CNET Editors' review
Sometimes it seems like there are nearly as many audio players as there are people who like to listen to music, but few of them are really anything to get excited about. Winyl, however, is different. Although most of its features are fairly typical, it has an attractive interface that sets it apart from much of the competition.
Using Winyl is easy. We simply navigated to the folder full of songs that we wanted to use as our library, and Winyl displayed them in a tree hierarchy by artist, album, year, and genre. Winyl also gives users access to a wide variety of Internet radio stations, and users can create custom playlists or let the program create smart lists based on the most recently played, most frequently played, and top-rated songs. The program's interface is sleek and uncluttered, and we especially liked the optional pop-up window that displays each song's title and artist when it first comes on. Users can choose from six high-quality skins, including one that looks quite a bit like iTunes, and a mini mode reduces the interface to a small, unobtrusive rectangle. The program also displays album cover art when available and has an equalizer interface for users who like more control. There's no Help file, but anyone who's ever used a media player before should be able to figure it out. Overall, we found Winyl to be versatile and attractive, and we think it's a great choice for anyone who needs a nice-looking audio player.
Winyl comes as a ZIP file. It installs and uninstalls without issues.
Publisher's Description
From Vinyl Software:
Winyl this is new audio player for Windows with media library support. This is very fast, very simple, full skinnable. Winyl offers great new ways to organize and enjoy all your music. Listen to music, set rating of your favorite songs, create playlists, all of this in Winyl is very simple, just download and run it. Winyl is automatically organized your media content into categories in the library, which makes it easy to find and play. Winyl uses the least system resources, download Winyl and be amazed, it starts and working very fast.
What's new in this version: Version 2.8.6 has fixed critical bug: on some PCs the program hangs sometimes when changing tracks.
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"Difficult to use"
Version: Winyl 2.8
Pros
Hard to find
Cons
Very limited funcionality
Summary
Unistalled and switched to winamp
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"Excellent piece of Freeware"
Version: Winyl 2.8
Pros
Fast, good looking skins, User Forum, easy to use, Free, small footprint, excellent communication with author.
Cons
Limited to 1.000 tracks or items in the playlist, but this will be increased with the next version.
Cover art pictures could be a bit larger.Summary
I didn't like one feature about a skin. I asked if that could be changed in a next version. The next day I could download an updated skin. THAT is what I call customer service!!
A very fast and simple to use player that could easily compete with the big boys. I have tried many players so far but this one beats them all as long as you don't expect miracles from this 2.8mb file.
For simple daily use it's perfect. -
"Simple and elegant"
Version: Winyl 2.8
Pros
Really small in terms of resource usage.
Fast
Looks great!Cons
I don't want to upload folders one at a time.
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"this is foobar2000!"
Version: Winyl 1.6.5
Pros
this is foobar2000!
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this is foobar2000!
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