XMPlay v3.7

webfork on 26 Dec 2012

XMPlay is a skinnable audio player that plays all the major audio formats (MP3, WMA, M4A, OGG) and includes gapless playback, effects, equalizer, net streaming. Can output to WAV, MP3, and OGG (via external encoders). More features are available using plugins available via the product website, including visualizations, more format support, cover art, and more. Note that the library and playlist will not work as you change PCs.

Alternatively, XMPlay Portable is also available, with the added feature of automatically adjusting library and playlist paths.

Category:
System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Partial. XMPlay plays audio files with Unicode filenames, but seems capable of displaying only information which is encoded in the current code page i.e. if your current code page is Chinese, it won't be able to display Korean filenames or tags.
Path portability: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch xmplay.exe.
What's new?
  • Recently played tracks list with the option of going back
  • List of last 5 track titles for internet streams in "Message" info
  • Contains/equals/lower/greater tag searching options
  • Search history available via search button menu and quick find option
  • Automatic playlist replacement with library search matches
  • Playlist history and quick loading/saving of entries
  • Playlist saving of only the selected tracks
  • Playlist entry removal after playback
  • Sorting by album also considers track number
  • Use of the track title when writing to file
  • Internet streams that are paused too long auto-reconnect on resumption
  • MP3/AAC internet stream writing without needing to reconnect
  • Toggling/stopping of internet stream/file writing
  • HTTP/FTP download support for Winamp plugins that don't include their own HTTP/FTP support
  • Improved tag reading support for Winamp input plugins
  • Support for Unicode-enabled Winamp input plugins, and support for exotic filenames with non-enabled plugins too
  • Improved support for non-Unicode encoders
  • Removal of empty tags from encoder command-line options
  • FLAC encoder added to default encoder options
  • Loop limiting to a specified number of times (instead of just once)
  • Bookmark resumption at end of queue
  • Window position locking
  • Skin config customisation
  • Visualisation refresh rate control
  • Shift+left-clicking alternative to middle-clickng in "Vis" window
  • Support for per-user vis config (VIS.INI)
  • Amplification level resetting upon new subsongs
  • Amplification slider range increased to +/-20dB in DSP options
  • Output buffer range extended to 5 seconds
  • History clearing by category
  • More accurate MP3 seeking
  • Ramping-in disabled for all but the XM format (and MODs in FT2 mode) in "normal" ramping mode
  • Tracker detection for IT files
  • Open folder option added to tray menu
  • Support for archive file entries via DDE
  • "replace [playlist] from library" and "write to disk" shortcuts
  • Restarting/reloading of XMPlay
  • Missing fonts warning not shown at startup
  • CD plugin: Fix for drives with letter A
  • CD plugin: CD-TEXT reading bug fix

43 comments on XMPlay  The Portable Freeware Collection Latest Entries Feed

NameTaken 2006-10-10 19:16

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)

a 2006-11-04 14:10

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.

hlomzik 2006-11-26 17:43

coolest player!
my favourite! - nice design and great functionallity!

shahdan 2007-02-16 01:41

I like this player. It does not eat much memory so I can use it on my old pc. A good alternative to try.

Webfork 2007-04-09 17:04

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.

Arnaud Nime 2007-04-20 14:30

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...

LH 2007-04-21 12:19

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.

The_R 2007-06-30 16:30

kicks winamps arss by a mile..

Jake 2007-07-02 15:13

Beats anything else I've tried... with a plugin it plays midis using soundfonts. Excellent player.

AncientImages 2007-08-12 09:11

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!

Peter Higgins 2007-08-17 00:33

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.

Webfork 2007-09-23 22:17

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.)

StormChild 2007-10-08 13:09

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!

Ivan 2007-11-09 01:50

My choice! Migrate from Winamp.

Marezathus 2008-01-01 07:22

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.

Case 2008-01-10 00:53

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.

bowser17 2008-01-17 20:27

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.

donncon 2008-01-25 07:07

My favorite player by far. It's very stable, and some great skins are available.

That Guy 2008-02-20 21:00

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!

Getch 2008-03-25 11:07

Plays midi files portably. 'nuff said.

Eimarmeni 2008-04-23 07:52

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.

Gmacri 2008-04-26 05:10

The best portable audio player I've founded.
The playback quality and the skins are very good.

augustocroppo@hotmail.co.uk 2008-06-28 10:23

The best music player to portable devices!

Lone Wolf 2008-07-17 03:11

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...

mel 2008-11-21 22:55

A really good audio player considering its small size and the low system resources it uses.Excellent as a portable application.

Buckster 2009-03-05 02:25

Like bowser17 said, I miss the ability to open a folder.

Mike 2009-05-21 04:48

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

Best music player I've used.

KingMudkip 2009-11-05 00:32

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?

Munaq 2010-01-04 16:45

A new release after 2 years.

Is not that XMPlay is not being maintained, is just that it doesn't need any more improvements.

Portugal Angola que seja um empate 2010-01-17 15:59

The "Mona Lisa" of the music players

Harry 2010-05-26 00:44
Will 2010-06-27 15:04

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.

peewee 2010-08-19 18:54

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.

ChemZ 2010-10-28 15:33

3 thumbs up!

TP109 2010-12-23 05:24

One of the best players available in an amazingly small size.

ChemZ 2010-12-23 06:59

The download link still points to the older v3.5.1!

I am Baas 2010-12-23 07:16

Fixed.

the_watcher 2010-12-23 08:38

great news! new xmplay! :D

Gmacri 2010-12-23 09:47

New version 3.6

Don't working at all in my Windows 7
Also if I run as administrator.
I'm re-installing old 3.5 version
I hope this will be fixed

spicydog 2011-02-25 12:44

Simply E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-T... I want no other player but this!

I wish the developer of XMPlay would also make a video player with the same sleek features... If anybody knows an equivalent of XMPlay to play the common video formats, please post some alternatives.

Tnx

V3.6

Dinorawrus 2011-03-14 22:37

@spicydog, The KMPlayer is a good alternative.

V3.6

Checker 2012-12-22 23:32

2012-12-22 23:28

Amazing how this program has improved from a simple player for tracker .xm files ( made by programs like skale tracker: http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=14420&p=44902&hilit=Skale ) to now.
Still my favorite music player!

v3.7

freakazoid 2012-12-23 22:57

Agreed Checker!

I still use XMPlay everyday. The only thing I'd love to see is some sort of directory separator in the playlist, but other than that, still the best byte-for-byte audio player on the planet!

v3.7

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