SopCast 3.9.6

SopCast is a free internet media streaming app that allows everyone to access TV, video, and music channels over the web directly from a standalone app that can be easily controlled. The only thing you need to access thousands of live channels is the SopCast application broadband connection. If you have that, then untold amount of live programs, documentaries, films, TV shows, music videos and other content is ready to be watched on the monitor of your PC.  Video reproduction is routed not to internal video player, but to external players that you need to install on your PC (Windows Media Player, VLC, RealPlayer, and others).

Main dashboard of SopCast is available only to users who have created a free user account, but anyone has the ability to choose to login as anonymous member which will lock out some features of the program (namely user customizations, playlists and similar services that are identity-bound). After login, simple dashboard presents itself, housing five main tabs (Home, Live Channels, Rec. Channels, MyServer,FAQ) and several tools for accessing app customization options. 

SopCast is by default reproducing internet streams using Windows Media Player, but if you like, you can configure it to use other players such as Miro or VLC. You can event set up your own broadcasting stream that will be uploaded to online audience via P2P connection. You even have the ability to broadcast more than one channel to the internet, and embed your streams directly into websites via easy to use embed code.

SopCast Features:

• State-of-the-art P2P technology. Share the data among all viewers, make the channel more available and stable.
• Minimal delay in the P2P streaming market.
• Fast buffering. 10-30 seconds.
• Firewall and NAT traversal technology to pass 90% P2P barriers.
• Build your own channels and broadcast it over the Internet.
• Streaming real time streams. Support for many streaming transport protocol. mms, http, etc.
• Streaming media files. Many file types: asf, wmv, rm, rmvb, mp3, etc.
• Support for loop file playing.
• Extremely low memory footprint and CPU load.
• Standard channel URL: click on any sop:// URL to play.
• Real time monitor of broadcasting source quality and network quality to help viewers to select a appropriate channel.
• Record the clips when you are watching it.
• Can play the stream with your favorite player, such as Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, VLC, etc.
• Memory buffering, no harm to the hard disk.
• Support for authentication for both the broadcasters and the viewers. The broadcaster has full control on his channels.
• End-to-End security, encrypted messages, hi level P2P security, no hijack.
• Support multiple channels broadcast on the same server. Normally, you can run 5-10 channels on one PC.
• The Sop Player can be embedded into a webpage or any software applications. It works just like Windows Media Player.
• The Sop Server and Sop Player can be run both on Windows and Linux. The whole system can be ported to embedded Linux.

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Mp3tag 2.66

If you own large music collection that needs to be organized, Mp3tag is a perfect application for you. Not only that is supports all the popular online databases such as Amazon, discogs and freedb, which can fill up missing info in your songs with a simple click of a button, but it also have its own metadata editor that supports every common format that is in use today (ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments and APE Tags).

From the moment Mp3tag is started for the first time, users will immediately notice that its interface is very much suited for both novices who just want to tweak tags on few of their audio files, and seasoned digital music collectors who can use this app to fully manage tags on their libraries that count thousand albums of all genres. Files can be edited either individually, or using intuitive batch conversion that can manage entire albums at once. App can also be used for automatic creation of playlists, export of file reports in many popular formats (CSV, RTF, HTML) and more.

With Mp3tag you can easily create, edit, replace, import and export information and much more. In addition to text metadata, online search can quickly find even cover art for your entire library, automatically add genre tags and other helpful things that can enable you to much more quickly and efficiently increase your productivity.

Mp3tag Main Features:

Batch Tag Editing
Write ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, MP4, WMA, APEv2 Tags and Vorbis Comments to multiple files at once.

Support for Cover Art
Download and add album covers to your files and make your library even more shiny.

Import from Amazon, discogs, freedb, MusicBrainz
Save typing and import tags from online databases like Amazon, discogs, freedb, MusicBrainz, and more.

Replace characters or words
Replace strings in tags and filenames (with support for Regular Expressions).

Create Playlists automatically
Create and manage playlists automatically while editing.

Rename files from tags
Rename files based on the tag information and import tags from filenames.

Export to HTML, RTF, CSV
Generate nice reports and lists of your collection based on user-defined templates.

Full Unicode Support
User-interface and tagging are fully Unicode compliant.

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Plex Home Theater 1.2.3.378

Plex Home Theater is a comprehensive software solution for transforming your plain old PC into fully featured Home Theater PC. With incredibly easy to use interface and appealing design, you will instantly gain access to your multimedia content like never before. Plex can reproduce wide variety of video, audio and image files that are hosted on your local storage, but it also has a full support for all the most popular online streaming services.

Good home theater experience could not be achieved without fully streamlined interface that allows everyone to easily browse multimedia that is located both on their local storage, network drives and streamed via the web. Plex excels in this area, fully supporting full-screen interface that can be easily manipulated via mouse or via IR remote controller. Main categories of the site enable you to easily access TV shows, Movies, Video/Music/Picture channels, Shared Content, your own playlists, and great search engine. The entire app has a very strong visual component. 

One of the central features of Plex is its support for user created libraries. All your content can be sorted into specific categories, enabling you to always know where you can find your media. Don’t be afraid if you have a lot of old and uncategorized data, because all media you own will be inspected and their metadata will be downloaded automatically.

With Plex and its stunning visual interface, your multimedia experience will become incredibly easy. Give it a try.

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QuickTime Player 7.76.80.95

QuickTime Player is the Apple’s proprietary media player, which is used by millions of people all over the World. It delivers remarkable quality output, and when used for streaming media it automatically chooses the best stream for your Internet connection. QuickTime lets you view Internet video, HD movie trailers, and personal media in a wide range of file formats. And it lets you enjoy them in remarkably high quality.

Windows version of the QuickTime Player was developed same time as all the primary version of the app on the Mac, which enabled Windows users to always have same access to features and services and same compatibility with the popular codecs that are today used all around the world. Today after so many versions of windows, the latest version of the QuickTime Player is supported only on the Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Earlier versions of Windows have support only for older versions of the QuickTime Player app, which goes back all the way to Windows 3.1x that can run player version 2.1.2 that was actively developed between 1994 and 1996.

Visually, QuickTime Player represents one of the simplest video players on the market. It has completely streamlined interface, small amount of additional options, and very limited ability of user to customize player to their needs. Anyone who is interested to experience world of Quick Time multimedia can today download QuickTime Player for free and easily install it and use it on their modern PC.

What is QuickTime Player?

It’s a multimedia platform.
Video from your digital camera or mobile phone. A movie on your Mac or PC. A media clip on a website. No matter what you're watching or where you're watching it, QuickTime technology makes it all possible.

It’s a sophisticated media player.
With its simple design and easy-to-use controls, QuickTime Player makes everything you watch even more enjoyable. Its clean, uncluttered interface never gets in the way of what you’re watching. Want to speed through a movie or slow things down? A handy slider lets you set playback from 1/2x to 3x the normal speed. And you can search through individual movie frames quickly.

It’s advanced video technology.
QuickTime features advanced video compression technology called H.264 to deliver brilliant, crisp HD video using less bandwidth and storage. So you’ll experience pristine video quality wherever you watch your movies or videos.

It’s a flexible file format.
QuickTime lets you do more with your digital media. With QuickTime 7 Pro, you can convert your files to different formats and record and edit your work. Third-party plug-ins extend QuickTime technology in many different directions. And QuickTime streaming solutions let you stream your media across the Internet.

QuickTime Player is a freeware (the Pro version is paid).

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Audacity 2.0.6

Audacity is a free, open source audio recorder and editor for Windows, which can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from cassette tapes, vinyl records, or minidiscs. With some sound cards, it can also capture streaming audio. Its list of features is so long that many professional users have adopted it and used it in countless audio projects. For years after this app was unveiled to the public in May of 2000, Audacity represented one of the most popular pieces of software that was downloaded from online open-source software depository SourceForge. As of today in early 2014, conservative measures have shown that Audacity has been downloaded more than 100 million times from users that live on all four corners of the world.

No matter what you want to do with audio recordings, Audacity has tools to help you – recording live audio, cutting and trimming, managing all aspects of audio podcast production, adding of countless post-processing effects, normalization, fading, multi-track mixing, noise removal, audio spectrum analysis, conversion and much more. All these tools and services are packed inside very nicely designed dashboard interface that will serve as a perfect introduction to novices into the world of music, editing and audio production. Professionals on the other hand will feel just like at home, with well-organized layout of elements and easy access to all program features.

Not much more can be said about Audacity, except that is one of the best audio editing and recording software solutions on the market that is 100% free and constantly evolving and advancing. It comes with many useful features, some of which are:

• Records and plays audio files
• Supports various file formats like WAV, AIFF, AU, and Ogg Vorbis
• Import MPEG audio (including MP2 and MP3 files)
• Edit your audio files by cutting, copying, pasting, and mixing them
• Large files can be edited fairly quickly
• Add different effects like echo, phaser, wahwah, reverse, and more
• Change the pitch without altering the tempo, or vice-versa.
• Record and edit 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit (floating point) samples.
• Various plug-ins support
• Can be used to convert old tapes into digital media
• And many more

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mp3DirectCut 2.20

mp3DirectCut is a fully-featured free audio editor and recorder that effortlessly works with MP3 files. If you want to quickly edit some of your MP3 files (change their length or volume), or want to record something and instantly receive compressed MP3 file, then mp3DirectCut will be perfect program for you. It supports many features that would be greatly appreciated by audio professionals, but everything it offers is packaged into intuitive interface that can be easily controlled even by PC novices. mp3DirectCut is small, lightning fast, feature-full, and most importantly 100% free.

Interface of mp3DirectCut was crafted from the ground up to be accessible to everyone, including people who are not only never tried to perform any form of audio editing in their life but also complete novices who never learned how to work effortlessly with PCs and computers in general.  After opening mp3DirectCut and loading audio file, users can easily preform simple editing moves with just few clicks of their mouse. Advanced options are of course present, but only the most basic set of tools is visible on the main dashboard of the app, which can give much confidence to first time users who just want to preform few quick edits, grab finished files and continue with their daily work.

Because of its simplicity and aim to serve both novices and professionals, it is not strange that mp3DirectCut can be used on computers of all ages and all version of Windows (work on Linux is supported only though the emulator Wine).

mp3DirectCut Features:

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Freemake Audio Converter 1.1.0.73

Freemake Audio Converter is anexcellent audio file management utilitywith the set of tools for conversion, down-sampling and simple editing.It can help everyone, especially users who have very little or no technical knowledge on audio, to prepare their audio collection or individual filesfor production on various home devices or audio players. The entire process of editing audio files inside of Freemake Audio Converter is extremely simplified, offering users access to the dashboard interface that is very similar to the other popular programs from the Freemake line of applications. Using “+Audio” button anyone can add however many audio files they want, those files will immediately get data listings beside their names (lengthy, audio quality, file size), and you can start editing or conversion process with just a click of a mouse button. Individual file names can be edited by clicking on the “pencil” icon between their current file names. To start the process of conversion, all you need to do is to click on one of the seven large buttons on the bottom of the dashboard. Each of those buttons corresponds with one output audio format you can use – MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC, AC, M4A and OGG. Conversion process starts not immediately after clicking on those buttons. You first need to pick the quality setting of the target files and location on your local storage where you wish for finished files to be saved.

Freemake Audio Converter Features:

Convert audio to MP3, M4A, WMA, WAV, AAC
Convert audio between the formats: MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC, AAC, M4A, OGG. Convert WMA to MP3, MP3 to M4A, WAV to MP3, MP3 to WMA, FLAC to MP3, AAC to MP3, M4A to MP3, OGG to MP3, etc.
All supported formats 

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SMPlayer 14.9.0 (32-bit)

SMPlayer is a free, lightweight and fast media player for Windows that comes with pre-installed suite of codecs that can play virtually any multimedia content you can come across. From old audio codecs, MP3s, popular and obscure video formats, SMPlayer can play them all, and in the same time, let you control their reproduction with large amount of customization. 

Main interface of the SMPlayer resembles many other video players, but here users have not only clear view of the main configuration buttons on the top of the app (many players hide those windows-themed buttons)m but can also easily access the most commonly used sections of the app (user playlists, video information, equalizer and many more). The rest of the app holds streamlined interface that can easily be used by both novices and professionals, with deep access to customizing every aspect of your multimedia viewing experience. This includes subtitles, aspect ratio control, filters, rotation, interface switching between full and compact modes, audio management and much more.

It automatically remembers where you stopped watching movie, auto-resumes, gives you the option of setting up subtitles, audio track and more. The player itself can be visually customized with many user-created skins, it has integrated YouTube search engine, can be used in more than 30 languages, and has dozens of other advanced features that seasoned PC users will appreciate. All these and many other features of SMPlayer are available to every internet user for free. 

SMPlayer Features:

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UMPlayer 0.98

UMPlayer (Universal Media Player) is free cross-platform multimedia player with incredible support for all modern video and audio codecs. UMPlayer will without a doubt fulfill all your multimedia needs with the ability to play over 270 audio/video codecs that come preinstalled with the program itself. This means that you will not need to find codec packs and install them on your Windows PC, potentially introducing software that would destabilize your multimedia viewing habits.  UMPlayer supports formats such as AVI, DIVX, FLV, H.263, Matroska, MOV, MP3, MP4, MPEG, OGG, WAV, WMA, WMV, AAC, AC3, ASF, QT, RealMedia, VOB, Vorbis, and also audio CD-s, DVD’s, YouTube videos, SHOUTcast Internet Radio and many, many more. 

Even though its codec support is really extraordinary, the same cannot be said for its interface. It is nice looking an intuitive for use even by complete novices, but there is no big innovation present here. Main player screen offers standard set of options, with only interesting thing being a “Top 500 Stations Today” tool that will very easily find you perfect radio station that will brighten your day. The rest of the app customization covers the basic set of features, with full ability to tweak audio, video and subtitle reproduction on your screen.

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GOM Player 2.2.64.5211

GOM Media Player is a free multimedia viewer that is currently used by million users all around the world. One thing that separates this player from many others is wide range of advanced features, customizability, online download of exotic codecs, constant support from his developers, and most importantly built-in support for all most popular video and audio formats. That means when you install GOM Media Player he will play every multimedia file you have without any problem, without the need for installing 3rd party codec packs.

Main interface of this app is very approachable, with easy to use controls for manipulating basic playback tools. Advanced tools are as with many other video players delegated to the drop down properties menu, which houses tremendous amount of customizations that cover everything from subtitle processing to video processing effects and online connectivity features. Player supports very useful service that will detect missing codecs that are needed for reproduction of your files, and automatically download and install them from the web.  App supports native rendering of all the most popular subtitle formats (both external and those embedded inside MKV, OGM and ASF files), with full control over their look, size and placement on screen.

Simple user interface, powerful audio/video support and ease of use have made GOM Media Player one of the most popular video players of today. GOM Media Player is completely free, without even the option to purchase it end expanding it with more advanced features.  Here are more details about what this great app offers:

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DivX Plus 10.2.3

DivX 10 is a software suite for Windows that allows anyone to access and usye the next generation of DivX technology. With it you can create and play full HD H.264 (MKV) video. H.264 is a new standard that is poised to power the high definition video revolution by offering incredible visual quality, performance and efficiency. DivX 10 is the first software of its kind to integrate support for HEVC video across its products, including Player, Web Player and Converter—providing a free, all-in-one solution for HEVC video. After its 10th version, DivX Plus adopted full reproduction and creation of 4K video files, who offer tremendous image quality that is powered by the brand new DivX HEVC Ultra HD profile.

DivX 10 package consists from four main components – DivX Player, DivX Web Player, DivX converter and DivX HEVC Plug-in. In addition to this, DivX also recommend their every user to also install additional paid add-ons that greatly expand functionality of their core package. Those add-ons are MPEG-2 Plug-in (for conversion of DVDs into DivX video files), SRS AudioFusion (for premium sound) and DFX Audio Enhancer (for fully customizing your audio settings).

DivX Player delivers real-time, high quality HEVC playback of HM11 encoded video up to 4K. DivX Web Player enables efficient HEVC video streaming featuring progressive playback and download in your browser. DivX Converter offers free, simple conversion to DIVX, MKV, MP4 and includes including new DivX HEVC 720p, 1080p and 4K video profiles.

What's Inside DivX Play:

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ALLPlayer 6.0.0

AllPlayer is very powerful and famous media player for playing video material with subtitles. Not only that it supports wide variety of best known video and audio codecs, but it also has the innovative LiveUpdate feature that can connect to the internet and find the latest codec packages that are needed for playing some local video files. Even more impressive is its automatic web search of subtitles. All these features are geared to enable novices and people who are inexperienced in working with video media on PC to have streamlined experience and no situations in which they will be left unable to reproduce videos of their choice.

However, even with all that attention being placed on novices, AllPlayer also has full configurability and wealth of features that will be very much interesting to advanced users who want to control every aspect of their video reproduction process. For them AllPlayer has support for multi-monitor playback, remote control app for android, built-in multimedia file server, equalizer, free converter, support for all advanced audio formats and even ability to read media that is compressed inside RAR archives.

For maximizing playback performance, AllPlayer is using power of the DirectX rendering to provide best possible decoding of every movie you own. Users with eyesight disabilities can also use built-in speech synthesizer application that can dub all subtitles on your movies. With all these features implemented, AllPlayer is still completely free app that can be used without any restrictions. 

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KMPlayer 3.9.1.130

KMPlayer is a free and powerful multimedia player, capable of playing various audio and video formats and working with the most popular codecs. While many other video players that are popular around the world require user to install and maintain codec collection on their PC (usually via easily distributable codec packs), KMPlayer is focused on much different type of reproduction – reproduction with all codecs and tools that are already preinstalled with its installation. Users who want simplicity, total coverage of all multimedia standards and advanced features that can control all aspects of video and audio playback need to take a real closer look to this powerful app that is today used all around the world by millions of users.

First version of KMPlayer was released by Korean programmer Kang Young-Huee in early October of 2002. Its popularity great steadily with each passing year, but the true expansion happened in early 2008 when it was announced that KMPlayer was acquired by popular internet video streaming company Pandora TV.

The KMPlayer is all in one media player covering various formats such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg, OGM, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime etc. It handles a wide range of subtitles and allows you to capture audio, video, and screenshots in many ways. The player includes almost all the essential free decoders required for playback. Furthermore, the external ones can be specified, so that KMP works optimally by the users' own customization.

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K-Lite Codec Pack 10.8.0 (Full)

K-Lite Codec Pack Full is a collection of audio and video codecs that are needed for the reproduction and creation of modern audio and video formats. Inside of it are all up to date versions of DirectShow filters, VFW/ACM codecs, and tools that are configured to be installed in simple user-friendly way and integrated into any media tool that you use on your PC. If you want to play all the popular audio and video formats, K-Lite Codec Pack is just what you need.

Simply install K-Lite Codec Pack, and all the most needed and popular codecs will be installed and integrated into your Windows OS, enabling users of all knowledge levels to instantly start reproducing all their video content with ease. Codecs that are part of this package can also be used for video editing process, especially for video editors that are requiring the help of external codecs (like popular open source software VirtuaDub).

K-Lite Codec Pack comes in 4 variations, with here present Full version being the most popular and achieving best balance between supporting novice and professional users. It supports playback of all (lossless) audio formats and all popular video formats that anyone who is using their PC for media center capabilities. It contains VFW/ACM codecs that can be used for encoding. It has playback support for a few legacy audio and video formats.

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VLC Media Player 2.1.5 (32-bit)

VLC Media Player                       V 2.1.5 (32-bit)

VLC (formerly VideoLAN Client) is a lightweight player and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, also allows you to watch streaming media from remote computers and servers. Today, after so many years on the market, VLC represents one of the most popular video players on the world, with users base that eagerly awaits new upgrades to its already incredibly impressive set of services that enable anyone to fully control their multimedia playback, streaming and recording.

First version of VLC appeared on the internet in February of 2001, and it immediately raise the bar not only to the open-source and multiplatform competition, but every multimedia player on the planet. As years and new versions went by, VLC become filled with advanced features that were added as simple integrated plugins, which enabled core of VLC to remain light on processing and attractive to users who have old and slow PC configurations. The latest version of VLC are positively brimming with excellent tools and services, that cover everything from multimedia playback, setting up your own internet streaming server, recording videos from external sources, transcoding and more.

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