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 »  Analysis    »  Multiple Format Players
Whistle a melody and watch this program graph the pitch in real time! Analysize the sound from CD audio or a music file, a delay mechanism for DirectX Audio, a program for Wide range frequency and level settings - you'll find them all here.
 
A program that plays a number of multimedia formats including MP3 , MPEG-4 , QuickTime , Windows Media, etc.
 »  Converters    »  OGG Vorbis
Digital audio signals and file formats can be processed in any of a number of ways as allowed by software - including converting to audio CD or MP3 formats.
 
A free and open source software project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The project produces an audio format specification and software implementation (codec) for lossy audio compression that is intended to be a replacement for the proprietary MP3 format.
 »  Editors    »  Sound File Managers
Sound editing developed out of the need to fix the incomplete, undramatic, or technically inferior sound recordings.
 

 »  iPod and iPhone and iTunes    »  Sound File Tags

 
Or metadata is "data about other data", of any sort in any media. In audio files tags usually store information such as the title, artist, album, track number, etc.
 »  Lossless Audio    »  Sound Generators
The latest multi-channel audio codecs are based on lossless compression algorithms with extremely high fidelity, such as FLAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD.
 
A sound generator is a vibrating object which produces a sound. In software world it is a program the simulates the process.
 »  MIDI Players and Recorders    »  Splitters and Joiners
MIDI, or Musical Instrument Digital Interface is an industry-standard protocol that enables electronic musical instruments such as keyboard controllers, computers, and other electronic equipment to communicate, control, and synchronize with each other.
 
A software that multiplexes/demultiplexes or joins/splits individual streams of a media file, e.g., audio, video, or subtitles and sends them to their respective decoders for actual decoding.
 »  Miscellaneous Sound Tools    »  Volume Control

 
Sure Windows has a volume control but these programs add functionality & also some allow you to use mouse or keyboard to control them.
 »  MP3 Players and Recorders    »  WAV Players and Recorders
MP3, is a digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio storage.
 
WAV (or WAVE), short for Waveform audio format, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs.
 »  Multimedia  
Multimedia is media and content that utilizes a combination of different content forms. Multimedia is usually recorded and played or displayed.
 

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