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CoolPlayer is a lightweight audio player with skins and plugins support.
Features: - Freeform Skins - Simple User Interface - Advanced Playlist editor - Internet streaming - ID3 Multitagger - File Renamer - Fast mp3->wav converter - MAD mpeg engine - OGG Vorbis support - Winamp input plugins support - Small executable - Continuous play - 8 band convolution equalizer |
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A: In the options you can press the 'Register Filetypes' button which will make CoolPlayer the default player for .mp1 .mp2 .mp3 .m3u .pls files.
2: I would like to see all possible commandline options, how can I do that?
A: Just enter on the commandline:
coolplayer.exe -h
and you'll see them all.
3: How do I convert a MP3 file to a WAV file?
A: Go to options and select as Output: File writer.
4: How can I load another skin in CoolPlayer?
A: First you have to download one. You can download a lot of them at www.wincustomize.com: then you have to extract it with a utility like WinZip. You can extract it to any directory you like, but I suggest to a directory below CoolPlayer with the name of the skin. Now you can go to options and at the bottom you can open a skin initialization file. This file will be supplied in the directory where you unzipped the skin. Click 'Ok' and the new skin will be loaded and remembered.
5: Why aren't the pathnames saved with my playlists?
A: The .m3u format doesn't save pathnames when the playlist is saved in the directory where the files reside. When you save the playlist in another directory pathnames are saved. You can save the playlist as a .pls file, which will always save the pathnames.
Plugins that work with CoolPlayer:
Flac: plays .flac files - http://flac.sourceforge.net/
Lossless Audio: plays the Lossless Audio Codec - http://www.lossless-audio.com/
LPAC: plays the Lossless Predictive Audio Compression - http://www.nue.tu-berlin.de/wer/liebchen/lpac.html
Monkey's Audio: plays .ape files - http://www.monkeysaudio.com/
AAC, MP4: plays .aac, .m4a and .mp4 files - http://www.rarewares.org/files/aac/in_mp4.zip
OptimFROG: plays OptimFROG files - http://losslessaudiocompression.com/
Highly Experimental - PSF input plugin: plays files that are extracted from Playstation 1 and Playstation 2 games - http://www.neillcorlett.com/he/
Speex: a free codec for free speech - http://www.speex.org/
TTA: plays the TTA Lossles Audio - http://tta.iszf.irk.ru/
WavPack Lossless Audio: plays losslessy compressed WavPack files - http://www.wavpack.com/
Windows Media (wma): plays .wma files - http://www.rarewares.org/files/others/in_wm.zip
For Self Installers (.exe)
If your plugin file is an installer, you just doubleclick it, and choose the folder you like to istall the plugin. It doesn't matter where the installer puts it in, because it is then installed into an subfolder like "plugins" or something. You have to put the .dll file into the CoolPlayer directory, CoolPlayer doen't load .dlls from subfolders. At the end, you can delete the folders built by the installer For zipped .dll files
For .dll files
Just put downloaded .dll files into the CoolPlayer directory, don't use subfolders
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