DalSong

Needless to say that offline playback of audio files requires a capable player. There are various dedicated applications over the web so you can pick the one with the set of preferences that suits you best. DalSong is one of them, which can look up lyrics online for songs that are playing, in a simple, intuitive environment.

The application completely relies on Java Runtime Environment to function, so you need to make sure that is installed on the target PC. On the other hand, it’s portable, allowing you to carry it on a thumb drive to have your own audio player, and even collection of songs wherever you go. Registry entries are kept intact, as well as the target computer’s stability.

On the visual side of things, you get to work with two windows, one of which represents the playlist editor. It allows you to drop songs over it, or lets you load them through the browse dialog, but only the MP3 format is supported, and the list of items can’t be saved to file. However, you can shuffle the list for more variety in playback.

There is a decent variety of themes to choose from, which change the layout color to make it suit your desktop. As far as the lyrics fetching component is concerned, this mostly depends on the song that’s playing, without any option to change the source. Interned needs to be active for this component to work, triggering automatically.

On the other hand, you can switch to a mini mode in case you don’t need all the space for lyrics. This simply reduces the size of the main window to leave just playback controls at your disposal. Sadly, there’s no hotkey support for faster management, OSD function, or possibility to change songs from the taskbar preview box.

All things considered, we can say that DalSong is a straightforward audio player, which comes in handy in case you’re not really looking for a sophisticated set of features, but rather a slim interface to play songs. Lyrics don’t always show up, and playback controls are only managed from the main window.