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Media Players, utilities - here you will find the best places on the web to find music and media players, web fonts like wingdings, compression programs like Winzip, ICQ and MP3 utilities.


Best Places to find computer utilities and players

MP3 and other Media Players

Windows Media Player Download (Mac and PC)
The all-in-one version 7 of the media player lets you copy CDs, listen to radio channels on the Internet, watch videos, and listen to and organize your MP3 files. Available for Macintosh and Windows.

Winamp.com
You can download their excellent high-fidelity music player (for CDs, MP3s etc.) from here. The site also features a directory of radio channels at Shoutcast you can listen to when you have Winamp installed.

AmazingMIDI - WAV to MIDI converter for music transcription, chord analysis and making MIDI files.

AmberRor Software - CDrun is a skinnable Audio CD player for Windows. It resides in a system tray.

Authentic Digital Player and Server - Records and plays back video in many different formats.

AutoBPM - Windows program uses soundcard-wavein to count beats per minute in music.

Bucket o' Tab - Tablature editor for Windows 3.1/9x. 4-7 strings. Includes MIDI support.

Caotica2 - Creates new sounds and noises, and alters wave files using simple and complex mathematical effects. Application features audio synthesis and effects. [Windows/Linux]

CD Burner X - CD burner program for burning songs from MP3 Wav or WMA files into an audio CD.

CD player Maximus - Free CD player for Windows 95, 98, NT and 2000. Product specifications, screenshots, and downloads.

CDRDAO - Disk-At-Once recording of CDs.

CDrecorder - XWindows GUI for cdrecord and mkisofs for burning CDs.

ContextMagic.com - InfoTag Magic is a Windows Explorer infotip extension that provides pop-up text containing ID3 tags information including the title, artist, album, and duration, when the mouse pointer is hovered over an MP3 file.

CryptoSound - Software, articles, and resources for digital audio.

Cumulus Project - CUMULUS is a free (GPL) software synthesizer for LINUX. It implements the AGS (Asynchronous Grain Synthesis), provides a convenient GUI (Envelopes for all parameters), is realtime capable and has a MIDI-port to controllerboxes and keybaords (or sequencers).

Dictation Player - A specialized Windows WAV file player suited for playing back recordings with automatic pauses so you can transcribe them.

Ditty - Small midi sequencer for Windows, tested using General Midi and the SoundBlaster Live.

EADS MP3 Player - Small efficient MP3 player for Windows.

earshot - Software combining live improvisation with random composition, as well as exploration and navigation of sound on the web.

EvilLyrics - Tool for searching the lyrics to the song played in Winamp, Sonique or Foobar. [Windows 98/2000/NT/ME/XP]

Fantomizer - MP3 player with effects for Windows. Create real time audio performances from favorite music files.

Foobar2000 - Media player with simple UI and low memory use. Offers plugin support for new features. Includes link to forum focused on application. [Win32]

FreeRIP MP3 - Windows ripper that extracts tracks from CDs in MP3, WAV, or Ogg Vorbis format and names them from a CDDB database.

Future Din Tracks - Organized list of free audio related resources on the Internet covering software, help files, catalogs, and mp3s.

G-Force and WhiteCap - Produce real-time video that responds to music that's playing through an audio player (ex, Winamp, SoundJam).

HammerHead Rhythm Station - Drum machine software for Windows, aiming at the dance scene. Create perfect drum loops and breakbeats on the fly.

HarddiskOgg - On-the-fly encoder for recording analog audio sources (i.e. line-in or microphone) directly to Ogg Vorbis/Wave/MP3, featuring auto-normalization and command line support.

HTagEditor - Mp3 tag editor that guesses id tags, checks for duplicate songs, search and replace.

JahSing Music Player - Java music player that is compatible with any operating system and capable of playing several audio formats including MP3.

Jake's MP3 Alarm Clock - Program that plays wav/mp3 music. It allows multiple alarms and saving/loading playlists.

Japy mp3 Player - A fully skinable player that includes automatic gain control, mp3 normalization, 13 bands equalizer, playlist editor with finder facilities, audio effects and cover viewer.

JeFCo - Java proxy to access freedb.org, a replacement for the CDDB album and track name database.

Key2Speak - Keyboard text-to-speech utility that can translate what is typed on the fly. Works with most applications and most common languages. Customizable.

Kramixer - Program contains functions that only expensive DJ software typically provides. It is a two-channel mixer that allows smooth beatmixing and other mixing techniques (squashes, wind-downs) to give a live feel to the set. [Windows 2000/NT/XP]

LaQer Audio Player - Alternate high-fidelity music player for Windows. [Windows 98/Me/NT4/2000/XP]

Linplayer - Mp3 player for Linux using mpg123 with curses interface for play list editor, file browser, position seek bar, volume control, and equilizer settings.

LoboDAB - Wavefinder interface for the Psion WAvefinder DAB radio.

Me to Organize (Me2Org) - Java Media player with playlist, play mpeg, mp3, avi, au, mov, wav, and midis.

Media Universe - A CD manager and archiver with CDDB support.

Media Universe - CD Management tool for Windows 9x, 2K, and XP. Features category organization, direct file execution, and backup functionality.

Midi File Converter - Converts midi files to a format that can be played by a Casio Keyboard.

MIDInight Express - Emulated wavetable MIDI player and quick renderer. Uses WAVmaker- and Mellosoftron-compatible instrument format.

Mini MP3 - Player that sits in the system tray and unobtrusively plays MP3 files in the background. Will also play many other formats including MPEG video files.

Modplug.com - Player can play MOD as well as Zipped MOD (MDZ) files. It displays a spectrum analyzer and VU meter while the files are playing. A mixer allows you to load 2 files simultaneously.

MP3 Audio Player - EasyPEG3 is a simple freeware application which allows you to play MP3 audio.

MP3 CDOrganizer - MP3 organizer for Windows, arranges MP3 files to play from CDs.

MP3 File Description Database - Organize, view, sort and print descriptions for mp3 files as well as play files in the default player. [Windows]

MP3 Lyrics - Software for adding mp3 Lyrics to MP3s and a plugin for Winamp to display the lyrics as the song plays.

MP3Manager - Freeware tool for organizing and playing audio files.

MP3-Tag Generator - Utility to Tag (ID3) editing of MP3-files. Contains information about the generator and its successor as well as tips among software development.

Mr. DJ - An open-source solution for people who want to play and mix MP3 audio files.

M3UNOW - A mp3 playlist editor for Windows, support and feedback information.

Music Database - Software to create a catalog of CD collections. Full add, edit, search, delete and report functions.

Music Explorer for Windows - An open source program to help musicians transcribe recorded music, analyze and identify frequencies visually.

Myan Myan Factory - Digital CD player to read CD-TEXT data (English/Japaneese).

NT Jukebox - Skinnable Audio Player - A skinnable Mp3 players that includes a built in internet update.

Overnight's MP3 Player - Windows player with playlist.

Play List Converter - Convert CD descriptions between Windows CDPlayer, WinAMP CDDB and DeluxeCD local databases. It can also build report on your CD database contents.

Pocket Voice Recorder - Records from microphone and any other input line available with your sound card. Ten minutes of recording capacity with recordings organized as messages.

ProVivo - Skinable media player for Windows that supports Vivo, MPEG, and drag-and-drop.

QuickNamer - News, and screenshots for this MP3 ID3 tagging tool.

Quintessential Player - Multiple audio format player with advanced visual effects and a plug-in architecture.

RandyTab - Windows 9x guitar tablature software. Includes MIDI support.

RC4WA - Allows completely to control WinAmp by remote control through a limited set of Aver TV Capture cards.

RealFX - Sound effects program to raise or lower the pitch of an audio signal in real-time.

RIFFview - View bitmap and comment/(c) in WAV (RIFF format) SFI (Sound Forge Impulse Files), export bitmaps and comments from RIFF files.

Seventh String - Windows 95/98. Guitar information and effects database for guitarists, with links to related material and resources.

Silent-Bob - Masters flexible pre-recording in the background for quick and troublefree saving as WAV files.

Songcatcher - Lists songs that are playing in Winamp on the VPWSYS Network.

Sound Control Plus - Replacement for the standard windows mixer applet which allows you to hot key your mixers and also features an on screen display and winamp control.

Synesthesia Interactive Visualization - Music visualization program for Windows 95/98/NT/2000.

Synfactory Modular Software Synthesizer - Freeware analoge style modular software synthesizer software. Build synthesizers from basic building blocks like: Oscillators, filters, mixers and all kinds of logic modules.

Taptap - Tempo Tapper - Calculate the tempo, beats per minute, by tapping on the mouse button or on the space bar.

Top Ten List Creator - Keeps tracks of all files played in Sonique and builds a hitlist.

TPlayer - Skinable music player and mixer for audio files mp3, wma, and wav files. Screenshots, forum, and downloads.

The VDMSound Project - Sound support for DOS programs. Emulates MIDI, SoundBlaster, AdLib/FM, and joystick. Open Source (GPL). [Windows NT/2000/XP]

Viddi Player - Ad-free Internet radio. Over 1250 pre tuned Internet radio stations from all across the world in one small program.

Winamp Radio Scheduler - Contains downloads of WRS's latest versions, information and documentation.

WMATagger - Program that to edit information in a WMA file. [Windows 98SE]


Wingdings and other Fonts

Choose Your Wingdings
Wingdings is a graphical font which you can use to get simple graphics on your web page. The font is illustrated here, showing which keys on your keyboard represent each graphical Wingdings character. Signs of the zodiac, arrows, hands, flags mailboxes, computer symbols are some of the graphics in this font. The page also shows the html code to use.

Wingdings Font Table
Another page which illustrates the Wingdings symbols, in a larger size, which is how you would probably use them.

TrueType core fonts for the Web
Windows and Mac Truetype fonts for use on the web can be downloaded here. Included are Wingdings
, Andale Mono, Georgia, Verdana and Arial Black. Install these fonts, and when you go to a Web site that specifies them you will see the page the way the designer intended.

Extended and Wingdings characters
This describes the extended, Symbol and Wingdings character sets, and gives suggestions on how to use them. If you ever need to have accented letters, copyright symbols or fractions in your printed documents you can look at the ones available here; if you want to use symbols, pi or Greek letters look here; if you want to see the wingdings characters look here. (Tip: to get the symbols to appear in a Word document etc. make sure you are using the required font - Times Roman, symbol or Wingdings, make sure the num lock key is on, hold down the Alt key, and type the number for the character in the table.)
 

ICQ

ICQ
Here you can learn about ICQ, the real-time chat, messaging and contact program, which now has millions of users. ICQ's popularity is justified, because it is really useful and adds a lot to your Internet experience - it tells you when your friends or associates are online, it lets you contact them via chat, voice or message board and exchange files easily. It runs quietly in the background while you do other work on your computer. You can download the free program, which is available for Windows, Macintosh and the Palm computing platform from here.

ICQ Server list
If you are often disconnected from your ICQ server, you can choose another one from the list provided here. It also has full instructions on how to add the new servers to your list.


Zip (Compression/Decompression) programs

ArjFolder - Windows compression utility using the ARJ format. Can extract, test, and view files stored in ZIP, GZIP, TAR, CAB, RAR, ACE, PK3, and other formats.

BigSpeed Zipper - Compact ZIP tool with unusual features such as browsing ZIP files before downloading and full-text search of ZIP file contents.

Bzip2 and Libbzip2 - Patent free, high-quality data compressor for Windows or Unix.

CacoDemone - Extracts zip and RAR files on Windows just by double clicking them. Long file names, multi-volume, and subfolders are supported.

Cathonian Ventures Ltd - Zipfusion - Flexible self-extractor, use with any zip tools that create type 0 (stored) and type 8 (deflate) format zip files. Feature a built-in configuration editor.

dczip - Freeware data compression utility for zip, tar, gzip and bzip2 files. Requires Java 1.3 or better.

Dzip - Compact Windows compression program that creates small .DZ archive files. Integrates with Windows Explorer.

EnZip - Windows Explorer-integrated Zip program which can also build self-extracting archives with customized interfaces.

Extended Z Filesystem For Linux - Transparent compression and automatic encryption.

Free WinZIP Alternatives - A roundup and review of fully WinZIP-compatible freeware ZIP programs -- compared on the basis of usability.

FreeZip - Windows zip utility that prides itself on being small, fast and efficient.

Gzip - Open source command line data stream compressor and archiver.

IZArc - This ZIP utility supports a huge number of compression formats including 7-ZIP. Also has AES encryption and a skinnable interface.

JustZIPit - Small and simple contextual menu based zip program with full ZIP-64 huge-archive compression.

LZX - Encoding for Amigas that uses large match offsets and file merging.

MsCAB Archiver - Add-on for Windows Commander or FAR that can modify CAB archives.

MultiZipper - Unzip program for Windows that doesn't prompt before overwriting files. Supports shell links, drag and drop, and command line.

StuffIt Expander - Decompresses all files in any of the StuffIt formats. It will also decode single and multi-part BinHex files. [Win/Solaris/Linux/Mac]

Tugzip - Free archiving utility with Windows integration, script support and ZIP-64 for huge archives. Website provides a free support forum.

UltimateZip - Supports a wide variety of achive types, creates self extracting archives, integrates with mail and virus scan, and integrates with Windows Explorer.

WinImp - Extracts ZIP, ARJ, RAR, TAR as well as higher-compression IMP format. Includes drag-and-drop capability and creation of custom SFX files which can launch a file after unpacking.

XStandard Zip Component - ZIP or unzip a file or folder using a single line of code with this free component. [ActiveX DLL]

Zip 2 Secure EXE - Utility to convert any ZIP file into a self-extracting executable. Supports AES encryption, can unpack automatically to a temporary directory and run a setup.exe after extraction.

ZipE.D. - Zip manager for Windows with full archive search capabilities and archive catalog that integrates with Windows Explorer.

ZIPGenius - A full-featured ZIP program with SFX and ZIP-64 support. Also supports AES encryption 7-ZIP format and integrated image-viewing.

ZipItFast - ZIP program with a skinned interface and full support for over 20 compression formats.

Zipper - Can zip, unzip and make executable files, and view unzip directories before software installation.


MP3 Utilities

ACD-MP3 Educator - Allows you to normalize the MP3 files.

Ashampoo MP3 Studio Deluxe - Tool for turning MP3 files into audio CD format.

Buschjost's Software - Turn MP3 audio files into self-playing music files.

BW MP3 OCX - An ActiveX (OCX) control for playing MP3 audio files for VB6.

MP3 ActiveX Control - Lets your VB application play MP3 files.

MP3 CD Converter - CD burning software that converts MP3 files to cda directly without temporary wav files.

MP3 CD Organizer - Helps you organize your MP3 music collection. Program uses a MS Access 97 database, you will need to have ODBC with support for Access 97 databases installed.

MP3 Filename Formatter - Rename MP3 filenames and sets ID3 V1.1 internal MP3 ID Tags. This tool removes Underbars ("_"), extra spaces and other unwanted characters from the filename and leaves a nice-looking formatted filename.

MP3 MAGE - An MP3 collection organizer that also includes an ID3 tag editor and filename editor. Features an automatic comparison process that helps you eliminate duplicate entries in your collection. Full WinAmp support.

MP3 Strip It Digital - Make MP3s from your CD collection. Innovative Analog Ripper works on any CD-Rom and Soundcard.

Mp3 To All Converter - Software that directly converts mp3 to WAV, also WMA, VQF formats. Easy to use mp3 converter, decode mp3 files with just one click.

MP3 To Wave Converter - Convert your Winamp play lists M3Us or PLSs and even MP3s to WAV files.

MP3 Turbo Injector - Lets you insert one MP3 audio file into another MP3 audio. Insert advertisements in a MP3, without decoding the original MP3 file then re-encoding it with your advertisement.

MP3PlayBase - The MP3 Database - Database for administration of MP3 files. Functions: browsing all hard disks and CDs, search functions, TAG editor, generation of playlists, deposit of lyrics and album covers, and printing.

Napinator.com - Guide to players, skins, encoders, decoders, rippers, and many other utilities. Shareware and Freeware

PhoneSnd - A two-channel MP3 recorder that executes an independent record on each channel in MP3 the format. The program supports the mixed-language interface, set-up of exterior, capability of automatic deleting of aged records.

Streamsurfer - Helps you access and browse MP3.com's tunes without a browser. Requires a media player. (Win 95/98/Me)

Waver - Multiprocessor WAV and MP3 converter using Windows audio codecs, LAME and Blade encoders.

Zlurp - Utility for ripping, encoding and tagging (ID3) CD audio tracks transforming them into MP3 files.


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