XMPlay
A tiny and portable audio player. With a size of about 280 KiB it plays OGG, MP3, audio CDs, WMA and several less used formats like XM, IT, MOD, UMX and others. Furthermore it supports a wide range of plugins, skins and visualizations, works with tags, creates media library from...
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Support for Themes
Features
- Portable
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Support for MIDI
- Dark Mode
- Music Library
- Drag and Drop
- Music collection
- Stream audio
- Audio Conversion
- Normalize Volume
- Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
- Sound Effects
- Gapless Playback
Tags
- mod-music
- tracker-music
- amiga-module
- winamp-plugin-compatible
- flac-converter
- mp3-converter
- chiptune
XMPlay News & Activities
Recent activities
- babsors liked XMPlay
gwrvan-barre added XMPlay as alternative to Dialog Music Player- Cubium updated XMPlay
POX added XMPlay as alternative to monoPlayer
What is XMPlay?
A tiny and portable audio player. With a size of about 280 KiB it plays OGG, MP3, audio CDs, WMA and several less used formats like XM, IT, MOD, UMX and others. Furthermore it supports a wide range of plugins, skins and visualizations, works with tags, creates media library from existing music etc.
All from the people beyond the "BASS audio library" which is even used by commercial PC games like Audiosurf.
Recommended plugins:
- FLAC support - https://support.xmplay.com/files_view.php?file_id=503
- MIDI support - https://support.xmplay.com/files_view.php?file_id=500
- Opus and WebM support - https://support.xmplay.com/files_view.php?file_id=639
- Last.fm scrobbling - https://support.xmplay.com/files_view.php?file_id=683
- WASAPI output - https://support.xmplay.com/files_view.php?file_id=563
Tipp: check out Secret INI options - http://support.xmplay.com/article.php?id=16 and set the "Boost" one.
Also visit the XMPlay Support site for more Informations - http://support.xmplay.com/
XMPlay information
Developed by
Un4seen Developments (Ian Luck) Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 4.2Alternatives
108 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
XMPlay is an overlooked gem. Definitely. Memory usage scarcely approaches Foobar2000, even with plugins! And it can do practically all the things expected from a full-featured audio player - like reading CUE sheets (including embedded ones) or encoding to a different format - which is even possible on the fly with internet radio stream. Supports many more formats than just tracker music - MP3, FLAC, you name it. There's a few rather interesting visualization options available via custom plugins.
The only major downside of it has already been mentioned - the absolutely atrocious default skin. But don't be deceived by it, this can be remedied easily by installing alternative ones from the official site or its dedicated support hub http://support.xmplay.com/ .
A really nice player which looks great (apart from the truly awful default skin) and sounds great too. Where I feel it falls down is in dealing with large music collections. I have getting close to 3K albums and 40K tracks and I just cannot find a way to list them in a manner that lets me browse. Other players allow more visual sorting and display, i.e. by album cover. Maybe I'm just more of a visual person but I found it tedious browsing 40K tracks displayed like a spreadsheet. Having said all of that there is something wonderful about this wee player and it's community of contributors. MusicBee is my number 1 choice but XMPlay is just too good not to keep it as an occasional use alternative.
Is the software still being developed at all? Both the player interface and the website look like they are stuck in the 90s / 2000s. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find a source for the update history or a changelog. In any case, it would be appropriate to clarify whether further development of this software has been discontinued or not.
Lightweight! I was looking for smth easy on the CPU. Most of similar players use up to 5%. XMPlay uses 1% and less. I wonder how the coders achieved it. I use it mostly for the online radio streaming, but it has dozens of plugins for most of the audio formats. The default skin is pretty ugly though. But I use the Winamp-like skin (WA Classic2). A pretty cool player.
The basic download is extremely small, and you add the extra support you need. It runs as a standalone so you can keep it on your USB stick with your music. Many Winamp plugins are supported.
I had been using winamp for quite a while and to play any types of music this player is simply the fastest!
If you listen to any form of tracker music you should check out XMPlay. It handles most well and has good plugins for formats it dose not natively support. Foobar2000 is still my player of choice for most music but when it comes to MOD and IT files I hop on over to XMPlay.
These days i mostly use the DUMB module decoder plugin for foobar as well. although if im looking for more accurate sound replication and watching the tracker display in real time i still tend to fire up XMPlay as I have yet to find a tracker display for the columns ui in foobar and the DUMB module decoder dose not replicate the reverb as well as XMPlay
hum looks like the Module Plugin in foobar has improved quite a bit from what it used to be. I can hardly tell the difference between the two. I think the foobar has a slightly higher sample rate and the interpolation defaults to cubic now. for a while XMPlay was significantly better but now it's pretty much a tie.and it's just more easier to use foobar.
oh my found one that sound worse in foobar http://lite.modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=58683 every so suttle diffene in the sounds of the notes.
It's all about default settings probably, as amiga mod is pretty simple format, and i doubt Foobar's replay engine is better, just like trekeyus said, it has probably disabled/enabled interpolation or/and resampling, but if you like to listen to amiga modules the way they sounded originally on the real hardware, you would want to turn all the extra refinements off. Also, for Foobar, and pretty much any other player, the libopenmpt library is one of the best and most accurate, handling many module formats. Basically the libopenmpt and BASS are both top tier choices.