BZR Player

If you're looking for a properly good audio player, which doesn't burden you with pointless features, then you will probably like BZR Player. It has a simple design and a straightforward functionality, but it still comes with a few built-in tools. They don't get in your way and they can prove to be quite useful when you start using them. The best part is that you can play audio files in almost any format.

BZR Player is offered completely free of charge, but you can make a donation if you want to. Its components come in a ZIP archive and you can just extract them and run an executable, without going through an installation process. The software doesn't have any special requirements and it doesn't use too much RAM or processing power.

The main playback controls and playlist and displayed on separate windows, which snap together, which should sound familiar if you've used Winamp or other similar players. Besides playing, pausing or changing the volume, the software lets you increase and decrease the pitch as well. Additionally, you can normalize the sound and enable reverb at a moment's notice.

BZR Player supports over 640 audio formats, so you can load and play mostly any audio file, without worrying about any compatibility issues. You can even play audio files in AHX format, Chiptracker, Composer 669 and many others. What's more, if you play audio files in these formats, you can bring up the software's pattern viewer, to see the musical notes of the songs.

The visualizations the player comes with are also worth mentioning. They are displayed in time and information box and you can switch between them with a single click. The visualizations range from simple lines to colored sceneries.

When it comes to audio players, BZR Player is definitely a good choice, due to its familiar design, responsive controls and its support for countless audio formats.