XMPlay V3.5.1    Suggested by Ed Brownstein - Updated by infimum on 10 Feb 2010 374KB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (4841) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (35) - Post comment - Permalink

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 NameTaken: In order to sort of 'HardWire' XMPlay into not letting it write anything to the registry, you have to enter "NoReg=1" (without the quotes) in the ini file found in the folder.
This disables all writing to the registry.
(http://support.xmplay.com/article.php?id=16) [2006-10-10 19:16]

 a: this is an excellent music player, i've been using it for years and i've actually took the time out to make a skin for it.. the sound quality is very good aswell. [2006-11-04 14:10]

 hlomzik: coolest player!
my favourite! - nice design and great functionallity! [2006-11-26 17:43]

 shahdan: I like this player. It does not eat much memory so I can use it on my old pc. A good alternative to try. [2007-02-16 01:41]

 Webfork: My player of choice. Low processor usage, low RAM usage, plays tons of file types, and the hotkey useage is very easy to remember. Skins and usability aren't as strong as Winamp but what it misses in clean design, it makes up for in efficiency. [2007-04-09 17:04]

 Arnaud Nime: One Tip ? I have extracted my preferred radios from the "screamer" database and saved them as ".pls".
In that way, I have just one tool to hear radio or mp3s as I want... [2007-04-20 14:30]

 LH: I was a Winamp fanboy from v2 up to v5, but got fed up with it. The sound quality was lacking something and it was a little too greedy resource-wise for me. I stumbled upon XMPlay just over a year ago and have been very happy. The playback quality is miles ahead of Winamp. Great program. [2007-04-21 12:19]

 The_R: kicks winamps arss by a mile.. [2007-06-30 16:30]

 Jake: Beats anything else I've tried... with a plugin it plays midis using soundfonts. Excellent player. [2007-07-02 15:13]

 AncientImages: Love the program, hate the interface. There's a winamp skin but that doesn't change the fundamental differences (i.e., the "side pannel playlist" is hardcoded to pop out of the right side and display *maybe* twenty characters. Either that or you're stuck with a strange, floating alternate playlist that doesn't dock and generally annoys the hell out of me.)

Here's to drastic changes in 4.0! [2007-08-12 09:11]

 Peter Higgins: A real gem. Works perfectly on my Libretto 110ct which has some really quirky specs eg 800x480 resolution, 7'' display,233mhz processor etc.
The support web site is excellent. [2007-08-17 00:33]

 Webfork: One skin far better than the default that excels in being clean and simple is "Neutron" http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html (In reference to AncientImages complaint.) [2007-09-23 22:17]

 StormChild: Simply THE BEST PLAYER - the sound quality beats everything!! Although the Library could be a little easier to handle, but hey, it's a lightweight player, it's free, it's my choice! [2007-10-08 13:09]

 Ivan: My choice! Migrate from Winamp. [2007-11-09 01:50]

 Thor: Version is now: 3.4.2.1 [2007-11-14 05:02]

 Marezathus: I was very satisfied with XM until a reinstallation of the program.
Now, if I open a few tracks by the right mouseclick in Explorer, it plays a track for 3 seconds and then moves on to the next track etc, till the last in the list, which is played completely.
I cannot figure out where in the options-and-stuff to c9EUhange it. [2008-01-01 07:22]

 Case: Best sound quality!
For the last three years I've tried every new music player I've come across on the net (included all the big ones).
So far none is even close to XMPLAY. [2008-01-10 00:53]

 bowser17: Looks good, but the playlist was a little tricky. The drag and drop is nice, but opening a file feature should include opening a folder also. Lastly, which is very important to me, the random play didn't seem to work, or if it does, is too dificult to figure out. I had to shuffle the playlist, and now all the albums are out of order. I would like it to work like winamp or MP, where it jumps around the list. [2008-01-17 20:27]

 donncon: My favorite player by far. It's very stable, and some great skins are available. [2008-01-25 07:07]

 That Guy: I'm a strong Evil Player user and now that I've switched over to XMPlay, I won't ever switch back. It uses less memory than Evil Player and has an EQ! [2008-02-20 21:00]

 Getch: Plays midi files portably. 'nuff said. [2008-03-25 11:07]

 Eimarmeni: This little thing is the best player I've ever used. Loads in a breeze, doesn't use half the PCs resourses and plays almost everything you want to hear. Try it and you won't be disapointed. I know I'm not. [2008-04-23 07:52]

 Gmacri: The best portable audio player I've founded.
The playback quality and the skins are very good. [2008-04-26 05:10]

 augustocroppo@hotmail.co.uk: The best music player to portable devices! [2008-06-28 10:23]

 Lone Wolf: Excellent player, did what I needed which was... The graphic equaliser didn't distort the sound when you played around with it...

Perfect... Thank you... [2008-07-17 03:11]

 mel: A really good audio player considering its small size and the low system resources it uses.Excellent as a portable application. [2008-11-21 22:55]

 Buckster: Like bowser17 said, I miss the ability to open a folder. [2009-03-05 02:25]

 Mike: bowser17/Buckster: right click the open button to add folders.

Best music player I've used. [2009-05-21 04:48]

 KingMudkip: Very nice piece of work, looks ggreat & is small too. Just one question though: can the library be configured to support dynamic drive letter? Or does it work fine anyway? [2009-11-05 00:32]

 Raj Sharma: It is un believable. You just cant imagine what it is unless u use it! None was in past none will be in future to match this. [2009-12-26 03:03]

 Munaq: A new release after 2 years.

Is not that XMPlay is not being maintained, is just that it doesn't need any more improvements. [2010-01-04 16:45]

 Portugal Angola que seja um empate: The "Mona Lisa" of the music players [2010-01-17 15:59]

 Harry: Latest build always here:

http://support.xmplay.com/article.php?id=7#wheretodownload

Directly:

http://www.un4seen.com/stuff/xmplay.exe

Currently 3.5.1.19 [2010-05-26 00:44]

 Will: This is a really handy audio player.For its size it dose a lot and with a few plugins you get a really good player.It is also low on system resources. [2010-06-27 15:04]

 peewee: Great player. It's too bad that it doesn't support relative paths. It would be such an easy fix. However, it supports the one-time omission of a drive letter in the playlist, which means limited portability can be enabled as follows:

1. load your playlist, and do a search on =D:\ and replace by just =\
2. Backup your playlist file
3. Launch XMPlay. It will locate your file on whatever drive the USB happens to be located.
4. Upon exiting XMPlay, look at your playlist - XMPlay added the current drive letter
5. Restore your backup playlist for the next time.

It works for me because I only play music from my playlists, because they don't change often, and because I already have a batch file that I launch upon putting my USB flash drive in a computer. I get that batch file to restore the backed up PLS files without drive letter on top of the ones last messed up by XMPlay.

It's not ideal, because I have a replicate of my USB flashdrive in a folder of my regular PC, and I'd need real relative path (i.e. ..\..\music\ instead of \music). Playing with these give random results. [2010-08-19 18:54]

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