• Musik Cube

    Musik Cube

    Punit Lodaya, Dec 10, 2006 1800 hrs IST

    Your search for a player, which integrates the best of all your audio needs is here; it's Musik Cube 1.0.'

    Clean interface, Requires low resources, Highly customizable UI

    Daunting play-list for newbies, Sound quality not upto Foobar

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The main focus of the window is the play list. By default, it occupies around 70% of the total area of the player. The command buttons are grouped together at the left corner of the windows along with the seekbar and volume control on the lower side of the player.

The memory usage of this player was very low, with consuming a total of 10MB of physical and virtual memory. This makes the player very lightweight and good enough even for older PCs running Windows XP and having memory less than 256 MB.

The most impressive part of this player was the Equalizer or EQ in short. By default, the EQ has 6 bands of frequency covering from 55 Hz to 19.9 KHz. Adjusting them will create a liner pattern to the in-between frequency. For an audiophile, the number of bands can be increased up to 18.

The player also has plug-ins support.


By default it comes with two plug-ins. One of them is a mini-player plug-in, which makes the player into a small size, consisting only of command buttons and seekbar. The other plug-in is a rather useful one. It is Winamp-Emulation plug-in, which makes a lot of winamp plug-ins work with it. We did not have a chance to test this feature in detail, but we will do so in future. Musik Cube also gives option to connect to online radios.


Musik Cube also supports dynamic play list, which updates itself over the time. The dynamic play lists will give you data on a vast type of items such as the 50 last played songs, 50 newest, 10 most played, favorite artist/song/album, etc. As I guess you expected, you can easily rate your favorite songs so others can find out your preferences and so on.


When a song starts to play, it displays a balloon tip on the taskbar with the name of the artist and song title. Pretty neat, ain't it? There are lots of small and finer details about the player which I have not mentioned here. It is highly recommended to download this player and give it a try. This is one hell of a player which can pose serious competition to the best in this realm.

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(8) Comments
insanity
,mumbai, on Dec 11, 2006 12:26 AM
i think even windows media player 11 is better than this.... much more user friendly tat it made me remove all other music players from my comp
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Rudra Prasad Gu
,Mumbai, on Dec 12, 2006 03:08 PM
May be Windows Media Player 11 is good but it is not good at its counterparts like, internet radio or other applications using internet, moreover its new skins take very long time to open as they slow down the pc. Winamp is the best as it is user friendly and has huge range of applications in it and that too with a large number of hotkeys. It provides the bets sound quality as compared to any other player. And Winamp is never outdated with it's unlimited lot of skins; as their is no one to compete at its level. It's equiliser is just superb.
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Rudra Prasad Gu
,Mumbai, on Dec 12, 2006 03:00 PM
Is this player capable of making karaoke tracks, i.e. -1 tracks from a normal mp3 track?
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Pranay
,New Delhi, on Dec 11, 2006 11:12 AM
does this player have the feature of "enqueue after current"? Like in winamp.. on pressing 'q' , the song gets enqueued after the current song..
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goobimama
,goa, on Dec 10, 2006 09:25 PM
one word: fugly. Winamp still holds top position for me. May be a memory hog, but it looks good, plays well, and is amazingly simple to use.
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kowkow
,philli, on Dec 11, 2006 12:59 AM
absolutely. right on the money.
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Anonymous
,Anonymous, on Dec 11, 2006 10:16 AM
Memory hog is an understatement considering the amount of RAM an average system has... Now even the basic config starts with atleast 512MB & most moving to 1 gig....
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kwidlake
,Mumbai, on Dec 11, 2006 10:07 AM
looks pretty nice & clean. But, is there a key like "J" in winamp?
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