AMR Player

AMR Player is a lightweight software application designed to help you play AMR files and manage audio items with the aid of playlists.

Installation tweaks

During its installation process, the tool offers to download and install third-party programs that have nothing to do with its functionality.

Simple looks

The utility delivers a clean feature lineup. Although a help manual is not included in the package, you can decode the program’s features on your own, as they are highly intuitive. A few hints about keyboard shortcuts are revealed in the main window.
AMR files can be added in the player using the built-in browse button (you cannot rely on the drag-and-drop support).

Playback capabilities

AMR Player offers you the possibility to play or stop the current audio file, adjust the volume, and seek for a position in the audio streams. What’s more, you can make the primary panel remain on top of other windows.
AMR Player is able to show or hide a playlist in the GUI. You can save the playlist data to plain text file format, add or remove audio files to/from the playlist, clear the entire playlist with a single click, as well as perform searches.

Where it falls short

The application doesn’t come packed with advanced features for converting AMR files to other audio formats, such as MP3, so it sticks to playback capabilities. However, not even the playback capabilities are of great help.
We have tested AMR Player on Windows 8.1 Pro and come across some bugs. Several features don’t work properly (e.g. you cannot seek for a position in the audio streams). Errors caused audio files to stopped playing.
There are bunch of functions integrated within the program’s GUI that are not related to audio playing options, such as change ratio, take screenshots, view files frame-by-frame, and adjust movie subtitles. They are completely useless.

Bottom line

All in all, AMR Player doesn’t have a lot to offer when it comes to playing AMR files. It needs GUI improvements to get rid of unnecessary options and functionality enhancements.