About:
Zinf is an MP3/Vorbis/CD audio player with jukebox capabilities, formerly known as FreeAmp. It features both graphical (with themes) and text-based user interfaces, a download manager for automating MP3 downloads, and a powerful music browser/playlist manager. Other features include HTTP/RTP streaming playback with HTTP stream saving and title streaming, and a fast, clean-sounding Open Source decoding engine. It supports Win32/OSS sound systems, ALSA, and EsounD.

Author:
Mayhem & Chaos Coordinator [contact developer]

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7.77/10.00 (21 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.zinf.org
Tar/GZ:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/zinf/zinf-2.2.5.tar.gz?download
Changelog:
http://www.zinf.org/ChangeLog.html
RPM package:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/zinf/zinf-2.2.5-1.i386.rpm?download
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://zinf.cvs.sourceforge.net/
Mirror site:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/zinf/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications :: GTK
[Intended Audience]		Developers, End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		Microsoft :: Windows :: Windows 95/98/ME, Microsoft :: Windows :: Windows NT/2000/XP, POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		C++
[Topic]		Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Playing, Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players, Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.2.5	15-Feb-2004	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Articles referencing this project

• Debian: New freeamp packages fix arbitrary code execution
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Mon, Nov 8th 2004 11:35
  

 Comments

[»] Doesn't meet my expectations.
by Laurent Pichler - Jan 3rd 2004 03:14:30

Yet another mp3 player that focuses on being a "media center for the desktop" which I don't need instead of a hassle-free mp3 player which can be intuitively used to play large mp3 collections. Doesn't even support m3u playlists.
Kind of reminds me of Windows media player.

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[»] Re: Doesn't meet my expectations.
by Unkown - Jul 28th 2004 23:53:02

The last post is quite confusing to me. Since all of my m3u play lists are created in Zinf. M3u is its default method of saving playlists in Zinf it also has support for pls, gqmpeg playlist formats. Zinf (free amp it was called at the time) actually allowed me to organise my mp3 collection. It maybe a "media desktop" but whats an alternative? Winamp ...... Which is now exaclty the same if not worse ? Pros; Great for listening to webstreams one of the best actually, low memory and cpu usage, no bloatware, great mp3 player, multiplatform. Cons;Stops playing when using some heavy ms-dos programs actually most mp3 players do this it doesn’t crash the program just jitters this occurs only on winnt based systems. Can be fixed easy, When searching for large amounts of mp3s using the media search wizard zinf sometimes crashes its probably best to add a new play list and add files or the directory manually and finally playing CD’s is quite an annoying process, no winamp plugin support so what.

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