MP3 Player - Billy

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Ben A Gozar

Hello,

Was lost on the net the other night and came across a very small MP3 player
called Billy from www.sheepfriends.com.

It is a no frills player 663K exe download file and uses a little less than
1/3 of the memory Winamp 2.8x does on my system. Keyboard controls, sounds
good too.

Thought some of you might want to take a look at it. Standard disclaimers
apply - I don't have anything to do with the program.
 
Was lost on the net the other night and came across a very small MP3
player called Billy from www.sheepfriends.com.

It is a no frills player 663K exe download file and uses a little less
than 1/3 of the memory Winamp 2.8x does on my system. Keyboard
controls, sounds good too.
Click to expand...

Billy is my absolute number one mp3-player. Available as install and as mo-
install that stores it's settings in an ini-file.
The 1.4beta on the forum has some additional features and is rock-stable,
love it.
 
Hello,

Was lost on the net the other night and came across a very small MP3 player
called Billy from www.sheepfriends.com.

It is a no frills player 663K exe download file and uses a little less than
1/3 of the memory Winamp 2.8x does on my system. Keyboard controls, sounds
good too.

Thought some of you might want to take a look at it. Standard disclaimers
apply - I don't have anything to do with the program.
Click to expand...

Nice! I really like it. Clean, small memory footprint.

You should take a look at XM Player. Way smaller than Billy, skins
(optional) more features, streaming, plays MOD, S3M, XM, Etc.

http://www.un4seen.com/

-- Bob
 
If it's better than this one: http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html
I fail to see how.
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Ouch, that thing hurt my eyes again ;)
Seriously, Billy is very simple, and some things have been left out on
purpose (speed and low resource usage), no equalizer (pure sound, and my
stereo has an equalizer), no id-tags (name your files porperly), no skins.
(it's looks can be configured through an .ini-file).
I just love it simple looks.
It does have the features I need, shuffle, playlist support, add folder
(with or without subfolders), queue as much songs as you want, search-as-
you-type, can play ogg and internet streaming, and the ability to set
global hotkeys.
It uses less resources on my system than for instance Winamp 2 and XM-play.
I tried them dozens of mp3-players, and for me Billy is the clear winner.
If your have need for skins, tag-support and other features than Billy is
no good.
And in that case XMPlay is a very good player.
 
Ben said:
Hello,

Was lost on the net the other night and came across a very small MP3
player called Billy from www.sheepfriends.com.

It is a no frills player 663K exe download file and uses a little
less than 1/3 of the memory Winamp 2.8x does on my system. Keyboard
controls, sounds good too.
Click to expand...

You like little? 1 by 1, no install, 58 KB. Including a built in
compressor and stereo enhancer.
http://www.mpesch3.de/


--
dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.05...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
 
Rod said:
Ouch, that thing hurt my eyes again ;)
Seriously, Billy is very simple, and some things have been left
out on purpose (speed and low resource usage), no equalizer (pure
sound, and my stereo has an equalizer), no id-tags (name your
files porperly), no skins. (it's looks can be configured through
an .ini-file). I just love it simple looks.
It does have the features I need, shuffle, playlist support, add
folder (with or without subfolders), queue as much songs as you
want, search-as- you-type, can play ogg and internet streaming,
and the ability to set global hotkeys.
It uses less resources on my system than for instance Winamp 2 and
XM-play. I tried them dozens of mp3-players, and for me Billy is
the clear winner. If your have need for skins, tag-support and
other features than Billy is no good.
And in that case XMPlay is a very good player.
Click to expand...
Just fyi, I downloaded it and played an mp3 file with it. Avg. CPU
usage was 14%. Then played the same mp3 file with XMPlay with same
conditions. Avg. CPU usage was 8%. Also, total size of Billy folder
is 804k. Total size of XMPlay folder including 4 plugins and 3 skins
is 683k.

If you want a simple interface, then XP Windowshade for XMPlay is
about as simple as it gets.
 
Just fyi, I downloaded it and played an mp3 file with it. Avg. CPU
usage was 14%. Then played the same mp3 file with XMPlay with same
conditions. Avg. CPU usage was 8%. Also, total size of Billy folder
is 804k. Total size of XMPlay folder including 4 plugins and 3 skins
is 683k.

If you want a simple interface, then XP Windowshade for XMPlay is
about as simple as it gets.
Click to expand...

Could be the OS, as I got different resource-readings (win98SE).
I do like my apps small, but for I'm forgiving Billy the extra Kb's (my
folder for the 1.4beta is even 938 kb to be honest).
XMplay wrote in my registry, which I don't like, Billy doesn't.
Long story short:I'm sticking with Billy and you're probably sticking with
XMplay.
De gustibus non est disputandum.
Thanks for your comments, much appreciated.
 
Ouch, that thing hurt my eyes again ;)
Seriously, Billy is very simple, and some things have been left out on
purpose (speed and low resource usage), no equalizer (pure sound, and my
stereo has an equalizer), no id-tags (name your files porperly), no skins.
(it's looks can be configured through an .ini-file).
I just love it simple looks.
It does have the features I need, shuffle, playlist support, add folder
(with or without subfolders), queue as much songs as you want, search-as-
you-type, can play ogg and internet streaming, and the ability to set
global hotkeys.
It uses less resources on my system than for instance Winamp 2 and XM-play.
I tried them dozens of mp3-players, and for me Billy is the clear winner.
If your have need for skins, tag-support and other features than Billy is
no good.
And in that case XMPlay is a very good player.
Click to expand...

OK, here's the scoop. Playing 3 Doors Down Kryptonite, .5 Sec quiet lead-in:

(Alphacabetical order)

~1by1~

Folder size: 79K
Mem footprint: 5.516K
Open: ~1sec
Sound: Clean
Good: Tiny folder size, fast, folder view grows on you
Bad: Butt-ugly
Grin factor X/10: :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

~Billy ~

Folder size: 911K
Mem footprint 3.864K
Open: ~1sec
Sound: Clean
Good: Clean system icons for MP3, small Mem footprint
Bad: Folder size surprisingly large, no cup holder
Grin factor X/10: :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)


~WMP 9~

Folder size: 3.08MB
Mem footprint: 22.024K
Open: ~2sec
Sound: Clean, rich bass
Good: Sounds good
Bad: Loads slowly, huge folder, Mem footprint, what's all that other stuff?
Grin factor X/10 :(

~XMPlay~

Folder size: 508K
Mem footprint: 8.016K
Open: ~4sec
Sound: Clean, rich bass
Good: Very flexible config, plays many sound files
Bad: Loads very slowly, ugly system icons for MP3
Grin factor X/10: :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)


Like I said, XMPlay is the clear winner. ;)

-- Bob
 
dadiOH said:
You like little? 1 by 1, no install, 58 KB. Including a built in
compressor and stereo enhancer.
http://www.mpesch3.de/
Click to expand...

Seconded. This program is outstanding : small footprint, no frills,
reactive and very kind author, a software dedicated to music
listening and not equalizer watching ;-)
 
If it's better than this one: http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html
I fail to see how.
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there were many reasons i liked xmplay. however, i quit using it
because it would crap out if it encountered a file with any errors.
winamp (classic - ~2.9x) handles them much better by just playing them
without crapping out.

if xmplay ever fixes this issue, i'll go back to it in a heartbeat!
 
Like I said, XMPlay is the clear winner. ;)
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Unless you try Foobar with kernel streaming enabled. ;-)~
I use an older version of Foobar+FooLooks(v0.7.6).
Newer Foobars are ugly IMNSHO.

regards

Dud
 
Bob Adkins stated:
OK, here's the scoop. Playing 3 Doors Down Kryptonite, .5 Sec quiet lead-in:
Click to expand...
[... MP3 player comparation...]

My favorite audio player is still Winamp 2.8.

[]s
--
Chaos Master®, posting from Canoas, Brazil - 29.55° S / 51.11° W

"People told me I can't dress like a fairy.
I say, I'm in a rock band and I can do what the hell I want!"
-- Amy Lee
 
Well really folks, it is a good thing no one has any strong opinions.
Personally I have used Winamp for years, it did everything I needed.

I came across Billy and thought it was a good little program and someone
may want to know about it. I find it kind of easy and simple too. Works for
me, though the sound is a little different than Winamp, probably because of
DSP changes.

It looks like if anyone does a search for players they will find a good
thread. lol
 
Rod said:
Billy is my absolute number one mp3-player. Available as install and as mo-
install that stores it's settings in an ini-file.
The 1.4beta on the forum has some additional features and is rock-stable,
love it.
Click to expand...
You provided a very good review on Billy.
I looked on the forum for ver. 1.4B, saw your post, where is 1.4B?

I use IzArc, so it unzips rar files fine.

Thanks,

Mike Sa
 
Bob Adkins stated:
OK, here's the scoop. Playing 3 Doors Down Kryptonite, .5 Sec quiet lead-in:
Click to expand...
[... MP3 player comparation...]

My favorite audio player is still Winamp 2.8.
Click to expand...

Gave up on WnAmp. I refuse to use anything I must use a magnifying glass to
find it. 8)

-- Bob
 
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