Portable Cool Player

Portable Cool Player is a small Windows audio player designed specifically for helping you listen to songs, create playlists, and make use of keyboard shortcuts for fast actions.

Store it on portable devices

This is the portable version of Cool Player, which makes it the perfect candidate for being stored on USB flash drives or other portable devices. Gaining access to its GUI requires only opening the executable file. You may uninstall it via a simple deletion task, as it leaves no traces in your Windows registry.

GUI similar to Winamp’s layout

Portable Cool Player sports a minimalist layout that reminds of Winamp’s looks. A help manual is not included in the package but you can rely on tooltips for viewing short descriptions about the program’s functions. They are shown each time you hover your mouse cursor over a target parameter.

Audio playback controls

You are allowed to import various audio formats, namely MP1, MP2, MP3, OGG, M3U, PLS, and WAV. In addition, the application is able to stream audio data from custom URLs, provided that the file formats are MP3, OGG, or M3U.
Audio playback controls are implemented for helping you play, pause, or stop the current audio selection, as well as go to the next or previous song in the playlist.
What’s more, the application lets you repeats songs, show or hide the playlist, adjust the volume, and tweak the sound with the built-in equalizer.

Playlist management features

Portable Cool Player gives you the possibility to keep track of your favorite songs with the aid of playlists, which can be exported to M3U or PLS file format. In addition, you may add the content of an entire directory, clear the entire playlist with a single click, rename files, as well as shuffle tracks.
Tests have shown that the utility loads songs quickly and offers very good output quality. It remains light on system resources so the overall performance of the computer is not affected.

Configuration settings

You can make the app remain on top of other windows, scroll song title, eliminate duplicate files from the playlist, automatically turn on the playing mode at startup, allow multiple instances, and show remaining time.
In addition, you can read ID3 tags, remember playlist content, remember the last played item, register file types, add shortcuts to the Start menu, set a track delay in seconds, adjust the output device, as well as change the looks of the audio player by importing Winamp skins. There’s also support for preset hotkeys which can used for controlling the player.

Final remarks

All things considered, if you are a fan of Winamp’s design and look for minimalist layout and handy audio playback controls, you can give Portable Cool Player a try and see what it can do for you.