Spotify for Mac delivers unlimited music, podcasts, and audiobooks through high-quality OGG Vorbis streaming.

MPC-HC is a free, lightweight Windows video player that handles HEVC, AV1 and HDR playback without needing a separate codec pack.

QontrolPanel is the leading open-source audio device switcher, replacing Microsoft's slow Sound settings menu with one-click input and output switching directly from the system tray.

Adobe Acrobat Reader is Adobe's free PDF viewer for Windows 10 and 11, the industry-standard desktop application for opening, signing, annotating, filling forms and printing PDF documents.

Microsoft PowerToys is the official free utility suite that adds the window management, bulk renaming and launcher tools missing from stock Windows.

dBpoweramp Music Converter is the paid all-rounder of the audio encoders category, pairing a multi-core format converter with an AccurateRip-verified CD ripper.

get_iplayer is the advanced, open-source downloading tool media archivists rely on to search, record, and preserve BBC iPlayer TV shows and BBC Sounds radio broadcasts.

FluentCleaner is the lightweight, bloat-free drive cleaner and privacy manager modern Windows users reach for to reclaim storage space without compromising login sessions.

Shark007 Codecs is the portable option among Windows codec packs, running from a folder instead of an installer and restoring Explorer thumbnails.

FFmpeg is the command-line multimedia engine that most other conversion, encoding and streaming tools on this site quietly run on.

MPC SubtitleSource is the DirectShow source filter that makes external subtitle files loadable by any Windows player.

MPEG Splitter is the DirectShow filter that opens MPG, TS, M2TS and VOB files and separates their audio and video streams.

VLC is the media player most people end up with once a video refuses to open in anything else.