Grip is a CD-player and CD-ripper for the Gnome desktop. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built in, but can also use external rippers. It also provides an automated front-end for MP3 (and other audio format) encoders, taking a disc and transforming it straight into MP3s. For more details, see http://www.nostatic.org/grip/.

Banshee is a media player and can encode and decode various media formats, including Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and FLAC. Banshee can play, import, and burn audio CDs, and supports many portable media players, including Apple's iPod and Creative's ZEN. For more details, see http://banshee-project.org/.

KsCD is a CD player application for the KDE desktop. Its user interface very much resembles that of a normal hardware CD player KsCD supports CDDB, enabling the user to track album information. For more details, see http://docs.kde.org/en/3.3/kdemultimedia/kscd/.

K3b is a CD and DVD authoring application for the KDE desktop environment for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides a graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD/DVD and a built-in DVD ripper. For more details, see http://www.k3b.org/.

See Banshee

KAudioCreator is a front-end tool for ripping audio CDs and encoding the WAV files. Based on KDE it combines the look and feel of your desktop with the power and flexibility of the command line tools. It allows the user to chose whatever encoder to encode audio files while providing a comfortable GUI. KAudioCreator also provides a job control system so the user can see what files have succeeded, failed and stop or cancel jobs as the application progresses. For more details, see http://www.icefox.net/programs/?program=KAudioCreator.

Sound Juicer is a front-end application to the Cdparanoia CD ripping library. It allows the user to extract audio from compact discs and convert it into audio files that a personal computer or digital audio player can understand and play. It supports ripping to any audio codecs. For more details, see http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/sound-juicer.

The amaroK media player handles various audio formats and plays the streaming audio broadcasts of radio stations on the Internet. The program handles all file types supported by the sound server acting as a back-end. For more details, see http://amarok.kde.org/.

Rhythmbox is a powerful, multitalented media player for the GNOME desktop. It allows you to organize and browse your music collection using playlists and even supports Internet radio. For more details, see http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox.

The X Multimedia System (XMMS) is a audio player very similar to Winamp, that runs on many Unix-like operating systems. It focuses on music playback, offering support for CD playback and Ogg Vorbis files. Users of Winamp should find XMMS comfortable because of its similarity. For more details, see http://www.xmms.org/.

Kaffeine is a versatile multimedia application supporting a wide range of audio and video formats including Ogg Vorbis, WMV, MOV, and AVI. For more details, see http://kaffeine.kde.org/.

MPlayer is available for Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. MPlayer supports a wide variety of media format. In addition to its wide range of supported formats MPlayer can also save all streamed content to a file. For more details, see http://www.mplayerhq.hu/.

Xine is a multimedia playback engine for Linux. xine is built around a shared library (xine-lib) that supports different front-end player applications. Another important feature is the ability to manually correct the synchronization of audio and video streams. For more details, see http://xinehq.de/.

See xawtv

Totem is a media player (audio and video) for the GNOME computer desktop environment which runs on Linux, Solaris, BSD and Unix-like systems. For more details, see http://projects.gnome.org/totem/.

See XMMS

RealPlayer is a proprietary cross-platform media player by RealNetworks that plays a number of multimedia formats, including MP3, MPEG-4, QuickTime and Windows Media. For more details, see http://uk.real.com/player/.

Audacity is a digital audio editor application. It's cross-platform allows users to mix tracks, apply effects to them, and export the results to WAV or Ogg Vorbis. For more details, see http://audacity.sourceforge.net/..

alsamixer is the mixer program for the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA). It is used to configure sound settings and to adjust the volume. It has an ncurses user interface and does not require the X Window System. It supports multiple sound cards with multiple devices. For more details, see http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page.

LilyPond is a music sheet editor. Because the input format is text- based, the user can work with any text editor to create note sheets. Users do not need to tackle any formatting or notation issues, like spacing, line-breaking, or polyphonic collisions. All these issues are automatically resolved by LilyPond. It supports many special notations like chord names and tablatures. The output can be exported to PNG, TeX, PDF, PostScript, and MIDI. For more details, see http://lilypond.org/web/..

MusE is at the moment a MIDI/Audio sequencer with recording and editing capabilities. The project works on a complete multitrack virtual studio for Linux. For more details, see http://www.muse-sequencer.org/index.

Noteedit is a powerful score editor for Linux. Use it to create sheets of notes and to export and import scores to and from many formats, such as MIDI, MusicXML and LilyPond. For more details, see http://developer.berlios.de/projects/noteedit/.

Rosegarden is a free music composition and editing environment. It features an audio and MIDI sequencer and a score editor. For more details, see http://rosegardenmusic.com/.

Kino is an easy and reliable digital video editor with export to many formats. The program supports many basic video editing and assembling tasks. It captures video to disk in Raw DIV, AVI, and Quicktime formats. For more details, see http://www.kinodv.org.

xawtv is a TV viewer and recorder suite. It supports both analog and digital audio and video broadcasts using either a TV tuner or a Satellite receiver card DB-S. For more details, see http://linux.bytesex.org/xawtv/.

kdetv is a TV viewer and recorder application for the KDE desktop supporting analog TV using a tuner card. For more details, see http://www.kdetv.org.