Winyl

Winyl is a resourceful audio player that comes packed with a few powerful features, such as media library support.

The interface of the application is quite appealing. Upon deployment you can update the current media library by browsing your computer for folders with music.

You can navigate sound files by genre or year, instantly create playlists, rename them and add songs individually, as well as create smartlists.

The later option is similar to  building playlists but offers additional configuration settings; you can specify the source directory, filter the items to select (tracks or albums), establish how many items you want to include, as well as enable random and automatic refresh mode.

You can locate any item in the media library with a real-time search function, loop tracks or enable shuffle mode, jump to a specific location (artist, album, year, genre, folder), view a file's directory in Explorer, as well as edit a song's metadata (e.g. artist, album, genre).

Winyl supports multiple skins and languages for the UI, and you can turn it into a compact version. Plus, it is possible to import playlists, enable and configure an equalizer, hide the app to the system tray area, disable visual effects and smooth scrolling if Winyl is hogging the computer's resources, as well as reconfigure keyboard shortcuts.

Plenty of other configuration options are available through the Settings screen. For example, you may set playlist files to be added to the library automatically, customize the library view, integrate the app into shell, pick the audio device, configure proxy settings, adjust the hold, show and hide time for the popup screen, as well as make the mini player stay on top of other frames and adjust its transparency level.

On the downside, you cannot record stream from radio stations. Winyl is low-demanding concerning the system memory and CPU, has a good response time and worked smoothly in our tests; it did not hang, crash or pop up error dialogs. To sum it up, Winyl is a stylish audio player with plenty of features and configuration settings to satisfy the entire audience.