• Siren Jukebox XPress1.5a

A blast from the past, Sonics Foundry's excellent Media player was designed for the perfectionist! This media player was very advanced for it's time and sported dual eye-candy displays- rare even in today's players. The quality of the visualizations alone is enough reason to try this player, they are amazingly stunning - maybe prettier than anything you've ever seen before!

With an ultra-customizable GUI with 16-band EQ, efficient media manager with play lists, awesome 'eye-candy' (unmatched even by most players today), and ability to minimize to the System tray (with one-click mute and playback controls) make this a winner!

Plays all bit-rates (CBR/VBR) MP3, WMA, and WAV formats, but MP3s ripped at Extreme VBR (320kbps) report 128kbps in tickler.

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Alternative Download. Unfortunately development on Siren was ended when Sonic Foundry was acquired by Sony. Version 2 was a sad departure from the highly customisable, dockable interface of version 1.X and was further crippled. Version 2 can be downloaded here or from SonicSpot.com.

This program can NOT be upgraded. As such ripping is limited to Windows Media Audio (WMA) at 96kbps. This is adequate for most listeners.