Audio/MP3 Players

Described as "the ultimate audio player". This is not only a fully functional MP3 player, Sonique can support almost any audio format (WAV, MIDI, CD audio, etc.) You can customise your own player with a variety of free skins and visuals, which can be downloaded at the site. A program from the Lycos Network which includes a playlist editor, 20 band equalizer and much more.

The GodFather is here to put order to chaos and put you in control. No more strange file names and endless search for "that song"! Rename,update Tags, restructure files on hard disk, create/merge play lists, encode-decode with LAME/Ogg Vorbis/MpcEnc, export/import to/from file, play, use freedb.org & allmusic.com, catalog them in a library... with ease of use and perfect results every time.

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.

KaraFun is a karaoke software for PC that offers a complete solution for home karaoke. KaraFun is based on a powerful animation engine and contains its own editor. Even if it´s supporting KAR files (midi), it´s planned to work with digital files (MP3 for example) and it introduces the new KFN file format.

Media Player Classic is an extremely light-weight media player for Windows. It looks just like Windows Media Player v6.4, but has many additional features. It has a built in DVD player with real-time zoom, support for AVI subtitles, QuickTime and RealVideo support (requires QuickTime and/or Real Player), and lots more.

Monkey’s Audio is a fast and easy way to compress digital music. Unlike traditional methods such as mp3, ogg, or lqt that permanently discard quality to save space, Monkey’s Audio only makes perfect, bit-for-bit copies of your music. That means it always sounds perfect – exactly the same as the original. Even though the sound is perfect, it still saves a lot of space. (think of it as a beefed-up Winzip™ for your music)

Mp3CoolPlay is a audioplayer that can play various audio formats such as mp3, ogg, xm, mod, mid and wav. Mp3CoolPlay has very high audio quality and also uses low system resources so you can play music with it even if you are doing other things in Windows. Mp3CoolPlay has spectrum analizing, scrolling songnames, an audio enhancer and many more nice functions like a playlist library and the ability to skin the interface.

Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows. Winamp supports MP3, CD, WMA, Audiosoft, Mjuice, MOD, WAV and other audio formats, custom appearances called skins and audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins. Winamp is now freeware. Download and enjoy it free of charge, free of guilt.

iTunes, the award-winning digital-jukebox software, is now available for Mac and Windows. The iTunes Music Store offers Windows users the same online music store as Mac users, with the same music catalog, the same personal-use rights, and the same 99-cents-per-song pricing. With music from all five major music companies and more than 600 independent labels, the iTunes Music Store catalog now offers more than 1,000,000 songs.

Use this program to convert various file formats to MP3s, WAVs, etc. You can also extract data from a CD-ROM and convert files that way, compressing as necessary. It has many other uses and although commonly called a "file ripper", it doubles as a recorder for sound cards. Users of Windows 2000 should download the patch file included on the Web site.