MP3 Grouppie

MP3 Grouppie is a lightweight software application that works as an Internet news reader and allows you to preview and download MP3 files.

User interface

The program doesn’t excel in the visual department as it looks quite plain and not particularly intuitive. When you run the utility for the first time, you are given the option to make use of the built-in wizard for determining your ISP’s news server, manually enter your news server settings, or find a public news server that you can use.
MP3 Grouppie offers information about the server, songs and newsgroup, as well as downloading details about the status, parts, line and size.

Main features

MP3 Grouppie gives you the possibility to refresh server counts, copy or delete data, perform searches, read all groups again, unsubscribe from the selected groups, subscribe to newsgroups, switch to a full screen mode, as well as show or hide downloadable messages.
What’s more, you can delete the selected message and job, stop all processes, clear the queue list, download, preview or play items, update the server counts, get new headers, restore previously queued jobs, resume the queue processing, use color to show available items, and enter the local article limit per newsgroup.
Last but not least, you can make the application get the new message headers at startup, choose the default saving directory, automatically play the preview at the end of the decoding process, choose the saving directory, prompt for location and filename, and add MP3 to a playlist.

Bottom line

To sum things up, MP3 Grouppie comes with a basic suite of settings integrated in a simple interface, and delivers a straightforward method for downloading MP3 files from your local news server.