PyCar is a media center for a car based PC( personal companion). It allows you to listen to music, watch movies, organize music files into play lists, etc. It is a Python based application, uses leading open source projects as a code base. It provides very extensive framework and can be customized by using external scripts, modules, plugins and renderers. Visual information can be represented in many ways: menu, buttons, small displays, virtual terminals and others. No modifications or recompilation is needed to run PyCar on Linux and Windows.

Platform:Cross-Platform ;License: GNU General Public License (GPL), GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

References: https://pymedia.org/pycar/index.html

Knight Rider is a car mp3 player which supports interaction through text to speech synthesis and a keypad. It provides play list management, the ability to rip cd’s, and other administrative tasks. It runs on POSIX OS and Linux, is written in C++ and Perl and is released under GPL license.

Platform:All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like Oses), Linux ;License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

References: https://krmp3.sourceforge.net/

IRMP3 is a multimedia audio jukebox for Linux. It can be easily integrate into home, car, and mobile environments. It is written in C and distributed under GPL license.

Platform:All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like Oses), Linux ;License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

References:https://irmp3.sourceforge.net/

ctrlMedia is a media center (audio, video, images, tv, ..) engineered for car embedded. It runs on Linux framebuffer/SDL Library using DirectFB, and uses external (free) software to reproduce contents. It runs on POSIX and Linux operating systems. The code is written in C and released under GPL license.

Platform:All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like Oses), Linux ;License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

References: https://ctrlmedia.sourceforge.net/

This Linux based car MP3 distribution takes input from a numeric keyboard. LCD output is supported but optional. In addition to Linux, it runs on all POSIX OS and is released under GPL license.

Platform: All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like Oses), Linux;License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

References: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cmms/

BeBoxMP can be used in your car or at home with your TV, in a HTPC. The program is simple to install and setup. The project also provides special tools for BMW Cars with IBUS (look at IbusComm for BeBoxMP integration). BeBoxMP runs on MS Windows and is released under GPL license.

Platform:Windows ;License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

References: https://beboxmp3.sourceforge.net/