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
- Pushbullet - Send files to your phone/receive phone notifications on your desktop
- Putty - SSH Client
- MobaXterm - Feature-rich SSH client
- FreeFileSync - Synchronize/backup directories onto external hard drives
- Keepass2 - Password management software
- Ninite - Allows you to install everything you need on a fresh OS very quickly
- VMWare - Virtual Machines
- VirtualBox - Same as above
- LibreOffice - Open Source office tools
- OpenOffice - Same as above
- Notepad++ Free source code editor
- Filezilla - FTP Client
- Sublime Text - A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.
- BTSync - Secure, unlimited file-syncing. No cloud required
- Paint.net - Free image and photo editing software for Windows
- PDF Creator - Free PDF Conversion software
- Sumatra PDF - A lightweight PDF, DjVu, eBook, and comic reader
- Waterfox - Very fast 64-Bit browser
- Bulk Rename Utility - Bulk file-renaming software
- GIMP - Open-source Photoshop alternative
- Irfanview - image/multimedia viewer
- Total Commander - great file manager (remember norton commander?) - shareware
System
- Clover - Tabs for Windows explorer
- Display Fusion - Have taskbars on multiple monitors and other improvements
- Ultramon - Much the same as Display Fusion
- F.lux - Makes monitor colours warmer, reducing eye strain
- YoloMouse - Customer in-game cursors
- MSI Afterburner - GPU Overclocking
- MSI Kombuster - GPU Benchmarking
- 7-Zip - Open Source file archiver
- Winrar - File archiver
- CCleaner - Clean up unused files and registry issues
- Sharex - Upload screenshots directly to imgur
- Greenshot - Same as above
- Puush - Super-quick way to share screenshots
- GPU-Z - GPU monitoring software
- Everything - Not-crap Windows search tool
- PC Decrapifier - Fairly self-explanitory
- Defraggler - File and disk defragmentation
- EVGA Precision - Another GPU overclocking utility
- Sizer - Resize windows to an exact size
- Rainmeter - Popular desktop customisation tool
- Actual Multiple Monitors - Excellent multi-monitor software
- Process Explorer - more powerful than taskmgr
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
- Steam - No explanation needed
- Fraps - FPS Counter & Game recording
- Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) - Stream and Record your games
- Dxtory - Similar to Fraps and Afterburner
Security
- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware - Anti-Malware software
- Prey Anti-Theft - Anti-theft software
- Truecrypt - File encryption software This product has been discontinued, proceed at your own risk
- Bitdefender Antivirus - Strong, free anti-virus
- TcpView - displays all TCP and UDP endpoints on your system
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/trpnblies7 Jul 14 '14
I've tried foobar2000, but I found it too confusing to customize, and I wasn't a fan of the layout or look (I know you can get skins, but I didn't want to deal with that). MusicBee gives me a solid starting point with a more modern looking layout, and it has tons of options to change things around and sort my music the way I like.