AudioFlash
AudioFlash is an easy to use compact audio recorder and player for Web application. The program allows you to quickly and easily add audio to your website by creating MP3 compressed audio files and a set of Play, Pause and Stop buttons (SWF Flash) enabling visitors to have complete control over the audio. Once your audio and buttons have been created, you can either copy and paste the generated HTML into a nother webpage or use the built-in FTP client to upload everything as-is to your server. Program features include: Multiple sample rates - (48KHz, 44KHz and 32KHz), Complete bitrate control from 192 bps right down to 32bps, Record in stereo, mono or even dual-channel, Choose from dozens of audio player button colors to blend with any existing website design and more.
Download AudioFlash V1.2. For Win: 9x, ME, 2000, NT and XP | File size: 1.8 MB.

Audacity
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. With Audacity you can: Record live audio, Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files, Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together, Change the speed or pitch of a recording...and much more!
Download Audacity. For Win: 9x, ME, 2000, NT and XP | File size: 2.7 MB.

Soliton
Here's a freeware sound editor for recording and manipulating sound files. The program features many sound file filters and effects all packaged in a very small digital footprint. Features include: normalize, fade, delay, echo, repeated echo reverb and more. The interface is graphical with slide bar frequency date and time stops.
Download Soliton. For Win: 9x, ME, 2000, NT and XP | File size: 296 KB.

Audioblast
Audioblast is a freeware program to edit sounds. The program works with WAV-files, but can also open and save MP3 and WV. The program is a little slow, but it can do really cool things with your sounds. It has all the standard desktop-functions like cut, paste, delete and mix. Program effects include: soften, alien, satellite, creaking, echo, volume control, reverse and shrink. It also has an unlimited Undo-function. The program interface allows for sound files to be displayed in several ways including the two channels of a stereo sound which are displayed separated and you can edit them separated.
Download Audioblast. For Win: 9x, ME, 2000, NT and XP | File size: 2.37 MB.

Free Sound Players

Billy
Billy is a freeware audio player that allows you to quickly play an entire directory of MP3 files. It can usually load files 2 to 8 times faster than winamp or media player. Billy plays music albums without any gaps between tracks, so an overlapping applause or beat will continue. The player is 100% controllable by keyboard and its easy finder and special rename functions help you to find and organize your files quickly. Billy also incorporates other useful features as well like a sleep timer and more. See site for complete details.
Download Billy. For Win: 9x, ME, 2000, NT and XP | File size: 881 KB.

Quintessential
Stop letting your media player push you around, take control with QCD's new and improved arsenal of features. Quintessential (QCD) is an awesome, fully skin-able freeware audio player with a powerful plug-in capabilities, not the least of witch are superior audio visualizations. QCD is fully customizable and can be set up to be as simple or feature rich as you like. Most importantly you can take control of your listening experience for free. There are no Pro versions, cripples, nags or spyware. See site for complete program feature details.
Download Quintessential. For Win: 9x, ME, 2000, NT and XP | File size: 2.5 MB.

Dojo Media Player 2003
Dojo Media Player 2003 is the world's first interactive media player. Using Dojo, you can not only play back your audio and video, but also mix and scratch like a professional DJ. Its carefully designed, customizable interface helps you to easily manage playback, with features such as mouse gestures, hotkeys, and tray icon buttons. Among other features there is an integrated CD, DVD, and DivX player, support for Winamp plug-ins, and even a built-in image viewer. Dojo supports M3U and PLS playlists, ZIP files, and over 30 audio, music, video, graphic, animation, and multimedia formats--including MP3, numerous MOD formats, numerous waveform audio, MIDI, Windows Media Audio/Video, QuickTime, RealAudio, numerous bitmap files, and many more. There are also many skins, plug-ins and visuals available for use, some of which already come with the installation.
Download Dojo Media Player 2003. For Win: 9x, ME, 2000, NT and XP | File size: 2.6 MB.

AudioPlayer
AudioPlayer is a DirectShow based freeware media player capable of playing MP3, MPGA, WAV, MIDI, AU, WMA and ASF sound files as well as WPL, ASX, WMX, WAX and M3U playlists. AudioPlayer also utilizes streaming Internet media so you can listen to files from the net without changing applications. Volume and file seeking controls allow you to find and listen to the best parts of the music at a sound level to suit you. A handy mute option also provides silence on demand without stopping the music. AudioPlayer has a super small digital footprint and takes up only 86 KB of hard disk. It also typically uses 50-90% less CPU power with 2 to 5 times less memory usage than Windows Media Player 10, AudioPlayer allows you to use your computers resources the way you want. The program also allows you to minimize it into the system tray freeing up taskbar real estate.
Download AudioPlayer. For Win: 2000 and XP | File size: 47 KB.

vanBasco's Karaoke Player
Into Karaoke? We've been searching for a really good computer based freeware Karaoke Player software program for quite some time now. We're happy to say we've found one! vanBasco's Karaoke Player is a 100% ad-free, no-nag freeware program that plays Karaoke and standard MIDI files. It's main interface is completely customizable. You can change colors, fonts, number of lines (up to four) and background images. Lyrics can be displayed in full-screen. You can change and recall tempo, volume, and key of a song, and mute or solo instruments. The player is super easy to install and use and can be integrated with Internet Explorer or Netscape.
Download vanBasco's Karaoke Player. For Win: 9x, ME, 2000, NT and XP | File size: 676 KB.

Free Sound Utilities

TicTacTune
TicTacTune is a freeware audio frequency analyzer. TicTacTune reads sound from the system default microphone, searches for the main frequency and presents the result. This presentation can be changed with a context menu (a menu that appears when you press the right mouse button) and with some buttons placed in a toolbar above the presentation area. It has built-in markers for guitar and banjo (5-stringed G) strings, with an option for adding your own strings. The program has a super small digital footprint requiring only it's .exe file to run.
Download TicTacTune. For Win: XP | File size: 27 KB.

Volumouse
Volumouse is freeware and provides you a quick and easy way to control the sound volume on your system - simply by rolling the wheel of your wheel mouse. It allows you to define a set of rules for determining when the wheel will be used for changing the sound volume. For example: You can configure Volumouse to use your mouse wheel for volume control when the Alt key is hold down, when the left mouse button is down, when the mouse cursor is over the taskbar, and so on... When the conditions that you define are not satisfied, your mouse wheel will be used for the regular scrolling tasks, exactly as before.
Download Volumouse. For Win: 9x, ME, 2000, NT and XP | File size: 74 KB.

Mute it!
Mute it! is a simple and small freeware audio Sleep Timer that works with any application (REAL, WINAMP, Windows Media, iTUNES, and many more!) It features a variable timer amount and will automatically restores volume when closed.
Download Mute it!. For Win: 9x, ME, 2000, NT and XP | File size: 27 KB.

Yamp Sound Utility
This Freeware audio and video player has been a favorite of media junkies for years. The program has an intuitive interface that's easy to learn and use. Yamp plays just about every audio and video format there is so it's all you really need for downloading and listening/viewing files!
Download Yamp. For Win: 9x | File size: 1.9 MB.