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Free sound & music software
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A large number of wonderful, high-quality sound programs are available, free for the downloading, from the Web. These programs will do everything from playing your sounds to allowing you to create new sounds of your own. You can also manipulate sound files, organize your collection of sounds and music and much more with these programs.
Please send us E-mail if you're aware of any such free sound-related resources that we haven't listed below.
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 FoxPlay - Have you got a bunch of sound files scattered all over your hard drive? Then check out FoxPlay, an excellent, free music utility that'll let you easily organize all the sound files you have into a single, manageable playlist. FoxPlay uses the Windows Multimedia System to play MIDI files, and it allows you to use your favorite MOD and MP3 players to play MOD and MP3 files, respectively. FoxPlay also has built-in support for mIRC, the popular chat client. (For Windows: 245 kilobytes).
- RealPlayer G2 - We've been highly pleased with RealNetworks' free client for viewing "streaming" (real-time) sound & video content on the Web. This must-have program offers much improved audio and better graphics than previous versions. They claim you'll need a 28.8K modem to use it, but in reality you'd better have a 56K modem to avoid frustration. This program is for Window 95/98/NT only. Users of Macs, Win 3.1 and Unix can download an earlier client called RealPlayer 5.0 here. Free for individual use.
- Anvil Studio - This is a free Windows program for recording, playing, composing and editing MIDI music using and sampled percussion sounds.
Anvil features many effects, such as delay, pitch change, volume and filtering. You can also compose rhythm tracks with your own sampled percussion sounds. An essential sound program if you want to work with MIDI sound files. Here's a screen shot.
- Maplay - Here's a fully-featured free sound utility that offers a decoder for MPEG and other types of sound files. Using MPEG Audio Layer III, you can retain CD-quality sound at compression ratios around 1:11 (112 kbit/s). Not the fastest player around, but features many nice touches such as lyric and image display for playlist items and embedded lists on playlists. For Windows. Versions are available for Linux, Mac, OS/2, BeOS, HP-UX, and FreeBSD, as well.
- Yamp sound utility - If you're downloading sound files off the Web, you're going to need a good sound player utility to hear them. Yamp fits the bill well. This free program from Germany plays virtually every format out there, including WAV files (all formats, also compressed ones), MIDs, RMIs, MODs, S3Ms, XMs, ITs, AVIs, MPAs, MP1s, MP2s and MP3s, MPEG, and AVI. It offers powerful playlists, Drag and Drop and much more. For Windows. This file is 1,954K in size and should take 10 minutes to download at 28.8 modem speed.
- Clarion - This is an outstanding free MIDI and audio CD player for Windows. Has a number of cool features, such as CDDB suppport (which will look up CD track titles via the Net). Also lets you open multiple playlists at once and has a built-in file browser, a "sleep" mode, supports Drag `n Drop and much more. Here's a screen shot.
- PureVoice Player/Recorder - This free application offers a player and recorder for voice messages that you can use with your E-mail software. PureVoice offers excellent sound quality and its files are 10 times smaller than WAV files. There's a plug-in specifically for Eudora software, and a separate application for other E-mail products.
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