Free lame mp3 software for linux

Punit is an attempt to create a Python CD ripper using cdparanoia and lame for Linux.

I couldnt get Sound Juicer to rip mp3, GooBox encodes mp3 using VBR which screws up the mp3 times in Foobar2000. I wanted a simple mp3 ripper and i wanted to learn Python so I made my own.

Right now, its a straight forward ripper to mp3 with the format 128 kbps, 44100Hz, stereo. Comments, suggestions, improvements are all welcomed.

Thanks to CDDB.py for the CDDB module.

transKode is a KDE/Qt based frontend for varios audio transcoding tools.
Based on AUDIO FORMAT CONVERTER v.6 by Michael Mitton (take a look at http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=23653)
Supported Input Formats:
- wav
- mp3 (needs lame)
- mpc (needs mppdec)
- ogg (needs oggdec)
- flac (needs flac)
- ape/mac (needs mac)
- m4a/mp4 (needs faad)
- spx (needs speexdec)
- audio formats decodable by installed gst-streamer (needs gst-launch with gst-spider plugin)
Supported Output Formats:
- wav
- mp3 (needs lame)
- mpc (needs mppenc)
- ogg (needs oggenc)
- flac (needs flac)
- ape/mac (needs mac)
- m4a/mp4 (needs faac)
- spx (needs speexenc)
- output formats for which you have gstreamer encoder plugins (needs gst-launch with wavparse plugin).

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

RipIT is used to create MPEG-1 Layer 3 (mp3), Flac (flac) or Ogg Vorbis (ogg) audio files from an audio CD and from version 3.4 also faac (m4a). RipIT is a console based front-end (no fancy GUI here), written in perl, for these excellent programs:
- dagrab, cdparanoia or cdda2wav (tosha and cdd are also supported) for ripping the audio CD tracks (I dont know if dagrab is still up to date..., but its COOL!)
- Lame, OggVorbis, Flac or Faac for encoding the wav files to mp3, ogg, flac or m4a (find some info and links)
- CDDB_get (perl module) for CDDB retrieval (info and links).
Main features:
- Gets the Audio CD Album/Artist/Tracks information from CDDB
- Rips the Audio CD Tracks
- Encodes to flac, mp3 or ogg
- id3 tags encoded songs
- Creates an playlist (m3u) file
- Can prepare and send a CDDB submission.
Enhancements:
- Some minor bugs were fixed.
- The following options have been introduced: merge, resume, md5sum (to create MD5-sum files for each type of sound file), core (to allow several encoding processes on each machine), fpermission and dpermission (to set directory and file permissions), ghost (an experimental feature to split wavs with silence into chunks of sound), prepend and extend (to enlarge chunks of sound when split with the ghost option), and ejectcmd and ejectopt.

Zina is a graphical interface to your MP3 collection, a personal jukebox, an MP3 streamer. Zina can run on its own, embeded into an existing website, or as a Postnuke/PHPNuke/Xoops/Mambo module. It is similar to Andromeda, but released under the GNU General Public License.
Main features:
- MP3 / OGG / WAV / WMA / Real Audio streaming
- Custom and "Session" Playlists
- Random, non-repeating playlists by albums or songs
- "Skip Track:" Easily exclude songs from albums and random playlists
- Searching
- Simple Installation (no database)
- Easy to configure:(uses regular text and graphic files for customization)
- Can be used as a Postnuke or PHPNuke module
- As of 0.11.09 can be used as an Xoops module or MamboServer component
- Can downsample mp3s on the fly (with external encoder like LAME)
- Can dynamically resize images if your version of PHP (with GD library) supports it.
- Localization support (0.10.x: English, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Traditional Chinese, French, Danish, Bulgarian, Croation, Hebrew, Basque, Russian, Norwegian, Turkish, Swedish, Slovakian, Hungarian, Catalan, Brazilian, Albanian, Romanian, Finnish, Greek, Kannada; 0.11.x adds Bahasa Indonesia, Japanese)
- Many of the features of Andromeda
- Many other features (see Changelog)
- Released under GNU General Public License
Requierments:
- PHP 4.1.x on the Apache web server (IIS is not supported, although it may work, see here).
- Any web browser that supports JavaScript and CSS.
- An media player (Winamp, xmms, mpg123, etc.) that supports .m3u playlists (and .asx in 0.11.x).
Enhancements:
- This release hopefully adds better ID3 Unicode support.
- It also includes a Vietnamese translation.

reTune is a very useful tool for all iPod users who, for some reason, are not happy about iTunes and want to manage their music files for themselves.
With reTune, you can copy music to the iPod with Explorer, Finder, Konqueror, Nautilus or any other file manager you like (yes, cp will work, too ;) and have it played back by the iPod with (almost) no hassles.
The only thing you have to do is start this litte program just after plugging the iPod into your USB port and before unplugging it.
Please note that reTune is in an early development stage and may or may not work for you. You should always create a backup of the /iPod_Control/iTunes directory before trying reTune.
Moreover, I wont take any responsibility or liability for any damage caused by the use of reTune. Until now, I could only test with my own iPod nano.
How it works
reTune scans the whole iPod volume for playable files, retrieving metadata (e.g. ID3 tags) from these files, and moving them to a location where the iPod can find them. The collected metadata and file names are then written to an iTunesDB file, which the iPod requires for proper blayback.
This process is called freezing. reTune keeps track of the original filenames of the files added to the database. Thus, it is possible to unfreeze the song database, i.e. move the music files back to the location where they came from (all inside the iPods filesystem, of course).
Main features:
- multiplatform (written in Python)
- support for MP3 sound files
- support for Ogg Vorbis files (will be automatically transcoded into MP3 using OggDec and LAME)
- reads metadata (title, artist, album, ...) from ID3v1, ID3v2 and Vorbis comment tags
- iPod shuffle support (although the iPod shuffle Database Builder is better suited for this model)
Enhancements:
- added playlist support -- two methods are availabe: the "master playlist file" in /retune_playlists.ini every *.m3u is collected and converted to a playlist, unless it exactly covers an album (in which case it would be pointless)
- MP3 detection code is now more error-tolerant (doesnt clip the file at the first broken frame any longer)
- added automatic inference of the compilation flag: if the album tag of all files in a directory is the same, but the artists differ, the whole directory will be marked as a compilation
- fixed crash when OggDec was not present
- added a filename allocator; should improve big (>10GB) iPod compatibility
- now guessing the track number from the file name even if there is an ID3v1.0 tag available
- when freezing, the cache file is now saved as early as possible to minimize data loss if reTune crashes at a later point (e.g. playlist processing)