Songbird is a feature-rich iTunes-like media manager and player with easy-to-navigate media library and a long list of supported devices. Like iTunes, the program supports audio, video, and photo sync, and can import or export to or from iTunes. The program supports a long list of devices, audio formats, and skins to change the look and feel.
The program supports folder watch, dynamic playlists, album artwork, gapless playback, equalizer, etc. Includes an integrated web browser (Firefox) and works with internet radio sources. Optional add-ons are available to extend features with several default and downloadable tools including CD-rip, concert look-up for artists, lyrics, music store and both Quicktime (if installed) and Windows Media Video formats.
Songbird Portable is a portable version of the standard program. Clients available for Mac and many Android devices.
Note: This program is no longer in development. It's recommended users avoid the web interface and songbird.me registration.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Wine |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Partial |
Path portability: | Automatic compensation for dynamic drive letter in removable storage devices |
License: | Launcher: GPL, Songbird: GPL, MPL, and others |
How to extract: | Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SongbirdPortable.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | Foobar2000, Winyl |
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webfork
on 2011-04-21 14:22
Additional note: the program appears to freeze when asked to scan directories with more than around 100 gigs of music.
a
on 2011-04-22 18:02
I was one of the many people begging for Songbird Portable back when it was just a "hatchling". I believe it took 1-2 years before an official portable version was made -- by that time Foobar2000 became my inseparable best mate. Sure Songbird is the new kid on the block and Speed, memory and no itunes support will probably be it's Achilles heal, but it has a lot of potential through add-ons and it's web support.
Midas
on 2012-11-12 16:43
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As I dislike PA.com launchers myself, I went looking around for alternatives and found SongChick (for more info, see http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=60297#p60297). |
Hokrain is a lightweight, fast audio player that allows you to present tracks as waveforms to make file seeking easier. It is designed to be lightweight, fast, and compatible with most popular formats. The program is also built with keyboard controls in mind for quick, transparent controls.
Note: Website expired, switched to Softpedia.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the RAR archive and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Hokrain.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | xmplay, foobar |
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Gmacri
on 2013-02-04 22:46
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Very good Software, with only 809 KB and beautiful skins. |
Looper gaplessly loops an audio file making it great for drumbeat files.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Looper.exe. |
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misan
on 2014-01-06 10:31
Not stealth: %TEMP%\$$$$$_Looper_temp
Checker
on 2014-01-06 18:16
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@ misan: If you klick on the little "?"-icon behind "Stealth" ... |
Spider Player Pro is a skinnable audio player that plays all the major audio formats, as well as playing/recording of internet radio stations. Includes equalizer, song lyrics, sound effects, and customizable visualizations, audio converter, CD ripper, hotkeys, and much more.
Compatible with 64-bit systems.
Note: The program is no longer developed and the home page is offline. It's "pro" features have been made available for free and we are linking to archive.org and Softpedia to download (thanks smaragdus).
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Dependencies: | To check for latest version, requires Internet Explorer |
Stealth: ? | No |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
Optionally, delete non-English INI files in the \LANG folder to save space. |
Similar/alternative apps: | Songbird |
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Midas
on 2019-11-09 18:08
@cdj59: check your settings and/or your browser. I just downloaded 'Spider_Player_2.5.3.zip' from Softpedia without any request to install any "download manager" (which I would never do, BTW).
cdj59
on 2019-11-10 16:53
My mistake midas
juverax
on 2023-04-06 21:17
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I could not download the app from the wayback machine. However Softpedia has en entry for the Portable Spider Player v.2.5.3 |
soprano is a minimalist audio player designed to remain in the system tray and be controlled by hotkey. Accepts music files, folders, or drives via drag-and-drop, and supports MP3, OGG, WMA and WAV.
Note: Main site is offline, linking to archive.org mirror and a German download site (thanks tmaibaum).
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Runs on: | WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
Path portability: | No |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the RAR package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch soprano.exe. |
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oleksa
on 2010-11-12 10:37
good player but i have not found how global hotkeys can be changed
Garry
on 2011-04-08 00:22
Couldn't find server
tmaibaum
on 2011-09-22 20:59
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@Garry: The official website (kimero.com.ar/soprano) has been down for some time, but the file is still available here: |
MCP is a tool for listening tests, allowing playback of up to 3 audio files and includes a spectrum analyzer for visual analysis. Clicking the BLIND TEST check box will shuffle the files, obscure information, and disable the spectrum analyzer. Click the check box again to reveal the file details and re-enable the analyzer.
Supports MP2, MP3, OGG, WAV, and WMA file formats.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | Freeware (source code included) |
How to extract: |
Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch MCP.exe. If you need WMA support, use MCP(+WMA).exe. Optionally, delete either unneeded EXE file to save space (they are independent). |
M3 is an extremely small music player with a minimalist user interface and support for MP3, WMA and WAV formats. It has a searchable playlist, drag-and-drop support for queuing audio files, and can be minimized to the system tray.
Note: website offline -- linking to archive.org and softpedia.
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Runs on: | Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
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 M3.exe. |
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__philippe
on 2017-04-05 21:35
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M3 alternative download link: |
Evil Player is a fast, powerful and flexible media player with low memory footprint and native support for MP3, OGG, WAV, and more. Radio services supported include Shoutcast, Icecast, and Icecast2.
NOTE: Main site offline, linking to archive.org (which lists an old version) and Softpedia for downloading.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP |
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 RAR package and extract (using a program like PeaExtractor) to a folder of your choice. Launch Evil_Player.exe. |
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My Name
on 2007-11-08 10:19
Really I love this small, simple and nice player. Without unnecessary additions; without squandering resources (very important if you do not have a powerful machine or you need to run many programs at once)
erwin
on 2008-09-01 01:24
this software needs some bug-fixes.. sometimes when i close the apps the songs won't stop.
Hale
on 2010-05-18 03:39
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I love this player so much. The only prob I have is I can't remove a bunch of songs at once. I have to delete them one by one. Not even dragging works. I switch different bands frequently so it's really a pain in the ass if I want to remove 100 bands in the list and throw another set of bands. Overall, this player still rocks. |
CoolPlayer is an audio player with freeform skin support. It features a playlist editor, ID3 multi-tagger, file renamer, MP3-to-WAV converter, Ogg Vorbis support, 8-band equalizer, etc.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | GPL |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch coolplayer.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | Foobar2000, MPC-HC |
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bowser17
on 2008-01-21 22:29
coolplayer is OK, but the first thing i notice is you cannot set the volume relative to everything else... its volume control sets the system vol. BAD.
aivansama
on 2008-02-05 12:30
bowser17, you can change that in the options :)
tdwong
on 2008-12-16 12:37
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Tried CoolPlayer, but go back to XMPlayer as CoolPlayer does not support Unicode. |
MicroWav is an extremely small WAV player with no user interface. You associate WAV files to it, so that when you double-click on any WAV file, it plays almost immediately with no user interaction required.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP |
Writes settings to: | None |
License: | Freeware |
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To test MicroWav, simply click on any WAV file and it should play instantly without any lag. |
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zahnc
on 2008-02-27 14:53
Found it here:
AtmanActive
on 2010-12-27 14:58
Crashes on Win7 x64
__philippe
on 2017-04-05 20:20
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Found a working download link to replace the defunct original |