Music programs for the computer: listen to, edit and convert music files without any problems.

At the moment, a great variety of music programs for computers have been created, which are used everywhere, every day.

Some people, thanks to such programs, create music, some use them to edit it, and some simply listen to music on the computer, using special programs that were created for this purpose. So, in this article we will look at music programs for the computer, dividing them into several categories.

Let’s listen and enjoy

The first category we will consider is programs created for listening to music. Naturally, this category is the most common, since there are many more music listeners than its creators. So, here are some popular programs for high-quality listening to music:

• – This is a very suitable and popular product for playing music and video. In 1997, the first free version of Winamp appeared and since then, developing and improving, it has gained enormous popularity among users.
• – another free program created exclusively for listening to music. Developed by Russian programmers and supporting all popular audio formats, it has the ability to convert various audio files into any format.
• – the program is very popular despite the interface, which is unusual for audio players. The player was created by a programmer who participated in the development of Winamp. Supports all known audio files, as well as very rare and exotic ones.

Music creation and editing

You can also create your own music on a computer; a sufficient number of useful programs are created and released for this creative process. We will look at the most popular products in this direction.

• – a high-quality and most powerful instrument for creating music, used mainly by professional musicians, arrangers and sound engineers. The program has everything you need for a complete and professional mixing of compositions.
• – for creating music this is one of the most popular products. The program first appeared in 1997 as a four-channel drum machine. But thanks to programmer D. Dambren, it turned into a full-fledged virtual music studio. FL Studio can be used in parallel as a plug-in by connecting to the leader of music creation programs CUBASE.
• – a virtual synthesizer professionally used by famous musicians in their compositions. Thanks to this synthesis program, you can create absolutely any sounds.
• is one of the famous sound editors that allows you to process and edit a wide variety of sounds, including music. Using this editor, you can significantly improve the sound quality of videos shot on your phone. Also thanks to SOUND FORGE it is possible to record sound from a microphone. The program can be useful to many users, not only professional musicians.
• – one of the best products for guitarists, both beginners and professional. The program allows you to edit notes and tablature for guitar, as well as other instruments: keyboards, classical and percussion, which will be useful in the work of a composer.

Conversion programs

Music programs for the computer, and in particular for creating and listening to music, can be added to another category. This is a category of programs for changing or converting music file formats for various players and devices.

• – the undisputed leader among converter programs, combining a finely tuned conversion mode – for non-standard devices, and the usual conversion of audio and video files, as well as images.
• – another representative of the category of conversion programs. It supports quite a lot of different formats, has quality settings, optimization and many other converter settings that allow you to get the desired result. The disadvantages of this product include the lack of Russian language and temporary bewilderment from the simply huge number of options and settings, which over time become a big advantage of the program.
• – also a worthy representative among free converters; it has no equal among similar converters in complexly customizable file encodings. In advanced mode, the converter options are almost limitless.

All of the above music programs for computers are just the tip of the iceberg, the most common among users. In fact, each category can include about a hundred or even more programs, both paid and free to distribute. Each user chooses a program based on personal preferences and needs, and, therefore, one of you can offer software of better quality – you are welcome to share in the comments who uses which programs and for what purposes.

I suggest you relax and listen to wonderful music performed by the London Symphony Orchestra: