Pat's Freeware Selection 
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Audio Players and DJ stuff
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Video
Multimedia Players
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Audio
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| Audacity (P) | YES | YES | Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. |
| Audio Tagging Tools (P) | YES | YES | Audio Tagging Tools will automatically create title numbers, clean filenames or tags for you. Features like filters, filename cleaning, tag generator, tag editor, filename creator, output templates, a powerful script engine and many more will help you organizing your files... The most common audio formats are supported, mp3, wma, ogg, vqf, ... playlist formats like m3u, pls and wpl, and even filetypes like html, csv, rtf and many many more can be used for output. |
| BonkEnc (P) | YES | YES | BonkEnc is a good CD ripper, audio encoder and converter for various formats. It can produce MP3, MP4/M4A, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Bonk and FLAC files. More formats are available through plugins. |
| Mediacoder (P) | YES | YES | MediaCoder is a FREE universal audio/video batch transcoder distributed under GPL license, which puts together lots of excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of transcoding among different audio/video formats. It can be made portable: see portable freeware section. I think it's better then “SUPER” |
| MP3 Repair Tool (MP3 RT) (P) | YES | If an MP3 is corrupt, in most cases only the beginning of the file is corrupted and audio information is still existing. With MP3 Repair Tool you can cut the corrupt beginning of this file. In tests 87% of all files could be played after using MP3 Repair Tool. You can select multiple files to be fixed in batch. | |
| MP3DirectCut (P) | YES | YES | MP3DirectCut is a fast and extensive audio editor and recorder for compressed mp3. You can directly cut, copy, paste or change the volume with no need to decompress your files for audio editing. The built in recorder creates mp3 on the fly from your audio input. Using Cue sheets, pause detection or Auto cue you can easily divide long files. |
| Mp3tag (P) | YES | YES | Mp3tag is a tool to edit metadata (ID3, Vorbis Comments and APE) of common audio formats. |
| Wavosaur (P) | YES | YES | Wavosaur is a free sound editor, audio editor, wav editor software for editing, processing and recording sounds, wav and mp3 files. Wavosaur has all the features to edit audio (cut, copy, paste, etc.) produce music loops, analyze, record, batch convert. Wavosaur supports VST plugins, ASIO driver, multichannel wav files, real time effect processing. |
Audio Players and DJ stuff
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| 1by1 (P) | YES | YES | 1by1 is a small, fast and handy audio player which is not only small: it provides a smart and versatile environment to handle your file collection and listen to your tracks. This is a great player when you just want it to work and work quickly. |
| Billy (P) | YES | YES | Billy is a lightweighted no nonsense audio player that allows you to quickly play an entire directory of MP3,WAV or OGG files, or play lists. As of v1.04b it also has internet radio support, including support for recording internet radio. All Billy versions have a sleep timer. |
| Chime Tray play (P) | YES | Chime Tray Play is a very small (37kb), fast, and efficient audio player that can play audio CDs, MIDI, WAV audio, MPEG audio, and Windows Media Audio files. Tray Play's icon is displayed in the system tray and can be used to select and play songs. With features such as Auto-Hide, Play-On-Start, Random-Play, and Non-stop Play, Tray Play turns your computer into a music system that plays your favorite songs on and on while you work. You don't need to bother about creating playlists or loading files. Just click a file and Tray Play will automatically hide, play that file, and then continue to serially or randomly play any other files in the same folder. No longer under development, but it works great! | |
| CoolPlayer (P) | YES | CoolPlayer is an audio player with skin support. It features a playlist editor, internet streaming, ID3 multi-tagger, file renamer, MP3-to-WAV converter, Ogg Vorbis support, 8-band equalizer etc. A lot of plugins and skins available. | |
| Evil Player (P) | YES | It is a fast, powerful and flexible media player for windows. Some of Evil Player's 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). So You can use this one also for internet radio reception. More formats supported trough plugins(download section). | |
| Foobar | YES | YES | 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. Audio formats supported: MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC / Ogg FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, AU, SND, CDDA, WMA. |
| Mixxx | YES | YES | Mixxx is an open source DJ tool designed for both semi-professional and amateur DJs alike. Mixxx allows DJs to mix music live with a clean, simple interface. It's easy to use for novice and professional DJ's, including live performances. Import M3U and PLS playlists from any program, as well as drag-and-drop tracks right into Mixxx. Mixxx reads most popular sound formats, including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and Wave. Mixxx supports MIDI controllers along with standard input devices such as joysticks and mice. It's open source and Cross platform. |
| OtsTurntables Free | NO | YES 32bit | The virtual DJ setup of OtsTurntables Free emulates a real-life setup of two turntables and a mixer. Each turntable has pitch, tempo, and direction control. There also are play, stop, and auto-fade controls, and the program comes with a virtual power amplifier, graphic equalizer, and a (limited) dynamics processor. The program supports WAV and MP3 files, as well as its own Ots format. Though feature-limited compared to the paid versions, OtsTurntables Free is a solid player for both newbies and laptop DJs. |
| TPlayer (P) | YES | TPlayer is a music player and mixer for mp3, wma, ogg, and wav audio files. It can play and mix songs without music interruption, sense fading or silence prior the end of the playing song and automatically start mixing the next song. You can chose between four (4) types of automixes and easily configure the automix parameters. You can play, mix and cue songs easily with a single click of the mouse. TPlayer offers dual independent players, multiple sound cards support and unique mixing and fading options. Additional features include song disk search, playlists and more. | |
| TrakAxPC | NO | YES | TrakAxPC enables you to create music and video mixes without any special skills or technical expertise. It provides a drag and drop interface to easily add files and to record from your microphone or web cam. The program supports beat matching technology. You can create audio-only mixes or combine them with video and/or pictures. Other features include CD ripping, audio and video effects, and more. The company offers OPTIONAL TrakPacks (audio loops and effects) that can be purchased. The program can render your mixes to WMA and WAV format. |
| UtraMixer Free Edition | NO | YES | UltraMixer Free is a DJ software for mixing. It contains all basic functions a virtual DJ needs. The use of UltraMixer Free is permitted for private users only and NOT IN PUBLIC! UltraMixer Free contains a splash screen, that appears every time you start the program. |
| Xion (P) | YES | YES | Xion is an audio player with nice skins, 10 band equalizer with presets and support for all popular file formats as well as Internet streaming. Xion includes all the standard features including playlist support, audio library, repeat and random play, visualizations. It also offers several online radio station presets, extensive hotkey operation and one-click stop/start from the tray icon. |
| XMPlay (P) | YES | YES | XMPlay is a good audio player, supporting the OGG / MP3 / MP2 / MP1 / WMA / WAV / CDA / MO3 / IT / XM / S3M / MTM / MOD / UMX audio formats, and PLS / M3U / ASX / WAX playlists. A load more formats are also supported via plugins. Low processor usage, low RAM usage, plays tons of file types. |
Miscellaneous Audio Tools
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| Floola (P) | YES | YES | Floola is an application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes). It can be run directly from your iPod. Floola supports all most common used features including podcasts! If a software messed up your iPod You can fix it with Floola! |
| YamiPod (P) | YES | YamiPod is an application to efficiently manage your iPod. Features: Mp3 and AAC files can be copied to/from iPod, remove duplicated tracks, find lost music files, PC to iPod synchronization, etc. |
CD and DVD
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| Audiograbber (P) | YES | Audiograbber is a versatile CD-ripper. It reads digital audio from your CDs and converts them to WAV, MP3 or OGG files (Some optional external encoders required which can be downloaded from the website). It can normalize the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, or download/upload disc info from freedb. You can convert your vinyl LPs or cassette tapes with Audiograbber to digital audio. | |
| Autorun.inf Editor | NO | YES | Easily create the Autorun.inf file that allows programs on CD run automatically when the CD is inserted! The CDs you create can automatically display a web page, text file, navigate the user's web browser to a support web site, launch a setup program, and more. |
| BurnCDCC (P) | YES | This utility is used to burn an ISO file to a CD/DVD/BD disc. : standalone/small. | |
| CD Media World tools | NO | Website with maybe useful CD/DVD tools | |
| CD Recover (P) | YES | This is a lossy disc copying program. Designed for recovering as much information as possible from a corrupted file. The program is optimized for recovering corrupt video data from CDs. Supports multiple file retrieval methods. | |
| CDBurnerXP Pro | YES | YES | CDBurnerXP Pro is a good “Nero” alternative; it can do almost the same things Nero does. With this software you can burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs, audio-CDs with or without gaps between tracks, burn and create ISO files, create bootable discs, and more... |
| CDex (P) | YES | YES | CDex is a CD-Ripper, extracting digital audio data from an Audio CD. The application supports many Audio encoders, like MPEG (MP2,MP3), VQF, AAC encoders. |
| CDMage (P) | YES | It's a utility, which performs basic tasks with common CD image files. The most-wanted being: scanning, repairing and extracting. It allows you to explore the filesystem in the CD image, extract files, extract and convert tracks into any compatible format, repair corrupted sectors etc. | |
| Deepburner (P) | NO | YES 32 bit | CD and DVD burning package. |
| DeepRipper (P) | YES | DeepRipper is a freeware utility that is capable of converting audio CD tracks to a first-grade MP3, OGG or WAV files. It features a number of presets for less experienced users and full set of manual settings for experts. | |
| DVD Identifier (P) | YES | It retrieves and interprets the pre-recorded information that is present on dvd (dvd+r, dvd+rw, dvd-r, dvd-rw, dvd-ram), hd dvd (hd dvd-r, hd dvd-rw, hd dvd-ram) and blu-ray (bd-r, bd-re). This information contains a variety of parameters such as disc manufacturing information and supported write speeds. So, it offers a reliable method of accurately identifying a disc's real manufacturer. | |
| DVD Slideshow GUI | YES | YES | DVD slideshow GUI packages various freeware tools to allow you to create a slideshow DVD, all in an easy to use interface. With this application you can make a fancy slideshow for your holiday photos, add music, animations and transitions. Burn it to a DVD and have it play on your standalone DVD player. |
| DVDShrink | NO | DVD Shrink is software to backup DVD discs. | |
| Optical Info (P) | YES | The purpose of this utility is to detect the optical drive's (CD / DVD drives) Read/Write capabilities. When looking at the front of a computer which is not your own it is often difficult to tell whether the optical drive installed is either a CD ROM, CD Writer, CD Rewriter, DVD ROM, CD Rewriter + DVD Combo, DVD/CD Rewriter etc. | |
| Quick Menu Builder | NO | Quick Menu Builder: build menus for all your: CD-ROM, DVD autorun, Application launcher(s) and many, many other multimedia projects... | |
| Undercoverxp | YES | YES | UndercoverXP is a program to easily print CD and DVD covers. It supports JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP formats and can automatically scale front covers, back covers, front + inside, inlays, DVD Boxes, Digital Pictures and CD/DVD labels to the correct sizes. Other formats can be added via a graphical format editor. |
Video
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| Camstudio (P) | YES | CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs). There is a lossless codec available for this. | |
| Mediacoder (P) | YES | YES | MediaCoder is a FREE universal audio/video batch transcoder distributed under GPL license, which puts together lots of excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of transcoding among different audio/video formats. It can be made portable: see portable freeware section. I think it's better then “SUPER” |
| MP4Cam2AVI (P) | YES | MP4Cam2AVI is MPEG4/MJPEG to AVI converter/joiner for MPEG-4 camcorders and digital photo cameras. It makes MPEG-4 camera clips DivX/XviD compatible and playable with any DVD-MPEG4 player like regular MPEG-4 movie. Program supports *.MP4, *.MOV, and *.AVI input. By default, MP4Cam2AVI doesn't recompress video, that means no quality loss and fast operation. Audio can be stored in source format, or converted to MP3. | |
| Multimedia Codecs | YES | www.fourcc.org - a source for video codecs and pixel format information. | |
| Subtitle Workshop (P) | YES | YES | Subtitle Workshop is good, efficient and convenient freeware subtitle editing tool. It supports all the subtitle formats you need and has all the features you would want from a subtitle editing program. |
| Taksi (P) | YES | Taksi is a video capture/screen capture tool for 3D graphics applications (such as games). It can capture almost any windows application using DirectX, OpenGL, or GDI and create an AVI file using any installed VFW codec or still frames in PNG. | |
| TMPGEnc Free Edition (P) | YES | TMPGEnc converts *.AVI file to MPEG1, the format which is used in VideoCD. Using a variety of options in TMPGEnc, you can compress your video file in high quality. (The MPEG2 converter functionality is payware with a 30 day trial due to royalty charges. MPEG1 encoding/decoding remains free after the trial period.) | |
| VirtualDub (P) | YES | YES | VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility. It is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files. Also built-in capturing and video frameserving. |
| Vixy | YES | YES | This service allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube's videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online. When you submit an url, it will download and convert to the selected video format. Then you can download the converted file. |
Multimedia Players
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| Ace DIVX Player | NO | Ace DivX Player is a divx player: play and manage your local media files: Divx, Mpeg, Mpv, Mpa, Mp3, Mp4, Avi, Asf, CDA(Audio-CD), DAT(Video-CD) etc. | |
| Fusion (P) | YES | Fusion is a small media player that plays DVD, DIVX, XVID, MPEG, WMV, MP3, WMA, WAV or MID. Fusion Media Player supports audio MPEG Layer 3 streaming. It is full compatible to Shoutcast/Icecast. | |
| GOM Player | NO | YES | GOM Player is a multimedia player that supports most popular codecs (AVI, DAT, MPEG, DivX plus many more) with its own embedded codec system. For those codecs that require a license that cannot be distributed, GOM will automatically lead you to an open-source codec web-site. GOM can play broken AVI files and files that are still being downloaded. You can watch video files while you are downloading them. GOM supports a lot of advanced features for advanced users. |
| KMPlayer (P) | NO | The KMPlayer is a versatile media player which can cover various types of container format such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg Theora, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime among others. It handles a wide range of subtitles and allows you to capture audio, video, and screenshots in many ways. It's able to play incomplete/damaged AVI files, or media files that are locked while downloading or sharing. | |
| Mv2player (P) | YES | YES | Mv2 player is freeware multimedia player for Windows. Features: Inteligent subtitles detecting/loading, lots of multimedia, skins and subtitles formats supported, easy to use for begginers and lot of settings for advanced users, fast keyboard control with remapping possibility. |
| VLC Media Player (P) | YES | YES | VLC media player is a “portable” multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, XviD, WMV, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. There is a strict portable version in the portable freeware section! |
Video Players
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| FLV Player (P) | YES | YES | FLV Player is a player for Flash .FLV video files. The Macromedia Flash Player plugin must be installed on the host computer because FLV Player uses the Macromedia Flash FLV Playback component to play .flv files with! |
| Real Alternative | YES | YES | Real Alternative allows you to play Realmedia files without having to install Realplayer. |
Miscellaneous Video Tools
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| Ant Movie Catalog (P) | YES | YES | A good program to manage your collection of movies DVD, CD (VideoCD, DivX, ...) and tapes. Import information, export to other formats, scripting technology, can store pictures inside catalog or link to external files, track loaners etc. |
| Any Video Converter Free | YES | YES | Any Video Converter is an All-in-One video converter which can convert video files from various formats: including DivX, XviD, MOV, rm, rmvb, MPEG, VOB, DVD, WMV, AVI to MPEG-I, MPEG-I, DVD NTSC , DVD PAL, Flash for Video (FLV) , AVI Video and Customized WMV movie formats. The converted files will be saved to a pre-selected folder and the original files will remain untouched. |
| DivFix++ (P) | YES | YES | It's an AVI repair & preview program. Repairs broken AVI file streams by rebuilding the index. |
| Gspot (P) | YES | YES | Determines what video codecs (audio and video) are required to play an AVI file, determines whether these codecs are installed on your system, Isolates problems associated with these codecs. |
| Movienizer | YES | YES | A good program to manage your collection of movies DVD, CD (VideoCD, DivX, ...) and tapes. Import information, scripting technology, track loaners etc. |
| Multi Media Center (P) | YES | Multi Media Center organizes all your media - music, movies, photos, games, and more. Browse your media with a simple fullscreen interface with large fonts optimized for TV-out. Can be controlled by mouse, keyboard, or remote control. | |
| Slide Show Movie Maker (SMMM) (P) | YES | Slide Show Movie Maker is a free program that can create an AVI-file from a series of .bmp or .jpg images. Images can have professional-looking fade-in and fade-out effects, plus attractive text overlays. |
Streaming Internet Radio and Video
| (short)Name & Link | Commercial Use? | VISTA ? | Short Description |
| ASFRecorder | YES | ASFRecorder allows you to grab a streamed file to watch at a more convenient time. First find the address of the streaming file that you'd like to capture, and then download and store the Windows Media file (.asx, .wmx., or .wmvt) onto your hard drive or removable media. You can then view files offline and copy them as often as you wish. | |
| Mediaportal | YES | YES | MediaPortal is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC / TV into a very advanced Media Center. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch and store your videos and DVDs, view, schedule and record live TV as a digital video recorder and much more. Supports plugins and extensions: some of them essential. A recording longer than 90 minutes requires the NTFS filesystem. |
| Radio Online | YES | YES | Radio Online is a streaming radio program that works completely whithout windows interface. Besides listening to radio, you can also play MP3, WMA, MID and M3U files. Everything works with an icon in the systray. There is a portable version, but that version writes some things to the registry, so that is not strict portable. Dutch interface: ment for dutch spoken users in the Benelux (Belgium-The Netherlands-Luxemburg). By default more then 100 radio stations are available, but you can add radio stations, from all over the world, in one of the four categories easily yourself. |
| Screamer Radio | YES | YES | Internet Radio at his best! Everyone listens sometimes to live radio-streams of radio Fusion in Chicago as an example, but this Screamer Radio bundles thousands of radio stations from all over the world together in one program. Features: Search op genre, on language, on region, save favorites, effects, control volume and even recording the streams belongs to the possibilities! Interface in many languages translated, including Dutch. |
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