Recently found this little nugget ~



More than just a player, it features all of this ~

    * 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-slider equalizer and built-in sound effects
      Reverb, Flanger, Chorus, Pitch, Tempo, Echo, Speed
    * 32-bit sound processing
      for crystal clear sound ( and it is certainly that! )
    * Works with more than one playlist
      Listen to one, work with another
    * Plug-Ins support
      You can add new utils or extend already existing, and connect some winamp plugins: Input, Gen, DSP
    * Auto-shutdown manager
    * Internet-Radio
      Listen and Capture!
    * Bookmarks and Queues
    * Hotkeys
      Customizable local and global hotkeys
    * Multilingual interface
    * Multi-user mode support
    * Full Unicode support
    * File search
      File search by all open 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 on 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

Listening to Tom Petty on it now and it sure is a sweet, clean sound.
http://www.aimp.ru/index.php?do=static&page=player_en

Sweet I'll have to check it out now. Thanks for sharing!

The million dollar/pound question:

Can we skin it?

How did I know that you were going to ask that? I think we are going to have to learn Russian in order to suss out how to do it. I was thinking about it and decided I'd try posting on their forum in the hope that someone understands English and can point me in the right direction... up to now I haven't been able to get inside the asc2. file.

Quick update: they have some English language pages on the forum, so I've posted there... just have to wait and see what response I get.

Completely different track ~ http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1438490562 ~ this is 700 feet above a gorge!

Wow, that is cool. I'd like to go there.

Well it's certainly a beautiful part of Spain, though these days I think more British and Germans live there than Spaniards! Almost every week I get junk mail in the post offering me a second home in that part of the world... and we get loads of tv adverts for the same thing. But if you really did want to visit there are plenty of small 'bed & breakfast' type lodgings ~ http://www.fincalimoneros.com/cgi-bin/web.asp?pageid=41

However I don't think you'd catch me walking along that pathway... even if it was in good repair 

Haha, I think that the decrepit state of the walkway would add to the thrill. And as for your junk mail, I'd rather get that then the wonderful 'enhancement' junk mail that I get here

Morning Chris There's no answer to that ( at least not a clean one )

Finally found this ~ http://www.mickeblue.co.uk/aimp2se.zip ~ strange thing is it isn't shown on the Aimp2 webpages ( at least not obviously, might be hidden amongst all the Cyrillic stuff ). Simple skinning editor... these guys seem to have thought of just about everything with this one.

I changed the colour 'cos I'm finding the #101025 a bit hard on the eyes

Previously I haven't been terribly impressed by Web radio stations, but this one http://www.radioparadise.com/ is pretty cool. Loved the way that they played the William Tell Overture in between Pink Floyd and Coldplay yesterday afternoon! 

I'm so gonna skin that soon. But right now I am working on a video series on creating an Aston Shell theme. I am going to put it on haxer.SYS as soon as I finish the new site design... which I am working on

Look forward to seeing both... Aston and aimp2 

Begger me! I was amazed at how many image files are needed to skin this darned thing.... so don't hold your breath

Made me think of a story though. Back in the 50's the much loved Irish entertainer Val Doonican had managed to get hold of a Django Rheinhard  ( Hot Club du Paris ) disk, and whilst he was listening to it his Father came in to the room.
"Da", he said, "you have to listen to this fella. He had a terrible accident and he only has two fingers on his left hand to work the fretboard."
His Faither was silent for a moment and commented "I've heard yer Man, and sure he only needs the one"

 

Haha, makes me think about when I was going to try skinning Litestep but I gave up pretty quickly because I couldn't figure it out, too much syntax and such.

I know what you mean Chris... I'm ashamed to admit I've still got that Ultraplayer skin that I was making in a folder here, but I can't get my old synapses around the arithmatic. ( Weird really because I hate math... algbra, trig etc. ~  but can compute a 5 figure number multiplied by another 5 figure number fairly quickly in my head... but I start bogging down when I have to go through repetitive tasks ).

Who is still using Ultra anyway? 

I'm still determined to make an Aimp skin that matches the current desktop that I'm using ( http://www.skinbase.org/rate.php?skins=47477 ) but just don't anyone hold their breath. I've already got a SYS and Coolplayer that do so, so I might as well have this as well.

  - That made my day!  Go Django!  CRAZY player!

Does Aimp2 use an XML format for its coding?  Haven't downloaded yet.  Probably won't get the chance to skin this one so I'm gonna live through your experiences vicariously

Yeah I love the HCduP sound... got several cd's of their stuff.

No Rich, that zip contains a skinning engine that does virtually everything for you... so no real excuses for my laziness other than finding time to sit down and make all the images.

Wait, it does everything for you??? YES! That means I can skin it without thinking cause it will do my thinking for me. I think I am going to check this out soon, cause I need to skin something new... reach out a bit beyond Aston for a bit