Even if there are many programs to listen to music and audio files on Windows, not to mention also Windows Media Player and iTunes which remain the most used ever, you can always be interested in better alternatives. Some are better for the number of functions and because they make it easier to manage music tracks and tags, while others are preferred for the graphical interface, simple to use.
One of them is Stoffi Music Player, a relatively new open source program, only for Windows 7 (it also works in Windows 8), which wants to be simple but powerful at the same time.
Stoffi Music Player stands out for its particular graphical interface that looks perfectly identical to a Windows 7 window .
Opening Stoffi in fact opens a window with the same colors, scroll bars, buttons and menus of a Windows folder, only that instead of files there is the list of songs while on the right side you can navigate from a source to a 'else.
For each piece of music the artist, the album, the title of the piece, the year, the duration, the genre, and the number of times that song has been heard are indicated in the various columns.
You can sort the music tracks by clicking on the header of one of the columns and you can also move the columns or hide them.
The layout of Stoffi is fluid and flexible, with a navigation bar on the left whose width can be changed and a details pane, identical to the details pane of Windows Explorer.
Another really nice feature of Stoffi is that if used in Windows 7, when it is iconized, it integrates into the taskbar and allows you to control playback or pause it without having to open the program interface.
When listening to a music playlist, the title of the song appears for a few seconds at the bottom right.
In the top bar you can also configure the equalizer.
Stoffi Music Player supports several keyboard shortcuts, which can be the same as iTunes, Amarok, MusicBee, VLC, Foobar2000 and so on.
The choice of commands is in the program settings (Preferences key) in Keyboard shortcuts.
The only flaw is that the Italian language does not exist even though, being open source, it should only be a matter of time.
With Stoffi, in addition to listening to music saved on your PC, you can also hear music from Youtube, directly from the Player.
Unfortunately this feature does not allow you to listen to the most famous music because they are blocked.
If you are interested in integrating Youtube into a desktop program, you should use UMPlayer to watch videos on your computer.
The audio files supported by Stoffi are all the most common, including AAC, AC3, AIF, AIFF, FLAC, MP3, mp3PRO, mp4, ogg, WAV.
To download Stoffi, go to the program's web page .
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