Audio/Players
freeware
AIMP
AIMP Classic is a powerful audio player that allows you to listen to your favorite music with an outstanding sound quality. Its appearance resembles that of another classical audio player (Winamp), so you'll get used to it very quickly. It can also be customized with skins. The program includes a 18-band equalizer, a visualization window to display rhythmic visual effects and a playlist editor to organize your audio files. A nice fading effect makes your list of songs look like an endless music loop and...
freeware
RadioSure
RadioSure gives you the smoothest radio listening expirience. The main rule is it should be simple, reliable and should just work.
freeware
Winamp 5
Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity media player for Windows. Winamp supports playback of many audio (MP3, OGG, AAC, WAV, MOD, XM, S3M, IT, MIDI, etc.) and video types (AVI, ASF, MPEG, NSV), custom appearances called skins (supporting both classic Winamp 1.x/2.x skins and Winamp 3 freeform skins), audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins (including two industry dominating visualization plug-ins), an advanced media library, Internet radio and TV support, CD ripping, and CD burning.
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freeware
CD Art Display
CD Art Display is a skinnable application that shows the now playing song cover on your desktop. It fully supports AlbumPlayer, Helium Music Manager, iTunes, Winamp, Windows Media Player, foobar2000 (foobar2000 component required) and partially supports MediaMonkey, MP3Toys, qmp and musikCube.
open source
Damn Small Media Player
Damn Small Media Player is a very small mp3 player with nearly all features that u need. I know there are loads of mp3 players available, so why one more. The motivation behind me writing this app is that I am fed up with the ever increasing size of mp3 players. This is meant to ease my pain.
shareware
AV Music Morpher Gold
AV Music Morpher Gold is a powerful music editing software with real time morphing and audio file manipulating tools. Change voice & tempo, add beat, apply effect in real time or morph to new file. Extract or remove voice out of a song. Copy, cut, paste audio file in wave chart. Around 100 effects to apply, edit/mix. Supports mp3, mp2, wma, wav, ape, ogg, au, and irc. Alternative for Sound Forge, MusicMatch, Windows Media Player. Best with Kazaa, Morpheus, iTunes, iMesh, and Napster.
freeware
GOM Player
GOM is a freeware media player that supports many features for advanced users who desire to watch video files at the best quality. Try one of your broken AVI files or one of the files that is being downloaded with GOM.
open source
Songbird
Songbird is a Web player built from Firefox's browser engine. It is open source and will run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It supports user contributed, cross-platform extensions. Play any MP3 on the Web without leaving the page. It can view Web pages as dynamic playlists that it can play, save, or automatically download every day. It plays your music too. It has all the features you expect in a desktop media player.
freeware
Soundbase
Soundbase was created to fill a gap in the large amount of free and commercial players/taggers. We do not pretend to have the ultimate audio solution, but Soundbase will most likely fit somewhere into your playing or tagging experience - it will always give you a quick way of doing common tasks.
freeware
Photobie
Photobie is featured with an unique intuitive layer manager, which enable our users to handle multiple layers with ease for advanced image editing. It beholds a wide variety of painting tools that are crucial for photo retouching. Photobie supports Photoshop filter(.8BF) plugins, which means that our users can apply thousands of free filters to their images. Meantime, Photobie provides an advanced screen capture tool, the simpliest gif animation tool, and a photo framing tool.
freeware
Spotify
Spotify is a new way to enjoy music. Simply download and install, before you know it youâ??ll be singing along to the genre, artist or song of your choice. With Spotify you are never far away from the song you want. There are no restrictions in terms of what you can listen to or when. Forget about the hassle of waiting for files to download and fill up your hard drive before you get round to organising them. Spotify is instant, fun and simple.
Because music is social, Spotify allows you to share songs...
freeware
foobar2000
foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.
freeware
LCPlayer
LCPlayer is a media player which plays all media formats, rip, burn, edit and copy files, and much more. Also it brings your songs lyrics. In addition, this application is highly customizable and features a simple and intuitive interface.
freeware
Amarok
Amarok is a powerful music player with an intuitive interface. It makes playing the music you love and discovering new music easier than ever before - and it looks good doing it.
freeware
XMPlay
XMPlay is a Windows music player, supporting the OGG, MP3, MP2, MP1, MO3, IT, XM, S3M, MTM, MOD, and UMX audio formats, and PLS and M3U playlists. Many other formats are also supported via Winamp plugins.
adware
BSPlayer
BSplayer is windows player for playing back avi, asf, wmv, and mpeg video files or any other file for which you have a codec.
freeware
Evil Player
Evil Player is a fast, powerful and flexible media player for Windows. Some of the key features include Shoutcast, Icecast and Icecast2 support, low memory footprint and native support for several popular formats (MP3, MP2, MP1, OGG, AIFF and MOD).
freeware
1by1
1by1 is a small MP3 player that plays whole directories and whole drives of MP3 without any playlist.
freeware
ALLPlayer
ALLPlayer is a free media player which can be used to play all known formats. It is the first player that enables IQ Text function. It Has built in connection to Opensubtitle.org which enables you to watch movies with instant subtitles. Subtitles Speaker-this new function allows your kids to hear subtitles. This cutting edge technology is provided by Ivona. Download video files from YouTube on your PC-a special plug-in. LiveUpdate is available.
freeware
JetAudio Basic
JetAudio Basic is an integrated multimedia player to replay and convert audio CD's, Midi's, Digital Video, and more.
freeware
Xion Audio Player
Xion Audio Player features full-layered skins with complete animation support, powerful playlist support, gapless playback, 10 band equalizer with presets, auto play and position saver, customizable global hotkeys, single click play/pause, and much much more.