AIMP Classic is a powerful audio player that allows you to listen to your favorite music with an outstanding sound quality. Its appearance resembles that of another classical audio player (Winamp), so you'll get used to it very quickly. It can also be customized with skins. The program includes a 18-band equalizer, a visualization window to display rhythmic visual effects and a playlist editor to organize your audio files. A nice fading effect makes your list of songs look like an endless music loop and a handy volume normalizing feature avoids drastic volume changes between tracks. Also, the player's main functions can be conveniently controlled by global hotkeys. Besides playing music, AIMP Classic features three extra utilities which also enable you to record any sound on your computer, convert audio files from one format to another and view or edit tags. AIMP Classic is based on the well-known audio engine BASS, so it's easy to connect new plug-ins (from the plug-in library included in the program) and expand the player's functionalities.
Rated 50/50 by ruichaves21 at Sep 2, 2008
Very good!!!!
Rated 40/50 by aszure at Sep 4, 2008
Its not bad at all. Runs smooth, and well featured. I wouldnt say that its a replacement for other media player, but if you want something nice to quickly play files, its a good choice.
Rated 50/50 by huero420 at Sep 4, 2008
Works well and has decent features. If you are looking for a freeware Media Player definately try this one.
Rated 50/50 by simko at Sep 5, 2008
Excellent mp3 only player , was prefered choice on a party last time, the easy way to have several playlist up and running at the same time . can it be improved of course but as long they dont bake to much features integrated better to have it possibly to get with plugins
Rated 50/50 by argybee at Sep 23, 2008
This is heading to be the best.... still a few tiny glitches but pretty amazing so far. And the utilities are excellent... powerful, simple and accessible. There will always be catchpoles...imagine how red-faced they are when they learn a truth. (4.8 stars is about right at the moment)
Rated 50/50 by Ain Soph Aur at Sep 23, 2008
just the best player!
Rated 50/50 by the artist at Sep 23, 2008
Perfect for my tastes. It's sad that it doesn't grab tags from the internet catchpole: stop trying to say "i know", you are just trolling with your ignorance. Ever heard "24 bits"? Or else, have you ever listened a 320kbps OGG, or AAC, or a FLAC?
Rated 50/50 by And| at Sep 23, 2008
@ catchpole True, but there is a major difference in how software chooses to deliver that sound. Some do it well, while others just do it. AIMP is one of those who delivers it well.
Rated 10/50 by catchpole at Sep 23, 2008
"allows you to listen to your favorite music with an outstanding sound quality"??? eh, digital is digital
Rated 50/50 by Aegis69 at Sep 24, 2008
AIMP uses the BASS sound library, and for some reason it does deliver far better sound quality than Winamp and other players. As for "digital is digital", no. Lossy digital compression is not the same as lossless digital. However that has more to do with the compression of the MP3 than the player. This version of AIMP did a few weird things for me, it wiped out all my setting and attached the playlist to the bottom of the player so it cannot be moved. I found those changes strange and hope they go away with the final version is out.
Rated 50/50 by ZenoLabs at Sep 29, 2008
Great for people used to Winamp interface. Nice graphic, full of features, easy to use, best sound for your audio files thanks to BASS engine. Awesome!
Rated 30/50 by dhry at Oct 2, 2008
Not sure why people would want to use this. If you want interface and features, get WinAMP which is free. If you want the "best" music player around, including skins, plugins etc, get foobar2000. Again, free. This program appears to bring nothing new to the table, and that includes the fact that they're using someone else's music player library..
Rated 50/50 by netean at Oct 6, 2008
Love this and with each release toward 2.5 final I like it even more. There are dozens of good music players around these days, winamp, foobar to name but two... and don't get me wrong they are good players. But to me, Aimp looks good, has all the functionality I need in an easy to find way - looks good out of the box - (to me) and thanks to the BASS engine sounds wonderful. I have tried using the MAD playback engine with this and like for like, it just sounds no where near as good. Now that the player is becoming increasingly popular there are some very attractive skins out there (although personally I find the default one plenty good enough) Its small to download, consumes few resources, has multi-playlist support, good eq, great extra toold like tag editors and transcoders.. all in this is far and away the best player I've ever used.
Rated 40/50 by zorty at Oct 8, 2008
love it! playlist suggestion: Usually you don't have to exactly hit the 1px sized spot in the bottom right corner to be able to resize a window both horizontally and vertically. main window suggestion: 1. Well.. there's a lot of space wasted - that is if you don't use visualization - which probably most people don't. And if you do you probably go for fullscreen visualization. I'd rather have a bigger song timer display. 2. Also I couldn't find an option to turn off the vertical animation showing information about the currently playing song. I don't mind having that information there but I'd prefer having it static like in "not moving!". You might even want to completely hide that information if the playlist window is opened since the information is displayed there as well. And the playlist automatically jumps to the currently playing song if the main window is selected (good).
Rated 50/50 by SledgeDG at Oct 8, 2008
In comparison to AIMP, winamp looks like a pregnant cow...overladen with features I don't use. Simply put:check it out...see if AIMP is sufficient for your player-needs...it's worth it. -DG
Rated 30/50 by urlwolf at Oct 11, 2008
won't load my collection. I have ID3.2 v2 tags only, the simplest and most compatible format. However, loading the files into the library makes the progress bar freeze. I removed the offenders, but AIMP promptly froze again. What a pity, since it seems very promising.
Rated 50/50 by TGB72 at Oct 13, 2008
Very impressive sound, cool features, nice GUI and great plugin compatibility, definitively an alternative for people that want to throw away the intrusive crap of winamp and don't like the minimalism of foobar. For those that love visualizations, you can use milkdrop, geiss and other vis with this plugin :)
Rated 50/50 by thartist at Oct 13, 2008
INNNNNNNNNNNCREDIBLE! i wish there was more freeware as well designed as AIMP for every other task on a pc.
Rated 50/50 by christoofar at Oct 13, 2008
AIMP - it REALLY kicks the llama's @ss ! My new default music player, great skins available, powered by BASS, handles all filetypes I use, etc
Rated 50/50 by us3r at Oct 13, 2008
Awesome audio player. Definitely beats WinAmp and some other popular players.