Discord - Discord is a free voice and text chat client for gamers and non-gamers alike.Caprine - An elegant Facebook Messenger desktop app.Winamp - Music player capable of playing MP3s, MP2s, WAVs, VOCs and MIDI files.WACUP - An extension/improvement to Winamp, providing bugfixes and more features such as a better MOD player and YouTube support.

Reaper - Lightweight application with deep feature set and $60 for individual, non-profit, or small business use.Qtractor - An Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer.MusicBrainz Picard - Picard is a cross-platform music tagger that looks up and rewrite metadata tags.Musicbee - Like iTunes but better than iTunes.Mixxx - Free DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes, veritable alternative to Traktor.Kodi - Free and Open Source home theatre software.K-Lite Codecs - Collection of DirectShow filters, VFW/ACM codecs, and tools.Foobar2000 - Free audio player for Windows, supports a wide range of audio formats and has a lot of cool features.Exact Audio Copy - Transfer files from your CDs to your PC in almost every format.Comes with some pretty nifty features too.Dopamine - An audio player which tries to make organizing and listening to music as simple and pretty as possible.CDex - CD Ripper (French site, English program).AudioNodes - Modular audio production suite with multi-track audio mixing, audio effects, parameter automation, MIDI editing, synthesis, cloud production, and more.Audacity - Free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.AIMP - 32 bit audio processing and multi-format playback.Items marked with are open-source software. *Please, consider supporting my work as a lot of effort takes place to generate this list! Thanks a lot. An awesome & curated list of best applications and tools for Windows.

Windows 10 essential software