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Showing posts with label Music Players. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music Players. Show all posts

Thursday, May 21, 2009

aTunes - Cross-Platform Audio Player and Manager



aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems, ...

Currently plays mp3, ogg, wma, wav, flac, mp4 and radio streaming, allowing users to easily edit tags, organize music and rip Audio CDs.


Features

Player

  • Supported formats: mp3, ogg, wma, wav, flac, mp4, m4a, ra, rm, cue
  • Online radio supported
  • Player engine: mplayer for all environments, xine for Linux systems
  • Volume control, mute function
  • Karaoke function
  • Equalizer
  • Normalization
  • Shuffle and repeat options
  • OSD (On-screen display)
  • Hotkeys

Tags

  • Reads mp3, ogg, flac, wma, mp4, ra, rm tags
  • Writes mp3, ogg, flac, wma, mp4 tags
  • Reads and shows pictures included in ID3v2 tags
  • Tag editor window
  • Auto tag edition tools: set track number, genre, lyrics and so on automatically
  • Some auto tag tools for all repository
  • Extended search function

Navigator

  • Allows users to view music categorized by artist, album or genre in a hierarchy tree, or by folders
  • Fast access to songs and albums
  • Filter option to find easily artists, albums or genres
  • Cover Navigator

Playlist

  • Support for huge playlist, with thousand of songs
  • Support for multiple playlists at the same time
  • Shows multiple columns: title, artist, album, genre, length, track number…
  • Can be sorted by any of the columns
  • Columns can be hidden for simplicity
  • Support for open or save m3u playlists
  • Full Drag-and-Drop support. Songs can be dragged from the navigator or from the OS file system
  • Can be filtered

Device view

  • Connect your portable player or anything that could be mounted as a file system, and view in aTunes, copy to repository, synchronize, etc.

Favorites

  • Songs, albums or artists can be selected as favorites
  • Favorite elements are shown in the “Favorites” tab in Navigator

Internet

  • Artist search tool in different web pages: YouTube, Google Video , Wikipedia, etc.
  • Last.fm information: when a song is being played, album information, artist albums and similar artists are shown
  • Last.fm profile update: songs played are submitted to your Last.fm profile
  • Lyrics information: when a song is being played, automatically aTunes shows lyrics
  • Related videos at YouTube

Podcasts

  • Subscribe your favorite podcast feeds and listen them in aTunes
  • Download podcast feed entries to your hard disk

Audio CD

  • aTunes includes a cd ripper tool, using cdda2wav, lame, flac and oggenc. Just put an audio cd into your computer, and select “Import CD” in the “Tools” menu. You can select which tracks to rip, and get track names automatically from Amazon.
  • Support for optional Nero AAC encoder.
  • Support for optional FAAC encoder (except Windows OS)
  • Support for CDParanoia on Mac OS X and Linux (limited functionality)

Statistics

  • Songs played, songs never played
  • Songs most played
  • Album most played
  • Artist most played
  • Last date of play

GUI

  • Standard view with all controls and features
  • Multi window view. Every window element (navigator, playlist, context information) is shown as a separate window. Every window can be located and / or arranged as you want.
  • System tray icon to control player
  • Themes support: you can change aTunes colors by changing theme
  • Full Screen Mode

To download aTunes, visit the link below:

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Songbird - The Open Music Player


Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development.
Songbird aims at creating a non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible tool that will help enable new ways to playback, manage, and discover music.


Features

Media Importing

Add media to Songbird by importing from your file system or iTunes.

Gapless Playback & Replay Gain

Skips padding data due to encoding and chains files for gapless playback experience. Adjusts the playback gain appropriately if a track's metadata contains replay gain information.

Smart Playlists

Create dynamic playlists that automatically update based on criteria you set.

Multi-language Support

Over 25 completed, community-contributed localizations and growing!

Media Playback

Songbird supports MP3, FLAC, and Vorbis on all platforms; WMA and WMA DRM on Windows; and AAC and Fairplay on Windows and Mac.

Album Artwork

Display the currently playing track's album art and write new artwork back to the file. Automatically fetch missing album art from the web.

Web Browser

Songbird includes an integrated web browser with features like bookmarking, tabbed browsing, and more.

Automatic Updates

Always stay up to date using Songbird's built-in automatic updates.

Library Management

Browse, organize, sort and search your media.

GStreamer

Songbird uses GStreamer as the main media playback system, across all platforms.

Watch Folders

Automatically import media from a defined folder

Cross Platform

Songbird runs on Windows, Linux and Mac.

Setup Assistant

Quickly setup Songbird for the first time.

Developer Support

Songbird is getting better everyday thanks to its open platform and growing developer community.

To download Songbird, visit there site:

http://getsongbird.com/download/