XMCD, MultiMedia, CD Player and Ripper

 Xmcd is a full-featured CD Player and Ripper software package. It includes
 two programs:

 * xmcd - for the X window system using the Motif graphical user interface

 * cda - a shell command-line utility which also features a curses-based,
   screen-oriented mode 

 Both utilities transform your computer's CD or DVD drive into a stereo CD
 player, allowing you to play music CDs on your computer. Moreover, they
 also work as a CD ripper which allows you to extract full-quality digital
 audio data from your CDs and play them real time, save them to files or
 pipe them to other utilities for processing. Many file formats are
 supported, including WAV, AU, AIFF, MP3, AAC, MP4, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC.

 Xmcd is designed to be attractive, feature-rich yet intuitive to use, and
 takes advantage of many CD drive capabilities that are not accessible via
 other software. Unlike other general media players that tries to do it all,
 xmcd focuses on the CD, and strives to be the best with this medium.

 Xmcd supports CD recognition via Gracenote CDDB. It can connect to the
 CDDB servers on the Internet to get the artist, disc title, song titles and
 other information about the CD you're playing. Xmcd uses the enhanced CDDB
 service on some platforms to provide even richer content. The CDDB concept,
 originally pioneered for xmcd, is now the de facto standard source for
 online music information. Xmcd works with many firewall proxy
 configurations for CDDB server access. Moreover, xmcd supports CD-TEXT on
 drives that has this capability.

 Xmcd contains "wwwWarp", a portal to the web browser that offers search and
 dynamic content capabilities based on the CD you're listening to. "Local
 Discography" is a sub-feature of wwwWarp, and provides a browser-based
 means of navigating and maintaining your CD collection, sound files, and
 other related data. There is also a feature-specific help and documentation
 system, command-line control, remote control, plus much more!

 Xmcd has the most extensive platform support of any CD player and ripper
 software. It runs on virtually all Linux and UNIX OS flavors, as well as
 OpenVMS. A vast spectrum of CD drive brand/models are supported, including
 multi-disc CD changers and older SCSI-1 drives.

 See screen-shots of xmcd in action. Also, read this rawmeat.org CD players
 review for UNIX and Linux. Note that it covered xmcd version 2.4. There has
 been many major enhancements to xmcd since then.

 Xmcd is FREE, Open Source software. It is released with the freedom
 provided to you under the GNU General Public License.

 Guided by a philosophy of "maximum functionality with minimum flash", xmcd
 has been enhanced and refined continuously since 1993, and each release is
 backed by an extensive alpha and beta test program. It is robust, reliable,
 secure, and is being enjoyed by thousands of users on a daily basis.

 Xmcd has been included on CD-ROMs from Compaq/Digital, Hewlett Packard, Red
 Hat, SuSE, Walnut Creek, InfoMagic, SCO Skunkware, SGI, Sun, Tams, and
 others. Download the latest version (source code and/or pre-compiled
 binaries), and give it a spin!


