Hutcho's Cool Software Page

Name : WinAmp MP3 Player
[WinAMP Piccy]
Win95 version download [Size 1.2MB+]
Homepage : here
Updated - Constantly

The best MP3 player is WinAMP. What is an MP3, then? Well basically its a near-cd quality (compressed) WAV sound. One minute of WAV sound this quality (approx 44kHz) takes up 12 MB, which means it's not practical to store ordinary songs in it (30-80MB+ per song). MP3, however, takes up only approx 1MB per minute. Note that you'll need a Pentium to play these sounds in full quality. WinAMP has a cool interface and is easy to use. You can use plugins for this excellent player. Click here to get them, or here for new "skins", which change the surface of the program - check em out out!

New Features:

  • It's now Freeware!
  • Nitrane 1.60 MPEG audio decoder with MMX and 3DNow! acceleration
  • MikMod module decoder plug-in version 1.3
  • Generic PCM EQ that works on most formats(WAV/XM/MOD/IT/VQF/AAC/WMA etc)
  • Self-destructing streaming dialog boxes
  • Better equalizer presets
  • Cosmetic fixes

Distributing songs and sounds on the Internet as MP3 is in a legal grey zone. Some companies allow only samples (e.g. one minute per song) of their material distributed, others think it's ok, while many spend time and money trying to stop it. For example, Geffen Records who surf the Net constantly looking for copyright violations and shutting the sites down...pikers. Amazing, if they thought there was a buck in it they'd be falling over each other to use the format.

Name : ModPlug Player 1.91.xx

From : Olivier Lapicque (homepage)
or here (official site)
Updated - Quarterly

ModPlug Player is a simple and easy to use MOD player. 669, IT, MED, MOD, MOL, MTM, NST, S3M, ULT, WOW and XM are supported. Although it's very simple, it has features like a spectrum analyzer and the ability to create play lists.
Now you can mix two MODs together by varying pitch, master volume, track volume and blending....plus more! Freeware too, so leech it now!!


GetRight v4.xx+

From : Headlight Software
Updated - Frequently

Imagine this: You're downloading some 10MB warez (oops! an extended evaluation copy) file with your 28.8k modem. When you've waited 8 hours because its a slow server and are at last 99% finished, you lose your Internet connection, or the server goes down. If you're not using GetRight, start all over again! GetRight makes it possible to resume downloads like this, as long as the server does.
New feature also allows spilt downloading - which means parts of the same files can be downloaded from various servers to increase speed.

BPM Counter v5.5.70 + BPM Counter Express v2.5.28 - freeware
From : BPM Calculator Homepage
There are three version to choose from now - BPM Counter, BPM Counter Express, and DOS version.
Push a button and you get the BPM value in real time. If you use a cd player, start your favourite cd. When you are done save the BPM value, artist and trackname to filename of your choice. Highly recommended for the DJ's out there!
Updated - Quarterly

Hardware Info v4.6+ - shareware
From : Hardware Info homepage
HWiNFO is a professional sysinfo program which is able to detect a large scale of hardware components, it recognizes hundreds of CPUs(including Pentium III's), gives detailed CPU information, FPU identification, MultiProcessor system information, Mainboard chipset detection, Main memory type and size report, Internal and external cache memory size and type report, etc etc etc...i think you get the idea....very comprehensive as its written in assembler...hence more accurate than most programs of this type.
Updated - Quarterly

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