Quintessential Player

A free and cool non-conventional looking audio player for Windows QCD has a fully skinnable interface that covers a powerful plug-in architecture. QCD's flexibility allows it to be as simple or as feature rich as you like. QCD incorporates a lot of unique and powerful features and is designed to increase the quality of music playback.

QCD has full support for most audio formats, includes crossfading, gapless CD audio playback, a powerful batch tag editor, and excellent CDDBv2 integration. QCD incorporates dozens of unique and powerful features to increase the enjoyment of playing your music.

Rip CDs or convert music into your favourite format
Insert your favourite music cd into your computer and click the record button to start ripping! You can also use the encoder to convert files to other digital formats. Select the files you want to convert and drag them into the encoder window or click the convert button on the playlist.

Keep your music files clean with the track editor
The track editor allows you to edit single tracks or groups of tracks at the same time. It will also rename your physical files, import filename to use in tag and if your tags are still incomplete you can use the autotag feature which is powered by Gracenote CDDB.

More control with Skin Layouts
Your way right away with Quintessential Player's Skin Layouts.

If you like certain configurations of Quintessential Player, now you can save them and call on them whenever you please! Place the player anywhere on your screen with the desired extensions open and click 'Save Current Layout'.

Play the track you want with a click of the mouse
With Quintessential player's Quick Track feature you have your entire playlist at your fingers tips. Place your mouse over the track name or over the icon in the windows tray and right click to reveal your playlist. This feature is heavily customizable so you can get at the music you want with no delay!

Organize the songs you'll hear with the Playlist Editor
One of the most powerful features in Quintessential player is the Playlist. Quickly organize what you want to hear by dragging, blocking, pruning or adding tracks to your playlists. Right clicking tracks on the playlist opens up more options to help you to organize your collection. Simply tell Quintessential Player where your playlists are stored and have your entire collection at hand.

Save your desktop space when using the Remote
Get all the power of Quintessential Player but with 1/10th the desktop space. Using the new skinning engine the remote can stretch revealing as much information as you want to see.