Overview:

MP3 Players: MP3 players are programs able to play back files encoded in the mp3 audio file format, but often offer many more capabilities, like support for other multimedia formats as well, decoding mp3 files to hard disk, making mp3 files from cd tracks, or even changing the appearance of the player using skins.

Apollo

• Version Number: 3.7g
• Revision Date: 15 March 2001
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: Heikki Ylinen
• Home Page: http://apollo.audiogalaxy.com
• Description: Offers good sound quality in a stable and intuitive user interface with strong playlist support. Additionally supports crossafades, plug-ins, visualization effects, and includes an equalizer which can be applied to any input format.
  

Audiostation

• Version Number: 4.10
• Revision Date: 29 June 2001
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: Voyetra
• Home Page: http://www.voyetra.com
• Description: Playlist based player with support for AVI, MIDI and MP3 files, with capability to rip from audio cds into WAV, MP3 and WMA formats. (Note: A commercial version which can be controlled via a remote control is also available)
  

CoolPlayer

• Version Number: 1.0 Build 8472
• Revision Date: 24 July 2001
• Licence: Open Source
• Manufacturer: Niek Albers
• Home Page: http://www.daansystems.com
• Description: Skinnable MP3 player for the minimalist, featuring a small executable, equalizer and playlist support.
  

FreeAmp

• Version Number: 2.1.1
• Revision Date: 14 December 2001
• Licence: Open Source
• Manufacturer: FreeAmp Team
• Home Page: http://www.freeamp.org
• Description: A skinnable MP3/OGG player with strong streaming support which can download RPM streams locally, integrates relatable.com services and can scan your storage devices for media to create playlists automatically. Includes an ID3 tag editor.
  

MP3 Home Studio Deluxe

• Version Number: 2.20
• Revision Date: 15 May 2001
• Licence: Shareware
• Manufacturer: Celestial Software
• Home Page: http://www.mp3homestudio.com
• Description: MP3 player with playlist support which can also convert your CDs to MP3 files using the built in Fraunhofer MP3 encoder, rip CDs to WAV, play and burn audio cds. Comes with an equalizer with 6 presets and can show CD cover art.
  

MVP

• Version Number: 1.2
• Revision Date: 29 June 2001
• Licence: Shareware
• Manufacturer: QDesign
• Home Page: http://www.qdesign.com
• Description: A compact player for MOV, AVI, MP3 and MIDI files and Audio CD player which can rip and encode to MP3 format or the highly efficient QDesign Music format. Input can be of any playback format and decoding to WAV is available. (Note: A freeware version with less features is also available)
  

Oozic Player

• Version Number: 3
• Revision Date: 22 February 2001
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: Oozic
• Home Page: http://www.oozic.com
• Description: With only basic MP3 playback capabilities, Oozic's strong point are the magnificent and customizable full screen DirectX and OpenGL visualizations it provides, while music distributors can distribute their MP3 tracks combined with their own videos to playback using Oozic player.
  

QCD Player

• Version Number: 3.40
• Revision Date: 31 January 2003
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: Paul Quinn
• Home Page: http://www.quinnware.com
• Description: A skinnable audio cd and MP3 player with an impressive user interface and support for playlists and visualization effects. Supports digital audio cd playback, MP+, OGG and VQF formats as well.
  

SonicBurn

• Version Number: 2.0.112
• Revision Date: 07 April 2001
• Licence: Shareware
• Manufacturer: MyNetMedia.com
• Home Page: http://www.mynetmedia.com
• Description: An MP3 player which can also rip/burn cds and encode to MP3 using Fraunhofer codec. Includes an equalizer with 4 presets, supports playlists and audio cd playback, and can search your hard disk for audio files. (Note: the shareware version is ad-supported)
  

Sonicart

• Version Number: 2.0
• Revision Date: 11 October 2002
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: BabyFishMouth Software
• Home Page: http://www.babyfishmouth.co.uk
• Description: An MP3 player intended for scheduled radio programs, with a simple user interface and password protected functions. Can also encode files into MP3 using the LAME encoder and supports crossfades. Ideal for long unnattended broadcasts.
  

Soritong

• Version Number: 1
• Revision Date: 15 February 2001
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: Sorinara
• Home Page: http://www.sorinara.com
• Description: Beautiful MP3 player which can play WAV, WMA and VQF audio files as well. A skinnable and versatile player which supports playlists, real time effects built into its decoding engine, decoding MP3 to WMA or WAV files on hard disk and includes an ID3 tag editor, timer, equalizer and elegant visualizations.
  

Streaming Audio Player (SAP)

• Version Number: 0.9
• Revision Date: 15 February 2001
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: Sorinara
• Home Page: http://www.sorinara.com
• Description: MP3 player with strong streaming support which can resume broken downloads. Supports crossfades, continous playback, and a number of sound effects built into its decoding engines. It comes with a fully animated interface which can also run in full screen mode for maximum pleasure!
  

TPlayer

• Version Number: 1 r7
• Revision Date: 25 October 2002
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: Francois Lavoie
• Home Page: http://www.flicent.ca
• Description: MP3, OGG and WMA player featuring a double deck with options for mixing, crossfading and pitch and balance control with visual meters.
  

UltraPlayer

• Version Number: 2.112
• Revision Date: 28 February 2001
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: UltraCo
• Home Page: http://www.ultraplayer.com
• Description: An MP3 player which can play many other audio and video formats as well, supports streaming, skins, visualization effects and playlists, and includes an equalizer and an alarm clock function.
  

XMPlay

• Version Number: 2.6
• Revision Date: 24 November 2002
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: Ian Luck
• Home Page: http://www.un4seen.com
• Description: A skinnable player for MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA and XM, MO3, IT, S3M, MOD, UMX, MTM formats. Can also play from internet locations, supports Winamp plugins and provides interpolation, volume, pan ramping, reverb and surround settings per track and visualizations.
  

Yahoo! Player

• Version Number: 1.5
• Revision Date: 28 February 2001
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: Yahoo!
• Home Page: http://www.yahoo.com
• Description: MP3 player with support for many other formats as well, including MPEG/AVI video files and AudioCD, provides a user interface with clear buttons and many alternative skins, access to the latest music news through its internal browser, and can tune to internet "radio stations". It can search your pc for playable media files and supports playlists.
  

playR jukebox

• Version Number: 2.12
• Revision Date: 22 February 2001
• Licence: Freeware
• Manufacturer: Magix
• Home Page: http://www.magix.com
• Description: An MP3, WMA and WAV player which provides digital audio cd playback as well, combined with visualization effects, crossfades, playlist support and equalizer. (Note: you can upgrade to the deLuxe version, which offers more advanced mixing and D-J functions)