ChatSc.com

chat
chat rooms for buzz replaces the old #buzz link
www.chat.buzzmachines.com/

Audio-Tips Community
A family oriented voice chat community, powered by iVocalize.
www.audio-tips.com/

MPXPLAY
DOS player that supports mp2, mp3, aac, ac3, dts, ape, mpc, ogg, wav, and cd.
www.geocities.com/

Winamp
The leading high fidelity music player for Windows 95/98/NT that plays MP3s, MP2s, WAVs, VOCs and MIDIs.
www.winamp.com/

Apple - iTunes
Free MP3/AAC player/organizer for Mac and Windows that tags, rips, burns and converts audio files and integrates with the iPod portable music player and iTunes music store.
www.apple.com/

MPEG4IP: open source MPEG4 package
MPEG-4 AAC audio encoder, MP3 encoder, MPEG-4 video encoders, MP4 file creator and hinter, IETF standards-based streaming server, MPEG-4 player. Mostly Linux-based.
mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net/

XMMS
X Multimedia System, an open-source MP3 player for Linux. Contains mostly the same features as Winamp and supports skins.
www.xmms.org/

Study on Audio Compression
Detailed comparison of various audio compression algorithms including ASF, RealAudio, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MOV, and VQF.
ekei.com/

Botender's #Comic_Chat_Lair
A website about the Microsoft Comic Chat room,The Lair. Featuring screendumps from the room, as well as How to's and characters.
www.angelfire.com/

Free Lossless Audio Coder
FLAC is an open source lossless audio codec, supports streaming, seeking and archival.
flac.sourceforge.net/