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DéKiBulle v3.33b

billon on 29 Oct 2019
  • 3MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 9 Mar 2011
  • Suggested by 4sydney

DéKiBulle is a skinnable minimalist audio player that resides in the system tray. This directory-based player works best if you have your music files grouped by folders/subfolders named after the artist and/or album. Hotkeys are used extensively to control the player. Where possible, DéKiBulle uses relative paths when saving the playlist.

To add music, right-click and choose 'Manage folders'.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Partial
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GNU LGPL/CeCILL-C
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Delete icones, unnecessary language files, DeKiAssoc.exe, DeKiBulle_AUTHORS.TXT, DeKiBulle_Licence_CeCILL-C_V1-en.txt, DeKiBulle_Licence_CeCILL-C_V1-fr.txt, DeKiBulle_Licence_GNU-LGPL-fr.txt, DeKiBulle_Licence_GNU-LGPL.txt and _AutoUpdate.exe
  3. Optionally, delete unnecessary skins, DeKiBulle_SkinMaker.exe and DeKiBulle_SkinMaker_Old.exe\
  4. Launch DeKiBulle.exe
What's new? See French changelog here.
Latest comments
Gmacri on 2011-02-18 14:01

I agree with Woko in the sense that a menu of loaded platlist with the possibility to load and unload play lists to the menu do not exist. This is a very important item I hope there will be fixed in nexts updates. Great program!
By the way: how to upload skins?

Midas on 2014-06-23 11:00

Dekibulle beta v3.33b available at http://dekibulle.free.fr/index.php?u=beta&lang=en ...

hamasaki on 2019-10-29 10:04

It doesn't work with files with unicode characters.

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Billy v1.04k beta

billon on 7 Nov 2019
  • 947KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 27 Feb 2008
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

Billy is a lightweight audio player that quickly plays an entire folder of MP3, WAV, OGG and FLAC files. It uses very little CPU and memory, and is fully controllable via the keyboard.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Partial
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Billy.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Trout
What's new? See:
https://www.sheepfriends.com/index-page=billy&subpage=billy_changes.html
Latest comments
dtoxic on 2019-11-11 16:15

@vevy i know...problem is the "l" version was posted on the sites "guestbook" by the developer literally week or two when the development stopped, was searching for that version ever since till i found it by chance on on old backup i had

Midas on 2019-11-12 07:26

@dtoxic: Weird, I tested the version you offered for download; which I re-did just now and found out you're right, yours is in fact v1.04l... Sorry. Posting mirrors soon to the forum topic, if you don't mind.

dtoxic on 2019-11-12 12:56

@Midas no worries

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Resonic Player v0.9.3b

billon on 21 Mar 2019
  • 11MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 21 Mar 2019
  • Suggested by two

Resonic is an audio player and browser / directory player, built around the use of a file waveform to visualize the audio. The program is designed with speed and large collections in mind. Visualizations include standard waveform, multi-channel audio and frequency analyzer.

Supports all major audio formats, including 64-bit float and multi-channel.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Liteware
How to extract: Download the "portable version" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch resonic.exe.
What's new? See:
https://resonic.at/whatsnew
Latest comments
MIKLO on 2017-04-20 14:11

@two who are you to call @Realist a troll ? WTF seems a person that flames is a troll, IMHO he was just giving his take on the software review, which I happen to agree with, so am I also a "TROLL"? Sound=music is a very subjective matter which I have heard being discussed since the "4 track" days, as the saying goes one mans junk is another mans gold... at least that's the saying. Try and lighten up on the name calling as it serves no useful purpose here.
MIKLO

User2100 on 2021-05-07 12:02

I was looking for a player with this kind of track visualisation (foobar+addon can do it too, but just isn't great as a directory player). It's very useful if you have many recordings and looking to find certain events within them. I'd consider buying pro, but the price is quite a bit too steep for an audio player. It's more expensive than Reaper, or Renoise, and those are full fledged DAWs. I'd suggest getting ocenaudio for anyone that wants some extra functionality after finding the right audioclip with the free version of this. It's a nice combo.

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Winyl v3.3.1

billon on 15 Oct 2018
  • 5MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 15 Oct 2018
  • Suggested by ArnaudNime

Winyl is a lightweight digital audio player with a minimalist design and skinable interface. The program plays all popular formats and automatically organizes files into categories based on audio tags, making your music easy to find and play. The program offers music organization tools, Internet radio, track rating, smart playlists, rapid search, song lyrics and music tagging.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv3
How to extract: Download the 'portable' ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Winyl.exe.

Optionally, delete unnecessary language folders.
Similar/alternative apps: AIMP
What's new?
  • Added x64 version.
  • Updated:
    • Radio stations;
    • Lyrics providers.
  • Changed:
    • Behaviour when reloading cover arts;
    • The custom icon name to Main.ico instead of Winyl.ico.
  • Fixed blurry custom icon.
Latest comments
PAFuser on 2018-03-22 17:24

64 bit "test" version available: http://vinylsoft.com/download/winyl_portable_x64_test.zip I have not had any problems with it.

PAFuser on 2019-08-28 22:37

Nera skin from deviantart.com, modified - large print: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KtLN9Kw9RxdLtMzcET7j3HeOCz9HtgNf Easier reading info, and some other modifications.

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TreeView Player v2018 May 15

billon on 15 May 2018
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 15 May 2018
  • Suggested by joby_toss

TreeView Player (formerly Ubiquitous Player) includes a wide variety of programs in a single window. Includes a music player, web browser, image viewer, text editor, file manager, games, calculator and many more.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Free for non-commercial use
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch TreeViewPlayer.exe.
What's new? See:
http://ubiquitous-player.blogspot.com/
Latest comments
Checker on 2015-03-30 18:24

By the author of Ubiquitous Player:

I've decided to stop updating this program. In 3 years I received exactly zero feedback on it, so I guess no one really uses it.

Thanks.

shnbwmn on 2016-05-17 21:37

So ... is this program being actively developed again now?

MIKLO on 2016-08-23 14:32

WOW this is still being updated I'm surprised but anytime someone is willing to improve their software 4me its a good thing. I used this some time back it does a lot of things but to me is just way to busy although it did work well when I used. :)
MIKLO

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Winamp Lite v5.666 Build 3516

webfork on 29 Jul 2019
  • 12MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 12 Dec 2013
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

Winamp is an customizable media player considered the grand-daddy of MP3 players. The program plays most common formats, and includes an equalizer, replay gain, and hotkeys. Includes strong support for thousands of different skins and plug-ins.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. Creates one folder and file to %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\. For full registry changes, read this.
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download "Winamp Lite" installer
  2. Extract using 7-Zip to a folder of your choice
  3. Remove all files and folders that begin with "$"
  4. Create an empty file called Winamp.ini. Open this file in a text editor and paste:

    [Winamp]
    no_registry=1
    newverchk=0
    newverchk2=0
    newverchk3=0
    inet_mode=2
    [WinampReg]
    NeedReg=0
    IsFirstInst=0

  5. Launch winamp.exe
Note that the above extraction instructions are only applicable to Winamp Lite. Hank7 has kindly contributed extraction instructions for Winamp Full.
Similar/alternative apps: AIMP, foobar2000, XMPlay
What's new? See:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=373755
Latest comments
Midas on 2013-11-21 14:30

The Ars Technica article posted by smaragdus above is great reading. Thanks. I was once an eager user of the free Winamp, so I have signed the petition...

billon on 2018-10-19 02:22

Official 5.8 Beta Build 3660 available

Gregx on 2018-10-28 14:48

For Winamp fans and folks I personally recommend - http://www.mywinamp.com

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OooPlayer v2.2.0

billon on 26 May 2018
  • 25MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 16 Jul 2017
  • Suggested by billon

OooPlayer is a minimalistic music and Internet radio player/recorder trading a basic feature set for low resource usage and fast startup. Includes internet radio recording, lyric downloader, last.fm integration, multiple playlists.

Supports mp3, aac, alac, flac, ogg, opus, ape, mpc, tta, tak, wav, ofr, wv, wma, ac3 and spx formats as well as m3u and m3u8 playlists.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes. If 'check for updates' is disabled.
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPL v2
How to extract:
  1. Download the self-extracting "portable" EXE and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Within this folder, create an empty text file and paste the following content:

    [settings]
    update=0

  3. Rename the text file to settings.ini
  4. Launch OooPlayer.exe
Similar/alternative apps: Boom
What's new? See:
https://github.com/ozok/OooPlayer/releases
Latest comments
hamasaki on 2017-07-18 05:32

@smaragdus

Thanks. :)

ozok on 2017-07-18 09:30

Fosshub links are fixed.

hamasaki on 2017-07-18 13:00

Thanks. Ok, two problems for me with the software.

1. There is no sound at all. No problems with all other players on my comp, but this one no sound at all.

2. If I add a folder of MP3 files it adds the files ok, but if I use the option to add a file, the interface flickers and does nothing. I try again, flickers, then after a few seconds crashes.

I`m on Win 10 64Bit.

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Mcool v16.0.0.3360

smaragdus on 13 Jul 2016
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 12 Jul 2016
  • Suggested by I am Baas

Mcool is a minimalistic audio player with a transparent, plain text interface, light media library support, lyrics, and visualization.

The developer offers a separate download for Visualization Plug-in and Mcool Wallpapers. Download, extract and place the Vis plug-in in \mcool1\plugins\ folder and the wallpapers of your choosing in \mcool1\plugins\wallpaper folder. (Thanks smaragdus).

Powered by Bass and BassVis.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch mcool.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: 1by1
What's new?
  • Dynamic background (gif image).
Latest comments
Trident on 2023-03-03 12:08

Unfortunately, the developer does not offer any evaluation copy where you can try the feature before buying. And I already had a bad experience with a paid program that turned out to be an alpha version full of bugs
Anyway, I don't know why it is marked as freeware. Even the simple download is activated only after payment, which is very suspicious.

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Xion v1.5.160

webfork on 9 Feb 2016
  • 8MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 9 Feb 2016
  • Suggested by Simon.T

Xion is a high fidelity audio player with gapless playback, 10 band equalizer with presets, MP3/OGG net radio streaming, customizable global hotkeys, full system tray functionality etc. Also features the ability to create your own skins without complex scripting.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the "portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Xion.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: XMPlay, OooPlayer
What's new?
  • Added support for a new option to disable the screensaver while playing audio.
  • Allow font size changes on the Playlist window text.
  • Set the net buffer amount to 10000.
Latest comments
Technomancer on 2008-05-09 11:56

This is 'THE' best media player that i've found yet. I'm so impressed with it that i've just made a donation.

I'd recommend it, in fact, I 'DO' Recommend it!.

DarkShadow on 2016-02-09 12:44

v1.5.160 (2016-02-09) released !

tomcat on 2022-04-29 07:10

The software hasn’t been updated since Feb 2016, which may account for this attractive player not enjoying the popularity it deserves.
Sound quality is good.
The reason I chose it is because its default skin is elegant, functional and space-sparing, with large buttons and the playlist attached below the player without non-essential additions.
You can easily create playlists (drag-and-drop supported) and change the order of their contents to whatever you like. For portability, save the playlist M3U8 files in the player’s folder.
Memory usage is less than 10 MB, quite negligible for any modern system.
The player places a lot of emphasis on being skinnable, if the user takes the trouble, which I didn’t see the need for.
The hot keys are the player’s main weakness. The default ones are not user-friendly. You can assign your own, but as they (oddly) also have effect when the player is in the background, if you type on another app while listening to music, it may interfere.

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Trout v1.0.6 build 76

Checker on 11 Aug 2015
  • 3MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 11 Aug 2015
  • Suggested by freakazoid

Trout is an audio player supporting most major audio formats, tags and internet radio streams. It offers Last.fm, Libre.fm and freeDB support as well as hotkeys capability and more.

Based on the BASS audio engine and written in AutoHotkey.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch trout.exe.
What's new?
  • Added an "Autoplay on add" feature under Tools > Options > General.
  • Updated BASS and all plugins.
  • Fixed some parsing issues with displayed lyrics.
Latest comments
baz on 2011-01-08 10:54

A very nice player, I use it often.

Gmacri on 2011-01-11 12:28

Very Good Audio Player
with a great potential to futures updates
I would like to see tabbed playlists
and Equalizer in futures updates

hamasaki on 2013-11-11 08:47

Great player and one of my favourites. Nice and easy to use.

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