VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.  ## Features - Plays Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams. - Fast - Hardware Decoding. - Plays most codecs with no codec ... More information

Audacity is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds. ## Features - Record live audio. - Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. - Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files. - Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together. - Change the speed or pitch of a recording. - Add new effects with LADSPA... More information

FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge. No matter if they were designed by some standards committee, the community or a corporation. It is also hi... More information

MPC-HC is an extremely light-weight, open source media player for Windows. It supports all common video and audio file formats available for playback. ## Features - It is written in C++. - Supports common video and audio formats. - MPC-HC can also be used as DVB player. - Supports GPU assisted decoding. - Translated in 41 languages. - 100% spywar... More information

Combined Community Codec Pack is a simple playback pack for Windows with the goal of supporting the majority of video formats in use today. #### Community * [Forum](http://www.cccp-project.net/forums/) * [IRC](irc://irc.rizon.net/cccp)

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 such as MP3, FLAC, AAC, WMA or OGG.

SMPlayer is a free media player for Windows and Linux with **built-in codecs** that can play virtually all video and audio formats. It doesn't need any external codecs. Just install SMPlayer and you'll be able to play all formats without the hassle to find and install codec packs. One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: **it remembers th... More information

If you are looking for an application geared toward managing extensive music collections, easy to use and with a comprehensive feature set - MusicBee is that application. MusicBee makes it easy to organize, find and play music files on your computer, on portable devices and on the web. ####Screenshot ![MusicBee Screenshot](https://raw.githubuserc... More information

MusicBrainz Picard is a cross-platform (Linux/Mac OS X/Windows) application written in Python and is the official MusicBrainz tagger. Picard supports the majority of audio file formats, is capable of using audio fingerprints (AcoustIDs), performing CD lookups and disc ID submissions, and it has excellent Unicode support. Additionally, there are se... More information

*MediaMonkey: The Media Organizer for Serious Collectors* Manage small to large collections of audio files, videos and playlists (100,000+), whether on a hard drive, network, or CDs. Rip CDs, download podcasts, lookup artwork and other missing information online, tag almost any audio or video format, and automatically rename/re-organize files on y... More information

Clementine is a modern music player and library organizer. It is inspired by Amarok 1.4, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music. ## Features - Search and play your local music library. - Listen to internet radio from Spotify,Grooveshark, SomaFM, Magnatune, Jamendo, SKY.fm, Digitally Imported, JAZZRADIO.co... More information

Jitsi (formerly SIP Communicator) is a free and open source multiplatform voice (VoIP), videoconferencing and instant messaging application for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It supports several popular instant messaging and telephony protocols, including open recognised encryption protocols for chat (OTR) and voice/video/streaming and voice/video co... More information

REAPER is digital audio workstation software: a complete multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing, and mastering environment.

Media Player Classic - BE is based on the original "Media Player Classic" project (Gabest) and "Media Player Classic Home Cinema" project (Casimir666), contains additional features and bug fixes.

WinFF is a GUI for the command line video converter, FFMPEG. It will convert most any video file that FFmpeg will convert. For example: you can convert your camera, phone, and internet videos into videos for multiple phones, websites, and media players.

LAV Filters are a set of DirectShow filters based on the libavformat and libavcodec libraries from the ffmpeg project, which will allow you to play virtually any format in a DirectShow player.

VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms (98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). 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... More information

Free video software that allows you to edit video files and create videos of all types. It supports the most popular video/audio formats and codecs, including DVD, HD and GoPro videos. Preconfigured profiles make the creation of videos for various multimedia and mobile devices a snap. The video editor offers a number of versatile features both for... More information

Audacious is an advanced audio player. It is free, lightweight, based on GTK+, runs on Linux and many other *nix platforms and is focused on audio quality and supporting a wide range of audio codecs. Audacious is a fork of Beep Media Player (BMP), which itself is forked from XMMS.

Audio drivers available for download from the Realtek website are general drivers for their audio ICs, and may not offer the customizations made by your system/motherboard manufacturer. To be sure you obtain the full features/customizations provided in your original audio product, please download the latest drivers from your system/motherboard manu... More information

The library models a collection of audio sources moving in a 3D space that are heard by a single listener somewhere in that space. The basic OpenAL objects are a Listener, a Source, and a Buffer. There can be a large number of Buffers, which contain audio data. Each buffer can be attached to one or more Sources, which represent points in 3D space w... More information

# what is FLAC? **FLAC** stands for **Free Lossless Audio Codec**, an audio format 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 compresse... More information

Mixxx is free DJ software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It’s easy to use so you can start mixing your favorite songs in no time, even if you’ve never DJed before. Mixxx offers a variety of features for experienced DJs and beginners alike, such as automatic beat and key detection, master sync, hotcues, looping, 4 decks, effects and many more. You... More information

Freemake Audio Converter is a free software to convert audio files between formats. It supports nearly any media format: MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC, M4A, AAC, OGG and 40 more. Prepare music tracks for playback on your MP3 player, iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP, Android phone, etc. Extract audio from any video files. Easy setup, no signup, no fees.

Tomahawk is a music player that fundamentally changes the way music is consumed and shared. It decouples the name of the song from the source it was shared from - and fulfills the request using all of your available sources. This creates a universal translation layer across music repositories, streaming services and geographic territories.

Graphical interface (GUI) for the popular and very fast MP3 encoder & decoder - LAME. It offers easy access to all LAME parameters without the need for command line usage. The program offers a simple mode and an advanced mode which reveals additional expert options. Lame Front-End can work in batch mode, so it can be used by external applications t... More information

RaidCall is a free, elegant and simple tool that allows you to instantly communicate with groups of people.