Spider Player - audio player

[alphasurfer]

From the website:

Cool Bass and Amazing Sound Quality
(powered by Bass Audio Library from Un4seen developments)
Audio formats supported: MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, M4A, MPC (MP+, MPP), AAC, aacPlus, AC3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Ogg FLAC, TTA, APE, WavPack, Speex, WAV, CDDA, WMA, MID, RMI, KAR, S3M, XM, MOD, IT, MO3, MTM, UMX.
Audio Converter - support for transcoding all supported audio formats
Full Unicode support
Powerful Tag Editors (ID3v1 & ID3v2 tags, Vorbis tags and WMA metadata)
CD Ripper (ripping to MP3, WMA, OGG or WAV)
CDDB support
Multilingual interface
CD-Text support
Internet Streaming (stream files from Internet and listen to Internet radio)
Sound Effects
Song Lyrics Editor
Skins support
Customizable Icons for file associations (via icon libraries)
Built-in Visualizations (customizable spectrum analyzer and oscilloscope)
*.m3u Playlists support
Convenient Searching through playlist
Ten-band Equalizer with Presets Editor
Fast and Small
And many more pleasant little things you'll soon be mad about!!!

It writes settings to a xml file in the directory you run it... I use it on my thumby all the time and Im surprised I haven't seen it on this site...

No Need to install just grab the zip file from the site at

http://spider-player.com/files/Spider_Player_1.87.zip (Less than 4mb extracted on my thumby)

I use it to rip cds and to convert mp3 to wma for my player and to listen to tunes....... Highly Recommend!!!!

http://spider-player.com/

[outatime]

Found this post searching through the forums for another mp3 player.

Very nice player!

imho.

[Leif]

Spider Player 2.104 is out

[nevemark]

Tested, fully portable. Nothing is stored outside application directory.

[brent]

Reminds me of very early versions of winamp.

[Drutt]

Really great app this one!
Actually covers everything I need in a simple player, only downside is the 'only rip one track at a time' in the freeware version, so close to being perfect, but once again you have to pay for perfection lol
Still a good one to keep on the thumb drive

[Ennovy]

spider player version 2.203 is released
portable version : http://spider-player.com/spider/files/S ... _2.203.zip

[Leif]

And Spider Player 2.3 beta 2 is also out. Hopefully the final version is released soon.

[appsuser]

Nice player. I judge players like this mainly for their ability to play internet radio streams, as I'm unlikely to carry large amounts of music on a portable thumb drive. In this case, I was slightly disappointed by what the site advertised and what the player could actually do. Using ver. 2.203 of the player, I couldn't load .pls playlists (had to convert all of mine to .m3u) and the player didn't seem to be able to play an AAC+ stream (Yggdrasil Radio). Just don't think they should promise more than they can deliver. For portable use, I'll stay with XMPlay plus plugins...it supports everything I need to do for listening to internet radio streams.

[ashghost]

Funny, my disappointment regarding Spider Player was that, like so many players, Spider Player loads each alternate stream in an internet radio url as a separate track, making a playlist of stations more or less unusable. I'll keep using IcyRadio for streams and Foobar2000 for local media.

Foobar blows everything else away IMHO - it's lightweight, it's portable, its default playlists use relative links, it can play just about anything and convert and rip and mass tag and it's skinnable and has tabbed playlists and on and on...

[Vitaly]

I couldn't load .pls playlists (had to convert all of mine to .m3u)

could you send one of those to "contact <at> spider-player <dot> com", please?

and the player didn't seem to be able to play an AAC+ stream (Yggdrasil Radio)

you have to install the MP4/AAC plugin in order to be able to play (or record) AAC+ streams

Spider Player loads each alternate stream in an internet radio url as a separate track, making a playlist of stations more or less unusable

Thanks for pointing this out! This will be made an option in the next version.

[I am Baas]

Portable Spider Player V2.5.0 available, 02-11-2010

New:
· Lyrics Pane in the playlist with auto download of lyrics.
· Get instant lyrics of the song you are listening to!
· Spider Remote - remote control app for Android phones
· new "Feeback" button in the About window

Improved:
· Shoucast-Icecast toggle in the radio directory made more obvious,
· tooltips added

Fixed:
DoS vulnerability when loading M3U playlists:
· http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15302/
· mouse wheel moved the pan slider without actually affecting the pan
· and displaying the pan value in the main window

http://spider-player.com/download/other

[I am Baas]

Spider Player 2.5.1 (November 8, 2010)

New:
Lyrics Pane now works in the Basic version as well for the first minute of each song for preview purposes

Fixed:
Lyrics Pane script error messages

http://spider-player.com/download/other

[webfork]

Based on this test, I decided to go ahead and add Spider Player, especially since it was first suggested back in 2007 and has been a regularly updated discussion topic

Spider Player: http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2022

[I am Baas]

How to extract:
1. Download "Basic" version and run setup file
2. During setup, choose "portable" installation and extract to a folder of your choice

Note that setup requires an internet connection as many program components are downloaded.

A portable build is available @ http://spider-player.com/download/other

It's a .zip package, does not require admin rights.