Free Programs

Audacity    View Screenshot

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You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF,and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste, mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings.

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AudioGrabber  

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"Offers the effective protection against computer viruses for the individual and private use on a single PC-workstation. It detects and removes more than 50,000 viruses and an Internet-Update Wizard for easy updating. The built in resident Virus Guard serves to monitor file movements automatically, for example when downloading files from the internet. Heuristic scanning protects Protection against previously unknown macro viruses."  --Snapfiles.com

4/5 stars

5/5 stars

AudioGrail (formerly K-MP3)     View Screenshot

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"The swiss army knife for everything that is related to audio files (MP3, MPC, OGG...). It can very easily rename and tag (tag: info such as artist name, album, track title) your files automatically. It can also analyze quality, organize files on your system, create a "magic folder" for easier audio collection browsing, and more."--Majorgeeks.com

5/5 stars

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4/5 stars

CD to MP3 Freeware     View Screenshot

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"CD to MP3 Freeware is an easy to use CD ripper that allows you to extract audio files from a CD and convert them to MP3 format. It can automatically retrieve title information from the CDDB database, normalize the output files and supports additional LAME options. You can also use the software to record to MP3 with your microphone, or to convert WAV files to MP3 format." --Snapfiles.com

3.5/5 stars

DB PowerAmp     View Screenshot

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"Often called the Swiss Army Knife of audio, dMC can digitally rip sound from audio CDs to a multitude of formats. Convert from one format to another while preserving ID tags. Nearly every audio type is supported, including MP3, MP4, Windows Media Audio (WMA), Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Monkey's Audio, and FLAC (with optional installs from Codec Central). For Windows Explorer integration, right-click Convert To and pop up useful information on audio files."

--Download.com

4/5 stars

JetAudio Basic     View Screenshot

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"JetAudio is integrated multimedia software made of a single compact rack. Not only does it play various music and video files, it also has features such as CD burning, recording, and conversion to other file formats. You get the ability to create your own Internet broadcast by using JetCast, provided with JetAudio. Play all major file formats, including WAV, MP3, MP3Pro, OGG, WMA, MPEG, AVI, WMV, MIDI, RM, and video and audio CD tracks. Convert among audio file formats, and record analog audio to various formats. The program features visualization plug-ins, including Sound2Vision; tag editing for MP3, OGG, and WMA files; sound effects including wide, reverb, and x-bass; multichannel sound output; speed control of audio playback; crossfading for smooth transition between two songs; a skinnable user interface; and synchronized lyrics display (karaoke) for MIDI and MP3 files.

Besides Audio/video playback and recording, You can also broadcast your own music through internet in MP3, OGG or WMA with jetCast. jetCast mixes music and microphone input, and send it to listener through internet."

--Majorgeeks.com

4/5 stars

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4.3/5 stars

MediaJoin     View Screenshot

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"Enables you to easily join (combine) multiple audio or video files. Unlike most other file mergers, this program does not use a simple copy merge, but actually re-encodes the files, with options to change the output format, as well as format specific settings (bitrate,frequency,frame rate etc.). MediaJoin supports MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and WMV, and it can optionally include audio tag information for combined output audio files."  --Snapfiles.com

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MediaMonkey     View Screenshot

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"Manage a music library consisting of small to very large collections (50,000+) of audio files and playlists, whether they're located on your hard drive, CDs, or a network. Organize, browse, or search music by Genre, Artist, Year, Rating, etc., and never waste your time trying to find mp3s you know you have. Automatically identify tracks that are missing information, whose tags are not synchronized, or that are duplicated elsewhere."  --Snapfiles.com

4.61/5 stars

5/5 stars

MP3 VCR     View Screenshot

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"Allows you to easily record Shoutcast streams and save them as MP3 files on your PC. You can simply drag and drop the stream URL onto the interface to start the recording, and choose to listen to the music while recording, or record in the background. The program supports ICY-compatible title extraction, and can save each song as individual MP3, using the name of the author/title. Additional features include listen-only mode, station presets, scheduled recordings, optional command line interface and more."  --Snapfiles.com

3.5/5 stars

3.5/5 stars

SoundEngine 

A simple two channel wave editing application that can be used to edit, change, or alter sound files.

Raptor Audio     View Screenshot

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"Rip Audio files from CD to MP3,WMA,OGG Vorbis, FLAC,APE, MPEG4 and WAV. All have a configurable output for CBR and VBR outputs if applicable. Includes integrated CD Player for playing back audio tracks. Supports lookups to FreeDB in order to retrieve Artist/Album information for the CD. Raptor Audio can be configured to automatically query FreeDB. Sleek intuitive Windows XP style interface allows easy extraction of audio data. Supports ID3v2 tagging of ripped MP3 files. Also supports WMA Tags, OGG tags for FLAC

and Vorbis, APE tags, and MPEG4 metadata(tags)."

--Download.com

4/5 stars

Razor LAME     View Screenshot

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"RazorLame is a so-called "front-end" for use with LAME. LAME is a great MP3-Encoder: it's very fast, it produces high-quality files, has many advanced features (like Variable Bitrates and Joint-Stereo), and it's open source. Unfortunately, it is a command line utility, and that is where RazorLame comes in: It provides an easy-to-use graphical user-interface which makes MP3-encoding even easier!"   --dors.de

WavePad Sound Editor    View Screenshot

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"A sound editor that lets you create and edit audio recordings and files, with support for a number of file formats including wav, mp3, vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif and more. It enables you to cut, copy and paste parts of recording and optionally apply effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction. In addition, you can insert silence, fade in/out, auto-trim and more. WavePad supports sample rates from 6000 to 96000Hz, stereo or mono, 8, 16 or 32 bits. The program also includesa simple CD ripper that allows you to load files directly from an audio CD. Other features include voice activated recording and text to speech support. A Master edition with additional features is available for purchase."

3.5/5 stars

4/5 stars