Audio/Players
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
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
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.
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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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
JetAudio Basic
JetAudio Basic is an integrated multimedia player to replay and convert audio CD's, Midi's, Digital Video, and more.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.