David's Freeware Collection!

Any Audio Converter. The name says everything. It converts audio files, WMV, MP4, WAV, WMA, OGG, AAC, MP3, M4A, MP2, etc. The interesting feature is that it can extract the audio track from video files such as AVI, MPEG, MP4, WMV, ASF.



Any Audio Converter

Handling the various range of audio and video file types can give you headaches every day. Very often you need a certain file type and you just go and google like crazy for a (free) transcoder. MediaCoder promises to be the solution to your problems, a free universal audio/video transcoder.



MediaCoder

If you need a simple, yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) or play any multimedia file, without reading manuals or spending long hours training, then SUPER is all you need. It is a multimedia encoder and a multimediaplayer,easy-to-use with 1 simple click.



SUPER

Audacity is an open source audio editing and recording program, the best free one you can get. It is very easy to use and works on Mac OSX and Linux too.



Audacity

mp3DirectCut is a small and efficient tool for cutting MP3 directly. That means you don`t have to decompress your MP3 files into a PCM format to remove parts or copy regions out of it. This saves work, encoding time and disk space. And there is no quality loss through any re-compressions!



mp3DirectCut

This is one of those categories where practically everyone has their own favorite. There are so many, in fact, I could probably devotew an entire website to audio players alone. That being said, here are a few that I can recommend. But feel free to explore others! Choosing an audio player is subjective to say the least.



Winamp



Quintessential Player



Songbird

Jaangle is a free music player and organizer. It categorizes your mp3, ogg, wma, avi etc collection and displays it in easy to browse, user interface.



Jaangle

EvilLyrics isn't the latest Black Sabbath album. It's a program that automatically searches for lyrics as your song is played in your player, it works great with Winamp, Windows Media Player, iTunes, MusicMatch, Foobar, MediaMonkey, Real Player, QCD, AlbumPlayer, Y!Music, XMPlay and more.. It even has a karaoke mode.



EvilLyrics

CDBurnerXP is a free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface.



CDBurnerXP

StarBurn is a powerful tool for grabbing, burning and mastering CD, DVD, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD media.



StarBurn

InfraRecorder is an open source CD/DVD burner, able to burn your files to physical discs as well as disc image files. It can also record to dual layer DVDs.



InfraRecorder

ImgBurn does just about everything you can possibly do with a CD, DVD, Blu-Ray or HD-DVD disc, and the image files that make them.



ImgBurn

Exact Audio Copy extracts your audio tracks from audio CDs using standard CD and DVD-ROM drives. It supports many output file formats, including flac through external encoders.



Exact Audio Copy

CDex is a small application for audio CD ripping, offering support for conversion into multiple formats, like FLAC, MP3, OGG, WMA, VQF or Monkey Audio. You can extend its conversion capabilities by installing input dll plug-ins. I’ve ripped many a CD with it over the years and I must say the results were good.



CDex

If you regularly use an audio or video player, at some point you're going to need a codec that didn't come with that particular piece of software. The codec pack that I chose is CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack).



CCCP

K-Lite Codec Pack (Full) includes 99% of all the audio and video codecs you will ever need. Just install this pack, and you will be able to play just about any media file out there.



K-Lite Codec Pack

If you'd rather just download codecs as they're needed, then you might want to give CodecInstaller a try. It can analyze a media file to see which codecs are needed to play it, provides a list of the codecs installed in your system and you can unistall or disable any of them and last but not least it helps you to download and install the codecs that you might need.



CodecInstaller

Mixxx is a free DJ tool designed for both professional and amateur DJs alike. Mixxx allows DJs to mix music live with a clean, simple interface. Furthermore, Mixxx has a number of key features to help DJs in the mix: beat estimation, parallel visual displays, and support for various DJ hardware controllers.



Mixxx

DVD Flick is a free tool to convert various PC video formats to a DVD that can be played on pretty much any standalone DVD player.



DVD Flick

DVD Styler is a free DVD authoring tool that supports PAL and NTSC. It's very easy to use, just drag and drop an mpeg file and make your video DVD. You can also make decent menus with it, even with audio. It also has a Linux version.



DVD Styler

UnderCoverXP is a tiny program that can help you to make and print DVD covers and labels using various templates.



UnderCoverXP

DVD Shrink is a classic. Everybody knows it. Some people even sell copies of it. It's a  great tool for backing up your video DVDs.



DVD Shrink

The GodFather is an intelligent MP3 renamer and organizer, that helps you get rid of all those strange MP3 file names and convert them into a consistent name scheme, based on the artist, song, album information etc. contained in the MP3 tag. The program will scan your MP3 folders and automatically suggest candidates for new names, showing you the old and suggested name in the result window. You can then select which files to rename (if any).



The GodFather

Many of my friends ask me for computer advice and explaining all the steps over the telephone or IM is always annoying. I decided to make screen recordings for them and CamStudio does the job very well. It even handles sound recording.



CamStudio

Aegisub is a fabulous open source program that offers almost everything you might need to make good subtitles for your DVD'S.



Aegisub

Subtitle Workshop is a well known free program, used by many people around the globe. If you need to fix subtitles, translate, edit them or even make subtitles from scratch this is the tool for you.



Subtitle Workshop

TagScanner is a complex tag editor that supports almost any audio file type you might think of.



TagScanner

Mp3tag can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words from tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists, and more. It supports online freedb database lookups for selected files, allowing you to automatically gather proper tag information for select files or CDs.



Mp3tag

Format Factory is a universal transcoder that converts almost any video, audio or graphic file formats. It can also extract DVD video to avi.



Format Factory

Handling the various range of audio and video file types can give you headaches. Very often you need a certain file type and you have to go and google like crazy for a transcoder. Media Coder promises to be the solution to your problems, a free universal audio/video transcoder.



Media Coder

Blender is a 3D graphics application released as free software under the GNU General Public License. It can be used for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, water simulations, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulations, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications, including games.
It was used to create the excellent freeware game Yo Frankie!, which can be found on the games page.



Blender

Avidemux is a great open source editing program that supports almost any video file type.



Avidemux

There are TONS of free video players out there. I've probably used most of them at one time or another. Picking out one that suits your taste can be a daunting task. Here are three that stand out from the crowd.



SMPlayer



VLC Media Player



GOM Player