MooSick

Load an audio track into MooSick and it will play it to you – that is the main bit of functionality this free Philipp Ruppel-developed application has to offer. There are, of course, various other features you can enjoy: create and manage an audio database, web search, increase/decrease playback speed, effects, and so on.

Download an 11MB executable, run it, and then click through the onscreen instructions presented by a setup wizard – these are the steps you must go through to get MooSick up and running on your Windows-powered machine. It is a standard setup procedure that will, in all fairness, take little time and effort.

A list of songs selected for playback takes up the main part of the interface. Above this list there’s a toolbar with buttons for adding new songs, removing existing songs, adding a directory, and more. Below the list you will see the playback controls: play button, volume slider, audio effects, speed slider. If you’ve used a music player before, you should have no problems figuring out the interface.

From a functionality point of view, MooSick offers the following features: load and play songs, manage a database of songs, search function to easily locate a song, web search, streaming, playback speed control, audio filters, metadata extraction, system tray notifications. All this functionality is provided for the great price of free (the application is released under a GNU General Public License).

Go get MooSick if you need a free and easy to use music player.