Adapter
Adapter promises to convert anything to anything — at least among image, audio and video formats. And they’ve got a long of file types to prove it. Plus, you can also download Flash videos and copy video to iPod, iPhone and iTunes.
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.
doubleTwist
Plug and sync with Android, PSP, BlackBerry and Pre devices. Search and buy songs at the Amazon MP3 store. Convert videos to watch on your device.
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
Multithreaded video transcoder supports most common multimedia files and any DVD or Bluray-like source that is not copy-protected. Outputs to several popular file formats, including the one for Apple TV.
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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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Macsome Audio Editor
Quickly cut, trim or split audio files, using MP3 and AAC formats without quality loss. Other features include fade in and out, volume adjustment and ID tags. Can be used to create ringtones for phones (including iPhone) that use MP3 or AAC.
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MacTubes
Search YouTube and play videos from the nice, clean interface provided by MacTubes. Easily download movies in a variety of formats, plus create playlists.
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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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Media Converter
Convert avi, wmv, mkv, rm, mov and more using several presents, including iPod/iPhone. You can also create your own presets or download others. Smart settings keep your video in the correct aspect ratio.
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
Open source music and video player works with your current music library, converts and syncs to Android, allows you to buy from Amazon, downloads, plays and converts almost any video, shares media over a network, and features fast torrent downloads.
Motion FX
Moving in front of your Mac’s camera was never so much fun. Select an effect and watch what it does with face tracking and other technology. Presets include smoke, fire, rainbow plasma and 77 others. Five modes include video warp, which warps live video using your mouse or trackpad. Download is from the Mac App Store.
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.
Movist
Movie player based on QuickTime and FFmpeg features high quality captions, playlists, playback controls, full screen mode and simple interface.
MPlayerX
Powerful, easy-to-use, beautiful multimedia player works with almost any format. Smooth playback even with full HD. Supports multi-touch, intelligently detects subtitles. I’m content with QuickTime, but those who seek the ultimate video experience may find this more satisfying.
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.
SmallDVD
This simple DVD authoring utility takes video files and creates a DVD image that can be burned using Disk Utility. For some, it makes a good alternative to Apple’s iDVD. (Requires installation of iMagine Photo.)
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.
Soundflower
Open source system extension captures any sound your Mac makes — from one app (a web browser, for example) to another (say, QuickTime or GarageBand). Works great for podcasts and music. Macworld has a tutorial on how to do all this for free.
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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.
TVShows
Feed your TV addiction the easy way with TVShows. Leave this pref pane running in the background, and it will automatically seek out and download torrents for shows (using your torrent app) as they become available. Presets for many shows do all the setup for you. Tested on Big Bang Theory and worked like a charm.
Video Monkey
A video encoding program created after the demise of the popular Visual Hub. It borrows heavily from the Visual Hub video conversion tool, both conceptually and from the original code.
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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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.
X Lossless Decoder
Decode, convert and play lossless audio files. Audio files can be split into tracks with a cue sheet when decoding. Supported formats include: (Ogg) FLAC (.flac/.ogg), Monkey’s Audio (.ape), Wavpack (.wv), TTA (.tta), Apple Lossless (.m4a) [10.4 and later], AIFF, WAV.
YouTube to MP3
Go to the YouTube music video you want and copy the URL. You can then click the paste button in the app and hit the download button. A music MP3 will show up in your Music folder or, if you choose, iTunes. Super simple.
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