WishPlayer

Having an audio player at the ready to play your favorite tunes is really a commonality these days. It’s why music streaming is so popular, after all: type in your song titles, maybe create a few playlists, and enjoy your favorite tunes undisturbed.

WishPlayer comes forth with a minimalist take on audio players. To operate it, users will simply need to input the names of the songs they’re looking for, which the app will then play for them to enjoy: it doesn’t matter if you don’t currently have the respective song on your PC, mind you.

The program seems to work in mysterious ways. I initially thought it would simply look for tunes in your Music directory, but that only ended up being half-true. Yes, the tool will look for music on your computer, but if it doesn’t find a song to satisfy your query, it’ll look it up on the web instead.

I’m not yet sure where it pulls the web songs from, but I can say that playing them was no issue at all. All you’ll need to do is input the song and artist name: you may get away with only inputting the song title for some tunes, but it’s best to play it safe and type in the full thing.

The list of supported music formats is quite wide, too, when it comes to playing offline tunes. The full list is on the developer’s website, and it’s quite impressive.

You can create a playlist that contains your favorite tracks. The program doesn’t seem to be able to support creating multiple playlists, however, so only one will have to do for now.

While playing songs from the web was a generally smooth experience, some of them would have really odd runtimes. I tried playing “IDOL” from Yoasobi, and its length was about 14 hours or so.

WishPlayer is for sure an interesting one. The program’s interface is easy to operate and unintrusive, and it should play your songs without much trouble. I wouldn’t necessarily say the player is suitable for more elaborate music collections, however.