Musique

The market is saturated with media players, and paradoxically, this is precisely what makes it even more difficult to find a solution that suits your needs.

If you are trying to find a music player with a touch of elegance but that doesn’t feed you myriads of controls you actually find no use for, you may want to consider an application such as Musique.

Before anything else, it must be mentioned that the program sports a minimalist user interface that makes navigation transparent. A basic set of controls are available for you to browse through your music, but nothing out of the ordinary or inaccessible to the average user.

First, you need to select a collection folder for the program to monitor, and once you have taken this step, your list of tracks is displayed in the section on the right, grouped based on their type.

As for how songs are displayed in the playlist, there are a series of filters grouping them by track or album count, name, year, as well as popularity. What’s more, you can reverse the current order altogether.

The core playback features are available as well, so you can adjust the volume, play, pause, stop, and skip songs, and there are also a series of options if you want to manage your playlist. Specifically, you can clear it, shuffle or repeat songs, remove specific items or move them up or down.

As an added bonus, it enables you to see the lyrics to the songs you are listening to in the "Info View" section, which should prevent you from leaving the program.

You must know that the app is not intrusive in any way and that it ran smoothly during our tests, with MP3, FLAC, OGG, and WMA being among the file extensions that worked flawlessly.

Musique is an approachable music player whose main advantage is the fact that it provides the user with a comfortable and distractions-free environment, letting them focus exclusively on their favorite tracks.