AUDIO TOOLS
This area has a number of audio manipulation products. Some allow you to edit and arrange audio tracks, others allow you to download, convert, play and organise music. There's even an application for downloading and playing 'Pod Casts' on your computer.
INFORMATION
OEM software is generally for system builders/upgraders, and is often provided unboxed
AUDIO PLAYERS |
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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.
Click Here for a list of supported devices and compatibility.
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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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Microsoft 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 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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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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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.
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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.
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AUDIO CONVERTERS |
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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 ** mp3 encoder on 30 day trial license |
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AUDIO EDITORS |
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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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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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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
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MULTITRACK EDITING |
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Music 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. 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 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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Kristal 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.
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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 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.
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AUDIO RIPPERS |
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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.
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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. 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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