foobar2000 is a free, lightweight audio player for Windows that leans on optional components and configuration instead of a fixed interface.

Kodi is a free, open-source media center for Windows, Mac and Linux that organises your movies, TV shows and music into a browsable library with cover art.

Jellyfin Server puts you in complete control of your media library with subscription-free streaming across all devices.

The official AOMedia reference encoder for AV1 - the yardstick every other AV1 encoder is measured against, and by some distance the slowest of them.

Mozilla Firefox delivers independent, privacy-first browsing with Enhanced Tracking Protection, local AI-powered translation, and a commitment to keeping the web open and accessible for everyone.

The standard toolkit for rebuilding MKV files - merge, split, retag and extract tracks losslessly, because it rewrites the container and never the video.

Zoom Player is able to play almost any format you throw at it and its interface is extremely intuitive and easy to use.

Apple ProRes RAW for Windows is a free decoder that lets supported Windows editing apps open ProRes RAW footage rather than a program you run.

FLAC Frontend-H is a free portable Windows front-end that drives the official FLAC encoder from a window instead of the command line.

FFmpeg is the command-line multimedia engine that most other conversion, encoding and streaming tools on this site quietly run on.

x265 is the open-source H.265/HEVC encoder that powers most free video converters on Windows.

VLC is the Mac player people install the day QuickTime refuses a file, and then never uninstall.

Spotify for Mac delivers unlimited music, podcasts, and audiobooks through high-quality OGG Vorbis streaming.