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| AudioCD MP3 Studio by PTS-Software 1.1a | |||||
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| Description: | Transforms your MP3s to high-quality Audio CDs in one easy step. Records MP3 files directly to audio CD. A good tool for creating and managing your private music archives using space-saving high-compression formats. Extract tracks from audio CDs with standard CD-ROM drives. Store them with or without compression. Allows you to combine them and record your own audio CDs. | ||||
| Requirements: | Requirements: | Shareware | |||
| Install instructions: | Download to your local drive, then unzip it and run the EXE file. | ||||
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http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/albatroscd.html | ||||
| Audiograbber | |||||
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| Description: | Allows you to copy music from a computer's CD player digitally, rather than through the soundcard, which enables you to make higher quality copies. Can be configured to test the quality of the recording. It can also automatically normalise the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, and send them to an MP3 encoder for automatic creation of MP3s. | ||||
| Requirements: | Shareware | ||||
| Install instructions: | Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Nestcape users download to your local drive and run the EXE file. | ||||
| Links online: |
http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/ | ||||
| Audiotools 2.2 | |||||
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| Description: | A direct-to-disk recorder used to record from LPs and cassettes and to break them up by song either automatically (by silence detection) or under user control. | ||||
| Requirements: | Shareware | ||||
| Install instructions: | Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Nestcape users download to your local drive and run the EXE file. | ||||
| Links online: |
http://www.btinternet.com/~amfish/index.htm | ||||
| Cakewalk Pro Audio 8.0 | |||||
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| Description: | A MIDI and digital audio workstation for professional music and sound production on the PC. You can quickly record, edit, process, and mix complete multitrack MIDI and audio projects. | ||||
| Requirements: | Demo | ||||
| Install instructions: | Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Nestcape users download to your local drive and run the EXE file. | ||||
| Links online: |
http://www.cakewalk.com/ | ||||
| CD Magic | |||||
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| Description: | Upgrade your CD player with this freeware music player for Windows. Advanced features include the ability to create playlists and save that information for future use. The program features easy-to-use button functions and pull-down menus. | ||||
| Requirements: | Freeware | ||||
| Install instructions: | Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Nestcape users download to your local drive and run the EXE file. | ||||
| Links online: |
http://www.smisoftware.com/ | ||||
| Cowon Jet-Audio | |||||
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| Description: | Combines audio and video multimedia playback in one utility. Supports Audio CD, MIDI, and digital audio and video formats, and includes a mixer and remote control. It provides six predefined equaliser sets and also includes Jet-Radio, a program that lets you listen to 1,000 Internet radio stations. | ||||
| Requirements: | Shareware | ||||
| Install instructions: | Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Nestcape users download to your local drive and run the EXE file. | ||||
| Links online: |
http://www.cowon.com/ | ||||
| Desktop Jukebox 2.1 | |||||
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| Description: | A full-featured jukebox player for use on your Windows PC. Supports a wide variety of audio formats, including MPEG audio and video, MIDI, WAV, CD audio, AVI video, QuickTime video, Nettoob video, AU, AIF, Apple Sound (.SND), and RealAudio. In addition, it features a search function, a playlist editor, random and repeat play, and multiple database support. | ||||
| Requirements: | Shareware | ||||
| Install instructions: | Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Nestcape users download to your local drive and run the EXE file. | ||||
| Links online: |
http://www.llerrah.com/dj/ | ||||
| Dj MP3 Gold | |||||
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| Description: | A playlist maker for WinAmp, NAD, Unreal Player, and Sonique that features drag-and-drop capabilities. The interface can be customised via an enhanced HTML editor that allows you to specify the background and foreground colors and title, and via a selector that allows you to choose buttons. | ||||
| Requirements: | Freeware | ||||
| Install instructions: | Download to your local drive, then unzip it and run the EXE file. | ||||
| Links online: |
N/A | ||||
| DubIt 1.01 | |||||
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| Description: | Adds audio to images and movie clips with the click of a mouse. Unlike video editors and presentation authoring products, DubIt adds audio in real time as you watch the movie or view the image. Add audio to any BMP, JPG, GIF, or AVI file, or any image copied to the Windows clipboard, by recording from the microphone or inserting a WAV audio file. DubIt can be used to add music, sound effects, or your voice to images from your digital camera or scanner. DubIt creates standard AVI files that can be played on most Windows systems without special software. | ||||
| Requirements: | Shareware | ||||
| Install instructions: | Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Nestcape users download to your local drive and run the EXE file. | ||||
| Links online: |
http://www.techsmith.com/dubit/index.htm | ||||
| FreeAmp | |||||
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| Description: | A free MP3 player for X Windows developed under the GNU general public licence and funded by the Goodnoise Corporation. An Open Source effort to build the best digital audio player available, it supports UI plug-ins (skins) and plays multiple MP3 files via command line variables. | ||||
| Requirements: | Freeware | ||||
| Links online: |
http://www.freeamp.org/ | ||||
| FreeMidi | |||||
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| Description: | A complete MIDI operating system for the Macintosh. Includes a FreeMIDI system extension, an optional OMS (Open Music System) emulator extension (to emulate the Opcode MIDI System), and a FreeMIDI folder that resides in the top level of the System folder. | ||||
| Requirements: | Freeware | ||||
| Install instructions: | Download to your local drive, then unzip it. | ||||
| Links online: |
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| MacAmp | |||||
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| Description: | An MPEG Layer 3 (MPEG-3 or MP3) and Audio CD player for the Macintosh. | ||||
| Requirements: | Freeware | ||||
| Install instructions: | Download to your local drive, then unzip it. | ||||
| Links online: |
http://www.kickinit.com/@soft/ | ||||
| Mpecker Encoder 1.0b13 | |||||
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| Description: | An audio encoder and CD audio extractor rolled into one.You can encode large AIFF files (sampled at appropriate frequencies) into smaller MPEG files. The program also can encode 44.1-kHz PCM files. | ||||
| Requirements: | Shareware | ||||
| Install instructions: | Download to your local drive, then unzip it. | ||||
| Links online: |
http://www.anime.net/~go/mpeckers.html | ||||
| Musicmatch Jukebox 3.0 | |||||
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| Description: | Integrated digital music management software for the home. It combines CD ripping, MP3 and RealAudio encoding, music from the Internet, a database, and a player. | ||||
| Requirements: | Shareware | ||||
| Install instructions: | Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Nestcape users download to your local drive and run the EXE file. | ||||
| Links online: |
http://www.musicmatch.com/ | ||||
| PlayerPro | |||||
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| Description: | A music editing program that works with just about any sound format. The program allows various types of editing and lets you save your work in a variety of formats. You can also use it with any Mac and without installing any specific hardware. | ||||
| Requirements: | Freeware | ||||
| Install instructions: | Download to your local drive, then unzip it. | ||||
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| PMCD2WAV | |||||
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| Description: | A program to convert CD Audio tracks into WAV files. The sampled WAV data is stored in 44kHz 16-bit stereo format. | ||||
| Requirements: | Shareware | ||||
| Install instructions: | Download to your local drive, then unzip it. | ||||
| Links online: |
http://www.nheller.de/ | ||||
| Sonique 0.75 beta | |||||
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| Description: | Sonique is an audio player capable of handling MP3 files, Audio CDs, and more. It features a dynamic windowless interface, complete with fully animated menu systems. Additional functionality includes a full-featured playlist editor, a variety of output visualisation modes, and a CD player-like control set with pitch adjusting, jog and shuttle control, balance, and amplification. It also has online capabilities to make downloading new music easy. | ||||
| Requirements: | Freeware | ||||
| Install instructions: | Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Nestcape users download to your local drive and run the EXE file. | ||||
| Links online: |
http://www.night55.com/ | ||||
| Sound Studio for Linux | |||||
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| Description: | A Tcl/Tk application that enables recording, playback, and simple cut-and-paste editing of a wide variety of sound files on a PC equipped with a soundcard and the USS (formally VoxWare) sound drivers. Sound Studio will probe the soundcard to determine what facilities are available; for example, 16-bit recording will not be offered if you have an 8-bit soundcard, and some cards may not support the tone control features. | ||||
| Requirements: | Freeware | ||||
| Links online: |
http://www.elec-eng.leeds.ac.uk/staff/een6njb/Software/Studio/screens.html | ||||
| WillowTALK | |||||
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| Description: | Lets your PC speak to you in computer voices, for productivity or fun. Have your PC read Web pages, Word documents, spreadsheets, Help files, and more. Even create multi-character 'plays' or 'scripts' with different computer voices. Includes a pronounciation dictionary which lets you tell it how to pronounce unusual words or abbreviations. Also includes an alarm clock which can speak the time and date to you at specified intervals. Use the HotKeys feature instead of a mouse to switch among and read your open documents. This is handy, especially for people with poor vision. | ||||
| Requirements: | Demo | ||||
| Install instructions: | Internet Explorer users just click on the file and choose Open to run the setup program straight from the CD. Nestcape users download to your local drive and run the EXE file. | ||||
| Links online: |
http://www.willowpond.com/ | ||||
| WinDAC | |||||
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| Description: | An audio utility that allows you to copy audio tracks from CDs and save them as WAV files. You can kill zero-samples at the beginning and end of the converted file, use all recognised CD-ROM drives simultaneously, copy selected tracks to different WAV files, and display information to all tracks. | ||||
| Requirements: | Shareware | ||||
| Install instructions: | Download to your local drive, then unzip it. | ||||
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| X11Amp | |||||
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| Description: | This MP3 player for Linux features a user interface that should be familiar to WinAmp users. X11Amp supports such playback features as volume and balance controls, shuffle play, repeat play, a playlist editor, a spectrum analyser, an oscilloscope, and support for 'skins'. | ||||
| Requirements: | Freeware | ||||
| Links online: |
http://www.x11amp.org/index2.html | ||||
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