Software Map

Lazy is a console-based CD player with freedb support. It provides artist, album, and song name display, looking at the main freedb-server for unrecognized songs. It can also extract audio digitally if the CD-ROM drive does not have an analog audio cable.

Quh is an audio player that cultivates many APIs
into a very simple and file operations inspired
framework. It aims to play everything that makes
noise (including reading different text formats
using speech synthesis).

DaemonRip runs as a Unix daemon and polls a CD
drive to see if an audio CD is inserted. When an
audio CD is detected, it will automatically
connect to a CDDB server to determine the name,
artists, and tracks of the CD, and begin to rip
and encode the CD using your preferred ripping and
encoding applications. When finished ripping the
disc, it will be ejected from the drive, allowing
you to insert a new one to continue the process.
No other user interaction is required. This
application also keeps statistics about your
ripping and encoding times, and logs all of the
actions to a log file.

Sunjammer is a KDE CD Player supporting CDDB,
playlists, and themes.

QMBTagger is a Qt-based frontend to the MusicBrainz client library, allowing lookup and tagging of MP3, Ogg, and FLAC files by TRM IDs (TRM libraries from Relatable). It also allows lookup of CDs based on their TOC.

numtracks is a simple command-line application that will print the number of tracks on the CD-ROM that is currently in the drive. This is useful for automated MP3-ripping of an entire album, via a simple Perl script, cdparanoia, and bladeenc/gogo.

SimpleCDR is a console-based, menu-driven front-end for Blade Encode, LAME, OGG Encode, CDparanoia, cdda2wav, cdrecord, and CDRDAO. It is used to copy data or audio CDs, encode MP3s, rip tracks, and master data or audio CDs. Its straight forward, all-in-one design makes it a very powerful utility.

MyCD is a little console CD player.

pyrip provides a Python module named "rip" which
allows you to extract audio tracks from an IDE
CD-ROM drive and save them to your hard drive in
wave file format. It is based on DAGRAB, a package
written by Marcello Urbani.

Apolos is a small, lightweight CD player, ripper,
and encoder. It features a timeline, play lists,
and full CDDB support.

pcd is a very simple command-line CD player.

mkcdtoc is a small and flexible command line
utility to create TOC files for cdrdao. It reads a
list of audio files and outputs a TOC file with a
track specification for each audio file. Input
data can be a raw list with one file name on each
line, or an m3u play list. The program has a
modular architecture and can be extended via
plugins. The distribution includes a few plugins
that can retrieve meta information from audio
files to fill CD-TEXT blocks in the generated TOC
file. There are plugins to perform audio file to
WAVE format conversion.

cdname.py names MP3 files and generates M3U playlists from CDDB/freedb INF files. (These are often retrieved with cdda2wav -L). MP3s and playlists can be named using any combination of artist name, track
title, album name, track number, etc. Many
aspects are configurable via command line
options. It should complement most
ripping/encoding pipelines well.

Xpand is a simple Python script with Glade GUI front-end for sox, cdparanoia, notlame, mpg123, and normalize. It uses the compand option in sox to adjust the dynamic range of music so the soft parts can be heard in a noisy environment, such as a car. The volume level can be normalized to a standard level so that music originally recorded at different levels will all have the same volume. Music can be read from an MP3, WAV file, or straight from a music CD and output to a MP3 or WAV file.