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AIMP2 - An alternative media player
Meet AIMP2. AIMP2 weighs in at a mere 2.88MB, has a slightly smaller memory footprint than Winamp and can do just about everything you want except sync with a portable device. It supports anything from AAC to WMA, allows you to record radio streams, has a fully fledged library to organize your music, allows you to manipulate playlists while listening to another, and even supports a number of Winamp plug-ins. And for those who like to wake up and fall asleep to music, AIMP2 also includes a timed start and an auto shutdown timer.
Although lacking some of the features that the bigger media players may have, AIMP2 has an impressive feature set for its size. Additional skins and plug-ins are relatively scarce, but the basic skin works so well other skins are almost unnecessary beyond mere aesthetics. It has also been localized for a number of languages (the default being Russian), which makes this a very international user friendly application.
Overall, AIMP2 just feels right, and is a good alternative for anyone that is looking for something that works the way it should.
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Subscribe to commentshazardMay 5th 2008 12:03AM
nice one. it's streaming audio perfromance is pretty good although it loses points for transcoding to wav or mp3 instead of just saving the raw stream.
.. and of course you are joking about winamp (my preferred audio player) being lightweigth on resources .. open up the Media Library and watch the memory usage soar! winamp loads/unloads resouces as required so depending on what you are doing it can use more than wmp.
BannanaMay 5th 2008 12:29AM
Foobar?
MarcoMay 5th 2008 2:03AM
one of the slowest programs i've ever used :|
srudesignsMay 10th 2008 5:29AM
Thanks, but no... I'd rather stay with my lovely little songbird :)
sanbMay 5th 2008 3:37PM
very nice player who has tabs, powerfull EQ, suported some Input, DSP, General winamp plugins (and have yours plugins), has audio converter on command line encoders (can extact audio stream from video), advansed tag editor, audio library, can record radio stream, support many audio formats, have easy to use Skin Editor for creating nice skins and many more
shanoboyMay 6th 2008 11:47AM
I don't know, nothing beats VLC player. No need to install codecs, simple, light weight and have some nice features.
Plus, it just sits in a folder, no install (version I got is that way anyhow.)
MuhammadMay 7th 2008 9:23AM
I have been using Winamp for the longest time, did not want to give into the Windows Media Player. But lately i have seen the winamp size grow and load-times slow. About 6 months ago i found aimp and i love it. Its light, loads fast and plays everything i have in my collection. Love it.
dm5May 25th 2008 2:17AM
I love AIMP2! Pretty much all my friends and family (geeks and non-geeks) are now using AIMP2. I've been using computers since the DOS age, and no lie this has to be the greatest piece of software I have ever come across. My only complaint, there should be more skins. But the amazing developers even created a skin editor :). Thanks Download-Squad.