New "Xion" Audio Player-Great Sounding Music
Xion Audio Player is an ultra light, easily skinnable, out of this world Audio Player and is completely free.Xion Audio Player features a new standard in skin support. Baffled by script syntax? Pulling your hair out over slicing up skin elements? Crying over spilt milk?
Xion's approach to skinning will remove all scripting and slicing requirements that other skin systems have placed on users. Xion Audio Player will directly read a .PSD file and using layer names, instantly bring your skin to life.
While installing there will be an option to enable automatic checks for new builds.When the player first start it definitely has a unique interface that can also be minimized.One of the boasted features is the ability to skin the player with over 540 skins at the time of this writing. Just go to their site to browse the various skins and click one to download and install.As soon as it installs, the player opens with the new skin.
Xion supports lots of formats like,
- Advanced Audio Coding (.Aac)
- Dolby Digital AC-3 (.Ac3)
- Audio Interchange File Format (.Aiff)
- Monkey's Audio (.Ape, .Mac)
- Advanced Streaming format (.Asf)
- CD Audio (.Cda)
- Free Lossless Audio Codec (.Flac)
- Impulse Tracker (.It)
- MIDI music (.Mid, .Midi, .Kar, .Rmi)
- Protracker / FastTracker (.Mod)
- MP3/OGG compressed MOD music (.Mo3)
- MPEG I/II Layer 1 (.Mp1)
- MPEG I/II Layer 2 (.Mp2)
- MPEG I/II Layer 3 (.Mp3)
- Advanced Audio Coding MPEG-4 (.Mp4)
- Apple Lossless Audio Codec (.M4a)
- Musepack (.Mpc, .Mp+, .Mpp)
- OptimFROG (.Ofr, .Ofs)
- Ogg Vorbis (.Ogg)
- Scream Tracker 3 (.S3m)
- DirectMusic Files (.Sgt)
- Speex (.Spx)
- The True Audio (.Tta)
- Unreal/Unreal Tournament Music File (.Umx)
- Microsoft Wave files (.Wav)
- Windows Media Audio (.Wma)
- WavPack (.wv)
- FastTracker 2 (.Xm)
Xion Audio Player also supports direct loading from Zip files which allow you to package several .PSD files in the one package. This has the added benefit of being compressed and therefore consumes less disk space.
Xion Player is very light on system resources, play a plethora of audio files, enables hundreds of skins, and plays high quality audio. It officially supports Windows 2000-Vista 32 and 64bit versions and I had no trouble using it with Windows 7. If you are looking for a new and fun to use audio player on your PC then check out Xion Audio Player.
Xion is available free for download on internet.
Re: New "Xion" Audio Player-Great Sounding Music
Xion Audio Player is ultra light and only consumes minimal amounts of RAM and CPU, but with great features:-
- Ultra easy to skin using a powerful skinning system (No coding required!)
- Complete animation support
- Skins load directly from .PSD files, not script or extra files required!
- Powerful playlist support
- Seamless playback
- 10 band equalizer with presets
- Blazingly fast, low cpu and low memory consumption
- MP3/OGG (Shoutcast, etc) internet radio streaming
- Customizable global hotkeys
- Auto play and position saver
- Single click play/pause
- Volume and balance controls
- Full system tray functionality
- MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger Integration
- Future Expansion through Components
- Portable version available
Most nice feature is being able to control playback and other options by right-clicking the taskbar icon for a full menu.
You can download Xion Skins and Plugins for free
Re: New "Xion" Audio Player-Great Sounding Music
Xion supports these operating system:-
- Windows 2000
- Windows 2003
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista
Re: New "Xion" Audio Player-Great Sounding Music
Thanks for the article, was wondering what music player you are using. Xion is great, I did notice a huge difference. But I would like a more customizable software, tried using Foobar. Something lightweight aswel.
