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ACE Media Player - Developer's Site

Description: A freeware media Player for QuickTime, Real Media, DivX and Windows Media files.

Price: Freeware
Platform: Win98/ME/2000/XP
Download: http://www.gustosoft.com/download/amplayer.exe
Size: 1.50 MB


BOOMBox Internet Radio Player 1.0 - Developer's Site

Description: BOOMBox Internet Radio Player gives you access to thousands of Internet radio stations, playing everything from pop to country to classical and beyond. You can choose your favourite music genres from a dropdown list. When a song is playing, its name is displayed.

Price: Freeware
Platform: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://www.jajsoft.com/products.html
Size: 1.95 MB


DeKstasy - Developer's Site

Description: DeKstasy is for all levels of DJs -- it's easy enough for a beginner to use, and rock solid enough for that 3-hour sunrise set. Using your existing mixer and output hardware (or the standard onboard Macintosh output), the software replaces the functionality of your turntables and records with a slick interface and digital audio files.

Price: Freeware
Platform: Mac OS X 10.2.x
Download: http://www.sonophile.com
Size: 700 KB


DivX™ Codec - Developer's Site

Description: The DivX video software loved by 70 million users worldwide. This version includes all the playback and encoding functionality necessary to watch and create DivX videos. And what's more, it's completely free for download! Find out what your friends have been talking about.

Price: Freeware version
Platform: Windows (All)
Download: http://download.divx.com/divx/DivX503Bundle.exe
Size: 3.0 MB


Front End Digital Media Player - Developer's Site

Description: As its name suggests, Front End Digital Media Player is a front end for the Apple QuickTime digital media player — which is also available free if you don't already have it on your system. Front End Digital Media Player adds useful features to QuickTime. These include full-screen presentations, variable fast-forward and slow motion playback, treble control, and marking, so that you only play the sections of songs and movies that you've marked, as well as media playlists. Most popular sound, audio and image files are supported.

Price: Free
Platform: Windows 2000/XP; Mac
Download: http://www.kwerkx.com/software/index.html#FEP
Size: 1.22 MB


GoSing 2.7 - Developer's Site

Description: Here’s a great way to enjoy Karaoke at home. While lacking the more advanced features of some Karaoke players, GoSings’s simple operation and interface make it more accessible for the novice user. It’s fully compatible with KAR, MID and MK1 karaoke files. KAR files are the standard for PC-Karaoke files and there’s a heap of them available online. Features include a "wait the traffic lights" system that shows you the right moment to start singing, key control to adjust the tuning and tempo of a song, and better still there is no installation needed

Price: Freeware
Platform: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP
Download: http://www.gosing.com
Size: 305 KB


iPodder - Developer's Site

Description: iPodder lets you listen to Internet audio whenever you want to. Thousands of Internet users are creating their own podcasts (Internet radio-style programs), and with iPodder you can listen to podcasts at your computer, on your iPod, or on any other digital media device. The program helps you to select the audio programs that you want to listen to, and then you can schedule the downloads for a time that's convenient. To play podcasts on your computer, you can use iTunes, or any other audio software.

Price: Free
Platform: Windows 2000/XP; Mac 10.3 or higher
Download: http://ipodder.sourceforge.net
Size: 6.2 MB


iTag - Developer's Site

Description: Freeware for renaming ID3 tags in MP3 files.

Price: Freeware
Platform: Mac OS X
Download: http://www.atelierkrake.de/sebi/software/
Size: 136 KB


iTunes - Developer's Site

Description: With iTunes, you can create your own personal digital music library to manage and listen to your music and audiobook collection, all with drag-and-drop simplicity. iTunes also encodes high-quality MP3s as well as pristine AAC, all in a free application.

Price: Freeware
Platform: Windows 2000/XP and Mac OS
Download: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Size: 19.0 MB


jetAudio 6 Basic - Developer's Site

Description: A multimedia player that allows you to play audio and video. The user interface is skinnable.

Price: Freeware
Platform: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
Download: http://www.jetaudio.com/download/
Size: 14.1 MB


Juice - Developer's Site

Description: Juice lets users select and download shows and music to play whenever they want on their iPods, portable digital media players or computers, automatically.

Price: Free
Platform: Windows 2000/XP; Mac; Linux
Download: http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/
Size: 6.29 MB


KaraFun - Developer's Site

Description: KaraFun is a complete free karaoke package for Windows. It's both a player and an editor, based on a powerful 3D animation engine. It supports audio as well as MIDI and plays many file formats: KFN, CDG, KAR, KOK, LRC, MP3, OGG, MID.

Price: Free
Platform: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
Download: http://www.karafun.com/download_en.html
Size: 4.43 MB


Microsoft Media Player - Developer's Site

Description: Enjoy fast and flexible music and video playback with Windows Media Player 9 Series. Over 120 new features including Fast Streaming for instant-on playback, and Mini-player mode make this the best player yet. The latest version for Windows 98SE, Me, 2000, and best experienced with Windows XP!

Price: Free
Platform: Windows 98, 98SE, ME, Windows 2000
Download: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/
Size: KB


MidiPiano Suite - Developer's Site

Description: MidiPiano Suite includes MidiPiano and MidiDrum. MidiPiano is a very simple and useful application; you can open the MIDI file and "play" it in a virtual keyboard, and record the MIDI file by the virtual keyboard or MIDI IN device.

Price: Free
Platform: Windows XP
Download: http://www.midipiano.net/
Size: 865 KB


QuickTime - Developer's Site

Description: Media Player for playing .mov movies. Also supports 3GPP files and MPEG-4 Videos.

Price: Freeware
Platform: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
Download: http://www.apple.com/quicktime
Size: 12.2 MB


Quintessential Player - Developer's Site

Description: An audio player that can be as simple or as feature-rich as you like. Simply download more plug-in components from the Web site.

Price: Freeware
Platform: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://beta.quinnware.com/downloads.php
Size: 3.10 MB


Tactile 1200 - Developer's Site

Description: A 3D interaction simulation of a DJ setup. Tactile 1200 allows you to crossfade, backspin, speed up and slow down music including WAVE and MP3 songs.

Price: Freeware
Platform: Windows 95/98/NT4/2000/XP
Download: http://tactile12000.sourceforge.net/download/index.html
Size: 3.07 MB


Van Basco’s Karaoke Player - Developer's Site

Description: The world of Karaoke comes to the PC with this versatile MIDI Karaoke player that lets you to make customised play lists. With thousands of MIDI Karaoke (KAR) files freely available online, it’s a must-have.

Price: Freeware
Platform: Windows 95/98/ME/NT 4/2000/XP
Download: http://www.vanbasco.com/download_midi_player_with_full_screen_karaoke_display.html
Size: 676 KB


Winamp - Developer's Site

Description: Popular Winamp plays your audio CDs, MP3s, videos, Internet radio, and streaming video. The program has been around for years, and has everything you would expect in a good multimedia player.

Price: Freeware
Platform: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://www.winamp.com/player/free.php
Size: 4.21 MB


XMPlay - Developer's Site

Description: XMPlay is an all-format free audio player, with no installation routine, so you can take it with you on a USB drive. It supports all popular formats, like OGG, mp3, mp2, WMA and WAV, as well as many more lesser known formats. If you've got an unusual format, chances are it will play with Winamp plug-ins – just download them from the site. Technically XMPlay is superior to many commercial players, and it has lots of keen users who've created an enormous number of skins, which are available on the developer's site.

Price: Free
Platform: Windows
Download: http://www.un4seen.com
Size: 290 KB