GNOME music player
|-
! align="left" | [[VLC]]
| Free
| [http://www.videolan.org/vlc// here]
| align="left" | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, |Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[XMMS]]
| GPL
| [http://www.xmms.org/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source audio player similiar to Winamp
|}

=== Console players ===
* mpg123 [http://www.mpg123.org/ Homepage] [http://www.mpg123.org/download.shtml Downloads]

==Tagging Utilities==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
|-
! align="left" | Frontah
| Free
| [http://home.vxu.se/mdati00/frontah/ here]
| align="left" | Transcode and tag editor for ID3v1.x, ID3v2.x, Lyrics3, Vorbis Comment, APEv1 & APEv2 tags. Supports ANSI, UTF8 and UTF16 text encoding depends on tag type.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
|-
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | MetatOGGer
| Free
| [http://www.luminescence-software.org/ here]
| align="left" | Tags MP3 ([[ID3]]), Ogg files (Vorbis comment, including Ogg FLAC and Speex), Musepack, Windows Media, WavPack et Monkey's Audio
|-
! align="left" | MP3 Book Helper
| Free
| [http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Tags [[ID3v1]], ID3v2.3, and Vorbis comments. Features: FreeDB, unicode, guessing and matching, and supporting PAR, SFV, SV, and NFO generation.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[MP3tag]]
| Free
| [http://www.mp3tag.de/ here]
| align="left" | Tags all files supporting [[ID3]], [[APEv2]], and [[Vorbis_Comment|Vorbis Comments]], not only MP3s
|-
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
|-
! align="left" | [[Tag.exe]]
| GPL
| [http://www.synthetic-soul.co.uk/tag/ here]
| align="left" | Command-line universal tagger for Windows
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Tag & Rename
| Shareware
| [http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm here]
|
|-
! align="left" | TagScanner
| Free
| [http://www.xdlab.ru/en/index.htm here]
|
|-
! align="left" | WMP Tag Plus 2.0
| Free
| [http://bmproductions.fixnum.org/wmptagplus/ here]
| align="left" | Software to integrate other tag format than [[ID3]] into Microsoft Windows Media Player 11.
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | Tag
| GPL
| [http://sbooth.org/Tag/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source tagging application for OS X
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Beets]]
| MIT
| [http://beets.radbox.org/ here]
| align="left" | Cross-platform open source tagging application written in Python, CLI only. Uses the Musicbrainz and Mutagen libraries, still in beta. Mostly automatic, minimal user input required. Many features and plugins. (Read the documentation)
|-
! align="left" | EasyTAG
| GPL
| [http://easytag.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Gnome tagging utility
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" |
|}

==Encoders, Decoders, Etc.==
All basic tools needed to make use of the audio formats supported here.

===[[MP3]]===
* [[LAME]] encoder/decoder: [http://www.rarewares.org/mp3.html download pre-compiled binaries here]. Also check the [[Lame Compiles|Latest recommended version]] page.
* [[MP3Gain]], a ReplayGain-like utility: [http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/download.php download here]

===Ogg [[Vorbis]]===
Currently, all recommended Ogg Vorbis utilities are available at the [http://www.rarewares.org/ogg.html Rarewares Ogg Vorbis page]. The following tools are important:

* '''OggEnc2''': A command-line Ogg Vorbis encoder that can be used with most CD rippers.

* '''OggDec''': Command-line decoder.

* '''[[OggDropXPd]]''': An easy to use, drag'n'drop encoder/decoder with support for automatic tagging, renaming and playlist creation on encoding.

* ''Encoding DLLs'': For encoding within CDex or WinLame.

* '''VorbisGain''': The [[ReplayGain]] utility for Ogg Vorbis.

In addition, the [[Lancer]] suite — a highly SSE-optimized suite of utilities and libraries — are available at [http://homepage3.nifty.com/blacksword/ this page] ''(in Japanese)''. See [[Lancer#Platform-specific Builds|this section]] for information about the different builds.

=== Opus ===
* http://www.opus-codec.org/
* discussion at the [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=96954/ Forum]

===[[Musepack]] (MPC)===
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=win Download MPC for Windows]
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=lin Download MPC for Linux]
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=osx Download MPC for Mac OS X]
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=src Download MPC source code]

* [http://forum.musepack.net/showthread.php?t=395 Forum announcement of SV8 release]

===[[FLAC]]===
* CoolEdit / Adobe Audition Filter supporting FLAC: [http://www.vuplayer.com/other.php download here]
* Various FLAC-related utilities (incl. ReplayGain utility): [http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html FLAC's SourceForge Download page]

==Transcoders==
''Note: Although these tools may convert from one encoding to another, please remember that [[transcoding]] to any [[lossy]] encoding will result in a degraded quality.''
* BeSweet: http://besweet.notrace.dk/
* [[fre:ac ]]
* dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC): http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
* [[foobar2000]] - foobar2000 Free Encoder Pack http://www.foobar2000.org/encoderpack
* MediaCoder: http://www.mediacoderhq.com/
* [[Winamp]]
* WinLAME: http://winlame.sourceforge.net/

==Processing utilities==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:400px;" | Description
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[lossyWAV]]
| GPL
| [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=56129&view=findpost&p=504087 here]
| align="left" | lossyWAV is a lossy pre-processor for [[Wikipedia:Pulse-code modulation|PCM]] (uncompressed) WAV files. It reduces [[Wikipedia:Audio bit depth|bit depth]] of the input signal, which, when used in conjunction with certain lossless codecs, reduces the bitrate of the encoded file significantly.
|}

==Drivers==
===ASPI===
* Ahead Nero ASPI Driver: [ftp://ftp6.nero.com/wnaspi32.dll download]
* Adaptec Windows ASPI Package: [http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/_eol/scsi_sw/aspi-4.70/ official website]
* ForceASPI [http://radified.com/ASPI/forceaspi.htm radified.com]
* ASPI4all [http://www.cdr-zone.com/software/aspi_layers/aspi4all.html CDR-Zone.COM]
* FrogAspi [http://www.frogaspi.org/ official website]
* VOB ASAPI Driver 1.3: [http://www.rarewares.org/files/ASAPI.exe download]

===Sound===
* ALSA Project [http://www.alsa-project.org/ official website]
* kX Project [http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/ official website]

==Links==
* [http://www.rarewares.org/ RareWares]

[[Category:Software]]

Download page

2012-12-13T22:22:47Z

87.112.81.64: /* Windows */ Confusion over name , clashes with another popular tagger. Removed.

All programs mentioned anywhere in the wiki can be downloaded here.
See also the [[:Category:Software|Software Category]] article for more software not listed here.

==CD Rippers==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:300px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[CDex]]
| GPL
| [http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source ripper for Windows that uses cdparanoia functionality
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[DBpowerAMP with AccurateRip|dBpoweramp]]
| commercial
| [http://www.dbpoweramp.com/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for Windows that includes Accurate Stream functionality.
|-
! align="left" | DeepRipper
| GPL
| [http://www.deepburner.com/ here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[EAC]]
| Free
| [http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for Windows, C2 error pointers, Accurate Stream, etc.
|-
! align="left" | [[fre:ac ]]
| GPL
| [http://www.freac.org/ here]
| align="left" |
fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. Plus supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database which allows you query song information.
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:350px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Max]]
| GPL
| [http://sbooth.org/Max/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for OS X that uses additional cdparanoia functionality
|-
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[XLD]]
| GPL
| [http://tmkk.pv.land.to/xld/index_e.html here]
| align="left" | X Lossless Decoder(XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. Can convert between many lossless and lossy formats. Plugin oriented design, for easy exchange for new encoders.
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:320px;" | Description
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | abcde
| GPL
|[http://code.google.com/p/abcde/ here]
| align="left" | A command-line based ripper with cdparanoia functionality
|-
! align="left" | [[cdparanoia]]
| BSD, GPL
| [http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ here]
| align="left" | One of the first secure standalone rippers for the Linux platform
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Grip]]
| GPL
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/grip/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source Gnome interface ripper that uses cdparanoia functionality
|-
! align="left" | [[Rubyripper]]
| GPL
| [http://code.google.com/p/rubyripper/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for the Linux that uses additional cdparanoia functionality
|}

==CD/DVD Writers==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:185px;" | Name
! style="width:80px;" | Unicode
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Burrrn]] (CDA only)
| N
| Free
| [http://www.burrrn.net/ here]
|
|-
! align="left" | CDBurnerXP
|
| Free
| [http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | DeepBurner Free
| N
| GPL
| [http://www.deepburner.com/ here]
|
|-
! align="left" | DeepBurner Pro
|
| Shareware
| [http://www.deepburner.com/ here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Express Burn
| N
| non-commercial(free)
| [http://nch.com.au/burn/index.html here]
| align="left" | A free version of this software is available for non-commercial use only. The free version does not expire but will only burn normal CDs.
|
|-
! align="left" | Express Burn (Plus Edition)
|
| commercial
| [http://www.nch.com.au/burn/index.html here]
|
|-style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | InfraRecorder
| N
| GPL
| [http://infrarecorder.org/ here]
|
|-
! align="left" | [[Nero]]
| N
| commercial
| [http://www.nero.com/eng/ here]
| align="left" |
|-style="background-color: #eeeeee;"

|
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:130px;" | Name
! style="width:80px;" | Unicode
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:310px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[DVD-Audio Tools]]
| Y
| GPL
| [http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Open-source DVD-Audio authoring application
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | FireStarter FX
| N
| Free
| [http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=FireStarter_FX here]
| align="left" | Free OS X Cocoa CD writing application
|-
! align="left" | [[X-CD-Roast]]
| N
| Free
| [http://www.xcdroast.org/xcdr098/xcdrosX.html here]
| align="left" | New OS X port of this Linux CD writing application
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Burn
| N
| Free
| [http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html/ here]
| align="left" | Versatile CD/DVD authoring application
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:130px;" | Name
! style="width:80px;" | Unicode
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:260px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | CDRDAO
| N
| GPL
| [http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Cdrdao records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | DVD-Audio Tools
| Y
| GPL
| [http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Open-source DVD-Audio authoring application
|-
! align="left" | [[GnomeBaker]]
| N
| GPL
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnomebaker/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source Gnome interface CD/DVD writing application
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[K3b]]
| N
| GPL
| [http://www.k3b.org/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source KDE CD writing application for Linux platform
|-
! align="left" | [[X-CD-Roast]]
| Y
| GPL
| [http://www.xcdroast.org here]
| align="left" | New open-source Gnome interface CD/DVD writing application
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Brasero]]
| N
| GPL
| [http://projects.gnome.org/brasero/ here]
| align="left" | Brasero is a application to burn CD/DVD for the Gnome Desktop.(Gnome Default)
|}

==Multimedia Players==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[foobar2000]]
| Free, BSD
| [http://www.foobar2000.org/ here]
| align="left" | Advanced tagging, plugin capabilities, and kernel streaming support
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[MediaMonkey]]
| Free, Shareware
| [http://www.mediamonkey.com/ here]
| align="left" | Supports many Winamp plugins
|-
! align="left" | VUplayer
| Free
| [http://www.vuplayer.com/ here]
| align="left" | Supports many popular digital audio codecs and MOD tracker formats
|-
! align="left" | [[Winamp]]
| Free, Shareware
| [http://www.winamp.com/ here]
| align="left" | Popular audio player for Windows
| align="left" |
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[VLC]]
| Free
| [http://www.videolan.org/vlc// here]
| align="left" | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
|}

===Players / Source code ===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | MusikCube
| BSD
| [http://www.musikcube.com/ here]
| align="left" | Supports dynamic playlists and advanced SQL capabilities
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[wxMusik]]
| GPL
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/musik.berlios/ here]
| align="left" |A cross-platform open-source audio player
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | Cog
| GPL
| [http://cogosx.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source digital audio player for OS X.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Play
| GPL
| [http://sbooth.org/Play/ here]
| align="left" |Play is an application for playing and managing audio files.
|-
! align="left" | [[VLC]]
| Free
| [http://www.videolan.org/vlc// here]
| align="left" | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:220px;" | Description
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Amarok]]
| GPL
| [http://amarok.kde.org/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source KDE audio player similiar to Foobar2000
|-
! align="left" | Audacious
| GPL
| [http://audacious-media-player.org/ here]
| align="left" |Audacious is an open source audio player
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Clementine]]
| GPL
| [http://www.clementine-player.org/ here]
| align="left" | Cross platform media player, a port of [[Amarok]] 1.4 to the Qt 4 and GStreamer framework, can be controlled with a Wii remote
|-
! align="left" | [[DeaDBeeF]]
| GPL
| [http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Lightweight music player for Linux, GUI similar to [[Foobar2000]]
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Rhythmbox]]
| GPL
| [http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox/ here]
| align="left" | GNOME music player
|-
! align="left" | [[VLC]]
| Free
| [http://www.videolan.org/vlc// here]
| align="left" | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, |Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[XMMS]]
| GPL
| [http://www.xmms.org/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source audio player similiar to Winamp
|}

=== Console players ===
* mpg123 [http://www.mpg123.org/ Homepage] [http://www.mpg123.org/download.shtml Downloads]

===PocketPC===
''These players may not play all your media files. Check their websites for the format support.''
* GSPlayer: http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA032810/
* MortPlayer: http://www.sto-helit.de/
* TCPMP: http://tcpmp.corecodec.org/about

==Tagging Utilities==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
|-
! align="left" | Frontah
| Free
| [http://home.vxu.se/mdati00/frontah/ here]
| align="left" | Transcode and tag editor for ID3v1.x, ID3v2.x, Lyrics3, Vorbis Comment, APEv1 & APEv2 tags. Supports ANSI, UTF8 and UTF16 text encoding depends on tag type.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
|-
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | MetatOGGer
| Free
| [http://www.luminescence-software.org/ here]
| align="left" | Tags MP3 ([[ID3]]), Ogg files (Vorbis comment, including Ogg FLAC and Speex), Musepack, Windows Media, WavPack et Monkey's Audio
|-
! align="left" | MP3 Book Helper
| Free
| [http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Tags [[ID3v1]], ID3v2.3, and Vorbis comments. Features: FreeDB, unicode, guessing and matching, and supporting PAR, SFV, SV, and NFO generation.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[MP3tag]]
| Free
| [http://www.mp3tag.de/ here]
| align="left" | Tags all files supporting [[ID3]], [[APEv2]], and [[Vorbis_Comment|Vorbis Comments]], not only MP3s
|-
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
|-
! align="left" | [[Tag.exe]]
| GPL
| [http://www.synthetic-soul.co.uk/tag/ here]
| align="left" | Command-line universal tagger for Windows
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Tag & Rename
| Shareware
| [http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm here]
|
|-
! align="left" | TagScanner
| Free
| [http://www.xdlab.ru/en/index.htm here]
|
|-
! align="left" | WMP Tag Plus 2.0
| Free
| [http://bmproductions.fixnum.org/wmptagplus/ here]
| align="left" | Software to integrate other tag format than [[ID3]] into Microsoft Windows Media Player 11.
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | Tag
| GPL
| [http://sbooth.org/Tag/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source tagging application for OS X
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Beets]]
| MIT
| [http://beets.radbox.org/ here]
| align="left" | Cross-platform open source tagging application written in Python, CLI only. Uses the Musicbrainz and Mutagen libraries, still in beta. Mostly automatic, minimal user input required. Many features and plugins. (Read the documentation)
|-
! align="left" | EasyTAG
| GPL
| [http://easytag.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Gnome tagging utility
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" |
|}

==Encoders, Decoders, Etc.==
All basic tools needed to make use of the audio formats supported here.

===[[MP3]]===
* [[LAME]] encoder/decoder: [http://www.rarewares.org/mp3.html download pre-compiled binaries here]. Also check the [[Lame Compiles|Latest recommended version]] page.
* [[MP3Gain]], a ReplayGain-like utility: [http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/download.php download here]

===Ogg [[Vorbis]]===
Currently, all recommended Ogg Vorbis utilities are available at the [http://www.rarewares.org/ogg.html Rarewares Ogg Vorbis page]. The following tools are important:

* '''OggEnc2''': A command-line Ogg Vorbis encoder that can be used with most CD rippers.

* '''OggDec''': Command-line decoder.

* '''[[OggDropXPd]]''': An easy to use, drag'n'drop encoder/decoder with support for automatic tagging, renaming and playlist creation on encoding.

* ''Encoding DLLs'': For encoding within CDex or WinLame.

* '''VorbisGain''': The [[ReplayGain]] utility for Ogg Vorbis.

In addition, the [[Lancer]] suite — a highly SSE-optimized suite of utilities and libraries — are available at [http://homepage3.nifty.com/blacksword/ this page] ''(in Japanese)''. See [[Lancer#Platform-specific Builds|this section]] for information about the different builds.

=== Opus ===
* http://www.opus-codec.org/
* discussion at the [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=96954/ Forum]

===[[Musepack]] (MPC)===
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=win Download MPC for Windows]
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=lin Download MPC for Linux]
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=osx Download MPC for Mac OS X]
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=src Download MPC source code]

* [http://forum.musepack.net/showthread.php?t=395 Forum announcement of SV8 release]

===[[FLAC]]===
* CoolEdit / Adobe Audition Filter supporting FLAC: [http://www.vuplayer.com/other.php download here]
* Various FLAC-related utilities (incl. ReplayGain utility): [http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html FLAC's SourceForge Download page]

==Transcoders==
''Note: Although these tools may convert from one encoding to another, please remember that [[transcoding]] to any [[lossy]] encoding will result in a degraded quality.''
* BeSweet: http://besweet.notrace.dk/
* [[fre:ac ]]
* dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC): http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
* [[foobar2000]] - foobar2000 Free Encoder Pack http://www.foobar2000.org/encoderpack
* MediaCoder: http://www.mediacoderhq.com/
* [[Winamp]]
* WinLAME: http://winlame.sourceforge.net/

==Processing utilities==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:400px;" | Description
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[lossyWAV]]
| GPL
| [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=56129&view=findpost&p=504087 here]
| align="left" | lossyWAV is a lossy pre-processor for [[Wikipedia:Pulse-code modulation|PCM]] (uncompressed) WAV files. It reduces [[Wikipedia:Audio bit depth|bit depth]] of the input signal, which, when used in conjunction with certain lossless codecs, reduces the bitrate of the encoded file significantly.
|}

==Drivers==
===ASPI===
* Ahead Nero ASPI Driver: [ftp://ftp6.nero.com/wnaspi32.dll download]
* Adaptec Windows ASPI Package: [http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/_eol/scsi_sw/aspi-4.70/ official website]
* ForceASPI [http://radified.com/ASPI/forceaspi.htm radified.com]
* ASPI4all [http://www.cdr-zone.com/software/aspi_layers/aspi4all.html CDR-Zone.COM]
* FrogAspi [http://www.frogaspi.org/ official website]
* VOB ASAPI Driver 1.3: [http://www.rarewares.org/files/ASAPI.exe download]

===Sound===
* ALSA Project [http://www.alsa-project.org/ official website]
* kX Project [http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/ official website]

==Links==
* [http://www.rarewares.org/ RareWares]

[[Category:Software]]

Download page

2012-12-12T20:58:23Z

87.112.81.64: /* Opus */ RW link Removed, putting the focus back onto Opus dev.

All programs mentioned anywhere in the wiki can be downloaded here.
See also the [[:Category:Software|Software Category]] article for more software not listed here.

==CD Rippers==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:300px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[CDex]]
| GPL
| [http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source ripper for Windows that uses cdparanoia functionality
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[DBpowerAMP with AccurateRip|dBpoweramp]]
| commercial
| [http://www.dbpoweramp.com/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for Windows that includes Accurate Stream functionality.
|-
! align="left" | DeepRipper
| GPL
| [http://www.deepburner.com/ here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[EAC]]
| Free
| [http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for Windows, C2 error pointers, Accurate Stream, etc.
|-
! align="left" | [[fre:ac ]]
| GPL
| [http://www.freac.org/ here]
| align="left" |
fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. Plus supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database which allows you query song information.
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:350px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Max]]
| GPL
| [http://sbooth.org/Max/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for OS X that uses additional cdparanoia functionality
|-
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[XLD]]
| GPL
| [http://tmkk.pv.land.to/xld/index_e.html here]
| align="left" | X Lossless Decoder(XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. Can convert between many lossless and lossy formats. Plugin oriented design, for easy exchange for new encoders.
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:320px;" | Description
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | abcde
| GPL
|[http://code.google.com/p/abcde/ here]
| align="left" | A command-line based ripper with cdparanoia functionality
|-
! align="left" | [[cdparanoia]]
| BSD, GPL
| [http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ here]
| align="left" | One of the first secure standalone rippers for the Linux platform
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Grip]]
| GPL
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/grip/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source Gnome interface ripper that uses cdparanoia functionality
|-
! align="left" | [[Rubyripper]]
| GPL
| [http://code.google.com/p/rubyripper/ here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for the Linux that uses additional cdparanoia functionality
|}

==CD/DVD Writers==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:185px;" | Name
! style="width:80px;" | Unicode
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Burrrn]] (CDA only)
| N
| Free
| [http://www.burrrn.net/ here]
|
|-
! align="left" | CDBurnerXP
|
| Free
| [http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | DeepBurner Free
| N
| GPL
| [http://www.deepburner.com/ here]
|
|-
! align="left" | DeepBurner Pro
|
| Shareware
| [http://www.deepburner.com/ here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Express Burn
| N
| non-commercial(free)
| [http://nch.com.au/burn/index.html here]
| align="left" | A free version of this software is available for non-commercial use only. The free version does not expire but will only burn normal CDs.
|
|-
! align="left" | Express Burn (Plus Edition)
|
| commercial
| [http://www.nch.com.au/burn/index.html here]
|
|-style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | InfraRecorder
| N
| GPL
| [http://infrarecorder.org/ here]
|
|-
! align="left" | [[Nero]]
| N
| commercial
| [http://www.nero.com/eng/ here]
| align="left" |
|-style="background-color: #eeeeee;"

|
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:130px;" | Name
! style="width:80px;" | Unicode
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:310px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[DVD-Audio Tools]]
| Y
| GPL
| [http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Open-source DVD-Audio authoring application
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | FireStarter FX
| N
| Free
| [http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=FireStarter_FX here]
| align="left" | Free OS X Cocoa CD writing application
|-
! align="left" | [[X-CD-Roast]]
| N
| Free
| [http://www.xcdroast.org/xcdr098/xcdrosX.html here]
| align="left" | New OS X port of this Linux CD writing application
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Burn
| N
| Free
| [http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html/ here]
| align="left" | Versatile CD/DVD authoring application
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:130px;" | Name
! style="width:80px;" | Unicode
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:260px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | CDRDAO
| N
| GPL
| [http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Cdrdao records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | DVD-Audio Tools
| Y
| GPL
| [http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Open-source DVD-Audio authoring application
|-
! align="left" | [[GnomeBaker]]
| N
| GPL
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnomebaker/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source Gnome interface CD/DVD writing application
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[K3b]]
| N
| GPL
| [http://www.k3b.org/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source KDE CD writing application for Linux platform
|-
! align="left" | [[X-CD-Roast]]
| Y
| GPL
| [http://www.xcdroast.org here]
| align="left" | New open-source Gnome interface CD/DVD writing application
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Brasero]]
| N
| GPL
| [http://projects.gnome.org/brasero/ here]
| align="left" | Brasero is a application to burn CD/DVD for the Gnome Desktop.(Gnome Default)
|}

==Multimedia Players==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[foobar2000]]
| Free, BSD
| [http://www.foobar2000.org/ here]
| align="left" | Advanced tagging, plugin capabilities, and kernel streaming support
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[MediaMonkey]]
| Free, Shareware
| [http://www.mediamonkey.com/ here]
| align="left" | Supports many Winamp plugins
|-
! align="left" | VUplayer
| Free
| [http://www.vuplayer.com/ here]
| align="left" | Supports many popular digital audio codecs and MOD tracker formats
|-
! align="left" | [[Winamp]]
| Free, Shareware
| [http://www.winamp.com/ here]
| align="left" | Popular audio player for Windows
| align="left" |
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[VLC]]
| Free
| [http://www.videolan.org/vlc// here]
| align="left" | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
|}

===Players / Source code ===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | MusikCube
| BSD
| [http://www.musikcube.com/ here]
| align="left" | Supports dynamic playlists and advanced SQL capabilities
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[wxMusik]]
| GPL
| [http://sourceforge.net/projects/musik.berlios/ here]
| align="left" |A cross-platform open-source audio player
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:220px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | Cog
| GPL
| [http://cogosx.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source digital audio player for OS X.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Play
| GPL
| [http://sbooth.org/Play/ here]
| align="left" |Play is an application for playing and managing audio files.
|-
! align="left" | [[VLC]]
| Free
| [http://www.videolan.org/vlc// here]
| align="left" | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:220px;" | Description
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Amarok]]
| GPL
| [http://amarok.kde.org/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source KDE audio player similiar to Foobar2000
|-
! align="left" | Audacious
| GPL
| [http://audacious-media-player.org/ here]
| align="left" |Audacious is an open source audio player
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Clementine]]
| GPL
| [http://www.clementine-player.org/ here]
| align="left" | Cross platform media player, a port of [[Amarok]] 1.4 to the Qt 4 and GStreamer framework, can be controlled with a Wii remote
|-
! align="left" | [[DeaDBeeF]]
| GPL
| [http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Lightweight music player for Linux, GUI similar to [[Foobar2000]]
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Rhythmbox]]
| GPL
| [http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox/ here]
| align="left" | GNOME music player
|-
! align="left" | [[VLC]]
| Free
| [http://www.videolan.org/vlc// here]
| align="left" | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, |Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[XMMS]]
| GPL
| [http://www.xmms.org/ here]
| align="left" | Popular open-source audio player similiar to Winamp
|}

=== Console players ===
* mpg123 [http://www.mpg123.org/ Homepage] [http://www.mpg123.org/download.shtml Downloads]

===PocketPC===
''These players may not play all your media files. Check their websites for the format support.''
* GSPlayer: http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA032810/
* MortPlayer: http://www.sto-helit.de/
* TCPMP: http://tcpmp.corecodec.org/about

==Tagging Utilities==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
|-
! align="left" | Frontah
| Free
| [http://home.vxu.se/mdati00/frontah/ here]
| align="left" | Transcode and tag editor for ID3v1.x, ID3v2.x, Lyrics3, Vorbis Comment, APEv1 & APEv2 tags. Supports ANSI, UTF8 and UTF16 text encoding depends on tag type.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
|-
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | MetatOGGer
| Free
| [http://www.luminescence-software.org/ here]
| align="left" | Tags MP3 ([[ID3]]), Ogg files (Vorbis comment, including Ogg FLAC and Speex), Musepack, Windows Media, WavPack et Monkey's Audio
|-
! align="left" | MP3 Book Helper
| Free
| [http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Tags [[ID3v1]], ID3v2.3, and Vorbis comments. Features: FreeDB, unicode, guessing and matching, and supporting PAR, SFV, SV, and NFO generation.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[MP3tag]]
| Free
| [http://www.mp3tag.de/ here]
| align="left" | Tags all files supporting [[ID3]], [[APEv2]], and [[Vorbis_Comment|Vorbis Comments]], not only MP3s
|-
! align="left" | MP3 Tag Editor
| Shareware
| [http://www.mp3-tag.com/ here]
| align="left" | Software to edit tags in audio files of [[MP3]], [[WMA]], [[OGG]], [[ASF]], and other music format.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
|-
! align="left" | [[Tag.exe]]
| GPL
| [http://www.synthetic-soul.co.uk/tag/ here]
| align="left" | Command-line universal tagger for Windows
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | Tag & Rename
| Shareware
| [http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm here]
|
|-
! align="left" | TagScanner
| Free
| [http://www.xdlab.ru/en/index.htm here]
|
|-
! align="left" | WMP Tag Plus 2.0
| Free
| [http://bmproductions.fixnum.org/wmptagplus/ here]
| align="left" | Software to integrate other tag format than [[ID3]] into Microsoft Windows Media Player 11.
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #bbffbb; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#bbffbb;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | Tag
| GPL
| [http://sbooth.org/Tag/ here]
| align="left" | An open-source tagging application for OS X
|}

===Linux===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ffcccc; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ffcccc;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Beets]]
| MIT
| [http://beets.radbox.org/ here]
| align="left" | Cross-platform open source tagging application written in Python, CLI only. Uses the Musicbrainz and Mutagen libraries, still in beta. Mostly automatic, minimal user input required. Many features and plugins. (Read the documentation)
|-
! align="left" | EasyTAG
| GPL
| [http://easytag.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | Gnome tagging utility
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" |
|}

==Encoders, Decoders, Etc.==
All basic tools needed to make use of the audio formats supported here.

===[[MP3]]===
* [[LAME]] encoder/decoder: [http://www.rarewares.org/mp3.html download pre-compiled binaries here]. Also check the [[Lame Compiles|Latest recommended version]] page.
* [[MP3Gain]], a ReplayGain-like utility: [http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/download.php download here]

===Ogg [[Vorbis]]===
Currently, all recommended Ogg Vorbis utilities are available at the [http://www.rarewares.org/ogg.html Rarewares Ogg Vorbis page]. The following tools are important:

* '''OggEnc2''': A command-line Ogg Vorbis encoder that can be used with most CD rippers.

* '''OggDec''': Command-line decoder.

* '''[[OggDropXPd]]''': An easy to use, drag'n'drop encoder/decoder with support for automatic tagging, renaming and playlist creation on encoding.

* ''Encoding DLLs'': For encoding within CDex or WinLame.

* '''VorbisGain''': The [[ReplayGain]] utility for Ogg Vorbis.

In addition, the [[Lancer]] suite — a highly SSE-optimized suite of utilities and libraries — are available at [http://homepage3.nifty.com/blacksword/ this page] ''(in Japanese)''. See [[Lancer#Platform-specific Builds|this section]] for information about the different builds.

=== Opus ===
* http://www.opus-codec.org/
* discussion at the [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=96954/ Forum]

===[[Musepack]] (MPC)===
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=win Download MPC for Windows]
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=lin Download MPC for Linux]
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=osx Download MPC for Mac OS X]
* [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=src Download MPC source code]

* [http://forum.musepack.net/showthread.php?t=395 Forum announcement of SV8 release]

===[[FLAC]]===
* CoolEdit / Adobe Audition Filter supporting FLAC: [http://www.vuplayer.com/other.php download here]
* Various FLAC-related utilities (incl. ReplayGain utility): [http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html FLAC's SourceForge Download page]

==Transcoders==
''Note: Although these tools may convert from one encoding to another, please remember that [[transcoding]] to any [[lossy]] encoding will result in a degraded quality.''
* BeSweet: http://besweet.notrace.dk/
* [[fre:ac ]]
* dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC): http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
* [[foobar2000]] - foobar2000 Free Encoder Pack http://www.foobar2000.org/encoderpack
* MediaCoder: http://www.mediacoderhq.com/
* [[Winamp]]
* WinLAME: http://winlame.sourceforge.net/

==Processing utilities==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #ccccff; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#ccccff;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:400px;" | Description
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[lossyWAV]]
| GPL
| [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?s=&showtopic=56129&view=findpost&p=504087 here]
| align="left" | lossyWAV is a lossy pre-processor for [[Wikipedia:Pulse-code modulation|PCM]] (uncompressed) WAV files. It reduces [[Wikipedia:Audio bit depth|bit depth]] of the input signal, which, when used in conjunction with certain lossless codecs, reduces the bitrate of the encoded file significantly.
|}

==Drivers==
===ASPI===
* Ahead Nero ASPI Driver: [ftp://ftp6.nero.com/wnaspi32.dll download]
* Adaptec Windows ASPI Package: [http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/_eol/scsi_sw/aspi-4.70/ official website]
* ForceASPI [http://radified.com/ASPI/forceaspi.htm radified.com]
* ASPI4all [http://www.cdr-zone.com/software/aspi_layers/aspi4all.html CDR-Zone.COM]
* FrogAspi [http://www.frogaspi.org/ official website]
* VOB ASAPI Driver 1.3: [http://www.rarewares.org/files/ASAPI.exe download]

===Sound===
* ALSA Project [http://www.alsa-project.org/ official website]
* kX Project [http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/ official website]

==Links==
* [http://www.rarewares.org/ RareWares]

[[Category:Software]]