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[Audio Editor] [Audio: Encoder] [Audio: Encoder Info Tool] [Audio: Ripper-Converter] [Audio Player] [Audio Player: Internet Radio] [Karaoke] [Mp3 Tool] [Screen Capture (Video)] [AV Editor] [AV Tool] [Multimedia Player]Audio Editor Audacity
Company: Author: Dominic Mazzon
(Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL)
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Other OS: Macintosh OS 9/X; Linux; Unix
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Audacity is a free audio editor. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Echo, Change Tempo, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST and LADSPA plug-in effects. NOTES: You must download the LAME MP3 Encoder Library for Audacity to create MP3 files. http://mitiok.free.fr/
Home page:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/
download page v 1.2.5 (2006-10-30) [ audacity-win-1.2.5.exe (2144 KB) Windows] [ audacity-win-1.2.5.zip (3041 KB) Windows]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6235
2006PL CD files: audacity-win-1.2.4b.exe audacity-win-1.2.4b.zip
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-31)
Audio: Encoder LAME (compiled)
Company: -- Author: Dmitry Kutsanov (aka mitiok)
(Freeware) (open source: GNU LGPL)
Windows OS: Windows
Other OS: Linux; Unix
Languages: English
Description: Following the great history of GNU naming, LAME originally stood for LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder. LAME started life as a GPL'd patch against the dist10 ISO demonstration source, and thus was incapable of producing an mp3 stream or even being compiled by itself. But in May 2000, the last remnants of the ISO source code were replaced, and now LAME is the source code for a fully LGPL'd MP3 encoder, with speed and quality to rival all commercial competitors.
Home Page: download v 3.96.1 (2004-07-24) [ lame-3.96.1.zip (601 KB)]
http://mitiok.maresweb.org/
Project Page: Lame source code
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lame/
2006PL CD files: lame-3.96.1.zip
(desc. rev.: 2005-10-06)
Audio: Encoder Info Tool GSpot
Company: -- Author: Steven Greenberg
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP NOTES: A no install version is available.
Languages: English
Description: GSpot codec information appliance establishes what video codecs (audio and video) are required to play an AVI file. Determines whether these codecs are installed on your system. Isolates problems associated with these codecs. Simple operation - Basic use: "File > Open", then read results Identifies download induced problems (truncated files, "cooked" files, etc.) Shows framerate, duration, aspect ratio, bitrates, AVI structure info, and more. Displays and allows editing of RIFF info (title, etc); displays "hidden" ASCII info. Drag and Drop and "Send To" support, multi-file (batch) processing support Copy/Paste or text export GSpot information - format is user configurable. Built-in database of 350 video and 150 audio codec types Advanced UI including "dual-mode" and hyperlinked "persistent" tool tips Full support for OGG media files as well as AVI stream formats Identification (only) of non-AVI files (.mpg, .mov, .qt, .rm, .swf, .wmv, .asf, etc.) Supports VFW, ACM, DirectShow and DMO codec types (audio and video)
Home page:
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
download page v 2.60 RC01 (2006-11-19) [ GSpot260RC1.zip (389 KB)]
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/v26x/index.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-12-31)
Audio: Ripper-Converter CDex
Company: CDex Author: Albert Faber
(Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: CDex is a tool to do all sorts of things audio related. Mainly focused on ripping and converting, things like turning your home Compact Disc collection into an mp3 collection on your hard drive become extremely easy. CDex Feature List: Easy to use interface. Media File Player. Create PLS and M3U playlist files. Advanced jitter correction. Support for many file formats/audio encoders (WAV, MP3, OGG, VQF, APE, etc). Support for ID3 V1 and V2 tags. Support for normalization of audio files. Support for transcoding of compressed audio files. Support for CDDB. Support for recording from the analog input line. NOTES: Users report that the CDRIP.DLL file in version 1.51 may be defective - a copy of that file from v 1.50 or earlier may be used as a replacement
Home page:
http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/
download page v 1.51 (2003-09-09) [ cdex_151.exe (1953 KB)] [ cdex_151.zip (1878 KB)]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=567
2006PL CD files: cdex_151.exe cdex_151.zip
(desc. rev.: 2005-10-06)dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC)
Company: -- Author: Illustrate
(Freeware) LFW (v 10.1)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Other OS: Linux (using Wine)
Languages: English
Description: Often called a Swiss army knife of Audio, dMC is able to: Rip digitally sound from Audio CDs and store in a multitude of formats, dMC is the Fastest CD Ripper and now AccurateRip Compatible. Convert from one format to another, just about every audio type is supported: mp3, mp4, Windows Media Audio (wma), Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Monkeys Audio, FLAC and many others [Codec downloads], whilst preserving ID Tags. Volume Normalize audio files, Windows Explorer Integration - right click Convert To & popup useful information on audio files (such as bitrate, length). ID tag editing [Power Pack Option], Record from LPs or anything [optional Auxiliary Input install],
download v 10.1 (2004-01) [ dMC-r10.exe (1484 KB)]
http://www.dbpoweramp.com/bin/dMC-r10.exe
Home page: Liteware; bundled with Trialware
http://www.dbpoweramp.com
2006PL CD files: dMC-r10.exe
(desc. rev.: 2005-10-07)
Audio Player WinAmp Classic
Company: Nullsoft Author: --
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English; language packs for other languages
Description: Winamp is an audio player for CDs, MP3s and streaming files. It combines extensive functionality with an intuitive interface. Winamp features a versatile playlist editor, a ten band graphic equalizer and built-in pre-amplifier.
download page v 2.81 (2002-08-21) [ winamp281_lite.exe (496 KB)] [ winamp281_std.exe (1.12 MB)] [ winamp281_full.exe (1.72 MB)]
http://www.winampheaven.net/
Home Page (later versions):
http://winamp.com/
(desc. rev.: 2005-10-05)1by1
Company: mpesch3's mp3 tools Author: Martin Pesch
(Donationware) (free)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP NOTES: No registry entries. Requires MP3 ACM system codec (present in XP) or mpglib.dll
Languages: English; German
Description: Tired of creating and updating playlists? 1by1 is a small, fast and handy player which is not only small: It provides powerful tools to handle your files and listen to your tracks. Features: Directory Player (needs no playlists); Explorer like file navigation; Full Resume (remembers last played track and position); ACM (MP3) and mpglib (MP3/MP2) support; Winamp input plugin support; Audio dynamics and stereo enhancer; Directory searcher (plays whole drives); Cue sheet support; Playlist support; Favorites.
Home Page:
http://www.mpesch3.de/
download page v 1.59 (2006-12-27) [ 1by1_159.exe (101 KB)]
http://mpesch3.de1.cc/1by1.html
2006PL CD files: 1by1_150.exe
(desc. rev.: 2006-12-30)Quintessential Player (QCD)
Company: Quinnware Author: Paul Quinn
(Requestware) (free)
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English; language packs for other languages
Description: QCD is all about you. With its new extended freeform skinning engine and plethora of feature extending plugins Quintessential Player can be whatever you want it to be. Supports a wide variety of popular audio and video file types, including mp3, mp3PRO, Ogg Vorbis, WMA , CD audio, ASX, AU, CDA, WMA, AVI, ASF, MPEG, MPG, M1V, M2V, OGG, WMV, M3U, M3U8, PLS, WAX, WMX, WVX. Supports cross-fading and streaming audio from broadcasters such as Shoutcast and Icecast. QCD offers integrated ripping and mp3 encoding. Converts music CDs or existing audio files into any format (Ogg Vorbis and Windows Media files require the appropriate plug-ins). Stores audio files in an organizational structure selected by the user. Gracenote CDDB® Support. Users can create skins in any shape, size, or color using only image editing programs. Users can create a minimal installation (to preserve system resources) or add visualizers, library functions, DSP filters, language packs, and other plug-ins to extend the player's capabilities. Open architecture allows for expanded functionality and support of new file formats and features as they become available.
Home page:
http://www.quinnware.com/
download v 4.51 (2004-11-05) [ qcd451.exe (2226 KB)]
http://www.quinnware.com/downloads.php
(desc. rev.: 2005-12-01)Foobar2000
Company: -- Author: Peter Pawlowski; Holger Stenger
(Freeware) (partially open source)
Windows OS: Windows 2000/XP NOTES: v 0.8.3 and earlier support Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English
Description: Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include ReplayGain support, low memory footprint and native support for several popular audio formats. By default, a very slim and fast program, but using "components" (the equivalent of plug-ins) foobar2000 has the ability to support whichever features are needed without bloat.
Home page: download v 0.9.2 (2006-06-15) [ foobar2000_0.9.2.exe (1512 KB)]
http://www.foobar2000.org/
Additional components for foobar2000
http://www.foobar2000.org/components/index.html
download page v 0.8.3 (2006-02-26) [ foobar2000.exe (1295 KB)]
http://www.filehippo.com/download_foobar2000/?55
2006PL CD files: foobar2000_0.8.3_lite.exe foobar2000_0.8.3.exe foobar2000_0.8.3_special.exe
(desc. rev.: 2006-06-16)
Audio Player: Internet Radio XMPlay
Company: un4seen developments Author: --
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows NOTES: No installation required.
Languages: English
Description: XMPlay is an audio player, supporting the OGG / MP3 / MP2 / MP1 / WMA / WAV / CDA / MO3 / IT / XM / S3M / MTM / MOD / UMX audio formats, and PLS / M3U / ASX / WAX playlists. A load more formats are also supported via plugins. 32/24-bit & multi-channel output Gapless output, DSP:Automatic gain control (and Replaygain), 5 band equalizer, reverb, plugin support; Interpolation & volume/pan ramping; Net streaming: All supported file types (including MODs and archives) can be streamed from FTP and HTTP servers (inc. Shoutcast/Icecast/Icecast2), optionally writing a copy to disk, FTP directories and HTML webpages can be scanned for playable files; Track Information:Displays file/format information, messages/tags, and instrument/sample texts, open webpages from the texts; Title formatting:You decide how you want the track titles to look, title updating from 'net streams and CUE sheets; Library; Saved/preset settings; Disk writing:Writes 8/16/24/32-bit WAV files, supports external encoders (MP3/OGG/etc...), optional automatic level normalization, dithering & noise shaping, individual MOD instrument writing; Keyboard shortcuts:Fully customizable shortcuts, including global hotkeys; Integration:Open files/folders from Windows Explorer, drag'n'drop files/folders/shortcuts/URLs, monitor the clipboard for playable URLs, drag'n'drop tracks from XMPlay into other programs, icon customization; Archive plugins:Archived/compressed files can be loaded just like normal files; Unicode file support:Support for Russian, Chinese, etc..; Visualisation:Compatible with Sonique plugins, also includes a MOD pattern view
Home Page:
http://www.un4seen.com/
Program description; download v 3.3.0.5 (2006-07-14) [ xmplay3305.zip (291 KB)]
http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html
2006PL CD files: xmplay32.zip
(desc. rev.: 2006-09-11)
Karaoke VanBasco's Karaoke Player
Company: vanBasco.com Author: --
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English; Spanish; German; language packs for other languages
Description: vanBasco's Karaoke Player plays MIDI Karaoke files. Lyrics can be displayed in full-screen. You can change and recall tempo, volume, and key of a song, and mute or solo instruments. NOTES: If you've already installed a copy of vanBasco's Karaoke Player (formerly vanBasco's MIDI Player) on your system, please do not uninstall that copy first (if you do, you will lose all your settings and playlists).
Home page:
http://www.vanbasco.com/
download page v 2.53 (2004-03-12) [ vkaraoke.exe (796 KB)]
http://www.vanbasco.com/download.html
(desc. rev.: 2005-10-03)
Mp3 Tool MP3Gain
Company: Author: MP3Gain Team
(Donationware) (open source: Library or LGPL)
Windows OS: Windows NOTES: Requires Microsoft Visual Basic run-time files
Other OS: Macintosh; Linux
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: MP3Gain analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same volume. MP3Gain does not just do peak normalization, as many normalizers do. Instead, it does some statistical analysis to determine how loud the file actually sounds to the human ear. Also, the changes MP3Gain makes are completely lossless. There is no quality lost in the change because the program adjusts the mp3 file directly, without decoding and re-encoding.
Home Page:
http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/
download page v 1.2.5 (2005-01-08) [ mp3gain-win-1_2_5.exe (652 KB)] [ mp3gain-win-1_2_5.zip (735 KB) w/ VB run-time] [ mp3gain-win-full-1_2_5.exe (1932 KB)]
http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/download.php
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/mp3gain.html
2006PL CD files: mp3gain-win-1_2_5.exe mp3gain-win-1_2_5.zip mp3gain-win-full-1_2_5.exe
(desc. rev.: 2005-11-20)
Screen Capture (Video) Wink
Company: -- Author: Satish Kumar
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Other OS: Linux
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software. Using Wink you can capture screenshots of your software, use images that you already have, type-in explanations for each step, create a navigation sequence complete with buttons, delays, titles etc and create a highly effective tutorial for your users. Output formats: Macromedia Flash, Standalone EXE, PDF, PostScript, HTML or any of the above image formats. Use Flash/html for the web, EXE for distributing to PC users and PDF for printable manuals.
Home page:
http://www.debugmode.com
download page v 2.0 build 1000 (2006-04-12) [ wink20.zip (2832 KB)]
http://www.debugmode.com/wink/download.php
(desc. rev.: 2006-06-02)
AV Editor TMPGEnc
Company: Pegasys Inc. Author: Hiroyuki Hori
(Liteware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial use)
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English; French; Japanese
Description: TMPGEnc converts *.AVI file to MPEG1, the format which is used in VideoCD. Using variety of option in TMPGEnc, you can compress your video file in high quality. TMPGEnc enables us adjust bitrate, quantize matrix, GOP structure, Interlace and many other parameter so that you can create most appropriate movie file depends on your purpose.
Home page:
http://www.tmpgenc.net/
download page v 2.524 (2004-12-16) [ TMPGEnc-2.524.63.181-Free.zip (1402 KB)]
http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_download.html
(desc. rev.: 2006-06-04)VLC (was VideoLAN Client)
Company: -- Author: project team
(Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL)
Windows OS: Windows; Windows CE (Pocket PC) NOTES: A no install version is available.
Other OS: Mac OS X; Linux; Unix
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
Home page:
http://www.videolan.org/
download page v 0.8.5 (2006-05-06) [ vlc-0.8.5-win32.exe (8088 KB) Windows] [ vlc-0.8.5-win32.zip (11538 KB) Windows]
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html
2006PL CD files: vlc-0.8.4-win32.exe vlc-0.8.4-win32.zip
(desc. rev.: 2006-06-02)VirtualDub
Company: virtualdub.org Author: Avery Lee
(Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL)
Windows OS: Windows 98/NT/2000/XP NOTES: No installation required.
Languages: English
Description: VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility. It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.
Home page:
http://www.virtualdub.org/
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualdub/
download page v 1.6.17.24469 (2006-11-05) [ VirtualDub-1.6.17.zip (1002 KB) ]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=9649
2006PL CD files: VirtualDub-1.6.11.zip
(desc. rev.: 2006-11-06)
AV Tool FLAC
Company: -- Author: Josh Coalson
(Freeware) (open source)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Other OS: Mac OS X; Linux; Unix
Languages: English
Description: FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is 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 you can play back compressed FLAC files in your favorite player (or your car or home stereo, see supported devices) just like you would an MP3 file. The FLAC project consists of: the stream format; reference encoders and decoders in library form; flac, a command-line program to encode and decode FLAC files; metaflac, a command-line metadata editor for FLAC files; input plugins for various music players
Home page:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/flac/
download page v 1.1.2 (2005-02-05) [ flac112a.exe (512 KB) tools only)] [ flac-1.1.2-win.zip (382 KB)]
http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html
2006PL CD files: flac112a.exe flac-1.1.2-win.zip
(desc. rev.: 2005-09-23)
Multimedia Player Media Player Classic
Company: -- Author: Gabest; Rob Schultz; J. VICTOR
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Media Player Classic is the perfect substitute for Windows Media Player. Estetically is identical to version 6.4 and has the same lightness in terms of ram occupation, but it has much more useful functions. Features: With right and left keys it's possible to go forward/backward of one single frame. With ctrl + right/left it's possible to skip one predefinite quantity of frames. With ctrl + up it's possible to change faster the speed of reproduction. It's possible to visualize with media player Quicktime and RealMedia movies (but that programs must be installed). In full screen modality it's possible to show a scroll bar putting the mouse in the lower portion of the screen. In full screen it's possible redimension images and adopt a cinema format or a tv format. It work as a DVD player too. Keys are completely customizable. It can show subtitles.
Home page:
http://www.gabest.org/
Project Page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/
download page v 6.4.9.0 (2006-03-20) [ mpc98me6490.zip (1877 KB) Win 98/ME] [ mpc2kxp6490.zip (2172 KB) Win 2000/XP]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303
2006PL CD files: mpc2kxp6487.7z mpc98me6487.7z
(desc. rev.: 2006-03-22)
