The WhiteCap visualizer is a highly configurable add on for your media player with a wide range of impressive effects.

WhiteCap works with most media players out there, including the more popular iTunes, Windows Media Player or Winamp. The free version has a few limitations but you can still choose from a number of wave shapes and backgrounds. You'll only have one color scheme to work with though. From the settings menu you can adjust frame rate width and height and sound response scale.

If you pay for the Gold or Platinum versions of the program, you'll be able to save up to five presets.

Apart from the setup menu, which is really easy to use, I was well impressed by the effects themselves. The morphing wire frame effects really flow and manage to capture the essence and rhythm of different tracks really well.

Although the free version has its limitations, WhiteCap is an impressive visualizer for iTunes. Kick back and enjoy!

Download WhiteCap 5.1.2 in Softonic

iTunes is not always the best option to manage your iPod's content –or at least not for everyone. Luckily there are some alternatives like Winamp iPod Plugin, which is probably one of the most original iPod managers we've found so far.

This tool is, as its name clearly states, a plugin for the Winamp player. So far so good. What it does is integrate your iPod's content into the Winamp Library, so that you can easily manage it from Winamp. You can browse through artists and songs, rate them, delete them from the iPod and, of course, synchronize content between the iPod and the PC.

Winamp iPod Plugin worked very well during our tests; in fact, the only flaw I can think of is an error message I got when trying to unplug the iPod, but that was probably due to another application using it.

If you're already a Winamp user, you're going to find Winamp iPod Plugin very useful.

Download iPod Plug-in for Winamp 3.04 in Softonic

ml_ipod is a plugin for Winamp 2.9x/5.x which allows you to manage your iPod using the Winamp Media Library.

It features advanced media managment with an Artist-Album display, full playlist support,
intelligent syncronisation with your Winamp library and the ability to copy songs from your iPod to your hard disk.

Now you can manage your favourite musical device from your favourite music player!

Download ml_iPod 3.02 in Softonic

Although MP3s offer fantastic audio quality, it is actually possible to enhance them other than by increasing the bitrate they are recorded at. DFX Audio Enhancer gives your digital music files more vibrancy and enhances your music listening experience by improving the sound quality of MP3, Windows Media, Internet radio and other music files.

The developers claims that with DFX, you can transform the sound of your PC into that of an expensive stereo system 'placed in a perfectly designed listening environment'. In reality however, the application seems to add nothing more than a bit more body to your music although it does allow you to control stereo depth renew stereo depth, boost your audio levels and produce a deep, rich bass sound.

DFX supports Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, J. River Media Center, Musicmatch Jukebox, Winamp and Yahoo! Music Jukebox. However, the fact that it does not support iTunes is a glaring omission but will hopefully be resolved in future releases.

Download DFX Audio Enhancer 8.35 in Softonic

So you want to impress your friends with your singing skill, but they only like to listen to those boring old top-40 songs; and that brand new Karaoke machine you just bought is broken. What can you do?

AnalogX Vocal Remover works on the same principles that the hardware removers do - that in most instances vocals are equally mixed in both channels, and can identified and therefore removed by simply changing the phase on one channel by 180 degrees. While this won't remove vocals in all instances, it does work in many cases, and can sometimes be used to remove bass or breakbeat sections as well, which I find to be GREAT for sampling! Depending on the effects used on the vocals, sometimes the reverb or ambience of the vocals is left.

In order to use the DirectX Vocal Remover, your application must support DirectX Audio Plugins, and must also support either realtime or non-realtime processing (such as Paris, Cakewalk, WaveLab, CoolEdit, etc). Vocal Remover requires a stereo sound streams, and supports either 16bit or 32bit data types.

Download Vocal Remover 1.03 in Softonic

Jammix Enhancer is a plug-in for Winamp which enables you to improve this player's sound quality, or at least adapt it to your likings.

The program offers more than twenty presets and also allows the user to create as many more as desired. Thus you have a wide range of possibilitires to customize Winamp's sound according to your preferences or the way you listen to music.

Some of its enhancements are automatic volume adjustment, special configuration to listen to music with earphones or dynamic bass power. Jammix Enhancer is, in fact, one of Winamp's highest rated plug-ins.

Download Jammix Enhancer 0.31 in Softonic

Tape Restore Live! is a free Winamp plugin that improves the sound of cassette tapes.

Some unique features of Tape Restore Live! are:

Software Dolby B remover

This is an advantage over using a hardware filter because the tape bias settings can be changed before the filter is used, which is especially useful if the sound of tapes has become dull because of tape wear and age. Also, any noise from the sound card is deminished by the Dolby B decoder. Calibration tones are provided to calibrate the software Dolby B remover against the encoder in the cassette recorder.

AZIMUTH correction

If the tape head is not set exactly identical to the setting when the tape was recorded, playing it back in mono or through a surround system will result in very ugly artifacts. The AZIMUTH correction calculates the correct tape head setting on the fly, and corrects for it, even if the tape head is moving during playback (which occurs on some tape decks).

FM Stereo hiss removal

Recordings from stereo FM radio stations often contain FM stereo hiss. This filter can remove most of the stereo hiss without damaging the real sound. (This filter can also be used for FM stereo recordings that were not recorded to tape.)

Download Tape Restore Live for Winamp 1.0 in Softonic

PaceMaker is a plug-in module for WinAmp player that controls how the music sound as it's playing. It can:

• Speed up or slow down the music tempo without affecting the music key (pitch)
• Change the music key (pitch) without affecting the tempo
• Change the music "speed" (playback rate)

Download PaceMaker plug-in 2.1 in Softonic

Chronotron is an improved version of the popular DSP plug-in that allows you to manipulate tempo and pitch separately when playing audio and video files, in other words, it allows you to change the tempo of the music without affecting pitch (audio/video time stretching) and/or change pitch without affecting tempo (key change).

Download Chronotron 3.5 in Softonic