Music Editors / Players
1. Audacious
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Audacious is an open source audio player run on linux and windows. A descendant of XMMS, Audacious plays your music how you want it, without stealing away your computer’s resources from other tasks. Drag and drop folders and individual song files, search for artists and albums in your entire music library, or create and edit your own custom playlists. Listen to CD’s or stream music from the Internet. Tweak the sound with the graphical equalizer or experiment with LADSPA effects. Enjoy the modern GTK-themed interface or change things up with Winamp Classic skins. Use the plugins included with Audacious to fetch lyrics for your music, to set an alarm in the morning, and more.
2. Ardour
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Now we're talking real recording power. Ardour is a digital audio workstation that isn't for the faint of heart. It is to musicians, engineers, soundtrack editors, and composers what Audacity is to podcasters — the best tool for the job. Not only can you record audio from multiple inputs, you can cut, move, stretch, copy, paste, delete, align, trim, crossfade, rename, snapshot, zoom, transpose, quantize, swing, drag, and drop. The caveat to all of this power is that Ardour comes with a steep learning curve, and its overkill for podcasters and those wanting to create simple sound recordings. Hundreds of plugins are available for this amazing piece of software. The best way to experience Ardour is by downloading and installing Ubuntu Studio or installing on OS X.
3. Traverso
You can use Traverso for a small scale recording session on a netbook or scale up to recording a full-blown orchestra. One outstanding feature that's built into Traverso is the ability to burn your recording straight to CD from within the UI itself. Once you're finished with a project, just burn it and you're done. Traverso is available only for Linux.
4. Linux Multimedia Studio (LMMS)
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Linux Multimedia Studio is geared toward songwriters, offering a beat editor and an FX mixer. LMMS includes an incredible array of effects and an impressive number of instruments. With LMMS you can compose entire songs without plugging in a single instrument. Just drag and drop an instrument plug-in to the song editor and you're good to go.LMMS does have a fairly steep learning curve, so be prepared to spend some time getting up to speed with the interface and tools. The name Linux Multimedia Studio a bit misleading, as it is actually available for both Linux and Windows.
5. Media Monkey
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MediaMonkey plays on windows. you can use it to just play your tunes, organize playlists, and sync with your mobile devices, but if your music library is a mess (like mine is), you can also use MediaMonkey to clean it up without a ton of effort. The layout and UI is customizable, and the player is snappy and fast even under the load of many-thousand song libraries, which is more than we can say for some of the other programs in the roundup. MediaMonkey does the basics too: It'll rip CDs, download podcasts, support file types like OGG and FLAC in addition to MP3, AAC, and others, and it'll automatically update your library based on changes to your library folders.
Other Open source Music Player:
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Winamp, Foobar 2000, Music Bee, Zune Music