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Players such as WinAMP,
MaCast or WPlay
are used for playing MP3s.
You have an Audio CD, now you want to transferr the tracks to your computer ("rip") and compress("encode") them, use an All-in-One program. Besides ripping and encoding there usually are track organizers included.
A Ripper copies tracks from your CD onto your harddiskdrive. In some cases these programs do the encoding work. Check out the high standard freeware in this section.
Encoders compress the original big tracks into MP3s or other formats. Some other programs such as Rippers and All-in-Ones have options to use these encoders apart from the ones they come with. Encoding itself uses a lot of computing power and thus - takes time.
Play back your favourite Tracks directly from your computer. You'll need a soundcard, speakers and a software player that can be found in this section. Many players have nice features like playlists, hearing soundstreams from the Internet.
This compendium of small "tools" help you to keep your MP3s in the shape you want them to be in. There are organizers and managment programs, alongside those to repair broken tracks or cut them and those to change the internal nametag (ID3 tag)or the filenames of many songs at once.
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Some of the most importaned Windows programs explained in short:
Audiograbber slurps the Audio data from your CD and copies them in wave format to your harddiskdrive. Later you can encode them to MP3's from there.
Features: CD-ripper and encoder, normalizing, every external encoder can be used.
The most popular MP3/allround Player around the world. A small piece of freeware, taking away little system resources, which has an option for every programmer to code enhancement programs (so called Plug-ins) an thus offers a huge variety of expandability.
Features: Convert MP3 to wav, plug-in based visualization, changing the look and feel (skins) and equalizing and many more.
RenameIt lets you rename serveral of your MP3 tracks a once. You set up rules on which parts of a title should be replaced (e.g. the underscores by blanks). Top renamer - easy to handle and fast.
Features: Set up rename rules, use regular expressions, rename whole subdirectories, small program (just 20K).
The Software section is getting bigger and bigger every month. Here you get a brief introduction in which category you find what you are searching for.
