Evil Player: Light weight audio player for Windows

by Brad Linder Jul 14th 2008

Free media players for Windows are a dime a dozen these days. Or umm, no dimes, because they're free. But while some media players try to set themselves apart from the crowd by piling on the features, Evil Player goes the opposite route. This media player has the simplest interface we've ever seen. Yet it still has most of the features you could need including support for streaming audio, global hotkeys, and playlists.

What Evil Player doesn't include is a flashy player window. There aren't even dedicated play, pause, stop, forward or rewind buttons. To access most features you either need to right-click on the player window or on the system tray icon.

You have a choice of installing Evil Player or downloading an installation-free file which you can run from any directory or load onto a flash drive. Our favorite not-quite hidden feature? When you install the application one of the language packs you can choose is called "Elmer Fudd." We'll let you figure out what it does.

[via The Portable Freeware Collection]

Tags: evil-player, media-player, music, portable

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

alstki said 1:11PM on 7-14-2008

Simpler and lighter-weight than Billy from Sheep Friends? There's virtually nothing to it.

When you have a choice between a player named Billy and one named Evil...well you see what I mean.

BradTaylor said 1:56PM on 7-14-2008

I've used this for some time, found it from the same site, The Portable Freeware Collection. I chose this one because I was looking for the smallest (Mem usage) functional mp3 player for a slower PC, and this worked great.

However, eventually I changed over to BBox, which is still quite small, but has a bit more functionality (including a task bar player which is a big plus for me)

Raja said 8:43PM on 10-03-2008

how about xmplay ? i love it its small and does the job

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