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Audio & Video
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VLC media player is an open source and cross-platform (PC, Mac, Linux) media player and streaming server. While it is alight weight program, you can rip DVDs, fix out-of-sync audio and video, and play your ripped DVDs. It handles most audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols and can create playlists. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. It's been around for ages and widely used and respected. |
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Free audio and video player from Apple that gained massive popularity due to iPods and its simplicity of use. Made further popular due to the music you can buy from the iTunes store, although the DRM (Digital Rights Management) of this music and iPods puts some people off. |
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Free, supports audio and video and has been around since the beginning and has a large community of users who contribute skins and plug-ins. It's supports iPods and other MP3 players and has remote streaming through browsers and game consoles, as well as album art work through auto tagging. |
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Free audio and video player from Microsoft. |
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free and paid versions. Real Player has been around along time and supports audio and video as well as iPods. |
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Free and paid versions. Audio and video as well as iPods and very good for sorting and managing music and album art work. |
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Songbird Open source audio and video player based on the Mozilla engine (Firefox, Thunderbird and Google Chrome). Supports iPods. One to keep an eye on as very promising. |
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Foobar is free and has been around forever. It only works on PC's but is highly customisable with loads of skins to choose from yet very light weight. Supports iPods. |
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Audacity Cross-Platform Sound Editor Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. Good link to other comparisons |