There are heaps of music players for the Windows operating system. Even if you discount all media players that support music as well, you are left with hundreds of free players for the operating system. This overview takes a look at some of the more popular choices when it comes to music players. Before we [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

After dabbling around with several music players in Windows 7 I finally decided to stick with AIMP2. The uninstallation of Winamp turned out to be interesting. The uninstaller noted that not all files in the Winamp folder could be deleted during installation. A quick check revealed that the folder contained the files elevator.exe, elevatorps.dll and [...]

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Windows Media Player and Winamp are two of the most popular media players that come with a large feature set that include playing various video and audio formats or media management capabilities. Users who want to transfer their multimedia collection from Windows Media Player to Winamp now have the possibility to automate the process with [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Many software developers are beginning to add support for new features that Microsoft added to their upcoming operating system Windows 7. One of the major points of interest for developers is the new taskbar that is introduced in Windows 7. The taskbar in Windows 7 offers a new feature called jumplists which allow users to [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

AutoLyrix is a small cross-plattform software program that can automatically identify the song that is playing in a media player to display the lyrics and album art of it. Compatibility seems to have been of utmost importance to the developers of the software. AutoLyrix is able to detect songs in dozen of music players including [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Software, Windows

RandoMP3 is a lightweight software program for Winamp that offers two interesting features. The first feature called Audition will randomly select a MP3 album from the music collection and start playing it in Winamp. The program provides the means to move or delete the folder as well which makes it an ideal application for testing [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Minitube is a Winamp plugin that unfortunately works only with Winamp and not with related music clients like AIMP2. The plugin searches Youtube automatically once a song starts playing grabbing the first result from the video portal and starting to play it on the desktop in its own window. It would be rather chaotic if [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Software

If you look around and ask your friends which media player they prefer you will most likely come up with many different answers. Winamp, Windows Media Player and iTunes will surely be on the top of the list with lesser known players mentioned by some of the friends. Most are perfectly happy that they can [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Software

Winamp has been one of the applications in the past that belonged to a set of software programs that I installed automatically after setting up a new operating system. This has changed in the last two years because I did switch from Winamp to XMPlay which is only using half of the resources that Winamp [...]

Categories: Software, Windows