Software

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/

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/

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

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

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/

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

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/

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

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

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

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/

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

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

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

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/

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/

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/

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

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/

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

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/

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/

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

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

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/

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/

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

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/

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

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/

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

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/

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

Lamip
Linux player with foobar2000 GUI and AAC/MP4 support through FAAD2 from the developer of the XMMS MP4 plugin.
http://fondriest.frederic.free.fr/realisations/lamip/

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/

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/

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

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

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/

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/

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

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

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

Mpxplay
Full-screen DOS player also working on Windows, very fast due to ASM optimization enabling AAC Low Complexity and High Efficiency profile decoding on old PCs.
http://www.geocities.com/mpxplay/

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/

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/

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

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/

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

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/

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

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/

Sfx Audio Compiler System
Integrated development system to generate real-time audio effects and synthesizer instruments using SAOL with SoundFont 2 for Structured Audio Score Language (SASL) and MIDI compositions.
http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/sfx/

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

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/

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/

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

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

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

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

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/

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/

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/

FAAC project news
This SourceForge feed offers the full text of related announces. [RSS]
http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_projnews.php?group_id=704&rss_fulltext=1

FAAC project packages
Publishing file releases on SourceForge.net. [RSS]
http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_projfiles.php?group_id=704

FAAC project summary
SourceForge provides daily statistics about downloads and page hits. [RSS]
http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_projsummary.php?group_id=704