Essential Tools for all
1. Audiograbber - an excellent CD-ripper for Windows 95/98/NT 2. Audacity - A free, open source software for recording and editing sounds in Linux, Mac OS X, and other operating systems. 3. Zortam Mp3 Media Studio - An all-in-one Mp3 aplications.It includes MP3 Organizer/ID3 Tag Editor(Mp3 Tag Editor),CD Ripper with freedb/ID3 support,Wav/Mp3 4. WavePad - a wav editor and MP3 editor, and supports a number of other file formats including vox, gsm, Real Audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and more. 5. k-Lite Codec Pack - a collection of codecs and related tools