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Softpedia Editor's Review for XMPlay
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The software is an audio player, supporting the OGG /MP3 /MP2 /MP1 /WMA /WAV /MO3 /IT /XM /S3M /MTM /MOD /UMX audio formats
Written by Bogdan Popa on December 14th, 2011
It's pretty hard to convince an avid computer user to abandon his favorite audio player and try something else. But not if we're talking about XMPlay.
Because this is a light audio player that has the power to fight with any other similar app on the market, as it offers users basically all the things they would ever want from such a software utility.
You may find XMPlay quite ugly and we've heard a lot of users saying that if there weren't the skins, they would most likely go back to Winamp. Well, XMPlay supports skins too, so the way it looks isn't that important, as every user can make the app look just the way he likes.
But what's more important is that the application comprises everything, and when we're saying everything we really mean it, you would expect to get from an audio player.
Excellent audio quality, the ability to play files straight from archives, thus helping you save some time, shortcuts, interpolation and ramping to be sure XMPlay is one of the best tools of its kind.
The program boasts a huge settings menu so you can change basically everything, including file associations, output options, playlist configuration, titles and other appearance settings.
But the real goodie is that XMPlay also supports Winamp plugins so if all these aforementioned features aren't enough to convince you, well, you can always teach the app new things with the help of plugins.
XMPlay has so many things to offer, so it's pretty impressive that it remains so light on computer resources all the time, beating most of the other tools in the same software category.
The good thing about XMPlay is the fact that it excels from most points of view, providing an unrivaled sound quality with excellent and well-developed features. If we were to name a bad thing, we would mention the fact that it didn't work with the multimedia keys on your keyboard, but a plugin would most likely solve the problem.
So all in all, you must give XMPlay a shot. It's not as popular as Winamp, but in some people's hearts, it's so much better.
 Read an in-depth analysis in our professional review for XMPlay
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XMPlay description
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Here are some key features of "XMPlay":
Balls-on accurate:
· Plays the way nature intended
· 32/24-bit & multi-channel output
· Take advantage of supporting hardware for ultimate quality
Gapless output:
· Gapless playback of all supported formats, crossfading
Interpolation & volume/pan ramping:
· For output that's smoother than a baby's arse!
DSP:
· Automatic gain control (and Replaygain), 9 band equalizer, reverb, plugin support
Net streaming:
· All supported file types (including MODs and archives) can be streamed from FTP and HTTP servers (inc. Shoutcast/Icecast/Icecast2), optionally writing a copy to disk, FTP directories and HTML webpages can be scanned for playable files
Track information:
· Displays file/format information, messages/tags, and instrument/sample texts, open webpages from the texts
Title formatting:
· You decide how you want the track titles to look, title updating from 'net streams and CUE sheets
Library:
· A database of your tracks, with directory monitoring, for quick and easy access to the tracks you want to play
Saved/preset settings:
· Save settings (DSP/etc) to be automatically used each time specific tracks or filetypes are played, save presets for quick application at any time
Disk writing:
· Write 8/16/24/32-bit WAV files, use external encoders (MP3/OGG/etc), optional level normalization, dithering & noise shaping, individual MOD instrument writing
Keyboard shortcuts:
· Fully customizable shortcuts, including global hotkeys
Integration:
· Open files/folders from Windows Explorer, drag'n'drop files/folders/shortcuts/URLs, monitor the clipboard for playable URLs, drag'n'drop tracks from XMPlay into other programs, icon customization
Archive plugins:
· Archived/compressed files can be loaded just like normal files, including support for nested archives
Unicode file support:
· Support for Russian, Chinese, etc...
Visualisation:
· Compatible with Sonique plugins, fullscreen display, includes a MOD pattern view
No installation:
· UnZIP where you want and go!
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Decoder/plugin saved settings
· Replaygain included in amplification saved settings
· Tag-based saved settings
· Priority filetypes for input plugins
· Use of the source sample resolution when writing to disk
· Shortcut reordering
· Playback state resetting when looping non-looped MODs
· Playlist track number column is now optional
· Average play count per month in library
· Improved search support for diacritics
· Clearing of the folder/URL/search history
· Windows default output device ("Microsoft Sound Mapper")
· Support for UTF-16 playlists
· Support for opening URLs via DDE
· Gapless support for iTunes MP3 files
· Overriding of Explorer's "Hide extensions for known file types" setting
· Sample resolution added to WAV/AIFF "General" info
· WMA plugin: Sample resolution added to "General" info
· WMA plugin: Proxy support
· WADSP plugin: Bit borrowing for headroom to avoid clipping
· Skinning improvements (see skinning kit)
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