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Random MP3 Player to Play Songs in Winamp: Cyber-D’s RandoMP3
GPS Tracking Software to Track your Travel Movements: MapSphere
Lightweight Music Player with Transparent Interface: Mcool
View Pictures in 3D Free: 3D Picture Viewer
Manage your eBooks with Alfa eBooks Manager
Free Web Browser combined with Search Engine: Muze Jolt
Free Web-Based ERP Software: Apptivo
6 Free ERP Software
Free Virtual Ocean Tour, Game, Screensaver and more with TheBlu
Free Media Player with Online Radio and TV Shows Streaming: Dj Genius

Random MP3 Player to Play Songs in Winamp: Cyber-D’s RandoMP3

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 06:30 PM PDT

Cyber-D’s RandomMP3 is primarily used to randomly play songs from selected folders. The program plays these songs in Winamp. This is the 'Audition' tool of the software. Once the folder has been played, the user can choose whether to keep the songs, delete them or relocate them. The program comes with another tool – 'Charger'. This tool is used to sync files with Winamp on a flash drive or an mp3 player. Let's have a brief review of this program and see if it's any good.

Features of Random MP3 Player

As mentioned before, the program doesn't have a multitude of features to boast of. The ones worth a mention are as follows:

Audition tool: This tool is used to 'audition' the music files in a particular folder of the user's hard drive or music library. The songs are played using Winamp player. After the songs have been played, the user can choose whether to keep the songs in the same state or delete or relocate them. This can be useful in case of a cluttered collection. In case more files have been added to a particular folder, the program allows the user to re-scan the folder manually, or it is automatically done once all the songs in the selected folders have been played.

Shuffle: The software allows the shuffle option in Winamp to be changed from the program itself. It can be turned on or off in the user interface.

Charger tool: This tool is used to synchronize files between a portable music player or a flash drive and a computer. The synchronization is done using random songs or albums and does not repeat songs. This is achieved by maintaining a log of the files that have been copied to the device already.

Downloading and Installation

The software is not large by any means and is just over 2 MB in size. Downloading is, therefore, no hassle at all. Installation is a breeze too. The only downside is that the software can only play the songs in Winamp. If the user's machine doesn't have the player installed, the setup quits. The software worked smoothly on a Windows 7 system and should work well on older systems as well.

Working and interface

The interface is pretty basic and could do with some more attention to user interaction details. That said, the user interface is colorful. This shows a bias towards form over function. The software seems to work quite smoothly and once the root folder is chosen, it plays songs from one subfolder, followed by the next. In case the shuffle function is turned on, the songs are played randomly. If album art is available, it is shown in a small space on the UI.

Verdict

The program fills a niche that nobody was asking to be created. The latest generation music players have more than enough functionality and this program is quite simply, redundant. The charger tool is handy, but more often than not, synchronization includes a full wipe. Cyber-D's RandoMP3 could be done without, especially with better music players coming along every day.

Random MP3 Player to Play Songs in Winamp: Cyber-D’s RandoMP3 was originally published at I Love Free Software

GPS Tracking Software to Track your Travel Movements: MapSphere

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

MapSphere is free GPS Tracking software that enables you to share your traveling experience in a simple convenient way by tracking all your movements across the globe.

Features of this free GPS tracking software

MapSphere connects to various online server and retrieves maps for various locations on the globe. Maps and other related data are downloaded to your computer making them easy to scroll and zoom. You can also use downloaded maps in offline mode. Maps are available in both 2D and 3D maps to give you street and satellite views when you need them.

MapSphere incorporates a search feature to help you find locations on the globe via a series of location-based servers. You can search places using names or using coordinates.

MapSphere incorporates GPS receiver via the NMEA protocol. The GPS receivers can be able to pinpoint your exact location on the globe, speed you are travelling at and distance you have covered on your trip. GPS information is recorded and saved and can be accessed from the application.

The tracking feature allows you to track people you know via GPS tracks or via Glowfly application. You can view GPS locations and their exact location on the map.

MapSphere supports geo- caches saved in GPX files. With geocaches available, Geocaching players can use the information to locate items and view their attributes and description.

Arrange and organise your travelling experience by mapping images, chats, notes and other information on to their respective tracks on the map.

Check out how to record your own voice in Garmin GPS.

How to use this GPS Tracking freeware

The program prompts you to login to their servers. If you wish to create an account click Create a new Account, register for an account and login or use the Anonymous login to access the program without having to register. You can log out by selecting Disconnect from the Online menu or login using another username by clicking Change User. On launching the program, you are greeted by a welcome screen with options to conduct tutorial, take you for a tour of the application, create an account or immediately begin using the application. You can disable this screen by checking the Show dialog on start up checkbox and later view it via the Help menu.

The File menu lets you perform file operation on MapSphere. From the menu, you can open a track or geocaches or access a list or recently used tracks and geocaches. To change which toolbar to view and what map views to be used, select the appropriate options on the View menu. You can choose which maps to view depending on content you want to view by selecting the appropriate option on the Maps menu. You can also set the program to auto download maps or force maps to refresh by selecting the respective options on the Maps menu. You can return to the default map by clicking the Home icon or toggle between 3D and 2D views by clicking the respective icons on the Navigation toolbar. Zoom in or out with the zoom icons on the Navigationtoolbar. Searching of places and addresses can be performed on the search toolbar.

To use GPS tracking you have to add a GPS device. To add a GPS device, navigate to Configure on the GPS menu. Once, your GPS device is ready, you can connect to the GPS device by clicking Connect on the GPS menu. On the same menu, you can use the Auto scroll option to automatically scroll through the map. Trip odometers are reset by selecting the Reset Trip odometer option. Use the activity menu to select what mode of transport you are using or Stop recording GPS information.

Also check out Okmap for free GPS mapping software.

Pros

Support for both 3D and 2D maps.
Offline map usage.
GPS locator can be used anywhere on the globe.
Detailed map of your trips with photos.

Cons

None that I could find.

Conclusion

MapSphere is a simple, excellent GPS tracking application you could use everyday to track people, document and plan trips and also use for navigation. Ability to use maps in offline mode gives it an edge over other applications designed to do the same.

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Lightweight Music Player with Transparent Interface: Mcool

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 03:30 PM PDT

Mcool is a very lightweight music player which also has a very unique user interface. Unlike the majority of popular modern music players, Mcool’s interface is completely transparent with only a very thin white border being visible around it. The application also doesn’t have any menus, which might confuse some users after running Mcool player for the first time.

This would be the default window of the application, as you can see we really didn’t exaggerate when we said that the interface is very unique, if you can even see it. Spotting this tiny square might be a problem to those who are running the application for the first time. The fact that there’s a tray icon which you can see helps a lot in determining if the program is actually running or not, so you’ll know at least that :).

Similar software: Atomic Player, Tray music player, Tomahawk player

Mcool music player supported formats

For a small music player, Mcool packs a large list of music formats that can played by it:

MP3
Flac
WavPack
OGG
TTA
TAK
Musepack
AAC
Wav
AC3
WMA

and a lot more, some of which you probably never even heard of. The main thing that makes Mcool player stand out would be the amount of resources that are used when it plays, but we’ll get to that later. Before songs can be played we first have to figure out how to add songs to the playlist. Since there are no menus, at least no menus in the classical sense, then adding songs to the playlist might be problematic to some, here’s how you do it.

Playing songs in Mcool music player

The trick to adding songs to Mcool playlist is discovering that right click works when you click on the main window, the one that is transparent with only small white edging around it. Doing that will reveal a very small list of options, from which the most interesting one would be, if you want to add songs, the Add button. Clicking on it will reveal the following window:

Here we can see that there is even an option to play internet radio streams with the help of Mcool, but for now let’s just add a folder to our playlist. Everything works the same like with any other music player, select the folder where your songs are and click on the Add button, or in this case the green check mark. Songs should be listed in the transparent menu right away and you can start playing them by clicking on their names.

This would be the right click menu that we mentioned a few lines back. Notice that next to the Add options there are also options for turning playlist on and off. Every folder that you open is considered as a playlist. You can add new ones, or turn them off completely and just look at the full song list.

Conclusion

I promised you to say a few words about resources, and here it is, the program only used 3MB of RAM, while being a very small burden on the CPU. If you have an older PC, then Mcool is definitely the music player for you, free download.

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View Pictures in 3D Free: 3D Picture Viewer

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 02:00 PM PDT

3D Picture Viewer is a free software that enables you to easily find and view images. The program allows you to find pictures you are looking for and view them in a 3D space. The 3D space allows you to view files in a list of thumbnails, toggle between images and open images.

Features of 3D Picture Viewer

Simple and easy to use interface.
Automatic image search.
Accelerated scrolling for easy swiping between images.
Supports a wide range of image formats like BMP, JPEG, PNG and GIF.

How to use to View 3D Picture

Installation goes on without any issues. The interface is very simple and intuitive. Most of the interface is occupied by the 3D space and there is your usual menu bar at the top. You can add pictures one by one by clicking the Load images in the File menu. This opens a file browser which filters compatible image formats. In case you want to add directories, use the Load Folder button. This adds images from a directory and has the option of adding images in the folder sub directories. You can click on Clear images to remove all images from the program. A progress bar takes you through the process of adding images. Image filenames are displayed on the bottom left corner.

You can access the program in full screen mode by clicking on the Full screen menu. You can click on the tiled thumbnails to open the image in the program. You can toggle between images by focusing your mouse on any image or by using the next and previous buttons that appear when the full images are opened. You can also open the image in Windows Explorer by clicking the Open image button or open the file directory by clicking the Image Path button. The menu bar auto hides when images are opened in full and can be viewed by clicking inside the window.

The Settings menu enables you to add 3D Picture Viewer to the windows explorer context menu for easy opening of images. You can also set image thumbnail sizes and resolution. You can also set a background for the 3D space or revert to the default background. User support is available via the Help menu which redirects you to the program's homepage.

Pros

Simple and easy to use interface.
Fast and easy opening of images.
Ability to add program to windows context menu.

Cons

No drag and drop support.
Not very light weight as originally presumed.

Verdict

3D Picture Viewer offers you a unique fun and exiting way to find and view images on your computer.

View Pictures in 3D Free: 3D Picture Viewer was originally published at I Love Free Software

Manage your eBooks with Alfa eBooks Manager

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 12:30 PM PDT

Alfa eBooks Manager is another one of those programs who aren’t leaving a thing for the imagination and people know what the program does right after reading or hearing the program’s name. So yes, Alfa eBooks Manager is a free program that you can use in order to manage your electronic book collection. Program is feature rich, so much so that it might even intimidate some with the sheer amount of options that it offers, but if you decide to stick with Alfa eBooks Manager, you’re gonna end up with the ultimate eBook management tool on your hands, which is definitely worth the effort of figuring out how to use it.

Program interface is intuitively divided into two columns, the most important one of which would be the one on the right side where you are presented with books that you have in your collection. Books can be displayed in several different types of “shelves”, you can choose between 13 different types of shelve templates, from the standard ones, where you only have book thumbnails displayed, to the more advanced ones which actually have wooden book cabinets simulated, like the one that you see above.

Adding books and collection management in Alfa eBooks Manager

Collections can be created, edited and saved as databases. Each collection can be regarded as a database, so you can actually run several digital book collections at once. When you first start the program you’ll be asked if you want to start a new database, open an existing or if you would like to open a template database which is what you can see on the image above. When you start a new book collection this is what you’ll see:

I pointed out the two main options that you can use in order to add books to your collection. First one would be manual addition where you can add books individually to the collection. Second option which makes life easier would be the Scan for books option where you can select a folder which will be deleted and from which, if found, books will be added automatically.

Add books from Amazon, Barns & Noble and Google Books

With Alfa eBooks Manager you can add books from the famous online book sites, like Amazon, Google Books and Barns and Noble. To do this select Add from web and search for books in the window that appears:

What kind of formats does Alfa eBooks Manager support?

Program supports pretty much all the eBook formats that are out there, it even supports audio book formats, be careful when you’re scanning for books, the program might load your music collection as books;). Some of the supported formats would be:

LRF
PDF
DJVU
FB2
CHM
MP3
MOBI

Program usage and conclusions

It might take a few moments to find your way around Alfa eBooks Manager, but the same is true for every program out there. All in all this is a great tool, there are also paid versions where you can import Google Libraries, update author image directly from Google search and more, check the main site for more info. The free version should be more than enough, try that first.

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Free Web Browser combined with Search Engine: Muze Jolt

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 11:00 AM PDT

Muze Jolt previously known as Muze is similar to the internet browsers that you might be using. You can use this web browser to browse the internet and open your favorite sites when you want. People can click on the Download Energy logo to see several options to download application. Along with address bar there is also a search option which helps you to search everything you want over the internet. You may even call it a web browser combined with a search engine. Muze Jolt runs nicely on windows 7 and windows 8.

Installing this free web browser

To install Muze Jolt web browser you need to visit here and click on download. It is free and very easy to install. Once you click on download the .exe file gets downloaded. Click on .exe file and follow the simple installation process by clicking on the next button. Once the installation is finished you can launch the web browser and start using it. You can also try Epic Browser, Tweens Browser and SRWare reviewed by us.

User Interface of Muze Jolt

The Muze Jolt browser is similar to the browsers that we have been using. It has a simple user interface and comes trimmed to attract you as a internet surfer. If you have been using the Internet explorer or Mozilla then you will not face any difficulty in using this web browser. You may find this as a new addition to the browsers already available with colors all over. The web browser comes integrated with an audio player and a video player. You can use its notepad and blogging options as well. But the only drawback is that you cannot view the browser page when the video player or the notepad is open. You need to disable them to view the pages you want.

Using Muze Jolt free web browser

Once you open Muze Jolt you can see the address bar at the top and a search box at the middle of the page. As always you find the options of the browser at the top of the window like addition or deletion of a tab or clicking on the homepage button to go to the default homepage. When you open a site for the first time you get an option to set it as your default home page and it depends on you whether you want to change your homepage or not.

At the top left corner of the page you can see the Muze Jolt icon, clicking on the icon brings a drop down menu with the following options:

File
View
Media
Chitta Links
Notepad
Options
Help

The file option helps you to open an existing file from your computer, print the page, save page or open or close new tabs.

There is the view option which enables you to adjust the zoom feature or adjust transparency. The media option helps you in adjusting the video and audio player. Through the Chitta Links option you can view different search engines, social networking sites and other blogging sites.

The options tab helps you to set the homepage, web page zoom, tab height transparency and check the updates for Muze Jolt. All in all it is a user friendly browser which comes integrated with the search engines and social networking sites.

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Free Web-Based ERP Software: Apptivo

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 09:30 AM PDT

Apptivo is a completely free web-based ERP software that helps you to manage different activities of small sized business. As it's a web-based ERP software, you don't have to download or install anything, you just need to simply sign up Apptivo.

This web-based free ERP software offers several modules for project management, supply chain, financials, customer relationship management, marketing, human resources, product management, etc. These modules let you gain control over several activities of an enterprise for it's smooth functioning.

Projects App within the project management allows you to create a project by identifying your client, creating milestones, adding tasks, including notes, and documents and building your project team.

Employees App within the human resources helps you to create or add employee by filling in their details. You can even search employees using the search bar available in the Employee app.

Invoices app within the Financials enables you to create invoice by adding the items sold, tasks and services that you performed for the customer in your invoice and identifying the customer whom you are invoicing. After creating invoices , you can send them to your customers and receive payments. We covered invoices app earlier as a part of Chrome apps to create invoices.

Apptivo allows you to add unlimited users for smooth functioning of your business. Get more features on Apptivo with the paid plans available.

Key Features Of This Web-based ERP Software:

Completely free Web-based ERP software.
More than 40 business management apps available from the app store.
Add unlimited number of users.
Create projects using projects app.
Create invoice using invoice apps.
Online customer relationship management system.
No installation or download required.
Simple registration process.

Also, check out 2BizBox A2 reviewed by us.

How to Get started With This Web Based ERP Software:

Visit the homepage of Apptivo and click the View plans & sign up button.
Now, click the sign up button under standard plan.
Enter your first name, last name, email address, password and re-enter the same password in the confirm password box and click the Sign up button at the bottom.
Now, you need to enter your organization's name, location and time zone in the small pop-up window that appears on the screen.
Yup, there you are in front of your Apptivo dashboard.

Apptivo is an online ERP software that let's you control and manage your small sized business from anywhere and any time. If you are running a small sized business and looking for such kind of a tool then it's worth trying this web-based ERP software.

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6 Free ERP Software

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 08:00 AM PDT

Here, are 6 free ERP software for small and medium-sized business organizations. ERP stands for Enterprise Resources Planning, so an ERP software helps the business management to control several business activities like production management, quality management, inventory management, marketing, sales, dispatch, billing etc.

ERP software is basically designed for smooth functioning of your business by integrating several business processes into a single centralized system. If you own a small or medium-sized business, then I would suggest you to use any of these ERP software which suits your business. Try these ERP software for free.

2BizBox A2

2BizBox A2 is one of the best and free ERP software suitable for your small-sized or medium-sized business. With the help various tools offered by this ERP software, you can easily control or handle the resources and inventory of an enterprise. This ERP software comes with several options for controlling business, each option is basically a division of an enterprise. These options are sales, accounting, warehouse, security, engineering, documents, control panel, address book, etc. This free ERP software proves to be useful in controlling and keeping track of enterprise resources. To know more about 2BizBox A2 and it's usage, click here. Try 2Bizbox A2 here.

PostBooks

PostBooks is an open source software which acts like accounting, ERP, and CRM software for a small or medium-sized enterprise. This ERP software comes with modules like, accounting, sales, purchasing, product definition, inventory, and distribution, etc. Within the accounting module, it allows you to deal with general ledger, bank reconciliation, accounts payable and receivable, financial reporting, etc. Sales module lets you deal with order entry, quotes, shipping, sales reporting. Within the purchasing module, you are allowed to look after vendor reporting, purchase orders, receiving, etc. PostBooks is a free software loaded with features that contribute a lot in business management.

Read more about PostBooks or try it here.

Front Accounting

Front Accounting is another free accounting software which also plays a role of ERP software for all kinds of small and medium-sized organizations. Like the above reviewed ERP software, this one also include various modules related to purchase orders, payments, items and inventory, stock, manufacturing, sales orders, accounts receivable, customer invoices/credit notes, supplier invoices/credit notes, accounts payable, etc. With the help of these modules, you can control your business activities. This ERP software plays a leading role in accounting, you can maintain unlimited accounts with the help of this ERP software.

Read more about Front Accounting in our featured post or try it here.

SQL Ledger

SQL Ledger is a free ERP package and accounting software which helps you to control and manage different business activities. This ERP package is capable enough to store several accounts of an enterprise in an SQL database. SQL ledger is a complete accounting solution for an organization, as it is capable enough to prepare ledger for unlimited accounts of an organisation. A demo version of this ERP package has been launched in order to access the system and track enterprise accounts for free. SQL ledger is capable enough to generate reports, it allows you to generate of create invoices, balance sheets, package lists, purchase and sales records. Try SQL Ledger for free.

Read more about SQL Ledger or try it here.

Apptivo

Apptivo is a free web-based ERP system that allows you to control and manage small or medium-sized business activities. This ERP system comes with several applications and provides modules for project management, product management, marketing, human resources, CRM(Customer Relationship Management), financials, etc. Within the financials module, you can create and send invoices to your customers and receive payments. Human resources module helps you to manage employees working in your enterprise. These modules really makes it easier for you to run the business smoothly.

Read more about Apptivo, or try it here.

WebERP

WebERP is a another open source ERP software suitable for controlling and managing small or medium-sized businesses. This ERP software allows you to manage sales, accounts receivables, accounts payables, purchases, inventory, manufacturing, general ledger etc. WebERP comes with other options like customers, items, suppliers. Within the customers option, you can add a new customer to the database or search the existing customers effortlessly. Within the items option, you can add inventory items to the database or search for any existing inventory item. Likewise suppliers option also allows you to add new suppliers to the database or search for existing suppliers with an ease. The good part is that this ERP software is available in multiple languages, so the users can choose their preferred language for the interface.

Try WebERP here.

So these were few free ERP software for managing several business activities in small sized or medium sized businesses. You would also like to check out our post on 9 best open source accounting software.

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Free Virtual Ocean Tour, Game, Screensaver and more with TheBlu

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 06:30 AM PDT

TheBlu is a combination of an oceanic virtual tour, game, social interaction utility and on top of all that you also get a screensaver which you can use in order to embellish your desktop screen once that you stop using the computer. TheBlu is the perfect name for this multi-purpose tool, because it allows you to experience the mystical depths of the ocean from the comforts of your chair, on your computer screen.

As you can see from the in game screenshot above, once that you install TheBlu and run it for the first time you’ll find yourself in the amazingly realistic virtual tour of the ocean. Creators of this ocean tour software are a group of environmental activists who are trying to turn the world’s attention to the fact that we are very close to losing the oceans the way that we know them.

Free ocean tour with the help of TheBlu

Majority of us would like to have a tour of the ocean but unfortunately not all of us are lucky enough to be able to actually visit the ocean and dive the deep blue. All those who fall in the category of those who are interested but are unable to visit the great oceanic depths should install TheBlu, and dive through the ocean with the help of your computer. Image that you can see above is the default screen that waits for your after opening up TheBlu. Overall underwater experience is complete, you can see all the beauty that corals have to offer, there are even fishes, and once that you click on a particular fish, you’ll get extended info about it.

With this you not only are able to browse through the various animal life that oceans contain, but you can also learn and educated yourself about various lifeforms that exist down there.

You can also check out free rocket simulator to design rockets.

Connect with other people in TheBlu

As you browse through the virtual ocean, other people can join you, you can login into TheBlu universe as guest, or you can register and create an account with which you’ll be recognized by other members. Each one of the fishes in TheBlu realm seems to be a person that connects with the program and you can find other people who share similar opinions like you very easily.

Set the ocean as your computer’s screen saver

TheBlu, next to the virtual tour of the ocean, education and of course social interaction will also install a screensaver wich is pretty much the same to the first image that you can see above.

If you don’t like the screensaver it can be easily changed in the screensaver dialog of your favorite OS. TheBlu is the complete ocean suite for the PC, which every ocean lover should have installed. Default installation of TheBlu comes with 2 different “maps” between which you can choose from and which you can explore. There’s about 10 more, but in order to open them you’ll have to spend some cash on points with which you can open up more of the game. Even without that, TheBlu has a lot to offer, make sure to try it out.

Free Virtual Ocean Tour, Game, Screensaver and more with TheBlu was originally published at I Love Free Software

Free Media Player with Online Radio and TV Shows Streaming: Dj Genius

Posted: 29 Jun 2012 05:00 AM PDT

Dj Genius is a simple light weight media player. With Dj Genius you can play most of your favourite audio and video formats, listen to online radio and stream online TV shows.

Installation of this free media player

The installation was quite uneventful. While the installer took sometime before indicating any progress, it had none of the adware that plagues free software. The installer also required a running installation of .NET framework and recommended an update of the existing installation.

Features of this free media player

The main feature of the program is the media player. Dj Genius is capable of playing both media in mp3 and mp4 formats but I have to point out the range of formats it could play was greatly limited. It relied on third party software, K-Lite Codec pack in particular to extend its range of supported file formats.

The recording feature on Dj Genius allows users to record and edit audio in both ID3v1 and ID3v2 formats. This features allows for editing of crucial track information.

The audio library allows you to add mp3 files for playing. The audio library requires you to select audio files you want added instead of the software automatically searching and adding media from preselected folders.

On the plus side, Dj Genius had an inbuilt social network hub which for some reasons assumed I was on Twitter- which I was not. I was not able to get the hub on my Facebook page. The social network hub was bundled with a Dj Store which directed users to Amazon’s website which you can change on the settings module.

The radio module which allows online radio listening was easier to use and allowed me to easily add custom online radio frequencies. The module provided quite a variety of radio stations and all played with no problems.

Dj Genius however lacked some of the most basic features of a basic media player. For one it did not support drag and drop which I found very inconvenient. Secondly I could not get it to play a single file without adding it to the media library. It also lacked critical player controls like the repeat and shuffle functions for the playlist. I was stuck to playing my playlist in a sequence which was not very desirable. The equalizer and visualizations were not present either.

Light weight players are very popular and Dj Genius is one of those. However, its performance left very little to be desired. It actually went unresponsive after I added about 4000 files to the library.

How to use it

The user interface although very simple was not very well organised. Instead of the typical menu at the top of the application, you get a status bar which indicates the name and bitrate of the current playing file. Audio files can be added from the plus sign at the bottom of the interface- this could have been placed at the top of the interface. The interface is divided into three section, the toolbar on the right, track information at the top middle and audio library files at the bottom middle. Media player controls are at the bottom of the interface. They dared to be different on the volume control which I doubt did the player any justice. The twitter button to the left of the add button opens the twitter page on the player.

The radio module can be accessed by clicking the radio button. First time use requires to load channels by clicking the large icon at the centre of the interface. New channels can be added by clicking on its respective button at the left corner of the radio interface. The audio recorder can record by clicking on the large microphone icon which appears after clicking the Audio Recorder button. The mp3 tag editor can be accessed by clicking its respective button and requires that you select a file you want to edit.

Conclusion

Dj Genius is definitely not the best player around and could do with a little more work.

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