Sound & Video

1by1 is a freeware MP3 and audio player for Windows known for its extremely small footprint and minimal interface.

Ableton Live is a digital audio workstation for music production and live performance, known for its Session View for improvising and looping.

ACDSee is an image viewer, organizer and RAW photo editor for Windows and Mac.

Addictive Drums is a virtual drum instrument plugin used inside a DAW to program realistic acoustic drum tracks.

Adobe Audition is a professional digital audio workstation for recording, mixing, editing and restoring audio, part of Adobe Creative Cloud.

Adobe Premiere Pro is a professional timeline-based video editing application, part of Adobe Creative Cloud.

Adobe Soundbooth was a discontinued audio editing application aimed at web and video professionals, later superseded by Adobe Audition.

AIMP is a free audio player for Windows with a Winamp-like interface, an audio converter and a tag editor.

Allok is a Windows video and audio conversion utility supporting a wide range of formats.

AMCap is a simple, free video capture utility for Windows webcams and capture devices.

Ashampoo Burning Studio is commercial CD, DVD and Blu-ray burning and disc authoring software for Windows.

Avid Liquid was a discontinued standard- and high-definition video editing system for Windows.

Cakewalk (formerly SONAR, now free as Cakewalk by BandLab) is a digital audio workstation for Windows used for MIDI and audio recording, editing and mixing.

Cakewalk SONAR was the commercial predecessor of today's free Cakewalk by BandLab digital audio workstation.

CamStudio is a free, open-source screen recording tool for Windows that records the screen to AVI or SWF.

Camtasia Studio is a screen recording and video editing suite by TechSmith, widely used for tutorials and screencasts.

ConvertXtoDVD is commercial Windows software for converting and burning video files to DVD or Blu-ray.

Cool Edit Pro was an audio editor originally by Syntrillium Software; Adobe acquired it and turned it into Adobe Audition.

CyberLink PowerDVD is a commercial media player for Windows with support for Blu-ray, DVD, 4K playback and streaming.

DeliPlayer is a lightweight Windows audio player known for supporting tracker module formats (MOD, XM, S3M) alongside MP3.

Dr. DivX was a discontinued free encoding tool bundled with the DivX codec suite for converting video to the DivX format

DVD Decrypter was a discontinued freeware Windows tool for creating backup disc images of DVD-Video discs.

DVD Shrink was a discontinued freeware DVD transcoder for Windows that compresses DVD video to fit onto smaller discs.

DVDFab is a commercial suite of tools for ripping, converting, copying and playing DVDs and Blu-rays.

Easy CD-DA Extractor is commercial Windows software for ripping and converting audio CDs.

Exact Audio Copy is a free Windows CD ripper prized for its near bit-perfect, error-corrected audio extraction.

Finale is professional music notation and composition software for Windows and Mac.

FL Studio (originally FruityLoops) is a digital audio workstation by Image-Line, popular for beat-making and electronic music production.

Foobar2000 is a free, highly customizable audio player for Windows known for its modular design and low resource use.

GoldWave is a commercial digital audio editor for Windows used for recording, editing and processing sound.

Guitar Pro is commercial tablature editing and playback software for guitar, bass and multitrack scores.

ImgBurn is a free, lightweight Windows tool for creating and burning CD, DVD and Blu-ray disc images.

ISO Recorder is a free Windows utility, originally a Microsoft PowerToy, for burning ISO disc images.

iTunes is Apple's media player and library manager for music, video and podcasts, historically also used to sync and manage iOS devices.

Magic DVD Ripper is commercial Windows software for ripping DVDs to common video formats.

Media Player Classic is a lightweight, free media player for Windows that mimics the interface of the classic Windows Media Player.

Nero Burning ROM is commercial disc burning and multimedia authoring software for Windows.

Next Video Converter is a Windows utility for converting video between a wide range of formats and devices.

Winamp is an iconic media player for Windows, known for its skinnable interface and its role in early MP3 culture.

Picasa was Google's free photo organizer, viewer and light editor, discontinued in 2016.

Pinnacle Studio is consumer and prosumer video editing software for Windows, now developed by Corel.

Pro Tools is an industry-standard digital audio workstation used widely in professional music and audio production.

RealPlayer is a media player from RealNetworks, once dominant for streaming RealAudio and RealVideo and now a general-purpose media player and converter.

REAPER is an affordable, full-featured digital audio workstation for Windows and Mac known for its flexibility and small install size.

Reason is a digital audio workstation by Reason Studios modeled on a virtual rack of synths, samplers and effects.

Renoise is a digital audio workstation built around a tracker-style pattern sequencer, popular for electronic music production.

ShaPLAY is a niche Windows player built specifically for high-resolution DVD-Audio discs.

Sibelius is professional music notation and composition software, a longtime rival to Finale.

Sound Forge is professional digital audio editing software, originally by Sonic Foundry and now developed by MAGIX, used for waveform editing and mastering.

Vegas Pro is non-linear video and audio editing software, originally by Sonic Foundry/Sony and now developed by MAGIX.

Cubase is a professional digital audio workstation by Steinberg used for MIDI and audio recording and production.

Nuendo is Steinberg's digital audio workstation aimed at post-production, film scoring and broadcast audio.

Switch Sound File Converter is a simple Windows utility for batch-converting audio files between formats.

TheLastRipper is a Windows CD ripping and encoding tool supporting several output formats.

Total Video Converter is commercial Windows software for converting video and audio between formats and devices.

Traktor is DJ mixing and performance software by Native Instruments, commonly paired with dedicated DJ controllers.

Ulead VideoStudio, now Corel VideoStudio, is consumer video editing software for Windows.

VirtualDub is a free, open-source video capture and processing utility for Windows, popular for AVI editing and filtering.

VLC is a free, open-source, cross-platform media player and framework by VideoLAN that plays virtually any audio or video format out of the box.

WaveLab is professional audio editing and mastering software by Steinberg.

WavePad is audio editing software for Windows and Mac by NCH Software.

Windows Media Center was Microsoft's discontinued digital video recorder and media hub for Windows.

Windows Media Player is Microsoft's built-in application for playing and organizing audio, video and images on Windows.

Windows Movie Maker was Microsoft's discontinued free, entry-level video editor bundled with Windows.

Zoom Player is customizable media player software for Windows aimed at home theater PC setups.