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http://www.apple.com/itunes/ - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
All-in-one application from Apple with free AAC/MP4 encoder and decoder from QuickTime, rips CDs, organizes music files and connects to its Music Store. |
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QuickTime - http://www.apple.com/quicktime/player/
Since version 6 this Apple multimedia software decodes MP4 files. The basic player is free, the commercial Pro version also encodes MPEG-4 video and AAC as well as 3GP content. |
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http://mplayerhq.hu/ - http://mplayerhq.hu/
Multimedia player for Linux also available in a Mac OS X and Windows version with AAC/MP4 decoding through FAAD2. |
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http://www.winamp.com/ - http://www.winamp.com/
Plays and encodes AAC/MP4 with internal plugins since version 5.0, also decodes aacPlus Shoutcast streams and other formats. |
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http://www.videolan.org/ - http://www.videolan.org/
Multimedia player of the VideoLAN project for several platforms, streams live MPEG-4 content via RTP and aacPlus via Shoutcast, transcodes to AAC with FAAC. |
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Windows Media Player - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/mp10/default.aspx
WMP needs external DirectShow filters for AAC/MP4 support like 3ivx, mpegable, CoreAAC or LSX. |
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http://www.xmms.org/ - http://www.xmms.org/
Linux player with Winamp 2.x looks supporting as many input formats, source code of AAC/MP4 plugin available in the FAAD2 CVS and download package. |
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http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/ - http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/
Tools to record, convert, stream and play multimedia content including libavcodec and libavformat, two libraries used by many other open source projects. |
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RealPlayer 10 - http://www.realnetworks.com/info/real10_platform/
Decodes AAC bitstreams (LC and HE) in the RM container, rips CDs to M4A, connects to its music store and is freely available for several platforms. |
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Rhythmbox - http://www.rhythmbox.org/
Integrated music management application inspired by Apple's iTunes and based on the GStreamer and/or the Xine framework, plays AAC/MP4 through gst-plugin for FAAD2. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/tkan/xmcd/main.html - http://www.ibiblio.org/tkan/xmcd/main.html
CD player, ripper and encoder for Unix and other platforms, AAC/MP4 output files with FAAC. |
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Audiograbber - http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/
Freeware CD ripper and encoder supporting AAC/MP4 output files with the FAAC command line version. |
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Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/
This multimedia DirectShow player looks like the old Windows Media Player 6.4, but has a lot more features like switching audio streams in an MP4 file. |
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http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ - http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
Windows tool identifying codecs in container formats like AVI, MPEG and MP4. |
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http://www.musicpd.org/ - http://www.musicpd.org/
Music Player Daemon for Linux allows remote access to music files and managing playlists, using FAAD2 for decoding AAC/MP4. |
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http://www.xine-project.org/ - http://www.xine-project.org/
Multimedia library and player with AAC/MP4 support based on FAAD2. |
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http://www.geocities.com/mpxplay/ - http://www.geocities.com/mpxplay/
Full-screen DOS player also working on Windows, very fast due to ASM optimization enabling AAC Low Complexity and High Efficiency profile decoding on old PCs. |
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Audacious - http://audacious-media-player.org/
The GTK+2 port of XMMS with modern GUI features. |
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GetID3() - http://getid3.sourceforge.net/
The PHP media file parser extracts play time, bitrate and resolution from AAC and reads/writes ID3v1/v2 tags, supports other formats as well. |
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http://gpac.sourceforge.net/ - http://gpac.sourceforge.net/
This open source project provides Osmo4, an MPEG-4 Systems multimedia player using FAAD2 as the AAC decoder, as well as a 2D/3D BIFS encoder and an MP4 file muxer. |
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MP4player - http://mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net/
Multimedia player of the open source MPEG4IP project that also decodes RTSP live internet streams, AAC support through FAAD2. |
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http://support.xmplay.com/ - http://support.xmplay.com/
Fast player supporting XM and other tracker formats, usual inputs through external Winamp plugins and output formats with command line encoders, i.e. FAAD2 and FAAC for AAC/MP4. |
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JetAudio - http://www.jetaudio.com/
All-in-one application for playback, encoding and streaming of multimedia content either with QuickTime or DirectShow filters. |
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http://www.3ivx.com/ - http://www.3ivx.com/
DirectShow filter suite with MPEG-4 video and multichannel AAC audio encoder based on FAAC as well as decoder, MP4 file format muxer and parser. |
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Easy CD-DA Extractor - http://www.poikosoft.com/
Commercial CD ripper, encoder and converter with aacPlus capabilities. |
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IBM M4Play - http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/tk4mpeg4/
Java based multimedia player from the platform independent IBM Toolkit for MPEG-4 including authoring tools for MP4 files with Systems content. |
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EnvivioTV - http://www.envivio.com/products/etv/
An MPEG-4 plugin for Windows Media Player, RealPlayer and older QuickTime versions enabling playback of RTP streams. |
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BSplayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/
Multimedia application with AAC/MP4 support through DirectShow filters like 3ivx, CoreAAC or ffdshow. |
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Ecasound - http://www.eca.cx/ecasound/
Multitrack processing for playback, recording, format conversions, effects and mixing. |
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http://koti.welho.com/hylinen/apollo/ - http://koti.welho.com/hylinen/apollo/
The new version of this freeware player uses the Winamp input plugin from Audiocoding.com to decode AAC/MP4. |
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Media Player Classic Home Cinema - http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/
Based on the original Media Player Classic and created after the original author stopped working on it. Includes new features and video decoders. |
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RareWares - http://www.rarewares.org/aac.html
Hosts several AAC/MP4 encoders and decoders as well as other related tools, see also the section for the Debian Linux distribution. |
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http://www.oddsock.org/tools/ - http://www.oddsock.org/tools/
Plugin for Winamp and foobar2000 using libfaac.dll to enable AAC internet radio streams with a Shoutcast or Icecast server, other formats also supported. |
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Zoom Player - http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/
This multimedia player from Inmatrix uses external DirectShow filters for MP4 files, e.g. 3ivx, mpegable or CoreAAC. |
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http://www.bonkenc.org/ - http://www.bonkenc.org/
Open source CD ripper and encoder based on the CDex ripping engine with support for many different languages, uses a FAAC output plugin. |
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http://madman.sourceforge.net/ - http://madman.sourceforge.net/
Linux music file manager similar to iTunes with tag editor, media library, dynamic playlists and a CD burning frontend, extensible through plugin scripts. |
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Media Center - http://www.musicex.com/mediacenter/
All-in-one application from J. River, Inc. with file management database, FAAC integration through external encoder plugin, AAC/MP4 decoding either with QuickTime or Winamp plugin. |
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ImTOO Audio Encoder - http://www.imtoo.com/audio-encoder.html
Commercial converter using FAAC and FAAD2 for AAC/MP4 support. |
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmerlin/ - http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmerlin/
A transcoding application for Linux with a modular structure supporting many input and output formats. |
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http://freshmeat.net/projects/faac/ - http://freshmeat.net/projects/faac/
Summary of this open source project with AAC encoder and decoder FAAD2 listing release notes, FAQs, download packages, ports and other Freshmeat applications using these codecs. |
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FAAC project packages - http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_projfiles.php?group_id=704
Publishing file releases on SourceForge.net. |
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AACplayer - http://sourceforge.net/projects/aacplayer/
DirectShow filter suite with encoder based on FAAC, parser for AAC files, Shoutcast DS filter and Windows GUI, playback uses the external CoreAAC DS filter. |
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Mpegable - http://www.mpegable.com/showPage.php?SITE=mpegable&PAGE=mpegableds
DirectShow filter suite from Dicas to decode MP4 and 3GP files or RTP streams of MPEG-4 content, also available as a standalone player application. |
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Nero Digital - http://ww2.nero.com/nerodigital/enu/
Application suite with MPEG-4 video and HE AAC encoder and decoder based on FAAD2 including Parametric Stereo, same as in Nero 6. |
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Tom's Audioguides - http://indie-mp3.net/audiograbber/
Overview and tips for Audiograbber users with a tutorial for AAC/MP4 encoding support through FAAC. |