Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development.

Xiph QuickTime Components (XiphQT) is, in short, the solution for Mac and Windows users who want to use Xiph formats in any QuickTime-based application, e.g. playing Ogg Vorbis in iTunes.

It's software that adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file for variations from one speaker to the next, for example. It's not a compressor, normalizer or limiter although it contains all three.

vPod is a program for transferring music to your iPod from Windows. It presents a unified view of all of your music and lets you see what is and what is not already on your iPod.

The chief benefit of this is that one no longer needs any server software running on a host PC, aside from whatever is necessary to boot the receiver, and a web server to serve the music.

The design philosophy behind MediaNet is to provide a common media server for various types of Media players. It's modular design allows new devices to be added that can instantly take advantage of existing media sources and other functions, it also allow

round the streamripper library created by Jon

BeSweet combines a lot of the best audio encoding programs: azid to decode AC3, ssrc to downsample, WavBooster to augment the volume of the output file, lame to encode to mp3, high quality mp2 encoding, Ogg Vorbis output, etc. The program requires no temp

Rockbox is an open source replacement firmware for mp3 players. It runs on a number of different models: * Archos: Jukebox 5000, 6000, Studio, Recorder, FM Recorder, Recorder V2 and Ondio * iRiver: H100 and H300 series * Apple: iPod 4G (g

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to: * Record live audio. * Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. * Edit Ogg Vo