Free media device software for linux

Transfer to Media Device is a script that creates a new Playlist Right Click Menu item for transferring selected playlist items to your iPod via the Media Device Browser.
This script now also supports generic copy to operation for USB mass storage devices. Currently the script will prompt for a destination directory on first copy, in the future this setting will be saved in a configuration file.
This script works with amaroK 1.3beta3 and above.
Usage:
Run from the amaroK script manager. A new menu item will appear in the Playlist right mouse button menu.
Select files in the playlist and Right click -> Transfer to -> iPod for transfering to an iPod.
Select files in the playlist and Right click -> Transfer to -> USB Device for transfering to a USB device.
Enhancements:
- Add support for Creative Nomad Jukebox devices using the kionjb kioslave. Thanks to Ralf T for the patch.

Media Pirate allows you to download videos and flash movies from websites.

More and more websites publish their videos in those neat flash players. But if you want to download a video there is no download link. This doesnt mean that you cant download it. Media Pirate creates a download link for you!

Media Pirate helps you to download videos from the following websites:

blip.tv break.com dailymotion.com ifilm.com media.putfile.com metacafe.com myvideo.de video.google.com vids.myspace.com vidilife.com youtube.com zippyvideos.com

To convert the video files to other formats go to:
Media Converter
This is very useful if you dont have a FLV player.

Media Pirate - The video downloader is the service that 100% works!!

Hint: It opens a new tab with the mediapirate.org website where you can find the download link.

Media Database is a media database that uses PHP for the GUI and MySQL for data storage.

It has movie, series, and anime listings. Media Database has lending and wishlist capabilities.

Installation:

Unpack mediadb-*.tar.gz to www dir or public_html dir.
Edit config.php, change mysql_user_name, mysql_password and mysql_server_host to match your MySQL database username, password and host.
run url: http://url_to_mediadatabase/install_mediadb.php, and follow the link and log in as admin and make default yourself a user.

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If there are any problems, please send a short description of where it occurs and the error message to my email addres: marco (at) cakebox (dot) net, marc the topic with [mediadb]: (something you find fitting)

MediaLibrary is a multi-platform free software that lets you catalog your media files ( CD-Rs, DVDs...)
Its main purpose is to reference your media files in a category tree with any comment. You can then easily find any file you are looking for.
MediaLibrary is Free Software available under the terms of the GNU/GPL running on Java.
Main features:
- Status Bar with Current Selection Management & Monitored Task Stacking
- Catalog Load Tracing (options/trace menu)
- Recent files list
- Automatic backup & Warning if saving on an already existing different Catalog
- Graphical file category change
- Browsable help & documentation
- Numerous switchable gui icon sets (through setting the medialib.icons.directory property in the resources/medialib.prop file)
- 2 GUI loading & indexing refresh politics: continuous or on action end only (customizable in resources/medialib.prop by setting the medialib.gui.refresh property either to "OnModelEvent" or to "OnActionEndOnly"). The last one is 6 times faster.
- XML format:
- Read & write catalogs in XML and gzip XML
- Full ADC catalog 1.15b format compliance:
- Minus: media drive "free size" field
- Read & write (catalog, medias, dirs & files, categories, dates, comments, sizes...)
- Adc uses a nonstandard date storage format, so there may be up to 4 min delay between adc dates loaded from pure adc and stored by MediaLibrary
- Indexed media & file tree sorted view:
- Shows full indexed filesystem & file properties (name, size...)
- Directory properties (full size, files number...) autocomputing
- Media can be renamed & removed (media tree popup or Edit menu)
- Media & directories can be sorted (media tree popup or Edit menu)
- Customizable sort strategies (in resources/medialib.prop)
- Select Subtree action (media tree popup or Edit menu)
- Media indexation:
- Any drive or directory may be indexed in the current catalog
- MediaLibrary on Windows guesses drives label, type & serial number
- Indexed MP3 files ID3s are parsed as file comments
- Hierarchical categorization model:
- Compliant with pure ADC file format
- The / slash character is used as categories level separator
- Features a tree categories view showing categorized files
- Navigation from categorized files to media view by double click
"new", "add","move" and "remove" categories tree popup & Edit menu actions
- All selected files may be recategorized at the same time
- File & media search feature:
- Toolbar search textfield & launch button
- Google like behaviour for the search entries : spaces are understood as AND operators
- Category cross searching
- Satistics tab providing information on found files
- Stats:
- Toolbar statistics launch button to compute statistics on the current catalog
- An increasing panel of statistics for now : basic statistics on files, statistics on multimedia files
- An "easy to extend" stats computing architecture. Develop your own statistics algorithm
- Preferences Edition:
- Edits the reources/medialib.prop, saves on exit
- Single and multi properties handled
- Report:
- HTML output
- Reports missing serial episodes in the subcategories of the Preferences chosen top serial Category

Easy Media Desktop is meant as a user-friendly interface to working with different types of media.

Its primarily designed to be used by mobility impaired users that may be using a specialized interface that allows special switches to send signals to a PC as mouse clicks.

Poisson Media Recovery project can be used to retrieve slightly damaged files from CD-ROM media.

It sequentially mounts and umounts the device, and on each mount it tries to read as many new 512 byte sectors as possible.

I was able to use this tool to save some files from old CDs.

PulseAudio Device Chooser (padevchooser) is a simple GTK tool which registers an icon in the tray area and allows quick access to some features of the PulseAudio sound server.
Main features:
Notify about new sink/sources becoming available on the LAN;
Quickly change the default PulseAudio sink/source/server assigned to the current X11 display, selecting devices available on the LAN;
Start the auxiliary tools PulseAudio Volume Control, PulseAudio Volume Meter, PulseAudio Manager

Sofa is a media center aimed at easy usage for GNOME.
Sofa is a media center aimed at easy usage, minimal configuration and total integration with the Gnome desktop environment and existing multimedia applications. The project has a modular architecture. Two modules exists as of now: Videoplayer and Rhythmbox integration.
Supported Media
- Music (file types supported by Rhythmbox)
- Local video files (file types supported by GStreamer)