Soundbase 2008 04.15

Soundbase 2008 04.15 is a powerful utility for filling a gap in the large amount of free and commercial mp3 players. As a player, as a tag editor or as an organizer, it will always give you a quick way of doing common tasks.

Soundbase uses the Microsoft® DirectShow® architecture. DirectShow provides high-quality capture and playback of multimedia streams. It supports a wide variety of formats, including MPEG Audio Layer-3 (MP3), OGG Vorbis (OGG), Monkey Audio (APE), and FLAC sound files. It automatically detects and uses audio acceleration hardware when available, but also supports systems without acceleration hardware.

You might need to read the help section on installing more sophisticated formats (ape, flac, ogg) to enable playback for those files. The help section provides you with links to free directshow filters and will give you information on how to best install the different pack.

Of course there is more, you can skin soundbase, organize your music to different locations, edit tag information, search, filter, create playlists, there is a unique history display and Soundbase doesnt use any registry entries but stores all in one ini file, it is completelly anonymous, it can run from any location with limited user access rights, and much more.

Major Features:

1. No dlls required
2. The default player looks like the image:  It allows you to tweak Soundbase looks and feel.
3. The tag editor: There are a lot of different approaches mp3 players take to storing album information. We tried to combine as many of the common known standards and combine them in one easy tag editor. It reads and saves the tag information from most other players like Foobar, iTunes and Winamp. So you can use Soundbase as your main editor, or as an easy addition to your favorite. It can read Ape, Flac, Ogg, Mp3 and Wma, and supports song ratings, album rating, various artist, album artist, disc and number of discs, and you can add your own groups and moods to your collection.
4. Internet information retrieval: Soundbase also allows for automatic information retrieval from freedb album database or any of its counterparts freedb2 or gnudb. It allows a selection of available album matches and will automatically store this information into your audio files, inclusive an analyze and automatic parsing of the ALBUM ARTIST TAG.
5. Adding album art to directories or files: Most players provide the ability to show albumart but none provide such an easy interface to adding album art to your directory, renaming it or adding it to the ID3 TAG in your song.
6. Organize your album collection
7. Allows you to move or copy albums from its current location to locations that you can choose yourself. Just imagine all your albums being stored on album and artist name, file names automatically named to track - title.
8. Enables you to keep track of duplicate albums, various artist albums,