How Do I Choose the Best Open Source Music Software?

Music player is a multimedia player software for playing various music files. ^[1] It covers various music format playing tools, such as: MP3 player, WMA player, MP4 player, etc. They are not only beautiful in interface, but also easy to operate, bringing perfect music enjoyment to users.

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Music player commonly used formats

MP3 format

MP3 stands for Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer III, an audio compression technology. ^[2] Because the full name of this compression method is called MPEG Audio Layer3, people call it MP3 for short. Due to the age, the sound quality at the same bit rate is poor, and even the 192k bit rate is far less than the 96k AAC format, and it is facing the fate of elimination.

WMA format

The full name of WMA is Windows Media Audio, an audio format pushed by Microsoft.

WAV format

WAV format is a sound file format developed by Microsoft Corporation, also called waveform sound file. It is the earliest digital audio format and is widely supported by Windows platform and its applications. ^[3]

Music player special format

ASF format

The full name of ASF is Advanced Streaming Format, which is a media playback format developed by Microsoft and suitable for playing on the network.

AAC format

AAC is actually an abbreviation for Advanced Audio Coding. AAC is an audio format jointly developed by Fraunhofer IIS-A, Dolby, and AT & T. It is part of the MPEG-2 specification.

Mp3Pro format

Mp3Pro is an upgraded version of the Mp3 encoding format

VQF format

VQF format is an audio compression technology jointly developed by Yamaha and NTT.

FLAC format

FLAC is the abbreviation of Free Lossless Audio Codec. Chinese can be interpreted as lossless audio compression coding.

APE format

APE is one of the more popular digital music file formats in the early days. Unlike lossy compression such as MP3, APE is a lossless compression audio technology.

MID format

MIDI is the abbreviation of English Music Instrument Digital Interface, which translates to "digital instrument interface".

OGG format

The full name should be OGG Vobis (ogg Vorbis) is a new audio compression format, similar to existing music formats such as MP3. But one difference is that it is completely free, open and patent-free.

M4A format

M4A is an extension of the MPEG4 audio standard file. As mentioned in the MPEG4 standard, the common MPEG4 file extension is .mp4.

eAAC +

eaac + format is a new generation of optimized music format for mobile phones. eaac + has the extension M4A. It can approach the sound quality of a CD and consume less storage space than the MP3 format.