Software — INFOMATRIX-IRC

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As always, it is your responsibility.”

+ Audio Players

VLC = VLC media player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

FooBar 2000 = is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Its main features include

Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND... and more with additional components.
Gapless playback.
Easily customizable user interface layout.
Advanced tagging capabilities.
Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component.
Full ReplayGain support.
Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player.

WinAmp = is a media player for Windows, macOS and Android and supports extensibility with plug-ins and skins, and features music visualization, playlist and a media library, supported by a large online community.

+ CD Rippers

dbPowerAmp = MP3 Converter and CD Ripper = dBpoweramp offers a free no-obligation, fully functional trial for 21 days. Supports FLAC, mp3, m4a (Apple Lossless, AAC for iTunes & iPod), Windows Media Audio (wma), Wave and AIFF.

CDEX = Open Source Digital Audio CD Extractor with more than 60,000,000 downloads

EAC = Exact Audio Copy is a so called audio grabber for audio CDs using standard CD and DVD-ROM drives. The main differences between EAC and most other audio grabbers are :

It is free (for non-commercial purposes)
It works with a technology, which reads audio CDs almost perfectly. If there are any errors that can’t be corrected, it will tell you on which time position the (possible) distortion occurred, so you could easily control it with e.g. the media player

+ Encoders

LAME = is considered the best MP3 encoder at mid-high bitrates and at VBR, mostly thanks to the dedicated work of its developers and the open source licensing model that allowed the project to tap into engineering resources from all around the world.

FLAC = stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio, and you can play back compressed FLAC files in your favorite player (or your car or home stereo, see supported devices) just like you would an MP3 file.

+ Audio Utilities

TAG & RENAME = is a software designed for music files management. With Tag&Rename you can quickly and easily organize your music collection using the embedded tag data, write new or edit existing tag information, create id3 tags based on file names, get tags information from the Amazon, Discogs, Freedb or tracktype.org servers and mach more.

MP3TAG = is a powerful and easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of audio files.

It supports batch tag-editing of ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments and APE Tags for multiple files at once covering a variety of audio formats.
Furthermore, it supports online database lookups from, e.g., Discogs, MusicBrainz or freedb, allowing you to automatically gather proper tags and download cover art for your music library.
You can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words in tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more.

IRC [ex] Winamp Plugin = This plugin allows winamp to talk to mIRC and Klient. You can have your irc client do things when the song changes in winamp. You can also control winamp from within your irc client.

SPEK = helps to analyse your audio files by showing their spectrogram. Spek is free software available for Unix, Windows and Mac OS X.

+ File Utilities

7Zip = is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.. You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip.

CUE TOOLS = is a tool for lossless audio/CUE sheet format conversion. The goal is to make sure the album image is preserved accurately. A lossless disc image must be lossless not only in preserving contents of the audio tracks, but also in preserving gaps and CUE sheet contents.

+ IRC Software

mIRC = is a popular Internet Relay Chat client used by individuals and organizations to communicate, share, play and work with each other on IRC networks around the world. Serving the Internet community for over two decades, mIRC has evolved into a powerful, reliable and fun piece of technology. You can learn about mIRC here. You can register your copy of mIRC for $10 by going to this site: https://www.mirc.com/register.php?coupon=MIRC-SWV0-MNKL

[SSL Secure Socket Layer] and its successor, TLS (Transport Layer Security), are protocols for establishing authenticated and encrypted links between networked computers. ... SSL/TLS and Secure Web Browsing. Obtaining an SSL/TLS Certificate.

KARAOKE-REALM 2015 = The latest Realm script. It has mIRC / Omen / Realm Script built together.

dlFilter = is a text filtering script for mIRC. It is created with file sharing channels in mind. DLFilter removes ads, requests, annoying KeepTrack, mp3 play & away messages and much more. Also, DLFilter can send notices from fileservers to separate window and group @find results, allowing them to be easily viewed. DLFilter allows users to create their own wildcard filters and is highly configurable

SearchBot = is a very fast searching system for file serving channels. It detects and downloads lists from SDFind/OmenServe type fileservers. Users type their search request in the channel - for example, "@search something" (the search keyword is configurable) - SearchBot searches for "something" in all the lists that it has from that channel and sends the results to the user in a (zipped) text file. Note that SearchBot includes sbClient, a SearchBot client that makes searching easier.

sbCLIENT = is a SearchBot client. sbClient automatically opens downloaded search results; you can use sbClient to make very fast local searches in downloaded lists and it can group @find/@locator results. sbClient is capable of automatically requesting SearchBot triggers from channel and can combine results from different search types.

PORT FORWARDING = Opening a port on your router is the same thing as a creating a Port Forward. These open ports allow connections through your firewall to your home network. Having to create a port forward is common in gaming, VoIP configurations, and torrenting.

+ Fun / Interesting Websites

The Wire Cutter = is a list of wonderful things by Brian Lam and friends, founded in 2011 and a part of The New York Times Company since 2016.

MonoPrice = Established in 2002, we have built a stellar reputation for product excellence and customer service. We offer over 7,000 high-quality, affordable electronics and accessories to professionals and consumers worldwide.

Old Time Radio = We are happy to offer thousands of free old time radio shows for download or stream. Once downloaded, hear these free OTR shows on your computer, MP3 Player, or copy them to a cd to listen anywhere!

ALL MUSIC GUIDE = AllMusic is a comprehensive and in-depth resource for finding out more about the albums, bands, musicians and songs you love. 28: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ 2: https://www.foobar2000.org/ 3: http://www.winamp.com/index.html 4: https://www.dbpoweramp.com/ 5: https://cdex.mu/ 6: http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ 7: http://lame.sourceforge.net/ 8: https://xiph.org/flac/ 9: http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm 10: https://www.mp3tag.de/en/ 11: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ircex/ 12: http://spek.cc/ 13: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/ 14: http://cue.tools/wiki/CUETools_Download 15: /s/Realm2015.zip 16: https://openkj.org/ 17: http://www.karaoke-realm.net/ 18: https://www.mirc.com/register.php?coupon=MIRC-SWV0-MNKL 20: /s/OpenSSL102uWin32.zip 21: http://dukelupus.com/searchbot 22: http://dukelupus.com/sbclient 23: https://portforward.com/router.htm 24: https://thewirecutter.com/ 25: https://www.monoprice.com/ 26: https://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/ 27: https://www.allmusic.com/

FooBar 2000 = is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Its main features include

Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND... and more with additional components.
Gapless playback.
Easily customizable user interface layout.
Advanced tagging capabilities.
Support for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the Converter component.
Full ReplayGain support.
Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
Open component architecture allowing third-party developers to extend functionality of the player.

+ CD Rippers

CDEX = Open Source Digital Audio CD Extractor with more than 60,000,000 downloads

EAC = Exact Audio Copy is a so called audio grabber for audio CDs using standard CD and DVD-ROM drives. The main differences between EAC and most other audio grabbers are :

It is free (for non-commercial purposes)
It works with a technology, which reads audio CDs almost perfectly. If there are any errors that can’t be corrected, it will tell you on which time position the (possible) distortion occurred, so you could easily control it with e.g. the media player

+ Encoders

+ Audio Utilities

MP3TAG = is a powerful and easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of audio files.

It supports batch tag-editing of ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments and APE Tags for multiple files at once covering a variety of audio formats.
Furthermore, it supports online database lookups from, e.g., Discogs, MusicBrainz or freedb, allowing you to automatically gather proper tags and download cover art for your music library.
You can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words in tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more.

SPEK = helps to analyse your audio files by showing their spectrogram. Spek is free software available for Unix, Windows and Mac OS X.

+ File Utilities

7Zip = is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.. You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip.

+ Karaoke Utilities

Realm Script = The latest Realm script. It has mIRC / Omen / Realm Script built together.

OpenKJ Pro = is cross-platform open source karaoke hosting software licensed under the GPL version 3. It is currently considered roughly beta quality and isn't 100% feature complete (it is getting really close), but all of the features required to run karaoke are working and the primary developer is using it to host 5 hour shows 2 nights a week with rotations of roughly 25 singers on average and is having no problems.

+ IRC Software

[SSL Secure Socket Layer]17 and its successor, TLS (Transport Layer Security), are protocols for establishing authenticated and encrypted links between networked computers. ... SSL/TLS and Secure Web Browsing. Obtaining an SSL/TLS Certificate.

KARAOKE-REALM 2015 = The latest Realm script. It has mIRC / Omen / Realm Script built together.

+ Fun / Interesting Websites

The Wire Cutter = is a list of wonderful things by Brian Lam and friends, founded in 2011 and a part of The New York Times Company since 2016.

ALL MUSIC GUIDE = AllMusic is a comprehensive and in-depth resource for finding out more about the albums, bands, musicians and songs you love.