Adobe Media Player
Watch shows and videos either by streaming or download. Sort your favourite content and search for new material. Supported by ads.
Ardour
Record, edit and mix multi-track audio, produce CDs, and mix video soundtracks.
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Audacity
Audacity records and edits sounds with aplomb, with tons of new features constantly being added.
Audion
This alternative to iTunes was recently retired. You may find Audion more to your liking than Apple’s product.
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Burn
Burn data disks, audio disks (MP3, audio CD), video disks (VCD, SVCD, DVD-Video, DivX), images and disk copy—just about anything you can think of. And all with great ease.
Cameras
Designate which program launches when you plug in your digital camera, iPhone, digital media reader or any other photo device. It doesn’t have to be iPhoto.
Cog
An open source audio player for OS X (10.4 and above) that supports the following formats: Ogg Vorbis, Mp3, Flac, Musepack, Monkeys Audio, Shorten, Wavpack, AAC, and Wave/AIFF.
Flip4Mac
Play windows media in your QuickTime Player with these components from Flip4Mac, and say goodbye to yet another Microsoft program. Works great.
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FrameByFrame
Create stop-motion animation videos using any webcam/video camera connected to your Mac, including iSight. Just take some pictures and soon you have a stop-motion QuickTime movie.
Handbrake
Rip and convert from DVD to MPEG-4. Take that video and turn it into a movie on your hard drive. You can also rip and extract DVDs with MacTheRipper.
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Also try: MacTheRipper
LiquidCD
CD/DVD recording app to burn hybrids, cue/bin files. Burned video DVDs should work on almost any desktop DVD player.
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Max
Create high-quality audio files in various formats from compact discs or files. Compressed and uncompressed formats include MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Apple Lossless, Monkey’s Audio, WavPack, Speex, AIFF, and WAVE.
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MetaX
Tag your MP4 files the easy way with an app that searches the IMDB catalogue and puts the information in for you. Share data via tagChimp, scan DVD barcodes with iSight and search the Internet for movie posters.
Miro
Search, download and view videos from channels you create via RSS feeds. Torrents are also available. This open source player is built by a non-profit organization with the goal of giving “the best possible video experience.”
MovieGallery
Drag and drop to organize, create playlists and watch movies in full-screen. Publish and share movies on the web and on mobile phones with playlists. Preview thumbnails, information and everything intact.
NicePlayer
This media player uses all the QuickTime codecs but without the nags. Go beyond what QuickTime can do with plug-ins, including support for DVD.
Perian
QuickTime plug-in allows it to play many additional media types.
RGB MusicLab
Ever wonder what a musical Mona Lisa would sould like? RGB MusicLab takes the pixels in a painting, judges their colours and brightness, then interprets them to create music. Don’t like what you hear? There are many options to adjust your final composition.
Riffworks T4
Guitar recording and online collaboration program includes looped recording, automatic track creation, InstantDrummer, effects, song posting, online collaboration, and a tutorial in 14 languages. You can record songs online with friends for free.
Songbird
An open-source, customizable music player under active development. It’s designed to be a non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible tool that enables new ways to playback, manage and discover music.
Switch
Convert audio files to one of 16 formats. If it doesn’t have the codec you want, it will download it on the fly.
VLC Player
It will play just about any kind of video or audio format you can imagine — thus making VLC Player one of the most popular downloads of all. But it has a big rival you might want to consider — MPlayer.
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Also try: MPlayer
Vox
Lightweight, nice-looking music player supports FLAC, MP3, AAC, Musepack, Monkey’s Audio, OGG Vorbis, Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV, IT, MOD, XM, Games Music and many others. Plus, there are several effects, and you can export to MP3, AAC, WAV and other formats.