MiniPlayer

There’s a high chance that a long day’s work ends with enjoying your favorite playlists, for which you need a dedicated application in case you don’t want to go online for this purpose. In this regard, MiniPlayer comes as a slim application you can carry around along with a collection of songs to always have something to listen to.

With no installation required, MiniPlayer can easily be stored on a thumb drive and used on other computers. More than that, registry entries remain intact during the whole operation, and so you don’t have to worry about the health status of the target PC.

You might find it a little difficult to work with the main window at first. This is because of the borderless interface, but there are dedicated controls through which to adjust the size, and even move it across the desktop. Specific elements like the playlist editor or settings panel can be toggled, or have everything minimized during playback.

The set o playback controls consists of regular play, pause, stop, and browse buttons. You can bring up the playlist editor which shows all files you load in an organized table with info headers for file name, path, length, artist, album, and year. Files can be dropped over the main window, or you can use the browse dialog to load multiple files or an entire folder containing MP3, MOD, S3M, XM, IT, and WAV audio files.

Audio enhancements are not present in the set of features, but the application does come with a few visualizers. There’s a channel level indicator, waveform display with the possibility to customize colors, a visualizer with three styles, and an info panel to show time and track info.

All things considered, we can state that MiniPlayer might come in handy for straightforward playback of MP3 files. The playlist editor makes it possible to keep all your tracks together, and the slim design can easily blend in any environment.