XiX Music Player

XiX Music Player is an open source and cross-platform software project that provides users with a sophisticated music player application. It supports a wide range of audio file formats, as well as a beautiful and modern graphical user interface.

Features at a glance

The application supports the MP3, OGG Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, M4A (non-DRM), APE, and OPUS audio file formats, online radio streams, shuffle and repeat, reverse playback and crossfading, themes, playlists, system tray integration, as well as Audio-CD playback and ripping.
 
It allows users to download and playback Podcasts, shuffle and repeat songs, view lyrics and album art of currently played songs, playback license-free audio streams from the Internet Archive, rate songs, search, copy, delete and rename files.

Another interesting feature is the ability to playback online radio stations using presets and a full featured recording functionality with scheduling capabilities. Furthermore, the application lets users to rip DVD tracks to FLAC or MP3 audio file formats.

The built-in 10-band equalizer supports reverb, echo and flanger effects. It allows users to set custom presets for individual songs. In addition, it is possible to change the ID3 tags of MP3, OGG, FLAC and APE files.

Modern graphical user interface

Thanks to its modern graphical user interface, users will be able to choose their preferred language (English, Italian, French, Dutch, Hungarian, Spanish and Danish are supported at this time), add entire music libraries from local or remote locations, as well as to enable various useful options from the get-go.

It looks different, like nothing we've tested before. While on the left side you can easily switch between Artists, Albums, Playlists, File Manager, Radio, Podcast, Archive and CD views, on the center and right side you can view specific information, depending on the selected mode.

Bottom line

All in all, XiX Music Player is a modern and complex multimedia playback application that supports a wide range of audio files, including Internet radio streams, Audio-CD ripping and encoding, as well as state-of-the-art audio effects and functions. It supports GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Raspberry Pi platforms.

What is new in this release:

• Read more OPUS Tags.
• Read "UNSYNCED LYRICS" in OGG/OPUS.
• Support for folders in Multi-Rename

What is new in version 0.33c:

• Search for CD-Covers and/or Artist Picture on xixmusicplayer.org
• Removed coding error in searching files. This could halt the application in searching new songs
• Removed coding error: when a file gets deleted and song active is further in playlist, the next/previous song was not right
• Removed coding error: when changing song information and track=0 -> no track nr shown (was 00)
• Save Mono option for songs (Mono itself not yet active)
• Save Trim at begin and end of song (Trim itself not yet used)
• Post CD-Cover or Artist Picture of song playing to Facebook (Needs FBCMD)
• When no changes in songs or songinformation, the database is not updated when the application quits. Saves time.
• Updated Random routine (Does not start with the first song in the playlist anymore)
• Filter out special MacOS files starting with '._'. These are files created on not HFS partitions to store extra file information for MacOS

What is new in version 0.32g:

• ! in artist name is saved (eg. Id!Ots does not become Idots) in searching songtext, biography, discography

What is new in version 0.31m:

• Removed a coding error.
• Adding Radiostation works again.

What is new in version 0.31l:

• Removed a coding error. The file created for artist-info was opened twice and never closed. (Error creating thread)

What is new in version 0.31j:

• Read M4A Tags
• Notification showed previous album (FIXED)

What is new in version 0.31h:

• Edit and save Ogg/FLAC tags.
• Adds original artist, composer, and copyright to MP3/Ogg/FLAC id3 tags.
• Shows original artist and composer when playing.
• Shows the bitrate for Ogg files.
• Basic OPUS and APE support.
• Loading CD covers is threaded.
• Sound distortion on some Linux distributions is solved.
• Better Linux library support.
• Danish language support.

What is new in version 0.31 Alpha:

• ALL: Better ID3-TAG APIC support
• ALL: Progressbar while loading files
• ALL: Option to ReRead ID3-Tags

What is new in version 0.30nt Test 5:

• This release offers many bugfixes and feature updates.