Play a wide range of audio and video files on the desktop PCs. It supports Internet radio, playlists, 32-bit audio processing, album art display, and skins for the main UI. The player's functionality can be customized through 3rd party plug-ins.
Listening to your favorite music on your laptop or PC is more and more becoming part of our daily routine. In order to have all the music we download and transfer to our PC from different media nicely organized, AIMP offers you an easy-to-use music library with advanced tagging capabilities, support for all the most common formats, audio conversion, and other useful utilities, all for free.
This attractive music organizer opens in a neat and nice-to-look-at interface where you can load your files manually or ask the program to scan your computer and retrieve for you any audio file stored in it. This will allow you to gather your music collection in just one go, and then take your time to remove those files you’re not that interested in, organize the rest, rename your files correctly (when required), and create as many playlists as needed. The program will select any AC3, APE, DTS, FLAC, M4A, MP2, MP3, Ogg, WAV, or WebM file stored on your drives, together with twenty more audio file formats that are a bit less popular. The player itself includes its own volume control, different playback options (random, loop, etc.) and a useful waveform graph of the track in question.
Its extensive tag support is one of the program’s strengths. It can display any ID3 tag, both v1 and v2, and will let you fill in some of the blanks using the data stored in their filenames, if you wish. You have specific fields for the lyrics and the cover and for your own comments. Regrettably, AIMP cannot connect to the Internet and search for data to help you tag your files automatically.
AIMP comes with a set of extra features that really add value to this already worth using tool. One of these features is its audio converter, which can transform any file on your collection into an APE, FLAC, MP3, Ogg, Opus, or WAV file, among others. It converts any number of files in batches to the format selected, and will rename and relocate the file in the process if so required. Another interesting feature is its “Sound Engine”, where you can find a graphical equalizer, a volume normalizer, various audio effects (echo, reverb, voice remover, etc.), and some mixing options (fade in and out, cross mixing, etc.). Other extra utilities worth naming are its CD ripping feature, its support for Internet radio stations, its playlist support (including “smart playlists” based on the content of your library), its CUE sheet support, and many others for you to discover.
AIMP is totally free, and it’s surely a great add-on to any desktop, especially if you enjoy listening to music while sitting at your computer. It is much more than a simple playback tool – AIMP will help you organize your entire music collection, tag it correctly, and mix and listen to your favorite lists according to your preferences.
v4.0 [Sep 21, 2015]
Common
Hints are now displayed when changing the slider in the DSP-Manager dialog via mouse wheel or keyboard
Formatting templates - list of available functions moved to sub-menu
Version number of application has been removed from names of binaries
Macros - one-letter / two-letter names of macros are replaced with friendly names
Macros - names in menu with macro list are highlighted now via bold font
Macros - list of macros for playable file has been expanded, following macros have been added: %AlbumGain, %TrackGain and %Lyrics
Macros - list of functions for text manipulation has been expanded
Interface
New design of application
Windows animation no longer inhibits UI
Scrollbar thumb jumps to previous position when mouse cursor leaves scrollbar zone
Sound Engine
Added an ability to specify the 352.8 KHz sample rate (for devices that support this sample rate)
Player
An ability to limit number of attempts to reconnect to internet-radio station when connection is lost
Playlist
Performance of builder for shuffle queue has been increased at 3 times
Quick Search - algorithm has been changed: the content that isn't satisfying to a search string hides now
Added an ability to rescan tags for selected files only
The "move to..." functionality has been introduced
The "Find in Music Library" command has been added
The "copy to" / "move to" functionality - an ability to save folder structure
Smart playlists - an ability to build playlist based on data from Music Library with an ability to filter and group data
Smart playlists - an ability to build playlist based on one or few directories
Smart playlists - synchronization with pre-image is now works in separate thread
Playlist files are now imports each into separate tab if the "open files from external applications" option set to "create new playlist".
Playlists Manager
An ability to view size and duration summaries of selected playlists
Drag-n-drop support for the preview window has been added
Audio Converter
An ability to switch off grouping
Support for aften.exe command-line encoder for AC3 format has been added (thanks to Soolo)
MP3 Encoder - added an ability to select target sample rate
Tag Editor
An ability to select all types of tags by one click
Added an ability to copy / paste album art images to / from the system clipboard
Added support for multiple values for APEv2, ID3v2, Vorbis Comments and M4A tags formats
Added an ability to store custom values to list of the "Genre" edit field
Music Library
Integrated into the main application
"The" article isn't cut out when adding files in a DB any more
An ability to save user mark to tags of file automatically (optional)
An ability to combine an empty levels in grouping tree in the "no grouping" mode
An ability to find misplaced files automatically
An ability to delete automatically non-existed files from data base
An ability to specify different columns set for table and card views
An ability to adjust height of the alphabetic index control
An ability to set user-defined filter for grouping preset
Added an ability to send selected files from grouping tree to selected playlist
An ability to drag album by its album art
An ability to scroll song list via mouse wheel without focusing of it
An ability to fast scroll via mouse wheel if Ctrl key is pressed
Report generator - support of fields with multiple values has been added
The "move to..." functionality has been added
File name column displays a name of file without path now
Alphabetic index is now supported for all fields
Skin support has been added
The "no grouping" mode - an ability to fill song list from current folder only (without sub-folders)
Now the data are loaded for visible columns only
Support of network files has been improved
Skin Engine
Potential abilities have been expanded (refer to the help for Skin Editor for more information)
Plugins
API for plugins has been updated to v4
Scheduler - sleep timer - an ability to fade out volume
Scheduler - the "OK" button has been added
SACD - ISO - now the plugin displays both stereo and 5.1 tracks
Irrigation Pump Selector
