Seekable

tarix is a simple indexer for POSIX and GNU tar files. The indexes allow fast extraction of files in the archive, especially on seekable tape devices. The index format is simple enough to be used from a rescue disk with only mt, dd, and tar (though grep and sed would be very useful there).... Platforms: *nix

FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality.This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio, and... Platforms: C and C plus plus

mechanize offers stateful programmatic web browsing, build after Andy Lester's Perl module WWW::Mechanize. The library is layered: mechanize.Browser (stateful web browser), mechanize.UserAgent (configurable URL opener), plus urllib2 handlers. Features include: ftp:, http: and file: URL schemes,... Platforms: *nix

Audio::aKodePlayer is a Perl module that provides a simple interface to the aKode::Player class from the C++ aKode library. aKode is a simple audio-decoding frame-work that provides a uniform interface to decode the most common audio-formats such as WAV, MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, Ogg/FLAC, etc. It also... Platforms: *nix