XFSWare MiniMP3 Player

The MiniMP3 Player was my pet project for a fair number of years. While working at PC World, I had obtained a copy of Borland Delphi 2, and had created the MiniCD Player. This was a CD player that's interface used only the system tray, and a 100x16 pixel icon box that hovered at the top right of the screen, over the title bar of the application, to the left of the minimize/maximize/close buttons.

I showed the MiniCD Player to Andy at PC World, who immediately chirped up with "can you make an MP3 version"?. At the time, MP3 usage was only just getting started, so I decided to take on the challenge. Within a week later, the first carnation of the MiniMP3 Player was released, Andy was happy, and I had a new obsession.

The more I used the MiniMP3 Player, the more features I wanted it to have. It went through 3 versions, from a simple single UI to multiple view modes with strong playlist support, but kept it's main feature, being able to be controlled from the system tray icon.

Towards the end of XFSWare's life, I'd started working on version 4 of the player. This brought many improvements as well as skin support. The 4th version never got officially finished, but is available for download. It is in an alpha state, and has essentially been abandoned, but it does do the job.

Screen Shots

MiniMP3 Player IVTree SkinLCARS Skin

Download

I no longer have any of the previous versions of the MiniMP3 Player. Version 4 is mostly complete, it will display a "alpha quality" warning when loaded, other than that pretty much everything works, but it hasn't been thoroughly tested, so you may find bugs.

minimp3v4.zip (640 KB)

Honourable Mentions

Although the MiniMP3 Player is no more, the people below were invaluable during it's lifetime, and I feel deserve a mention: