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Songbird 0.1

Freeware

Play any MP3 on the Web without leaving the page. Songbird can view Web pages as dynamic playlists that it can play, save, or automatically download every day. Songbird plays your music too. Songbird has all the features you expect in a desktop media player.

Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

REAPER 0.79

Freeware

Powerful but sensible Windows application that lets you record, arrange, edit, and render multi-track waveform audio. REAPER provides an extensive set of features, but is a very small and lightweight application (the installer is less than 1 megabyte, and includes many effects and a sample project).

Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

Burrrn 1.14

Freeware

Burn audio CDs from different audio sources . Supported formats are: wav, mp3, mpc, ogg, aac, mp4, ape, flac, ofr, wv, tta, m3u, pls and fpl playlists and cue sheets. You can also burn EACÆs noncompliant image + cue sheets! Burrrn can read all types of tags from all these formats (including ape tags in mp3). Burrrn uses cdrdao.exe for burning.

Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

The Godfather 0.71 beta 2

Freeware

Bring order to your MP3 chaos. No more strange file names and endless search for "that song"! Rename, update tags, restructure files on hard disk, create/merge play lists, re-encode/decode, export/import, play, use freedb.org & allmusic.com, catalogue music within a library.

Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

Winamp 5.13

Freeware

One the oldest media players. New features include a vastly more powerful media library; CD-ripping support; CD-burning support; advanced title-formatting logic for file types that support it; huge AVS updates; support for playback of AAC and VP6 in NSV files/streams

Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP

Audacity 1.3

Freeware

Record and play sounds and import and export WAV, AIFF, MP3, and OGG files. Edit your sounds using cut, copy, and paste features (with unlimited undo functionality), mix tracks, or apply effects to your recordings. The program also has a built-in amplitude-envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode, and a frequency-analysis window for audio-analysis applications.

Requires: Windows 98SE, 2000, Me or XP