Music Players & Converters

Since my introduction to .ape and .flac files, I've been searching around the net for a converter to allow me to play songs in my various external music devices. While I know there are many different types of converters available, many (almost 99.9%) of them are shareware. This means that the software will allow you some time before asking you to purchase the software and when this happens, you can usually find that nothing will work again until you pay up.

So this thread will be used to help people find good music players and converters, with the main aim of the software to be 'almost' totally free to use. You can post your favourite software with your personal comments to explain how good the program is, if its free, ease of use etc.


Music Players

Name: Nullsoft Winamp Player
Website: WINAMP.COM
Comments: When we first had Internet access, I used Windows Media Player to play my songs but found this program to be very buggy and eventually, after finding mp3 files, WMA would not play the files. After reading on various websites to learn how to play mp3 files, I tried downloading Winamp and couldn't believe the stability of the program (as well as being able to play mp3). Winamp is now apart of my list of 'mandatory-installed-programs' when I have to occasionally reformat my computers. Winamp's simple design and easy to use navigation makes it ideal for users who don't understand much about playing alternate music files on their computers. Boosted with an array of design skins and plugins which add even more functionality to this amazing stable program.


Music Converters

Name: dBpowerAMP
Website: dBpowerAMP
Comments: Thanks to Snowknight and seanne for their suggestions, I'm currenlty trying out this program to see the quality it can provide by changing one formart to another. Additional codecs can be downloaded from the same site to help in the conversion of other file types. I will include a more detailed comment for this program later.

Jam it back in, in the dark.