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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: March 17, 2006
- Total Downloads: 1,281,507
- Downloads last week: 886
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- Average user rating: stars out of 360 votes
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Publisher's description
From Quinnware :Quintessential Player is a fully skinnable audio player that uses a plug-in architecture, allowing it to be as simple or as feature-laden as you like. Go for a minimal installation to preserve system resources, or add a variety of visualizers, library functions, DSP filters, language packs, and other plug-ins to extend the player's capabilities. Quintessential Player has full support for most popular audio formats, including MP3, MP3 Pro, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, and Windows Media. Other convenient features include CD ripping, MP3 encoding, cross-fading, and CDDB integration. Also, Quintessential allows you to listen to streaming audio from broadcasters such as Shoutcast and Icecast.
Version 4.51 adds video support, new plug-in types, new skinning features, improved CD ripping and encoding, simultaneous audio playback while ripping CDs, and an updated interface.
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User reviews of Quintessential Player 4.51
- Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 360 votes
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19 out of 30 people found this review helpful
Version: Quintessential Player 4.51
"Same Features as the previous Quintessential Version ..."
Pros: I tried this Version last year by downloading from the Quintessential Website. This product is OK. Donot Try the "Quintessential Media Player Beta" (QMP 107) which was still in Development. It consumes all the resources of CPU.
The nice features of Quintessential Player (QCD 451) includes
+ Consumes Low Memory & CPU Resources, yet produces good sound quality.
+ You can USE it Instead of HEAVY Windows Media Player.
Cons: - Not recommeded if you are already using QCD 4.50, Try WinAmp 4.2 New Release Instead.
- You can TRY installing WinAmp "Lite"
+ When WinAmp is Installed as "LITE" It consumes LOW Memory & just 0% - 3% of CPU.
+ WinAmp had many Addons which can improve Sound Quality @ the expense of System Resources.
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9 out of 11 people found this review helpful
Version: Quintessential Player 4.51
Pros: It's a media player at under 5 megabytes, and some of the skins out there are cool. It works reliably and just as well as anything else.
Cons: See that whole "It works faster than Winamp" thing? Forget it. I did a test, with both programs running at the same time (what a racket) and while my Winamp (which had several setting turned off, such as smoothness of the skin or whatnot) was around 0 percent CPU usage, Quint topped at around 20, jumping between that and 5. I've got a dump of a computer, but still; that's a fifth of my computer for music alone.
And if you have big collections, this is useless: it just piles everything into one big playlist, with hard to browse buttons that do little to help find songs. If you want ease of use, look elsewhere.
I think that you should just get MediaMonkey or Winamp; the size difference isn't that big, but they work for a variety of people. This, however, isn't worth dealing with.
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5 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Version: Quintessential Player 4.51
Pros: great fast nice player with many file types support
Cons: didn't open realplayer files others do now
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Version: Quintessential Player 4.51
Pros: I like the way it looks, the way it performs and how it does what I want it to do
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6 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Version: Quintessential Player 4.51
Pros: this small player has the best audio sound that i've heard.. nice volume , clear sound.. i dont use it for video i use zoomplayer and this for audio. great combo low memory usage.. just how i like it
Cons: none.. great audio player..
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