AIMP 4.0 Beta 1

AIMP

AIMP 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).

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 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 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 functionality.

AIMP 4.0 Beta 1 changelog:

Common: version number of application has been removed from names of binaries
Common: macros - one-letter / two-letter names of macros are replaced with friendly names
Common: macros - list of macros for playable file has been expanded, following macros have been added: %AlbumGain, %TrackGain and %Lyrics
Common: macros - list of functions for text manipulation has been expanded
Common: the "copy to" / "move to" functionality - an ability to save folder structure
UI: new design of application
UI: windows animation no longer inhibits UI
UI: scrollbar thumb jumps to previous position when mouse cursor leaves scrollbar zone
Player: an ability to limit number of attempts to reconnect to internet-radio station when connection is lost
Playlist: Quick Search - algorithm has been changed: the content that isn't satisfying to a search string hides now
Playlist: the "move to..." functionality has been introduced
Playlist: the "Find in Music Library" command has been added
Playlist: smart playlists - an ability to build playlist based on data from Music Library with an ability to filter and group data
Playlist: smart playlists - an ability to build playlist based on one or few directories
Playlist: smart playlists - synchronization with pre-image is now works in separate thread
Playlist: playlist files are now imports each into separate tab if the "open files from external applications" option set to "create new playlist".
Playlists Manager: an ability to view size and duration summaries of selected playlists
Playlists Manager: drag-n-drop support for the preview window has been added
Skin Engine: potential abilities have been expanded (refer to the help for Skin Editor for more information)
Tags: added support for multiple values for APEv2, ID3v2, Vorbis Comments and M4A tags formats
Audio Converter: support for aften.exe command-line encoder for AC3 format has been added (thanks to Soolo)
Music Library: integrated into the main application
Music Library: "the" article isn't cut out when adding files in a DB any more
Music Library: an ability to save user mark to tags of file automatically (optional)
Music Library: an ability to specify different columns set for table and card views
Music Library: an ability to adjust height of the alphabetic index control
Music Library: an ability to set user-defined filter for grouping preset
Music Library: an ability to drag album by its album art
Music Library: an ability to scroll song list via mouse wheel without focusing of it
Music Library: an ability to fast scroll via mouse wheel if Ctrl key is pressed
Music Library: Report generator - support of fields with multiple values has been added
Music Library: the "move to..." functionality has been added
Music Library: file name column displays a name of file without path now
Music Library: alphabetic index is now supported for all fields
Music Library: skin support has been added
Music Library: the "no grouping" mode - an ability to fill song list from current folder only (without sub-folders)
Music Library: support of network files has been improved
Plugins: Scheduler - sleep timer - an ability to fade out volume
Plugins: Scheduler - the "OK" button has been added
Plugins: SACD - ISO - now the plugin displays both stereo and 5.1 tracks