Portable Audio Video Software Category

Music2PC is a freeware standalone MP3 Music Downloader created by David Hall. According to David, This non-bittorrent and non-peer-to-peer software can be used to legally get free MP3s posted via 100% Free Legal Music Sources on the Internet. Just type the name of the artist or or song you want to download, optionally choose the output destination folder, click search, and download from the results. Songs download extremely fast, and can be played back as they are downloaded.

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GSpot is a Freeware Audio Video Codec Checker created by Steve Greenberg. It can be used to quickly check which codec is required to play a select media file. GSpot will tell you if the system has the required codecs installed to play the file. Simply drag and drop the file you would like to check into the program window. Although GSpot is self executing and does run from the flash drive without installation,  it writes to registry (and some may consider it not portable).

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MP3 Quality Modifier is a Free tool created by Kevin Schneider. Very useful for reducing the amount of space your Mp3 inventory takes up, while maintaining sound quality and ID3 tags. It enables you to edit the quality (Bitrate and Frequency) of your Mp3 files and save the converted files to a new location.

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Installed Codec is a Free program created by NirSoft. It enables you to view detailed information regarding exactly what Codec drivers and DirectShow filters are installed on a system. Codecs and DirectShow filters can also be enabled or disabled via the tool.

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MediaInfo is an Open Source Tool that can be used to display tag and other techinical information about any select audio or video file. MediaInfo can also be used to locate missing codecs or find a player for the select audio/video file. Retrieved media information can also be displayed and even exported many different ways.

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TapinRadio is an internet radio player and internet radio recorder created by Raimersoft. It sports the ability to not only play internet radio, but also record a single song, or record an audio stream with or without splitting, and even schedule time and day to start and stop recording. TapinRadio is multilingual, includes a station browser, station URL entry, station update tool, and a sleep timer.

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YouTube Downloader HD is a Free Portable YouTube Video Downloader tool that can be used to download videos from YouTube and save them to your Hard Drive or removable USB device. You can start another instance of YouTube Downloader HD to download multiple videos at the same time. YouTube Videos can be converted from FLV to AVI video (XVID) or MP4 formats.

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PlayTime is a Play Time Calculator created by Skwire Empire. It can be used to calculate the total play time for most Movie and Music Files. Features include a drag and drop interface, total time of all files is calculated on the fly,  file size is also displayed, information is exportable as a CSV file. PlayTime is a lifesaver for those moments when you need to know how long that video/song or media collection is going to take to play.

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Trout is a Portable and Simple Audio Player created by Skwire Empire. It can be used as a simple software audio player to play AIFF, AIF, AIFC, MP1, MP2, MP3, OGA, OGG, WAV, MO3, XM, MOD, S3M, IT, MTM files. It can also play FLAC, WMA, WMP, WMV, ASF, MID, MIDI, RMI, KAR, WV, WVC, AAC, MP4, M4A, M4B, M4P, APE, AC3, SPX, TTA, OFR, MPC, ALAC with plugins. Simply load your files and let it play.

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VideoCacheView is a Free Portable Video Tool created by NirSoft. After watching a video online, you might want to save the video file and watch it offline at a later point in time. VideoCacheView can be used to do just that. Play, Save, Copy, or Extract Videos stored in your Web Browser Cache after viewing or watching them online. The tool will scan the entire cache of Internet Explorer and Mozilla based Web browsers like Firefox.

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InstantMask is a Free Background Removing Tool created by Clipping Path Studio. It can be used to remove the background from a picture or photo quickly and easily. Simply trace inside the image you want to keep with the green crayon, and then trace just outside of the image with the red crayon, click preview and the tool will clip the background.

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TagScanner is a Freeware Portable Tool created by Sergey Serkov that can be used to manage your music collection. It enables it's user to rename music files based on tag information, generate tag information from file or folder names, import tag information from an online databases like freedb or Amazon, and much more. TagScanner Supports ID3 1.0/1.1/2.2/2.3/2.4 tags, APE v1 and v2 tags, Vorbis Comments, WMA tags and MP4(iTunes) metadata and also includes it's own built in media player.

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Foobar2000 is a small Portable freeware audio player created by Peter Pawlowski that supports the playback of many audio formats. Supported audio formats include MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, and SND. More media formats are supported by installing additional components.

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XMedia Recode is a Portable Freeware Video and Audio Converter created by Sebastian Dörfler. It can be used to convert audio and video formats from one format to another. Very useful if you want to be able to play your audio and video files on multiple devices like iPod, iPhone, Zune, Samsung, SonyEricsson, Zune, PSP, Blackberry, LG, etc in a media format that those devices support.

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SE-MediaPlayer is a Freeware Media Player offered by SE-SOFT. This classic style Multi Media Player supports all modern multimedia formats. It includes an embedded media library, features built in audio and video codecs management,  can be minimized to the system tray, offers various skinned compact modes, is multilingual, and is available in a portable version.

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NexusImage is a Free Image Viewer created by JungHoon Noh (xiles). This Portable Image Viewer can be used to display JPEG, Bitmap, GIF, PNG, TIFF, ICO, WMF, and EMF image formats. The selected image appears in the preview window (along with directory name, image size and capacity). The side panel displays all additional images available from the current directory.

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Shrink Pic is a Free Picture Resizing Tool that allows you to (Shrink Pictures) and Resize Pictures. Most pictures taken with digital cameras are too large in both capacity and image dimensions to send via email or post on a website, blog or forum. With Shrink Pic, you can shrink and resize your photos via a drag and drop process.  This tool can take JPG, BMP, PNG, TIF, and GIF images and export them as JPG, BMP or PNG image files. Adjustable Compression levels allow you to create pictures ranging from 15KB to 450KB in capacity.

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iPodME is a Portable (Media Encoder) that allows you to easily convert video files into an iPod compatible format. You can then bring those favorite videos with you on your iPod. Options include adjustable video resolution and encoding profile. Slower encoding provides better detail. By default, the new video files are exported to the same directory the executable is run from.

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iWisoft Free Video Converter is a Free Tool that can be used to convert videos from one format to another.  The Video Converter supports just about every known format, including AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, XviD, MP4, H.264/AVC, AVCHD, FLV, MKV, RM, MOV, 3GP, and audio MP3, WMA, WAV, RA, M4A, AAC, AC3, OGG. Videos can be converted to video or audio formats for playback on a PC, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, PS3, Xbox, Creative Zen, Zune, Archos or other device. You can also add watermarks and crop your videos with this Free Video Editing Utility.

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AIMP2 is a feature rich Portable Freeware Mp3 Audio and Internet Radio Player. In addition to Streaming Internet Radio, this Freeware Audio Player can play audio formats such as MP1, MP2, MP3, MPC / MP+, AAC, AC3, Ogg, FLAC,APE, WavPack, Speex, WAV, CDA, WMA, S3M, XM, MOD, IT, MO3, MTM, UMX. AIMP2 key features include skin ability, plugins, audio grabber, audio converter,  recorder, 18 band eq, playlist and more. AIMP2 is available in most languages and is considered by many to be a better audio playing software alternative than Winamp.

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AoA Audio Extractor is a Free tool that can be used to extract audio from video files "Video to Mp3" for example. It also supports extracting audio from AVI, MPEG, MPG, FLV, MOV, WMV, MP4, DAT video files and saving the extracted audio as MP3, WAV or AC3 files. Other key features include adjustable audio bitrates and audio sample rates and, the ability to select a only a portion of the video for audio extraction.

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Radio Sure (Radio?Sure!) is a Free Portable Internet Radio Player that offers access to (Stream Internet Radio) play songs from Internet Radio Stations. You can also Record Internet Music using an included Internet Radio Recorder and it allows simultaneous recording of multiple stations. Over 12000 radio stations are included with Radio Sure, supporting mp3, wma, ogg vorbis, aac+ playback formats.

Other features include; quick search for radio stations, smooth cross faded transitioning between stations, alternate skins available for free or purchase.

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Free YouTube to Mp3 Converter is a Portable Application that can be used to Convert YouTube Videos to Mp3 or Download Mp3 from YouTube Video Files. Mp3s can be downloaded from a single YouTube Video, Complete YouTube Playlist, Video Responses, All Videos of a YouTube user or channel, all Videos from users favorites.

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Free Video Flip and Rotate is a Free software that as it's name suggests can be used to rotate a video or flip a video clip vertically, horizontally, 90 or 180 degrees clockwise or counterclockwise. Rotated Video files can then be converted into MP4 format and played back using your favorite video player.

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YouTube Video Search is a YouTube Downloader that will allow you to search for and Download Videos from YouTube. The Videos can then be saved as either Flash (.flv) or MPEG4 (.MP4) files. The YouTube Video Search tool also displays the Type, Rating, Duration and Date the file was added of searched videos. This Portable Application can be stored on and run directly from a USB device.

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Audio/Video to EXE Converter is a Portable Software that allows you to convert Audio and Video files from one format to another. The utility can be used as either a converter or player. In addition, you can create self playing executable files from your audio or video files. Audio to EXE, Video to EXE etc. You can play the resulting exe without a dedicated player and accompanying codec. It works standalone.

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IrfanView is a Free Image Viewer a Free Image Editor and a Free Media Player/Editor that can be used to open, view, edit and convert images and multiple media formats. Use irfanView to sharpen or blur images, cut and crop images, draw lines, circles, arrows, add text, straighten images, rotate images, apply batch conversions, create panoramas, take screenshots, create slideshows and so much more. Supports Adobe Photoshop Filters and many image, video and sound formats, including MP3, AVI, FLV, audio CD, and WMA. You can even use IrfanView to play movies.

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Wega2 is a Portable Free Image Viewer for viewing and comparing digital photos and images. Wega2 includes tools that can be used to compare images and analyze exif data with the built in ExposurePlot program, email images, run a slideshow, view thumbnails, paperclip shortcuts to images and much more. In our tests, we were even able to view photoshop PSD files with Wega2.

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Free Video Downloader is a free Portable Application that allows you to download video files from YouTube, Google Video, Break and many other video services. Downloaded videos can be saved in the FLV format or converted for example from YouTube to AVI, YouTube to Mp3, MP4, MPG, MOV, MP3, WAV etc.

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Pazera Free Audio Extractor is a portable application that can be used to extract the audio tracks from video files without loss of sound quality. The Audio Extractor can convert the sound files to MP3, AAC, AC3, WMA, FLAC, OGG or WAV format and supports (AVI, FLV, MP4, MPG, MOV, RM, 3GP, WMV, VOB) video formats. Additionally, the Audio Extraction Tool can be used as a supplementary Free Audio Converter.

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MP3Tag is as the name implies, a Free Portable Mp3 Tag Editor. The Universal Tag Editor can be used to edit metadata of common audio formats, supporting ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments and APE Tags. Mp3Tag can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words in tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and much more.

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M3 is a stand alone (portable) Free Music Player that can be used to playback your .Wav or MP3 music files. The M3 Music Player can be stored and run entirely from your portable USB device. M3 is very Minimalistic. Forward, Back, Pause, Search, Shuffle and Current Track Time options are all that's available. M3 can also be minimized to the system tray to reduce your desktop clutter.

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Ubiquitous Player is an All-In-One Portable Media Player, Portable Image Viewer, Portable  Text Editor and Portable File Manager. The tool allows it's user to play video files, view images,  listen to mp3 and CD music, edit text or add notes, navigate file folders and, browse the web.  All of this and more using a single portable application.

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Avi to Mpeg is free portable  conversion tool that can be used to convert almost any type of video file to mpeg movie files. For example, it can be used to convert avi to mpeg, divx to mpeg, xvid to mpeg, wmv to mpeg, mp4 to mpeg, 3gp to mpeg, mov to mpeg, flv to mpeg or mkv to mpeg. Mpeg otherwise known as mpg is a univeral audio/video compression standard that is supported by many popular video playback utilities.

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Wmv Converter is free portable wmv conversion utility that can be used to convert almost any video format to wmv. For example, the tool can be used to convert avi to wmv, mpeg to wmv, mp4 to wmv and much more.  Wmv or Windows Media Video is a compressed video format invented by Microsoft and is a common audio/video file format accepted for playback by Windows Media Player.

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Flv Converter is a Free portable tool that can convert Macromedia Flash FLV "flash video formatted" files into many different popular formats. For example convert flv to avi, flv to mpeg, flv to mp4, flv to mov, flv to ipod, flv to psp, flv to iPhone, flv to 3gp or flv to mp3 files. Conversion enables you to playback those video files or movie clips utilizing a standard audio/video file format your favorite video player might use.

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Avanti GUI is a free portable audio video conversion tool with a graphical front end. It allows a user to convert for example: "FFmpeg codecs" such as Mpeg, AVI, Xvid formats. Avanti GUI offers user friendly control over all basic and advanced FFmpeg options. This portable video editing tool is used in conjunction with FFmpeg and offers the option to run Avisynth as the pre processor. FFmpeg includes libavcodec, the leading open source codec library for encoding and decoding audio/video.

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WebVideoCap is a FREE portable application that will allow you to download flash videos directly from any web page. If you have ever had the desire to save a video you are watching a on a Website to your hard drive so you can later view it offline, WebVideoCap is for you. With this tool, you can download flash video (.flv) files and RTSP, MMS video streams while they are being played in a browser.

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LamedropXPd is a Portable Audio Encoder and Decoder. It can be used to encode WAV to MP3 format. It can also be used to decode MP3 files to WAV, transcode Ogg Vorbis files, while auto tagging files it encodes. LameDropXPd is basically a graphical frontend for the popular LAME MP3 encoder that makes things easier for the end user, as there is no need to learn how to use the command line.

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Swiff Player is a Free Stand alone SWF flash player that can be used to play .swf flash files and movies. It supports OpenGL hardware acceleration and can play back swf files full screen at maximum frame rates. Swiff Player supports 3D effects as well. Most importantly, it can be run from a portable USB device such as a flash drive. This application requires roughly 1.4MB of free space for portable installation.

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1by1 is a tiny, powerful and fast portable audio player that provides a simple and smart environment with which to manage and play tracks from your music collection. 1by1 is super simple, it eliminates the need for a database or playlist to play your music. It supports mp2, mp3 and mpglib, ogg, and wav playback. 1by1 also features gapless playback, folder tree navigation and music directory finder. This portable audio tool requires roughly 124KB of disk space for portable installation.

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mp3DirectCut is a portable mp3 audio editor and recorder. It allows a user to directly cut, copy, paste or change the volume with no need to decompress your files for audio editing. Saving encoding time while preserving the original audio quality. Mp3DirectCut features a built in recorder to help create mp3's on the fly from your audio source. It also contains advanced features that allow a user to cut, shorten or fade files. This application requires 348KB of free disk space for complete portable installation.

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Xion much like Winamp, is a skinnable high fidelity audio player (Free Music Player). Some key features include streaming MP3/OGG internet radio, gapless audio playback, presets for a 10 band equalizer, customizable hotkeys, dockable system tray support and more. Xion is easy to skin using a powerful but simple skinning system. This application requires roughly 3.06MB of free disk space for portable installation.

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FLV Player is a Free stand alone (FLV) Portable flash video player that allows a user to play Adobe flash video files on a Windows PC. Flash Video files can be opened and played back either from a locally saved .flv file or streamed from a URL. This flash media player supports drag and drop functionality as well as full screen mode. FLV Player requires roughly 3.10MB of free space for complete portable installation.

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Winamp is probably the most popular MP3 player (Free Music Player) available. Originally created by Nullsoft, Winamp is also known as the Ultimate MP3 Player. It is not only skinnable but supports playlists, various cool plugins, a graphical equalizer, visualizations and much more. It supports the playback of AVI, NSV, WMV, MPG video files as well. Best of all Winamp can easily be made to run from your favorite USB flash drive or other portable device.

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SUPER (Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer) can be used to convert one type of media format to another. SUPER can convert IPod and mobile formats as well making it a great tool for those who use portable media players. SUPER currently supports the following 3GP/3G2, ASF, AVI, FLI, FLC, FLV, MPG, MOV, MP4, OGG, QT, RM, STR, SWF, VIV, VOB, WMV, AC3, AAC, AMR, MP2, MP3, MP4, OGG, RA, WMA media formats.

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Wavosaur is a free portable wav and mp3 editing tool that allows it's user to easily edit/remaster audio in multiple formats. It can be used for editing, processing and recording various sounds including wav and mp3 files. Wavosaur contains features that allow a user to edit via cut, copy or paste and even produce musical loops. More importantly, Wavosaur can be run portably from a USB flash drive or other portable device.

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Soprano is a tiny (minimalist audio player) that runs in the systems tray. Soprano can be further controlled by hot keys. You can drag and drop music files or even complete directories containing your music to the program to add them to the list. Soprano supports the playback of MP1, MP2, MP3, OGG, WAV and WMA files. It's a great tiny Audio playback tool to add to your USB collection.

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Folder2ISO is a Free software utility (Portable ISO Creator) that allows it's user to create an ISO image of any directory, folder, subfolder and or any files residing on your Windows computer. The user can then burn the ISO image back to a disk using a CD/DVD Burner and ISO compatible recording software. A must have portable backup application.

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XMPlay is a win32 portable audio player that was originally introduced in 1998 to support the XM audio format. Today, like many audio players (such as Winamp) , it supports your typical CDA, IT, OGG, MO3, MP1, MP2, MP3, MTM, MOD, WMA, WAV, XM, S3M, UMX audio formats. It also supports additional formats via the use of plugins. In addition, XMPlay recognises many types of playlists such as ASX, M3U, PLS and WAX. Best of all, you can bring XMPlay Audio player with you to run from the smallest of portable USB flash drives.

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CDex is an Open Source CD ripper and encoder or CDAA utility. This tool enables a user to extract, convert and save + encode digital audio files to compressed or non compressed audio file formats. Typical encoders supported by CDex are MP3, MP2, APE, Ogg Vorbis, NTT VQF, FAAC, WMA8. Files can be ripped and converted from an audio CD using your computers CD Drive or from an audio (Example: WAV) file that has been saved on the computers hard drive. This CDex audio ripper and encoder utility can be installed to and run directly from a USB device.

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Download videos you view online with VDownloader.  VDownloader is a portable video download and file conversion tool that allows it's user to download video files from video sites like Metacafe, MySpace, DailyMotion, Stage6 DivX, 123 Video, Youtube, Google Video and more. The user has the option to save video files in formats including MPG or AVI or even extract audio from a video file as Mp3. VDownloader utilizes it's own browser and search features, so you can search for and view videos using the same application.

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Create an ISO from a CD or DVD. LC ISO Creator is portable Free ISO Maker software that allows a user to make an ISO image directly from any disk CD or DVD that is installed in the client computers CD/DVD-ROM drive. This tool makes for a great portable utility because the user can backup a CD or DVD disk to a storable ISO file which can later be burned back to a CD or DVD.
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Fre:ac,  formerly BonkEnc is a free portable application that can rip CD's and encode and convert audio files to different formats. This enables the user to play the converted audio in various hardware and software players. It can create AAC, MP3, MP4, M4A, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis and Bonk files. Fre:ac can be run from a portable device and supports twenty eight different languages via the included smooth translator utility.

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