Player window

It is used to carry out a set of advanced operations.

To open the Player window, click the Show player button on the Player bar.

This window contains the following items:

Item	Purpose
Close button	Closes the Player window.
Time display and Visualization	Shows the frequency spectrum and playback time of the current track (you can use either the left mouse button or the popup menu to switch between the "remaining time" and the "elapsed time").
File info	Shows the title, artist, album and duration of the current track (selected in the popup menu) and other information.
Volume slider	Allows you to adjust the volume
Balance slider	Allows you to set the balance between the left and right speakers
Seek bar	Shows the position in the track that is playing now, allows you to start playing from a certain position
Control buttons	See the description above
Shuffle	Enables (disables) the random playback mode
Repeat	Enables (disables) the repeat playback mode
Audio settings button	Shows the Audio settings panel.
Audio settings panel: Equalizer tab	Here you can enable (disable) the graphic equalizer, adjust it the way you like or select one of the preset combinations. To use the equalizer, you must enable it. To do it, select the type of the equalizer to be used in the Player options dialog box.
Audio settings panel: Crossfading tab	Here you can specify crossfading settings.
Crossfading	Enables (disables) the crossfading effect when the player switches to the next track during the playback.
Crossfade overlap slider	Allows you to specify the time of overlapping during which the volumes of both tracks change together in opposite directions.
Crossfade advance slider	Allows you to specify the additional shift for the beginning of overlapping (the time overlapping starts = track duration - crossfade overlap - crossfade advance).
Continuous play	Enables (disables) the continuous playback mode.
Play overlap slider	Allows you to specify the duration of overlapping.
Smooth navigation	Enables (disables) the crossfading effect while navigating between tracks.
Navigation overlap slider	Allows you to specify the duration of overlapping during navigation.
Playlist	Contains the items of the current playlist.
Add files button	Opens the Open dialog box and adds the selected files to the current playlist.
Delete selected button	Removes the selected tracks from the current playlist.

When the player is playing a video file, the following items are also available:

Full screen button	Switches to the full-screen video mode.
Video settings button	Shows the video settings panel.
Video settings panel	Here you can set the brightness, contrast, saturation and hue for the current video file. This feature works only if your video card supports it.

The context menu of the playlist contains the following items:

Menu item	Purpose
Play selected	Starts playing the selected track.
Add files	Opens the Open dialog box and adds the selected files to the current playlist.
Delete selected	Removes the selected tracks from the current playlist.
Delete all	Clears the current playlist.
Remove duplicates	Removes duplicate tracks from the current playlist.
Sort	Sorts the current playlist by the selected file property (tracks that do not have the selected property are placed at the end of the list).
Save playlist	Saves the current playlist in the M3U or PLS format.
Allow duplicates	Allows (forbids) duplicate tracks to be added.
View: Show No, Show artist, Show album	Allows you to view (hide) information about tracks: their numbers, artists and albums respectively.
Refresh	Refreshes information about tracks.
Add to bookmarks	Adds the selected tracks to the list of bookmarks.
Properties	Opens the Properties dialog box for the selected file.

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Player window

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