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A music download is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment.
This is a list of software for creating, performing, learning, analyzing, researching, broadcasting and editing music. This article only includes software, not services. For streaming services such as iHeartRadio , Pandora , Prime Music, and Spotify, see Comparison of on-demand streaming music services .
Spotify allows users to add local audio files for music not in its catalog into the user's library through Spotify's desktop application, and then allows users to synchronize those music files to Spotify's mobile apps or other computers over the same Wi-Fi network as the primary computer by creating a Spotify playlist, and adding those local ...
Some audio conversion functions can be performed by software or by specialized hardware. For example, an audio transcoder converts from one compressed audio format to another (e.g., MP3 to AAC) by means of two audio codecs: One for decoding (uncompressing) the source and one for encoding (compressing) the destination file or stream.
An audio conversion app (also known as an audio converter) transcodes one audio file format into another; for example, from FLAC into MP3. It may allow selection of encoding parameters for each of the output file to optimize its quality and size.
Live Music Archive: 1996 170000 Free — General United States: Musopen: 2005 — Free — Classical music: United States: Noise Trade: 2008 — Free 1.3000000 General United States: SoundCloud: 2007 125000000 Free 40000000 General Germany: Spotify: 2006 35000000 Free 140000000 General Luxembourg: Tidal: 2014 60000000 Trial-ware — General ...
The following comparison of audio players compares general and technical information for a number of software media player programs. For the purpose of this comparison, "audio players" are defined as any media player explicitly designed to play audio files, with limited or no support for video playback.
Mighty Audio (often marketed and stylized as Mighty) is an American company based in Los Angeles, California, known for its product Mighty, a portable audio player that plays Spotify and Amazon Music without a phone. The company was Spotify's first partner in the offline streaming music space when they publicly launched in July 2017. [1]