MP3 Play Lyrics

Thanks to the Internet and quick ways to access it, as well as abundance of info at your disposal, music can be played without having to keep a sound file on your hard disk drive. However, if you do, you need specialized applications capable of providing feedback from formats you provide. Amongst others, MP3 Play Lyrics wants to be a little more than your usual music player.

By default, the main window is only equipped with playback options and progress slider to skip through content. This might have a negative impact on the first impression, but a playlist can be brought up to better arrange your collection.

However, the negative impact is not on the visual elements, but on file support, practicality and flexibility. For starters, you can't simply drag desired files over the playlist to import them, with the open dialog letting you know that you can only load MP3 files.

What's more, the playlist is incredibly small, can't be resized and gets rather difficult and frustrating to find songs and there's no search tool to help you out. Options such as shuffle or repeat are nowhere to be found, not to mention equalizers to enhance sound.

There's a lyrics editor at your disposal you can use to manually write down text as the song plays. It comes in handy if you want to include lyrics in a song, which adds a little to the overall practicality.

The application can be minimized to system tray, but there aren't any hotkeys you can use nor configure, so you need to bring up the main window each time. Focus was mostly oriented towards visual design, with stability issues encountered even when you bring down the menu.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that MP3 Play Lyrics is a poor choice when it comes to music players. Not only does it lack a large variety of useful features, file support and playback controls, but stability issues keep it far from being a pro of its kind. The only feature worth mentioning is the lyrics editor, but it only adds a little to practicality.