ScPlayer

ScPlayer is a small open-source audio player developed specifically for helping you play music from your local disk drive or network.

You can drop the tool on USB flash drives or other portable devices and carry it with you all the time. In order to gain access to its GUI, you only need to run the executable file (you do not need to follow the steps included in an installation process).

It does not write entries in your Windows registry so you can get rid of it using a simple deletion task.

ScPlayer comes packed with a client version that gives you the possibility to connect to the server by providing information about the IP address, port number, as well as client name.

What’s more, you can use the server for playing audio files hosted on network drives. You are given the freedom to start or stop the server, view a list with clients, and sort them by IP address. The list with clients can be shown or hidden.

The application helps you create a playlist by importing audio files (e.g. WAV, AIFF, FLAC, OGG, MP3, ASF, WMA) and save the playlist to a file on your computer so you can quickly add it in your future projects.

You are allowed to start or stop the current audio selection, go to the next or previous song, seek for a position in audio streams, tweak the volume, and shuffle or repeat songs.

All things considered, ScPlayer comes packed with basic features for helping you manage and play network music, and can be handled by beginners and professionals alike. The only problem is that the application hasn’t been updated for a while so you can make use of its capabilities especially on older operating systems, like Windows XP, Vista and 7.