Winplate3.5

Winplate is a Windows audio player whose purpose is to help you listen to your favorite songs, create playlists, and convert media files.

Poor implementation of GUI elements

The user interface looks crowded and confusing. You cannot clearly distinguish which are the buttons used for controlling the audio playback. The mouse cursor is changed when you work within the program’s GUI and its shape doesn’t help much when it comes to activating/disabling functions.

Audio playback features

Winplate gives you the possibility to play, pause or stop the current audio selection, jump to the next or previous song, adjust the volume, as well as tweak the sound with the aid of an equalizer.What’s more, you create a playlist where you can import the content of an entire folder, remove items from the list, and save playlists to WPL file format so you can import them in the future.

Tag editing and file conversions

Winplate helps you alter ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags and perform conversions between several media file formats, like AVI, WMV, FLV, MPG, DAT, VOB, WAV, and MP3. In addition, you are allowed to set up video parameters (e.g. codec, bitrate, frame rate, size) and audio options (codec, bitrate, samples and channels).

A few configuration settings

You can adjust the opacity of the main panel, play songs in a random order or activate the loop mode, show spectrum, turn on DSP effects (e.g. echo, flanger), make file associations, change the background picture or color of the playlist, and pick the video and audio renderer.

Bottom line

All things considered, Winplate comes packed with several noteworthy features for an audio player. On the downside, the GUI is not easy to work with, so it needs a facelift to make the audio playback process more intuitive.