- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: June 23, 2004
- Total Downloads: 27,233
- Downloads last week: 7
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 33 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This unusually named audio player falls short of many competitors due to a poor design, limited functionality, and a lack of even the most standard features. The interface is basically a blank box for your playlist, with several menu items above it. You won't find any buttons or icons for playing, pausing, or stopping files, forcing you to access these functions through the menu or hot keys. Also, unlike most other audio players, Billy lacks the ability to fast-forward, rewind, edit ID3 tags, and play CDs. On the plus side, this audio player doesn't introduce gaps between songs and lets you add a playlist link to your favorites. Perhaps the best aspect of Billy, however, is that it's completely free--but in the long run, even that can't save this minimalist audio player from obscurity.Publisher's description
From Sheep Productions :Billy is an audio player that allows you to quickly play an entire directory of MP3 files. It can usually load files two to eight times faster than Winamp or Media Player. Billy plays albums with no gaps between tracks, so an overlapping applause or beat will continue. The player is 100 percent controllable by keyboard, and its Easy Finder and Special Rename functions help you find and organize your files quickly.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 33 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Billy 1.03
"Very good, small, feature-free MP3 player"
Pros: Small usage of PC resources. Very stable, plays MP3 files well.
Cons: No support for wma, flac, ape or anything else. Virtually feature-free player.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Billy 1.03
Pros: takes very less load on cpu
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Billy 1.03
"Perfect minimal music player"
Pros: If your looking for a player to run in the background that takes up almost no resources then you need this. It's easy to control and you can do so without having to leave whatever page or document your on.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Billy 1.03
Pros: The small file size. The loading speed. No gaps between songs. Control with the keyboard for shortcuts.
Cons: No WMA support, no foxytunes support, no evillyrics support.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Billy 1.03
"You out-did yourself Billy TOTALLY AWSOME!!!!"
Pros: Great sound quality and very fast to react to the touch of whatever you want it to do. Theres no catches between songs LOVE THAT, great player...
Cons: I can't say theres anything about I DON'T like...
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