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Sound:

Sound Editor

Audacity: For recording and editing sound. License: Open source.
URL: audacity.sourceforge.net

Music Sites

Adding sound to web sites: Description: Here's a site with a lot of info about adding sound to websites. Koan, FlashSound, Beatnik, VoiceXML, JSyn, ...
URL: www.sonify.org
General Digital Music Site: Description: Lots of software here.
URL: www.hitsquad.com
MP3.com: Description: Difficult to use.
URL: www.mp3.com
MP3 details reference: URL: www.id3.org/mp3frame.html
MIDI (Musical Interface Digital Instrument) Links: This is where the interest should be IMHO instead of mp3.
URL: www.aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/SMF.html Links to many MIDI sites.
URL: www.midifarm.com Files, info, news, ...
URL: www.harmony-central.com/MIDI/ Info, files, ...
URL: www.tcp-ip.or.jp/~ebiten/midi/midi.html Links to good pages.
URL: www.laurasmidiheaven.com/links/midi-links.htm Links
URL: www.ultimatemidi.com
Music Copyright Info: URL: lamusica.com/copyrightlaw.htm
Electronic Music Primer: Was going to be removed, but maybe still there.
URL: nmc.uoregon.edu/emi/
Discussion of converting WAV files to MIDI files: Description: Article on this impossible, but...
URL: WAV to MIDI

Players

The top MP3 players are Winamp (a classic and still at the top) and ?. The choice between these two top players is a matter of preference.

Winamp: Description: The original mp3 software, and perhaps still number 1, but development has been dropped.
License: Free
URL: www.winamp.com
Quintessential: Description: New player. Attractive, works well as player, but I haven't tried ripping and other features.
License: Free
URL: www.quinnware.com
Sonique: Description: Formerly popular MP3 player software. No new development.
License: Free
URL: www.sonique.com
UltraPlayer MP3 2.0: Comment: Recommended, but I haven't tried it. Lots of graphics.
License: Free, adware.
URL: www.ultraplayer.com/
RealPlayer: Comment: Plays MP3 and other formats. Includes RealJukeBox. Very popular player, but RealJukeBox not well reviewed.
License: Free, extended "pro" version for $
URL: www.real.com/

Jukeboxes

Comprehensive software for playing, managing playlists, etc. The best reviews I've seen are for MusicMatchJukebox and AudioCatalyst, neither of which is free ($30). Not recommended are RealJukeBox and AudioGrabber.

MusicMatch Jukebox: Description: Records, downloads, plays music. Internet radio.
License: Free trial, $30.
URL: www.musicmatch.com
AudoiCatalyst: Description: Another do-it-all program.
License: Free trial, $30.
URL: www.audiocatalyst.com
Media Jukebox 5.0: Description: A combined player, ripper/encoder, organizer, ....
License: 30-day trial, $15
URL: www.jriver.com

Rippers

CDex 1.30 beta 8: URL: www.cdex.n3.net

CD Writing Software

Two recommended programs to write audio CDs, doing normalization etc, are:Adaptec Easy CD Creator and CeQuadrat WinOnCD 3.7.

Encoders

You've got to encode your WAV files or CDs. Here are some programs to do it, tho many programs have MP3 encoders builtin.

Ogg Vorbis: Description: This is a competing encoding/compression technology with mp3.
URL: www.vorbis.com
LAME: Description: A GPL mp3 encoder.
URL: lame.sourceforge.net

Plugins

Beatnik plugin for Netscape: Comment: Plays mix of MIDI and wave sound. It looks like their RMF (Rich Music Format) may become popular. It's supported in Macromedia Director, Adobe GoLive, Java 1.3, and Netscape 4.?. NOTE: This is just an installer that checks for the files you need and downloads them.
URL: www.beatnik.com/
Koan IE Plugin -- out of date?: Description: Similar to Beatnik -- offers mix of synthesized music with MP3 and other. Can have very small audio files with long play times. However, it isn't a popular format.
URL: www.sseyo.com/koandesc.html

Misc

Some other recommended free programs: Cassette Tape Producer for writing to cassette tapes, MP3box for ripping and playing, and Shuffler for converting from one encoding to another.