MagicScore is a classic, wonderful and lightweight music score editing and composition software, provides a wealth of options specially for students and teachers in the music college, as well as many amateur music lovers. For both people who are interested in music creation and professionals specifically involved in music, they all can use it to complete their music creation.

Synthesia (formerly called Piano Hero, changed name to avoid confusion with Guitar Hero) is a very cool, user friendly and lightweight virtual piano game type of software. It can simulate the piano keyboard on your screen, mapping with the computer keyboard, so as to enable piano enthusiasts who even completely can't understand the musical notation to learn how to play piano with ease.

Creevity Mp3 Cover Downloader is currently the only one of my favorite MP3 cover (album art) automatic downloading and modifying tool - finally implant cover into MP3 music file. It is freeware and lightweight (1.27 MB).

SoundTap Streaming Audio Recorder (SoundTap for shot) is very popular and practical tiny real-time streaming audio recorder. It enables users to capture sound from all kinds of digital audio sources (including microphone, MIDI, VCR, streaming media audio, all kinds of software, etc.) and save it as MP3/WAV file.

There are a lot of ringtone making tools, especially the online editions whose disadvantages include: network connection required, need to take time to upload and download. While some local software actually make ordinary users feel difficult to use because their too many functions and tedious settings.