The Portable Spider Player application was designed to be a free and useful alternative music player that can be placed in one row with Winamp, iTunes, Windows Media Player and Music Match Jukebox due to its multifunctionality.

Here are some key features of "Portable Spider Player":

· Cool bass and amazing sound quality
· Unicode support
· Powerful tag editors for: ID3 v1 & ID3 v2 tags, Vorbis tags and WMA metadata
· Grab music from CDs
· Rip music into MP3, WMA, OGG or WAV
· Song lyrics editor
· CD-Text support
· Internet streaming (stream files from internet and listen to the internet radio)
· Sound effects
· Multilingual interface
· Skins support
· Customizable icons for file associations (via icon libraries)
· Customizable spectrum analizer and oscilloscope visualizatons
· Convenient searching through playlist
· .m3u playlists support
· Ten-band equalizer with presets editor
· Small size (less than 2Mb)
· and much more pleasant little things you'll soon be mad about !!!

Requirements:

· DirectX 9 recommended

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

New:
· Web search menu added (right-click track info scrolling label
to show the menu). Available options are:
· find track/album on Amazon.com
· find in Google, Yahoo! or Wikipedia
· find music video on YouTube
· find artist pictures on Flickr
· find track's page on Last.fm
· look for concert listings on Gruvr
· find lyrics on LyricWiki
· find track using Skreemr
· "Sort by type" action added (Internet sources go first)

Improved:
· Shoutcast radio directory: "Top500" item added to the "Quick Genre"
· drop-down list (loaded by default)
· BASS audio library and plugins updated to the latest versions
· Lame encoder updated to v3.98.2
· OggEnc encoder updated to v2.85
· "Show untranslated lines only" option in the Translation editor

· Faster search/filtering in the Radio Directory, Translation Editor
· and Favorites Manager

· Some Windows Vista related tweaks
to stop adding files to the playlist one can now hit the Escape key:
· http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1204

· "Copy to folder" dialog redesigned, confirmation dialog is shown
if a file already exists:
· http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1213

Fixed:
· Spider SFX plugin is now fully Unicode enabled and doesn't cause
· troubles if Spider's installation path contains non-ANSI characters

· Skinning: the value of the "MenuButAnchors" attribute
in the "[PLPositions]" section was ignored:
· http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1223

Invadid drawing of search boxes:
· http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1225

Crash when the player is closed while a MIDI file is playing:
· http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1199

Issue with the tray icon's context menu:
· http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1197

Problems playing some Internet streams:
· http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1226