Billy (lightweight audio player)

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Midas
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Billy (lightweight audio player)

#1 Post by Midas »

Currently, Billy (https://www.sheepfriends.com/index-page=billy.html) although present in TPFC database (https://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=233) doesn't have an official forum topic, which the present aims to solve...

I'm posting to "Discussion" to see what the community stance is, as it's manifest that Billy is no longer under active development: the last version was released back in 2008.

My personal highlights would go to gapless playback as well as for online stream recording -- which I haven't tested in any way. What I did test is opening a very large music folder with many sub-folders and, at first, it seemed that Billy had choked; I waited it out and it finally pulled through without any errors.
Billy is an audio player that allows you to quickly play an entire directory of MP3 files. It can usually load files 2 to 8 times faster than winamp or media player. Billy plays music albums without any gaps between tracks, so an overlapping applause or beat will continue. The player is 100% controllable by keyboard and its easy finder and special rename functions help you to find and organize your files quickly.

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Billy's last release (Beta v1.04k) can't be downloaded from the homepage -- it is displaying a "Download temp. offline" notice -- but can be had from https://codecpack.co/download/Billy.html, among other places.

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Re: Billy (lightweight audio player)

#2 Post by Midas »

As Billy is made of a single executable (plus Bass dlls) here's the Virustotal scan for v1.04k release:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/066 ... 20607cc15/

BTW, a copy of the changelog has been posted to https://pastebin.com/ExYnMHvf.

Also, a fairly comprehensive test of audio players -- carried out by our most distinguished member TP109 -- can be found at viewtopic.php?t=22850. :idea:

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Re: Billy (lightweight audio player)

#3 Post by Napiophelios »

I have always kept of copy of Billy. I like the basic no frills design.
Play lists are also really easy to create with just a text editor.
It's just a basic audio player.

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Re: Billy (lightweight audio player)

#4 Post by Midas »

User dtoxic was kind enough to provide a previously unreleased version of Billy: v1.04l.

:!: This version's executable filename was 'mp3.exe' and I renamed it to 'Billy.exe', in line with other versions of the player -- any further info about this version is highly welcome.

'Billy.exe' Virustotal check:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/dfd ... e3435d43d/

Mirrors:

https://mir.cr/9EIOEJIC (also http://www.mediafire.com/file/ruexaucwhxhad0y/)

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Re: Billy (lightweight audio player)

#5 Post by dtoxic »

here a link for the "K" & "L" version sadly no info or change log is available

https://codecpack.co/download/Billy.html

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