Paintbits - Life in Colors

I have to say I don’t like to use iTunes that much and I’m the proud owner of an iPod! Although iTunes have a nice look with that .Mac like style it’s too cumbersome for me. I normally have a large quantity of music music files in my hard drives and most of the time they are not very organized… iTunes let me organized it… by cut, paste.. rename… cut…rename. NO!

I’ve always been a fan of Winamp, even though I stopped using it around2 years ago. I loved the diversity of options available to skin Winamp, visualization plugins, sound enhancers , etc. But Winamp sound out-of-the-box lacked a bit compared to iTunes, Windows Media Player or other well known audio players.

I used and still use Billy for great part of my computer listening sessions while I’m working since it’s so lightweight and simple. But when you want to have some library functions it’s too simple for that.

That’s when AIMP2 appeared and since then I’ve never looked back. AIMP2 is great. It’s all I wanted and more. It’s Winamp with a face lift but better… and it’s free!

AIMP2 Main Features

* Audio formats supported:
MP1, MP2, MP3, MPC, MP+, AAC, AC3, OGG, FLAC, APE, WavPack, Speex, WAV, CDA, WMA, S3M, XM, MOD, IT, MO3, MTM, UMX
* Good functionality and friendly user interface
* 18-sliders equalizer and build-in sound effects
Reverb, Flanger, Chorus, Pitch, Tempo, Echo, Speed
* 32-bit sound processing
for crystal clear sound
* Works with few playlists
Listern one, work with other
* Plug-Ins support
You can add new utils or extend already exists, and connect some winamp plugins: Input, Gen, DSP
* Autoshutdown manager
* Internet-Radio
Listern and Capture!
* Bookmarks and Queues
* Hotkeys
Customizable local and global hotkeys
* Multilingual interface
* Multiuser mode support
Few users works unders one computer? It’s no problem!
* Full Unicode support
* File search
File search by all opened playlists
* Many program options
* Small distributive size
* Audio Converter
Any supported audio file can be encoded to WAV, MP3, WMA or OGG format
* Audio Grabber
Audio CD Track can be encoded to WAV, MP3, WMA or OGG format
* Sound Recorder
Capture sound from any audio device in your system to mp3, ogg, wav or wma format
* Advanced Tag Editor
Edit ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis, WMA tags. Grouping rename, group editing and sort files by one of templates.
* Audio Library

One of AIMP best features it’s his lightweight. It occupies around 5K Bytes of Ram running on my system. For terms of comparison Windows Media Player 11 consumes 30K Bytes [30 Megabytes]. That’s six times more!!

And best of all… it’s Free!

Other thing I love about his player it’s the CoR’s Aorta visualization. I missed this so much since Sonique vanished.

Screenshots

Main Window

If you are asking what Cover display is that, that is CD Art Display. It doesn’t support AIMP2 by default but it works great with it.

You can download a pack of some AIMP2 skins I found, uploaded by some user from… somewhere. Thanks to him. Or you can visit the official site for more skins and plugins.

License: Freeware
Operating System: Windows
Official Website: Aimp2

Download AIMP2 2.11 [2.88MB]