BZR Player is a sound player for Windows with the primary goal being able to play a lot of different file formats, currently over 480 different ones. It is developed using C++ and QT. The sound engine is based on FMOD. The first version was released 12-Apr-2008.
Over 480 playable file formats
Can play lots of different file formats such as MP3, OGG, Amiga MOD, Atari YM, Nintendo NSF. See the full list here.
Archives
Unpacks and plays all sounds on the fly for the following archive formats: rar, zip, 7-zip, lha, atr, gzip, bzip2
Pattern view
View the notes currently playing for the following formats: AHX, HivelyTacker, Screamtracker 3, Digi Booster, Star Trekker, Game Music Creator, Sound/Pro/Noise Tracker, Ice Tracker
Normalizer
Real time normalizer that makes all sounds play with the same volume. Parameters can be changed by the user
Reverb
Gives a nice reverb effect and is suitable mostly for old C64/Amiga sounds for example since they can sound a bit "flat" otherwise. Parameters can be changed by the user
Pitch
Pitch can be altered for all sounds, even HTTP streams
Unicode
Can play files with forgein letters in the filename (Chinese, arabic etc.). Only supported for about half of the fileformats
Drag & drop
Drag & drop files or directories
Visualizers
A bunch of nifty audio visualizers
Multiple instances
Multiple instances of BZR Player can be launched
Bookmarks
Add bookmarks for audio streams or files
File information
Detailed file information for all formats. Can show MP3 tags (id3v1 and id3v2) and instruments, samples, patterns etc.
Settings
All sound libraries has a lot of individual settings. All settings that can be made are saved to disk
Subsounds
If a file format may contain multiple sounds, BZR Player can play those.
Limit sound length
Some sounds have an unknown length, and the user can specify a maximum sound length for such sounds, so that they don't play forever.
Playlists
Supports loading of M3U, PLS and NEZPlug M3U (supports subsongs) and saving in M3U format.
Command line
Sounds can be added from commandline, just add the paths, like this: bzrplayer mysong2.mod song2.sid. Use quotation marks if the files contain spaces.
Socket control
You can control BZR Player with sockets by sending commands to port 9859, good for integrating the player in other software
Recursive folders
Drag and drop or add a folder using the button in the playlist window and all the files and folders in it will also be added
HTTP Streaming
Plays streams (radio stations)
Correct file extension not necessary
Plays files without caring of the name of the file. For example: a mod-file can be called mod.song, song.mod or even song.mp3 and will still play perfectly fine
Window snapping
Main window and playlist snap together
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