New: XMPlay Portable 3.6 (audio player and library) Released

Submitted by prapper on January 24, 2011 - 6:22pm

logoXMPlay Portable 3.6 has been released. XMPlay is a full-featured audio player and portable audio library with support for dozens of audio formats. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. It's freeware for personal and business use.

Read on for more details...

XMPlay is packaged for portable use with permission from unforeseen developments

PortableApps.com Platform 2.0 Beta 5 users who already have this app installed, simply click 'Check for Updates' in your PA.c Menu to update to the latest version.

Features

Screenshot XMPlay is an audio player, supporting the OGG / MP3 / MP2 / MP1 / WMA / WAV / AIFF / CDA / MO3 / IT / XM / S3M / MTM / MOD / UMX audio formats, and PLS / M3U / ASX / WAX playlists. A load more formats are also supported via plugins. It's accurate, has multichannel output, has gapless playback, includes a full audio library and supports a number of visualizations and additional skins.

Learn more about XMPlay...

PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format

XMPlay Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.

Download

XMPlay Portable is available for immediate download from the XMPlay Portable homepage. Get it today!

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John T. Haller's picture

Thanks for your work on this Vic. I updated your launcher to avoid incorrect partial path replacement.

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Comodo Antivirus says this is a malicious item and wont install.

Name: Heur.Packed.Unknown@1

I'd really like to get this portable version, please fix.

John T. Haller's picture

You sure? I just checked on VirusTotal.com and everything (including Comodo) came up clean.

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Thanks for the report, but there's nothing wrong with the file you downloaded and/or tried to install.

The problem is with your Comodo Anti-virus. You need to tell it that the XMPlay file is OK.

If you don't want to do that, you need to complain to Comodo so they can fix their program and then you will have to wait for an updated virus definitions file to be created.

neutron1132 (at) usa (dot) com

John T. Haller's picture

You'll see that it's just a Comodo issue. And they have the same issue with the standard and PortableApps.com version of the app. Heur.Packed.Unknown means its Comodo's 'heuristic' scanner finding the issue, not the standard Comodo antivirus scanner that scans for actual viruses, malware, etc. Heuristic is a fancy name for "this isn't a known virus by any stretch of the imagination so let's flip a coin on whether this file should be flagged as something."

Seriously, though, in general, heuristic scanners find all sorts of false positives in all kinds of apps and are terrible in terms of reliability. You just ran into one instance of it from Comodo. This should be reported to Comodo as a false positive. From past experience, they should fix their mistake within a couple days.

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John T. Haller's picture

There isn't one. Just place your skins in the XMPlayPortable\App\XMPlay directory. Don't worry, they'll be preserved on upgrades.

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John T. Haller's picture

These both work just like the local version when you download the zip. Just stick everything in the same directory.

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Darkbee's picture

Yay, my favorite MP3/Audio player of all time! Lightweight and sounds great (the best that I've ever heard, even better than Winamp).

Thanks PortableApps dev team.

P.S. Who do I see about getting a PortableApps skin? Wink

John T. Haller's picture

For the curious, while XMPlay is available directly as a zipped download, it is not actually a portable app. The default playlist and library will fail as you move PCs (because they will still be pointing to files on the drive letter you had on the last PC).

XMPlay Portable (what you can download above) fixes both of these issues for you and will continue to work as you move between PCs.

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tgrantt's picture

Can programs like this use drive NAMES? I keep all my audio on a USB HDD that I carry with me (also on my desktop HDD, but that's not important now)and it would be cool if the program could find my library even if the drive letter changed.

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John T. Haller's picture

I was referring to the zipped XMPlay (available directly from the publisher). XMPlay Portable (available here) *DOES* work fine as you move around between PCs and your drive letter changes, as do all our other apps.

Almost no programs use drive names. That's why we make portable launchers.

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tgrantt's picture

that's what I thought.

And we are glad you do! (make portable launchers)

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Hi

Can you monitor relative directories or named external drives? I need XMPlayer to be able to check either a named drive or to a relative directory underneath etc?

B

John T. Haller's picture

It's in the options. I'd suggest just trying it out.

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