Multimedia Player

Multimedia is a lightweight Windows application whose purpose is to help you listen to your favorite songs, create playlists, play audio CDs, and connect to online radio stations.

The GUI reminds of Winamp’s looks. The layout is composed of several panels which incorporate important functions, namely audio playback controls, equalizer, playlist, visualizer (it can be activated in full screen), and media library. The panels can be resized, repositioned and hidden.

You are allowed to play, pause or stop the current selection, jump to the next or previous item from the playlist, view a spectrum displayed in the main window, adjust the volume, alter the sample rate, tweak the sound with the aid of an equalizer, shuffle or repeat songs, change the tempo and pitch, as well as record audio streams to WAV, MP3, or OGG file format.

Multimedia gives you the possibility to import the content of an entire folder to the library, add songs from audio CDs, as well as specify a custom URL. You can remove items from the playlist, sort files by artist, album, title, genre, or other criteria, perform searches in the playlist, play songs in a reversed or random order, and export playlist to M3U, MPL, or PLS file format.

Advanced users are not going to be disappointed by the built-in tag editor which comes with comprehensive settings for altering ID3v1 and IDv2 data. Tests have shown that Multimedia delivers very good output quality and remains light on system resources.

Several setup parameters are implemented for helping you work with DSP plugins, apply fading effects between songs, configure online radio connections, rip audio CDs and output the audio streams to WAV, MP3, OGG, or FLAC file format, make file associations (e.g. PLS, M3U, MP3, WAV, OGG, AIFF, WMA, AU, M4A, ZIP), as well as change the looks of the GUI by selecting between several themes or altering the colors manually.

All things considered, if you are looking to replace Winamp with an audio player lighter in configuration settings and looks, you can have a look at Multimedia. It can be handled by beginners and professionals alike.