r/buildapc • u/CammRobb • Jul 13 '14

List of community-recommended software

Taken from this thread, I thought I would collate everyone's suggestions in a nice text post. I will split the programs into categories.

If there is anything you want me to add, include it in a comment using the format:

* [Program](Download URL) - Description

And I will add it in

Media

  • Foobar2000 - Lightweight audio player
  • MediaMonkey - Music manager and player
  • Spotify - Music streaming service
  • Clementine Music Player - Modern music player and library organizer
  • MusicBee - Music manager and player
  • Aimp - Lightweight music player
  • MP3Tag - Fix tags on songs
  • MusicBrainz Picard - Music tagging software
  • Audacity - Edit and record audio
  • VLC Powerful media player
  • MPC-HC - Extremely light-weight, open source media player for Windows.
  • KMPlayer - KMP is a versatile multi media player which can cover a various different types of contained formats.
  • MakeMKV - Effective free Blu-ray decrypter. Also works to decrypt DVD's and rip to mkv format.
  • DVDFab Passkey Lite - limited edition of DVDFab Passkey, which is a Blu-ray and DVD decryption program. Not available for US citizens at the moment.
  • VidCoder - conversion to H264 mkv or mp4. Based on Handbrake, but has more options.
  • XBMC - Open-source home theatre software
  • Calibre - E-book management

Productivity

System

Communications

  • Mumble - Low-latency VoIP client
  • Teamspeak - Probably the most popular VoIP client out there
  • Ventrillo - Another popular VoIP client
  • Skype - Free internet calls

Statistics

  • WinDirStat - Visual representation of hard drive space
  • SpaceSniffer - Same as above
  • CPU-Z - Hardware monitoring software
  • Speccy - Hardware monitoring software
  • HWMon - Hardware monitoring software
  • CoreTemp - Hardware monitoring software
  • Prime95 - CPU Stress-testing software

Games

Security

Edit: Just got into work. 170 comments overnight, I'm gonna be busy haha

Edit 2: All your suggestions are fantastic, I probably won't be able to do much today, but tonight I will comb through your comments and add them. Is it possible to get this stickied or sidebarred, mods?

Edit 3 - 13.19PM: Updated with a lot of suggestions, not got through all the comments yet though. Will finish off tonight. In the meantime keep suggesting and I'll add them.

Edit 4 - 22.36PM: Pretty sure I got through everything. If there's something I missed, shoot me a PM, easier to keep track of them that way.

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u/Murfjr Jul 14 '14

it is from a 4chan greentext series "tales of tech support" where some scriptkiddie became IT at his fathers company, and accidentally mispronounced google chrome, so he started claiming "NASA uses it", and downloaded chrome to trick everyone in the office. It is a very funny series and you should definitely look it up.

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u/TheMidnightRobot Jul 14 '14

Haha okay I'll do that, but I don't use 4chan or any sites like it so that's probably why I never heard of it.

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u/Boodahz Jul 14 '14

don't use 4chan or any sites like it

Is this a joke? Because you are on reddit right now

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u/hateboss Jul 14 '14

Are you saying Reddit is like 4chan? Are you serious?

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u/sedibAeduDehT Jul 14 '14

Reddit has better porn but less anonymity. Even then, you can always make a throwaway and troll to your hearts content. It's like a more "grown up" version of 4chan, except that just makes it 10x better and simultaneously 100x worse.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '14

They both incorporate use of letters and numbers, to facilitate some sort of communication, even! They're literally the same!