From author's site:
XMPlay is an audio player, supporting the OGG / MP3 / MP2 / MP1 / WMA / WAV / CDA / MO3 / IT / XM / S3M / MTM / MOD / UMX audio formats, and PLS / M3U / ASX / WAX playlists. A load more formats are also supported via plugins. When XMPlay was first released in 1998, only the XM format was supported, hence the name "XMPlay".
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Quintessential Player (a.k.a. QCD) is a feature rich media player for Microsoft Windows. It supports all popular audio formats including MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, and CDs. QCD is highly skinnable and has a robust plug-in architecture.
QCD performs CD Ripping and Encoding, streams Internet Radio, and can Clean and Tag all your audio files. QCD uses Gracenote for the best music recognition. QCD even plays videos. These great features are just scratching the surface.
QCD is Freeware. Free of cost and free of any bundled secrets.
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DJ Mix Lite is designed to play continuous music with cross fading, beat matching mixes between songs.
DJ Mix Lite has built in Beatlock Technology, that makes it beat-aware. This technology does not alter your sound files, it just analyses them to find the beats.
Knowing the beats, it is able to perform fully automatic quality DJ mixes. This is the ultimate mixing player. It is also a good tool to make mixed cassettes or CDs.
SysTrayPlay is an MP3 and CD playing application that is based on being light-weight on both design and on impact on system resources and provides a simple yet fully functional way to enjoy music as it is meant to be, heard not seen.
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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MediaPortal is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC / TV into a very advanced Media Center. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch and store your videos and DVDs, view, schedule and record live TV as a digital video recorder and much much more.
You get MediaPortal as Open Source software. This means you can help in developing MediaPortal or tweak it for your own needs with lots of innovating plugins from our great community.
