Reviews of Spider

1. 
   urlwolf

   Reviewing 2.3.9.5 (Jan 24, 2009)

   Well, feature-wise it's obviously not at the level of Mediamonkey (MM) or Winamp (i.e., currently it has no library, no last.fm support etc). But, for some reason I cannot fathom, it sounds better to ME. It's also very light in memory usage, and keyboard-friendly; that's all I need for now. I drag form MM library to this, then close MM because I cannot afford the memory it takes.
   
   Great program. We should all be proud that things like this get written.
   PS: I'd really like to know what it does to make it sound better than others!
2. 
   coover

   Reviewing 2.3.9.1 (Nov 17, 2008)

   Publiusher's page is down. Homepage is down. Download page is down.
   
   Still, the application is certainly one of the best of it's type.
   
   I assume whatever problems the Publisher is having will be fixed, hopefully soon, so I will continue to try to get the download.
   
   Spider is very, very good.
3. 
   petiot

   Reviewing 2.3.9 (Nov 5, 2008)

   well a 5 partially because it pisses me off to see people writing "good but does not have this or this and I would like to see this bla bla". This player may not have all the features of all the music player altogether, but it has many that other don't. To start with it is portable, and i wish more developers would make their apps portable. It is a prehistoric approach to coding to write all over C and in the registry.
   
   Apart from this, the player is nicely thought, and nicely implemented. You don't like the default skin, choose the second on installed. At least the developer had the taste of putting two skins with different graphic feel to them. you dont like the color, change the hue setting and you get any color you want. Then the radio feature works flawlessly. Favorite is simple but very usable. Format conversion and CD ripping is nice in the pro version (you can rip to flac). it displays audio quality where it should be: in the main GUI, it has a ten band equalizer etc etc. I didn't even start using all the features of this player yet.
   
   What I would like to see (or to know how to do) is to be able to display track data in the playlist (like album, kbps, etc).
   
   Thanks and keep up with the excellent work!
4. 
   improvelence

   Reviewing 2.3.9 (Nov 4, 2008)

   DudeBoyz is really on this programs johnson. This thing is not very likeable. Plays songs but I see no advantage to this over other players. Default interface is ugly.
5. 
   DudeBoyz

   Reviewing 2.3.9 (Nov 4, 2008)

   Improv - There's no need to make your comments personal, you know?
   
   That said, you have heard about SKINS, right? You know you can change them, right? And, if I was a total fanboy, I'd give it a 5 instead of a 4. But one very cool feature - you know about the Global vs Local keyboard assignments, right? I can control this app from inside of my Rise Of The Witch King and Tiberium Wars sessions. It has a much smaller footprint (in every way) then Music Match 7.5, and that AquaUltraCompact skin makes it tiny enough to be unobtrusive on my desktop. And all this is about the FREE version. Plus, they have a free USB Thumb Drive version too. I only use it as a player - nothing else - and it's free and does a nice job.
   
   Anyway...
   Not much change to affect my daily use, but it's playing my audiobooks just fine and I'm glad that new updates do not break the skins (I hear that happens with some web browsers... ) heh.
   
   CHANGE LOG: Spider Player 2.3.9 (November 4, 2008)
   
   Improved:
   + Web Search button can now be turned off in the Options
   + some translations were updated
   
   Changes:
   * crossfading is now off by default
   
   Fixed:
   - http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1263
   - http://spider-player.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1285
   - crash when backward search button was pressed with no
   search text entered and no playlist items selected
   
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   Spider Player 2.3.8 (October 25, 2008)
   
   New:
   + Backward search in the playlist
   
   Improved:
   + Radio directory:
   * hints for truncated lines
   * user is now notified, when Shoutcast service is temporarily
   unavailable
   
   Fixed:
   - Metadata editor didn't recognize UTF8 text in ID3v2 tags correctly

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