Free lame mp3 encoder software for linux

audiokonverter is a small utility to easily convert from OGG, MP3, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WMA, RealAudio, Musepack, Wavpack, WAV and movies to MP3, OGG, M4A, WAV and FLAC in Konqueror by right-clicking on them.
It needs oggenc, oggdec, faac, faad, flac, mplayer and lame to work. id3lib is optional for full functionality. Also optional are vorbis-tools and metaflac for handling other metadata. See README how/where to get that software.
Enhancements:
- MP3 metadata: switched from id3tag (V1 and V2) to id3v2 (V2 only) as suggested by Robert Turnbull

Subsonic is a free, web-based media streamer. Although primarily designed for MP3, it works for any audio or video format that can stream over HTTP (for instance WMA and OGG).
With Subsonic you have access to your entire music collection wherever you are. Use Subsonic application to share your music with friends, or to listen to your own music while at work. You can stream to multiple players simultaneously, for instance to one player in your kitchen and another in your living room.
Subsonic is designed to handle very large music collections (many thousand albums). It uses a combination of directory structure and tag parsing to organize the music.
If you have constrained bandwidth, you may set an upper limit for the bitrate of the music streams. Subsonic will then automatically resample the music to a suitable bitrate. (Supported for MP3 only).
In addition to being a streaming media server, Subsonic works very well as a local jukebox. The intuitive web interface, as well as search and index facilities, are optimized for efficient browsing through large media libraries.
Subsonic is free software distributed under the LGPL open-source licence.
Main features:
- Supports MP3, OGG, AAC, WMA and any other music or video format that can be streamed over HTTP.
- Works with any network-enabled media player, such as Winamp, iTunes, XMMS, MusicMatch and Windows Media Player.
- Displays cover art, dynamically scaling it to fit nicely on the screen.
- Finds cover art and album info using Amazon Web Services.
- On-the-fly resampling to lower bitrates using the high-quality LAME encoder (MP3 only).
- Common playlist features (add, remove, rearrange, repeat, shuffle, undo).
- Playlists can be saved and restored. Both M3U and PLS formats are supported.
- Configurable index.
- Google-like search functionality.
- Automatic update of search index at specified intervals.
- Supports multiple simultaneous players. The playlist for any player can be managed from any location.
- Secure. Users must log in using a username and password.
- Lean web interface optimized for constrained bandwidth environments and efficient browsing through large music collections.
- WAP interface allows you to control Subsonic from any mobile phone or PDA.
- In addition to streaming, single files or entire directories may be downloaded from Subsonic.
- Files can be uploaded to Subsonic. Zip-files can be automatically unpacked.
- Implements the SHOUTcast protocol. Players which support this (including Winamp, iTunes and XMMS) will display the current artist and song name.
- Provides links to album reviews and more at allmusic.com.
- Supports internationalization. Currently, English and Norwegian translations are provided.
Enhancements:
- New: Optimized scanning of music folders. Dramatic improvement for network disks.
- Bugfix: Fixed minor concurrency bug in search index creation.
- Bugfix: Make cache work if clocks on remote disks are out of sync.
- Bugfix: Ensure that cover art images are ordered alphabetically.
- Bugfix: Remove nag message for licensed users.

Kino is a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux. It features excellent integration with IEEE-1394 for capture, VTR control, and recording back to the camera. Kino captures video to disk in Raw DV and AVI format, in both type-1 DV and type-2 DV (separate audio stream) encodings.
You can load multiple video clips, cut and paste portions of video/audio, and save it to an edit decision list (SMIL XML format). Most edit and navigation commands are mapped to equivalent vi key commands.
Also, Kino can export the composite movie in a number of formats: DV over IEEE 1394, Raw DV, DV AVI, still frames, WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4. Still frame import and export uses gdk-pixbuf, which has support for BMG, GIF, JPEG, PNG, PPM, SVG, Targa, TIFF, and XPM. MP3 requires lame. Ogg Vorbis requires oggenc. MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 require mjpegtools or ffmpeg. MPEG-4 requires ffmpeg.
The current release introduces an experimental fx module, which is accessed from the FX tab in the main window. It provides some basic audio and video fx such as importing, filters and transitions for audio and video. It also provides some basic plug-in functionality to allow third party extension.
Currently, Kino does not support other video file formats or encodings. It does not support multiple layers or tracks of video and audio. We plan to implement most of these features, but first we chose to focus on the basics of IEEE-1394, video, audio, and file input and output. We place a lot of emphasis on quality, stability, performance, and workflow.
Main features:
General
- Free Software (GNU GPL)
- GTK+ 2.0 (GNOME) UI
- XML (SMIL like) project file format
- OSS audio
- GDK or XVideo
- online help
- Peer and developer support forums
- User interface translated to Danish, Swedish, French, Czech, and Spanish.
- Extensible project metadata system.
- Ability to "publish" project file and still frames using an extensible scripting interface.
Media Support
- DV-based (libdv codec)
- PAL or NTSC
- AVI (type1 or type2) or Raw DV files. with large AVI (OpenDML) and LFS (>2GB) support
Capture
- IEEE 1394 (Linux 1394) capture and export
- IEEE 1394 transport control (AV/C)
- USB Jog/Shuttle transport control
Editing
- Fast and frame-accurate navigation/scrubbing
- vi keybindings
- GUI transport controls, scrub bar, and shuttle control
- Storyboard view with drag-n-drop
- Trimmer with 3 point insert editing
- Fine-grain thumbnail viewer (Timeline, but not a typical NLE timeline)
- Drag-n-drop from file manager
- USB Jog/Shuttle input
- Undo/Redo up to 99X
Export
- IEEE 1394 DV Export
- Export audio as WAV, Ogg Vorbis (oggenc), MP3 (lame), or MP2 (mp2enc)
- Export (and import) multiple still frames as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, PPM, and others
- Export audio/video as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4 (with mjpegtools or ffmpeg)
- Export raw DV via pipe, which is extensible with shell scripts.
Effects General
- Background generator: solid colour, gradient, colour range, noise, and image import
- Effects preview
- Effects plugin API (API not yet stable)
Video Filters
- Black/White
- Sepia tone
- Reverse (i.e. inverse or negative)
- Mirror
- Kaleidescope
- Swap (flip)
Video Transitions
- Fade to/from colour
- Dissolve
- Push Wipe
- Barn Door Wipe
- Colour Differences (and Similarities)
Audio Filters
- Silence
- Fade In/Out
Audio Transitions
- Cross-fade
- Dub (from external file)
- Mix (from external file)

gst-id3v23-tags application provides a gstreamer plugin that adds metadata to media files (mainly MP3 audio files) with ID3 version 2.3.0 tags. This information includes elements such as the tracks title, author, performing artist, etc.

Other gstreamer taggers either create ID3 1.0 tags, which have significant limitations, or ID3 2.4 tags, which are not understood by as many MP3 players as ID3 2.3.

The gstreamer framework provides already some ID3 taggers, at least two of them one that encodes the in the version 1.0 and the other in the 2.4. Today most software and hardware mp3 players are able to understand at least one of the two formats. The problem is that not all MP3 players (specially the hardware ones) are able to understand ID3 v2.4 tags and using ID3 v1.0 can have some limitations specially with tags that contain UNICODE characters. Its most likely that today a decent MP3 player will be able to understand ID3 v2.3 tags.

This plugin was written in order to provide an alternative to MP3 players that can understand only ID3 v2.3 tags. This plugin should provide a nicer alternative to the end user over the two existing plugin in the gstreamer framework.

The ID3 v2.3 encoding is actually performed through the library id3lib which is available at http://www.id3lib.org/. The plugin it self depends only on the gstreamer framework (version 0.10) and the library id3lib (version 3.8.3).

To compile do:

make plugin

To install the plugin into your home account (no need to be root) just do:

make install

To use the plugin, just include the element id3v23 in any gstreamer pipeline. Heres an example on how to retag an old MP3 using the command line:

gst-launch filesrc location=a.mp3 ! id3demux ! id3v23 ! filesink location=b.mp3

Heres an example of an gstreamer audio profile used by sound-juiver for
extracting CDs into MP3s:

audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame mode=0 vbr-quality=6 ! id3v23

Quick and Dirty Transcoder provides a simple shell script that adds transcoding support to Amarok using gstreamer.
The only prerequisites are that you have gstreamer installed and the appropriate plugins.
Quick and Dirty Transcoder works with transcoding when copying files to a media player and also adds a context menu to allow you to transcode files in your collection. When doing the latter, the transcoded file will be written to the same directory as the original file.
You can configure dirtyxcode by creating a file in your home directory ~/.dirtyxcode.sh. The format of the configuration is a shell script that will be sourced by dirtyxcode. You can use this to control how dirtyxcode constructs the gstreamer pipeline. For example, to change the flacencoder element add the following:
flac_enc="myflacencoder myflacencopt=foo"
You can also add options to the existing encoders by setting
< format >_enc_options, for example to change the preset quality
setting for the mp3 encoder (lame), add the following to your
~/.dirtyxcode.sh file.
mp3_enc_options="preset=extreme"
The default gstreamer plugins used by Quick and Dirty Transcoder are:
- wav: wavenc
- mp3: lame
- ogg: vorbisenc
- m4a: faac
- aac: faac
- flac: flacenc

mhWaveEdit is a graphical program for editing, playing and recording sound files. mhWaveEdit project is user-friendly, lightweight, portable and handles large files very well.
The program itself has only simple editing features such as cutnpaste and volume adjustment but it can also use Ladspa effect plugins and the effects provided by the SoX application.
It can also support additional file formats besides wav through libsndfile and mp3/ogg import and export through lame and oggenc/oggdec.
For sound playback and recording, mhWaveEdit supports OSS, ALSA, Jack, SDL, PortAudio and EsounD.
Enhancements:
- Support opening files via dragndrop
- Reordering effects in effects browser
- Rate conversion crash fixed
- aRts driver bug fixed
- Minor bug fixes