Players
Foobar 2000 special v. 0.9.5.4 (
www.foobar2000.org):
Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include ReplayGain support, low memory footprint and native support for several popular audio formats. Audio formats supported: MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC / Ogg FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, AU, SND, CDDA, WMA.
It works on Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP. File size: 2,75 MB
To convert from one format to another
dBpower AMP Music Convert (dMC) (www.dbpoweramp.com):
(English language), Often called a Swiss army knife of Audio, dMC is able to rip digitally sound from Audio CDs and store in a multitude of formats; Convert from one format to another, just about every audio type is supported: mp3, mp4, Windows Media Audio (wma), Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Monkeys Audio, FLAC and many others [
Codec downloads], whilst preserving ID Tags; Volume Normalize audio files; Windows Explorer Integration - right click Convert To & popup useful information on audio files (such as bitrate, length); and more....
Fully compatible with Windows 95/98/ME NT4/2000, Windows XP and Linux (using Wine).
100% Free (mp3 encoder on trial license), No nags, popups, hidden spyware or bundleware.
Editor
Mp3DirectCut v. 2.07 (http://mpesch3.de1.cc)
Mp3DirectCut is a very small program that helps you edi MPEG audio directly.
You can remove parts, change the volume, split files or copy regions to several new files.
All without the need to decompress your MP3 into a PCM format.
This saves work, encoding time and disk space. And there is no quality loss through any re-compressions!
Here are some key features of "mp3DirectCut":
· Several prelisten functions
· MP3 visualisation and VU meter
· Easy navigation
· Fading, volume setting, normalizing
· Pause detection
· Direct recording of MP3 (ACM and Lame encoder supported)
· Layer 2 support
· ID3v1.1 support
· Cue Sheet support
Requirements:
· MP3 ACM system codec (present in XP) or mpglib.dll (present in the zip file)
· For MP3 recording: Lame encoder DLL or ACM
It works on Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2K/XP. File size: 181 KB.