Free Audio Video Tools & Software

Explore our selection of reviewed free portable audio and video tools and software utilities that can be stored and taken with you to run directly from a USB drive. Enjoy stand alone media management, editing, and playback wherever you are!

CDex Portable FREE CD Audio Ripper and Encoder

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CDex is an open-source, portable CD ripper and encoder utility that allows users to extract, convert, and save digital audio files in a variety of formats. It supports multiple encoders like MP3, MP2, APE, Ogg Vorbis, FAAC, WMA8, and more, making it a versatile tool for anyone looking to digitize their audio CDs or convert existing audio files. This free tool can be installed and run directly from a USB device, offering a convenient solution for portable audio file conversion.

Create ISO from Folder - Folder2ISO

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Create ISO from folder or a directory of files with Folder2ISO. This tiny portable and free ISO creator allows you to create a disk image of any directory. For example, you might use it to create a backup of files on your computer. Then, burn your created image back to a disk using any CD/DVD burner and ISO recording software, or use an ISO file extractor to extract ISO and copy the contents back to a destination.

LamedropXPd - Audio Encoder and Decoder

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LamedropXPd is a Portable Audio Encoder and Decoder. It can be used to encode WAV to MP3 format. It can also be used to decode MP3 files to WAV, transcode Ogg Vorbis files, while auto tagging files it encodes. It is basically a graphical frontend for the popular LAME MP3 encoder.

Foobar2000 - Portable Audio Player

Foobar2000 - Audio Player

Foobar2000 is a small Portable freeware audio player that supports the playback of many audio formats. Supported audio formats include MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, and SND. Customizable skins and even more media formats can be supported by installing additional components.

TapinRadio - Internet Radio Player and Recorder

TapinRadio - Portable Internet Radio Player and Recorder

TapinRadio is an internet radio player and internet radio recorder. It sports the ability to not only play internet radio, but also record a single song, or record an audio stream with or without splitting, and even schedule time and day to start and stop recording. It is multilingual, includes a station browser, station URL entry, station update tool, and a sleep timer.

Radio Sure - Internet Radio Player

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Radio Sure (Radio?Sure!) is a Free Portable Internet Radio Player that offers access to (Stream Internet Radio) play songs from Internet Radio Stations. You can also record internet music using an included internet radio recorder. It allows simultaneous recording of multiple stations.

Audio Video to EXE Converter

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Audio Video to EXE Converter is a USB App that allows you to convert Audio and Video files from one format to another. The utility can be used as either a converter or player. In addition, you can create self playing executable files from your audio or video files. Audio to EXE, Video to EXE etc.

VideoCacheView - Download Videos from Cache

VideoCacheView - Download Watched Videos

VideoCacheView is a Free Portable Video Tool created by NirSoft. After watching a video online, you might want to save the video file and watch it offline at a later point in time. VideoCacheView can be used to do just that. Play, Save, Copy, or Extract Videos stored in your Web Browser Cache after viewing or watching them online. The tool will scan the entire cache of Internet Explorer and Mozilla based Web browsers like Firefox.

SE-MediaPlayer - Freeware Media Player

SE-MediaPlayer

SE-MediaPlayer is a Freeware Media Player offered by SE-SOFT. This classic style Multi Media Player supports all modern multimedia formats. It includes an embedded media library, features built in audio and video codecs management,  can be minimized to the system tray, offers various skinned compact modes, is multilingual, and is available in a portable version.

NexusImage - Image Viewer

nexusimage - a freeware image viewer

NexusImage is a Free Image Viewer. This Portable Image Viewer can be used to display JPEG, Bitmap, GIF, PNG, TIFF, ICO, WMF, and EMF image formats. The selected image appears in the preview window (along with directory name, image size and capacity). The side panel displays all additional images available from the current directory.

Shrink Pic - Resize Pictures

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Shrink Pic is a Free Picture Resizing Tool that allows you to (Shrink Pictures) and Resize Pictures. Most pictures taken with digital cameras are too large in both capacity and image dimensions to send via email or post on a website, blog or forum.

IrfanView - Free Image Editor

Free Image Viewer - IrfanView

IrfanView is a free image editor that can be used to view, edit and convert image formats. For example, you might use it to convert images to webp format for use on websites. Or you could also use it to easily sharpen images or blur images. Cut images and crop images. Draw lines, circles, and arrows, add text or straighten images, in addition to rotating images. Apply batch image conversions, create panoramas, take screenshots, create slideshows and so much more.

Wavosaur Portable - Free Audio Editing Software

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Wavosaur is a portable and Free Audio wav and mp3 editing tool that allows users to easily edit/remaster audio in multiple formats. It can be used to edit, process and record various sounds including wav and mp3 files. It contains features that allow a user to edit via cut, copy or paste and even produce musical loops. More importantly, it can be run portably from a USB flash drive or other external device.

Xion - Portable Audio Player

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Xion Audio Player much like Winamp, is a skinnable high fidelity audio player (Free Music Player). Some key features include streaming MP3/OGG internet radio, gapless audio playback, presets for a 10 band equalizer, customizable hotkeys, dock able system tray support and more. Xion is easy to skin using a powerful but simple skinning system.

Winamp Lite - Portable MP3 Player

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Winamp is probably the most popular MP3 player (Free Music Player) available. Originally created by Nullsoft, Winamp is also known as the Ultimate MP3 Player. It is not only skinnable but supports playlists, various cool plugins, a graphical equalizer, visualizations and much more.

Free Mp3 Downloader – Music2PC

Music2PC - Mp3 Downloads for Free

Music2PC is a freeware standalone MP3 Music Downloader. According to the author, this non bittorrent and non peer to peer software can be used to legally get free MP3s posted via 100% Free Legal Music Sources on the Internet.

Free Text To Speech Converter

Free Text to Speech

Text to speech converter software can be a valuable tool for many purposes, from improving workflow efficiency to providing auditory feedback. With so many options available, it can be hard to know which converter is the best choice for you.

Free Audio Video Pack - Media Converter

Free Audio Video Pack 2.14

Free Audio Video Pack is Portable Media Converter tool. This awesome collection of portable audio and video converters can convert media between just about every format. Media format conversion between AVI, MP3, MP4, FLAC, MOV, WMV, WMA, FLV, 3GP, OGG, WebM are supported.

WMV Converter - Portable WMV Converter

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Wmv Converter is free portable wmv conversion utility that can be used to convert almost any video format to wmv. For example, the tool can be used to convert avi to wmv, mpeg to wmv, mp4 to wmv and much more.  Wmv or Windows Media Video is a compressed video format invented by Microsoft and is a common audio/video file format accepted for playback by Windows Media Player.

MP3 Quality Modifier - Bitrate Converter

MP3 Quality Modifier

MP3 Quality Modifier is a Free tool created by Kevin Schneider. Very useful for reducing the amount of space your Mp3 inventory takes up, while maintaining sound quality and ID3 tags. It enables you to edit the quality (Bitrate and Frequency) of your Mp3 files and save the converted files to a new location.

Remove Background - InstantMask

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InstantMask is a free background removing tool. It can be used to remove the background from a picture or photo quickly and easily. Simply trace inside the image you want to keep with the green crayon, and then trace just outside of the image with the red crayon, click preview and the tool will clip the background.

Instagiffer - Free Animated Gif Maker

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Instagiffer is a Free Animated Gif Maker. This software can be used to create your own personalized animated gifs with captions from various video formats, game streams, and image formats. The program supports importing video from Youtube and other video URLs, or from locally stored files. It can also be stored and run directly from a flash drive. You can bring it with you to create animated gifs on the fly wherever you are.

SUPER Media Player Encoder and Renderer

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SUPER Media Player: (Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer) can be used to convert one type of media format to another. It can convert iPod and mobile formats as well making it a great tool for those who use portable media players.

mp3DirectCut - Portable Audio Editor

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mp3DirectCut is a portable mp3 audio editor and recorder. It allows a user to directly cut, copy, paste or change the volume with no need to decompress your files for audio editing. Saving encoding time while preserving the original audio quality.

1by1 - Portable Audio Player

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1by1 is a tiny, powerful and fast portable audio player that provides a simple and smart environment with which to manage and play tracks from your music collection. It is super simple, it eliminates the need for a database or playlist to play your music.

XMedia Recode - Media Converter

XMedia Recode

XMedia Recode is a Portable Freeware Video and Audio Media Converter created by Sebastian Dörfler. It can be used to convert video formats and convert audio formats from one format type to another. This can be very useful if you want to be able to play your audio and video files on multiple devices like iPod, iPhone, Zune, Samsung, SonyEricsson, Zune, PSP, Blackberry, LG, etc using a media format that those devices support.

File Blender - Free Media Converter

File Blender Free Media Converter

File Blender is a Portable Free Media Converter created by Danny Ben Shitrit (Sector-Seven). This command line wrapper can be used to quickly and easily convert media from one format to another. Media conversion is possible between image, video, and audio formats.  The tool can also be used to split or combine PDF or TIFF files, and encrypt + decrypt files.

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Here are some examples of what this tool can do:

Convert between FLV, WMV, MP4, AVI video formats. Convert between PNG, JPG, BMP, GIF, TIF image formats. Convert between WAV, MP3, M4A, FLAC, OGG, APE audio formats. Split and Join PDF and TIFF files. Encrypt and Decrypt files.

Free Media Converter | File Blender

File Blender Free Media Converter

Extracted Size: 22.5MB

Authors Website: http://sector-seven.net/software/fileblender

License: Freeware

Download: you can get this Free Media Converter HERE

Create a List of Songs - Album Printer

Album Printer - Create a List of Songs

Album Printer is a Freeware Portable tool created by Skwire. It can be used to create a list of all of the songs listed in a music directory, and or from individual songs that are dragged and dropped into the interface. It uses the artist and album audio file tags for each song. Additional features include; Export to CSV file, customizable artist and album delimiter, supports reading tags from mp3, ogg, flac, wv, mpc, ape, wma, mp4, and m4a audio formats.

Video Bitrate Calculator - VideoCalc

Video Bitrate Calculator - VideoCalc

VideoCalc is a Free Portable Video Bitrate Calculator created by Abelhadigital. It can be used to figure out which video bitrate you should use when encoding a movie to DVD,SVCD, or DivX to make it fit on a specified cd/dvd or other disc. It might also be used to calculate how much space will remain on the disc for other files, and can get the length of a movie directly from the file.

MediaInfo - Get Tag and Codec Info of Media Files

MediaInfo - Tag and Tech Info

MediaInfo is an Open Source Tool that can be used to display tag and other techinical information about any select audio or video file. MediaInfo can also be used to locate missing codecs or find a player for the select audio/video file. Retrieved media information can also be displayed and even exported many different ways.

PlayTime - Calculate playing time

PlayTime - Audio Video Runtime Calculator

PlayTime is a playback time calculator created by Skwire Empire. It can be used to calculate the total playback time for most movie and music files. Features include a drag and drop interface, total time of all files is calculated on the fly. File size is also displayed, and information is exportable as a CSV file.

Trout - Simple Audio Player

Trout - Simple Audio Player

Trout is a Portable and Simple Audio Player created by Skwire Empire. It can be used as a simple software audio player to play AIFF, AIF, AIFC, MP1, MP2, MP3, OGA, OGG, WAV, MO3, XM, MOD, S3M, IT, MTM files. It can also play FLAC, WMA, WMP, WMV, ASF, MID, MIDI, RMI, KAR, WV, WVC, AAC, MP4, M4A, M4B, M4P, APE, AC3, SPX, TTA, OFR, MPC, ALAC with plugins. Simply load your files and let it play.

TagScanner - Music Organizer

TagScanner

TagScanner is a Freeware Portable Tool created by Sergey Serkov that can be used to manage your music collection. It enables users to rename music files based on tag information, generate tag information from file or folder names, import tag information from an online databases like freedb or Amazon, and much more. TagScanner Supports ID3 1.0/1.1/2.2/2.3/2.4 tags, APE v1 and v2 tags, Vorbis Comments, WMA tags and MP4(iTunes) metadata and also includes it's own built in media player.

iPodME - Convert Videos to iPod format

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iPodME is a Portable (Media Encoder) that allows you to easily convert video files into an iPod compatible format. You can then bring those favorite videos with you on your iPod. Options include adjustable video resolution and encoding profile. Slower encoding provides better detail. By default, the new video files are exported to the same directory the executable is run from.

AIMP2 - Freeware Audio and Internet Radio Player

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AIMP2 is a versatile, feature rich portable freeware MP3 audio and internet radio player. It's a lightweight alternative to many popular audio streaming radio players, offering a wide range of supported audio formats and a portable installation option, making it ideal for users who need flexibility and portability. Available in multiple languages, it is also renowned for its customizable skins and plugin support, making it a preferred choice for audiophiles and casual users alike.

Movienizer - Movie Organizer

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Movienizer is a portable Movie Organizer. This movie organization software can help you organize and keep track of the downloaded movies. Allowing you to organize movies in your personal Movie Collection. Making them easy to find and play.

MP3Tag - Tag Editor

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MP3Tag is as the name implies, a Free Portable Mp3 Tag Editor. The Universal Tag Editor can be used to edit metadata of common audio formats, supporting ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments and APE Tags. Mp3Tag can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words in tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and much more.

XMPlay - Portable Audio Player

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XMPlay is a win32 portable audio player that was originally introduced in 1998 to support the XM audio format. Today, like many audio players (such as Winamp) , it supports your typical CDA, IT, OGG, MO3, MP1, MP2, MP3, MTM, MOD, WMA, WAV, XM, S3M, UMX audio formats. It also supports additional formats via the use of plugins. In addition, XMPlay recognises many types of playlists such as ASX, M3U, PLS and WAX. Best of all, you can bring XMPlay Audio player with you to run from the smallest of portable USB flash drives.

Swiff Player - Portable SWF Flash Player

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Swiff Player is a free stand alone SWF player that can be used to play .swf flash files and movies. It supports OpenGL hardware acceleration and can play back swf files full screen at maximum frame rates. Swiff supports 3D effects as well.

Freac | Free Audio Converter | CD Ripper

Freac Free Audio Converter Encoder

Freac, formerly BonkEnc is a free audio converter. A cd ripping software or portable application that can rip cd's and encode and convert audio files to different formats. This enables the user to play the converted audio in various hardware and software players. It can create AAC, MP3, MP4, M4A, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis and Bonk files.

Album Cover Art Downloader XUI

Album Art Downloader

Album Art Downloader XUI is a Freeware Portable Album Cover Art Downloading tool that can be used to to find, update, and download album cover art for your music collection or media library. Album Art Downloader utilizes some of the most of the popular album art sources to find your album cover art. You can search by Artist or Album Name, and you can filter by image size or cover type.

Free AoA Audio Extractor - Video to MP3

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AoA Audio Extractor is a Free tool that can be used to extract audio from video files Video to Mp3 for example. It also supports extracting audio from AVI, MPEG, MPG, FLV, MOV, WMV, MP4, DAT video files and saving the extracted audio as MP3, WAV or AC3 files. Other key features include adjustable audio bitrates and audio sample rates and, the ability to select a only a portion of the video for audio extraction.

Pazera Free Audio Extractor

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Pazera Free Audio Extractor is a portable application that can be used to extract the audio tracks from video files without loss of sound quality. The Audio Extractor can convert the sound files to MP3, AAC, AC3, WMA, FLAC, OGG or WAV format and supports (AVI, FLV, MP4, MPG, MOV, RM, 3GP, WMV, VOB) video formats. Additionally, the Audio Extraction Tool can be used as a supplementary Free Audio Converter.

Ubiquitous Portable Media Player

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Ubiquitous portable media player now called portable bookmarks is an All-In-One portable media player, portable image viewer, and portable bookmark manager for both Windows and Linux operating systems. The tool allows users to play video files, view images,  listen to mp3 and CD music, edit text or add notes, navigate file folders and, browse the web.

M3 - Free Music Player

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M3 is a stand alone (portable) Free Music Player that can be used to playback your .Wav or MP3 music files. The M3 Music Player can be stored and run entirely from your portable USB device. M3 is very Minimalistic. Forward, Back, Pause, Search, Shuffle and Current Track Time options are all that's available. M3 can also be minimized to the system tray to reduce your desktop clutter.

Avanti GUI - Portable Audio Video Editing

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Avanti GUI is a free portable audio video conversion tool with a graphical front end. It allows a user to convert for example: FFmpeg codecs such as Mpeg, AVI, Xvid formats. Avanti GUI offers user friendly control over all basic and advanced FFmpeg options. This portable video editing tool is used in conjunction with FFmpeg and offers the option to run Avisynth as the pre processor. FFmpeg includes libavcodec, the leading open source codec library for encoding and decoding audio/video.

iWisoft Free Video Converter

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iWisoft Free Video Converter is a free software application or tool that can be used to convert videos from one format to another.

Free FLV Player - Portable Flash Player

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Free FLV Player is a stand alone (FLV) Portable flash video player that allows a user to play Adobe flash video files on a Windows PC. Flash Video files can be opened and played back either from a locally saved .flv file or streamed from a URL. This flash media player supports drag and drop functionality as well as full screen mode.

FLV Converter - Portable FLV Converter

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Flv Converter is a Free portable tool that can convert Macromedia Flash FLV flash video formatted files into many different popular formats. For example convert flv to avi, flv to mpeg, flv to mp4, flv to mov, flv to ipod, flv to psp, flv to iPhone, flv to 3gp or flv to mp3 files. Conversion enables you to playback those video files or movie clips utilizing a standard audio/video file format your favorite video player might use.

Soprano - Minimalist Audio Player

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Soprano is a tiny (minimalist audio player) that runs in the systems tray. Soprano can be further controlled by hot keys. You can drag and drop music files or even complete directories containing your music to the program to add them to the list. Soprano supports the playback of MP1, MP2, MP3, OGG, WAV and WMA files. It's a great tiny Audio playback tool to add to your USB collection.

X2X Free Video Flip and Rotate

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Free Video Flip and Rotate is a Free software that as it's name suggests can be used to rotate a video or flip a video clip vertically, horizontally, 90 or 180 degrees clockwise or counterclockwise. Rotated Video files can then be converted into MP4 format and played back using your favorite video player.

Wega2 Free Image Viewer

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Wega2 is a Portable Free Image Viewer for viewing and comparing digital photos and images. Wega2 includes tools that can be used to compare images and analyze exif data with the built in ExposurePlot program, email images, run a slideshow, view thumbnails, paperclip shortcuts to images and much more. In our tests, we were even able to view photoshop PSD files with Wega2.

PSP Converter Mp4 PlayStation File Converter

PSP File Converter

PSP converter can be used to convert video to MP4 format. Created by Media Converters, use this software tool to quickly convert your video files or DVD's into .MP4s aka: PlayStation compatible video format. Those files can then be played back on a Play Station such as PS Vita, older PSP consoles, PS3, PS4, etc.

AVI to MPEG Converter - Portable

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Avi to Mpeg is free portable  conversion tool that can be used to convert almost any type of video file to mpeg movie files. For example, it can be used to convert avi to mpeg, divx to mpeg, xvid to mpeg, wmv to mpeg, mp4 to mpeg, 3gp to mpeg, mov to mpeg, flv to mpeg or mkv to mpeg. Mpeg otherwise known as mpg is a univeral audio/video compression standard that is supported by many popular video playback utilities.

GSpot - Check File Codec

GSpot - Check for Missing Codecs

GSpot is a Freeware Audio Video Codec Checker created by Steve Greenberg. It can be used to quickly check which codec is required to play a select media file. GSpot will tell you if the system has the required codecs installed to play the file. Simply drag and drop the file you would like to check into the program window. Although GSpot is self executing and does run from the flash drive without installation,  it writes to registry (and some may consider it not portable).

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GSpot - Check for Missing File Codecs

GSpot - Check for Missing Codecs

Authors Website: http://gspot.headbands.com/

Extracted Size: 1 MB

License: Freeware

Download: Grab the latest version of this Codec Checker Tool HERE

Installed Codec

Installed Codec

Installed Codec is a Free program created by NirSoft. It enables you to view detailed information regarding exactly what Codec drivers and DirectShow filters are installed on a system. Codecs and DirectShow filters can also be enabled or disabled via the tool.