Plainamp

Music has always been and still is an indispensable aspect of our lives, played at first with few instruments, but now people create amazing music using only their body or various house objects. Music was the perfect way to relax, to socialize with people, as well as show and improve your singing and dancing skills. It used to be played at parties to entertain the guests and locals. Along the way, different music styles were created by musicians and individuals alike, such as hip-hop, classical or rap.

Plainamp is a small yet powerful application designed to offer a simple way to listen to your favorite playlists and songs with ease. Its purpose is to help you create your own lists with an unlimited number of tracks.

The installation is finished in a blink of an eye and proves to be uneventful. It's wrapped in an accessible and user-friendly interface divided into a song viewer and several standard options, like order, volume, pan, EQ and position.

The tool supports both playlist formats (M3U) and audio types (MP3, MP2, MP1). If you don't have a file saved on the computer, you can easily compose one my inserting the desired tracks into the panel using the file browser.

Once loaded, they are displayed in an alphabetic order, marked with digits and showed along with their complete destination folder. The app comes with playback controls, which let you play, pause and stop the record at any given time, as well as go back to the previous track or the next.

It's possible to adjust the volume, position and pan sliders for an optimal experience and change the order in which melodies are played (single, repeat, inverse, random, normal). The equalizer provides a broad range of sound styles to customize the playback sound. Among them you can find classical, club, dance, rock, soft or techno. What's more, the tool supports plug-ins and comes with a console log to view all the changes you made.

The bottom line is that Plainamp is a reliable and straightforward application created to offer a simple way to make your own customized playlists using different songs or play an existing list from the computer. During testing, the tool didn't consume too many resources and run smoothly.