Pop / Rock
- Alternative - French Variety - Electronica - Rap / Reegae / Groove - Metal
World Music - Jazz, Blues - Classical music - Ambience - Music for Children,
Stories...
Dont be afraid from the french spoken language, the site is quite comprehensible ;)
Let's go download free fench mp3 !
All the available styles descripted on the search engine are detailed under it.
| Pop
/ Rock : Garage, new wave, Post Rock, instrumental, psychedelic, progressive, ska, stoner, folk, modern folk, brit pop, surf music, easy listening, Steedy Beat, rockabilly, Blues Rock, Country |
Rap
/ Reggae / Groove : Rap, Ragga, Dub, Reggae, Hip Hop, Groove, Gansta, Break, Beat, Freestyle, Funk, R&B / soul, Turntablists... |
Classical
music : Baroc, Chamber music, Romantica, Wellknown composers, Wellknown orchestras, Lyric, Opera, , Electro-acoustic, Symphonie... |
| Alternative
: Fusion, Grunge, Noisy Pop / Power Pop Low Fi, Punk, Gothic, Industrial, Hardcore |
Metal
: Heavy Metal, Black - Death - Doom Metal, Metal, Hardcore, Industriel, Hard Rock, Trash, others... |
Ambience
: New Age, Musette, Surprise party, Cabaret, Dances , Noises, Instrumental, audio Illustration, Film Score, Karaoke, Retro... |
| French
Variety : French Rock |
World
Music : Africa, Latino, Asia, Caraïbes, Reunion, Europe, Oceanie, Amerindian, Orient, Arabian, celtic, Raï, Yiddish music, Tzigan music, Bresilian, Salsa, Zouk... |
Music for Children... |
| Electronica
(called Techno / Dance) : Techno, Ambient, Big Beat, Break Beat, Dance, Disco, Jungle, Drum'n'bass, Dub, Electro, Experimental, Hardcore, Gabber, House, Garage, Downtempo, Turntablists, Trance, Tribal, Trip Hop, and Industrial |
Jazz,
Blues : Acid Jazz, Blues Rock, Free Jazz, Fusion, Be Bop, Gospel, Hard Bop, Big Band / Swing, New Orleans, Jazz classique... |
Others
: stories, film scores, humoristic, military, spoken... |
MP3 Software (public-domain or free)
Only software supporting Layer 3 is listed here. MPEG Audio software that do not support Layer 3 can be found on the Audio page.Many sites with pointers to MPEG audio players are listed on our Audio Players Page. Most of the software listed here have source code available.
Before copying or using the following software, please check their copyright and license informations.
- UsE! by a Hungarian MP3 fanatic
- MPEG audio source code page at MP3'Tech
- MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 Audio reference software and data (with source code) at Universitaet Hannover
- MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 Audio Layer 1,2,3 reference encoder and decoder (with source code)
- LAME 3.0 MP3 encoder (with source code)
- x11amp (with source code)
- MP3 encoder (MP3ENC) at Fraunhofer Institute
- MPEG-1 Audio Layer 1, 2 & 3 encoder and decoder (with source code) at Fraunhofer Institute
- Canna MP3 Maker by Gabriele Cannata
- BladeEnc MP3 Encoder by Tord Jansson
- 8hz-mp3 encoder (with source code) at 8Hz Productions
- Plugger+, the Mp3 nKoder by Alberto Demichelis
- MP3 Studio for Linux (with source code) by Alex Lam
- MPEG-1 Audio Layer 2 & 3 player (mpeg3play) (with source code) by Johan Hagman
- Xaudio
- mp3asm (with source code) by Oliver Fromme
- ampRadio (with source code) by Geoffrey J. Elliot
- mp3tag by Marek Blaszkowski
- Splay (with source code) by Woo-jae Jung
- mpg123 (with source code) by Oliver Fromme (see also this page)
- A DSP-based MP3 player high-fidelity MPEG-Audio over TCP/IP networks (with source code) by Björn Wesén
- A Linux Player For MPEG Audio (Tk3Play) (with source code) by Brian Foutz at Cornell University
- MPEG-1 Audio Layer 2 & 3 for Windows 95 / NT 3.51 / NT 4.0 (museArc) by Uli Walther & Stefan Kraus at Universitat Karlsruhe.
- Maplay 1.2+ for Win32 (with source code) by Jeff Tsay
- Audio Mpeg Player (the original AMP!) (with source code) by Tomislav Uzelac at University of Zagreb
- Amp11 (with source code)
- FreeAMP (with source code)
- MP3Ext by Michael Mutschler
- Vamp by Michel Pollet
- flipTech Visual Encoder & Decoder by flipino
- MPeck MPEG Layer 3 Encoder for PPC Macintosh by Rafael W. Luebbert
- Resonate by Burkey consultants
- More MPEG Utilities at Phade Software
- MPEG Audio software at MPEG Central
A user oriented MP3 encoding guide. Seems to contain interesting information about the most popular MP3 encoders.
Many MP3 software listed below are also available there.
This is the reference software produced by the MPEG Committee as draft of the Technical Report (Part-5 of the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 standards).
This is distribution 10 of the reference software produced by the MPEG Committee.
LAME is a patch for the ISO MP3 encoder source that increases sound quality and makes it 5x faster.
MP3 player for Linux and Unix.
Check this User's Guide.
Decoder is not real-time on most machines. See also these IIs sources.
A free MP3 encoder.
A free MP3 encoder.
An optimized MP3 encoder derived from the official ISO source code, much faster and supports more platforms. 8hz-mp3 is free. Mirrors here.
A free MP3 encoder.
A Tcl/Tk front-end to the Fraunhofer MP3 encoder and decoder.
mpeg3play is an optimized version of the MPEG reference software that decodes Layer 3 in real-time (no graphic interface). Runs on several flavors of Unix and other platforms (also here).
MP3 decoding engine and development toolkit. One of the fastest MP3 engine. Supports MPEG Layers 1, 2 and 3. Runs on a many platforms and processors (Windows, Mac, WinCE, Linux, Unix, BeOS, Embedded systems, Set-top Boxes etc.). Xaudio licenses its MP3 libraries for use in commercial MP3 hardware and software products.
A tool to find errors in MPEG audio (.mp3) files, fix broken mp3 files, cut and re-assemble mp3 files.
Streaming mpeg server (and toolkit) to distribute music using HTTP streams. Most major players, including WinAmp and NaD support receiving music streams from ampRadio Server. Alternate ampRadio page.
An MP3 TAG Editor for X11 (Web page in Polish but english version of software is available).
An MPEG-1,2 layer 1,2,3 and Wave player for Linux! Derived from maplay 1.2+ for Win95.
A fast, free and portable MPEG audio player. The fastest MP3 decoder with source code available.
A version of maplay with an X-Window (Tk) front-end. Supports Layers 1, 2, and 3.
Check the Manual (in german).
Nice GUI, plays Layer 1, 2 & 3.
Many existing MP3 players have been derived originally from AMP (the most famous example is winamp).
Written on C++ with some asm optimizations.
MP3 player for Linux and Win32 based on Xing source code.
MP3Ext is an extension for the Windows Internet Explorer that adds MP3-specific informations to the properties-menu of MP3-files: playlength, bitrate, sample-frequency, and the ID3-Tag, if the file has got one.
An MPEG Layer 3 Audio player for PowerMac based on amp.
Visual Encoder and Visual Decoder are Windows95/NT frontends for the popular L3ENC and L3DEC utilities.
A streaming Layer 2 and 3 MPEG player (also here).
