An audio player that lets you find, play and record Internet radio streams, play music from your PC, rip CDs, convert audio files The Portable Spider Player application was designed to be a free and useful alternative music player that can be placed in one row with Winamp, iTunes,
windows media player and Music Match Jukebox due to its multifunctionality. Main features of Portable Spider Player:
Cool bass and amazing sound quality
Unicode support
Powerful tag editors for: ID3 v1 & ID3 v2 tags, Vorbis tags and WMA metadata
Grab music from CDs
Rip music into MP3, WMA, OGG or WAV
Song lyrics editor
CD-Text support
Internet streaming (stream files from internet and listen to the internet radio)
Sound effects
Multilingual interface
Skins support
Customizable icons for file associations (via icon libraries)
Customizable spectrum analizer and oscilloscope visualizatons
Convenient searching through playlist
.m3u playlists support
Ten-band equalizer with presets editor
Small size (less than 2Mb)
and much more pleasant little things you'll soon be mad about !!!
Requirements of Portable Spider Player:
DirectX 9 recommended
What's New in This Release:
New:
Web search menu added (right-click track info scrolling label
to show the menu). Available options are:
find track/album on Amazon.com
find in Google, Yahoo! or Wikipedia
find music video on YouTube
find artist pictures on Flickr
find track's page on Last.fm
look for concert listings on Gruvr
find lyrics on LyricWiki
find track using Skreemr
"Sort by type" action added (Internet sources go first)
Improved:
Shoutcast radio directory: "Top500" item added to the "Quick Genre"
drop-down list (loaded by default)
BASS audio library and plugins updated to the latest versions
Lame encoder updated to v3.98.2
OggEnc encoder updated to v2.85
"Show untranslated lines only" option in the Translation editor
Faster search/filtering in the Radio Directory, Translation Editor
and Favorites Manager
Some Windows Vista related tweaks
to stop adding files to the playlist one can now hit the Escape key:
http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1204
"Copy to folder" dialog redesigned, confirmation dialog is shown
if a file already exists:
http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1213
Fixed:
Spider SFX plugin is now fully Unicode enabled and doesn't cause
troubles if Spider's installation path contains non-ANSI characters
Skinning: the value of the "MenuButAnchors" attribute
in the "[PLPositions]" section was ignored:
http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1223
Invadid drawing of search boxes:
http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1225
Crash when the player is closed while a MIDI file is playing:
http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1199
Issue with the tray icon's context menu:
http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1197
Problems playing some Internet streams:
http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1226