It provides smooth playback and recording even if devices are very slow. It's highly customizable and can be easily extended with additional plugins. Its low CPU & memory consumption saves energy when running on a notebook's battery.

Play or convert audio files, record new audio tracks from microphone, save songs from Internet radio, and much more! fmedia is free and open-source project, and you can use it as a standalone application or as a library for your own software.

fmedia can decode: .mp3, .ogg (Vorbis, Opus), .opus, .m4a/.mp4 (AAC, ALAC, MPEG), .mka/.mkv (AAC, ALAC, MPEG, Vorbis), .avi (AAC, MPEG), .aac, .mpc, .flac, .ape, .wv, .wav.

fmedia can encode into: .mp3, .ogg, .opus, .m4a (AAC), .flac, .wav.

What's New

  • GUI: "Analyze & Show PCM Info" supports .cue tracks
  • GUI/Windows: Record dialog: "Enable Dynamic Audio Normalizer" setting
  • GUI/Windows: Record dialog: audio format settings didn't work
  • GUI/Windows: save/restore the settings for Record & Convert dialogs
  • GUI/Windows: couldn't set an empty setting value in Record & Convert dialogs
  • GUI/Windows: Convert: seeking on .mp3 didn't work (v1.28 bug)
  • core: user config settings from fmedia-user.conf didn't work (v1.25.3beta bug)
  • "--until" now works with radio stream sources
  • .aac read: fix crash