A fast and lightweight media player with support for visualizations, Winamp plugins and several advanced options for full customization.
Qmmp is a small and flexible audio player which also supports a wide variety of video formats thanks to its integration of MPlayer.
The program has a very familiar look and feel. That's probably because its layout derives a lot from Winamp which was the number one MP3 player among Windows users for eons.
The similarity to Winamp don't just stop at its look: Qmmp is fully capable of using Winamp DSP plugins which add endless possibilities for customizing the sound and playback of music.
Qmmp supports most video and audio formats and can apply effects to most of them without any hiccups. In terms of playback, the controls are very simple for anybody who has used a media player before. Next, Previous, Play, Pause, Stop are all standard controls.
In terms of user preferences, the layout of the settings menu is organized in to vertical tabs with sections including appearance, shortcuts, playlist, plugins, connectivity and audio. There is also an "Advanced" section which provides access to language settings as well as some other options. The "Appearance" section provides access to visual customizations including skins.
Overall, Qmmp is an excellent audio player which is similar to Winamp, though without the extra rubbish it accumulated after its acquisition and subsequent termination by AOL.
Features of Qmmp
- Audio Formats: Wide range of supported formats.
- Bookmarks: Ability to save and manage bookmarks.
- Crossfading: Smooth transitions between tracks.
- Equalizer: 10-band equalizer with several presets.
- File Conversion: Convert audio files to different formats.
- Hotkeys: Assign hotkeys for various actions.
- Lyrics: Fetch lyrics from the Internet.
- Playback: Resume playback from where it was left off.
- Playlist: Support for M3U, PLS, ASX, XSPF and CUE formats.
- Plugins: Wide range of plugins for added functionality.
- Scrobbling: Support for Last.fm scrobbling.
- Skins: Customizable skins for changing the look of the player.
- User Interface: Intuitive and customizable.
- Visualizations: Waveform, spectrogram and projectM support.
- Volume Normalization: Automatically normalize track volume.
Compatibility and License
Qmmp is available for free and released under the open source GPLv2 license on Windows from MP3 player software. The license provides the options to freely download, install, run and share this program without any restrictions. The source code for Qmmp should be freely available and modifications are certainly permitted as well as the option to inspect the software.
What version of Windows can Qmmp run on?
Qmmp can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems with no dedicated 64-bit download provided.
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- Qmmp Download
- Free MP3 Player Software
- Open source and GPL software
- Audio Playing Software
