Multimedia Players

Media Jukebox is a music player and organizer that offers many options for playing, managing, or creating digital music on your PC. It offers file organization, helping you find, store and play music and video, as well as CD ripping, CD burning, visual displays, CD-quality encoding to MP3, WMA, OGG and APE. A Visualization Studio feature lets you create your own savable visualizations, and a DSP Studio allows personalization of the listening environment. Other features include support for popular handheld players (iPod, Sony PSP, PlaysForSure devices and phones), integrated CD labeling, audio tagging and interface skins.

OrangeCD Player is a classic tray-based CD player, featuring a complete set of playback functions, including programmed and random play, and a smart retain-position function (even if you restart your computer every ten minutes, you don t have to listen the first track over and over). It is designed to take as little desktop space as possible. Other features include integrated volume controls, internet title lookup via CDDB/FreeDB, direct track access, customizable menu layout and mouse events.

jetAudio Basic is a full featured media player with integrated CD burning and ripping capabilities. It supports all the popular media formats including MP3, OGG, MPG, AVI, WMA and many others. jetAudio can also play DVDs and VCDs and act as your default player for all selected formats. Additional features include CDDB support, integrated lyrics viewer, Monkeys Audio support, skins, visualizations and just about everything else you`d expect from a multimedia player. An optional Pro version offers support for broadcasting and mp3PRO formats.

vanBasco's Karaoke Player is a freeware product that plays Karaoke (.kar) and standard MIDI (.mid, .midi, .rmi) files. Features include: F ully customizable Karaoke window: change font, colors, number of lines (up to four), background image; Lyrics can be displayed in a resizable window or full-screen Comes with the ability to change tempo, volume, key of song; changes can be saved to playlist so that they are remembered in the future It can mute or play solo individual (i.e., arbitrary) selections of instruments. Real-time MIDI output: shows notes, volumes, and instruments. Piano view: displays notes on a big piano keyboard. Integrates with Netscape and Microsoft web-browsers through plug-in.

VideoLAN is a media player and streaming server that supports MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, FLV and many other formats (without the need for additional codecs), as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. The built-in streaming server supports on-the-fly transcoding, RTP Unicast/Multicast and HTTP. Other features include fiull-screen playback, video snapshots, CDDB support (for Audio CDs), web/telnet and command-line interfaces and much more. The VideoLAN interface is plain and simple, focused on functionality rather than eye candy - best suited for video playback.

Spider Player is a small media player with an array of extra features that include a CD ripper and audio format converter (MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV), Equalizer with presets, ID3 and WMA metadata editor, Song lyrics editor, Unicode support and more. The player uses the Bass Audio Library from Un4seen. Other features include CD-Text support, streaming media playback and playlist search. Spider Player comes with a compact 3-part interface that can be arranged to your preference, most features are tugged away in menu lists, so the interface remain uncluttered despite the array of features offered.

KaraFun is a home karaoke player that can play most popular karaoke formats (MIDI, KAR, CDG etc.), and also allows you to create your own karaoke files, using the built-in editor. The editor allows you to load a karaoke or audio file (e.g mp3) and add the lyrics, as well as a custom background for the display screen, and the save the entire package as .KFN file (proprietary format).

Flash Movie Player is a standalone player for Macromedia Flash (SWF) files. It can be used to view SWF files without the need to launch your browser. In addition to the standard playback controls, it offers full-screen playback, integrated playlist (with IE cache integration), and hotkey support for mouseless operation. The program can also extract Flash movies from EXE projector files and save them in .SWF format.

Xenorate is a multimedia player, that lets you play audio files, watch movies and DVDs and even listen to live streams (Audio and Video) or ShoutCast. It also supports VCD and SVCD as well as Music Cds. Additional features include an On-screen display, skin support, playlist, keyboard shortcuts and more.

Yahoo Music Jukebox is a fully featured media player an organizer with many powerful features like CD Burning, Ripping, Internet Radio and much more. It also offers a complete file management solution with many organiing features. An optional Plus version is available for a fee. (Requires free registration)

SnackAmp is a multi-platform music player with common music player abilities as well as multi-user support and a powerful auto-play list feature. The program is not focused on flashy skins and Visualizations, but functionality and efficiency. It allows you to catalog your media folders and removable media (CDs etc) for fast searching and access, edit ID3 tags, rename and move files and more. SnackAmp can work in network environments, even share music and play lists and handle very large numbers of files. It also offers a mini-view and a browser play control, a built-in server for remote access and more. Additional features include auto leveling of track playback, gapless playback and a combined Media and File manager. SnackAmp is intended for serious media collectors, and will probably not appeal much to beginners that are looking for an all around mp3 player.

Get more play, your way with Windows Media Player 10 Series. Get fast and flexible playback with the best audio and video quality for Windows and the Web. The 9 series comes with an improved interface and many additional features, including CD burning, radio tuner, media library and much more.

The MIDInight Express II is a real time, emulated wavetable MIDI jukebox and renderer. It runs with any Windows-compatible 16 bit sound card supporting a playback rate of 22050 Hz. No hardware wavetable support is required - even the simple sound circuits found on most laptops will do. The sound engine supports the extended PRG (patch) format used by the Mellosoftron III and WAVmaker III, allowing you to take full advantage of the Mellosoftrons patch editing capabilities for the creation of your own unique MIDI instruments.

WhopSee is a free CD Player with CDDB support. When a CD is put into the CDROM, WhopSee will connect to the online CD database and download title, artist name and track listing. This information is also put into the registry so the next time the CD is used, data can be obtained from a local database rather then the internet. The GUI for WhopSee is completely skinnable. Own skins can be generated with the SkinGenerator that is included in the WhopSee download.

Juke is an audio and video player with an Explorer style interface. It is ideal for those that favor a standard interface over heavily skinned media players. It offers support for all popular media formats, as well as integrated file browser, CD playback, and support for DirectX plug-ins. Furthermore, it offers random play, repeat mode and intro scan as well playlist search, sort and shuffle.

Notation Player enables you to display MIDI, Karaoke, and .not files as sheet music. Just open a MIDI file and see the notes, instruments and lyrics as you listen to the music. You can add key signatures and clef symbols, filter the notes by instrument and also print the sheets. Notation Player includes a web directory that lets you find MIDI files.

MXPLAY is a unique audio player that renders your music library in a 3D audio space that allows for visual sound adjustments. It supports all popular file types (MP3, AAC, OGG, WMA, FLAC, ALAC) and can play files from your local computer as well as streaming audio from the web. The program includes an integrated web browser with music search features and access to shared playlists from other MXPLAY users. You can also create your own playlists from audio and video streams that you found on the web and share them with other users. Other features include iTunes library import, plug-in support and more.

Evil Player is a bare bones media player that supports many popular audio files including MP3, MP2, MP1, OGG, AIFF and MOD as well as Shoutcast, Icecast and Icecast. The program is primarily useful for keyboard operation, as most functions are accessible via keyboard shortcuts, which is good because interface is nothing much to look at and unpleasant to operate with a mouse. Evil Player supports drag and drop of files and folders as well as common playlist formats and URL input. If you are looking for a small player that uses few system resources and will work fine on slower computer, give it a try.

Zoom Player Standard is a customizable media player with a minimalist interface. It offers user defined context menus, adjustable video color settings, as well as advanced mouse controls, remote control capabilities and more. Zoom Player offers support for all DirectShow filters, including Subtitles and 10-Band EQ, as well as support for advanced video codecs (DivX/XviD/MPEG4), if they are installed on your PC. Pro version available for a fee.

n.player is a small and compact media player with support for several popular formats, including DVD playback. It can play audio CDs, video, MP3 and DivX with support for subtitles and WinAmp playlists. It comes with a handy toolbar option that puts the player controls directly into your taskbar. Additional features include auto-skip of DVD intros, free db support, favorites manager, skin support, on-screen display and much more. A small player, that doesn t look like much at first, but has tons of features tugged away under the (attractive) hood.

Lalim VCD Player is a player, designed to play Video CDs. If the VCD contains music tracks, you can simply click a button to play the track that responds to it. You can also set the volume, bass and treble, view full screen and more. The program is simple and small, requires no installation.

Karaoke Anything! lets you remove the vocals from most songs, so that it can be used for Karaoke playback. The program supports MP3 and AudioCD input and allows you to adjust the vocal remover strength to optimize it for the current song. The vocal removing works with almost any (stereo) song that uses equally mixed vocals, some may work better than others. Karaoke Anything! only allows real-time playback and cannot save the vocal-free output.