I noticed that there are quite a number of repeated questions asking for software recommendations in this forum section, so here's a thread to compile the recommendations. If you have a nice software (media player, media conversion software, or anything related to music/video/ringtones) to recommend that is not in one of the lists below, or some related guides, please feel free to contribute to the thread (provide software name, short description and link) and I'll update the first few posts accordingly.

Media Players for Pocket PC (Freewares)
MortPlayer - Music Player
PocketTV Classic - Video Player
TCPMP - Popular Media Player
Sompy Media Player - Media Player

Media Players for Pocket PC (Sharewares)
CorePlayer Mobile
Conduits Pocket Player
PocketMusic

Media Players for Smartphones (Freewares)
TCPMP - Popular Media Player

Media Players for Smartphones (Sharewares)
PocketMusic - Media Player for MP3, WMA and OGG

Related Freewares for Pocket PCs
NoteM - Voice Recording with compression.
PlaylistSync - ActiveSync extension which refreshes MP3 files and playlists.
PlaylistEditor - Creates playlists for Windows Media Player or other Audio Players
PlaylistMgr - Create/Edit playlists for Windows Media Player. Supports Unicode.
GA Playlist Manager - Create/Edit playlists for Windows Media Player
Greatbal's Playlist Manager - Create/Edit playlists for Windows Media Player

Related Freewares for Smartphones
Greatbal's Playlist Manager - Create/Edit playlists for Windows Media Player
RJV Sound Recorder - Sound Recorder; Able to set recorded sound as ringtone, sms tone or system sound.
RJV Tone Setter - Setting ringtone, sms tone and system tones
GA Playlist Manager - Create/Edit playlists for Windows Media Player

Related Sharewares for Pocket PCs
VITO Ringtone Editor - Trim MP3/WAV/OGG files for use as ringtones

Related Sharewares for Smartphones
Music Navigator - Music Collection Management
VITO Ringtone Editor - Trim MP3/WAV/OGG files for use as ringtones

It is advisable to encode your videos to format that is more suitable for small screen. This will encure the video looks nice, smooth and the filesize is also substantially smaller. You will also need video encoders if you wish to rip videos from VCD/DVDs.

You can also choose to rip your music or re-encode to a lower bit rate so that you can enjoy music on your Pocket PC and also to reduce the filesize.

Here is a list of some useful desktop applications for encoding audio/video.

Audio/Video Encoding Freewares
SUPER © - Multimedia (Music/Video) Encoder
MediaCoder - Multimedia (Music/Video) Encoder
SOMPY MovieEncoder - Video Encoder
PocketDivXEncoder - DivX Video Encoder
Windows Media Encoder - WMV Encoder
Windows Media Player - Able to rip CDs into WMAs
Musicmatch Jukebox - Free Edition is also able to rip CDs into several formats
Windows Media Bonus Pack - Includes Plus! MP3 Audio Converter LE for bulk converting of MP3s to WMAs
Jodix Free WMA to MP3 Converter - Convert WMAs to MP3s
Free Mp3 Wma Converter - Freeware to convert MP3/M4A/WAV/WMA/OGG/AAC to MP3/WAV/WMA/OGG/AAC
Free CD Ripper - Freeware to rip CDs to MP3/WAV/WMA/OGG/AAC
iTunes - Rips CDs into M4As (MPEG-4 Audio)
Mobile AMR Converter - Convert AMR to WAV
Total Video Converter - Convert between many formats

Media Editing/Trimming Freewares
MP3Cutter - Good for cutting long MP3s into shorter ones for usage as ringtones.
Audacity - Record/edit sounds
WavePad - Audio editor for many media formats

Video Encoding Sharewares
Pocket DVD Wizard - Rip VCDs/DVDs
Pocket DVD Studio - Rip VCDs/DVDs

This is a great posting. Thanks
But I have one question: When I play Windows Media Player 10 in my PPC, is there a way to lock the buttons? because in the middle of listening a song, the call button was pressed and it was dialling out.

If this can't be done, I guess I need to download another player.
Thx

Never mind, I found the answer that is to assign the toggle screen to a hardware key in the option / Button assignment menu.

But another problem I have with WMP, that it's only playing for the first 5 seconds then it goes to the next one. I can't seem to find an option to disable this? anyone knows?

FLAC for Pocket PC - free lossless codec for high quality playback with GSPlayer or MortPlayer

Sorry to dig...but does TCMP player support .avi files?

It certainly does!

eh guys have you all noticed something very annoying abt the touch player in WM6.1.

all the songs are grouped into albums. so even if you access the artist you still have to go into a specific album to listen to the song. darn jia lat alot of my artists got unknown albums so all the different artists songs grouped into that album "unknown".


anyone got any fixes?

Hi Bro Vicott, seem like TCPMP link for PPC phone not working...anyway I can download this player?

Get the CAB file from HERE...

Thank u bro Lmf..where shall the CAB file stored?? Internal storage or device and which folder to be stored in?? Sorry bro me newbie abit slow in this ppc phone thing..

Download the CAB file and transfer the CAB file whole to your device without extracting any of its content via Activesync and then tap to launch and install in your internal storage, soft reset if you wanna...

Thank u for the kind advise bro lmf

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