MRockola

MRockola is an open-source software tool that was developed in order to help you listen to audio tracks and watch movies, with great ease.

The installation process is surprise-free and it is over in a few moments, while the interface you are greeted by presents a minimal design. It is not built as many other media players, as it contains lists of all detected media files in the provided folders. This might make matters a bit confusing for novice users, and they might run into difficulties.

This software utility supports quite a long list of extensions, including MPG, MP3, AAC, AC3, WMA, FLAC, AVI, WMV, OGG and karaoke formats (MP3+G, WAV+G, OGG+G).

It is important to keep in mind that the main window does not contain any kind of playback controls, which can be considered a small setback, as novice users might find it a bit bewildering. Almost all available actions has a keyboard shortcut assigned to them, and it is possible to customize them, from the settings panel.

An equalizer is integrated, and you can enable or disable it at any point. The background image can be loaded from the hard drive with the help of a file browser, in a JPG or PNG format. You can also hide or show the mouse cursor, and upload entire music folders.

To conclude, MRockola is a pretty decent piece of software for playing media files. It does not use many system resources and the response time is good. Nonetheless, novice users might find it hard to navigate through it.