XMPlay 3.5.1

Rated 50/50 by bobad at Feb 10, 2010

My favorite music player by far. I like the fact you just unzip it and run it. Send it to your flash drive and use it anywhere. I like the way it uses an INI file, making it hold on to music file associations reliably. Unlike the Windows Media Player abomination, It launches instantly and sounds great too. XMPlay makes all other music player look bloated and clumsy.

Rated 50/50 by Bart Welson at Feb 10, 2010

Finally a nice player to replace that clumsy, ugly, buggy, much overhyped foobar2000.

Rated 50/50 by JustForMyMemory at Feb 10, 2010

simple, fast, stable, lightweight and amplification killer-feature. need i say more? @Bart Welson: +3 I think foobar2000 is pretty idiot, it is really not smart and restricted..

Rated 50/50 by garretthylltun at May 21, 2010

It's small. It's easy to use. It lacks all the bloat and bull of other mainstream players. It's free.

Rated 50/50 by peter_polan at Jul 3, 2010

XMPlay is an audio player king,because his voice is fantastic and the best,sound character:clear,wide,dynamic,not shrill,not harsh.required setting 32bit/96khz,reverb,equalizer,I've tried more than 30 popular audio player,but no sound as good as. less elegant appearance

Rated 50/50 by onovell at Jul 29, 2010

I know XM format music is originally a DOS format, but for those of us that still have some XM tunes on our PCs this is a GREAT FIND. I very good looking and function XM music player that simple to use and brings those XM tunes back to life. THANKS NONE, I am very pleased with this player. THE PLAYER IS OUTSTANDING. All I ask is, PLEASE someone out there remember how great the XM format is and continue to make new XM tunes, new XM Recording Software, and an XM to MP3 Converter.

Rated 10/50 by tranglos at Sep 17, 2010

Another entrant in the competition to make a media player totally unusable to most people over 20! This one wins hands down in the category of "Make all the important buttons tiny and devoid of contrast so that they can't be told apart or clicked confidently". Also in the category of "Put important functions where the user least expects to find them" - like the [x] close buttons in the upper right corner of one window, and the upper left corner of another. And hey, developers! With Aero glass, Microsoft finally managed to design a pleasing UI, and the standard window interface has been pretty functional since Win95, so why not just use that instead of creating non-standard windows / titlebars that are all of (a) uglier (b) less functional (c) harder to use? I should add that the screenshot above is in no way similar to what you see when you download and run XMPlay. Although that particular skin does indicate that the designer's ambition is to imitate early versions of QuickTime/iTunes - one of the suckiest UIs ever seen on Windows. And oh, the reason I run Windows is to have my apps imitate the Mac UI. Yeah... right. Next!

Rated 50/50 by Input Overload at Sep 25, 2010

Brilliant little program, AIMP was my music player but I saw XMPlay mentioned on another review I decided to investigate. I'm glad I did. Great program, lots of skins if you are into skinning. An easy 5 stars.

Rated 10/50 by Plumber at Dec 23, 2010

Ditto to what tranglos said. UI suck is endemic in this category.

Rated 50/50 by betabettabest at Dec 28, 2010

-Great sound quality. The better your equipment, the more you'll appreciate that. -Best ASIO support of any player, significantly better than Foodbar's. Best WASAPI support, too. -Plays anything you throw at it -- files, playlists, urls. -Their Winamp plugin converter wasn't working with the latest DFX, so I emailed them--and they wrote an update in 1 day. Show me that kind of service anywhere else. -Excellent file info. -Interface takes getting used to; try different skins until you find one you like.

Rated 50/50 by sweathog at Mar 21, 2011

Lite on resources. Plays everything. Outstanding sound quality. BTW, I don't get the UI complaints voiced by others, below. I use the MMD3 skin, which works virtually the same as the MMD3 skin for Winamp and several other media players.