It kind of helps having plenty of real estate – dual screen. Otherwise there are numerous third party utilities that can detect what any media player is playing, and display lyrics: CDArtDisplay was one (the site no longer exists but I have the files) – you create your own skins (kind of like rainmeter, so your desktop would show cover art and/or lyrics as you played music from itunes or winamp or whatever). I also use AudioShell ( ) sometimes – I can find the file in Everything, right click, audio shell, edit tags which included a lyrics tab. LeosLyrics also allows me to edit lyrics on the fly – just edit and click save. In WinAmp I use LeosLyrics plugin to display embedded lyrics (years ago it used to scrap for missing lyrics, but that functionality is long dead). I use Mp3Tag ( – again, mine is portable) to display the unsynched lyrics tag which I can sort on, and also search for weird characters, and I can, one by one, clean up lyrics here if I want to). So I use LyricsFinder ( : I extracted with universal extractor and it works as portable) to find and embed. I do not want it embedding ratings or play counts or anything. Personally, I don’t want my player touching ANY of my naming or id3 tags.
(and then there are individual lyric files for karaoke or synced ones – I don’t know about these, I don’t use them). You can either display embedded lyrics, or show lyrics on the fly by scraping the internet, or a combination where if there are no embedded lyrics, it will scrape them and stick them in for you for future proofing. I dislike the possibility of it moving files unannounced.Depends what you need. Music Bee : did not know about that one, definitely interesting, lots of help and resources available, great site, graphic design acceptable to nice, the only one I’ve come across which has specific instructions and how-to’s for classical music, whose tagging requirements are completely different from popular music. Looks like it might be among contenders, needs more testing. Even thus, I wasn’t able to bring it to play a CD at all.Ĭlementine : had installed it in the past, uninstalled for a reason I don’t remember, reinstalled. Can’t even play a CD by default, you need to tell the program where the reader is. SM Player : looks interesting, pleasant interface, plays nice with my high DPI setup provided I don’t select the high DPI option (!), but mainly devoted to video, not music. flac, default aesthetics horrendous.Īudacious : seems developed primarily for Linux, absolutely no help available, even getting to know what the program does is impossible without installing, a grand total of one screenshot on the site. XM Play : seems straight out of the 90’s, needs a plug-in to play. I had a quick look around some of the programs several of you kindly recommended. None are enabled by default the first two are listed in the common section, the last in the "on deleting playing file" menu. You find all three options under Preferences > Player > Automatic. AIMP 4.5 users find new "restore playback position for each playlist", "jump 5 seconds back on start if playback is paused for more than 15 seconds", and "jump to next track on deleting playing file from playlist" options Several playback improvements have been implemented as well. The player includes decoders for WebM and Matroska audio formats, support for MKA, AA3, AT3, OMA and Youtube file formats, and support for LRC and SRT lyrics file formats. The player engine received several improvements as well.
AIMP 4.5 supports 4K monitors and monitors with different DPI so that display issues should be a thing of the past after the installation of the new version.
#AIMP 4 TUTORIAL UPDATE#
Windows users with 4K monitors and users who use a setup with multiple monitors that use different DPI will benefit from the update for instance. The new version of the music player introduces new features and improvements to existing ones.