AUDIO PLAYERS  

Windows XP or Later

Songbird

iTunes Alternative

   Songbird is an open-source customizable music player with an intuitive interface and extensive feature list. It also has good compatibility with Apple's iPods, making it a great alternative to Apple's iTunes software.

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Apple iPhones, iPod Touch and Microsoft Zune devices are not yet supported.


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Windows XP or Later

Spotify

Music Streaming

   Spotify is a new way to enjoy music. Simply download and install, before you know it you’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.

Spotify has an iTunes esk interface which is instantly familiar and very easy to use.

Registration Required.

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Windows XP or Later

Apple iTunes

Media Player

   Buy music, movies, TV shows, and audiobooks, or download free podcasts from the iTunes Store 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Organize and play everything on your Mac or PC. Then sync it to your iPod and bring it along. Anywhere.

All your music in one place in AAC, MP3 or Apple Lossless. Create Playlists. Generate lists of your favorites. Dig deep into your library with Party Shuffle. Share Music. Let the whole family listen to your collection in any room on Mac or Windows. Burn CDs. Burn any playlist. Create CD inserts with mosaics of cover art and track lists.

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Windows XP Only

Microsoft
Media Player 11

Media Player

   Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP offers great new ways to store and enjoy all your music, video, pictures, and recorded TV. Play it, view it, and sync it to a portable device for enjoying on the go or even share with devices around your home—all from one place.

Windows Media Player 11 is designed to work with all versions of Windows XP Service Pack 2, including Windows XP N Editions.

Windows Validation required.

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Windows 2000 or Later

Nullsoft
WinAmp

Multi-Format Media Player

   Winamp is a skinnable, multi-format music/media player made by Nullsoft. It is freeware, although a "Pro" version with faster CD read/write speeds is available for a small payment. Winamp gained popularity in the late 1990s, particularly with the proliferation of the MP3 audio format and the emergence of Napster. Winamp was first released by Justin Frankel in 1997.

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Windows XP or Above

Doppler

Podcast Aggregator

   Doppler provides for simple and easy podcast downloading. Requires minimal effort on the user's part. It's got a very modern interface and complementary features.

Doppler is basically a podcast aggregator. It's a tool to subscribe to RSS feeds which supply downloadable files. Doppler will go out and fetch the files enclosed in the RSS feed and will automatically add them to your preferred media player. And it does this in a very smooth unattended manner.

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Windows 2000, XP and Vista

Juice 2

Podcast Player

   Want to listen to internet audio programs (podcasts), music and shows but can't when they are scheduled? Juice is for you.

Juice lets users select and download shows and music and play whenever they want on their iPods, portable digital media players, or computers automatically.

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All Windows versions supported

EphPod2

ipod Backup

   EphPod is a full-featured, easy-to-use and free Windows application that connects with Apple's iPod. Ideal for backing up the contents of your iPod device.

This application is no longer updated and so newer Apple iPod devices may not work.

  AUDIO CONVERTERS  

All Windows versions supported

dBpowerAMP

Music Converter

   Often called a Swiss army knife of Audio, dBpowerAMP is able to:

. Digitally Rip Audio CDs and compress to a multitude of audio formats
. Convert between audio formats whilst preserving ID Tags
. Practically every audio type is supported: mp3, mp4, m4a, Windows Media Audio (WMA), Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Monkeys Audio, FLAC, Apple Lossless (ALAC) and many others from Codec Central
. Volume Normalize & apply DSP effects
. Windows Explorer Integration: right click >> Convert To, popup info tips (bitrate, length), Explorer Columns
. ID tag editing
. Record from anything with Auxiliary Input
. Fully compatible with Windows XP / 2000, etc
. CD Ripper boasts Fastest CD Ripping with Accurate - Rip included

** mp3 encoder on 30 day trial license

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  AUDIO EDITORS  

All Windows versions supported

Expstudio

Audio Editor

   This software is a visual music file editor that has many different options and a multiple functionality to edit your music files like editing text files. With a given audio data it can perform many different operations such as displaying a waveform image of an audio file, filtering, applying various audio effects, format conversion and more.

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All Windows versions supported

WavePad

Audio Editor

   WavePad is a full featured professional sound editor for Windows. It lets you make and edit voice and other audio recordings. When editing audio files you can cut, copy and paste parts of recordings and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction. WavePad works as a wav editor or mp3 editor but it also supports a number of other file formats including vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and more.

Some features are disabled after 14 days, but the majority of the options remain.

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Windows 98 or Later

Audacity

Audio Editor

   Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

. Record live audio
. Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs
. Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files
. Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together
. Change the speed or pitch of a recording
. And more!

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  MULTITRACK EDITING  

Windows 98 or Later

Music
Phrase XL

MIDI Sequencer

   MusicPhrase is MIDI sequencing software for Windows. MusicPhrase is creative tool for composing music. It is easy, fast and stable MIDI sequencer integrated with state of the art tools which make composer think only about composing and not about the technology.
Sequencer supports fast editing with total accessibility of all features using only computer keyboard. Real-time editing during playback or recording including non-stop available input from MIDI keyboard enables total creativity. Any MIDI input can be processed using powerful groove engine before recording.

This is trial version of MusicPhrase. You can use this version as long as you like before making a purchasing decision.

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Windows 98 or Later

Anvil
Studio

Multitrack Editing

   Anvil Studio is a free Windows program for multi-track recording, composing, and editing of audio and MIDI music files.

With this free version, you can create an unlimited number of MIDI tracks, and a one-minute audio track.

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Windows 2000 and XP

Kristal
Audio Engine

Multitrack Editing

   KRISTAL Audio Engine is a powerful multi-track recorder, audio sequencer and mixer - ideal for anyone wanting to get started with recording, mixing and mastering digital audio.

It is designed as a modular system. The main application provides a mixing console, while the audio sequencer, live audio input and so on are loaded as separate Plug-Ins.

KRISTAL Audio Engine is free for personal, educational and non-commercial use.

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Standard Version - Windows 98 or Later
64 Bit Version - Windows XP 64 or Later

Reaper

Multitrack Editing

   Reaper is a powerful Windows application for multitrack recording and editing of audio.

Reaper provides a flexible but easy to use interface that is suitable for amateurs and professionals alike.

This product is for Non-commercial use and is only to be used for the production of your own content, and not for the purpose of making money.

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Windows XP or Later

Sony
ACID Music Studio 8

   ACID Music Studio 8 is the best way to bring your music to life and share it with others. Multitrack audio and MIDI recording, pro-quality editing and effects, and over 3,000 genre-spanning, studio-quality loops to use in remixes, mash-ups, and original music creations.

Studio Multitrack recording: Music Studio gives you complete freedom & flexibility to record your music. Record track by track or capture the entire band at once with each instrument on a different track. This gives you total control over volume, panning and effects on each instrument or vocal track for the perfect mix

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  AUDIO RIPPERS  

Windows XP or Later

MP3myMP3

Audio Ripper

   MP3myMP3 Recorder saves any audio you hear on your computer straight to mp3 or wav. Record from any source. Rip Vinyl, rip CD's, batch rename, create playlist and more.

IF YOU CAN HEAR IT, YOU CAN RECORD IT!.

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Windows XP and below

Audiograbber

CD Audio Ripper

  Audiograbber is a piece of software that grabs digital audio from cd's. It copies the audio digitally-not through the soundcard-which enables you to make perfect copies of the originals. Audiograbber can also automatically normalize the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, and send them to a variety or external MP3 encoders, such as Fraunhofers L3enc, or even use some MP3/WMA encoders internally for automatic creation of MP3's. Audiograbber can download and upload disc info from freedb, an Internet compact disc database.

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Windows 95 or Later

CDex

CD Audio Ripper

  CDex can CD/Ripper music encoder. CDex can extract the data directly (digital) from an Audio CD, which is generally called a CD Ripper or a CDDA utility. The resulting audio file can be a plain WAV file (useful for making compilation audio CDs) or the ripped audio data can be compressed using an audio encoder. Many encoders are supported.

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BonkEnc

CD Audio Ripper

  BonkEnc is a CD ripper, audio encoder and converter for various formats. It can produce MP3, MP4/M4A, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Bonk and FLAC files.

BonkEnc makes it easy to convert your audio CDs to MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files which you can use in your hardware player or with your favorite audio software. The program supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database and CDText and automatically writes song information to ID3V2 or Vorbis comment tags.

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The Glitch does not condone piracy, and only links to this product as an aid to copying existing CD media that you own. All copies you make with this software will be for your own personal use only. (As defined by the BPI)

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