ABBS Audio Media Player

After a long day’s work, maybe all you want to do is just relax with some good tunes on the radio. Or maybe you want to play a custom playlist from your computer, without going online. Needless to say that an application is required for this activity, and if you’re looking for something new and simple, ABBS Audio Media Player is worth a try.

Can be used on the go

The good thing is that you can carry it around on a USB flash drive along with some songs to listen on other computers as well. What’s more, the computer you use it on remains intact, because registries don’t need to be modified for this to work out.
Launching the application might not make the impression you’re expecting. The design uses a classic window frame to hold the set of features, with no visual elements to make it stand out from the crowd, expect for a small icon that gets animated during playback. Most of the space is the list of files you load and want to play.

Leaves more to be desired

There’s the possibility to load both files and existing playlists. However, you can’t just drag them over the main window, and the browse dialog can be frustrating to use, even if you can select more files. More frustration builds up when you notice that the only playlist format supported is LST, for both import and export.
When done, you can start playback at the press of a button, and stop it in the same manner. In case you decide to use the application on the long run, you can save the whole playlist. During playback, it can’t be controlled through hotkeys, and neither minimized to the system tray. However, it does become compact if not touched for a while, but playback buttons disappear.

A few last words

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that ABBS Audio Media Player leaves more to be desired, although it comes with the intention of being a straightforward audio player. The built-in playlist editor is poor, with disappointing formats supported for import, and different comfort and functionality controls that didn’t make the final cut.