If you are a music lover, then Xion Audio player might impress you. Xion is an ultra compact audio player that comes with extensive features and fully skinnable interface. It means, you can add a custom skin; which can be designed using Adobe Photoshop and be loaded directly to the player. Although the default skin of Xion is quite impressive, if you like to have your own design, then you need not even write a line of code. The player can also load the Zip files containing several PSD files. How cool is that?
Xion comes with simple interface, which features separate applets for equalizer and playlists so that it can be positioned anywhere on the screen. The player lets you set custom equalizer settings or use the predefined genres like pop, rock, dance, flat etc…Similarly you can create your own playlists for artists, songs and albums. Customization doesn’t stop there, as you can choose to specify custom color for the skin and change Album cover art as well.
To change the skin, right click on the app’s title bar and select “Choose skin”. You can choose to download additional skins that are created by other Xion users and choose your own custom skins as well. Ok! enough about the skins and lets move on to configurations part of the app. The player comes with tons of options such as auto application update, startup mode, adjust UI opacity and size of the player. You can choose to set hot keys to control play, pause, previous, next, open file etc.
To recap, here’s the big list of features of Xion Audio player – Custom skin support, complete animation support, seamless playback and cross fading support, choose from 10 band equalizer presets, support for almost all file formats, hot key invocations, MP3/OGG (Shoutcast, Icecast) internet radio streaming support, windows live messenger integration, support to extend functionalities via plugin system and less consumption of CPU & RAM. Xion Audio Player is available for Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
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yes the great player ever for me!!!