Comparison of audio player software

Audio Player (English for "Audio Player " ) is called audio devices and software that are able to play audio files and audio data. The functionality of the software player has evolved greatly in 2000s years, which is why most audio players have become more likely to media players.

Software Player

Properties

Audio players are programs that only load audio data from audio formats or CDs, possibly consuming to convert and then pass as digital music signals to the sound card of a computer.

Some players also include database functions for managing audio files. These allow the user to sort out his audio by artist, music albums or other criteria, to create playlists or provide sophisticated search functions.

Some audio players have the ability to play back audio data using visualizations graphically. So the frequency spectrum is displayed, for example as a column chart. Many visualizations use the audio data in the first place to create artistic -looking graphics and animations.

History

The advent of compact audio formats, chiptunes and later the tracker modules on the home computers of the 1980s led to the emergence of the first software audio player. This continued in the early 90's on the PC platform with MS- DOS continued, even computers are now equipped with CD -ROM drives, which made playing audio CDs possible. Inertia Player and CubicPlayer are examples of audio player for audio CDs and tracker formats that time. With the development and spread of highly compressed audio format MP3 end of the 90 to use the PC as a player won wider popularity, particularly through the creation of compressed music tracks through CD ripping. It emerged audio player in the modern sense, including the genre defining Winamp, with consistent plug -in system (for audio formats, sound output and audio visualization) and anpassbarerer user interface ( skins on ).

By further increases in computing power and the associated video capabilities many audio players have in the 2000s expanded its capabilities in this direction and were thus one of the media players.

Hardware player

These are devices that can only play back audio data. These devices include CD player and the first generation of MP3 players.

• Media Players