Good free MP3 player........more bragging about XMPlayer

[Elephant]

Among all the other good points that have been made in
previous threads, here's a few things in my opinion that
make the XMplayer stand out.

1. Very small. I back up all the files to a floppy disk and
that includes the skin, visual effects and my radio files.

2. It does a wonderful job of playing streaming audio.
I created tiny "pls" files containing the URLs of my favorite
stations. One click on the station name and I'm listening.

3. The latest version now allows you to save what you hear on
streaming audio to a WAV or MP3 file. I can finally stick it
back to the RIAA. I use to be able to download a certain weekly
radio show, but the RIAA stepped in and said that the show could
not be posted for downloading. Well, they didn't stop it from
being streamed, so now I can save it as a file again.

4. The sound quality of the XMPlayer, in my opinion, beats a lot
of the other bloated players all to heck. The built in equalizer
isn't all that great, but with some careful adjustments, you can
get some pretty awsome sound out of this player.

OK, I'm done bragging. Geez, you'd think I wrote the software
or something. I just like to let everyone know when I come across
something that's free and really does a wonderful job.

 

[Bob Adkins]

1. Very small. I back up all the files to a floppy disk and
that includes the skin, visual effects and my radio files.

2. It does a wonderful job of playing streaming audio.
I created tiny "pls" files containing the URLs of my favorite
stations. One click on the station name and I'm listening.

3. The latest version now allows you to save what you hear on
streaming audio to a WAV or MP3 file. I can finally stick it
back to the RIAA. I use to be able to download a certain weekly
radio show, but the RIAA stepped in and said that the show could
not be posted for downloading. Well, they didn't stop it from
being streamed, so now I can save it as a file again.

4. The sound quality of the XMPlayer, in my opinion, beats a lot
of the other bloated players all to heck. The built in equalizer
isn't all that great, but with some careful adjustments, you can
get some pretty awsome sound out of this player.

XM Player is currently my favorite, and my default player.

However, it has fleas. It sounds dull, even when tweaked. Try CoolPlayer,
then XMPlayer side by side and you'll hear what I'm talking about.

It uses too many resources. It causes the system to slow down, and causes
video artifacts (trails) while playing.

If CoolPlayer swats a couple of bugs, I'm going back to it for the superior
sound and low resource usage.

Bob

 

[John]

Among all the other good points that have been made in
previous threads, here's a few things in my opinion that
make the XMplayer stand out.

1. Very small. I back up all the files to a floppy disk and
that includes the skin, visual effects and my radio files.

2. It does a wonderful job of playing streaming audio.
I created tiny "pls" files containing the URLs of my favorite
stations. One click on the station name and I'm listening.

3. The latest version now allows you to save what you hear on
streaming audio to a WAV or MP3 file. I can finally stick it
back to the RIAA. I use to be able to download a certain weekly
radio show, but the RIAA stepped in and said that the show could
not be posted for downloading. Well, they didn't stop it from
being streamed, so now I can save it as a file again.

4. The sound quality of the XMPlayer, in my opinion, beats a lot
of the other bloated players all to heck. The built in equalizer
isn't all that great, but with some careful adjustments, you can
get some pretty awsome sound out of this player.

OK, I'm done bragging. Geez, you'd think I wrote the software
or something. I just like to let everyone know when I come across
something that's free and really does a wonderful job.

For those that want it .
XMPlay
http://www.un4seen.com/
http://www.webgrid.co.uk/audiovideo_15.html

 

[Elephant]

XM Player is currently my favorite, and my default player.

However, it has fleas. It sounds dull, even when tweaked. Try CoolPlayer,
then XMPlayer side by side and you'll hear what I'm talking about.

It uses too many resources. It causes the system to slow down, and causes
video artifacts (trails) while playing.

If CoolPlayer swats a couple of bugs, I'm going back to it for the superior
sound and low resource usage.

Bob

Thanks a lot Bob, just when I thought I was using the best MP3
player, you have to turn me onto another one. Now I'm going to
be up all night comparing the two!

So far, you are right. CoolPlayer has slightly better sound quality.
I listen to my music using a nice pair of Infinity speakers, so I can
hear the difference. On a smaller set of "desktop" speakers, you may
not be able to hear that CoolPlayer is slightly better.

Both players have good qualities that should be merged into one player.
XM allows pluggins, CoolPlayer doesn't have any. I like the ability in
CP to use it's internal volume control, XM doesn't have that. I still
have to experiment with the ease of loading URLs in CP. In XM, it's a
snap.

Anyway, I won't get any sleep tonight as I play with CoolPlayer.

 

[Bob Adkins]

Anyway, I won't get any sleep tonight as I play with CoolPlayer.

Don't mess with the skins. They'll drive you crazy. There's also a problem
with the configurations saving properly. I refuse to use CoolPlayer until
they clear up the skin and config issues.

Meanwhile, I love the XMPlayer skins. The "Pager" skin is cool++.

My fave skins on CoolPlayer were Slider, Universe, and DRI-7000

Both players are "portable". Just drag anywhere and play.

Bob

 

[John]

Thanks a lot Bob, just when I thought I was using the best MP3
player, you have to turn me onto another one. Now I'm going to
be up all night comparing the two!

So far, you are right. CoolPlayer has slightly better sound quality.
I listen to my music using a nice pair of Infinity speakers, so I can
hear the difference. On a smaller set of "desktop" speakers, you may
not be able to hear that CoolPlayer is slightly better.

Both players have good qualities that should be merged into one player.
XM allows pluggins, CoolPlayer doesn't have any. I like the ability in
CP to use it's internal volume control, XM doesn't have that. I still
have to experiment with the ease of loading URLs in CP. In XM, it's a
snap.

Anyway, I won't get any sleep tonight as I play with CoolPlayer.

I'm already using KoolPlayer ( is that the same ) & was wondering if
to switch to XMPlayer . Will sit on the fence for now , whilst you
compare Elephant .

 

[Chrissy Cruiser]

Thanks a lot Bob, just when I thought I was using the best MP3
player, you have to turn me onto another one. Now I'm going to
be up all night comparing the two!

A fun guy.