http://www.digidesign.com/
Pro Tools FREE - This site has a free program for working with music files, the only drawback is
that the download is 10 Mb, but you can get a cd for $10 ($20 AUS).

http://reglos.de/musinum/
MusiNum - This free program makes music from random numbers, or something. Anyway, you
can program it to create sounds, even though they all appear to be piano types.

http://www.syntaxphreaks.de/english.htm
ian's iBeat - is a free phat beats music program. "ian's iBeat is an 8-Track-Softwaresequenzer
for production of one-bar Audio-Loops."

http://www.gccc.dot.nu/
Guitar Chords Crash Course - This site has a free program to help learn guitar chords and
also to just help remember them.

http://www.guitarsrule.com/downloads/sidekick/
Guitar Sidekick - More guitar learning programs for nothing.

http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/download.shtml
HammerHead Rhythm Station - This is a free drum machine program with loops etc. It seems to be able to run up to 35 layers at once.

http://www.media-tracks.com/soundeffects.asp
A site for free sounds.

http://www.wavpack.com/
WavPack - A free program for compressing .wav files. This is possibly
better than MP3 files for some jobs as it is a lossless system while MP3 is Lossy.

http://www.entropymusic.com/freeloops.htm
This is the link site for free music samples. There appear to be
plenty of sites out there and many of them are listed here.

http://www.freeacidloops.net/
You will find links here to a lot of free sound loop sites. If
you click on the webring links at the bottom of the page you
will be whisked off into freebie music heaven.

ftp://ftp.peaceloveproductions.com/users/peaceloveproductions
You will find some free acid loops here, and also reasonably priced cdroms of same.

http://www.looplabs.com/
This site has an online loops mixer. Apparently you can save your loops but I couldn't
work out how to do that. It made some neat sounds though.

http://readplease.com
ReadPlease - This is a text to speech program and may be used for proof reading, is good and works well.

http://www.loops.net FREE Loops
http://www.acidplanet.com/loops/8packs FREE LOOPS
http://www.acidfanatic.com FREE LOOPS
http://www.gravity24hr.com FREE Dj MIXES
http://www.loopers-delight.comLOOP INFO
http://www.acidfrance.cjb.net FREE LOOPS
http://www.looperman.com FREE LOOPS
http://www.entropymusic.com FREE LOOPS
http://dancecity.net/index1.html Free Loops and DJ Site
http://www.tapegerm.com/freeloops ;EVEN MORE FREE LOOPS!!!
http://www.analogx.com  Check out this killer company who develops some really useful audio freeware apps

All these links are provided byhttp://www.peaceloveproductions.com  who put out a
newsletter with connections to free loops on a regular basis.

http://www.thepocket.com/sounds.htm
If you are looking for sound bites in wav format, then try here. All bites are listed alphabetically.

http://www.ultraplayer.com/
You can get a freeware sound player that is apparently better than Winamp.
There are heaps of plugins that can give a lot of different effects with your music.

http://www.thepocket.com/soundclip.htm
A weekly updated sound clip site. It appears to be outtakes from tv shows and movies.

http://www.voicesync.org/Tools.htm
This site has some really complicated free sound programs. They look
wonderful but will I ever master all this stuff.

http://www.xoteck.com/ripcast
A free mp3 ripper that can launch Winamp to play and save any
streaming music from the web.

http://www.cdex.n3.net/
Here is a free program for taking music files direct from cd to wav files or mp3s.

http://www.joeltechnologies.com/PSindex.html
This program looks like a good free screensaver program that can include music and transitions and captions.

http://www.rocketdownload.com/Details/Musi/6279.htm?link=news
This page will get you to download FreeRip, a program for taking music files and converting them to MP3.

http://www.cdfrontend.com
You can download a free, configurable HTML-like front end for any CD or CDrom.

http://blaizfree.net/
Synthesiser is a program for playing midi files on your computer.

http://www.joern-thiemann.de/tools/index.html
This site has some very good looking freeware programs for the video and sound buffs. These include programs for DivX and MP3 conversion. It also has a Slide Show maker that can make avis from jpg files, and a program to make lego blocks into Lightwave images.

http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/56478.shtml
A freeware font for music notation. You can see a screenshot here so it will make sense for those who read and write music.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audacity is a freeware sound editor which works on all OSes, so Mac and Linux users can get their own versions.

http://stoexperts.com/
A site with free downloadable mp3 music.

http://www.guitar-online.com/tools.htm
A free metronome for helping to learn music.

http://www.guitar-online.com/tools.htm
A free guitar tuner for your pc.

http://www.digipronet.com/digistudio
Pro Tools LE 5.2.1 for Mac
If you're an existing Macintosh-based Digi 001 or Audiomedia III (Toolbox) user, you can obtain DigiStudio capability by downloading the FREE Pro Tools LE 5.2.1 software from DigiProNet.com. (Note: previous Pro Tools LE 5.1 or 5.1.1 software is required.) To get the Pro Tools LE 5.2.1 software update for Mac use the above address and go from there.

http://www.digitalsoundplanet.com/SoftwareHouse/Products/Audio_Master/Freeware/freeware.phtml
Free (Quartz) music editing program that allows you to work in conjunction with others and eventually to print the score if you so desire. Tutorials as well.

http://www.digitalsoundplanet.com/SoftwareHouse/Products/Quartz_Studio/Studio_Free/studio_free.phtml
This is the recording and mixing component. I don't know what the difference is, but as they are free, download both and see what works for you.

http://www.monkeysaudio.com/
A free sound compression system that doesn't discard information when compressing files. There is even a Mac version.

http://www.yamaha-xg.com/soundvq/index.html
Software for compressing sound files without loss of quality (1/20)

http://www.yamaha-xg.com/soundvq/index.html
Player for the above compressed files "SoundVQ Player" uses TwinVQ technology to enable playback of compressed audio...

 http://www.lyricsstation.com
Song Lyrics anyone?

http://www.100share.com/
Want lyrics to songs, these people have 120,000 of them.

http://www.getsigned.com/manage/
This site offers help and tips on how to get your band noticed and into the big time. It has stuff about music law and will email you tips on how to break into the music business.

http://www.fantomizer.com/
A sound program that allows you to create a spatial audio performance while listening to your music.

http://moor-software.com/
This site has a free sound editing program called Audioblast.

http://www.fantomizer.com
Fantomiser is a free visualisation program for adding colour to your musical experience when using your computer to listen to music. There are sliders for changing your settings so you can have a different view each time, or whenever you want.

http://www.audioactive.com/
Audioactive have some small sound programs, such as one for turning mp3 files to .wav and also to help listen to streaming sound without the bufffering holdups.

http://www.bluemoon.ee/history/scwin/index.html
Sound Club for Windows is a sound editing program.

http://www.shitalshah.com/downloads.asp
Visual Music allows you to play and record 128 different musical instruments through your computer. Even bagpipes if you are so minded.

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~HB9T-KTD/music/mus1te.html
Mandelbrot Composer generates sounds using the Mandelbrot set of mathematical algorythms.

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~HB9T-KTD/music/mus1ne.html
Earth Music Generator makes sounds based on data of the nature of things like waves, trees etc.

http://www.buzzmachines.com/
"Buzz is the first ever "easy to use" free modular software based synthesizer. What this means is that the entire system is based on objects, which may be routed in a modular fashion, giving you the freedom to be as creative as you want. For example, if you wish to run 3 Physical Modelling synths and a Drum Machine through 2 seperate Stereo Delays, into a Mixer, through a Compressor and Parameteric EQ, and finally out to your speakers - no problem. Lay down your synths, connect the wires and you're done."

http://www.mp3fe.com
Mp32wav converter allows quick conversion of mp3 files to wav files for burning to CD.

http://hem.passagen.se/xlnt/frs/
Fat Rock Studio is a multitrack recording program. It has the possiblility of problems as it is in alpha at the moment, but hey it's free.

http://rawavrecorder.homestead.com/
Realaudio-to-Wav Recorder. You still have to install RealPlayer, but you can now save .ram files to .wav for playing or burning to cd.

http://qadeer.port5.com/main.html
AQPlayer seems to be able to do anything except clone itself.

http://www.mirage1.u-net.com/echoview.htm
EchoView Pro is a bunch of musician's tools.

http://melodymachine.com/sfark.htm
sfArk is a lossless compression utilities for sound files. Windows and Mac supported along with Linux.

http://www.soundplant.org/
Soundplant is a sound program with a lot of features. Mac as well as PC.

http://www.ajdesignsoftware.com/speaker/index.htm
AJ Subwoofer Design Software is a site for those interested in making their own speakers.

http://www.bojo.dk/productfree.html
Plugins suitable for Audacity or other recording programs.

http://www.techsmith.com/products/dubit/default.asp
DubIt is a sound program which allows you to add audio to video, and also to edit it.

http://winvorbis.stationplaylist.com/
WinVorbis creates OGG files that are like .wav files in that they are losslessly compressed. Better sound quality than mp3.

http://www.wheresjames.com/SkunkWorks_page3.htm
Q-tune will simulate the correct note for tuning a guitar etc. If you plug an electric guitar into the mic socket on your

computer it will tell you how far out the tuning is. Otherwise you can use the sounds produced to aid in tuning and pitch.

http://home.bip.net/baxtrom/soliton.htm
Soliton 11 is a freeware program that does what Sound Forge and Cool Edit do.

http://www.power-tab.net/downloads.php
Power Tab is a program to allow you to hear what sound you are supposed to hear from your guitar or bass. Should help anyone learning guitar.

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/
dBpowerAMP Music Converter is one of a collection of music programs.

http://www.freewarefiles.com/results.php?categoryid=6&subcategoryid=72
Free Wav Editor v1.2 is only one of many sound programs listed here.