From author's site:

Quintessential Player (a.k.a. QCD) is a feature rich media player for Microsoft Windows. It supports all popular audio formats including MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, and CDs. QCD is highly skinnable and has a robust plug-in architecture.

QCD performs CD Ripping and Encoding, streams Internet Radio, and can Clean and Tag all your audio files. QCD uses Gracenote for the best music recognition. QCD even plays videos. These great features are just scratching the surface.

QCD is Freeware. Free of cost and free of any bundled secrets.

From author's site:

MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution.

With a flexible and extendable architecture, new codecs and tools are added in constantly as well as supports for new devices. MediaCoder intends to be the swiss army knife for media transcoding in all time and at this moment, it already has millions of users from 170+ countries all over the planet.

Features In Brief

* Convert to and from many audio and video compression formats and re-multiplex into various container formats in batches
* Full control over transcoding parameters, you can learn about audio/video encoding and play with various codecs

From author's site:

SUPER © Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer.A GUI to ffmpeg, MEncoder, mplayer, x264, mppenc,
ffmpeg2theora & the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugin.

If you need a simple, yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file, without reading manuals or spending long hours training, then SUPER © is all you need.

It is a Multimedia Encoder and a Multimedia Player, easy-to-use with 1 simple click.

A blast from the past, Sonics Foundry's excellent Media player was designed for the perfectionist! This media player was very advanced for it's time and sported dual eye-candy displays- rare even in today's players. The quality of the visualizations alone is enough reason to try this player, they are amazingly stunning - maybe prettier than anything you've ever seen before!

With an ultra-customizable GUI with 16-band EQ, efficient media manager with play lists, awesome 'eye-candy' (unmatched even by most players today), and ability to minimize to the System tray (with one-click mute and playback controls) make this a winner!

Plays all bit-rates (CBR/VBR) MP3, WMA, and WAV formats, but MP3s ripped at Extreme VBR (320kbps) report 128kbps in tickler.

From author's site:

winLAME is an encoder for several audio formats, including mp3 (MPEG Layer 3), Ogg Vorbis and more. winLAME lets you set up the encoding process with an easy-to-use wizard-style user interface.

winLAME supports many input audio formats, and uses the LAME mp3 encoding library for encoding and the MAD decoding library for decoding.

winLAME has the following features:

* Encoding and decoding of many audio formats, including wave, mp3, ogg, aac, ...
* Easy-to-use wizard-like user interface style for easy encoding setup
* Uses high quality libraries like LAME, the Ogg Vorbis library, MAD, etc.
* Presets for fast settings setup
* Batch Processing
* Detailed HTML Help File
* Easy install- and uninstall process
* Small size

Powerful graphics viewer and converter. View (~360 file formats) and convert graphic files (~40 graphic file formats). Batch convert, Thumbnail create, Screen capture, effects, filters, Slide show, Adjust brightness, contrast, web gallery.

XnView exists for Windows, MacOS X, Linux x86, Linux ppc, FreeBSD x86, OpenBSD x86, NetBSD x86, Solaris sparc, Solaris x86, Irix mips, HP-UX, AIX!