Portable Trout

Portable Trout is a software utility which helps people listen to their favorite songs, with extensive format support (MP3, OGG, AIF, WAV, CDA, MOD, MIDI, KAR, FLAC, WMV, AAC etc.).

This is the portable version of Trout, therefore allowing you to bypass the installation process. As a consequence, this software tool is not going to affect the Windows registry and Start menu/screen in any way.

In addition to that, you can run Trout Portable on any computer you have access to, by dropping the program files to a USB flash drive. It is also possible to use it from any location on the hard drive by clicking the EXE file.

The interface is fairly simple, consisting of several playback controls (pause, play, stop, fast forward, next etc.), a volume bar, the album cover art and a list of all the uploaded songs, along with information such as artist, album, title, year, genre, time, size, extension, path and composer.

It is possible to add an unlimited number of songs, create and load playlists, as well as save them to the hard drive, in a TPL file format, stream music from the Internet by providing the URL and listen to audio CDs.

This software utility enables you to remove duplicates and dead entries, edit tags, view information about a track, album or artist on Libre.fm and Last.fm, repeat a file or list and enable shuffle.

From the settings panel, hotkeys can be assigned to all the actions available in the player, list position can be remembered, level meters and album art can be hidden, as well as make changes to the fonts and colors used throughout the program.

To sum up, Portable Trout is a useful piece of software with a feature-rich environment, good response time and minimal usage of CPU and memory. There were no bugs, crashes or errors registered during our tests.