NextOne Player

Keeping your collection of songs on your computer most likely implies that you have a preferred player to use whenever you want to relax with some tunes. There are tons of audio players at your disposal, which don’t necessarily need to be fitted with a great deal of features to satisfy your needs. For instance, NextOne Player is a suitable example for clean playback.

The application doesn’t keep you busy for a lot of time during the setup process. Just make sure that .NET Framework is on your computer before you attempt to run it, or you might run into some issues. Chances are it’s already on your computer, because it’s a default feature which comes with modern Windows iterations.

As far as the visual design is concerned, it doesn’t pose any accommodation problems, with a set of playback controls which resembles the one found in Windows Media Player. A large space is used to show all items currently in the playlist, while the upper toolbar holds necessary functions to load songs.

As stated by the application on first launch, you need to first fill up the song library with at least one item. This can be done in a variety of ways, such as selecting the content of an entire folder, picking files through the browse dialog, or simply dropping them over the window.

Playback controls aren’t really abundant, with no possibility to shuffle the list, or have items on repeat. Be sure to activate the AutoNext function so you don’t spend time manually switching to the next song. Sadly, hotkey commands are not supported, even though the program minimizes to the tray area during playback.

Taking everything into consideration, we come to the conclusion that NextOne Player is a pretty straightforward choice when it comes to playback of audio files. A decent variety of file formats are supported, and you can easily build playlist, but it could have used at least basic hotkey commands to play, pause, and stop.