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Free MP3 Cutter and Editor v2.8.0.2297

billon on 20 Sep 2020
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 20 Sep 2020
  • Suggested by webfork

Free MP3 Cutter and Editor can do simple edits to WAV and MP3 files, including volume changes, fade-in and fade-out and delete sections. Can convert mono to stereo and vice versa.

Note: The program by default saves MP3 files at 128 bitrate.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: None
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "Portable Version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch MP3Cutter.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: mp3DirectCut
Latest comments
Midas on 2015-04-07 18:39

MuseTips Free MP3 Cutter and Editor is currently at v2.7.0 (changelog at http://www.musetips.com/free-mp3-cutter-and-editor-version-history.html).

Only an installer is provided for downloading, but it can be (Uni)extracted and is portable/stealth.

I am Baas on 2015-04-07 19:18

@Midas

Entry updated.

JohnW on 2016-07-16 11:25

A few disjointed comments...
1. The version is up to 2.8
2. The portable option has been reinstated.
3. I just wanted to snip unwanted sections; this did it simply and intuitively.
I find "more advanced" editors get confusing.
4. MBAM finds a PUP in the file. Seems like a false positive to me (I added an exclusion)

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MP3 Tag Tools v1.2 Build 010

webfork on 1 Aug 2015

MP3 Tag Tools is a tag editor for MP3 files supporting filename-to-tag conversion and vice versa, filename cleaning and case correction, lyrics and picture tagging etc. All tagging operations can be performed with optional subfolder recursion.

Supports ID3v1.1/v2.x tags.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: GPL
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and run
  2. Agree to the license, uncheck "Start Menu Shortcuts" and "Desktop Shortcut" and install to the default folder (C:\Program Files\Mp3TagToolsv12)
  3. Copy the files mp3tagtools.exe and mtthelp.chm (optional) into a folder of your choice
  4. Uninstall the program
  5. Launch mp3tagtools.exe
Similar/alternative apps: Mp3Tag
What's new?
  • Fixed compatibility issue with Windows Vista and 7.
  • Updated source code available that can be compiled with Visual Studio 2013 Community edition.
Latest comments
TP109 on 2013-10-11 01:32

May want to look at that Beta version first. I remember trying it once and went back to released version. Can't remember the details of why I decided to do that.

Midas on 2013-10-12 16:12

@TP109: Thanks for the warning, appreciated...

vmars316 on 2019-06-26 00:04

This app Rocks !

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MP3 Quality Modifier v2.53

Andrew Lee on 2 Jun 2021
  • 945KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 15 Jun 2013
  • Suggested by trpplayer79

MP3 Quality Modifier lets you change the bitrate of your MP3 music collection so that the filesize can be dramatically reduced while retaining the ID3 tags. It supports advanced options like presets, downsampling, variable bit-rate, changing the used channels, etc.

Some users have contributed to an available forum thread with recommended settings.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch using MP3QualityModifier.exe -portable.
What's new?
  • Changes: Fixed wrong handling of slightly corrupt or very small MP3 files.
  • Improved the detection of processing problems.
  • Added a confirmation question for the shutdown option at the progress window.
Latest comments
rodger123 on 2012-09-20 22:18

Midas you are correct however I burned the same CD at 128 and 192 and could not hear any difference-I have a 2 CD drive player on my home system and could not tell which was which.

DarkShadow on 2013-12-31 19:49

Check links !

Cornflower on 2020-10-30 15:14

I found the web page archived on the [Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org/web/20180618114039/http://www.inspire-soft.net/software/mp3-quality-modifier)

and a valid download link [here](https://web.archive.org/web/20180618114039/http://www.inspire-soft.net/data/mp3-quality-modifier.zip)

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Mp3tag v3.25 Updated

Ennovy on 28 Mar 2024
  • 9MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 28 Mar 2024
  • Suggested by tedpoe

Mp3tag views, edits and filters metadata for common audio formats. Information can be manually added, removed, imported and exported to a variety of formats. The program supports online freedb database lookups for selected files, allowing you to automatically gather proper tag information for select files or CDs. It can also rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words from tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more.

The program can even generate playlists from provided audio files. Supports ID3, Vorbis Comments, APE, MP4 and TAK Lossless.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and launch
  2. When prompted, select "Portable Installation" and "install" to a folder of your choice
  3. Delete Mp3tagSetup.ini, unnecessary language files and flag icons
  4. Launch Mp3tag.exe
Similar/alternative apps: TagScanner, Kid3
What's new? See: https://www.mp3tag.de/en/changelog.html.
Latest comments
JudyGarland on 2021-03-25 17:50

[2021-02-05] CHG: minimum system requirements are now Windows 7 and a processor with SSE2 instruction set.
Too sad.

jenss on 2022-10-05 03:51

Download 64-bit
https://www.mp3tag.de/en/dodownload64.html

Andrew Lee on 2022-10-05 19:56

@jenss: 64-bit download link updated

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Xelitan Video Player v1.5 Updated

Ennovy on 16 Mar 2024
  • 29MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 16 Mar 2024
  • Suggested by Tomxe

Xelitan Video Player is a straightforward video player with lots of built-in video, audio and image decoders.

List of features:

  • comes with built-in decoders
  • supported video formats: MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV, 3GP, WEBM and more
  • supported audio formats: MP3, OGG, M4A, WAV, MID and more
  • supported image formats: JPEG, PNG, PSD, TIF, BMP, GIF, WEBP, TGA and more
  • supported subtitle formats: SubRipper, TmPlayer, SubStation Alpha and more
  • configurable plaback speed (25% - 400%)
  • video filters
  • saving screenshots
  • supports playlists
  • can play videos directly from the web
  • no ads
  • full version

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch XelitanPlayer.EXE.
Similar/alternative apps: VLC
What's new?
  • better handling of playlists
  • bug fixes
Latest comments
Tomxe on 2024-02-10 11:20

New options in 1.4:
1) Video -> Movie thumbnails
2) Info -> Movie info

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mp3DirectCut v2.36

webfork on 8 May 2022
  • 564KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 28 Jan 2022
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

mp3DirectCut is a small tool for editing MPEG audio directly. You can remove parts, change the volume, split files or copy regions to new files, all without the need to decompress your MP3 into PCM/WAV. This saves work, encoding time and disk space. In addition, there is no quality loss to edited files.

Category:
Runs on:WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Optionally:
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Launch mp3DirectCut.exe
  3. When prompted, select "Portable forced" and restart

Optionally, delete License.txt and unnecessary language files
What's new? See: https://mpesch3.de/index.html#dwn
Latest comments
j7n on 2017-04-06 22:59

The new "flat" design with similar monochrome icons is a step back in usability. Normal appearance, apart from grouping of toolbar buttons, can be restored under Configuration -> Layout.

The program is a good tool for trimming old MP3 encodes without incurring further quality loss. Glitches are avoided if the MP3 is upconverted to 320 kbit beforehand with MP3Packer.

I wish it also supported common simple video soundtrack formats.

aazard on 2020-11-30 23:58

AT ITS SIZE, nothing is like this! so powerful

Its similar to AviTricks Classic for Avi editing, but for audio files. Using a 3rd "tiny" app, Avi2wav, these together are 2mb worth of just stupid levels of "professionalism"

...If your only audio editor was this little guy, you could PULL A LOT OFF

tomcat on 2021-08-31 04:09

How to extract: For portability, you now have to tick the option it presents you to force it.

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wxMP3gain Portable v4.0

billon on 15 Nov 2019
  • 5MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 15 Nov 2019
  • Suggested by joe

MP3Gain is an audio normalization software that helps minimize audio changes from file to file, especially very loud to very quiet. The program analyzes MP3 files and changes the volume without re-encoding or modifying quality. Batch operations are available and changes can be reversed.

wxMP3gain is a cross platform front-end for the MP3gain tool and wxMP3gain Portable version is a container format to help manage settings.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch wxMP3gainPortable.exe.
What's new? See:
https://github.com/cfgnunes/wxmp3gain/blob/master/docs/CHANGELOG
Latest comments
PAFuser on 2017-10-05 16:28

Also, available from programmer's website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxmp3gain/files/3.7/. On web site it is under: "browse all files". "3.7". wxmp3gain-v3.7-win32-portable.zip. Have not checked for stealth, etc. Seems to work the same as PortableApps.com version. Both version will work at the same time.

JohnTHaller on 2017-10-05 16:45

The 'portable' version from the programmer stores settings in the registry.

Midas on 2024-01-17 05:07

juverax comment in deprecated MP3Gain entry: "Need a tutorial? --> https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-normalize-mp3-files-2438861 "

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1by1 v2.09 Updated

Ennovy on 22 Apr 2024
  • 224KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 22 Apr 2024
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

1by1 is a lightweight and low-resource usage audio player that plays directories or whole drives, with optional playlist/favorites support. The program remembers last track and position, supports gapless playback or crossfading between tracks, audio enhancer and Winamp 2.x input plugin support. Manage your collection from within the program including folder compare, delete, rename while playing, move and more.

Supports most popular formats including MP3, OGG, MP4, CDs and more.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch 1by1.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: foobar2000
What's new? See: https://mpesch3.de/1by1.html#dwn
Latest comments
freakazoid on 2020-08-30 19:58

v1.97 just happens to be a download size of 197kb :)

freakazoid on 2021-03-17 16:37

To reply to my previous comment, v1.98 just so happens to have a download size of 198kb :)

shuunen on 2021-11-16 13:16

version 2 is out, 199kb setup file, unzip & enjoy a great portable minimal player <3

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MKVToolNix v83.0 New

lwc on 12 Apr 2024
  • 153MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 10 Mar 2024
  • Suggested by agam

MKVToolnix is a freeware utility that allows you to create, alter, inspect, etc., video files with the MKV format.You can use MKVToolNix to create, split, edit, mux, demux, merge, extract, or inspect Matroska files.
MKVToolnix program will also work with other video formats including AVI, MPEG, MP4, MPEG, MPEG1/2, h264, and more, as well as some video codecs such as VP9, audio including AAC, FLAC, MP2, MP3, AC3, DTS/DTS-HD, Vorbis and most subtitle formats including SRT, PGS/SUP, VobSub, ASS, and SSA.

Category:
Runs on:Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. QtProject registry key
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract: Download the Portable 7z package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch mkvtoolnix-gui.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Avidemux, MKVcleaver
What's new? See https://mkvtoolnix.download/doc/NEWS.md (detailed) or https://www.bunkus.org/blog/ (summary but might not be limited to just what's new)

FileOptimizer v16.60 Updated

Special on 2 Apr 2024
  • 194MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 2 Apr 2024
  • Suggested by I am Baas

FileOptimizer is a broad format file compression tool used to reduce file size without changing the quality, known as "lossless." This is done via wide variety of optimization and recompression tools and techniques. Original files are sent to the recycle bin for restoration in the event the uncompressed version is preferred. A list of the 400+ supported formats include audio/video (MP3, OGG, M4A), image (GIF, JPEG, PNG), office formats (DOCX, XLSX, ODT, PDF) and system files (DLL, EXE).

Supports drag-and-drop of files into the window or onto the program icon. Note that by default the program removes metadata for many file types. This information reduces overall file size and protects privacy but is important to some users (e.g. photographers) and file search tools.

A 64-bit version is available within the folder, the author reports the program is functional in WINE, and can be used on the command line. Many images here on TPFC including our logo have been compressed using FileOptimizer.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU AGPL
How to extract: Download the self-extracting 7z.exe package and launch. When prompted, select a folder of your choice. Launch FileOptimizer32.exe or FileOptimizer64.exe (for 64-bit OS).

At startup, the program will optionally show ads to support program development. These can be disabled at any time.

Optionally, to save space:
  • 32-bit systems: delete FileOptimizer64.exe and the \Plugins64 folder
  • 64-bit systems: delete FileOptimizer32.exe and the \Plugins32 folder
  • Delete unnecessary language files
Similar/alternative apps: ArcThemALL!, PngOptimizer, RIOT
What's new?
    - Updated SQLite to 3.45.2 x86 and x64 Visual C++ 2022 custom builds.
    - Updated Leanify to 0.4.3.280.
    - Updated pingo to 1.19.3 x64 version.
    - Updated ECT x64 binaries to 0.9.5.
    - Updated gifsicle to 1.95.
    - Updated Ghostscript to 10.03.0.
    - Updated ImageMagick to 7.1.1.29 with HDRI support.
    - Updated ffmpeg to 6.1.1 x64.
    - Updated FLAC to 1.4.3.
    - Updated cpdf to 2.7.0.
    - Updated to Minify 2.20.19 x64.
    - Updated to OptiVorbis 0.2.0 x64.
    - Updated to mutool 1.23.0.
    - HTML Tidy for Windows 5.9.14
    - Updated UPX to 4.2.3.
    - Some minor optimizations and code cleanup.
    - Updated to NSIS 3.10.
    - Updated to C++ Builder 12.1 Santorini.
Latest comments
mcodex on 2018-12-24 11:44

That's not portable. I can only get a setup file installing in C: drive.

kilouiski on 2019-09-20 12:09

I just tried to reduce the size of a video and it has left me exactly the same and with either option: fast and the best.
Any explanation?.
Best regards.

webfork on 2019-10-06 22:40

@kilouiski: FileOptimizer exists because so few programs take the time and energy to fully compress your files with available tools. It sounds like the program used to generate your video was an exception.

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AnyBurn v6.1 Updated

Andrew Lee on 31 Mar 2024
  • 7MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 29 Mar 2024
  • Suggested by joby_toss

AnyBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / Blu-ray disc burning software with most common features. Includes the ability to burn files/image to disc, create an image from disc, drive info, disc copy, image file conversion (e.g. ISO -> BIN/CUE) and erase rewritable. Can also burn audio files (MP3, FLAC, APE, M4A, WAV, WMA etc.) to audio CD.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the "Portable Version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Choose either AnyBurn(32-bit) or AnyBurn(64-bit) folder, depending on your OS
  3. Optionally:
    1. Delete License.txt and unnecessary language files
    2. To prevent updates, create a file named anyburn.ini with the following contents:
      [Settings]
      CheckUpgrade=-2147483648
  4. Launch AnyBurn.exe
What's new? See: https://anyburn.com/tutorials/history.htm
Latest comments
AndTheWolf on 2023-06-16 15:40

Now at version 5.6

AndTheWolf on 2023-09-20 15:38

Now at version 5.8

juverax on 2024-01-21 12:37

AnyBurn Tutorials: https://anyburn.com/tutorials/

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FlicFlac v1.11 Updated

joby_toss on 5 Mar 2024
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 28 Oct 2022
  • Suggested by modussn

FlicFlac is an utility for converting WAV, FLAC, MP3, OGG and APE files to any of the other formats. The program supports the drag-and-drop of files onto the FlicFlac interface to whatever format is selected (e.g. "to WAV"). Files are saved by default to the same directory as the source file.

More advanced configuration available by editing the FlicFlac.ini file.

Written in AutoHotkey.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: MIT License
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FlicFlac.exe.
What's new? 2022 10 28 - 1.11
  • Updated: MP3 encoder (lame.exe) to version 3.100.1
2020 04 17 - 1.10
  • Added : Support for AAC and M4A (input only) using faad
  • Fixed : Run as Administrator when enabling/disabling shell integration
  • Changed: Links in About dialog
Latest comments
shiny on 2024-03-05 01:35

arrgh:\ not a 32bit

lintalist on 2024-03-05 16:39

@shiny source is available so you could try to compile it yourself as 32bit https://github.com/DannyBen/FlicFlac

shiny on 2024-03-07 10:32

ok, 32bit done with AutoHotKey 1x.

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cPicture v3.8.8

Ennovy on 21 Jan 2024
  • 14MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 15 Jan 2024
  • Suggested by Lesmo16

cPicture is an image viewer that supports both images (JPEG, PNG, TIFF, RAW) and other media files (AVI, QT, MOV, MPEG, MP3, WMV). You can also use it to remove red-eye from your photos, as well as create a HTML index for your collection.

Category:
Runs on:Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. Some settings are written to the registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\TheCloud\cPicture\Workspace
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. You may also want to download the plugins to support RAW and TIFF files, as well as additional color profiles
  3. Create an empty file called cpicture.config in the same folder so that settings will be written there
  4. Launch cPicture.exe
What's new? See: http://cpicture.thecloudsite.net/blog/index.php?controller=post&action=view&id_post=76
Latest comments
Nh on 2008-01-13 20:01

This is the new address:
http://cpicture.net/en/index.html

juverax on 2021-12-13 13:30

Softpedia: https://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Digital-Photo-Tools/cPicture.shtml
has an entry for an application named cPicture v.3.8.6 that is Freeware and Donationware

Web Site: http://cpicture.thecloudsite.net/

VirusTotal Score:
cPicture.exe 2-70
cpp_tiff_png.dll 1-68
All the other files are clean

Assuming that cPicture is not harmful
Unzip and run cPicture.exe (It seems that it is a no install app)
This application is very fast.
It leaves a couple of keys in the registry.

The cPicture v.3.8.6 and cPicture LE v1.6.x seem to be developed by the same developer(s).

Ennovy on 2024-01-20 14:47

cPicture now at version 3.8.8 and it is freeware/donationware.

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Virtual Volumes View Portable v1.5

Andrew Lee on 7 Jan 2024
  • 9MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 3 Jan 2024
  • Suggested by JohnTHaller

VVV is an application that catalogs the content of removable volumes like CD and DVD disks for off-line searching. This allows you to keep an index of all the files on multiple drives and optical media in a single location. Folders and files can also be arranged in a single, virtual file system. Each folder of this virtual file system can contain files from many disks so you can arrange your data in a simple and logical way. VVV also stores metadata information from MP3 files: author, title, album and so on.

Export to spreadsheet (CSV format) available.

VVV Portable is a PortableApps version of the original program.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Path portability: Automatic compensation for dynamic drive letter in removable storage devices
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch VirtualVolumesViewPortable.exe.
What's new? See: http://vvvapp.sourceforge.net/versions.html
Latest comments
Wolfghost on 2013-11-24 13:33

@graydusts
WOW I was not aware of it.....thanks

JohnTHaller on 2013-11-24 21:00

@Wolfghost - All our apps have an INI that lets you disable the splash. You can disable them all in the PortableApps.com Platform in the Options window as well. Unless the splash is built into the app itself, of course, like GIMP et al, in which case you need to follow the directions for disabling the splash in the base app.

Wolfghost on 2013-11-24 21:36

Ok thanks guys

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winLAME Portable v2023 Release 1

Andrew Lee on 3 Jan 2024
  • 12MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 3 Jan 2023
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

winLAME is an encoder for many commonly used audio formats, including extraction from CDs. The program lets you set up the encoding process with an easy-to-use wizard-style user interface and supports both batch processing and multiple audio files.

Formats include WAV, MP3, FLAC, Monkey's Audio, OGG, Opus and many more. The program supports the creation of playlists (M3U, PLS and CUE) and ID3 tags (metadata).

winLAME Portable is a modified version of winLame for portability.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 (a 32-bit version is included with the download)
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract: Download and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch winLAMEPortable.exe.

Optionally, delete App\AppInfo\Launcher\splash.jpg
Similar/alternative apps: fre:ac, LameXP
Latest comments
Emka on 2011-12-26 20:02

removed broken link to portable edition, above links point to very old versions

kinki on 2020-12-28 06:35

winLAME , v2020 release 1
All .dll are considered dangerous by Norton and are deleted

webfork on 2020-12-28 16:39

@kinki: as noted in the, please post about possible malware issues to the forums. I would also check the download with VirusTotal first. As winLAME is open source and has been in development for 4+ yrs, it's probably a false positive.

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LameXP v4.21

Andrew Lee on 30 Dec 2023
  • 33MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 29 Dec 2023
  • Suggested by lautrepay

LameXP is an audio encoding and conversion program with a skinnable, drag-and-drop interface. The program can edit metadata, create an automatic playlist file, and modify audio with multi-threaded batch processing tools for normalization and tone adjustment.

The program supports a wide variety of formats and quality settings. Although named for one of its popular encoders (the LAME MP3 encoder), the program can also export to OGG, Opus, FLAC, AC3, APE, WAV and DCA.

It can also convert from a wide variety of formats, including MP3, OGG, FLAC, MP4/AAC, AC3,, DTS, WavPack, Musepack, TTA, Speex, Monkey's Audio, Shorten, WMA, Opus and more. MP4/AAC encoding is available via an external download (Nero AAC/QAAC).

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Rename the LameXP.exe to LameXP-Portable.exe
  3. Launch LameXP-Portable.exe
Similar/alternative apps: fre:ac
What's new? See: https://lamexp.sourceforge.net/doc/Changelog.html
Latest comments
Napiophelios on 2016-05-19 15:47

Is LameXP the only audio encoder that can convert opus files?

webfork on 2016-05-20 02:07

I converted something to Opus yesterday with LameXP but TEncoder and TAudioConverter will also do the trick.

neykhax on 2023-06-04 20:10

Lightweight audio encoder, with support for a large number of audio formats and a neat interface. I have been able to optimize hundreds of audio files with a good output quality and without having bugs or complications in the renaming of output file names that other encoders have in the batch convertion of multiple folders.

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Balabolka v2.15.0.860

Ennovy on 25 Dec 2023
  • 15MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 23 Dec 2023
  • Suggested by I am Baas

Balabolka is a feature-rich program to read text aloud from a variety of file types including DOC, RTF, PDF, ODT, FB2 and HTML. The program uses built-in Windows speech tools, but lets you fine tune voices, including rate and pitch, and a substitution list can also be applied to improve the quality of the voice's articulation. The program supports customized font and background color, skins, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys.

The program can save to a variety of audio formats and quality levels, and can include synchronized text to external LRC files or in MP3 tags inside the audio files. When the audio file is played with players on a computer or on modern digital audio players, the text will be displayed synchronously (in the same way as lyrics for songs).

The program includes batch conversion tools from of a wide variety of document formats to audio or plain text and a file compare tool, file splitter and screen magnification window. Command-line functions also supported.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft Speech API (SAPI). This is included by default in Win2K and above.
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "Portable Version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch balabolka.exe.

Optionally, delete unnecessary language and help files.
Similar/alternative apps: DSpeech
What's new? See: http://balabolka.site/changelog.txt
Latest comments
FireRabbit on 2020-03-29 22:26

After years of using to use Balabolka I officaly gave up and bought textaloud a couple days ago.

Balabolka has for years had a strange bug where the longer it runs in the background the longer the delay it takes when you hit the "read selected text" hotkey.

TextAloud doesn't have this issue and not having to restart Balabolka every hour feels like a massive weight has been lifted from my shoulders.

FireRabbit on 2021-10-07 15:38

Since it had been over a year since my last comment and the last time I used Balabolka, and since then I've seen several update notices for it, bought a brand new computer, and moved on to windows 10 I figured I'd give it another try since I really don't like being tied to preparatory software beyond my OS.

Overall it's much worse than I remember. I use text to speech a lot. After using textaloud for over a year daily I've gotten very use to how it sounds and Balabolka is... the best way I can think of to describe it would be jagged and deformed. The pacing of the voices is all wonky, there's too many bizarre out of context pauses, and the ever growing lag is still a major issue. [I use Ivona voices, which is perhaps the issue as Balabolka may be overly focused on just working with Microsofts built in voices?]

Midas on 2021-10-08 07:38

@FireRabbit: As Balabolka is somewhat of a niche application, your input is highly appreciated. Thank you.

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Data Crow v4.11

Ennovy on 4 Dec 2023
  • 348MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 4 Dec 2023
  • Suggested by Wolfghost

Data Crow is a powerful media cataloger and organizer that allows users to manage all their audio, software, book, movie and photo collections in one customizable tool. The program can create a huge database containing all your collected items. Connects with online services like Amazon, IMDB, Softpedia and MusicBrainz to retrieve media information and avoid manual entry. An optional internal web server and web interface can import file information (mp3, divx, xvid etc.) and enable reporting (HTML and PDF).

The program is modular to allow inclusion of new collection types (e.g. stamps, coins, action figures).

Both 32 and 64-bit versions included. Functional on Mac/Linux machines with Java installed.

Alternatively:

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Java 1.6 (or higher) from Oracle
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GPL
How to extract:
  1. Download the full version ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Create a folder data in the application directory
  3. Launch datacrow.exe
  4. When prompted to select a location for saving settings, save to the data folder
What's new? See: https://datacrow.org/news/
Latest comments
mimik on 2019-01-23 16:57

After Robert Jan van der Waals, the origin developer of Data Crow, last year announced the end of his project (http://www.datacrow.net/#news), now it seems like it could continiue... https://sourceforge.net/p/datacrow/discussion/650036/

mimik on 2020-07-21 00:03

Hmmm, the first activities by the new main project developer were very promising. But by now, his last activity on sourceforge has been one year ago, as well as the last activity of the origin developer Robert Jan van der Waals. No goodby or something like this. See you tomorow and they were never seen again...

rwaals on 2023-05-02 09:22

Data Crow development has been picked up again since end of year 2022 by, well, me (the original developer of Data Crow).
Great to see the updates also appear on this site, much appreciated! Expect more updates this year as I continue improving Data Crow.
New site: https://datacrow.org

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3D Youtube Downloader v1.20.1

rbon on 25 Oct 2023
  • 40MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 25 Oct 2023
  • Suggested by Napiophelios

3D Youtube Downloader searches and downloads a variety of media from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, LiveLeak and many other sites for playing outside the browser or offline viewing. The program even downloads subtitles and 3D video from YouTube and Dailymotion. High speed download is available with multipart downloads and HTTP compression, as well as proxy support to help circumvent network restrictions.

The search tool includes a variety of criteria including size, detail, ratings and many more. The interface provides options for different types of users including advanced for detailed view of available formats and quality levels, as well as a conversion mode for moving files to a different format altogether. The program supports a variety of media file quality and formats including WebM, MP4, FLV (video) and M4A, OGG, MP3 (audio), as well as conversion to AAC, WMA, SPX and many more.

The program can view YouTube RSS aggregators so you can see and download the latest in a series. A separate, non-free version is available for batch operations, but it is possible to run multiple instances of program for concurrent downloads.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and launch
  2. Select Portable Installation and choose the destination folder
  3. Launch 3dyd.exe
Similar/alternative apps: YouTube Downloader HD, YouTubePal
What's new? See: https://yd.3dyd.com/changelog/details/
Latest comments
MIKLO on 2017-08-21 13:05

If it ain't free it ain't 4me..... jus sayin :)

MIKLO

rowleys on 2019-06-12 12:05

Is anybody else getting what looks like Arabic language when launching the installer? I don't want to click on any buttons because I have no idea what they mean.

webfork on 2022-01-28 13:42

Several other audio extraction tools I used to rely upon failed on me, but this one worked great. I got exactly the format I was hoping for (Opus) and it downloaded very fast. Wonderfully simple and easy.

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Rename Master v3.17

Ennovy on 13 Oct 2023
  • 4MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 29 May 2023
  • Suggested by Barrette

Rename Master is a utility for renaming large groups of files with a few clicks. It is suitable for anyone working with websites, file archives, or collections of music, videos and pictures. This utility will add, remove, or replace parts of the filename.

Supports renaming via file properties, MP3 tags, JPEG JFIF and EXIF tags. For example, you can rename a photo based on when it was taken or MP3 based on when it was recorded.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Delete setup.exe
  3. Launch RenameMaster.exe
What's new? See: https://joejoesoft.com/vcms/108/
Latest comments
MIKLO on 2017-01-13 14:02

I tried this program and it does work fine but for me I much prefer Advanced Renamer,although they are similar everyone has a preference.
MIKLO

ripu on 2018-10-18 06:13

It does not support regular expression (regex) that contains lookbehind.

toitoy on 2023-10-13 03:30

updated to 3.17 on May-29-23

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Bandizip Standard Edition v7.32 Adware

Andrew Lee on 15 Sep 2023
  • 4MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 14 Sep 2023
  • Suggested by I am Baas

Bandizip is an archive tool that supports a customisable interface, the searching of archives by file name, file splitting, password protection, self-extracting archives and varying levels of compression. It supports the creation and extraction of most common compression formats, as well as modern formats ZIPX and 7Z.

The program's "High Speed Archiving" function will allow you to compress or bypass the files its own algorithm on multimedia files (AVI, WMV, MP3...) or archive files (ZIP, RAR, 7Z...) that won't benefit from additional compression. This can increase archiving speed dramatically. Extract formats supported include 7Z, ZIPX, RAR, ALZ, EGG, TAR, BH, LZH, BZ2, ISO, CAB, WIM, XZ, ARJ, ZIP, Z and more.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware/Liteware
How to extract: Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Bandizip32.exe or Bandizip64.exe.

Optionally, delete unnecessary language files.
Similar/alternative apps: 7-Zip, PeaZip, IZArc
What's new? See: https://www.bandisoft.com/bandizip/history/
Latest comments
FireRabbit on 2021-10-08 14:51

I didn't realize Bandizip was here or I'd have commented sooner. I LOVE Bandizip it's the only archive program that handles Zpaq files well. When you have a big zpaq update you can Ctrl+F in the archive and filter and search the entire backup history of the Zpaq.

TL/DL
Best GUI for Zpaq and Zpaq is magic.

Ennovy on 2022-07-05 11:08

Version 7.26 is released today

Pendrive on 2023-09-14 11:10

v7.32

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Kid3 v3.9.4

Andrew Lee on 9 Jul 2023
  • 44MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 9 Jul 2023
  • Suggested by Midas

Kid3 is a customizable audio tag editor that supports a broad list of audio formats. The program functions with a variety of ID3 tags and convert between them. The program can also edit tags of multiple files, generate tags from filenames and from the contents of tag fields, generate filenames from tags, rename and create directories from tags and create playlist files. The program can also import from several sources including gnudb.org, TrackType.org, MusicBrainz, Discogs and Amazon, as well as export tags to CSV and HTML files.

Formats supported include MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Opus, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AIFF and APE. ID3 tag versions include v1.1, v2.3 and v2.4.

Cross-platform with versions available for Android, Linux and macOS.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract it to a folder of your choice. Launch kid3.exe --portable.
Similar/alternative apps: TagScanner, Mp3tag
What's new? See: https://kid3.kde.org/#history
Latest comments
vmars316 on 2019-06-26 00:06

This app Rocks !

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Recuva v1.53.2096

Ennovy on 13 Jun 2023
  • 10MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 13 Jun 2023
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

Recuva helps recover files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players.

The program has a friendly "wizard"-style set up for finding documents by type (pictures, documents etc.) or an advanced mode to search manually through all deleted files.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Administrator rights
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract recuva.exe or recuva64.exe (for 64-bit OS), and optionally Lang directory to a folder of your choice
  2. Create a blank text file in the same folder, paste the following:

    #PORTABLE#

    and save it as portable.dat
  3. Launch recuva.exe or recuva64.exe

Don't forget to disable usage data sharing in 'Options' - 'Privacy'.
What's new? See: https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva/version-history
Latest comments
Ennovy on 2022-03-28 16:01

"This change introduces an additional control for basic product usage data reporting. This can be found in Recuva’s ‘Privacy’ tab.

Note: Any data regarding files that Recuva interacts with is processed locally on a user’s device and is not reported to us. For a full list of all data reported by our products, see our Products Policy."

Ennovy on 2022-03-28 16:07

On privacy tab disable the option "Help improve this app and our other products by sharing app-usage data with us.

juverax on 2022-06-20 09:03

Is "Recuva v.1.53.2078" an online installer?
Upon download, it says it can install now?
I am very wary of online installers ..... and prefer not to use them.

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Nemp v5.1.0

Andrew Lee on 30 May 2023
  • 19MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 10 May 2023
  • Suggested by I am Baas

Nemp (Noch Ein Mp3-Player) is an intuitive and easy-to-use audio player that plays most common audio formats. The program features a media library with support for drag-and-drop and tag-cloud organization, as well as audio effects, EQ, coverflow, webradio, a Web server for remote control and much more.

Supports streaming of multiple formats and recording and automatic management of MP3 streams.

Based on the BASS audio library.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch nemp.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Winyl
What's new? See: https://github.com/DanielGausi/Nemp/releases
Latest comments
kowcop on 2011-10-18 22:46

I like this player a lot. I love that it can be setup to use relative paths for the music folder (I had to edit the config file for this). My only gripe so far is that it will not read the coverart from the ID3 tags... it only looks at the art in the folders.

hamasaki on 2023-01-02 03:09

Now at version 5.0.1

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Wavosaur v1.8.0.0

Ennovy on 21 May 2023
  • 770KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 20 May 2023
  • Suggested by NewKreation

Wavosaur is a fast and easy multi-audiowave file editor created for editing audio clips, sound design, mastering, managing and recording. The program is compatible with VSTs and capable of using them in real time to listen to effects-processed audio. It can also monitor audio ports and is MIDI-controllable.

Features include ASIO support, import (MP3, aiff, raw binary, au/snd, ADPCM and so on), MP3 export, statistic/analysis tools (2D/3D spectrum, real time oscilloscope), process tools (resample, bit-depth convert 8, 16, 24, 32 bits, pitch shift, vocal removal, etc.), batch processing and more.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Wavosaur.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Audacity
What's new? See: https://www.wavosaur.com/history.php
Latest comments
zorro on 2020-03-21 07:25

The update to 1.4.0.0 applies only for the x86-version - interestingly the x64-version remains at 1.3.0.0 (last update 06.12.2016!)

freakazoid on 2020-03-21 18:15

@zorro - Looks like the Wavosaur team updated the x64 version after you mentioned it :)

fcomer on 2022-07-16 20:39

Great software! The real time effects support is what sets it apart from Audacity. I wish it was open source though...

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fre:ac v1.1.7

Andrew Lee on 7 Mar 2023
  • 14MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 7 Mar 2023
  • Suggested by Andrew Healey

fre:ac (pronounced "freak") is a feature-rich audio tool set featuring audio encoding and conversion, CD ripper, playlist and metadata editor. The program supports most popular audio formats such as MP3, M4A, WMA, OGG and FLAC, as well as support for a long list of additional converters such as Quicktime and Shorten. For CDs, the program supports reliable conversion (CD Paranoia), online databases (CDDB/GNUdb) and CDText, automatically writing song information metadata. The program is optimized for multi-core systems, making conversions as fast as possible.

Cross-platform (Mac, Linux, FreeBSD). Available in many world languages. Alternatively, fre:ac Portable automatically adjusts paths.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch 'freac.exe'. Optionally, delete unnecessary language and manual files, and 'translator.exe'.
Similar/alternative apps: CUETools, LameXP
What's new? See: https://github.com/enzo1982/freac/releases.
Latest comments
smaragdus on 2014-07-28 15:22

fre:ac 1.0.22 is out- http://sourceforge.net/projects/bonkenc/files/

Checker on 2014-07-28 16:10

@ smaragdus: Thanks ... and updated ;)

smaragdus on 2016-12-05 14:51

I prefer freac snapshots to freac stable because the snapshots support more encoders (including the best one- OptimFROG, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, etc).

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Disk Digger v1.67.37.3271

lwc on 24 Dec 2022
  • 571KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 12 Jun 2022
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

DiskDigger recovers files from any type of media that your computer can read. such as USB flash drives, memory cards and hard disk drives. The types of files supported include BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, DOC, PDF, MP3, AVI, WMV, OGG etc. DiskDigger is not a generic undelete utility. It works by scanning through each sector of the media and looking for "signatures" of the various file types. As such, it may be able to recover certain files that other generic undelete utilities are unable to.

Note: the current version is a nagware (unlimited though), but the originally completely freeware version wasn't updated since 2012 (v0.8.3) - if needed, it can be downloaded from the original website

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: None
Dependencies: .NET, Administrator rights
Stealth: ? No. Writes to HKCU\SOFTWARE\Defiant Technologies
License: Free (nagware) for personal use
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch DiskDigger.exe.
What's new? https://diskdigger.org
Latest comments
Alex Woodby on 2010-06-08 16:29

NO longer freeware, but shareware.

Andrew Lee on 2010-06-18 23:55

These additional download links are contributed by donald:
1) http://majorgeeks.com/DiskDigger_d5976.html (don't pick authors site)
2) http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page40.html#DiskDigger
3) http://www.freewarefiles.com/downloads_counter.php?programid=47821 (pick server 2)

webfork on 2010-08-12 21:18

This software is rated highly by NoNags editorial staff. Given the number of data recovery apps here on the site, its nice to have a recommendation. http://www.nonags.com/freeware-diskdigger_3697.html

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gPodder Portable v3.11.0

webfork on 18 Feb 2023
  • 43MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 22 Sep 2022
  • Suggested by joby_toss

gPodder is an easy-to-use podcatcher, able to subscribe to free audio and video content ("podcasts") to open on your computer or on the go. The program can batch download all recent podcasts (often as many as 30 episodes). Features synchronization with a variety of devices including iPod, MP3 players, and mobile phone support. Works with RSS, Atom, XSPF, Vimeo, YouTube, Apple and Soundcloud feeds.

gPodder is cross platform (Mac/Linux) and gPodder Portable is a portable wrapper for the program. Includes optional integration the with my.gpodder.org Web Service. Alternatively, a non-PortableApps version is also available from the gPodder home page.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch gPodderPortable.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Ziepod
What's new? See: https://github.com/gpodder/gpodder/releases
Latest comments
donald on 2013-09-13 21:44

Last edit today 9/13/13 added the category = Internet - Podcast Managers
Hopefully other entries could be added including those already listed @TPFC like Gpodder.

webfork on 2017-03-01 21:18

Anyone unable to download soundcloud should know that this is is a known issue: https://github.com/gpodder/gpodder/issues/235

bitcoin on 2018-01-25 20:04

up to v3.9.6 now

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Boom v1.0.38

Andrew Lee on 4 Aug 2022
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 3 Aug 2022
  • Suggested by lautrepay

Boom is a lightweight and simple audio player featuring gapless playback, ReplayGain support, a convenient structured genre/artist/album/song view of the indexed files etc. The program supports most major formats including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack (MPC), WavPack, WAV, AIFF, MP4/M4A (requires Microsoft codecs included with Windows 7) and WMA.

Developed by the author of foobar2000, the program includes a simplified version of it's Properties dialog that provides basic tagging capabilities.

Note: When running in portable mode, Boom will index the contents of the folder it's installed in.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download Boom.exe to a folder of your choice
  2. Create two empty text files in the application folder and then give them the following names:
    • Boom.exe.localconfig.opt
    • Boom.exe.locallibrary.opt
  3. Launch Boom.exe
Similar/alternative apps: 1by1, OooPlayer
What's new?
  • Fixed failure to index music on some readonly network shares.
  • Updated MP4 handler (now recognizes Opus and FLAC content in MP4).
Latest comments
TP109 on 2017-01-28 02:48

I agree with User2100. This is a very fast launching player with a very small footprint, but the lack of a time slider is a big issue.

AndTheWolf on 2022-06-06 12:40

Now at version 1.0.37

freakazoid on 2022-06-07 00:09

Thanks AndTheWolf. Updated!

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DSpeech v1.74

Andrew Lee on 2 May 2022
  • 5MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 29 Apr 2022
  • Suggested by AlephX

DSpeech is a text-to-speech program with the option of saving the output to a variety of formats, great for reviewing text or creating audio books. The program uses Microsoft's included speech engine SAPI5 but also supports dynamically changing the features of the voices using tags e.g. insert pauses, emphasize specific words, spell them out etc.

The program can do simple audio/voice recordings to save to WAV, and include some basic dictation / voice control tools ("ASR" for Automatic Speech Recognition). Text can be imported from a variety of formats TXT, DOC, DOCX, RTF, HTML, XML and PDF and outputs to MP3, OGG, AAC, WMA, OPUS and AMR.

Category:
Runs on:WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft speech engine SAPI5
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch DSpeech.exe.

WinNT/2K users: need to install the speech engine separately. You will find links to plugins, speech engines and voice sets on the program website.

Optionally, delete unnecessary language and manual files.
Similar/alternative apps: Balabolka
What's new? See: https://www.softpedia.com/progChangelog/DSpeech-Changelog-36935.html
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Happy.Camper2 on 2017-06-10 17:28

DSpeech is now version 1.63.3 Released 2017 Mar 27 at Authors site.
http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/index.html

Download Link=>
http://dimio.altervista.org/stats/download.php?id=5

DSpeech is now available in .paf format over at portableapps.com - version 1.63.3 Released 2017 Jun 09
https://portableapps.com/apps/accessibility/dspeech-portable

Download Link=>
http://download3.portableapps.com/portableapps/dspeechportable/DSpeechPortable_1.63.3.paf.exe

Enjoy!

webfork on 2021-11-15 00:12

I've got to say that DSpeech has come a long way over the past few years. The last time I tested it the program felt like it was just a simple throwaway text reader with Microsoft voices front-end program. What I tested today had loads of features, usability, and a great interface. This contrasts a lot of other voice-to-text tools that I've been playing with, including LibreOffice and Firefox add-ons, which are fairly basic.

Very nice to see.

GorfianRobot on 2022-11-14 21:54

I'm really impressed with this program. It handles changing voices midstream (so you can create conversations) better than Balabolka (and a lot of programs can't chance voices at all.

I am having one problem: I can't get the special tags to work. The silence tag works fine, but the others appear to have no effect at all.

Can anyone suggest what I might be doing wrong?

Thank you.

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BatchEncoder v5.1

webfork on 16 May 2022
  • 6MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 23 Sep 2020
  • Suggested by giulia

BatchEncoder is a fast, highly configurable conversion tool for a wide array of audio formats. The program can compress or decompress audio using "lossy" formats (like MP3) or "lossless," meaning a perfect copy of the original.

Note that the program is a front-end interface for a variety of tools that the software downloads automatically for you, and then runs them in the background based on the set configuration.

Category:
Runs on:Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: MIT
How to extract: Download the 32 or 64 ZIP package depending on your OS and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch BatchEncoder.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: LameXP
fre:ac

cdrtfe v1.5.9

lwc on 21 Jan 2024

cdrtfe (cdrtools Frontend) is a collection of CD/DVD/BD tools for burning and audio extraction. In addition to standard data recording, the program includes support for media container formats like XCD, (S)VCD and DVD-video, audio formats (redbook), CD-Plus mixed format (audio+data) and creation and writing of ISO images and bootable discs. The program can also create CDs that "overburn" and add up to 13% more data than normal discs. Audio extraction formats include WAV, MP3, OGG, FLAC and more.

The program is a front-end that combines several burning tools including cdrtools (cdrecord, mkisofs, readcd, cdda2wav), Mode2CDMaker and VCDImager.

Also available in PortableApps format and in outdated winPenPack format.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: GPL v2
How to extract: Download the "portable" self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch cdrtfe.exe.
What's new? See:
https://cdrtfe.sourceforge.io/cdrtfe/changes_en.html
Latest comments
Ascend4nt on 2014-04-09 19:39

Direct linking is nice but that will miss updates. This page seems to list the latest version (1.5.2 at this time): http://cdrtfe.sourceforge.net/cdrtfe/download_en.html

Checker on 2014-04-09 22:31

@ Ascend4nt: Thanks ... and updated ;)

AndTheWolf on 2021-11-22 15:03

Now at version 1.5.9

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Free Audio Video Pack v2.23

Andrew Lee on 6 Feb 2021
  • 246MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 2 Feb 2021
  • Suggested by jack

Pazera's Software Free Audio Video Pack is a collection of video and audio converters that help convert between a wide variety of common audio and video formats. The package also includes applications that allows you to extract audio tracks from CD images based on the CUE sheets, as well as an audio extractor that lets you take just the audio from a video file.

Supported video outputs include AVI, MPEG, MP4, MOV, WMV, FLV, MKV, M4V and 3GP and audio formats include MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV, AAC, AC3, and FLAC. Many of the programs act as a front-end for FFmpeg.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "Portable" 7z package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FreeAudioVideoPack.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: fre:ac, Video to Video, XMedia Recode
What's new?
  • Updated programs: Free OGV Video Converter 1.3, Free MP4 to MP3 Converter 1.7, Free MP4 to AVI Converter 1.17, Pazera Free Audio Extractor 2.11
Latest comments
zorro on 2018-03-02 04:08

"Writes settings to: Application folder"
...I used it a few times - and in fact it doesn't write ANY settings anywhere... I didn't try "save coder configuration" from the menu though.

juverax on 2021-02-07 12:33

As of this writing, the download links (32-bit and 64-bit) point to the PFC page:
https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2413

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Pazera Free Audio Extractor v2.11

webfork on 29 Jan 2021
  • 34MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 19 Jan 2021
  • Suggested by jack

Pazera Free Audio Extractor takes the audio from most major video files without loss of sound quality or converts them to a variety of common audio formats. The program can also behave as a simple conversion tool from one audio format to another (e.g. AAC to MP3).

Some supported formats include (audio) MP3, AAC, AC3, WMA, M4A, FLAC, OGG, WAV, ALAC, WavPack, AIFF; (video) AVI, FLV, MP4, MPG, MOV, RM, 3GP, WMV, VOB, MKV, WebM and OGV.

Note: By default, the program will extract/convert to MP3. Select "Try extract original audio stream" to avoid re-encoding, which is faster but may result in a format that some devices can't read. The program has a number of predefined settings (profiles) specially designed for novice users, but you can also customize audio encoding and output parameters.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch AudioExtractor.exe or AudioExtractor64.exe.

Optionally, delete unnecessary languages and styles.
Similar/alternative apps: fre:ac, Free Audio Extractor
What's new? See:
https://pazera-software.com/products/audio-extractor/#changelog
Latest comments
bitcoin on 2018-02-28 12:02

nice program, i use all the time

should be a pause button and also if the program is minimized the popup screen wont close when finished, have to close the entire program. other than that excellent

bitcoin on 2019-11-04 11:58

forum topic goes to the wrong thread

webfork on 2019-11-04 21:45

@bitcoin - fixed forum link, good catch

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XMPlay Portable v3.8.5

billon on 3 Sep 2020
  • 626KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 2 Sep 2020
  • Suggested by Ed Brownstein

XMPlay is a skinnable audio player that plays all major audio formats and includes gapless playback, effects, equalizer, net streaming. More features are available using plugins, including visualizations, more format support, cover art and more. Note that the library and playlist will not work as you change PCs.

Can play MP3, WMA, M4A, OGG and more, as well as output to WAV, MP3 OGG etc. (via external encoders).

Alternatively, XMPlay is natively portable but does not automatically adjust library and playlist paths: download the ZIP package, extract to a folder of your choice and launch xmplay.exe.
Also, you can always download the "Latest stuff" version.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch XMPlayPortable.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: foobar2000
What's new?
  • Improved support for filetype association on Windows 10.
  • Optional capitalisation of tag names in "Message" info.
  • Playback position is included in tray icon tooltip.
  • "Save track position upon closing" option now applies when paused/stopped too.
  • Relative paths in saved playlists now use ".." to traverse parent folders.
  • Saved playlists can be set to use back or forward slashes in paths.
  • Bringing XMPlay to foreground when opening files from Windows Explorer is now optional.
  • M3U8 extension added to filetype association options.
  • Detection of OPL instruments in OMPT files.
  • Optional checking for beta updates.
  • Fix to stop paused playback auto-resuming after system sleep.
  • Fix for soundcard detection in Windows 10 v2004 ("Microsoft Sound Mapper" renamed to "Default").
  • Fix/workaround for HE-AAC seeking bug in Windows 10 AAC decoder.
Latest comments
TP109 on 2015-01-03 03:45

@smaragdus Thanks. I downloaded it. BTW, XMPlay archives older versions here: https://support.xmplay.com/files.php?id=20

The problem seems to be related to plugins. It's working now. See post at un4seen forums here:
http://www.un4seen.com/forum/?topic=16287.0

Checker on 2016-02-26 18:34

There's a v3.8.2.3 available.
See: http://www.un4seen.com/

dbonnell1972 on 2016-12-08 17:11

I used to use WinAmp (over the years became bloated and tool forever to load), then tried Cool Player (good, but not enough features for me). XM Player is the perfect balance - super fast, reliable (so far), flexible, and customizable. J.U.S.T. Perfect!

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CDex Portable v2.24

billon on 14 Aug 2020
  • 36MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 14 Aug 2020
  • Suggested by Alan G Oleski

CDex converts your CD collection into a variety of popular formats and supports advanced jitter correction, volume normalization, CD database lookup (CDDB), cdparanoia tools, ID3 V1 and V2 tags, playlists (M3U and PLS) and recording from an analog input line.

Formats supported include MP3, AAC, WMA, FLAC, OGG, WAV, MP2, Musepack, APE, VQF and more.

CDex Portable is a wrapper program for portability. Alternatively, X-CDex is also available.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract: Download CDExPortable_x.xx_online.paf.exe to a folder of your choice and launch.

Note: The online installer requires internet connection. The non-portable installer version available from cdex.mu is adware.
Similar/alternative apps: fre:ac, AudioGrabber
What's new? See:
https://cdex.mu/download
Latest comments
webfork on 2016-06-18 17:33

@AndTheWolf: Good catch - I'm just using the PA home for both the website and download links.

giulia on 2019-12-23 05:09

cdex contain m alware , just download CDex-2.23.exe and check with virus total
as soon i tried to download eset smart security blocked , disable it downloaded and checked with virus total

the link should be removed

thepiney on 2019-12-25 04:35

2.23 from PortableApps gets 1/70 hits. Don't panic.

[url]https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/a8f859f980575af83ca806032bb005b4d06f19aca62f1711c05bb99e9032dd21/detection[/url}

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CDBurnerXP v4.5.8.7128

billon on 20 Dec 2019
  • 17MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 17 Nov 2019
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

CDBurnerXP burns CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. The program can create and burn bootable ISOs as well as burn standard format playable CDs. The program also includes a BIN/NRG to ISO converter, simple cover printing and post-burn verification. Audio CDs can be burned from most formats (MP3, FLAC, M4A etc.) with or without gaps between tracks, and includes support for metadata and audio normalization.

Supports many world languages.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Windows registry
More
Dependencies: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0+
Stealth: ? No. HKCU\Software\Canneverbe Limited\CDBurnerXP
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "Portable version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch cdbxpp.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: ImgBurn, cdrtfe, AnyBurn

Screamer Radio v1.7265

billon on 22 Nov 2019

Screamer Radio is a player for streaming Internet radio that features 1,000s of stations, search by keyword, and favorites. The program has sleep timer and other auto-shut off settings to avoid wasting bandwidth. It supports Shoutcast and Icecast MP3, Icecast OGG Vorbis, WMA, AAC and AAC+ streaming.

Note that an earlier version of the program (v0.44) supports recording, does not require dotNET and is stealth.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5
Stealth: ? No. See more here
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Screamer.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: streamWriter, RadioSure, Pocket Radio Player
What's new? See:
https://www.screamer-radio.com/releasenotes/stable/
Latest comments
Emka on 2011-05-27 04:07

@melancholy: I suppose it was the stations that were updated in March.

AndTheWolf on 2016-11-18 20:16

Now at version 1.0

webfork on 2016-11-20 03:07

@AndTheWolf: thanks

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Billy v1.04k beta

billon on 7 Nov 2019
  • 947KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 27 Feb 2008
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

Billy is a lightweight audio player that quickly plays an entire folder of MP3, WAV, OGG and FLAC files. It uses very little CPU and memory, and is fully controllable via the keyboard.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Partial
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Billy.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Trout
What's new? See:
https://www.sheepfriends.com/index-page=billy&subpage=billy_changes.html
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dtoxic on 2019-11-11 16:15

@vevy i know...problem is the "l" version was posted on the sites "guestbook" by the developer literally week or two when the development stopped, was searching for that version ever since till i found it by chance on on old backup i had

Midas on 2019-11-12 07:26

@dtoxic: Weird, I tested the version you offered for download; which I re-did just now and found out you're right, yours is in fact v1.04l... Sorry. Posting mirrors soon to the forum topic, if you don't mind.

dtoxic on 2019-11-12 12:56

@Midas no worries

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Cathy v2.33

billon on 30 Jul 2019
  • 152KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 6 Jul 2019
  • Suggested by Perwhis

Cathy indexes files stored on removable media (CD's, DVD's or even diskettes), hard disks or net drives, to create searchable catalogs that can be used without having access to original media. The program is small, fast and easy-to-use with search capabilities based on file name, date and size. Additional features include filtering options, search duplicates or singles, customisable date format etc.

If files are available (external/network drive connected, DVD inserted) they can be opened (executed) or deleted directly. Other features include drag and drop support available, printing of both directory trees and MP3 album/song lists, and disk space usage analysis.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder. Follow these instructions.
Dependencies: Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86)
Stealth: ? Yes
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Cathy.exe -ini cathy.reg.
What's new?
  • Bug in Max hits setting corrected, listbox now shows all files in folder.
Latest comments
SteveJ on 2011-04-03 00:06

Simple little program, but unfortunate doesn't support unicode, so if you have any files w/ foreign language or other special characters, they'll get cataloged as "?" for any unicode character.

Midas on 2013-02-22 19:32

FYI, I posted a couple of problems I found trying to make Cathy portable @ http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=62490#p62490

warmwhisky on 2022-10-04 10:39

This program is great. I can't believe Windows is now so convoluted that the basic out of the box search works so poorly.

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DriveSort v1.242

billon on 16 Sep 2018
  • 198KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 15 Sep 2018
  • Suggested by MarkB / tls

DriveSort directly reads directory tables of FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 formatted volumes, allowing users to view file listings in the order they were written.

Recent operating systems re-sort file lists before display, either by name, by size, or by whatever the user chooses. However, the firmware of playing devices -- like small MP3 players, for example -- sometimes behaves differently, mostly because they lack necessary resources (CPU, memory), a problem developers usually solve by dis/playing files in the order they are written on the storage medium -- normally, the order they were added.

Additionally, DriveSort is able to change that ordering, making itself useful for re-arranging movies, series episodes, audio or picture files on FATx formatted media; afterwards, players will be able to reproduce files in the expected sequence.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Administrator rights
The latest x86 Visual C++ redistributable components
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch DriveSort.exe.
What's new? See:
https://www.anerty.net/news/
Latest comments
tls on 2014-06-23 14:01

@Midas could you kindly add "sort pictures for vacation slide shows on tv"

@Anerty sent email for suggestion on google search terms for search engine optimization.

tls on 2014-06-24 11:01

as the author has said
"...this tool requires admin rights since it interacts with the sorted disk partition"
if you get an "access denied" error
then it means that another program is accessing your usb
you could probably use unlocker to determine what other program is accessing your usb

best practice:
i would NOT use this on my 500gb external HD
unless i'm darned sure i can restore it's contents
i only use this on my 32 gb usb's (containing copies of my video files)
while my original files stay safe on my 500gb external HD

tls on 2014-06-24 14:11

@Midas thanks for the changes :)

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Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch Portable v2.2-2 Rev 2

billon on 19 Feb 2018
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 16 Nov 2014
  • Suggested by Emka

Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch is a program for modifying audio, although its most noted feature is stretching. The program includes the capability for (8x, 50x etc.) sound stretching, as well "spectral smoothing" the sounds to escape the audio artifacts common in other audio editors when dramatically slowing audio. Includes many post-processing effects including filters, pitch/frequency shifters and more. The program imports WAV, OGG and MP3 files and can export to WAV or OGG.

The program can be used as an audio toy or in creating ambient or "screw"-style music.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: GPL v2
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch PaulStretchPortable.exe.
What's new? See:
http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/
Latest comments
dmg on 2010-10-21 07:43

Very nice! The controls are a bit confusing, but if you play around with it the results can be astounding.

Checker on 2010-10-21 07:50

For a little help go to: http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/

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Winamp Lite v5.666 Build 3516

webfork on 29 Jul 2019
  • 12MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 12 Dec 2013
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

Winamp is an customizable media player considered the grand-daddy of MP3 players. The program plays most common formats, and includes an equalizer, replay gain, and hotkeys. Includes strong support for thousands of different skins and plug-ins.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. Creates one folder and file to %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\. For full registry changes, read this.
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download "Winamp Lite" installer
  2. Extract using 7-Zip to a folder of your choice
  3. Remove all files and folders that begin with "$"
  4. Create an empty file called Winamp.ini. Open this file in a text editor and paste:

    [Winamp]
    no_registry=1
    newverchk=0
    newverchk2=0
    newverchk3=0
    inet_mode=2
    [WinampReg]
    NeedReg=0
    IsFirstInst=0

  5. Launch winamp.exe
Note that the above extraction instructions are only applicable to Winamp Lite. Hank7 has kindly contributed extraction instructions for Winamp Full.
Similar/alternative apps: AIMP, foobar2000, XMPlay
What's new? See:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=373755
Latest comments
Midas on 2013-11-21 14:30

The Ars Technica article posted by smaragdus above is great reading. Thanks. I was once an eager user of the free Winamp, so I have signed the petition...

billon on 2018-10-19 02:22

Official 5.8 Beta Build 3660 available

Gregx on 2018-10-28 14:48

For Winamp fans and folks I personally recommend - http://www.mywinamp.com

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OooPlayer v2.2.0

billon on 26 May 2018
  • 25MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 16 Jul 2017
  • Suggested by billon

OooPlayer is a minimalistic music and Internet radio player/recorder trading a basic feature set for low resource usage and fast startup. Includes internet radio recording, lyric downloader, last.fm integration, multiple playlists.

Supports mp3, aac, alac, flac, ogg, opus, ape, mpc, tta, tak, wav, ofr, wv, wma, ac3 and spx formats as well as m3u and m3u8 playlists.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes. If 'check for updates' is disabled.
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPL v2
How to extract:
  1. Download the self-extracting "portable" EXE and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Within this folder, create an empty text file and paste the following content:

    [settings]
    update=0

  3. Rename the text file to settings.ini
  4. Launch OooPlayer.exe
Similar/alternative apps: Boom
What's new? See:
https://github.com/ozok/OooPlayer/releases
Latest comments
hamasaki on 2017-07-18 05:32

@smaragdus

Thanks. :)

ozok on 2017-07-18 09:30

Fosshub links are fixed.

hamasaki on 2017-07-18 13:00

Thanks. Ok, two problems for me with the software.

1. There is no sound at all. No problems with all other players on my comp, but this one no sound at all.

2. If I add a folder of MP3 files it adds the files ok, but if I use the option to add a file, the interface flickers and does nothing. I try again, flickers, then after a few seconds crashes.

I`m on Win 10 64Bit.

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Mp3splt-gtk Portable v0.9.2

webfork on 5 Nov 2016
  • 45MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 11 Oct 2014
  • Suggested by webfork

Mp3splt-gtk is a utility to split MP3, OGG, and native FLAC files without any change in quality. The program is useful to split albums into tracks, or cut silence or unnecessary audio data, or make audio files easier to transfer.

Mp3splt-gtk Portable is is a portable version of the program. Alternatively, X-Mp3splt is also available.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch Mp3spltPortable.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: mp3DirectCut

Xion v1.5.160

webfork on 9 Feb 2016
  • 8MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 9 Feb 2016
  • Suggested by Simon.T

Xion is a high fidelity audio player with gapless playback, 10 band equalizer with presets, MP3/OGG net radio streaming, customizable global hotkeys, full system tray functionality etc. Also features the ability to create your own skins without complex scripting.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Xion.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: XMPlay, OooPlayer
What's new?
  • Added support for a new option to disable the screensaver while playing audio.
  • Allow font size changes on the Playlist window text.
  • Set the net buffer amount to 10000.
Latest comments
Technomancer on 2008-05-09 11:56

This is 'THE' best media player that i've found yet. I'm so impressed with it that i've just made a donation.

I'd recommend it, in fact, I 'DO' Recommend it!.

DarkShadow on 2016-02-09 12:44

v1.5.160 (2016-02-09) released !

tomcat on 2022-04-29 07:10

The software hasn’t been updated since Feb 2016, which may account for this attractive player not enjoying the popularity it deserves.
Sound quality is good.
The reason I chose it is because its default skin is elegant, functional and space-sparing, with large buttons and the playlist attached below the player without non-essential additions.
You can easily create playlists (drag-and-drop supported) and change the order of their contents to whatever you like. For portability, save the playlist M3U8 files in the player’s folder.
Memory usage is less than 10 MB, quite negligible for any modern system.
The player places a lot of emphasis on being skinnable, if the user takes the trouble, which I didn’t see the need for.
The hot keys are the player’s main weakness. The default ones are not user-friendly. You can assign your own, but as they (oddly) also have effect when the player is in the background, if you type on another app while listening to music, it may interfere.

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TEncoder v4.5.10

billon on 27 May 2018
  • 116MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 29 Nov 2015
  • Suggested by joby_toss

TEncoder is a video and audio tool with conversion, DVD ripping and website downloading features. The converter includes the ability to select between multiple audio and subtitle tracks, extract audio/video content from a file, or edit subtitle and audio delays. Subtitles with same name as the video can be hard-coded into video. The download tool includes a variety of available formats, batch download capability, audio only downloads and on-completion conversion.

Includes multi-threaded optimizations for simultaneous encoding and supports skins to change the program look and feel. Output video codecs include: MP1, MP2, Xvid, Mpeg4, H264, FLV, WMV, VP8 and more; audio codecs: MP3, WAV, Opus, OGG, AC3 and more. The program uses a variety of different open source tools including MEncoder, MPlayer, youtube-dl and FFMpeg.

Alternatively, X-TEncoder is also available.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: MSVCP71.DLL
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPL v2
How to extract: Download and install the self-extracting "portable version" to a folder of your choice. Launch TEncoder.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Video2Video
What's new? Fixed:
  • Video Converter & DVD Ripper: Errors that may occur while updating progress info
  • General: Errors that may occur while clearing temp folder
  • Video Downloader: An error that may occur while removing items from the list
  • Other small fixes and workarounds
Latest comments
rodger123 on 2012-08-02 07:43

2 problems-Izarc asked for a password after downloading had to use uni extract that worked.Program need 1024x768 ro fit wont work at 800x600,shame I really wanted to try this-cant use the higher res as my eyes are not so hot!

smaragdus on 2014-10-01 01:16

The same developer released a new program- TVideoDownloader, which also has a portable version and consists only of the downloader inside TEncoder, without the converter:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tvideodownloader/ - TVideoDownloader Project Page
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Download-Managers/TVideoDownloader.shtml - TVideoDownloader at Softpedia

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Free Batch Music Splitter v1.2

webfork on 15 Oct 2018
  • 40MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 9 Oct 2015
  • Suggested by ozok

Free Batch Music Splitter is a tool to split audio files into several parts or parts with a specified length. The program can do several splitting jobs at once. It will also add folders and subfolders, maintaining output folder structure.

Funcitonal with MP3, AAC, WAV, WAVPACK, OGG, OPUS, FLAC, ALAC, M4B and M4A files.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Apache 2
How to extract: Download the portable 7z package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FreeBatchMusicSplitter.exe.
What's new?
  • Added: Options to specify how the output files are named.
  • Updated: FFmpeg.

Ant Renamer v2.12.0

Checker on 13 Jul 2015
  • 3MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 4 Jul 2015
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

Ant Renamer provides many options for the batch renaming of files and folders. The program includes the ability to change file extension, replace/insert/move strings, change case, even give files random names. The program can even rename based on date and time (great for scanned files) or using exif/mp3 tag info (making metadata the file name), or regular expressions. File renaming can be previewed before execution and changes can be added to a batch file and saved for future use.

Alternatively, Ant Renamer Portable (PortableApps.com Format, adjust drive letters and paths as you move PCs).

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Renamer.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Rename Master
What's new?
  • Option (disabled by default) to consider the last "." in folder name as extension delimiter. Previous versions were always considering that a folder could have an extension, but that's commonly used.
  • When folders are renamed, the path of files in the list is updated if needed. Previous versions were giving an error as files contained by renamed folders were not found anymore.
  • "Case sensitive" option in the "Multiple string replace" action.
  • A few bugs fixed.
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smaragdus on 2015-07-13 14:15

New version of Ant Renamer has been released- 2.12.0, what is new in the latest version:
2.12 (04/07/2015)
· Option (disabled by default) to consider the last "." in folder name as extension delimiter. Previous versions were always considering that a folder could have an extension, but that's commonly used.
· When folders are renamed, the path of files in the list is updated if needed. Previous versions were giving an error as files contained by renamed folders were not found anymore.
· "Case sensitive" option in the "Multiple string replace" action.
· A few bugs fixed.

Checker on 2015-07-13 20:47

@ smaragdus: Thanks ... and updated ;)

ripu on 2015-11-02 10:31

There is no way to rename using multiple methods/rules at the same time. You have to use one method at a time. Also, can't preview all the files and can't undo after closing the software. So, I prefer Advanced Renamer.

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TAudioConverter v0.9.9

billon on 27 May 2018
  • 94MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 7 Jun 2015
  • Suggested by Userfriendly

TAudioConverter is an advanced, multi-threaded audio converter and extractor. The program can convert between most popular audio formats as well as extract audio streams from video files. Effects to audio streams include trimming, volume change, normalization, guard against clipping, sampling and channels (mono, stereo, 5.1).

Supported formats - Audio: mp3, wav, m4a, flac, ogg, tta, mpc, aac, ac3, spx, opus, shn, wv, mpc, ape, wma, 3ga, amr, thd, aac, m4b, tak, dts, aiff, dtsma, mpa, mka; Video: rmvb, mp4, mkv, avi, mov, m4v, mpeg, flv, vob, divx, wmv, 3gp, m2ts, mts

Alternatively, TAudioConverter Portable automatically switches between 32-bit and 64-bit and adjusts paths.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: No
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract: Download the self-extracting "portable" EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch TAudioConverter.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: fre:ac, LameXP, Pazera Free Audio Extractor
What's new?
  • Added: [General] Option to switch between codecs and presets is now more user-friendly
  • Added: [General] Presets for Monkey's Audio format
  • Fixed: [General] MP3 VBR presets would not update vbr bar in codec settings window
  • Updated: Skin component
  • Updated: FFMpeg to N-72709-g42db4aa
  • Updated: Tag libraries
  • Updated: MediaInfo
  • Updated: lossyWav to 1.4.0
  • Updated: FDKAAC to 0.6.2
  • Updated: WavPack to 4.75.0
  • updated: Monkey's Audio to 4.16
  • updated: OggEnc2 to 2.87 using libVorbis v1.3.5
Latest comments
smaragdus on 2014-08-20 15:50

TAudioConverter 0.9.6 (0.9.6 Build 3774) has been just released.

BGM on 2014-08-22 14:50

Hey, if you all use the installer, be careful! It has some very subtle "other" stuff bundled in there. Make sure you read every panel. "Other" stuff includes "Search Protect" and "Trovi Search" which changes your search pages and home pages. PUSH SKIP. There is another one that tries to install (but I can't get it to do it after cancelling the installation once) and you have to push "disagree" in order not to install it.

ozok on 2014-10-06 13:59

Installer do not contain ads as of version 0.9.7.

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AudioTester v1.7

webfork on 20 Nov 2015

AudioTester is a drag-and-drop tool that tests for errors in MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and WavPack files.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Optionally, delete the folder "AudioTesterSrc"
  3. Launch AudioTester.exe or AudioTester64.exe if you have a 64-bit system
Similar/alternative apps: MP3val
What's new?
  • Updated Ogg, Vorbis, FLAC & WavPack libraries
  • Removed Monkey's Audio support
  • Added a 64-bit build
  • Fixed a crash when allocating memory
Latest comments
webfork on 2010-04-03 07:27

Works well. Found several errors in some junky MP3s I had, although MP3val (http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1415) was able to actually fix them. This program of course will test more types of files.

webfork on 2010-04-03 07:28

Testing takes about 1 second / meg on my 2 ghz dual core system.

TP109 on 2015-02-26 18:52

Couldn't get ver 1.7 to work with XP. Ver 1.6 does work with XP and can be downloaded here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20141027161309/http://www.vuplayer.com/other.php

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AutoCompress v1.4.1.23

Andrew Lee on 13 Jul 2023
  • 65KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 30 May 2014
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

AutoCompress intelligently compresses/decompresses drive content based on whether the compression will actually save space. For example, JPG and MP3 already have built-in compression, while text and spreadsheets frequently reduce to 50% or less of their original size. The program can also compress based on age or size, scanning all folders recursively under the provided folder (by default c:\).

The program can also disable compression based on the reverse criteria: since files that are already compressed take more processor power to decompress twice, this program can speed up your computer.

This program requires an NTFS-formatted drive.

NOTE: Homepage is down, linking to Softpedia.

Category:
Runs on:WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: None
Dependencies: Only functional on NTFS-formatted media
Stealth: ? No. Writes incidental settings file to User>Local Settings>Application Data>SteelBytes as well as the app folder.
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch AutoCompress.exe.
Latest comments
webfork on 2011-12-21 19:11

Extremely helpful. I can only hope that future versions of Windows integrate something like this into the operating system automatically.

bzl333 on 2015-02-22 02:26

ok, sorry. deleted :)

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Pretty Run v8.2.0.6

lwc on 7 Jul 2023
  • 7MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 14 Jan 2015
  • Suggested by lautrepay

Pretty Run is a powerful keystroke-based program launcher and search tool. It searches the start menu, desktop or any other folder for the shortcuts or files that meet your query. More than that, Pretty Run allows searching Internet Explorer favorites, Firefox and Chrome bookmarks, Control Panel items, Printers, mp3 files (by tags), jpg files (by exif data), databases, clipboard and on the internet (more search engines can be added to those already included).

Program also includes screen capture tool, Magic Words, a note manager, etc.

Note: To help compensate for drive letter changes that happens with removable drives, use the %PrettyRunDrive% environment variable.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Partial
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract the file prettyrunsetup.exe
  2. Use Universal Extractor on this file, saving to a temporary folder
  3. Move the contents of {app} to a folder of your choice
  4. Open PrettyRun.ini in a text editor
  5. Under [Options], add the following line:

    Portable=1

  6. Launch PrettyRun.exe
Similar/alternative apps: Executor Launchy
What's new?
  • Added engine to search GDrive.
  • Added engine to search OneDrive.
Latest comments
oblivion on 2014-03-12 11:45

Interesting, effective, but slow.

An option to limit folder recursion might help (you can say %PrettyRunDrive%\portableapps -- for instance -- but the scan subfolders option is going to make PrettyRun go to a lot of unhelpful places, whereas if you could restrict it to just one subfolder down, it might be faster.

The MP3 tag search is also quite slow.

It's not the most intuitive to set up, either.

FindAndRunRobot (from www.donationcoder.com) has a similar philosophy to this but is much, much faster (despite also taking a similarly non-indexed approach) and has a lot more functionality, too.

Midas on 2014-06-02 11:13

Pretty Run changelog hasn't been updated since v6.1.0.17 (http://www.pretty-software.com/prettyrunhistory.txt)...

Ganamyde on 2014-06-04 04:15

Avoid-ware.
Installs adware and spyware in background.

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X-xVideoServiceThief v2.5.2 [rev12]

webfork on 28 Jan 2017
  • 11MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 30 Jul 2014
  • Suggested by webfork

xVideoServiceThief (xVST) is a tool for downloading video from various video websites including YouTube, Metacafe, Bebo, and many more. The program includes scheduling, optional session saving, and proxy capabilities. The program will also convert video to various audio/video formats and quality settings including AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, WMV, MP4, 3GP, and MP3.

Ability to download from mature sites can be disabled and password-protected.

X-xVideoServiceThief is a portable wrapper for xVideoServiceThief.

Languages: 19 including Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Japanese.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch X-xVideoServiceThief.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Youtube DownloaderHD
What's new?
  • Added chinese (traditional) translation.
  • Updated japanese translation.
  • Fixed bug (Error: Language packages were not installed causing updates to get stuck).
Latest comments
bzl333 on 2013-09-24 00:39

hmm. on first run it seems to be connecting to google and gstatic for some reason and then it connects to "gameanyone.com" later

apometron on 2014-08-02 23:22

Problems with this project. It do not run on Windows 8.1 and it seems the MSI of the last version is corrupted. Could the author make the software Windows 8-friendly?

Rodrigo César Banhara
http://about.me/apometron

webfork on 2014-08-03 18:51

apometron: we're probably not going to test the MSI version, but feel free to contact the author: http://xviservicethief.sourceforge.net/index.php?action=contact

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XNote Timer v1.12

Andrew Lee on 28 Sep 2021
  • 114KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Wolfghost

XNote Timer is a simple countdown timer and stopwatch software. The program can use two modes: a count-up method to measure time intervals and count-down mode to work as an alarm. The alarm can launch any application or play audio files from a variety of formats (mp3, wav, midi, etc). The interface is a large, re-sizable view, ideal for either public presentations or a small icon.

Global hotkeys are available to start/stop/reset.

Note: The program can no longer be found on the original website, so I am redirecting the download link to CNet.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch xntimer.exe.
Latest comments
gms9810 on 2010-07-25 05:29

It's nagware.

Ian From Barrie on 2010-12-31 01:40

Download link here is broken. Now download link is to
http://www.stopwatch-timer.com/xntimer.exe

This is

gms9810, XNote Stopwatch IS nagware, but a different product. Is that maybe the one you downloaded?

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TimeComX Basic v1.3.2.7

webfork on 7 Sep 2020
  • 9MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 6 Aug 2014
  • Suggested by wolssiloa

TimeComX is a small and resource-friendly automation program, that can execute various actions after specified time or by a lower deviation of network and processor usage activity. User can Restart, Shutdown, Log Off, Lock, Hibernate, Suspend and Wake, Play any type of audio-file (mp3, ogg, wma, wav...), as well as file execution (e.g. batch files).

Optionally, you can let TimeComX make a screenshot before the action starts.

NOTE: Site offline, linking to Softpedia and archive.org.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Copy the contents of $INSTDIR to a folder of your choice (Note: if using Universal Extractor 2, just delete the "Additional files" folder)
  3. In this folder, create a create an empty text file named portable.txt
  4. Launch TimeComX.exe
  5. Select language and then disable new version check
Similar/alternative apps: DShutdown
What's new?
  • Improved system activity detection (now using WMI).
  • Added disk usage trigger.
  • Added memory usage trigger.
  • Improved version checking.
  • Minor changes in user interface.
  • Minor fixes.
Latest comments
daren_rupert on 2010-10-05 11:40

@Midas did you enable hibernation via "powercfg -h on" as administrator? It worked perfectly for me and now TimeComX shows hibernation as well as sleep mode.

Onesimus Prime on 2020-04-22 01:42

In need of a timer program, I just tried to use this one portably. The previous instructions (i.e. just portable "out of the box" once extracted) didn't work, nor did creating an .ini (mentioned in comments here for a previous version) or manually moving its settings files to a profiles or config subfolder or the app folder itself.

Finally on the archived version of their webpage I found this explanation: "For TimeComX Basic 1.3.x you need to create a text file (can be empty) named "portable.txt" in the root folder of TimeComX."--see https://web.archive.org/web/20140327235607/http://www.bitdreamers.com/en/products/timecomx/faq

I have updated the instructions here to reflect this, but someone else may want to still clean it up a bit.

Midas on 2020-04-23 11:49

@Onesimus Prime: Thank you for the information and update. :)

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Phrozen Skype REC v2.0

Andrew Lee on 6 Feb 2021
  • 11MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by I am Baas

Phrozen Skype REC (short for RECorder) is an easy-to-use program to automatically record voice conversations on Skype, storing them in either wav or mp3 format.

Note: Version 1 still available here.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Skype
Stealth: ? Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract to a temporary folder
  2. Move the contents of {app} to a folder of your choice
  3. If present, rename PSkypeREC,1.exe to PSkypeREC.exe and delete PSkypeREC,2.exe (this depends on your Innounp version)
  4. Launch PSkypeREC.exe
What's new?
  • User interface is more user-friendly.
  • Record list supports multi-Skype accounts sorting.
  • Auto-update system.
  • Show/Hide application from/to tray.
  • Shortcut to display hidden window (in case tray option isn’t activated) — Semi stealth mode.
  • Three possibilities to record : Your Voice + Partner, only Your Voice and finally only Your Partner.
  • MP3 Encoding (Generate smaller sound files) using Lame library.
  • Export / Export as function.
  • Filters (Filter past record, then find what you are searching easily and quickly)

WaveShop v1.0.14.001

Midas on 3 Sep 2019
  • 6MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 7 Nov 2013
  • Suggested by Taf

WaveShop is a fast and lightweight audio editor, which despite its name supports lots of different audio file formats, including MP3, FLAC, OGG/Vorbis, and AAC/MP4. The program is bit-perfect, meaning uncompressed audio samples aren't altered unless they need to be; editing a portion of an audio file only affects that portion and the rest of the file remains untouched. Cut and pasted audio blocks won't modify their contents. This is especially useful for patching a finished master without corrupting its dither. Other features include unlimited undo, peak and RMS analysis, normalizing, fading, audio generation, and more.

Note that the author recommends running the 64-bit version (if you have 64-bit Windows) as it can load bigger files without running out of memory.

Alternatively, WaveShop Portable automatically switches between 32 & 64-bit and portablizes paths. X-WaveShop is also available.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the portable ZIP package (32 or 64 bit) and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch WaveShop.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Audacity, Wavosaur
Latest comments
webfork on 2013-03-30 17:08

Gemini: no issue having PortableApps versions mentioned, but please avoid duplicate mentions.

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SE-Explorer 1.31.1

billon on 24 Apr 2018
  • 4MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 10 Jun 2010
  • Suggested by chadross

SE-Explorer is a simple and powerful dual panel file manager with tabbed interface and a wide variety of built in file viewers including audio, video, pictures, archives, documents, text with syntax highlighting, and even file hex view. The program can even view system files such as fonts and executable files, as well as icon libraries and DLL files.

The program also includes disk search and size analysis tools, and can compare text files, folders and subfolders.

Supported viewer formats include MP3, WAV, AVI, MPEG, WMV, SWF, FLV, ZIP, RAR, ISO, 7Z, MSI, CAB, PDF, DjVu, DOC and WRI, HTML, CHM, RTF, EXE and more.

NOTE: product development stopped.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: .NET Framework 2.0
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "Portable version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SE-Explorer.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: CubicExplorer
What's new?
  • Compare folders: compare including subfolders and compare files by content.
  • Small interface changes are done.
Latest comments
PAFuser on 2017-06-26 21:39

"If you are looking for SE-Explorer, SE-DesktopApps, etc., then we want to inform you that at present we've stopped the development." from web site. http://www.se-soft.com/lang/en/

webfork on 2017-06-28 23:17

@PAFuser: it's unfortunate what some people think is obsolete. There are a whole lot of very old programs on my machine that still do a way better job than available alternatives.

PAFuser on 2017-06-29 19:30

I do not disagree, I still use Excel 2003, and it took some work to get it to work correctly on Windows 10 - 64 bit. If program is all you need and works, great. SE-Explorer zip contains SE-MediaPlayer, does not work. Context menu limited to SE-Explorer list, unlike FreeCommanderXE, etc. which include context items added to Windows menu. Future development might have changed this.

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Audiograbber v1.83 SE

webfork on 17 Dec 2019
  • 3MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 4 Aug 2017
  • Suggested by Try Forsure

Audiograbber reads digital audio from your CDs and converts them to WAV, MP3, or OGG files. The program can automatically normalize the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, and download/upload disc info from the Internet CD database "freedb". You can even convert your vinyl LPs or cassette tapes with Audiograbber to digital audio.

Warning: the official home page has started bundling software that is being listed as malware by numerous sources. We are only linking to Softpedia, which hosts one without these issues. We recommend against visiting audiograbber.org.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. cdplayer.ini in C:\Windows
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Move files from $INSTDIR to a folder of your choice
  3. Launch audiograbber.exe

Optionally,
  • For MP3 encoding: Download MP3 encoders from the website and extract the DLL files to the same folder
  • To save space: Delete unnecessary language files
Similar/alternative apps: Fre:ac, CUETools, CDex
Latest comments
webfork on 2013-09-13 01:59

brickablesmile: presence of adware confirmed (and entry edited), but every source I've read indicates that the user is prompted. Please post in forums if that's changed.

I am Baas on 2013-09-13 03:25

It's possible to extract the installer, entry updated.

Midas on 2013-09-13 08:57

Glad to see Audiograbber is still around, as it was the first trustworthy CD ripper I ever used, back in the 90's... :)

It was only deprecated when I discovered bit accurate Exact Audio Copy (not portable, but there are portabilized versions floating around the Web).

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EncSpot Pro v2.2 beta 2

Checker on 3 Aug 2014

EncSpot Pro reports useful facts about your MP3 collection. It is able to guess which encoder was used to encode each file. It will also give you a general idea of the audio quality of the file. For files encoded with Lame, EncSpot can read the 'Lame Tag' and provide detailed information on the switches used when the file was encoded.

Note: EncSpot Pro is payware turned freeware. The author has discontinued development for the program, and has graciously decided to release the full version for free.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. The appplication files are located in the {app} subfolder
  3. Launch encspot.exe
  4. Register the program by using the information provided here, or reproduced below:

    Name: EncSpotUser

    Email address: encspot@encspot.com

    Code: 48958257-3BFF93AC-DF0FEFC1-FC42CCE6
Latest comments
icecrown on 2008-10-30 00:41

The domain is not available anymore. Maybe there is another download link available?

a on 2009-03-12 10:08

You can google for it or download it from here: http://www.mediafire.com/?ytxzqotfjtn (just unextract the archive and Launch encspot.exe ...and no I did not tamper with anything, I use it on my own machine, so it's safe as far as I know) hopefully Andrew can host the archive?

donald on 2010-05-17 04:45

This application is also hosted at the InternetWayBackMachine.
here is a direct download for the app.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080211102624/http://www.guerillasoft.co.uk/encspot/encspotpro2.2beta2.zip

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lamedropXPd v3.1

webfork on 16 May 2022
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 29 Nov 2017
  • Suggested by Jose Pinto

lamedropXPd encodes WAV files to the MP3 format and vice versa, transcodes OGG and FLAC, and auto-tags files via a drag-and-drop interface. Options can be configured by right-clicking on the program window.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Partial. Saves settings to user profile if launched from path with Unicode
License: GPL v2
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch lamedropXPd3.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: LameXP
What's new? See:
http://rarewares.org/mp3-lamedrop.php
Latest comments
TP109 on 2010-12-28 07:44

Opps, my error. Didn't notice the response by @User that the problem was fixed as of V3.01.

Ancient Images on 2011-03-16 09:48

This and LameXP are my current favorite MP3 encoders.

lamedropXPd is nice to quickly encode a .wav to .mp3. You can also drop an .mp3 onto the program, and it'll transcode it to a .wav, which I thought was pretty clever. Simple tagging and encoding options are nice. Basically, if you find yourself routinely encoding in the same format--say if you run a podcast and frequently save shows at a certain bit rate--this is a fine solution for people who don't want to get bogged down in a lot of fancy details.

billon on 2018-01-04 18:34

Updated to LAME 3.100

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InfraRecorder v0.53

webfork on 8 Jun 2022
  • 13MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 4 Feb 2015
  • Suggested by Fluffy

InfraRecorder is a burning app that facilitates the creation of data, audio and mixed-mode disks. It also supports erasing rewritable discs using one of four different methods, and copying an existing CD or DVD to another physical disc or disc image.

Supports HD DVD and Blu Ray data and video, as well as to or from a wide range of image file formats (BIN, DVD, IMG, ISO, NRG, etc.) and burns audio CD's from any file type supported via DirectShow / ACM - including FLAC, MP3, MP4, OGG, WMA, and more.

PortableApps version also available.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies:
Stealth: ? No. It uses cdrtfe as burning backend, which depends on cygwin1.dll and creates HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions. InfraRecorder does not delete this key when it is closed.
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPL (donate)
How to extract: Download the portable ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch InfraRecorder.exe.
What's new?
  • Fixed write speed detection issue.
  • Fixed bug where maximum write speed would be used instead of the selected one when burning DVDs.
  • Fixed bug in creation of UDF and ISO9660 file systems containing many files and folders.
  • Relaxed ISO9660 duplicate file naming algorithm.
  • Added support for non-standard character sets in ISO9660 file systems.
  • Various minor GUI changes.
  • The space meter will now automatically adjust if a blank DVD is inserted.
Latest comments
kirby on 2010-09-03 12:27

Infrarecorder is not Stealth. It creates the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions after a disc has been written.

Richard in Michigan on 2011-05-17 13:51

Help,

I downloaded Infra Recorder, it does not work under SP3 XP. I went to un-install it but it is still showing up in my ALL PROGRAMS and I cannot get rid of it! WHO CAN HELP ME PLEASE??

webfork on 2011-05-17 16:24

Richard: try Revo Uninstaller (http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1398)

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Album Printer v1.0.7

Checker on 24 May 2015
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 14 Aug 2012
  • Suggested by Checker

Album Printer quickly build an "artist-album" list based on audio file tags. The program features a drag &amp; drop interface, exports all/selected rows to spreadsheet (CSV), and a custom delimiter between artist and album. Can read tags from most any audio format (mp3, ogg, flac, wv, mpc, ape, wma, mp4 &amp; m4a).

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package to a folder of your choice. Launch albumprinter.exe.
What's new?
  • Column orders and widths are now saved.
  • Added sort arrows to columns.
  • Added second listview that shows each file separately. This can be useful for generating lists of your files' tags.
  • Added Unicode filepath compatibility. Still working on Unicode tags, though.
  • m4b support.
  • Added "Clear list" icon to toolbar.
  • Changed toolbar icons to the Fugue set.
  • Files/Folder toolbar tooltips were swapped

Full changelog at http://skwire.dcmembers.com/apps/album_printer/changelog.txt.

LAN Search Pro v9.1.1

Midas on 11 Jun 2014
  • 5MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by guinness

SoftPerfect LAN Search Pro is an easy, non-indexing file search for your local network. You can search for specific file names or types (e.g. all MP3 files). The program lets you search hidden network resources, restricted access resources, IP subnets, LAN FTP servers and much more. It comes with a built-in password manager to store your network logins for resources with restricted access.

A 64-bit version is available (within the folder).

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the 'Portable' ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch lansearch.exe.
What's new?
  • Fixed initial window alignment on multimonitor desktops.
  • Added maximum depth folder recursion parameter.
Latest comments
webfork on 2013-11-23 18:44

Great for small companies and intranets. If you are on a network with a lot of people sharing a lot of files without much control over that, it can be hard to track down the information you need. This lets you find what you need across multiple shares on multiple computers.

Wolfghost on 2013-11-23 20:46

For those who use AdBlock, pause AdBlock before you download, (if not) you will not receive the file!

Craunch on 2013-11-24 10:00

For information I've just downloaded the portable version from the website and did not need to pause my AdBlock+.

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Stamina Typing Tutor v2.5

Midas on 29 Nov 2016
  • 5MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by I am Baas

Stamina is a multifunctional touch-typing tutor with support for several Keyboard layouts and languages. Lessons designed for mastering certain keys. Use text from an external file, lesson editor. Precision clock &amp; Timer. Progress graphs by days and sessions. Statistics: Keystrokes (in Kb) &amp; duration. Illumination of letters and finger work zones on the virtual keyboard. MP3 background + a Playlist. Customizable appearance.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and install to the default folder
  2. Copy all files (except uninstall.exe) to a folder of your choice
  3. Uninstall the application
  4. Launch Stamina.exe

Robert's Podcatcher v2.1.1

billon on 26 Jan 2019
  • 351KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 24 Apr 2011
  • Suggested by NMC

Robert's Podcatcher automatically downloads podcasts audio/video files to your computer. It downloads all new podcasts in a given RSS feed, not just the top one. It also lets you load your player with songs randomly selected from your MP3 collection, filling it to capacity.

NOTE: Website is gone, linking to Archive.org.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Robert's_Podcatcher.exe.
What's new?
  • Addressed error message "Run Time Error 58 File already exists" which involves trying to update the OPML file (where your subscriptions are stored) by manually adding a subscription, while the background service has it open, while it's busy downloading. Also fixed "Catch More" functionality.
  • A user (and contributor) Frank found that some RSS files use tags with an extra space in them (something I was not aware of). e.g. http://www.thenakedscientists.com/naked_scientists_podcast.xml. I added logic to address and overcome this.
Latest comments
I am Baas on 2012-07-07 17:24

@Emka
Is it Christmas already?

BTW, links work for me.

Emka on 2012-07-07 17:38

You're right, they're working for me now too -- maybe I had a short connection problem.
(Not Christmas, but summer holidays...)

olliebean on 2019-01-25 16:18

The original download and website are gone, I think for good now. Ghacks has mirrored the download, though, at https://www.ghacks.net/download-in-progress/?dlm-dp-dl=139827.

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Burrrn v1.14 beta 2

Checker on 3 Aug 2014
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

Burrrn is a tool for creating audio CDs with CD-Text from various audio files. Supported audio formats are: WAV, MP3, MPC, OGG, AAC, MP4, APE, FLAC, OFR, WV, TTA, M3U, PLS and FPL playlists/cue sheets. You can also burn EAC’s non-compliant image/cue sheets. Burrrn can read all types of tags from all these formats (including APE tags in MP3).

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. 2 Registry Entries:

1. HKLM\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions
2. HKU\S-1-5-21-1417001333-1757981266-839522115-1003\Software\Cygnus Solutions
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  • Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice (7-Zip works too)
  • Delete $PLUGINSDIR folder and unnecessary language files
  • Launch Burrrn.exe
Latest comments
tandavad on 2011-12-13 07:12

Does burning a mixed mode audio CD with Burrrn require having a Disc drive that can write CD-Text. My burner is an Optiarc DVD+RW AD 7580S. According to the Nero Info Tool, it can read CD-Text, but it is not clear if it can also write CD-Text. Also, can Burrrn create an audio CD with album cover image (jpg) as well as text (track and album information).

Magibon on 2011-12-13 14:31

UPDATE: deleted the NSIS launcher i had posted that took care of the registry keys.. etc.

Here's an updated PAF launcher:
http://www.mediafire.com/?zn080v7svz5g1ci | 2.51 MB

@ tandavad
for CD-Text support.. your Drive has to have the capability. I use Exact Audio Copy which does support CD-Text.. not sure about Burrrn.

juverax on 2024-01-30 23:59

The file can be downloaded from Softpedia: https://www.softpedia.com/dyn-search.php?search_term=burrrn

The original web site (no longer exists) has been crawled several times by the wayback machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070314014437/http://www.burrrn.net/?page_id=6 (among other captures)

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RadioSure v2.1.969

billon on 28 Jan 2019
  • 6MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 21 Jun 2010
  • Suggested by Napiophelios

RadioSure provides access to more than 12,000 radio stations via the Internet. It supports most internet radio formats, including MP3, WMA, OGG, AAC+ etc. Features include skins, a quick search for radio stations, smooth switching between stations via a cross-fade effect, recording what you are listening to packaged into separately named song files, simultaneous recording of multiple stations etc.

Note: Recent versions have decided to include a limited functionality and paid version. We are linking to the last fully freeware version. To update the radio stations, see this forum post (thanks Baas).

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download and run the installer
  2. When prompted for "regular" installation, choose the portable mode instead
  3. Select a folder of your choice and extract
  4. Delete unnecessary language files
  5. Launch RadioSure.exe
Similar/alternative apps: streamWriter, Screamer Radio, Pocket Radio Player
What's new? See:
http://www.radiosure.com/mantis/changelog_page.php
Latest comments
Philiweb on 2022-06-03 07:11

FYI, RadioSure can continue to operate using the Radio-Browser database (~30000 radios) 😃 :
- The latest updates from Francois-neosurf's server : http://82.66.77.189:8080/
- Script to automate the update of RadioSure's radio station database : https://github.com/GHbasicuser/RB2RS-Database-Updater
- More informations in these topics :
https://www.reddit.com/r/RADIOSURE/
https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=25797

Philiweb on 2022-09-15 06:29

RadioSure powered by Radio-Browser.info (Free) database, you will now find all the information on this website : https://www.radiosure.fr/ 🙂

h3kt0r on 2022-12-09 17:02

Works great, also runs under Linux through "Wine"...

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CueMaster v1.7c build #1350

lwc on 21 Jan 2024
  • 86KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 11 Feb 2009
  • Suggested by freakazoid

CueMaster is a cue sheet creator for a CD. CueMaster can retrieve CD track info from the online album database FreeDB or recover cuepoints from the MP3 file itself.

Category:
Runs on:WinME / Win2K / WinXP / Vista
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch CueMaster.exe.

TTSReader v1.30

billon on 28 Jul 2019
  • 783KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 31 Mar 2009
  • Suggested by I am Baas

TTSReader is a software program that allows the user to read any on-screen text aloud, using a variety of voices. Other features include outputting to WAV or MP3 audio files, pronunciation corrections, monitoring the clipboard, etc. TTSReader supports all SAPI4 and SAPI5 voices. Non-English language voices will work with TTSReader, however these are not officially supported.

NOTE: Homepage is gone, linking to Archive.org.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft Speech API (SAPI). This is included by default in Win2K and above.
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "standalone" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch TTSReader.exe.
Latest comments
Mixture on 2019-07-27 12:43

Download link is no longer working. Use Wayback Machine link instead.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170818023354/http://www.sphenet.com/TTSReader/Download.html

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Streamosaur v1.0.0.1

billon on 19 Feb 2018
  • 61KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 4 Nov 2008
  • Suggested by Island Boy

Streamosaur is an audio recording program that records directly to disk. Streamosaur can use any broadcast from the sound card including microphone, input lines from external mixer and more. Saves in uncompressed WAV format by default, but encoding directly to MP3 (128 kbps) can be enabled.

The advantage to this software is that recordings can be made faster and easier, without drawing from a temporary file in RAM like many other recording programs. Additionally, the only limit to recording time is your drive size.

From the makers of Wavosaur.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Streamosaur.X.X.X.X.exe.

Optionally, to enable MP3 recording, read these instructions.
Latest comments
freakazoid on 2010-10-17 02:16

Forgot to mention you can set the MP3 bitrate in the streamosaur.ini file.

webfork on 2010-10-17 03:50

freakazoid: in testing I was unable to modify the bitrate. I changed it but the program would change it back and files output would remain at 128.

freakazoid on 2010-10-17 05:48

@webfork - You are indeed right! I assumed changing the bitrate setting in the .ini would change the bitrate in Streamosaur. Guess I was wrong!

However, some have had success over on the Streamosaur forums: http://www.wavosaur.com/forum/mp3-bitrate-option-t765.html

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soprano v1.72

lautrepay on 28 Jan 2015
  • 942KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 5 Apr 2010
  • Suggested by AlephX

soprano is a minimalist audio player designed to remain in the system tray and be controlled by hotkey. Accepts music files, folders, or drives via drag-and-drop, and supports MP3, OGG, WMA and WAV.

Note: Main site is offline, linking to archive.org mirror and a German download site (thanks tmaibaum).

Category:
Runs on:WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the RAR package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch soprano.exe.
What's new?
  • Fixed most antivirus false positives.
  • Updates for Windows 7.
  • Supports flac format.
Latest comments
oleksa on 2010-11-12 10:37

good player but i have not found how global hotkeys can be changed
using 1by1, thanks r4

Garry on 2011-04-08 00:22

Couldn't find server

tmaibaum on 2011-09-22 20:59

@Garry: The official website (kimero.com.ar/soprano) has been down for some time, but the file is still available here:
http://www.pendriveapps.com/soprano-minimalist-audio-player/
http://www.netzwelt.de/software-download/11207-soprano.html

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MCP v0.2

lautrepay on 28 Jan 2015

MCP is a tool for listening tests, allowing playback of up to 3 audio files and includes a spectrum analyzer for visual analysis. Clicking the BLIND TEST check box will shuffle the files, obscure information, and disable the spectrum analyzer. Click the check box again to reveal the file details and re-enable the analyzer.

Supports MP2, MP3, OGG, WAV, and WMA file formats.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware (source code included)
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch MCP.exe. If you need WMA support, use MCP(+WMA).exe.

Optionally, delete either unneeded EXE file to save space (they are independent).

PowerEnc v2.4a

webfork on 25 Aug 2016
  • 7MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 2 Apr 2010
  • Suggested by Fluffy

PowerEnc is a fast, light-weight audio encoder/decoder for a variety of formats or from a CD. The program supports a variety of metadata formats (ID3), CD database analysis, and a variety of different audio format quality settings.

Formats include WAV, FLAC, MP3, OGG, APE, AAC, etc.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: No
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch powerenc.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Fre:ac
Latest comments
john1976 on 2008-09-23 15:07

If you have problems with PowerEnc, it will be the best, if you contact the publisher. PowerEnc is working very fine on my machine :)

Eric on 2008-09-27 09:30

This is the best audio converter in the world! It is excellent the way it's set up - you can download more converters and add them to it. It's extremely fast, really easy to use, so many awesome options, batch list for multiple file processing, completely portable, and it's freeware!

nedmech on 2010-04-02 17:12

Anyone have any comments on how this compares to BonkEnc?

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Directory Lister v0.9.1 Updated

Midas on 6 Apr 2024
  • 418KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 18 Jan 2006
  • Suggested by NewKreation

Directory Lister lets you list all or selected files you have in selected folders on your storage units into text, csv or html file. You can choose: which items to list (subdirs, size, date, time, attribs, directory names, directory size, full path, crc32 value); which directories to be included; sort options; selection mask (e.g.: *.mp3). It is possible to generate lists for each processed folders, to load and save personalized settings, and to list files from command line (for FTP owners).

Note: Main site only offers a commercial version so we are linking to a mirror of the last available freeware version (thanks Lupo).

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: No
License: Free for non-commercial use
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE to a folder of your choice and extract it. Launch DirLister.exe.
What's new? Available changelog at https://www.krksoft.com/news_older.php.
Latest comments
Midas on 2018-03-02 07:47

DirHTML (https://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=308) is yet another choice...

vmars316 on 2024-04-06 14:06

There is no longer a Free version , $9 or $29 , versions.

Midas on 2024-04-06 16:24

@vmars: that is true... but also old news. If read the Note at the entry's end, you'll notice TPFC is linking an old v0.9.1 from LupoPensuite.

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M3 v1.0

webfork on 8 Apr 2017

M3 is an extremely small music player with a minimalist user interface and support for MP3, WMA and WAV formats. It has a searchable playlist, drag-and-drop support for queuing audio files, and can be minimized to the system tray.

Note: website offline -- linking to archive.org and softpedia.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch M3.exe.
Latest comments
Napiophelios on 2012-05-27 04:26

fixed the DL link

Emka on 2014-12-06 08:03

links broken

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FlvToMp3 v1.2.1

webfork on 14 Jul 2016
  • 10MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by guinness

FlvToMp3 is a program which permits you to extract the sound track of an .FLV file without loss of quality. If the FLV file was created using MP3 audio, an MP3 file is generated directly from the .FLV file without re-encoding. It permits you to save the quality of the audio track you extract.

NOTE: does not work with all FLV formats.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FlvToMp3(windows).exe.
Latest comments
freakazoid on 2012-06-26 00:24

@abc - FLV Extract's output is the exact audio stream from the video. So if the audio output is AAC, the video was using AAC.

You might want to try Pazera Audio Extractor:
http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2049

It allows you to convert to MP3.

Checker on 2012-06-26 07:42

Or try Free Audio Extractor:
http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1392

webfork on 2012-09-11 01:49

No longer functional with recently downloaded FLV files, but will work with older (probably 2011 and before).

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Vibe Streamer v3.0.2

lwc on 17 Apr 2021
  • 7MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 26 Nov 2009
  • Suggested by Gary

Vibe Streamer is an MP3 streaming server that allows you to listen to your music anywhere in the world using a standard web browser. The server supports users/groups and different access rights, access restriction based on client IP address, sharing of any number of files and folders, etc.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Delete $PLUGINSDIR and move the contents of $_OUTDIR up one level to where the folders db and sites are located
  3. Delete $_OUTDIR
  4. Launch vibestreamer.exe
What's new?
  • Added support for displaying cover art found in the ID3 metadata.
  • Fixed last.fm plugin encoding problem.
  • Added button to the web client for toggling the explorer.
  • Added setting to the web client for player buffer time.
  • Upgraded sqlite and taglib to latest versions.
  • Hot-fixed the server GUI to work slightly better with higher DPI setting.
  • Settings in the web client are now listed alphabetically.
  • UPnP is now working on Windows 7.
  • The metadata field "Track" is now available in the playlist.
Latest comments
MarkyMark on 2015-04-19 19:24

The instructions no longer seem valid (there is no $_OUTDIR directory for example) and the download link is is now http://www.vibestreamer.com/downloads/

Though the version number seems to match. Strange.

Midas on 2015-04-19 23:50

Thanks, download link corrected. :)

smaragdus on 2015-04-21 00:28

It's a pity Vibe Streamer has been discontinued. The developer open-sourced it- https://github.com/versionstudio/vibestreamer , but its very unlikely that someone will take over the project. For me Vibe Streamer has two major flaws- it doesn't support Unicode and it can stream only lossy MP3s.

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Visual CD v4.2

webfork on 28 Jun 2017
  • 6MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 17 Dec 2012
  • Suggested by XPect

Visual CD is a disk cataloging tool to index CD/DVDs, floppy disks, hard disks, and even folders. You can then explore the disk catalogs, search files and folders, create MP3 playlist file without having the physical disks in the drive. Upon insertion of the corresponding disk, you can open files, split files into smaller pieces, extract ZIP, RAR, and CAB archive, and more.

NOTE: website offline, linking to softpedia.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. Registers COM classes in the registry.
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract the files to a temporary folder
  2. Move all files from both the app and sys to a folder of your choice
  3. Launch VisCD.exe
  4. Under Options - Shell Integration, uncheck all file association and context menu checkboxes
Latest comments
Kea on 2012-12-03 01:54

Is it possible to change Visual CD in such a way that it compensates for USB memory stick drive letter changes, and use \Catalogs as path instead of E:\VisualCD\Catalogs?

Midas on 2015-02-28 13:52

"http://boozet.net" is irretrievable. www.boozet.net is still up -- check http://isup.me/www.boozet.net ...

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MP3val v0.1.8

webfork on 3 Jan 2017
  • 135KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 29 Sep 2009
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

MP3val is a high-speed tool for validating and fixing MP3 files. Although primarily designed for verification of MPEG 1 Layer III files, it also supports other MPEG versions and layers (MPG, MP2, etc). It is also aware of the most common types of tags (ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2).

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch mp3val-frontend.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: AudioTester
Latest comments
Mark on 2008-05-05 05:29

Wow! So far I am impressed. Its fast, small and it makes backups before repairing.

Midas on 2008-05-05 06:43

Nice app; being tried.

If you just want to know details of your MP3 files, Mr QuestionMan ( http://www.burrrn.net/?page_id=5 ) might be a good option...

Download, extract it with Universal Extractor, UPX the EXE if you will (reduced to 38%) and sail away. Don't let its beta status fool you, MQM is stable and fully portable -- it keeps its settings in an INI file on the folder it starts from. Plus it generates good HTML reports with the same columns you select for its main window.

bigpallooka on 2010-04-15 23:00

Where are the log files located when using the front end on an XP machine? Any ideas?
Regards

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Evil Player v1.31

webfork on 21 May 2019
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 12 Jul 2009
  • Suggested by Fluffy

Evil Player is a fast, powerful and flexible media player with low memory footprint and native support for MP3, OGG, WAV, and more. Radio services supported include Shoutcast, Icecast, and Icecast2.

NOTE: Main site offline, linking to archive.org (which lists an old version) and Softpedia for downloading.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the RAR package and extract (using a program like PeaExtractor) to a folder of your choice. Launch Evil_Player.exe.
Latest comments
My Name on 2007-11-08 10:19

Really I love this small, simple and nice player. Without unnecessary additions; without squandering resources (very important if you do not have a powerful machine or you need to run many programs at once)
I think it player does not need anything else, is perfect.

erwin on 2008-09-01 01:24

this software needs some bug-fixes.. sometimes when i close the apps the songs won't stop.

Hale on 2010-05-18 03:39

I love this player so much. The only prob I have is I can't remove a bunch of songs at once. I have to delete them one by one. Not even dragging works. I switch different bands frequently so it's really a pain in the ass if I want to remove 100 bands in the list and throw another set of bands. Overall, this player still rocks.

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Free Audio Extractor v2.1

webfork on 5 Jul 2017
  • 12MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 24 Jul 2014
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

AoA Audio Extractor allows you to extract audio/sound or background music from video files. It supports extraction from AVI, MPEG, MPG, FLV (Flash Video), DAT, WMV, MOV, MP4, 3GP video files and exporting the audio as MP3, WAV and AC3 audio files. It can also be used to save any portion of the audio of a video file.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. Registers some COM components.
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract to a temp folder
  2. Copy all files from the {app} and {sys} subfolders to a folder of your choice
  3. Launch AoAAudioExtractor.exe
Similar/alternative apps: Pazera Free Audio Extractor
Latest comments
Harry on 2010-05-26 01:07

I recommend Pazera Free Audio Extractor:
"Extract audio tracks from video files to MP3, AAC, AC3, WMA or WAV. AVI to MP3, FLV to MP3, AVI to WAV"
"This program doesn't use system registry and can be run from portable devices. All settings are written to INI file."

http://www.pazera-software.com/products/audio-extractor/

ChemZ on 2010-12-10 05:17

I second Harry.
Pazera Free Audio Extractor is better...
...and smaller too (3.5megs vs 12megs)

Jumbu on 2011-02-12 18:25

Pazera is the way to go. Awesome yet free. Thanks a million Pazera.

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YamiPod v1.8

webfork on 15 Nov 2016
  • 16MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 5 Jan 2009
  • Suggested by Barrette

YamiPod is an application for managing older Apple iPods. You can use it to copy MP3/AAC files to/from your iPod, import/export playlists, remove duplicate tracks, find lost music files etc.

Note:

  • Floola is a newer version of this program, but still only works on older iPod devices.
  • An alternative download can be found in this site (thank to fromthesticks)

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch YamiPod.exe.
Latest comments
Portable Paul on 2009-01-18 15:53

it worked fine for the gen1 nano.

BGM on 2016-11-14 16:48

I have to set up an iPod Nano for somebody and load song files onto it, but I don't want to install iTunes on my computer at all. When I start YamiPod it says, "Please plug in your iPod to continue". I tried both the USB2 and USB3 ports on my computer to no avail. I read pertaining questions in their forum but noone every received any answers. Apparently, Floola is written by the authour of YamiPod and Floola is still in development. Conclusion: this doesn't work for me.

webfork on 2016-11-15 03:01

@BGM: it didn't used to require iTunes but newer devices were encoded to use only iTunes software. This program is listed on our site mainly for use with early iPod generations (many of which still work fine).

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CoolPlayer v219

webfork on 30 Dec 2015
  • 496KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 1 Jun 2008
  • Suggested by Larme

CoolPlayer is an audio player with freeform skin support. It features a playlist editor, ID3 multi-tagger, file renamer, MP3-to-WAV converter, Ogg Vorbis support, 8-band equalizer, etc.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch coolplayer.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Foobar2000, MPC-HC
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bowser17 on 2008-01-21 22:29

coolplayer is OK, but the first thing i notice is you cannot set the volume relative to everything else... its volume control sets the system vol. BAD.

aivansama on 2008-02-05 12:30

bowser17, you can change that in the options :)

tdwong on 2008-12-16 12:37

Tried CoolPlayer, but go back to XMPlayer as CoolPlayer does not support Unicode.

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Audio Tagging Tools v3.0.1

Checker on 3 Aug 2014
  • 5MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Fluffy

Audio Tagging Tools is a MP3 tag editor that will automatically create title numbers and clean filenames/tags for you. It supports features like filters, filename cleaning, tag generator, tag editor, filename creator, output templates, scripting etc.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the zipped installer and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. The application files are located in the {app} subfolder
  3. Launch ATT.exe
Latest comments
lautrepay on 2011-12-20 15:09

@I am Baas: Thanks.

Zw0LsDaLe on 2011-12-25 02:06

maybe it is time to update this website? i mean.. many links are wrong

lautrepay on 2011-12-25 03:29

@Zw0LsDaLe: The maintenance of the database entries of this website is basically a voluntary and disinterested work of the community of users.
If you are still not allowed to edit the entries by yourself, you can collaborate pointing out dead or incorrect links, new versions, sites that no more exists, etc.

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Audiobook Cutter v0.7.5

Midas on 7 Apr 2015
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by alois

Audiobook Cutter splits large MP3 audiobook files into smaller ones without re-encoding. The split points are determined automatically based on silence detection. The split files are easier to use on mobile MP3 players because of their smaller size, and their duration allows smoother navigation.

Note: As recent versions have turned into nagware, I have made a copy of the last freeware version for direct download. Please email me if you have more recent freeware versions of the software.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. There are two versions for download: Win95/98/ME/NT and Win2K/XP/Vista. Launch AudiobookCutterFE.exe.
Latest comments
TruthSeeker on 2009-04-15 15:24

Stick with version 0.75. It's really free. It ain't fancy, no bells and whistles, but it works. Version 1.4 demo is crippled and completely useless. BTW when you start up v0.75 answer "NO" when it asks you to upgrade!

za-wulon on 2009-04-26 17:20

yep, new demo version is useless for freeware users, but it rather works for first 10 min of any file.
Anyway appreciating your "free" job, I can give you a free clue.

My player mutes something like first second of any tune [book] it plays, if it would be more common I'd like to see prog [when buying] equipped with silence adder.....

John on 2009-05-02 12:33

Where is the windows 98SE compatible version?
The download link here points to a corrupt or multipart
zip file, the result is You download nothing!

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Lister v0.71

webfork on 28 Feb 2017
  • 4MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

Lister creates a file containing attributes of your audio and video files. The program generates an HTML listing alongside an XML file and a XSLT stylesheet (several samples are included).

The program supports MP3, MPEG, AVI, OGG, RealMedia, ASF, Windows Media, Twin-VQ and playlist files (eg. M3U, PLS, B4S). The XML file could be modified or imported into other applications.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: None
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. The application files are located in the {app} subfolder
  3. Launch Lister.exe
Latest comments
TP109 on 2015-04-14 08:00

Website/download links appear to be broken (error 404).

webfork on 2015-04-21 00:33

Updated. Thanks Baas.

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Media Tagger v1.3.5

Midas on 1 Aug 2022
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 22 Feb 2004
  • Suggested by Ram C. Dutta

Media Tagger is an MP3 tag editor that supports synchronization between ID3v1 with ID3v2 tags, renaming the files according to the tag or vice versa, creating a WinAMP playlist, or exporting to a CSV or HTML file listing. It also supports tagging via the FreeDB database.

The application website appears to be down -- link changed to Wayback Machine -- so I am making the most recent version available for direct download.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Media Tagger.exe.
What's new? Archived changelog up to v1.3.4 at https://web.archive.org/web/20050902051628/http://www.viktorin.cz:80/media_tagger/eng/index.html

Full Czech changelog (extracted from download package) at https://rentry.co/mediatagger.
Latest comments
Cornflower on 2010-07-11 18:34

Finally, an MP3 Tagger that will autonumber Track numbers.
Many MP3 players sort by track number, and if you are doing sequential podcasts or other downloaded stuff, the track numbers are often non-existent, and they play out of order.
I have used a dozen or so other taggers and so far must change each tag one by one, and often each one requiring multiple mouseclicks or keystrokes.

joby_toss on 2013-12-14 08:02

Homepage updated.

laitan on 2022-07-29 14:34

Thanks for the upload!! I love this program!!

In response to ca... it's been translated to 7-8 languages.

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