Audio Codecs

Dolby Digital Plus Decoder for PC OEMs is the free Dolby-licensed EAC3 codec that restores Dolby Digital Plus surround sound to Windows media apps.

DTS Audio Processing is a Windows audio-enhancement component that adds DTS bass, volume, and surround tuning on top of the built-in audio driver on many MSI, ASUS, and HP laptops.

The DirectShow source filter that makes standalone .dts, .ac3 and .eac3 audio files openable in Windows Media Player and other DirectShow players.

FDK AAC Codec is the Fraunhofer-built AAC encoder and decoder library that powers high-quality MPEG-4 audio encoding inside Windows front-ends like qaac and ShanaEncoder.

Fraunhofer MPEG Layer-3 Audio Decoder is a lightweight ACM audio codec that restores MP3 playback inside legacy DirectShow and Video-for-Windows applications.

HALAC is the multi-core lossless audio codec, built to compress large WAV archives at speeds no single-threaded encoder can reach.

With Intel Music Coder you should be able to hear sound in AVI files with IMC encoded audio.

An ACM driver that adds LAME MP3 encoding to the Windows audio compression list used by VirtualDub and other 32-bit software.

LAME MP3 Encoder is the free command-line encoder that most Windows audio software quietly uses to create MP3 files.

lossyWAV is a useful command-line tool designed to process audio files and significantly reduce their size without a noticeable loss in quality.

Allows you to associate M4P (iTunes MusicStore encrypted files) and M4B (protected Apple/Audible audiobooks) files with Winamp 2 or Winamp 5.

madFLAC is serving as a DirectShow decoder filter for FLAC files. It is also able to manage FLAC tracks found in other containers, such as MKV (Matroska) files.

Media Foundation FLAC Codec is able to decode the FLAC format. At the same time, it is a Windows Media Foundation file source.