&XMCD, MultiMedia, CD Player and RipperK Xmcd is a full-featured CD Player and Ripper software package. It includes two programs:K * xmcd - for the X window system using the Motif® graphical user interfaceI * cda - a shell command-line utility which also features a curses-based, screen-oriented mode J Both utilities transform your computer's CD or DVD drive into a stereo CDH player, allowing you to play music CDs on your computer. Moreover, theyJ also work as a CD ripper which allows you to extract full-quality digitalH audio data from your CDs and play them real time, save them to files orC pipe them to other utilities for processing. Many file formats areH supported, including WAV, AU, AIFF, MP3, AAC, MP4, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC.J Xmcd is designed to be attractive, feature-rich yet intuitive to use, andJ takes advantage of many CD drive capabilities that are not accessible viaL other software. Unlike other general media players that tries to do it all,E xmcd focuses on the CD, and strives to be the best with this medium.H Xmcd supports CD recognition via Gracenote CDDB®. It can connect to theL CDDB servers on the Internet to get the artist, disc title, song titles andL other information about the CD you're playing. Xmcd uses the enhanced CDDB˛L service on some platforms to provide even richer content. The CDDB concept,G originally pioneered for xmcd, is now the de facto standard source for> online music information. Xmcd works with many firewall proxyJ configurations for CDDB server access. Moreover, xmcd supports CD-TEXT on! drives that has this capability.L Xmcd contains "wwwWarp", a portal to the web browser that offers search andI dynamic content capabilities based on the CD you're listening to. "LocalG Discography" is a sub-feature of wwwWarp, and provides a browser-basedI means of navigating and maintaining your CD collection, sound files, andL other related data. There is also a feature-specific help and documentation> system, command-line control, remote control, plus much more!I Xmcd has the most extensive platform support of any CD player and ripperI software. It runs on virtually all Linux and UNIX OS flavors, as well asK OpenVMS. A vast spectrum of CD drive brand/models are supported, including0 multi-disc CD changers and older SCSI-1 drives.K See screen-shots of xmcd in action. Also, read this rawmeat.org CD playersL review for UNIX and Linux. Note that it covered xmcd version 2.4. There has1 been many major enhancements to xmcd since then.D Xmcd is FREE, Open Source software. It is released with the freedom6 provided to you under the GNU General Public License.K Guided by a philosophy of "maximum functionality with minimum flash", xmcdK has been enhanced and refined continuously since 1993, and each release isL backed by an extensive alpha and beta test program. It is robust, reliable,E secure, and is being enjoyed by thousands of users on a daily basis.L Xmcd has been included on CD-ROMs from Compaq/Digital, Hewlett Packard, RedG Hat, SuSE, Walnut Creek, InfoMagic, SCO Skunkware, SGI, Sun, Tams, andE others. Download the latest version (source code and/or pre-compiled binaries), and give it a spin!