The program makes it easy to convert your audio CDs to MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files which you can use in your hardware player or with your favorite audio software. It supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database and CDText and automatically writes song information to ID3V2 or Vorbis comment tags.

BonkEnc is currently available in 31 languages and can be translated to other languages easily using the ’smooth Translator’ utility that is included in the distribution.

With the tree browser, select quickly the directory to search for supported files (with or without including sub-directories). All files found are displayed in a main with a variable background colour to show, in one glance, the files in the same directory.

A second useful view mode, organizes the files by artist and by album to have a quick look to all the artists of your collection, and all albums for each artist.

The interface displays basic file informations taken from the file header, like bitrate or duration. With the interface, you can as well edit common tag fields as : title, artist, album, year, track number, genre and comment which were available into ID3v1.1 and ID3v2.3 tag. But you can also edit specials ID3v2.3 fields like : disc album, composer, original artist/performer, copyright, URL, encoder name and attached pictures.

Three differents scanners allow you to tag automatically from the filename, rename the file and directory from the tag, and process fields (for example to change the case). The first two scanners use a preview to avoid any mistakes and help you when using or creating yours own patterns.

If necessary you can use one of the both CDDB modes to fill yours tags with FreeDB servers. First, the automatic way tries to identify the selected files with the correct CDDB album. Else, a manual search lets you to search any word in the CDDB database to identify yourself the right album.

Also, you can load the content of a simple TXT file (containing filenames) to set name of each file.

Mass tagging is available with the scanners, but also with buttons to apply a field to all other selected files (small button on the right of each field).

To prevent mistakes, the undo and redo functions assist the user to recover the last changes.

The files collection can be export to a play list for Winamp or XMMS.

Currently plays mp3, ogg, wma, wav, flac, mp4 and radio streaming, allowing users to easily edit tags, organize music and rip Audio CDs.

In addition, Exaile also includes a built-in SHOUTcast directory browser, tabbed playlists (so you can have more than one playlist open at a time), blacklisting of tracks (so they don’t get scanned into your library), downloading of guitar tablature from fretplay.com, and submitting played tracks on your iPod to Last.fm.

Amongst its core features are the following:

Album covers - Amarok utilizes your existing album covers and displays them nicely in Context browser. If you do not have a cover, Amarok can download the appropriate one from the internet.

Lyrics support - Amarok automatically downloads and stores lyrics for your songs, thanks to the advanced and flexible scripting system.

Wikipedia integration - Amarok is one of the first applications to feature Wikipedia integration. Tons of information about your favorite artist is just one click away!

Contextual information - the Smart Context browser will give you a quick view on your currently played music, and suggest similar tracks that you might like.

Statistics - Easily track your music habits with a flexible and powerfull rating browser.

Last.fm integration - Amarok can submit information about your played tracks to your Last.fm profile, thus letting you use rich set of Last.fm features, like statistics, charts and more. Use Amarok to listen to Last.fm internet streams, which follow your music taste.

Rip CDs, play and sync your iPod, create playlists, and burn audio and MP3 CDs. Most portable music devices are supported.

Banshee also has support for podcasting, smart playlists, music recommendations, and much more.

Songbird runs on Mozilla’s XULRunner platform, thus capable of running on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and most distributions of Linux.

On the Windows and Macintosh platforms, Songbird utilizes the VideoLAN Client for media playback. For Linux, Songbird utilizes the GStreamer Media Framework instead of VideoLAN.

It’s main features include:

Ability to play multiple audio formats, such as MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and Windows Media Audio.

Ability to play Apple FairPlay encoded audio on Windows and Mac platforms via hooks into Quicktime (Authorization takes place in iTunes).

Ability to play Windows Media DRM audio on Windows platforms.

A skinnable interface, via feathers.

Media files stored on pages viewed in the browser show up as playable files in Songbird.

Built in RSS subscription and MP3 file download.

The ability to subscribe to mp3 blogs as playlists.

User created bookmarks, ability to build custom mixes.

Ability to scan the user’s computer for all audio files and add them to a local library.

An easily configurable and collapsible graphical user interface similar to iTunes, and miniplayer mode.

And much more…

“Dynamic playlists” allow fully automatic, randomized
playback of songs based on your observed listening habits. The more you listen, the smarter it gets. It also features browsable, user reorderable playlists.

Cube also makes transferring audio between home and
work very easy with it’s unique support for removable storage devices.

It includes the following features: support for more than 15 languages, multiple media players, efficient podcast management, built-in directory with thousands of listed podcast feeds, auto cleanup, authentication, centralized feed management, accessible for blind and visually impaired users (windows version only).

It’s main features include:

Easy to install (Setup Wizard) and supports ANY media filetype: mp3, ogg, mpg, m4v, mov, pdf, etc… Create easily mixed audio and video podcasts!
# XML feed generated is fully compatible with Juice and iTunes, meets the w3c standards and supports iTunes specific tags!

Password protected web administration interface: upload, edit, delete episodes and fully cusotmize the script!

Dynamic “All podcasts” and “Last n Podcasts” web pages showing title description of the file.

Multilanguage support.