Quintessential Media Player (formerly Quintessential Player) is all about you. With its freeform skinning and plentiful choices of plugins it can be as simple or feature rich as you like. It knows its place and won't try to take over your system. It is as user friendly as we can make it, but still hardcore enough for the pros.

Quintessential Player (a.k.a. QCD) is a feature rich media player for Microsoft Windows. It supports all popular audio formats including MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, and CDs. QCD is highly skinnable and has a robust plug-in architecture.

QCD performs CD Ripping and Encoding, streams Internet Radio, and can Clean and Tag all your audio files. QCD uses Gracenote for the best music recognition. QCD even plays videos. These great features are just scratching the surface.

QCD is Freeware. Free of cost and free of any bundled secrets.

Trying to escape giant corporate media players that exist only to sell you things?
Want a media player that is meticulously designed and implemented?
Need a media player that is fun and just sounds great?

Welcome to a place where two guys spend a crazy amount of time and energy making a player for no reason other than we want to. We are using it everyday to listen to our own music and that's enough reason for us to continue to improve it. We hope you will use it too. But do us a favour - tell your friends about it!

Features:

- Rip CDs or convert music into your favourite format

Insert your favourite music cd into your computer and click the record button to start ripping! You can also use the encoder to convert files to other digital formats. Select the files you want to convert and drag them into the encoder window or click the convert button on the playlist.

- Keep your music files clean with the track editor

The track editor allows you to edit single tracks or groups of tracks at the same time. It will also rename your physical files, import filename to use in tag and if your tags are still incomplete you can use the autotag feature which is powered by Gracenote CDDB.

- More control with Skin Layouts

Your way right away with Quintessential Player’s Skin Layouts.

If you like certain configurations of Quintessential Player, now you can save them and call on them whenever you please! Place the player anywhere on your screen with the desired extensions open and click ‘Save Current Layout’.

- Play the track you want with a click of the mouse

With Quintessential player's Quick Track feature you have your entire playlist at your fingers tips. Place your mouse over the track name or over the icon in the windows tray and right click to reveal your playlist. This feature is heavily customizable so you can get at the music you want with no delay!

- Organize the songs you'll hear with the Playlist Editor

One of the most powerful features in Quintessential player is the Playlist. Quickly organize what you want to hear by dragging, blocking, pruning or adding tracks to your playlists. Right clicking tracks on the playlist opens up more options to help you to organize your collection. Simply tell Quintessential Player where your playlists are stored and have your entire collection at hand.

- Save your desktop space when using the Remote

Get all the power of Quintessential Player but with 1/10th the desktop space. Using the new skinning engine the remote can stretch revealing as much information as you want to see.

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