DVD Region-Free 1.29

Requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Limitations: 30-day trial and 15-minute playback
Contact: Fengtao Software www.dvdidle.com

DVD Region-Free is a unique, effective and easy-to-use DVD tweaking tool. It allows you to watch all region DVDs on your region-locked DVD drive. You needn't hack DVD drive (flash firmware), which is sometimes dangerous, useless or unavailable. DVD Region-Free also disables region check for popular software-based DVD players such as PowerDVD, WinDVD, and CinePlayer. Other features include Region-Free for RCE DVDs, Macrovision-Free, Operation-Free, Direct-Play main title, and run self at DVD players startup, automatically.

Update 1.29 improves the compatibility with the latest version of PowerDVD XP and WinDVD 4, supports DVD drives with new protection such as Matshita Udja720/730 and others.

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Requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Limitations: None
Contact: FotoTime www.fototime.com

FotoAlbum is an image organiser that makes it easy to organise thousands of your digital pictures. It lets you group your pictures into albums for easy viewing, sorting, filtering, and archiving. Support for popular digital cameras and scanners makes it easy to import pictures into FotoAlbum. The program is integrated with the FotoTime.com photo-sharing site and includes a Web Sync feature to copy your favorite pictures to the Web for sharing with friends and family. Other features of FotoAlbum include a screensaver, enhanced printing, archiving of pictures to CD, lossless JPEG manipulations, batch image manipulations, two-way sync, and an Office 2000 style user interface. Version 3.3 enhancements include custom views, keyword history, improved CD creation and enhanced video support.

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Requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Limitations: Imports 10 photos at a time
Contact: Photo2VCD Software www.photo2vcd.com

Photo2VCD is a powerful but easy-to-use utility that allows you to archive your favorite digital photos into DVD/VCD/SVCD-compatible MPEG files with background music and hundreds of transition effects. These files can be viewed on your computer or burned to a CD-R or DVD-R using popular software programs such as Nero, VideoPack, or WinOnCD for viewing on your DVD/VCD/SVCD player. In version 2.52, you can use Photo2VCD to create SVCDand DVD photo movies.

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Requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Limitations: Quarter of DVD copied
Contact: One Click www.dvdcopyone.com

DVDCopyONE is a simple one-click program that allows you to copy any DVD movie to inexpensive CD-R discs. Best of all, you'll be able to watch your copied movies on both your computer AND home DVD player. DVDCopyONE allows you to choose any option from your original DVD and customise the collection that you create. Choose viewing options such as widescreen, fullscreen, Pan & Scan as well as audio options such as foreign languages and subtitles. 1-program 1-click 1-Movie.

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Requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Limitations: Shareware
Contact: Acoustica www.acoustica.com

Turn your MP3 collection into CD-Recordable file formats with this converter that you can activate with a simple right click of the mouse. It will automatically detect incomplete songs, and you can convert WAV files back to MP3. Additional features include automatic normalisation of MP3s to a consistent volume level; automatic trimming of unwanted silence from the start and end of your songs; and the ability to convert music play lists (M3U, PLS) to WAV format.

Install- run the program from its current location

Requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Limitations: 15-day trial
Contact: CDH Productions www.cdhnow.com

CDH Media Wizard is designed to be a powerful and complete multimedia utility, supporting all popular media formats, playlists for audio and video, and powerful audio conversions (WAV to MP3, MP3 to WAV, CD to MP3, and so on). This program contains a customisable interface with support for skins; complete drag-and-drop support; CDDB support; and advanced, track-level video/audio and CD-Audio CD player control panel modules.

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Requirements: Windows NT/2000/XP
Limitations: 15-day trial
Contact: Jummpa Sci. and Tech www.jummpa.com

As a player, it can play multiple formats such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, VCD, SVCD, DVD, AVI, ASF, WMV, and others. As an editor, it can help you convert CDs to MP3 files, CDs to WAV files, CDs to WMA files, MP3 to WAV files, WAV to MP3 files, AVI (raw or uncompressed) to AVI (compressed by DivX or others), MPEG to AVI (compressed or uncompressed), AVI to WAV, and so on. It can also help you create VCD, SVCD, DVD with chapters and menus. It's also good at splitting and merging multimedia files or any type of files (such as EXE, RAR, ZIP, ISO, ACE, WMV, ASF, VOB, MPEG, and so on). You can also rip and get a new AVI file with sound from VCD/SVCD/DVD, MPEG, and AVI or eliminate the original sound and add your own sound. As of this version, it can also let you create your own VCD/SVCD/DVD movies.

Install - run the program from its current location

Requirements: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP
Limitations: None
Contact: Ashampoo www.ashampoo.com

Burn your playlists to CD with just two clicks. Ashampoo Media Player comes with plug-ins for more than 20 major audio and video formats, and can support many more with standard Windows codecs. It includes support for MP1, MP2, MP3, Unreal Engine audio files, DirectShow, MCI, MOD (12 formats), WAV, AVI, and Ogg Vorbis audio files. It features dynamic playlists, online folders, files and more.

The new version 1.81 comes with Ogg Vorbis support and burns MP3, WAV & Ogg Vorbis files directly to CD that will play in any stereo and/or car hi-fi.

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Requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP
Limitations: None
Contact: Apple www.apple.com

Though many users regard QuickTime as a simple multimedia player, it is actually an integrated multimedia architecture: a file format; a media authoring platform; and a suite of multimedia applications rolled into one happy download.

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Requirements: Windows 98(SE)/ME/2000/XP
Limitations: None
Contact: Microsoft www.microsoft.com

Windows Media Player allows you to play audio and video files locally stored and streamed from the Internet. It includes a visualiser, a jukebox, a media guide, an Internet radio tuner, a CD burner, and support for various external devices.

This beta provides a chance to test the latest in Windows Media technology. In keeping with modern trends, Microsoft has added features such as Smart Jukebox technology and support for countless media formats. Windows Media Player can automatically organise your media files, even if you move them around. You can rate each song you play or let the program assign ratings based on the number of times each song is played, then create playlists of your favorite music. Another feature, Auto Info, can automatically fix or add album details (tags) to your MP3 and WMA files such as artist or album name, year, composer or track number. Additionally, you can toggle between a full-screen interface and a miniplayer that docks the player to your taskbar.

Note: Beta or pre-release software may contain bugs or potentially damage your system. We strongly recommend that users exercise caution and save all mission-critical data before installing and/or using this software.

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Requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP; CD-R or CD-RW drive; and ASPI drivers
Limitations: Shareware
Contact: Ahead software www.ahead.de

Nero is a flexible, reliable and easy-to-use application designed to write to both CD-R and CD-RW discs. It supports ISO9660 images, as well as ISO Mode 1 and XA Mode 2, and allows for on-the-fly disc recording, in addition to overburning (if supported by hardware). Nero also supports multisession and mixed-mode recording; HFS, ISO/HFS hybrid, UDF, PSX, OFAS (optimal file access speed), track-at-once (TAO), and disc-at-once (DAO) writing; and digital audio extraction. In addition, Nero can dynamically disable automatic-insert notification, and it offers support for multiple languages and works with all major models of CD-R and CD-RW drives.

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Requirements:  Windows 95/98/NT/2000
Limitations: None
Contact : Nullsoft www.winamp.com

Winamp is an audio player that can handle audio CDs, MP3 audio files, and streaming audio broadcasts. It combines extensive functionality with an intuitive interface. Winamp features a playlist editor and a ten-band graphic equaliser with user-definable presets that can automatically load with specific files. It also includes Windows Media Technology 4.0 input/output support and the industry-standard Fraunhofer MP3 decoder. This download no longer includes VIS/DSP plug-ins and can be downloaded separately.

Install - run the program from its current location

Requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Limitations: 7-day trial
Contact: Acoustica www.acoustica.com

Mix MP3s,WMAs, and WAV files to create your own custom DJ-style mix CD. Record your own sounds and layer sound effects and music tracks to create your own audio mixes for audio books or radio shows. DJs and online sound pioneers will find it refreshingly easy and fun to create quick sonic compositions.

Features include an intuitive drag-and-drop interface; the ability to mix and record as many simultaneous WAV, WMA and MP3 files as you want; and complete control over the volume, pan, and playback rate of each individual sound. You can also import playlists (M3U, PLS) to create instant mixes of your favorite songs and export your finished mix as a RealAudio G2, WMA or MP3 file for streaming over the Internet.

Install - run the program from its current location

Requirements: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Limitations: 15-day trial
Contact: Mystik Media www.mystikmedia.com

Blaze Media Pro is an all-in-one media player, playlist maker, converter, editor, and recorder, giving you nearly any tool you could need to work with the audio and video files on your PC. You can author audio and data CDs; create, capture, edit, decompile, and process video clips; merge audio files; and record audio from your CD player, line-in, and microphone.

Supported file conversions include CD to WAV, MP3, WMA, and Ogg; WAV to MP3; MP3 to WAV; WAV and MP3 to WMA, CD, or Ogg; WMA to WAV and MP3; Ogg to WAV and MP3; and two-way video conversions among MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, WMV, Multi-Page TIFF, and FLIC. Blaze Media Pro features extensive drag-and-drop capabilities, a fully skinnable interface, CDDB support, and versatile preferences.

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Requirements: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Limitations: None
Contact: NPS Software www.npssoftware.com

2 Find MP3 is an easy-to-use and fast tool to find and download MP3 files on the Internet. It uses the top MP3 search engines available on the Net today. It not only finds the music you want, it also verifies the search results, lets you download and listen to the MP3 files with a single mouse click. And best of all, 2 Find MP3 is absolutely free!

Note: This application includes software components that may deliver advertisements, collect information, or track your movements online.

Install - run the program from its current location

Requirements: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Limitations: None
Contact: Ashampoo www.ashampoo.com

AudioCD MP3 Studio Suite is an MP3 and audio CD editing and CD recording program. Some of the improvements include a split screen with an integrated drives and tracks navigator; local saving of your CDDB track and album info; ID3 tag editing for MP3 tracks; ID3 tag information in WAV files; and a more intuitive user interface. You can generate MP3 tracks directly from CDs and WAV files. It has support for Winamp-format M3U playlists. You can copy audio CDs. It supports Disk-at-Once mode recording, and 700MB/80 minute CD media. It also features advanced Gracenote CDDB support; error handling for corrupt and damaged MP3 files; and automatic screensaver deactivation during recording.

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Requirements: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Limitations: None
Contact: RenderSoft Software and Web Publishing www.rendersoftware.com

CamStudio records screen activity from your Windows desktop into standard AVI movie files. It is a tool useful for developing videos to demonstrate features of new software, for creating movies used in user training or any other task that requires the capture of desktop activity. The program is easy to use, and you can select an area or the full desktop for recording. You can adjust the video quality settings to reduce file size, use custom cursors, and add a soundtrack through your microphone. This updated version allows you to record audio from your speakers and supports the capture of transparent/layered windows.

Install - run the program from its current location

Requirements: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Limitations: None
Contact: MGShareware www.mgshareware.com

FreeRIP is a free software that can record digital audio tracks directly from compact discs, without going through your sound card. You can save tracks as CD-quality WAV files or encode them to Ogg Vorbis and MP3 compressed format.

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Requirements: Windows XP
Limitations: None
Contact: Microsoft www.microsoft.com

Windows Movie Maker 2 is an XP-only download that gives you the tools to create, edit and share home movies. Compile and edit a movie from video clips with drag-and-drop functionality. Add special effects, music and narration with ease. Share your movie over the Web or master it to DVD media. You can also save your movie back to the DV tape in your camera.

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