FLAC

Download FLAC Frontend
flac-1.2.1b.exe
Download FLAC for Windows (command-line tools and Winamp2 plugin only)
flac-1.2.1-win.zip
flac-1.0.3-winamp2-plugin-fix-1.zip

FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio, and you can play back compressed FLAC files in your favorite player just like you would an MP3 file.

FLAC stands out as the fastest and most widely supported lossless audio codec, and the only one that at once is non-proprietary, is unencumbered by patents, has an open-source reference implementation, has a well documented format and API, and has several other independent implementations.

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WavPack

WavPack Win32              Windows command-line programs and user documentation Download

Winamp Plugin                Plugin installer for Nullsoft Winamp 2.x and 5.x Download

DirectShow Filter             Windows installer from CoreCodec.org Download

Audition filter                    Filter for Adobe Audition and Cool Edit Download

Nero plugin                      Plugin for Ahead Nero Burning Rom Download

Apollo plugin                    Plugin for the Apollo audio player Download

PhotoBridge plugin         Plugin for the Roku PhotoBridge HD Download

WavPack is a completely open audio compression format providing lossless, high-quality lossy, and a unique hybrid compression mode. Although the technology is loosely based on previous versions of WavPack, the new version 4 format has been designed from the ground up to offer unparalleled performance and functionality.

In the default lossless mode WavPack acts just like a WinZip compressor for audio files. However, unlike MP3 or WMA encoding which can affect the sound quality, not a single bit of the original information is lost, so there's no chance of degradation. This makes lossless mode ideal for archiving audio material or any other situation where quality is paramount. The compression ratio depends on the source material, but generally is between 30% and 70%.

The hybrid mode provides all the advantages of lossless compression with an additional bonus. Instead of creating a single file, this mode creates both a relatively small, high-quality lossy file that can be used all by itself, and a "correction" file that (when combined with the lossy file) provides full lossless restoration. For some users this means never having to choose between lossless and lossy compression!

WavPack employs only well known, public domain techniques (i.e., linear prediction with LMS adaptation, Elias and Golomb codes) in its implementation. Methods and algorithms that have ever been patented (e.g., arithmetic coding, LZW compression) are specifically avoided. This ensures that WavPack encoders and decoders will remain open and royalty-free.

 WavPack is free software, but if you find WavPack useful please consider making a donation to help support past and future development.

(WavPack  Website)

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Foobar2000

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Foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.


Main features
■Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND... and more with additional components.
■Gapless playback.
■Full unicode support.
■Easily customizable user interface layout.
■Advanced tagging capabilities.
■Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component.
■Full ReplayGain support.
■Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
■Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player.


Download optional components
Browse official components
Browse all components

All listed components are compatible with foobar2000 1.1 and newer.
How to install a component?

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Monkey’s Audio

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Description
Monkey’s Audio is a fast and easy way to compress digital music. Unlike traditional methods such as mp3, ogg, or wma that permanently discard quality to save space, Monkey’s Audio only makes perfect, bit-for-bit copies of your music. That means it always sounds perfect – exactly the same as the original. Even though the sound is perfect, it still saves a lot of space (think of it as a beefed-up Winzip™ your music). The other great thing is that you can always decompress your Monkey's Audio files back to the exact, original files. That way, you'll never have to recopy your CD collection to switch formats, and you'll always be able to perfectly recreate the original music CD.

Features

•Efficient (fast and great compression) — Monkey's Audio is highly optimized and highly efficient

•Perfect sound — absolutely no quality loss, meaning it sounds perfect and decompresses perfect (it's lossless!)

•Media Center™, Foobar™, WMP™, Winamp™, and more support — supported by most popular players and rippers

•Easy — the Windows environment interface is both powerful and easy to use

•Free — Monkey’s Audio is completely free!

•Error detection — Monkey’s Audio incorporates redundant CRC’s to ensure proper decompression of data (errors never go unnoticed)

•Tagging support — Monkey’s Audio uses its own extremely flexible APE Tags so you can easily manage and catalogue your Monkey’s Audio collection

•External coder support — you can use Monkey's Audio as a front-end for all of your encoding needs

•Freely available source code, simple SDK and non-restrictive licensing — other developers can easily use Monkey's Audio in their own programs, and there are no restrictive licensing agreements

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Nero AAC Codec

Download Nero AAC

The software contains a command line Nero AAC Codec without a graphical user interface. The applications must be retrieved either from the command prompt, batch file, or from the "Run" command in Microsoft® Windows™ start menu.

The encoder requires .WAV files in PCM wave format as input and provides .MP4 in MPEG-4/3GPP file format as output, as well as quality and bitrate values as parameters. The decoder requires input in MPEG-4/3GPP file format and provides PCM wave files as output.

For more detailed information about the basic and advanced options of the codec, refer to the readme.txt file provided in the archive.

Convert your audio files with the Nero AAC Codec - FREE!

Nero AAC reference quality MPEG-4 and 3GPP audio codec

Compression ratios ranging from Ultra High (58 CDs fit on one!) to High-End Audio (2.5:1), for absolutely perfect audiophile encodings

Crystal-clear, award-winning sound quality at every compression ratio and bit rate!

Support for embedded album art including covers, booklets, and lyrics

Store an entire audio album in a single .mp4 file with all the features of an Audio CD embedded inside, but at a fraction of the space!

Reference quality MPEG-4 audio codec

Fully compatible with the latest version of the state-of-the-art MPEG-4 audio standard (LC-AAC, HE-AAC and HE-AAC v2)

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LameXP

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What is LameXP ?

LameXP is a graphical user-interface (front-end) for various of audio encoders: It allows you convert your
audio files from one audio format to another one in the most simple way. Despite its name, LameXP is NOT only a front-end for the LAME encoder, but supports a wide range of output formats, including MP3, Ogg Vorbis,AAC/MP4, FLAC, AC-3 and Wave Audio. The number of supported input formats is even bigger! Furthermore LameXP does NOT only run on Windows XP, but also on Windows Vista, Windows 7 and many other operating systems.

As all the encoders and decoders used by LameXP are already "built-in" (with one exception), you do NOT need to install any additional software, such as "Codecs", "Filters" or "Plug-ins", on your computer. Everything works "out of the box"! You can even use LameXP as a "portable" application, e.g. run it from your USB stick.
Moreover LameXP was designed for batch processing. This means that you can convert a huge number of audio files, e.g. a complete album or even your entire music collection, in a single step. And, as LameXP is able to process several audio files in parallel, it takes full advantage of modern multi-core processors! However LameXP is NOT only optimized for speed, it also provides excellent sound quality by using the most sophisticated encoders available and by giving the user unrestricted control over all encoding parameters.

In addition to that, LameXP provides full support for metadata, including cover art. So when converting your
audio files, LameXP will retain existing meta tags. But there also is an easy-to-use editor for adding or
modifying metadata. LameXP supports Unicode for both, meta tags and filenames, so there won't be any problems with "foreign" characters. And, thanks to our translators, the user-interface of LameXP is available in multiple languages. Last but not least, LameXP supports a number of post-processing filters, including sample rate conversion, normalization (gain), tone adjustment and downmixing of multi-channel sources.

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Audiograbber

Download Audiograbber
Download MP3 Plugin for Audiograbber


Audiograbber is a beautiful piece of software that grabs digital audio from cd's. Audiograbber can automatically normalize the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, and encode them to a variety of formats including MP3. Audiograbber can download and upload disc info from freedb, an Internet compact disc database. You can even record your vinyl LP's or cassette tapes with Audiograbber and make wav's or MP3's of them. There are a lot more functions in Audiograbber, but to put it simply: Audiograbber has the most features one can wish from such a program!


Significant advantages:
 A nice and easy understandable user interface.
 A good helpfile with descriptions of all functions and settings.
 The program is very flexible and configurable and still easy to understand.
 It works with almost all CD-ROM drives that can read digital audio.
 Last but not least: it is free!

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Audiograbber MP3 Plugin

Download Audiograbber MP3 Plugin 32 bit
Download Audiograbber MP3 Plugin 64 bit

This plugin makes it easier than ever before to produce reference quality MP3's with Audiograbber. It automatically installs the LAME MP3 encoder and activates it with the recommended settings! You don't even have to enter the MP3 options dialog in Audiograbber, just install the plugin and you are done! The plugin is kindly provided by Audiograbber user and former administrator of the German Audiograbber community, Christof Heinzle.

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WebM DirectShow filters

Download webmdshow-0.9.12.0-20101216.zip

Version 0.9.12.0 of the DirectShow filters for WebM authoring and playback.

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