#1 BEST
Audacity

Audacity

Audacity Team
GPL-3.0 v3.7.7 14MB
4.3
6 reviews

Audacity is a free, open source audio editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It has been around since 2000 and is probably the most used free audio tool in the world. Record from a microphone, edit recordings, apply effects, mix multiple tracks, and export to MP3, WAV, FLAC, or OGG....

86 downloads
Windows 10/11
Official source
#2 GREAT
foobar2000

foobar2000

Peter Pawlowski
Freeware v2.25.8 7MB
4.7
7 reviews

foobar2000 is a free music player by Peter Pawlowski, a former developer at Nullsoft (the team behind Winamp). It plays pretty much every audio format: MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, Vorbis, Opus, WavPack, APE, DTS, and more. The interface is deliberately minimal and customizable. It runs ...

32 downloads
Windows 7/8/10/11
Official source
#3 SOLID
AIMP

AIMP

Artem Izmaylov
Proprietary v5.10.2418 15MB
4.7
3 reviews

AIMP is a free music player by Artem Izmaylov that plays pretty much any audio format you throw at it - MP3, FLAC, AAC, OGG, WMA, APE, WavPack, and dozens more. It's been a popular Winamp alternative in Russia and Eastern Europe for years, and it deserves more attention in the We...

36 downloads
Windows 7/8/10/11
Official source
#4
Winamp

Winamp

Winamp SA
Proprietary v5.92.0 11MB
4.8
5 reviews

Winamp is a music player that has been around since 1997. It was the MP3 player of the late 90s and early 2000s, then AOL bought it and let it rot, and it got shut down in 2013. Radionomy picked it up in 2014, rebranded as Winamp Group SA, and has been slowly rebuilding it since....

24 downloads
Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11
Official source
#5
mp3DirectCut

mp3DirectCut

Martin Pesch
Freeware v2.40 303kB
4.8
4 reviews

mp3DirectCut is a lightweight MP3 editor that works directly on compressed audio data. It cuts, trims, splits, and joins MP3 files without decoding and re-encoding, so there is zero quality loss. The program is free, portable (runs without installation), and weighs under 1 MB. Wi...

14 downloads
Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11
Official source
#6
GoldWave

GoldWave

GoldWave Inc.
Proprietary v7.04 16MB
4.0
7 reviews

GoldWave is an audio editor and converter for Windows that handles recording, editing, mixing, and batch processing of sound files. It supports WAV, MP3, FLAC, OGG, and dozens of other formats. The program is shareware with a free evaluation period. What it does Open any audio fi...

15 downloads
Windows 7/8/10/11
Official source
#7
MP3Gain

MP3Gain

Glen Sawyer
LGPL-2.1 v1.2.5
4.7
6 reviews

MP3Gain is an open source tool that normalizes the volume of MP3 files so they all play at a consistent loudness. Instead of peak normalization (which can still leave songs at different perceived volumes), it uses ReplayGain analysis to match the perceived loudness of each track....

11 downloads
Windows XP/Vista/7/8
Official source
#8
Mp3tag

Mp3tag

Florian Heidenreich
Freeware v3.34 3.7MB
5.0
4 reviews

Mp3tag is a free metadata editor for audio files by Florian Heidenreich. It edits tags (title, artist, album, year, genre, album art) in MP3, FLAC, OGG, AAC, WMA, WAV, APE, and OPUS files. The main strength is batch editing - select hundreds of files and change their tags in one ...

32 downloads
Windows 7/8/10/11
Official source
#9
jetAudio

jetAudio

JetAudio, Inc.
Freeware v8.1.12 37.1MB
4.6
5 reviews

jetAudio is a media player with built-in audio effects and format conversion. It plays music, video files, and internet radio stations, and its main feature is a sound processing engine with effects like X-Bass, BBE, Wide, and Reverb that reshape audio output in real time. The Ba...

15 downloads
Windows 7/8/10/11
Official source