Audio and sound player for Windows with a ton of built-in plug-ins for enhancing, modifying and manipulating sound output with a number of advanced features.
BZR Player is a freeware audio player app and MP3 player developed by Blazer Studios for Windows. It's user friendly, well-designed and light on system resources.
The download has been tested by an editor here on a PC and a list of features has been compiled; see below. We've also created some screenshots of BZR Player to illustrate the user interface and show the overall usage and features of this audio playing program.
A versatile sound player which supports load of different audio formats
BZR Player is a sound player for Windows with the primary goal being able to play a lot of different file formats, currently over 400 different ones. It is developed using C++ and QT. The sound engine is based on FMOD. The first version was released 12-Apr-2008.
Normalizer, reverb, and custom pitch. Unpacks and plays sounds from zip, rar, 7-zip, atr (atari), gzip. Supports unicode. Drag'n'drop. Lots of visualizers. Bookmarks.
Features of BZR Player
- A bunch of nifty audio visualizers.
- Add bookmarks for audio streams or files.
- All sound libraries has a lot of individual settings.
- Detailed file information for all formats.
- Drag & drop files or directories.
- Gives a nice reverb effect and is suitable mostly for old C64/Amiga sounds for example since they can sound a bit "flat" otherwise.
- Multiple instances of BZR Player can be launched.
- Option to continue to play the file exactly where you left off. Nice feature for podcasts etc.
- Pitch can be altered for all sounds, even HTTP streams.
- Play files with foreign letters in the filename (Chinese, arabic etc.). Only supported for about half of the file formats.
- Play lots of different file formats such as MP3, OGG, Amiga MOD, Atari YM, Nintendo NSF.
- Real time normalizer that makes all sounds play with the same volume. Parameters can be changed by the user.
- Unpacks and plays all sounds on the fly for the following archive formats: rar, zip, 7-zip, lha, atr, gzip, bzip2
- View the notes currently playing for the following formats: AHX, Chiptracker, Digi Booster, Fasttracker 1, Fasttracker 2, Game Music Creator, HivelyTracker, Ice Tracker, MED, Screamtracker 2, Screamtracker 3, Star Trekker, Sound/Pro/Noise Tracker, SoundFX.
Compatibility and License
Is BZR Player free to download?
BZR Player is provided under a freeware license on Windows from MP3 player software with no restrictions on usage. Download and installation of this PC software is free and 1.0.6 is the latest version last time we checked.
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