Audio and Video
Grooveshark * Listen to any song for FREE
Forget Limewire's Minefield of Spyware Infested Results
Not too often you come across a website like this one, simply amazing. Search for any song and play and listen for FREE… This one is a definite toolbar bookmark in Firefox.
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack
play all the popular audio and video formats and even several less common formats
The K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of DirectShow filters, VFW/ACM codecs, and tools. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding audio and video formats. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your audio and movie files.
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Real Alternative
Play Real Media files without full version of RealPlayer
If you have any experience with bloated intrusive Real Player, you will find this to be a gem! Real Alternative allows your system to play Real Media files (.ra .ram) without having to install the full version of Real Player.
Supports both Real Alternative and QuickTime Alternative
Windows Media Format Runtime
Windows Media Player Not Playing Certain Files?
( You should normally only need this package if you have removed Windows Media Player ) This package installs all the codecs and runtimes that are required for playing the various Windows Media formats, such as .wmv and .wma files.
QuickTime Alternative
Why slow down your computer with Apple Software?
QuickTime Alternative is a trimmed-down version of QuickTime that contains only the essential components needed for playing QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages.
Foobar2000 Free MP3 Desktop Player
Excellent!
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.
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