1by1
- Small and fast directory player using Winamp input plugins with cue sheet and playlist support, from the same author as the editor mp3DirectCut.
- http://mpesch3.de1.cc/

QuickTime
- Since version 6 this Apple multimedia software decodes MP4 files. The basic player is free, the commercial Pro version also encodes MPEG-4 video and AAC as well as 3GP content.
- http://www.apple.com/quicktime/player/

MediaCell Video Converter
- Software for MP4/3GP file conversion of portable video device such as iPod/PSP/Mobile Devices.
- http://www.media-cell.com/

DVD Audio Ripper
- Movie soundtrack ripper which can extract any audio soundtrack from a DVD and rip the DVD audio to MP3, WAV, AAC, OGG, and WMA formats.
- http://www.jesterware.co.uk/dvd_audio_ripper.htm

GX Transcoder
- Freeware CD ripper, converter and player using external Winamp plugins and command line encoders for many formats, also video.
- http://www.germanixsoft.de/

Tom's Audioguides
- Overview and tips for Audiograbber users with a tutorial for AAC/MP4 encoding support through FAAC.
- http://indie-mp3.net/audiograbber/

Reganam
- Offers video/audio converters and players for 3GP/3GP2 and MP4 formats.
- http://www.reganam.com/

Nero Digital
- Application suite with MPEG-4 video and HE AAC encoder and decoder based on FAAD2 including Parametric Stereo, same as in Nero 6.
- http://ww2.nero.com/nerodigital/enu/

Gst-player
- The multimedia player of the Gstreamer project that offers many formats through plugins, also FAAC for encoding and FAAD2 for decoding.
- http://freshmeat.net/projects/gstplayer/

Oddcast
- Plugin for Winamp and foobar2000 using libfaac.dll to enable AAC internet radio streams with a Shoutcast or Icecast server, other formats also supported.
- http://www.oddsock.org/tools/

AACplayer
- DirectShow filter suite with encoder based on FAAC, parser for AAC files, Shoutcast DS filter and Windows GUI, playback uses the external CoreAAC DS filter.
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/aacplayer/

GSpot
- Windows tool identifying codecs in container formats like AVI, MPEG and MP4.
- http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

FFmpeg
- Tools to record, convert, stream and play multimedia content including libavcodec and libavformat, two libraries used by many other open source projects.
- http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/

BSplayer
- Multimedia application with AAC/MP4 support through DirectShow filters like 3ivx, CoreAAC or ffdshow.
- http://www.bsplayer.org/

Media Center
- All-in-one application from J. River, Inc. with file management database, FAAC integration through external encoder plugin, AAC/MP4 decoding either with QuickTime or Winamp plugin.
- http://www.musicex.com/mediacenter/

Media Player Classic
- This multimedia DirectShow player looks like the old Windows Media Player 6.4, but has a lot more features like switching audio streams in an MP4 file.
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

Ivan & Menno
- Speek's frontend for AAC/MP4 batch encoding, decoding and file muxing with command line versions of FAAC, FAAD2 and mp4creator.
- http://members.home.nl/w.speek/ivan&menno.htm

dBpowerAMP
- Codec central for this converter, player and iPod file transfer manager with several AAC/MP4 encoders and decoders.
- http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central-mp4.htm

TCVP
- Modular multimedia player, transcoder and streamer for Linux, AAC support through FAAC and FAAD2.
- http://tcvp.sourceforge.net/

Mkvtoolnix
- Tool set for Matroska multimedia media files, AAC/MP4 decoding with FAAD2.
- http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/

Madman
- Linux music file manager similar to iTunes with tag editor, media library, dynamic playlists and a CD burning frontend, extensible through plugin scripts.
- http://madman.sourceforge.net/

Ecasound
- Multitrack processing for playback, recording, format conversions, effects and mixing.
- http://www.eca.cx/ecasound/

Helix DNA Producer
- Open source version of RealProducer with free HE AAC encoder SDK from Coding Technologies.
- https://helix-producer.helixcommunity.org/

DRM Software Radio
- Commercial receiver for HE AAC streams via Digital Radio Mondiale with user forum, FAQs and manuals.
- http://www.drmrx.org/

GnuPod
- Command line tool for Linux to handle file transfers to the iPod and converting to AAC/MP4 from many input formats.
- http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnupod/

Foo_pod
- External plugin for foobar2000 (not included in the Special Installer) to handle iPod file transfers and converting to AAC/MP4 from any input format.
- http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=33&t=19156

BeSplit
- Command line tool to cut and paste AAC and other files.
- http://besplit.doom9.org/

Audiograbber
- Freeware CD ripper and encoder supporting AAC/MP4 output files with the FAAC command line version.
- http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/

Orban Opticodec
- Enables aacPlus (HE AAC) streaming for internet radio stations via HTTP/Shoutcast or RTSP.
- http://www.orban.com/orban/products/stream/1010_overview.html

GetID3()
- The PHP media file parser extracts play time, bitrate and resolution from AAC and reads/writes ID3v1/v2 tags, supports other formats as well.
- http://getid3.sourceforge.net/

ImTOO Audio Encoder
- Commercial converter using FAAC and FAAD2 for AAC/MP4 support.
- http://www.imtoo.com/audio-encoder.html

RealPlayer 10
- Decodes AAC bitstreams (LC and HE) in the RM container, rips CDs to M4A, connects to its music store and is freely available for several platforms.
- http://www.realnetworks.com/info/real10_platform/

Dream
- Open source receiver and transmitter for Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) using analog AM bands with HE AAC compressed sound at very low bitrates.
- http://drm.sourceforge.net/

winLAME
- The new version by DeXT reads many input formats and transcodes them to several others, uses libfaad2.dll and libfaac.dll for AAC.
- http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=77306

FAAC
- Summary of this open source project with AAC encoder and decoder FAAD2 listing release notes, FAQs, download packages, ports and other Freshmeat applications using these codecs.
- http://freshmeat.net/projects/faac/

iTunes
- All-in-one application from Apple with free AAC/MP4 encoder and decoder from QuickTime, rips CDs, organizes music files and connects to its Music Store.
- http://www.apple.com/itunes/

RareWares
- Hosts several AAC/MP4 encoders and decoders as well as other related tools, see also the section for the Debian Linux distribution.
- http://www.rarewares.org/aac.html

Windows Media Player
- WMP needs external DirectShow filters for AAC/MP4 support like 3ivx, mpegable, CoreAAC or LSX.
- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/mp10/default.aspx

FAAD Fink package
- Mac OS X binary of the AAC/MP4 decoder FAAD2 from the Fink project.
- http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/faad

XMMS
- Linux player with Winamp 2.x looks supporting as many input formats, source code of AAC/MP4 plugin available in the FAAD2 CVS and download package.
- http://www.xmms.org/

XMCD
- CD player, ripper and encoder for Unix and other platforms, AAC/MP4 output files with FAAC.
- http://www.ibiblio.org/tkan/xmcd/main.html

Xine
- Multimedia library and player with AAC/MP4 support based on FAAD2.
- http://xinehq.de/

Rhythmbox
- Integrated music management application inspired by Apple's iTunes and based on the GStreamer and/or the Xine framework, plays AAC/MP4 through gst-plugin for FAAD2.
- http://www.rhythmbox.org/

MPD
- Music Player Daemon for Linux allows remote access to music files and managing playlists, using FAAD2 for decoding AAC/MP4.
- http://www.musicpd.org/

Mplayer
- Multimedia player for Linux also available in a Mac OS X and Windows version with AAC/MP4 decoding through FAAD2.
- http://mplayerhq.hu/

Grip
- CD ripper and encoder for Linux that works with FAAC for AAC/MP4 output files.
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/grip/

Gmerlin
- A transcoding application for Linux with a modular structure supporting many input and output formats.
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmerlin/

Zoom Player
- This multimedia player from Inmatrix uses external DirectShow filters for MP4 files, e.g. 3ivx, mpegable or CoreAAC.
- http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/

XMPlay
- Fast player supporting XM and other tracker formats, usual inputs through external Winamp plugins and output formats with command line encoders, i.e. FAAD2 and FAAC for AAC/MP4.
- http://support.xmplay.com/

Mpegable
- DirectShow filter suite from Dicas to decode MP4 and 3GP files or RTP streams of MPEG-4 content, also available as a standalone player application.
- http://www.mpegable.com/showPage.php?SITE=mpegable&PAGE=mpegableds

EnvivioTV
- An MPEG-4 plugin for Windows Media Player, RealPlayer and older QuickTime versions enabling playback of RTP streams.
- http://www.envivio.com/products/etv/

Winamp
- Plays and encodes AAC/MP4 with internal plugins since version 5.0, also decodes aacPlus Shoutcast streams and other formats.
- http://www.winamp.com/

VLC
- Multimedia player of the VideoLAN project for several platforms, streams live MPEG-4 content via RTP and aacPlus via Shoutcast, transcodes to AAC with FAAC.
- http://www.videolan.org/

Apollo
- The new version of this freeware player uses the Winamp input plugin from Audiocoding.com to decode AAC/MP4.
- http://koti.welho.com/hylinen/apollo/

QCD
- Player using an own AAC/MP4 plugin, source code included in the FAAD2 package from Audiocoding.com.
- http://www.quinnware.com/

MP4player
- Multimedia player of the open source MPEG4IP project that also decodes RTSP live internet streams, AAC support through FAAD2.
- http://mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net/

MoreAmp
- Open source player, transcoder and CD ripper for several platforms preloading many songs into RAM while the harddisk drive spins down, uses FAAC and FAAD2 for AAC/MP4.
- http://freshmeat.net/projects/moreamp/

JetAudio
- All-in-one application for playback, encoding and streaming of multimedia content either with QuickTime or DirectShow filters.
- http://www.jetaudio.com/

IBM M4Play
- Java based multimedia player from the platform independent IBM Toolkit for MPEG-4 including authoring tools for MP4 files with Systems content.
- http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/tk4mpeg4/

GPAC
- This open source project provides Osmo4, an MPEG-4 Systems multimedia player using FAAD2 as the AAC decoder, as well as a 2D/3D BIFS encoder and an MP4 file muxer.
- http://gpac.sourceforge.net/

Foobar2000
- The Special Installer includes foo_faac.dll, an internal GUI encoder for AAC/MP4 based on FAAC.
- http://www.saunalahti.fi/cse/foobar2000.php

3ivx
- DirectShow filter suite with MPEG-4 video and multichannel AAC audio encoder based on FAAC as well as decoder, MP4 file format muxer and parser.
- http://www.3ivx.com/

Easy CD-DA Extractor
- Commercial CD ripper, encoder and converter with aacPlus capabilities.
- http://www.poikosoft.com/

CoolPlayer
- Relies on the external Winamp input plugin based on FAAD2 for AAC/MP4 support.
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/coolplayer/

BonkEnc
- Open source CD ripper and encoder based on the CDex ripping engine with support for many different languages, uses a FAAC output plugin.
- http://www.bonkenc.org/

CPS
- Real-time graphical programming environment for core opcodes and extended objects based on the Structured Audio Orchestra Language (SAOL) with comprehensive manual.
- http://cps.bonneville.nl/