Survey of multimedia freeware

streamWriter enables you to record music broadcasted by thousands of Internet radio stations and save them as individual MP3 files. What makes streamWriter different is that is is not so much of a listening tool (although you can do that to) but a full featured automatic recording tool that can monitor multiple streams simultaneously and automatically record the songs that you are looking for.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/streamWriter.html
VidCoder is a DVD/Blu-ray ripping and video conversion tool that uses the HandBrake encoding engine. The program can rip most DVDs and Blu-ray discs (as long as they are not copy protected) and convert the video to a variety of popular formats including MP4, MKV containers, H.264 encoding, MPEG-4, MPEG-2 and Theora video
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/vidcoder.html
Bolide Slideshow Creator is an easy to use tool to create a video slideshow from your photos and save them as .AVI or .WMF file. You can add one or more audio tracks and choose from a variety of transition effects to enhance the presentations. The program supports multiple pre-configured size profiles as well as quality presets for the video output.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/bsslideshow.html
Tags 2 Folders is a small and simple tools that enables you to quickly organize MP3 files into folders named after the artist and album information contained in their ID3 tags. You can scan an entire folder structure and then either copy or move the files into their new location. If any of the file are missing their tags, they will be moved into a special folder so you can deal with them later.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/tags2folders.html
Umile Encoder is a multimedia format conversion program that supports iPod, iPad, iPhone, Cell Phone, Game Consoles and other various devices. This program provides the user-friendly interface that enables you to convert various file format with ease.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/Umile-Encoder_program_66150.html
SharpAnimator
A simple stop motion creation application for use with webcams. You can create simple wallace et al type stop motion animations, using any directx capture device such as your webcam.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/SharpAnimator_program_70741.html
MP3 Diags finds problems in MP3 files and helps the user fix many of them. It looks at both the audio part (VBR info, quality, normalization) and the tags containing track information (ID3). It has a tag editor, which can download album information (including cover art) from MusicBrainz and Discogs, as well as paste data from the clipboard. Track information can also be extracted from a file's name. Another component is the file renamer, which can rename files based on the fields in their ID3V2 tag (artist, track number, album, genre, etc.).

http://freecode.net/projects/mp3-diags
dupeGuru Music Edition is a tool to find duplicate songs in your music collection. It can scan filenames, tags, or contents. dupeGuru ME is efficient. It can find your duplicate files in minutes, thanks to its quick fuzzy-matching algorithm. dupeGuru ME not only finds filenames and tags that are the same, but it also finds similar ones. For example, dupeGuru ME, with the right settings, can determine that "The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army" and "White Stripe - Seven Nation Armies" are duplicates. dupeGuru ME is customizable. You can tweak its matching engine to find exactly the kind of duplicates you want to find. dupeGuru ME is safe. Its engine has been especially designed with safety in mind. Its reference directory system as well as its grouping system prevent you from deleting files you didn't mean to delete. It lets do whatever you want with your duplicates. Not only can you delete duplicates files that dupeGuru ME finds, but you can also move or copy them elsewhere. You can also easily weed the bad duplicates out, thanks to the Power Marker.

http://no.eu.mirrors.freecode.net/projects/dupeguru-music-edition
Zune software is your one stop for music and entertainment. It´s your digital media jukebox. Your media hub. A virtual nirvana of music, videos, and pictures. Download the Zune software to your PC to play and organize media, discover new tunes, share music throughout your home, and sync to your Zune device.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/Microsoft-Zune-Software_program_28227.html
http://www.zune.net/
DarkWave Studio is an open source (GPLv3) digital audio workstation / modular virtual studio for Windows. You can easily use the built in sequencer, bundled DarkPlug machines and third-party VST effects and VSTi instruments to create music. DarkWave Studio allows the connection of machines in an ad-hoc fashion. The installer ships with both a 32-bit and 64-bit version.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/DarkWave-Studio_program_58483.html
UMPlayer is the multimedia player that fills all your needs. With dozens of advanced features and built-in codecs it can handle any media format, and can play Audio CDs, DVDs, (S)VCDs, TV / Radio cards, YouTube™ and SHOUTcast™ streams and even incomplete or damaged media files.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/UMPlayer_program_65758.html
http://www.umplayer.com/
XenonMKV repackages your high-definition H.264/x264 video and 5.1 audio contained in MKV files to an MP4 format that can be played on the Xbox 360. The program works a lot faster than other video converters because it does not perform any video transcoding - only the audio track is downsampled (you will lose Dolby Surround) to comply with Xbox specifications.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/xenonmkv.html
x264gui
A simple GUI(Graphical User Interface) for the x264 codec, a new codec suited for the high definition. With this program you can encode a video from an avisynth script. You can select the settings of the codec or use a pre-set profile
http://croma25td.com/software/x264gui/
Machete Lite is a simple video editing tool to cut or join (AVI, WMF) video files. You can delete unnecessary fragments from a video file and also copy, move or mix multiple pieces, all without the need to re-encode the file.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/machetelite.html
CloudaTag is a media organizer that enables you to tag and organize your photos and video files.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/cloudatag.html
Hamster Free Video Converter is a video converter that supports MPEG, AVI, FLV, WMV, 3GP, XviD, DivX, MKV, M2TS.
http://videoconverter.hamstersoft.com/en/
SolveigMM AVI Trimmer is an easy to use tool to cut out one or more portions from a AVI video file.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/avitrimmer.html
OpenMPT (short for Open ModPlug Tracker) is a popular tracker software for Windows. Based on the original ModPlug Tracker written by Olivier Lapicque, OpenMPT supports a wide variety of module formats and offers an intuitive, native GUI as well as advanced features such as VST plugins and ASIO output. More features are listed on the feature overview page.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/modplug/
vodBurner
Record and edit Skype video calls.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/vodburner.html
xVideoServiceThief (a.k.a xVST) is a tool for downloading your favourite video clips from a lot of video websites

http://xviservicethief.sourceforge.net
MakeInstantPlayer
Tool for creating self-running video files, based on the MPlayer engine
http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#instplay
SPG Video Splitter is an easy to use software that enables you to copy a portion or scene from a video and save it into a separate file.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/spgvsplit.html
Scenegrabber.NET is freeware and provides you with an easy way to create sceneshots (screenshots) from movies. You can grab manual or automatic frames from a movie and join then in a single JPG-image.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/SceneGrabber-NET_program_53693.html
AVStoDVD is a flexible tool to convert various media formats to DVD compliant streams and burn them into a highly compatible multiple tracks DVD.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/avstodvd/
Xion Audio Player
A high fidelity, deliciously sweet, out of this world audio player.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/Xion-Audio-Player_program_21861.html
MP3val enables you to scan your music files for integrity and fix corrupted MP3 files that cannot be played properly due to incomplete download, truncated headers or other problems.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/MP3val.html
Free Video to MP3 Converter enables you to extract audio from video files and save it as MP3. You can choose to extract and convert the entire soundtrack or just a partition of the video. You can also set ID3 tags and add album artwork for the newly create MP3 file. The program supports most popular video formats, including .avi, .mpg, .mp4, .flv, .m4v, .wmv, .mov, and others.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/videotomp3.html
URLsnooper
Many links to streaming audio and video that you come across on the web are hidden behind javascript or activex scripts. Because of this, it is sometimes very difficult to figure out the actual urls that correspond to the streams being played. URL Snooper provides easy solution to finding the URLs for all streams by by watching network traffic and identifying potential urls, especially streaming media urls.
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/urlsnooper/
Vista Codec Pack
The Vista Codec Package is compatible with all versions of Windows XP. You can choose any media player you want, everything will play.
http://shark007.net/vistacodecpackage.html
iPodME is an easy to use tool that lets you convert video files to iPod format.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/ipodme.html
LameXP is an Encoder Front-End for the popular LAME MP3
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/lamexp.html
Vibe Streamer is a music streaming server that allows you to listen to your music anywhere using only a standard web browser.
http://www.vibestreamer.com/
MP3 Quality Modifier
Easily change the quality of your mp3 files - it´s small, portable and free.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/MP3-Quality-Modifier_program_50137.html
AC3Filter
Allows media players to playback movies with AC3 and DTS audio tracks.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/AC3Filter_program_22011.html
Smasher is a lightweight, cross-platform audio loop slicer. It is designed to create sliced loops from WAV, MP3, or AIFF files in seconds without a sequencer. Effects include resonant filter sweeps, compression, delay, and distortion.
http://freecode.net/projects/smasher
AIMP
An advanced multimedia player that includes an audio converter, recorder, and tag editor.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/AIMP_program_28231.html
Mixxx is an Open Source DJ package that provides you with everything you need to create live mixes without the need for any additional hardware. It offers a wide range of features that are suitable for amateurs and professional DJs alike
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/mixxx.html
WinX DVD Ripper enables you to rip your personal DVD movies and convert them to several popular video formats including AVI, MP4, MOV, FLV, MPEG and WMV.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winxdvdrip.html
Radio? Sure! is an Internet radio player and recorder that comes preloaded with more than 12000 free online radio stations from all around the world.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/radiosure.html
VLC Media Player is a multimedia player that supports a wide variety of audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, etc.) without the need for additional codecs
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
WebVideoCap is a simple tool that can automatically capture video streams while they are playing in your browser and save them to a folder of your choice. It supports .flv (Flash Video), .MP4, .WMV and RTSP/MMS video streams.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/WebVideoCap.html
XULPlayer is an open-source media player and converter built on Mozilla XUL and MPlayer.
http://xulplayer.sourceforge.net/
Accord CD Ripper Free enables you to rip music tracks from Audio CDs and save them to your computer in MP3 or WAV format
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/accordcd.html
Meda MP3 Joiner
http://www.filecluster.com/Audio-Video/Utilities-Plug-ins/Download-Meda-MP3-Joiner.html
xradio is a small utility that allow to manage and listen radio that are available on the web.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xradio/
XRECODE is a parallel audio converter with full Unicode support that enables you to convert between many popular audio formats, including MP3, WMA, OGG, APE, FLAC AAC, WAV, ALAC and WavePack.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/xrecode.html
Leawo Free DVD to MP4 converter
http://www.leawo.com/dvd-to-mp4-converter/
Avidemux
Video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.
http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/
clipShow is a Windows Vista Media Center plub-in application that provides the ability to view a personal video collection and recorded television in a slide-show type fashion. It features a "clip" capability that can play continous random clips of video media (customizable by 30 seconds, 60 seconds, 90 seconds, or the entire video). It also provides the capability to create custom playlists from the Media Center video library. In addition it also can organize a video media collection by common tags stored in the video file metadata, and allow clips to be played by those tags.

http://www.codeplex.com/mceclipShow
Kid3 tagger can edit the ID3v1 tags and all ID3v2 frames in MP3 files and the tags in Ogg/Vorbis and FLAC files in an efficient way. It is easy to convert between ID3v1 and ID3v2, set the tags of multiple files to the same values and generate the tags from the file name or vice versa. Import is possible from freedb.org, MusicBrainz, and other sources of track data.
http://freecode.net/projects/kid3/
Enhanced ShoutCast Player is an Internet radio player that enables you to listen to and record any of the stations that are featured on the Shoutcast website. The program comes with an integrated bro....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/espplayer.html
FreeGuide is a TV guide program. It allows you to find programs you are interested in quickly, and ignore the rest.

http://freecode.net/projects/freeguide-tv/
Griffith
Media collection manager
http://www.griffith.cc/
WMPCDText
WMPCDText is a plug-in for Windows Media Player that adds support for reading CD-Text. It can automatically read CD-Text from unknown audio CDs or you can right-click on a CD-track select the newly a....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/wmpcdtext.html
Space Jammer is a music player that shuffles through the artist pages on MySpace.com and randomly generates playlists based on the music it finds. You can set personal preferences based on country an....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/spacejammer.html
AviSynth is a powerful tool for video post-production.

http://avisynth.org
ffdshow is DirectShow and VFW codec for decoding/encoding many video and audio formats, including DivX and XviD movies using libavcodec, xvid and other opensourced libraries with a rich set of postprocessing filters

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow/
Kaltura
Open source interactive video platform

http://www.kaltura.com/
K-Lite Codec Tweak Tool
Enable/disable over 150 codecs and filters, detect and remove broken references to codecs and filters, more.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_210_34290.html
MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net
PSPVC
Convert your videos to PSP - the easy way.
http://pspvc.nswardh.com/
Free Zune Video Converter enables you to convert popular video formats (AVI, MPEG, MP4, FLV, MOV and others) to Microsoft Zune compatible video format (WMV, MP4). You can customize the video output p....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/zunevcon.html
PerioS
A program designed for creating time-lapse videos using either a USB webcam or Internet camera.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/PerioS_program_40758.html
http://perios.ic.cz/
Yabause is a Sega Saturn emulator.

http://freecode.net/projects/yabause/
Dragon UnPACKer
Extract textures/music/audio from your games!
http://www.filecluster.com/Games/Mods-Addons/Download-Dragon-UnPACKer.html
Pinnacle Videospin
Free video editing software
http://videospin.com/
Quick Media Converter enables you to convert between most audio and video formats, including AVI, DVD, Quicktime, Flash, Xvid, DivX, MPEG, MP3, WMA, MP4, 3GP and many others. You can convert multiple....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/qmconverter.html
CodecInstaller
Detects audio and video codec installed, analyze avi, movie launcher, install codecs.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_210_10449.html
Easy Video Downloader
Download videos from YouTube, Google; save it as AVI (PC) or MPEG4 (iPod, PSP).
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_5_239_35239.html
VideoThang enables you to mix video clips with images and background music (.mp3), and save the result as MPEG file for sharing via email, web upload or file on your local drive. The program will aut....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/videothang.html
trakAxPC enables you to create professional music and video mixes without any special skills or technical expertise. It provides a drag and drop interface to easily add files from your computer and t....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/trakaxpc.html
Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength, vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources.

http://freecode.net/projects/synfig/
WinFF is a cross platform batch GUI for FFmpeg. WinFF processes multiple files in multiple formats at one time. For example, it will convert MPEG, FLV, and MOV files into AVI files all at once

http://biggmatt.com/home/
Avidemux
A free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_74_33631.html
GermaniX Transcoder
A simple, flixible and extensible Audio Converter for Microsoft Windows.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_226_33083.html
Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording, and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling. It supports a wide range of audio inputs, outputs, and effect algorithms. Effects and audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their parameters can be controlled by operator objects like oscillators and MIDI-CCs.

http://freecode.net/projects/ecasound/
Music Content Inspector helps you find duplicate MP3 (ogg, aac, mp4, m4a) files in your collection. Unlike other tools that compare file sizes, names and/or tags, Music Content Inspector analyzes the....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/mcinspector.html
MpegALot enables you to convert video files (.av, .mpg, .wmv, .asf) to MP4 format to be used on your iPod or other portable device. You can convert a single file, or entire folders with optional filt....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/mpegalot.html
XMPlay
Windows music player supporting many audio formats.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_73_14871.html
Lyricsnapper automatically retrieves the lyrics for the current playing song in iTunes. It can save the lyrics to iTunes, and automatically start whenever you run iTunes. Lyricsnapper can also be use....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/lyricsnapper.html
Lame Front-End is a graphical interface for the popular LAME MP3 encoding/decoding engine. It offers easy access to most LAME functions without the need for command line usage. You can convert vario....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/lamefe.html
Internet Video Converter is a frontend that provides a user interface (GUI) for several Open Source video conversion products. It enables you to convert between various popular video formats includin....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/internetvideoconverter.html
Prism Video File Converter can convert video files from AVI, MPG, VOB and WMV files (as well as all video formats that use a DirectShow based codec) into AVI, ASF or WMV files. Just add the files to....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/prismvideocon.html
StaxRIP
Easily convert your DVD´s, DVB or DV captures or almost any other source format.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_81_17841.html
MediaInfo supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_75_20211.html
mpTrim
mpTrim is a simple and easy to use MP3 editor.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_229_18813.html
X Codec Pack
Codec Pack that only includes the most used (popular) codecs.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_210_18937.html
Wavosaur
A free tool for editing your audio files.Wavosaur is an audio editor with support for wav, aiff, iff, mp3 and raw binary files. It includes the standard editing features (cut, copy, mix, trim, normalize, fade in/out etc.) as well as loop po....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/wavosaur.html
Zwei-Stein Video Editor
256 track non-linear video editing system.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_74_1760.html
CustomShortMaker
Create short movies using your photos and pre-built animations.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_75_25930.html
AVS Audio CD Creator enables you to create standard Audio CDs from your digital music files (MP3, OGG, WMA etc.). It automatically converts the files to CD format and burns the CD - all in a single p....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/avsaudiocd.html
K-Lite Mega Pack
Includes codecs and related tools needed to play your audio and video files.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_210_22638.html
Combined Community Codec Pack
The CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack) is a filter pack specifically built for playing anime
http://www.softpedia.com:80/get/Multimedia/Video/Codec-Packs-Video-Codecs/Combined-Community-Codec-Pack.shtml
AoA Audio Extractor provides you a tool to extract audio/sound or background music from video files.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Audio-Editors-Recorders/AoA-Audio-Extractor.shtml
MikkoNSV
A free tool for converting Nullsoft Video to AVI or other video formats.
http://www.freewarefiles.com:80/program_6_227_25131.html
GSpot is a tool that provides you with detailed information about the codec used audio and video files. It can tell you whether an AVI file uses DivX or XviD, and which version, what type of MPEG cod....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/gspot.html
K-Lite Codec Pack Full
Play all the popular audio and video formats.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_210_13694.html
Evil Player a bare bones media player that supports many popular audio files including MP3, MP2, MP1, OGG, AIFF and MOD as well as Shoutcast, Icecast and Icecast. The program is primarily useful f....
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_73_13700.html
http://www.snapfiles.com:80/get/evilplayer.html
Codec for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
Contains latest version of codecs to play popular multimedia formats.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_210_14271.html
Codec for Windows 9x/ME
Contains latest version of codecs to play popular multimedia formats.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_210_14272.html
ALSong Live Lyrics MP3 Player enables you to listen to your MP3 files while viewing the synchronized lyrics for the currently playing song. If you want to link the lyrics to a song, you can use the b....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/alsonglyrics.html
MPEG4 Modifier
Modifies a MPEG-4 ASP video (XviD, DivX) without re-encoding.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_81_22157.html
Easy MP3 Sound Recorder
Powerful sound recorder, makes a complete recording studio of your computer.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_229_21011.html
Cole2k Media Codec Pack
Features a large number of codecs and also some additional tools.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_210_17987.html
Streamripper records shoutcast-compatible streams. For shoutcast style streams it finds the "meta data" or track separation data, and uses that as a marker for where the track should be separated. The MP3 data is decoded and scanned for a silent point, which is where tracks will be created.

http://freecode.net/projects/streamripper/
Catalencoder is a DVD to DivX/XviD converter.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_227_19377.html
DVdate
A powerful utility for processing AVI files in general, and specially AVI DV files.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_9_208_18145.html
MediaMonkey
Powerful, intuitive music manager, tagger, ripper, CD/OGG/WMA/MP3 player.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_73_7217.html
1by1
Small, fast and handy player. Plays entire directories of MP3s without playlists.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_73_13893.html
mp3 DirectCut
A very small program that helps you edit MPEG audio directly.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_229_18942.html
VirtualDub
A video capture / processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_74_14146.html
VisualSubSync
A subtitle program aimed to facilitate subtitle synchronization.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_74_18251.html
Audiobaba
Windows Media Player add-on. Automatically create personalized playlists and find new music.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_73_18167.html
Jodix Free WMA to MP3 Converter enables you to convert Windows Media files to MP3 format. It supports all Windows Media formats (*.wma, *.wmv, *.asf). The program provides an easy to use interface w....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/jodixmp3wma.html
SurpriseMyPortable
Scans your media library and copies randomly selected files to your portable media device.

http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_73_17445.html
MediaPortal
Turns your PC into a very advanced Multi-Media Center / HTPC.

http://www.team-mediaportal.com/
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_74_14716.html
Radlight
Fast and high quality playback of DivX content and other multimedia files.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_74_16692.html
KaraFun
KaraFun is a free karaoke player with built-in editor.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_73_10831.html
CS Player
Media player that supports most popular video formats, playlist and more.
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_6_74_15943.html
Zortam Mp3 Media Studio is an all-in-one Mp3 utility, that combines a MP3 organizer with a wide range of tools that allow you to catalog your files, edit ID3v1 and ID3v2.3 tags, search for lyrics, re....
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/zortam.html