Help:Tools

A collection of essential freeware for downloading, browsing and file management.

Downloading & file managing

JDownloader is a very powerful mass download manager for one-click-hosters and non-downloadable players. Listing all features would be too much, but for instance it can grab all downloadable files by just copying text links or by entering a website URL.
FreeCommander is a proper Windows file explorer. The main advantages are tabs for folders and the split mode view (screenshots). You will never use the Windows Explorer again! If you use Windows 7 and it doesn't run stable, try Explorer++.
MediaInfo displays the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.

VLC plays everything (audio, video, DVD) but is pretty unhandy for audio files.
IINA plays everything you throw at it on macOS and is better than VLC.
Winamp was the standard mp3 player for Windows PCs. If you still use the useless and evil Windows Media Player you should get Winamp.
Install with care: The installation routine wants to add useless toolbars and crap.
Foobar is a lightweight audio player with many features such as converting, mass tagging and tons of community plugins. The interface is fully customizable and it plays more audio formats than Winamp by default.
Media Player Classic is more stable for HD video than VLC. It's not related to the evil Windows Media Player or Microsoft.

MP3Gain lets you gain the volume of mp3s in a batch process (multiple files or folders at once) so all mp3s have the same volume. It writes the new volume information in the header of the file, so there's no re-encoding or quality loss. We recommend 93 dB.
MP3DirectCut lets you edit, split and merge mp3 files directly without re-encoding or quality loss.
LameDrop is a tool to encode wav or flac to mp3. Just set the quality and drag'n'drop the files into it. LAME is the best mp3 encoder around. See more audio encoding tools on rarewares.org.
Mp3tag is a powerful tag editor to manage tags of mp3 and other audio formats. It also handles artwork much better than Winamp.

Image Max URL is a tool to receive the image URL of the original or maximum available size. Thousands of websites are supported.

Web frontend (paste any image URL): qsniyg.github.io/maxurl/
Browser userscript + addon (for advanced tech users): There's a GitHub repository that lets you install the main userscript.

Note: For SoundCloud and Mixcloud this can be achieved easier with MixesDB userscripts.

Trackspotters are apps or tools which can recognize tracknames just by playing it for a few seconds.

Shazam is the best tool for spotting tracks from all kinds of genres. It's available for various mobile devices and for selected desktop OS.
SoundHound is an alternative to Shazam, but doesn't know much eletronic dance music.

Currently we don't know of any useful Windows tool for trackspotting.

You may want to try Midomi which works online but with microphone input only. It's the non-app version of SoundHound, so it works with the same track database.
Tunatic is recommended as Windows alternative very often on the web, but the suggestions are wrong most of the time and it doesn't know much EDM. It works with soundcard input tho.