XMPlay
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
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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:
xmp-aac (AAC support) - http://support.xmplay.com/files_view.php?file_id=519
xmp-flac (FLAC support) - (http://support.xmplay.com/files_view.php?file_id=503
xmp-wasapi (WASAPI output, requires Vista and up) - http://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/
All from the people beyond the "BASS audio library" which is even used by commercial PC games like Audiosurf.
Recommended plugins:
xmp-aac (AAC support) - http://support.xmplay.com/files_view.php?file_id=519
xmp-flac (FLAC support) - (http://support.xmplay.com/files_view.php?file_id=503
xmp-wasapi (WASAPI output, requires Vista and up) - http://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/
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Our users have written 6 comments and reviews about XMPlay, and it has gotten 84 likes
- Developed by Ian Luck
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- Average rating of 4.3
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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
Reply written over 7 years ago
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.
Reply written over 7 years ago
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.
Reply written over 7 years ago
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.
Reply written over 4 years ago
I had been using winamp for quite a while and to play any types of music this player is simply the fastest!
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.
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/ .
XMPlay is a really lightweight media player. I was looking for smth that would use least of the CPU resources. Most of the similar players take up to 5%. XMPlay needs 1% and less. Dunno how programmers achieved it. I use XMPlay mainly for the online radio stream, but it has dozens of plugins to play most audio formats. But the default skin is pretty ugly, so I use the Winamp theme/skin. Thanks!