When it comes to media players that are feature-rich, easy to use, and conflict-free, KMPlayer is without a doubt one of the best. If all you want is to enjoy watching movies or listen to your audio files, you will most likely never have to change any of the default settings – simply run the player, open your files and enjoy. However, the more advanced users will find anything that they need as well – KMPlayer supports plugins, internal and external filters, various subtitles (including text to speech for reading subtitles), and most of the media file formats such as VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg Theora, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, and QuickTime amongst others.

Miro is a cross-platform, open source software that provides you with a free high definition media player and video podcast manager. It allows you to search for video files on the most popular movie sharing sites, organize your local media files into libraries, subscribe to audio and video feeds, build playlists, and get access to legal torrents.

If you want to download files of any kind: movies, music, video clips, documents, software, games and books, then Vuze is the tool that you need. With this based on the bittorent protocol application even the largest files can be downloaded in a matter of minutes, providing that you have fast Internet connection and there are enough people seeding them; this allows independent producers and musicians to share their work with millions of users Worldwide without having to spend huge amount of money on bandwidth and servers. It also lets the regular user share any of his files with all his online friends or the entire community.

Video files can be tricky things to get your head around. A word document is going to open in word, no matter what the content is. A Jpeg picture will be viewable on your photo editing software on any modern computer without the need to download extra files. Video doesn’t work quite like that, unfortunately. There are so many different codecs and combinations available that you are bound to run into a video file you can’t play sooner or later, and that’s where VideoInspector comes in.

Spotify is a little difficult to describe, although works somewhat like a cross between iTunes – which it bears a striking resemblance to – and Internet radio sites like last.fm. The service is free, but paid for via adverts which appear a few times an hour. Adverts can be removed for a monthly or daily charge. Currently, Currently the free advertising supported version of Spotify is available in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, France and Spain. Note that some countries require you to have a invite witch can be gained if you ask for one in the comment form under this article. Or you could simply purchase Spotify Premium as it is available in most countries.

Radio has always provided us good entertainment since it was discovered decades ago. With the coming of the TV a lot of people surmised the inevitable death of Radio. But this entertainment medium has evolved and even co-existed with TV. Now there are still FM radio stations that provide musical entertainment and news to all of its loyal listeners. But the coming of the internet became another threat to the existence of radio.

Screamer Radio is a Windows application that lets you listen to Internet radio stations without leaving your desktop. You can listen to stations ranging from police radio to BBC. Screamer Radio has over 4000 radio stations in its Radio Directory.
Screamer Radio doesn’t only let you listen to radio, it can also record what you listen to.