Xion Audio Player v1.0.126 - (2nd November 2010)

[FunkY]

What is Xion Audio Player?
Xion Audio Player is an ultra light and easily skinnable Audio Player.

Xion Audio Player features a new standard in skin support. Baffled by script syntax? Pulling your hair out over slicing up skin elements? Finding skinning just way too complicated?

Xion's approach to skinning will remove all scripting and slicing requirements that other skin systems have placed on users. Xion Audio Player will directly read a .PSD file and using layer names, instantly bring your skin to life.

Xion Audio Player also supports direct loading from Zip files which allow you to package several .PSD files in the one package. This has the added benefit of being compressed and therefore consumes less disk space.

Xion Audio Player is ultra light and only consumes minimal amounts of RAM and CPU.

Features
Ultra easy to skin using a powerful skinning system (No coding required!)
Complete animation support
Skins load directly from .PSD files, not script or extra files required!
Powerful playlist support
Seamless playback
Crossfading support
10 band equalizer with presets
Blazingly fast, low cpu and low memory consumption
MP3/OGG (Shoutcast, etc) internet radio streaming
Customizable global hotkeys
Auto play and position saver
Single click play/pause
Volume and balance controls
Full system tray functionality
MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger Integration
Component Plugin system
Portable version available

Supported file formats
Advanced Audio Coding (.Aac)
Dolby Digital AC-3 (.Ac3)
CRI ADX (.Adx)
CRI AIX(.Aix)
Audio Interchange File Format (.Aiff)
Monkey's Audio (.Ape, .Mac)
Advanced Streaming format (.Asf)
CD Audio (.Cda)
Free Lossless Audio Codec (.Flac)
Impulse Tracker (.It)
MIDI music (.Mid, .Midi, .Kar, .Rmi)
Protracker / FastTracker (.Mod)
MP3/OGG compressed MOD music (.Mo3)
MPEG I/II Layer 1 (.Mp1)
MPEG I/II Layer 2 (.Mp2)
MPEG I/II Layer 3 (.Mp3)
Advanced Audio Coding MPEG-4 (.Mp4)
Apple Lossless Audio Codec (.M4a)
Musepack (.Mpc, .Mp+, .Mpp)
OptimFROG (.Ofr, .Ofs)
Ogg Vorbis (.Ogg)
Scream Tracker 3 (.S3m)
DirectMusic Files (.Sgt)
Speex (.Spx)
The True Audio (.Tta)
Unreal/Unreal Tournament Music File (.Umx)
Microsoft Wave files (.Wav)
Windows Media Audio (.Wma)
WavPack (.wv)
FastTracker 2 (.Xm)

Supported playlist formats
M3u - M3U Playlist
Pls - PLS Playlist
Wpl - Windows Media Playlist

Supported Operating Systems
Windows 2000
Windows 2003
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7

Current Version
Xion Audio Player version: 1.0.126
Last Updated: 2nd November 2010

Release notes for Xion Audio Player v1.0 build 126

Item Description
1 Applied static analysis to the code base and fixed some issues
2 Added extra checks to web metadata in order to correctly parse as utf8 or standard ascii depending on the stream - Thanks BigEd!
3 Fixed Album art not refreshing correctly when used on Playlists
4 Fixed Album art not loading correctly after playing a net stream and then a file on disk
5 Fixed Pause and scrub bug which resulted in pausing resetting to the last scrubbed position
6 Fixed bug with save states that would cause them to incorrectly reload
7 Fixed the animation frames on a playlist not correctly moving and then animating
8 Incremented Interface state and Component version numbers

Homepage/skins/plugins
http://xion.r2.com.au/

Download Windows Installer
http://www.r2.com.au/downloads/files/xion_v1.0b126.exe

Download Portable Zip
http://www.r2.com.au/downloads/files/xion_v1.0b126.zip

[JayCub]

Looks cool FunkY i wish it didn't then i could avoid it, but the eye candy gets to me instead of the actual program, but i will download as i know i will and give it a try out, between you Paf and Solin im definately in the market for an new external disk

Ok just a warning to people that try this out turn down your speakers as the first run is a bit of a shocker, and im awake now

[hellnoire]

Just for people who have never used Xion, I used to use it when AIMP's site was down for a long time a while back.

It's lightweight, it's friendly, and has a LOT of skins for it. And when I mean lightweight, I mean it. I have used a clear skin, and it dropped the usage to about 900kb. With EQ set to a custom setting and to actually have a high bitrate song playing on it... I was impressed.

I switched back to AIMP2, though Xion can also handle my entire music library without failure. So if you need something lightweight and yet handles like AIMP2 does? Xion. Simply Xion.

[FunkY]

Thanks for the reply's JayCub and hellnoire

I have tried Xion long time ago and i remember that it was pretty good But after i found foobar2000, course has been same couple of years already!

[hellnoire]

I'm debating about going back to Xion, and Foobar... didn't like it much myself.

Xion has easier time in theming then AIMP2, hence why I'd do it. But that's my logic.