This is a player to keep an eye on. With a multitude of plugin possiblities for audio control, advanced interface designs (skins), and active development, Pulse is one to take a look at.
A features list of pulse is very long:
- Supports the most popular audio formats of the present (669, AHX, FAR, FNK, IT, M15, MDL, MED, MOD, MTM, MP1/2/3, NST, RAW, S3M, SID/DAT, STM, ULT, WAV, WOW, XM)
- User-definable designs (supports non-rectangle windows, mouse-sensitive and/or animated buttons, sliders, proportional, system and truetype fonts, tooltips and many other objects, bitmap creator) with on-the-fly switching without restarting the player
- Component system that allows quick adding new formats and/or features
- Playing up to four audio streams through one waveout device (e.g. four .IT tunes)
- Software mixer with volume, amplify, panning, balance and stereo separation controls and surround sound
- Fully customizable Echo editor with up to 10 echos and saving user-defined presets
- Language support (English, Czech, German)
- Simple playlist editor
- Support the most used playlist formats (PLS, M3U, MOL plus its own PPP)
- External tools: Associating extensions and Systray controls configuration
Speaking of the Commodore 64, Pulse will play SID files. Those classic game tracks from the 64 era that have been converted to run under emulators on the clones will play under Pulse! (groovy). The main section of Pulse uses a component section that is wide open and documented for programmers to add in their own controls via simple dll insertion. There are four branches to the component system:
- AudioMate music engine sound output configuration,
- Outer Visual Engine (displaying quality properties)
- PulsePlayer (general configuration)
- FireComponents provider
A groovy hide mode with its own tool bar is one of the better skin formats:
Hey, it's freeware - knock yourself out!
MP3 Pulse:
V.96 :
Win95 Win98 WinNT :
(release status: Freeware)
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