Resonic Player is a fast audio and music player, directory player, and sample browser, built around a big waveform view, a frequency analyzer, and a musical spectrum.
Play audio and music files in studio-grade audio quality.
Browse and play large amounts of music files, sounds, and folders, audition many audio file formats.
Resonic Player is free for personal and non-profit use. If it helps you make money we urge you to donate to the project, or purchase a Pro license, to help finance future updates.
A Closer Look at Resonic PlayerResonic Player is a fast audio and music player, directory player, and sample browser, built around a big waveform view, a frequency analyzer, and a musical spectrum.
The Player version is free for non-commercial and non-profit use.
Meet the WaveformThe Resonic user interface is built around a big waveform seek bar for a visual representation of the audio content.
A custom browser and file list provides quick access to your folders and files.
You can jump to any position in your audio or music files with a click into the waveform.
Main Window Explained
Player Features
Ridiculously FastResonic makes extensive use of multi-core processing. Every important part is optimized for speed, which results in extremely fast browsing, seeking, and playback.
LightweightA couple of files, a few megabytes, low memory footprint, and tidy use of disk space.
No bloated runtime packages are required.
DLL files are not loaded on startup, but whenever they are required, which tailors memory usage to your behavior.
Pure SoundIn order to achieve the purest sound quality, there is absolutely nothing between decoded audio and sound output that might degrade quality, which is essential for both sound and sample previewing and audiophile audio playback.
Resonic’s audio engine runs on 32-bit floating point data.
Clean InterfaceA major design goal is to always keep the graphical user interface clutter-free and user-friendly, without nested menus and dialogs, and without dumbing down the more powerful features.
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Single-Click Interface
A single Left-Click navigates folders, plays files, seeks in audio, changes volume. No need to double-click just for the sake of it, but optionally available.
No-Click Scrolling
Move the mouse over controls and use the wheel to scroll lists, or to change volume. No need to click them first.
Embrace your Keyboard
Once you know the basic shortcuts you’ll see how fast and comfortable keyboard-supported operation of Resonic really is.
Play your folders instantlyResonic plays all your music and sound files directly out of existing folder structures.
While library support will be part of Resonic you are never forced to use any kind of library system. Since music libraries usually rely on tags they can easily end up being a confusing mess unless these tags are maintained properly.
Many users do actually prefer to organize their music into folder structures, most commonly on external drives.
Browse your samplesFor audio professionals, it is vital to have a powerful preview tool at hand. Sample CD/DVD structures can be tedious to browse through. Even more so are sample libraries and collections as they tend to become huge fast.
Resonic has its origins in this particular field of work and will certainly become an invaluable asset when it comes to your everyday work.
Fully PortableResonic was developed with full portability in mind:
Put the portable version on a thumb drive or USB disk, take it with you, and have it remember separate settings for the computers it is run on — no configuration mix-ups.
Fully UnicodeResonic has full Unicode support for tags, files, folders, playlists, cue sheets, and interface translations, to make sure international letters are displayed properly.
Full Drag & DropDrag & Drop the playing file into Windows Explorer, or into most other applications that accept audio files,
which includes popular DAWs, audio editors, or video editing software.
Advanced File AccessResonic handles your files in a way that enables you to edit them with external programs, or even delete them in certain cases while they are playing.
When a playing file changes its information is automatically reloaded.
Optimized for Windows 10Resonic supports Windows 10, 8, 8.1, 7, and Vista, but is highly optimized for the latest version of the operating system.
Command-Line SupportResonic supports several command-line options that make clever use of running instances.
Visualization Types
Waveform
A visual representation of the audio content in various styles. Here’s the three main styles (solid, gradient, outline):
Frequency AnalyzerThe real-time analyzers in Resonic are optimized for a very musical display of the playing audio material. And despite the fact that the free version’s analyzers are very basic, they are always nice to look at.
The logarithmic analyzer represents mainly low and mid frequencies. Watch the bass wobble.
The linear analyzer represents mainly the higher frequencies.
Musical SpectrumOn the musical spectrum, one bar roughly represents one key on the piano.
Other FeaturesPlayback Modes
Play your files sequentially, randomly, stop after the current file, or loop the current file.
A-B Repeat
Mark and repeat parts of tracks.
Great for musicians, music students, vocalists, e.g. when learning certain parts of a piece.
Sleep Timer
Close the player, put your computer to sleep (standby) or into hibernation, log you off, lock your workstation, or stop playback after a certain time has passed.
Smooth Fade-outs
Smoothly fade out and stop tracks.
Taskbar Integration
Quick controls and a playback progress bar in the taskbar on Windows 10, 8.1, 8, and 7.
Looping Short Files
Resonic is capable of looping extremely short files, down to single-cycle waveforms, seamlessly.
Maintaining Playback Position
Continue playing another file at the current file’s playback position.
Great for quickly previewing a lot of music, or for comparing various versions of mixes and masters.
Playing MIDI Files
Resonic supports playback of Standard MIDI files (.mid .rmi, .kar) and comes with the built-in ResonicGM sound bank and an integrated soft synth which provides good quality in a lightweight package and is optimized for quick auditioning.
External Soundfonts (.sf2) can be used, with live switching during playback.
Supported File Formats
These audio and music file formats can be played back by Resonic:
WAV, AIFF, FLAC, APE, ALAC, WV, TTA, DSD, MP4, MP3, MP2, MP1, MPC, OGG, OPUS, SPX, WMA, 3GP, AMR, MID, IT, XM, S3M, MTM, MOD.
Playing Audio in Video FilesResonic is not a video player, but can play multichannel audio tracks contained in these video formats:
– Standard MPEG-4 video files (.mp4 .m4v)
– Microsoft Media Video files (.wmv)
– Microsoft Video files (.avi) (only a few codecs are supported)
Professional FeaturesContinue reading here: Exclusive Features in Resonic Pro: https://resonic.at/pro
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