10+ Must have freewares for music junkies

The default music software on your Windows is probably not enough, when it comes to extensive features and customizability. Here’s a pick of the best music freewares for music junkies that can let them sort through and efficiently play most audio formats on their Windows computer:

Audio players:

VLC Player - It’s more light on resources that you would imagine. VLC is a very versatile player - throw any odd format, and it plays them for you instantly (FLV included).


Winamp - Winamp has its own fans, it’s customizable to a large extent and can come as a great saver. If you listen to music every other day, you need to have Winamp installed. A similar player is Jet Audio.


Songbird - A feature rich application that has great looks, go for it if your Windows computer has got some memory to spare. You can customize it by adding extensions.


Jukebox:

Jukeboxes are music software that come with amazing capabilities. Go for them if you have huge music collections scattered all around - not just in your computer, but also in audio CDs.

Media Monkey - The best piece of software out there that you’ll love using. Tag editor, format converter, CD recording, iPod support, you name it - it’s got all the tools that squeeze the best from your tracks.



J River Media Jukebox - Very pretty, has good features. And might serve as a good jukebox.




MP3 Tagger - The best ID3 tagger out there in the market, that’s free as well.



Foobar:This utility is also very nice and this is also a freeware.




Ripper:

Audio Grabber - Fantastic audio ripping software, with FreeDB tagging support included. Another similar ripper is FreeRip. Another one a few commenters have mentioned is Exact Audio Copy

Editors :


Audacity - Open Source, and is very light weight.



Wavosaur - Comes with no installer, and is a single exe file that does the job. Supports WAV format

Others:


Last.fm - A social networking site for audiophiles out there. Listen, get interesting tracks based on what you’ve played, and add friends! More such music sites here.


Tunatic - A song is playing on your head, but you just can’t get it’s title right? Then download this, install, hum the song through your mic and let Tunatic locate info on the song for you! Quite cool for show off as well

Audio Files GDS Indexer - Google Desktop Plugin - Install this one if you have got Google Desktop installed. Adds a bunch of functionality to the Desktop Spider to make it more friendlier towards Audio files.

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