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  • See    SOUND & MUSIC
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    CDDB AcornCD CDDB server: downloads and stores track listings for your CDs from an online audio CD database 0.25 32-bit Web
    Zip See
    Development version with source, documentation and an extra tool 0.25 Zip See
    Convert CDtoWav A small application to convert raw CD audio data into WAV format 0.02 32-bit Dev Zip
    See Run
    SoundCon Converts between different sample formats, allowing adjustment of frequencies, stereo settings, 8-/16-bit, signed/unsigned etc.; very useful when dealing with samples from the Internet and elsewhere 1.63 32-bit Web Zip
    See Run
    Play Amp RISC OS music player, similar to Windows' WinAmp and compatible with WinAmp 'skins' 2.02 32-bit Web Zip
    See Run
    Beeps Collections of system sounds 2.00 Dev
    Zip See
    DigitalCD Extremely versatile music player, capable of handling a vast range of music format and featuring support for plug-ins and 'skins' (a DigitalCD mailing list is now available) 2.56 32-bit Dev
    Zip See
    Extras for DigitalCD, including graphical effects plug-ins and a wide variety of skins See
    Monolith Plays MIDI files as a background task (front-end to the EtherealMidi module) 2.22 Web Zip
    See Run
    MP3 AMPlayer Fast, accurate and compatible MP3 music player designed for StrongARM machines 1.39 Web
    Zip See
    PlayIt PlayIt Playing module, used by a number of other applications, which can play samples in a variety of formats in the background from secondary storage (usually a hard disc) 1.68 32-bit Web
    Zip See
    PlaySound Plays samples using PlayIt 1.75 beta 5 Web Zip
    See Run
    QTMPlay QTMPlay is a simple but effective multi-format music player which can handle most common formats (including MIDI), but not MP3 2.29 Web Zip
    See Run
    Tools GrabSound A utility to capture music played through the 16-bit SoundDMA buffer as a WAVE file 1.00 Dev Zip
    See Run
    Midiphile Description/cleaning of MIDI files 0.23 32-bit Dev Zip
    See Run
    Mixer Volume control for internal, CD-ROM and SharedSound sound channels 0.20 32-bit Dev Zip
    See Run
    ReadAudio Allows you to grab audio data directly from many different SCSI CD-ROM drives, independently of the CDFS driver in use; contains specifically optimised drivers for Toshiba and Plextor drives 0.03 Dev
    Zip See
    Tribbeck Desktop Tracker Suite of programs for creating and playing SoundTracker music 1.21 Web Zip
    See Run
    Sonor Sound editor which supports a variety of sample formats 1.07 Web Zip
    See Run
    Sonor Jnr Sound editor and recorder; less technically capable than Sonor, but with a more advanced user interface 0.12 Web Zip
    See Run
    Talking Canvas Junior Simple multimedia presentation application which allows animated pages to be created: sounds and speech can be triggered when the user clicks in different areas of the page 1.04 Web Zip
    See Run
    Tunes MIDIs MIDI files for use with a variety of music applications Zip See
    MP3s Free and legal MP3s for use with AMPlayer etc. Web See
    SoundTracks SoundTracker music for use with Desktop Tracker and most music player software See