JetAudio
is a
shareware
media player
application
for
Microsoft
Windows
and
Android
released in 1997,
[2]
that offers playback options for a wide range of
multimedia
file formats
.
JetAudio for Android is available as a free, “Basic” version and a paid “Plus” version, which removes advertising banners unsynchronized lyrics to the music.
[3]
JetAudio offers functions such as music and video playback,
metadata editing
,
CD
ripping
and
burning
,
data conversion
,
sound recording
, and
Internet radio
broadcasting
. It also includes numerous
sound effects
.
The commercial “Plus VX” version of the application includes unlocked sound enhancement
algorithms
and a wide range of file format support, as well as the ability to
transcode
more than 30 seconds of video files.
[4]
Interface
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JetAudio’s
user interface
is similar to earlier versions of
Winamp
in that it features separate windows for: playback, playlist and music library. Like Winamp, JetAudio can be minimized to a
toolbar
( “Windowshade Mode”) by pressing the “Toolbar Mode ON/OFF” button in the upper right portion of the Main Window.
The interface includes a 10-band spectrum visualization which doubles as an equalizer. Different implementations of this spectrum visualization can be found in the Main Window, the Media Center, the Video Window, the Lyrics Viewer and the External Spectrum Viewer.
Windows
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The JetAudio interface comprises the following windows:
- The Main Window
- The Media Center
- The Video Window
- The Lyrics Viewer
- The External Spectrum Viewer
Features
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File format support
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JetAudio supports all major audio and video
file formats
, including or audio:
MP3
,
AAC
,
FLAC
and
Ogg Vorbis
,
Monkey’s Audio
,
True Audio
,
Musepack
and
WavPack
For video it supports the following formats:
H.264
,
MPEG-4
,
MPEG-2
,
MPEG-1
,
WMV
and
Ogg Theora
.
Sound effects and enhancements
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JetAudio features a number of built-in
sound effects
, including:
Music visualization
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Like many other
media player applications
, JetAudio offers the option of displaying an animated
visualization
synchronized with music:
MilkDrop
, PixelTrip, Space and Synesthesia. Additional visualization plugins can be downloaded from external providers.
Lyric support
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JetAudio has the ability to display both synchronized and unsynchronized lyrics to the music. Lyrics are displayed in the dedicated Lyrics Viewer window, along with the album art of the file and optionally a spectrum visualization.
Plugins
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JetAudio supports most
Winamp
plug-ins
.
Other features
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JetAudio also offers the following additional features:
- bookmarking the current position in a song
- looping a section of a song
- a dropdown
on-screen display
with configurable content
- a configurable “sleep timer” to shut down the computer after a set period of playback.
JetAudio for Android
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On 24 May 2012
(
2012-05-24
)
, “JetAudio for
Android
,” mobile version was released.
[5]
Initially, the app included the same BBE sound effects found in the desktop version of JetAudio, but these were removed in version 1.0.2 on 8 June 2012
(
2012-06-08
)
.
[6]
History
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JetAudio was first released in July 1997.
[2]
JetAudio 4
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JetAudio 4’s graphical user interface was designed to look like a high-powered stereo rack and installed with an on-screen equalizer and remote control.
JetAudio 5
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JetAudio 5, released in 2002, saw a major overhaul of the entire user interface and added support for
skins
.
JetAudio 6
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JetAudio 6 was released in 2004.
JetAudio 7
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JetAudio 7 (now also known as Cowon Media Center) was the first version of JetAudio to include BBE
sound enhancement algorithms
. The
Consumers' Institute of New Zealand
evaluated the Basic version and remarked that it “doesn’t have a plug-in for Firefox compatibility”, but judged the range of video and audio file formats supported as “good”.
JetAudio 8
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JetAudio 8 is the first version of JetAudio to be fully compatible with Windows 7. Some of the new features in JetAudio 8 include:
- Conversion support for
FLV
and
MKV
files
- Enhanced skins
- DXVA subtitle support
- New file association method for Windows Vista and Windows 7
- PAL
/
NTSC
option for video conversion
JetAudio 8.1 Preview
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The JetAudio 8.1 Preview was released for download on the JetAudio Forums on 16 November 2011
(
2011-11-16
)
. New features introduced in the Preview include:
[7]
- Menus of MC/Playlist were changed
- Playcount column added in MC
- Convert Path : change path of files in media library/playlist (useful when move files to different drive/computer)
- Convert ID3 tag : change ID3 tag charset to unicode
- Modify file path when export to PLS/M3U
- List with Thumbnail mode for MC/Playlist
- Pause while converting audio
JetAudio for Android
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The
Android
version of JetAudio was released on 24 May 2012
(
2012-05-24
)
.
[3]
JetVideo
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On 2 May 2011
(
2011-05-02
)
, Cowon announced the release of JetVideo,
[8]
a
media player program
with features which partially overlap with those of JetAudio. Like JetAudio, it relies on external codecs (such as those included in the
K-Lite Codec Pack
) for some of its data decoding.
See also
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References
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External links
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