Free audio playback control software for windows

Global Audio Control - control your audio and Winamp player through keyboard shortcuts Global Audio Control application was designed to be a simple but useful tool to control your audio and Winamp player through keyboard shortcuts.
Main features:
Volume control
- Choose to control various audio devices such as Wave/DirectSound and MIDI.
Controlling Winamp
- Choose to control any of Winamps playback commands such as play, pause, and stop.
On Screen Display
- The On Screen Display offers a visual reference to your current audio levels.
Command-Line Options
- Allows the user to pass information to GAC. View this document for more information.
Multiple Sound Card support
- Use the command-line option "-show sound devices" to view the available sound devices in your system and "-use sound device: (device number)" to select it.
Skinning the OSD
- The OSD can be skinned only if it has been enabled. To load a skin simply double-click the file, select it from the configuration window, or right-click on the System Tray icon and point to the Skins menu. The newly skinned OSD will display itself on success.

Mercury Audio Player was designed to be a powerful media player for the Windows operating system.
Main features:
- Fully Shoutcast Compatible Streaming Audio
- Universal ID3v1 Tag Support - All media supported by Mercury can use ID3v1 Tags. This does not affect compatibility with other programs.
- ID3v1 Tag Editor
- Video Playback
- CD Audio Support
- Fullscreen Video Mode
- Freeform Skin Support
- No Skin mode (Uses no Skin Resources)
- Auto Media Resume upon Launch
- Fully Customizable Hot Key/Background key support
- Auto Playback (Alarm Clock mode)
- A->B Looping
- 3 Way Repeat
- Integrated Playlist Editor
- Integrated search mode for Playlist Editor
- Support for almost all major audio and video formats.
- Upto 96KHz Frequency Rate (Dependent on soundcard)

dBpowerAMP Audio Player was designed to play Mp3s, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, Monkeys Audio, Real Audio, Wave and Midi.
Main features:
- Crossfader - fades old tracks out whilst fading in new, just like having a DJ. Gapless playback, remove silence between audio tracks.
- Visualizations (Spectrum analyzer, oscilloscope), advanced and varied Skins,
- On Screen Mini Controls - take control of dAP, anytime anywhere,
- Built-in Music Collection database, Track Preference Playback - your favorite tracks are played the most!
- Small and fast - modularized: only components use are loaded,
- Selective Playback - listen to the tracks you want to hear.
- ID Tag editor - edit Artist, Track information,
- Auto Volume Normalization - no more fiddling with the volume knob, all your tracks will be the same volume,
- Playlist Editor, most played, newest and previously played,
- Quality Graphic Equalizer (16384 order filter) - digitally enhance your music,
- Widest codecs available, plays practically every audio type (by default dAP plays Wave, Audio CDs, Mp3, Ogg & Midi).
- 100% Free no nags, pop-ups, hidden spy or bundle-ware.

Any Audio Converter 2.0.4 gives to users the abilities to easily extract audio from video and converts audio between popular formats, such as wma to mp3, mp4 to mp3, mp3 to aac , wma to mp3, with lossless sound quality in super fast conversion speed. Any Audio Converter is designed for extracting audio from video and converting audio between popular formats, such as WMV, MP4, WAV, WMA, OGG, AAC, MP3, M4A, and MP2.

Major Features:

1. Easy-to-use and user-friendly interface
2. Support all popular audio and video formats
3. Support batch adding files and batch converting
4. Support audio/video playback with built-in player
5. Support multiple languages including French, Deutsch, Japanese, Spanish, etc.
6. Extract audio from AVI, WMV, ASF, MPEG, MPG to MP3, WMA, OGG.
7. Extract audio from videos in super fast speed
8. Extract audio from YouTube, Google and NicoVideo by pasting URL
9. Customizable audio parameters such as bitrate, sample rate and channel
10. Trim any segment for converting or extracting
11. Auto shutdown feature available for batch conversion
12. Specify process priority and numbers of encoding thread
13. Select audio track from multi-track video

Enhancements:

• Updates the Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, German language files.
• Fixes bug concerning the converted mp4 files cannot be used in iTunes 9.0 or above

Requirements:

• Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
• DirectX 8.0 Runtime or higher
• Pentium 300 MHz or better
• 128M or more RAM