Jetaudio Player Skins Free Download
Karla Ganger
If you spend any amount of time at your computer listening to music or watching videos, you'll know it's pretty easy to get bored with the appearance of your multimedia player. Fortunately, Musicstudio Professional (JetAudio Skin) gives you the option to change JetAudio's appearance. With a silver and purple color scheme, Musicstudio Professional (JetAudio Skin) adds a very slick look to your JetAudio interface. This way you can listen to music all day and enjoy a fresh new look of your audio player while you do so. It's just too bad there aren't more skin options included.
JetAudio's interface is attractive and well laid-out, and a description of each button's function pops up as you mouse over it. Unfortunately, you can't resize the program window, but it comes with three skins of varying sizes. There are also about 25 or so skins online to choose from in addition to three sets of visualizations (three others come with the download).
Individual features within JetAudio can be tweaked to your liking, though basic audio playback has the most customization options. There are 10 EQ presets, as well as a flat setting and a user-defined mode; you're also free to save as many of these as you like for later loading. In addition, you can adjust the playback speed and pitch, apply and modify surround sound and extra bass, and even choose from four types of reverb effects, all of which are fully adjustable. The player also automatically cross-fades from one to the other when you manually switch songs; this convenient option can also be turned on (and customized, of course) for use when the tracks naturally run their course. JetAudio even includes seven sound effects: Flange, Invert Flange, Robot 1, Robot 2, Slow Chorus, Phase Shift, and Invert Phase Shift.
JetAudio is lacking some key attributes--namely, the ability to sync with devices and encode MP3s. You will have to use either another jukebox or Windows Explorer to transfer tracks to a portable player. Not even JetAudio MP3 players will work within the JetAudio jukebox environment. But you can add MP3 encoding with one of the program's extension packs for $8.95. Additional packs can also be purchased to add enhanced sound features, special recording functions (for example, silence detection and splitting), and audio editing and mixing tools. Alternatively, you can upgrade to the $29 JetAudio Plus, which includes the whole lot.
Either way you slice it, JetAudio performs fantastically. The program starts up instantly, especially when compared with apps such as Musicmatch, and will immediately play the song or playlist you select. If you were interrupted in the middle of an album the last time you played it, JetAudio even remembers the exact place in the song it had been playing last. The player also multitasks beautifully; you can tinker with any of the settings and even import hordes of files into the database and edit albums, all while you're listening to another set of music, without the slightest interruption in your tunes.
I have bought a new Android phone with the intention to put my music on it, coming from a dedicated Sony Walkman digital player that I bought new in 2020. The Walkman has served me well but my new Android phone is pretty nice and I intend to use it as my music player now. Of course that meant searching high and low for a good quality music player. I have downloaded about 20 music players and tried each one out, and in this post I'll be sharing my opinions on each. Note that I'm not audiophilic. My main need in a music player is one that is well-made with an easy to use user interface that lets me browse through my music library with ease. I pay particular attention at the UX quality (for example I don't want wasted white space, or oversized elements making it hard to browse). Bonus points for lyrics support and design. Here we go!
Gonemad Music Player (GMMP): This player has a Google Material design. It has easy left-right scrolling between categories and you can choose any accent color that would fill the top navigational bar of the player, making it look nicer. The skin can also be AMOLED black which looks great. Gonemad has fantastic browsing, with a nice and decently condensed grid of albums, and a good condensed list of artists and songs. The now playing screen looks decent as well. Nice customizable widget as well. Overall, a brilliant one.
AIMP: A player that has some pre-Android history on PCs, I wanted to like this. The interface is nice, no doubt, and the widget too. However I was confused while using it and soon discovered it does not feature a music library. To me and I imagine most music listeners that's an essential. So AIMP definitely wasn't for me. Though if you're only playing a few tracks in folders, and don't need a library, it's worth trying out.
Nyx: This player probably has the most "fun" and coolest UI of all, it's very nicely made. It has its own font instead of the system's. Browsing through albums and songs is decent with a clear layout and moderately condensed. However browsing through artists wasn't the best experience thanks to an uncondensed list. Like Retro Player, this one also downloads art for artists automatically and a Wiki bio - however the downloaded art for artists was pretty inconsistent and some were weirdly pictures of objects. Nyx does have some good strengths though: the now playing screen looks really nice and fun and even has a waveform seeker. As for lyrics, my embedded lyrics in a song was not recognized by Nyx - the only one that failed to in my tests - however it is able to download lyrics directly there, which is a real cool feature. Additionally it also has the unique features of "tags" and "moods". I think this is a very well thought out and designed player, but it has a couple of flaws though.
Samsung Music: The default player for Samsung Galaxy (albeit one that didn't come preloaded on mine), this is actually a very decent player. It looks good and provides easy scrolling left and right. The now playing screen is decent, it has guided lyrics, and browsing through songs provides the alphabet letters on the side to quickly head to the letter - the only player in my test to do so. (EDIT: someone has mentioned PowerAmp also has this feature) The artist browsing was one of the best in my tests: it shows the no. of albums and tracks for an artist and a well condensed, nicely designed list of songs. The only disappointment is that the album browsing is only 2 columns and can't be changed. Overall, surprisingly very impressive.
Musicolet: The entire navigation is on a bar at the bottom of the screen: it is quick and easy to use. The black theme looks great on an AMOLED display. Browsing albums is very clearly laid out, with a good showing of its tracks. The artists browsing is even better - a clear list and a very good interface filtering the tracks by each album, in a way that no other player did (at least from what I was able to do). Browsing the songs is also a very clear, well designed list. Now playing also looks great with many buttons there if you're not a fan of menus, yet without making it look cluttered. Overall, I could not find a weakness at all.
YouTube Music: This one is supposed to be a streaming service first, offline player second. As a result whenever you open the app you have to tap on "play local files" or so, which then opens your own music collection. The interface is actually good, really simple. But that's about it - it's a barebones music player that does the job, but there really is no reason to be using this for your own music.
Phonograph / Vinyl: I grouped these together because they are pretty much identical players. You can scroll left-right between categories and has a panel too if you prefer. The now playing screen is colored fully for a pretty look with its Material design. Overall it is very impressively easy to use and has a really nice interface. The widget isn't customizable though, and the one thing that done it for me, was that is shows the queue on the now playing screen, which can't be turned off. I don't personally want the queue on that screen, so therefore this player wasn't for me in spite of its other strengths.
Rocket Player: Apologies to fans of this player, but I was turned off immediately by very annoying ads and a clunky, difficult user interface. In the midst of this situation (me trying to find an ideal music player for myself) there was no point really in continuing from there on, so I didn't test any further.
Muzio: This player is very similar to Black Player, like they're related in some way. The navigation and screens are almost the same, though it has a different font. The main difference I found was that Muzio has a colored interface and background, and isn't black. A very modern interface that I liked. Not much more I can say than that - refer to Black Player above.
There was one player that was both really good and didn't have a single weakness of note, and that was Musicolet. It's a very well designed player from a UX perspective, is not difficult to adapt to, and it performs very well as a player. It also has many additional features for those that want extra, plus it's a free one! I'll be using this one, at least for now.
Gonemad: A really well designed player, the only reason I didn't adopt it is because of it Google Material look which I am not personally a fan of. This is a subjective matter, so if you do like Material then this could be the ideal player for you. ALSO: Omnia, quite similar to Gonemad with a Material look that wasn't for me but it's a good player.
Samsung Music: The surprise contender because it's just a player made by Samsung for its own ecosystem. It's actually very well made overall with only one minor weakness. Honestly if you own a Galaxy and want to simply listen to music, you won't be disappointed with this. It does the job yes but it's also well designed, plus it arguably has the most credibility as it's made by Samsung Electronics.
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