OK, time for a major plug here. Are you tired of Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, QuickTime, and whatever other audio, video, and multimedia programs you have constantly stealing each other’s associations? Well, they’ll still do that if you continue using and updating them, but if you ditch them and find a good replacement, you can be done with them once and for all. jetAudio is that replacement. Visit the page for a complete listing of all of its features, as there are too many to list here. As I mentioned, it can play nearly all the current audio and video formats; I have yet to see one it can’t handle.
As much as I hate to admit it, it even does a nicer job with MP3s in some respects than my beloved WinAmp does, although I’m still on the fence about that. Just now, it picked up not only the associated cover image I embedded in my MP3 file, but it also even found the tagged lyric 3.2 file I embedded, allowing true karaoke-type lyrics display. If you don’t have a tagged lyric file, as long as you have a text file named the same as the MP3, it will display that along with an associated cover image when the file plays. OK, granted I’ve obsessively collected all of those things myself, and with the proper plugins the new version of WinAmp can find them automatically (I’m not sure that jetAudio can), but I am really hooked on this interface and the versatility of the program.
But enough of my ranting here; I’ll stop now and let you try it out for yourself. Although WinAmp might not be replaceable, all of the other competing video and audio players on my system are history now. Oh, and did I mention that this is all free? Pretty sweet…
