Just
a few useful things that you may need to play and create your own MP3's.
These have been selected because of their ease of use, size and quality.
I'll try to update the softwares as and when i get my hands on them.
MP3 Players
This
is one of the most popular MP3 players out there, and has one of the most
plugins, very easy to use, and excellent quality, but limited functions.
Jet Audio 3.1
An impressive suit of audio players, that plays everything from CDs to VCDs to MP3s, very cool front end, but extremely memory intensive.
CD Rippers
An easy to use ripper used to extract songs from CDs, so that they can be converted into MP3's.
A complete ripper and encoder, very easy to use with a lot of good functions. VEry compact program and high quality encoding.
MP3 Encoders
The best freeware encoder that i've been able to find so far, very fast and easy to use. If anyone is able to find a newer version, please let me know.
MP3 Decoders
Useful
program to decode your MP3 files into Wave32 fiels so that they can be
recorded to an audio CD. Easily linked up to any CDR program to create
audio CDs from MP3s.