Fraunhofer IIS MP3 Surround Player

Fraunhofer IIS MP3 Surround Player is a small audio player designed specifically for helping you listen to MP3 Surround files and create playlists. The program focuses on delivering high-quality audio output and comes with support for any surround configuration, including 5.1.
It can be installed on all Windows versions out there. You should have DirectX 9 or a higher version deployed on the target computer in order to make use of its audio capabilities.

Clean feature lineup

The tool sports an intuitive layout that allows you to set up the dedicated parameters in a short amount of time. A help manual is not included in the package but you can configure the setup options on your own because they look easy to digest.
Audio files can be added in the working environment using the built-in browse button or drag-and-drop support. The playlist display can be shown or hidden in/from the main window.

Audio playback features

Fraunhofer IIS MP3 Surround Player gives you the possibility to create a list with your favorite audio files. In addition, you are allowed to add the content of an entire folder, open audio streams via a custom URL, as well as load playlists from M3U file format.
Playlists can also be exported to M3U file format. Basic playback controls are embedded in the main window for helping you play, pause, or stop the current audio selection, seek for a position in the audio streams, and adjust the volume.
The application lets you choose between three different audio profiles, namely 5.1 surround channel, mp3D headphone stereo, and MP3 stereo.
Other important features worth being mentioned enable you to remove all items from the playlist, jump to the next or previous song in the playlist, check out details about the track number, track duration, audio profile, bitrate, and sampling frequency, attenuate LFE by 10dB, set up the stereo mode (True, Balanced, or Rich), configure the surround mode, as well as specify the initial audio profile used at startup, namely MP3 Surround, mp3D, stereo, or the last used mode.
Tests have shown that Fraunhofer IIS MP3 Surround Player carries out a task quickly and offers very good output results. It is not a resource hog so you can keep it running in the background without worrying that it eats up CPU and memory resources.

Final remarks

All in all, Fraunhofer IIS MP3 Surround Player comes packed with several handy functions for helping you boost MP3 audio quality, and can be configured by rookies and professionals alike.