Softworld editor's review -
Play music and watch all of your favorite videos
Passion Audio Player is a program for Windows that can be used to play audio content.
Accessing the main functions on the software's interface is extremely easy.
In the player section, on the left side, you have EQ, PL, VIS and DB.
If you click on EQ, the equalizer of the program is displayed. You can choose to set it manually or you may pick from the available presets.
What i like a lot is that you are given the possibility to control the speed of the track. On the equalizer window you are provided the Tempo bars.
Switching to PL, basically you can open the Playlist. Here you can add an URL, an entire directory with music or a single file. This section also allows you to save, load and create a playlist.
Next is VIS or Visuals Screen. Unfortunately in this category you don't have to many options. You may select from two visualizations and switch to Fullscreen Display.
The last field, DB, allows you to manage the content of an audio CD.
Now lets analyze the player it self. There are available the basic controls (play, rewind, pause, stop) and repeat, shuffle, pitch functions. Beside that, you also have buttons to control the volume and the balance.
What is excellent about Passion Audio Player is that it has recording capabilities.
If you click on Record, you are provided several settings such as Source, Encoder, Output Dir and Filename.
After you have made all the required settings, just click on Start Recording.
According to the developer, the software, beside being able to play a wide variety of audio formats, is also capable to run all sorts of video content.
To test this, first i loaded into the program an avi video file. It ran without any kind of problems.
Then i tried XviD and wmv videos and again Passion Audio Player played this type of content without any kind of issues.
Also, i was extremely surprised to see that the application can even load up subtitles.
If you press click right on the player, you can access various fields: Skins, Plugins, Options etc.
In Skins you are provided only two and none of them looks good. The application supports Winamp skins, but is required to download them.
In Options you can set the program to be always on top, enable screensaver, make various audio settings, choose from various encoder options, manage extensions etc.
Passion Audio Player is a very pleasant surprise.
Beside of the fact that you can play music in a wide variety of formats, you can easily use this software as an video player.
Good:
-very easy to use
-extremely well organized interface
-recording function
-supports a wide variety of audio formats
-plays all sorts of video content
-you can use Winamp skins
-the possibility to load up subtitles
Bad:
-none
Version 2.7 reviewed on: 21 Oct 2011
Publisher's description
Freeware Audio Player, sonique and winamp plugins support, freedb support.
The Audio Player for those who have passion with PCs and Music.
It uses the BASS API by un4seen.com.
It's Main features Are:
1 . Excellent Playback Quality.
2 . Skin Support. It also supports Winamp Skins !!!
3 . Equalizer with visual effects.
4 . Playlist Editor.
5 . Freedb Support + Freedb Local Database Explorer !!!
6 . Sonique 1.x Visualization plugins support !!!
7 . Input and DSP plugins support.
8 . WinAmp 2.x DSP Plugins Support !!!
9 . ID3v1, ID3v2, OGG Tags, WAV Tags, WMA Tags Support.
10 . Zip Files Support !!!
11. Video formats Support !!!
12. It's freeware !!!!
Passion Audio Player supports the following formats:
It supports the following audio formats BASS+ADDONS:
OGG/MP3/MP2/MP1/WMA/WAV/MO3/IT/XM/S3M/MTM/MOD/UMX.
FLA/FLAC/OFR/OFS/WV/MPC/MP+/MPP/SPX/APE/MAC
It supports the following audio formats (DirectShow):
MID/MIDI/RMI/AIFF/AIF/AU/SND.
It supports the following VIDEO formats (DirectShow):
AVI/MPG/MPEG/MOV/ASF/WMV.
It also supports .zip files that contain the above Supported Files.
George Boudouris.
Copyright (C) 2002-2011, George Boudouris
http://www.passionplayer.com
