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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 #00A1F1; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background-color: #00A1F1;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:500px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | CUERipper
| GPL
| [http://cue.tools/wiki/CUERipper here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for Windows that includes Accurate Stream functionality. [https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/board,74.0.html Forum]
|- 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 #79C753; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#79C753;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:500px;" | 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 #D65076; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#D65076;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:450px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | abcde
| GPL
|[https://abcde.einval.com/wiki/ here]
| align="left" | A command-line based ripper with cdparanoia functionality
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[cdparanoia]]
| BSD, GPL
| [https://xiph.org/paranoia/ here]
| align="left" | One of the first secure standalone rippers for the Linux platform
|-
! align="left" | Grip
| GPL
| [https://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
| [https://github.com/bleskodev/rubyripper here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for Linux that uses additional cdparanoia functionality
|-
! align="left" | [[Whipper]]
| GPL
| [https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper here]
| align="left" | A secure ripper for the Linux command-line built on cdparanoia
|}

==CD/DVD Writers==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #00A1F1; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#00A1F1"
! 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
| 
|
|- 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" | InfraRecorder
| N
| GPL
| [http://infrarecorder.org/ here]
|
|-
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #79C753; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#79C753;"
! 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 #D65076; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#D65076;"
! style="width:130px;" | Name
! style="width:80px;" | Unicode
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:450px;" | 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 #00A1F1; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#00A1F1"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:500px;" | 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]]
| LGPL
| [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" | [[MusicBee]]
| Free,
| [https://getmusicbee.com/ here]
| align="left" | The Ultimate Music Manager and Player, MusicBee supports podcasts, web radio stations and SoundCloud integration.

|-
|}

===Players / Source code ===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #98DDDE; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#98DDDE"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! align="center" style="width:450px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | MusikCube
| BSD
| [http://www.musikcube.com/ here]
| align="left" | Supports dynamic playlists and advanced SQL capabilities
|}

===Mac OS X===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #79C753; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#79C753;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:450px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[foobar2000]]
| Free
| [https://www.foobar2000.org/mac/ here]
| align="left" | Most of the features implemented are known to work reasonably well.
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[VOX]]
| Free
| [https://vox.rocks/mac-music-player here]
| align="left" | Mac Music Player for Hi-Res music through the popular sources.
|-
! 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]]
| LGPL
| [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 #D65076; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#D65076;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:450px;" | 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
| [http://opensource.org/docs/osd OSD]
| [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]]
| LGPL
| [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
|}

=== command-line(Shell) players ===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #98DDDE; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#98DDDE;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:90px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:350px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | mpg123
| LGPL
| [http://www.mpg123.org/ here]
| align="left" | mpg123 is a real time MPEG audio player/decoder
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | mplayer for windows
| GPL v2
| [http://mplayerwin.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | MPlayer is a free and open source media player.
|}

==Tagging Utilities==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #00A1F1; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#00A1F1"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:500px;" | Description
|-
! 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 & Rename
| Shareware
| [http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm here]
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | TagScanner
| Free
| [http://www.xdlab.ru/en/index.htm here]
| align="left" | Tag editor with built-in audio player.
|-
! 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 #79C753; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#79C753;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:320px;" | 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 #D65076; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#D65076;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:450px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | [[Beets]]
| MIT
| [http://beets.io/ 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
| [https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EasyTAG here]
| align="left" | Gnome tagging utility
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" |
|-
! align="left" | Puddletag
| GPLv3
| [http://docs.puddletag.net/index.html here]
| align="left" | Puddletag is a Linux audio tag editor similar to Mp3tag
|}

==Lossy Audio Encoders/Decoders ('''Classic''')==
Lossy audio main focus is to shrink large files to small, lossy is ideal for internet transport and on the go device (Mobile Phone / Players).
'''Classic''' Current Trends : '''MP3 (Lame)''''

{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #F6D155; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#F6D155;"
! style="width:100px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:500px;" | Description
! style="width:100px;" | Forum
|-
! align="left" | [[MP3]]
| GPL
| [http://lame.sourceforge.net/ here]
| align="left" | LAME is a lossy audio compression.
|
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
|! align="left" | Ogg [[Vorbis]]
| GPL
| [http://xiph.org/index.html here]
| align="left" | Ogg Vorbis is a lossy audio compression.
|
|-
|! align="left" | [[Musepack]]
| GPL
| [http://www.musepack.net/index.php?pg=enc here]
| align="left" | Musepack is a lossy audio compression.
|
|-
|}

*Lame/Ogg Builds (Windows)
Looking for Windows Builds, Options available to you : *Developer Site, *Git, *[http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/ Hydrogenaudio Forum], *[http://www.rarewares.org/ Rarewares]

*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.

==Lossy Audio Encoders/Decoders ('''Future''')==
Lossy audio main focus is to shrink large files to small, lossy is ideal for internet transport and on the go device (Mobile Phone / Portable Players).
'''Future''' Current Trends : '''AAC (qaac)''', ''''Opus-codec'''.

{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #F6D155; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#F6D155;"
! style="width:100px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:500px;" | Description
! style="width:100px;" | Forum
|-
! align="left" | [[Opus]]
| GPL
| [http://www.opus-codec.org/ here]
| align="left" | Opus is a totally open, royalty-free codec. It is primarily designed for interactive speech and music transmission over the Internet.
| opus [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showforum=71 Forum]
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | qaac
| GPL
| [https://sites.google.com/site/qaacpage/home here]
| align="left" | qaac is a command line AAC/ALAC encoder frontend based on Apple encoder.
| qaac.AAC [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=85135 Forum]
|-
|}

== Lossless Audio Encoders/decoders ('''Forever''')==
Lossless Audio is aimed towards '''high quality audio''', also suitable for high quality backups.
'''Forever''' Current Trends: '''flac'''

{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #F6D155; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#F6D155;"
! style="width:100px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:500px;" | Description
! style="width:100px;" | Forum
|-
! align="left" | [[FLAC]]
| GPL
| [http://xiph.org/flac/index.html here]
| align="left" | FLAC is a lossless audio compression.
| flac [https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/board,67.0.html Forum]
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[Monkey's Audio]]
|
| [https://www.monkeysaudio.com/ here]
| align="left" | Monkey's Audio is a lossless audio compression. also Monkey's Audio has a nice GUI converter, ideal for converting (.WAV to .APE)
|
|-
! align="left" | [[WavPack]]
| GPL
| [http://www.wavpack.com/ here]
| align="left" | WavPack is a hybrid lossless wavefile compressor.
| WavPack [http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showforum=68 Forum]
|-
|}

*Flac Builds (Windows)
Looking for Windows Builds, Options available to you : *Developer Site, *Git, *[http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/ Hydrogenaudio Forum], *[http://www.rarewares.org/ Rarewares]

==Transcoders==
''Note: Although these tools may convert from one encoding to another, please remember that [[transcoding]] to any [[lossy]] encoding <u>will</u> result in a degraded quality.''
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #55B4B0; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#55B4B0;"
! style="width:150px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:270px;" | Description
| style="width:100px;" | Forum
|-
! align="left" | dBpowerAMP
| Shareware
| [http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm here]
| align="left" | dBpoweramp Music Converter
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | [[foobar2000]]
| Freeware
| [http://www.foobar2000.org/encoderpack here]
| align="left" | Free Encoder Pack for foobar2000.
|[https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,108593.msg934566/topicseen.html#new Forum]
|-
! align="left" | [[fre:ac ]]
| GPL
| [http://www.freac.org/ here]
|- style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | ferocious
| free
| [https://github.com/jniemann66/ferocious here]
|
| [https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,111777.msg921198.html Forum]
|-
! align="left" | BatchEncoder
| MIT license
| [https://github.com/wieslawsoltes/BatchEncoder here]
|
| [https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,50822/topicseen.html Forum]
|-style="background-color: #eeeeee;"
! align="left" | WinLAME
| GPL
| [http://winlame.sourceforge.net/ here]
|
|
|-
! align="left" | LossyFlacGUI
|
| [https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,113178.0.html here]
| align="left" | Optimize flac Audio file.
| [https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,113178.0.html Forum]
|}

==Processing utilities==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #00A1F1; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#00A1F1;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:500px;" | Description
|-
! 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.
|}

==File Archiver - Plugins==
===Windows===
{| border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" style="text-align:center; border:2px solid #00A1F1; margin-bottom: 20px;"
|- style="background:#00A1F1;"
! style="width:120px;" | Name
! style="width:100px;" | License
! style="width:100px;" | Website
! style="width:500px;" | Description
|-
! align="left" | WavPack7z
|
| [http://www.tc4shell.com/en/7zip/wavpack7z/ here]
| align="left" | WavPack7z is a plugin for the popular 7-Zip archiver. It allows you to pack uncompressed PCM audio data using the highly efficient WavPack compression algorithm.
discussion in the [https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,117037.0.html forum]
|}

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