MP3 Tools and Utilities
Popular MP3 Software

The following list identifies the most commonly downloaded MP3 players, converters and rippers1 on the market. This provides a loose representation of the latest consumer trends, identifying what software people are interested in trying or buying:
This bundle includes the DivX Player and DivX 6 codec. Both are free and no adware is included in the package. The DivX Player plays all AVI and .divx files that contain DivX video and MP3 audio (including DivX 3, 4, 5 and 6 video formats), and enables access to DivX Video-on-Demand services. The DivX codec extends DivX playback support to all popular media players. This package supports English, French, German, and Japanese languages.
 
DivX Player is optimized to play DivX media files with full support for all the advanced features of the DivX Media Format including scene selection menus, chapters, subtitles, video tags and alternate audio tracks. In addition, DivX Player is enhanced to give you the full value of DivX HD video through new features such as performance adaptive quality enhancement and the latest DivX 6 decoder.
 
Note: The DivX Play Bundle includes the optional Google Toolbar for easy web searches and pop-up blocking.
The free RealPlayer 10.5 is the first product that integrates Real's revolutionary new Harmony technology. RealPlayer enables consumers to buy and download music that plays on more than 100 portable devices, including the Apple iPod. RealPlayer is the only digital-media player you need for finding and downloading new music, playing and managing audio and video clips, and taking your digital entertainment with you. RealPlayer offers a streamlined interface that allows you to keep your media library close at hand. Keep all your digital-media clips organized in one place; save CD tracks with one click; pause and rewind live streams; transfer music to CDs and portable devices effortlessly; and enjoy clear, smooth video playback and multichannel, surround-sound support.
Windows Media Player consists of seven features in a single application: a CD player, an audio and video player, a media jukebox, a media guide, an Internet radio tuner, a portable device you can transfer music files to, and an audio CD burner. These software programs are combined in one easy-to-use application designed to make playing digital media a mainstream experience. An audio CD creator and a unified player also are included with the program.
 
This program allows you to play streaming and downloadable digital audio, video, and other Internet content; play back CD and digital recordings; and use the jukebox functionality to play or copy an entire CD to your PC in just a few minutes with one click.
 
Version 7.1 adds Windows Media Audio 8 encoding, Windows Media Audio and Video 8 decoding, new smart transcoding support for high-quality transferring to portable devices, and other enhancements and bug fixes.
 
Note: Windows Media Player should not be installed on computers running Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0
Sonique is an audio player capable of handling MP3 files, Microsoft Windows Media files, audio CDs, and various other audio formats. It features a dynamic, windowless interface, complete with a fully animated menu system. Additional features include a full-featured playlist editor; a variety of unique output visualization modes; plug-ins; a robust control set featuring pitch, jog, and shuttle; support for skins; a balance and amplification adjustment; and a 20-band equalizer with spline-based level adjustment. Sonique supports many audio formats, including WMA, MPEG, MP2, MP3, WAV, MOD, XM, IT, S3M, and CD audio.
 
Version 1.96 includes minor bug fixes.
 
Note: You must be a member of the Sonique network to download Sonique. The Download Now link will take you to an e-mail capture page where you can sign up for membership or access your account to get download access.
This media converter, editor, recorder, burner, ripper, and player has features such as audio, video, data-CD, and DVD burning; video editing; video creation, combining, and extracting; batch-video processing; video capture; audio merging; and lyrics searching. Conversions include CD to WAV, MP3, WMA, and OGG; WAV, WMA, and OGG to MP3; MP3, WAV, and OGG to WMA; MP3, WMA, and WAV to OGG; MP3, WMA, and OGG to WAV; WAV, MP3, WMA, and OGG to CD; WAV and MP3 compression; and two-way video conversion among MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, WMV, etc. MPEG conversion options are available for VCD-, SVCD-, and DVD-compliant output. Video editing is available for AVI (uncompressed), AVI (compressed using any available codec), MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV, and ASF files.
 
Version 6.1 includes various internal enhancements and improvements as well as additional format variation support.
This advanced jukebox software is for playing MP3s and ripping, burning, and managing a digital music collection. It encodes to MP3, WMA, OGG, and APE. The Media View feature gives you control over file organization. It supports more than 20 media file formats, including MP3, RealMedia, Windows Media, and QuickTime. The Find CD feature lets you search for purchasable music by the currently playing artist. Tune into Web radio or watch TV/DVD on your PC. A Visualization Studio feature lets you create your own savable visualizations, and a DSP Studio allows customization of the listening environment. Other utilities include Media Scheduler for sleep, alarm, and recording functions, and Media Editor for editing sound files. The new Download Manager utility works seamlessly with sites such as Emusic.com for easy download and playback of tracks and albums.
Distinguished from all other, MP3 Player ? Morpher is the only MP3 Player that can play and real-time morph a mp3 or a sound file from one to another with the help of special morphs and audio effects - a new way to play and listen to music, a key for you to enter digital music world. It also features WMA, WAV and most popular audio formats as an all-in-one jukebox with built-in MP3 Converter, CD MP3 Ripper, CD Burner, CD Cover Creator, Sound Recorder and more. Alter and improve singing voice, apply a digital effect, mix drum loops, change tempo without altering the pitch, remix and turn your own karaoke songs or the latest hits into the new ones, making your own labeled CDs. Create weird Hollywood-style sound effects, edit different voices for different characters in your movies, cartoon, comic, DVD, audio, and video clips.
 
Version 2.0.102 features minor enhancements.
ImTOO CD Ripper extracts CD tracks to MP3, WAV, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, VQF, and APE files. With the ability to autodetect your CD-ROM and to autolist tracks, you can rip tracks with one click. The program supports CDDB as well as the creation of a local CDDB. You can select bit rates from 32Kbps to 320Kbps. ImTOO CD Ripper allows you to edit ID3 tags and add files to the M3U/PLS playlist. An embedded CD player can play back CD tracks before ripping. The program also provides volume normalization for tracks at different volume levels. ImTOO CD Ripper can convert digital-audio formats among MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, VQF, and APE files. It builds in various audio encoders, which ensures you don't need external encoders to support all these popular formats.
 
Version 1.0.33.922 supports multi-language installation.
Burn 1000 tracks or five movies on a Data DVD? Convert MP3/WMA/WAV non-DRM audio files? Automix CDs? Import Data CDs/DVDs? Correct track tags?
 
Virtuosa is a cool music and movie software jukebox to rip, import, play, burn, mix, convert, organize, normalize, visualize, print, and enjoy all standard audio and video files on your computer. it supports data CD/DVD burning/importing, audio CD burning/ripping, MP3/WMA/WAV non-DRM conversion, no video conversion, DIVX/AVI/MPEG. The program features six-language user interface.
 
Version 5.20 adds new Lame MP3 encoder with up to 10-x acceleration, compatibility with MusicBrainz to correct track metadata, and a WMA-DRM 9 plugin update.