Spider Player
A simple alternative to the big music players
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Articles Spider Player
According to some happy users, Spider Player is so good that it could even rival Winamp in the popularity stakes for basic players one day.
Spider Player is certainly a very good looking player and not only that, it makes life easy where listening to music is concerned. The good news is that now, Spider Player Pro is now effectively free. The Basic version has been discontinued and replaced by Pro. Formerly, Spider Player had some limitations such as it didn't have Last.fm support, radio recording were limited to 5 minutes, you could only rip a CD track and convert one file at a time and you couldn't use custom encoders. However, all these limitations have been removed in this latest version.
The look is obviously a key part for the developers and they've even included a "tuning" bar in Spider Player's skin which allows you to change the tone of it according to the mood you are in. As with Winamp, I like the fact that you can also divide-up the player as you like. For example, when you open it, the main playback window, equalizer and playlist are all joined together. But you can split these up as you like and place them in various parts of your desktop for easy access.
To control playback in Spider Player, you can simply drag and drop the status bar and it responds very quickly. There's also a pitchshifter, echo and reverb bar to play with. One nice added little extra that Spider Player also has a built-in ID3 tag editor and CD ripper that can burn in MP3, WAV, OGG and WMA formats. Once minimized, the player also sits neatly in your system tray so it's well integrated into your OS. Spider Player is one of the best Mp3 players I've tried outside of Winamp although it lacks the plugins of the former.
Altogether, Spider Player is an excellent package which now offers all the features of the Pro version for free.
Recent changes
- Fixed:
- Converting feature preview didn't work in the FREE version of
- Spider Player, now it's possible to convert one track at a time again
- Other:
- "Spider Player Basic" renamed to "Spider Player FREE"
Notes
NOTE: Spider Player has now changed its name from Basic to Free and the Pro version has been discontinued. The Free version is now the old Pro version.
DEVELOPER NOTE: Spider Player is no longer being developed. You can still download and use it, though. Please use the following license key to unlock all the PRO features: 27U3Z909I95-KK147A893S4K6Y1M0F-780363812. Spider Player PRO is completely free now, never mind the EULA.
I apologize for any undelivered promises I made and wish to thank everyone who supported me along the way. Thank you very much guys! It was fun at some point, but the feeling that this project is holding me back is now overwhelming.
If you've recently purchased Spider Player PRO and want a refund, please let me know here.
Best regards,
Vitaly Kravchenko
- Great default customisable skin
- Responds quickly to commands
- Includes ID3 tag editor and CD ripper
- Pro version now effectively free
- Lacks plugins
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Spider is an alternative music player that can be placed alongside Winamp, iTunes, Windows Media Player and Music Match Jukebox due to its multifunctionality. It offers the following features:
- Cool bass and amazing sound quality (thank you Un4seen© !)
- Unicode support
- Powerful tag editors for: ID3 v1 & ID3 v2 tags, Vorbis tags and WMA metadata
- Grab music from CDs
- Rip music into MP3, WMA, OGG or WAV
- Song lyrics editor
- CD-Text support
- Internet streaming (stream files from internet and listen to internet radio)
- Sound effects
- Multilanguage support
- Skins support
- Customizable icons for file associations (via icon libraries)
- Customizable spectrum analizer and oscilloscope visualizatons
- Convenient searching through playlist
- *.m3u playlists support
- Ten-band equalizer with presets editor
"Best Sounding Audio Player"
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- 9.0
Spider Player is the best sounding audio player around. It also has the ability to rip cds, converter audio files as well as being able to play almost every type of audio file around. The best feature besides the quality of sound itself, is the equalizer which is present for certain types of music. Say your listening to Three Days Grace and want it to sound more like the sound it should. Just adjust the equalizer to "metal" and you will get the sound you prefer. Lady GaGa just set the equalizer on "dance". The downside is it also lacks some features others have. It doesn't have a "Now Playing" feature that allows others on your Instant Messenger list to know what your listening to. You can't auto tag any of your audio files either. There are no true plugins. The only thing it really has in form of plugins are skins and to get them to work is confusing for a novice. If you don't need any of the things it lacks like the "Now Playing" feature then this is the best Audio Player around for it's sound and equalizer. If you want the things it lacks, either find another audio player like Winamp or just use other software that has the features it doesn't while using Spider Player for the sound quality. I myself use this player when sound is all that matters. And I use Winamp, iTunes, MediaMonkey and dBpowerAMP Music Converter to cover the rest. Try Spider Player yourself, but to get the best quality sound use either a cd or use WAV files to maximize the sound. FLAC and Apple Lossless work well too.
- Great Quality Sound
- Free
- Preset Equalizer
- No Now Playing Feature
- No Auto Tagging Feature
- Complex To Change Appearance.
- Views:
- 12,471
- Date:
- 07 Jul 2010
Spider Player is virus-free!
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