File Details |
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| File Size | 0.6 MB |
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| License | Freeware |
| Operating System | Windows 2000/9x/Server 2003/XP |
| Date Added | July 12, 2009 |
| Total Downloads | 36,432 |
| Publisher | Hakeem |
| Homepage | Evil Player |
Publisher's Description
Evil Player is a fast, powerful and flexible media player for Windows. Some of the key features include Shoutcast, Icecast and Icecast2 support, low memory footprint and native support for several popular formats (MP3, MP2, MP1, OGG, AIFF and MOD).
Latest Reviews
tovento reviewed v1.30 on Jun 30, 2009
Reasonable player. Basic in it's interface, but good for me, as I typically listen to music with the player minimized. Two caveats which I have found thus far which is making it a little difficult for me to switch from winamp:
1. While M3U files are supported, they need FULL path/filename structure to import files. Most M3Us are built with relative pathnames (and typically just list the files themselves, as the M3U is in the same directory as the file)
2. No option to clear the playlist when double clicking a file from windows explorer. Any file double clicked appends to the end of the playlist. I would prefer double clicking to clear the playlist, and add the selected files to the blank list.
I am comparing this to Winamp, and I am willing to give this player a shot. With the above issues, I have to give the player a 4 star rating.
Evil Hakeem reviewed v1.27 on Nov 22, 2008
@Galifray
Download the plugin pack from my website.. and enable the flac plugin.
http://www.hakeem.gigaho...ug-ins/Plug-in_Pack.rar
Galifray reviewed v1.26 on Sep 9, 2008
Despite the claim of the program's writer that EvilPlayer can play FLAC files, I have never been able to play them with any version of the program. Nor can I complain of this to the author as his forum uses a service that blocks all communication from the ISP range that my computer uses. In addition, the constant need to re-right click the window to access options is very annoying if I want to change multiple settings.
MuchMusic reviewed v1.25 on Sep 1, 2008
for me, evil player's RAM usage is always less than a 2 digit number
The Seeker 11 reviewed v1.25 on Aug 25, 2008
I use foobar2000 yet I have compared this with other lightweight players (1by1, Billy etc) and this uses by far the least amount of RAM. Perfect for someone looking for a no frills player.
MuchMusic reviewed v1.24 on Jul 18, 2008
Takes 2 times less RAM usage than windows media player 11, Recommended for music listeners gamers.
Mystenes reviewed v1.24 on Jun 16, 2008
Music player is for listnening music, not for having beautifull gui. If You need only a player, small and fast, this is for You.
It's small, easy to setup and fast player.
vincent326 reviewed v1.22 on Nov 12, 2007
Well I just donot know how your computer worked because musiccube works fun with my laptop and I never saw 130mb memory eaten by any program.
But Evil Player runs faster is a truth
I changed the theme to match the windowblinds theme Malice 2XG. Someone interested can find it our here
http://vincent326.devian...lice-2XG-Theme-71336221
tannenwheel reviewed v1.20 on Apr 23, 2007
you folks should consider the fact that the memory usage of a player depends on the database of musicfiles (and filetags).
that's if u add some files.
add some files and the slikest player (eg foobar) will use 40 mb or more (how much files do you have?)
lets assume we have 23000 files.
adding them to the database of foobar or musiccube takes an eternity, depending on disk speed.
adding them to evilplayer is faster.
(starting foobar or musicube with a given database is fairly fast, just as starting evilplayer with a playlist)
evilplayer now uses 15 MB ram.
foobar uses about 40 MB
musiccube now uses 130 mb and still only 50% files have been added and i am not wating 30 minutes till that monster is done eating my ram
ctrl alt del on this one. i know that may have led me to predjudice but that could not change my point much.
i use foobar and when i want to save resources i use 1by1 player.
if u added all your files to evilplayer you would want to navigate with the search feature. but activating search just doubles the memory usage of evilplayer. now it is 30 mb. not good. (memory usage it is changing all the time). and the search is verry unresponsive.
so 1by1 allows for descent navigation (given a structured filesystem) without memory use worth mentioning.
porterboy55 reviewed v1.18 on Jan 14, 2007
this program uses less resources compaired to the bigger media players i.e. itunes wmp and even winamp
however it uses WAY more then the 2.5meg of ram that musikcube http://www.musikcube.com/ uses
second it is flat out ugly musikcube has a beautiful gui and it very easy to use no to mention it is really fast check it out
use it help develop it its the best
tovento reviewed v1.30 on Jun 30, 2009
Reasonable player. Basic in it's interface, but good for me, as I typically listen to music with the player minimized. Two caveats which I have found thus far which is making it a little difficult for me to switch from winamp:
1. While M3U files are supported, they need FULL path/filename structure to import files. Most M3Us are built with relative pathnames (and typically just list the files themselves, as the M3U is in the same directory as the file)
2. No option to clear the playlist when double clicking a file from windows explorer. Any file double clicked appends to the end of the playlist. I would prefer double clicking to clear the playlist, and add the selected files to the blank list.
I am comparing this to Winamp, and I am willing to give this player a shot. With the above issues, I have to give the player a 4 star rating.
Evil Hakeem reviewed v1.27 on Nov 22, 2008
@Galifray
Download the plugin pack from my website.. and enable the flac plugin.
http://www.hakeem.gigaho...ug-ins/Plug-in_Pack.rar
Galifray reviewed v1.26 on Sep 9, 2008
Despite the claim of the program's writer that EvilPlayer can play FLAC files, I have never been able to play them with any version of the program. Nor can I complain of this to the author as his forum uses a service that blocks all communication from the ISP range that my computer uses. In addition, the constant need to re-right click the window to access options is very annoying if I want to change multiple settings.
MuchMusic reviewed v1.25 on Sep 1, 2008
for me, evil player's RAM usage is always less than a 2 digit number
The Seeker 11 reviewed v1.25 on Aug 25, 2008
I use foobar2000 yet I have compared this with other lightweight players (1by1, Billy etc) and this uses by far the least amount of RAM. Perfect for someone looking for a no frills player.
MuchMusic reviewed v1.24 on Jul 18, 2008
Takes 2 times less RAM usage than windows media player 11, Recommended for music listeners gamers.
Mystenes reviewed v1.24 on Jun 16, 2008
Music player is for listnening music, not for having beautifull gui. If You need only a player, small and fast, this is for You.
It's small, easy to setup and fast player.
vincent326 reviewed v1.22 on Nov 12, 2007
Well I just donot know how your computer worked because musiccube works fun with my laptop and I never saw 130mb memory eaten by any program.
But Evil Player runs faster is a truth
I changed the theme to match the windowblinds theme Malice 2XG. Someone interested can find it our here
http://vincent326.devian...lice-2XG-Theme-71336221
tannenwheel reviewed v1.20 on Apr 23, 2007
you folks should consider the fact that the memory usage of a player depends on the database of musicfiles (and filetags).
that's if u add some files.
add some files and the slikest player (eg foobar) will use 40 mb or more (how much files do you have?)
lets assume we have 23000 files.
adding them to the database of foobar or musiccube takes an eternity, depending on disk speed.
adding them to evilplayer is faster.
(starting foobar or musicube with a given database is fairly fast, just as starting evilplayer with a playlist)
evilplayer now uses 15 MB ram.
foobar uses about 40 MB
musiccube now uses 130 mb and still only 50% files have been added and i am not wating 30 minutes till that monster is done eating my ram
ctrl alt del on this one. i know that may have led me to predjudice but that could not change my point much.
i use foobar and when i want to save resources i use 1by1 player.
if u added all your files to evilplayer you would want to navigate with the search feature. but activating search just doubles the memory usage of evilplayer. now it is 30 mb. not good. (memory usage it is changing all the time). and the search is verry unresponsive.
so 1by1 allows for descent navigation (given a structured filesystem) without memory use worth mentioning.
porterboy55 reviewed v1.18 on Jan 14, 2007
this program uses less resources compaired to the bigger media players i.e. itunes wmp and even winamp
however it uses WAY more then the 2.5meg of ram that musikcube http://www.musikcube.com/ uses
second it is flat out ugly musikcube has a beautiful gui and it very easy to use no to mention it is really fast check it out
use it help develop it its the best
cees2000 reviewed v1.17 on Nov 20, 2006
useless program, ugly too.
I prefer AudioActive Player. Lean player!
JEdwardP reviewed v1.16 on Nov 5, 2006
It deserves points for size, memory usage, and the number of formats it supports via plug-ins. Lack of tag support for any format absolutely kills it for me though.
The Seeker 11 reviewed v1.16 on Nov 4, 2006
@gaijin1
The ID3 tag issue is intentional. From the website FAQ:
Q: Does it support ID3 tags?
A: NO! And it will never be supported.
gaijin1 reviewed v1.16 on Nov 3, 2006
I think it is a nice and fast player, but one thing: I can´t see the id3 tag for the songs. It's not like winamp (with one click and you see the info), but it's better anyways.
boaz reviewed v1.15 on Oct 2, 2006
Cheap & dirty mp3 player. Small, simple, light weight, and works.
agapecpus reviewed v1.14 on Sep 8, 2006
I am impressed with this little program. The memory useage is really low 2.5-3 meg open 1.5-2 meg minimized. I think the only draw back is no volume bar but there is simple shortcuts that you would pick up easy enough. Although my defalut player will still be VUPlayer, which uses a extra meg of memory the added functionality it has is worth it. For a minimist audio player it still gets a 5.
bobad reviewed v1.13 on Jul 31, 2006
Excellent! The last 2 or 3 changes have brought Evil Player up from an average player to near perfection! You can defeat the silly install program by simply extracting the EXE with 7-Zip or WinRAR.
mystix reviewed v1.13 on Jul 31, 2006
Nice player only takes up about 1.2mb to play my songs much better then that bloated winamp.
emupaul reviewed v1.11 on May 17, 2006
Great player not for everyone though.
Metshrine reviewed v1.11 on May 17, 2006
Great player, but please label it as an AUDIO PLAYER as opposed to a MEDIA PLAYER. Media would imply that it plays videos as well as other types of MEDIA.
dejavu reviewed v1.09 on Mar 1, 2006
Excellent!!
tannenwheel reviewed v1.09 on Mar 1, 2006
yes, the formerly insane pause resume behavior is improved now (no need to select the playing song).
the installer could be improved. it does not know the directory of a previous version and it overwrites the settings.ini file. (deleted my color sheme).
bobad reviewed v1.08 on Feb 20, 2006
Excellent player, excellent update!
tannenwheel reviewed v1.08 on Feb 19, 2006
this one is incredibly evil!!! love it.
i use foobar for my archive, and billy (sheepfriends.com) for spreaded directories and special occasions, and this evil one is a pefect supplement for my little collection.
the gui is perfectly usable with keyboard.
if u want to change the colors, have a look in the inifile.
bobad reviewed v1.07 on Feb 4, 2006
Nice, simple, useful media player. I was looking forward to this release, but am disappointed. All it needs to be perfect is a configuration option to associate it with all supported music files, and an option to auto play. You must manually associate music files with Evil Player, click on an MP3 or MOD file to open the program, then double click AGAIN on the play list to make the darn file start playing. DUH??? All that waiting for nothing. Fooey. I'm switching back to Billy.
-peDro- reviewed v1.04 on Jul 1, 2005
adamlau: distributin' with Windows Media components would break Microsoft's EULA or not?
adamlau reviewed v1.00 on Apr 18, 2005
Is not true stand-alone player as it is dependant upon pre-installed system files such WMVCore.DLL. Those of us who have stripped our systems of WMP will need to obtain the appropriate decoders. Small 673KB installation footprint.