Computer programs and software, in particular computer programs and software for streaming, encoding, decoding, transcoding and transrating data, in particular audio, video and picture data, for connecting computers with hand-held computers, for synchronizing data stored on different computers, in particular workstation or desktop computers, and hand-held computers; software for collecting, reading, downloading, copying, and transferring audio, video, picture data and information to and from mobile devices, to and from the Internet, Intranet, LAN or WAN, consumer electronic devices, and personal computers; software for publishing audio, video, picture data and information; computer programs and software for copying, erasing, managing, organizing, compressing, decompressing, recovering, repairing, backup, storage, synchronizing, securing and archiving of data and data files, for reading, writing and erasing of readable, writable and rewritable data carriers, in particular optical discs, magnetic disks, data tapes and removable flash storage, including user interfaces therefor; computer programs for processing audio, video, picture data and undefined data files; software for playback of audio and video files; database programs for indexing and cataloguing media files; software for Digital Rights Management