Stefania.B  | 2008-02-24
Real player competes with Winamp and media Player and succeeds in outrunning them with cool features.
I’ve searched a replacement for Winamp and I’ve found real player. It’s much more that winamp, it’s similar to media player but much cooler. I just got bored of those two and now I am trying this one. I was amazed by its interface because it’s so easy to use and instead of loosing myself in searching an option I have them all right in my face. First I made my own playlist by opening my folders and then I looked and I saw you have the option to lay back and let real player search the music from your computer and create a list. You can choose which type of files, mp3, mpeg, wav and so on and also you can choose the folder, the disk you want it to search for you. A not so unusual think is that you can see videos with it but the feature that stunned me was that if I would go see some news on real player my movie would minimize into a little square and as still I was reading my news I could see the movie. Also for each track I get some news – fresh ones of course – about it and about the artist. It’s a tab there that constantly refreshes with news. And the fact I was worried about is that I couldn’t shuffle my playlist (like media player) but my worries didn’t materialize. Another cool feature that I haven’t found yet to any player is that with it I can burn cds. No need to struggle to install Nero or to stress myself to burn cds with Windows XP. Also if you get bored you can play some games, you can create a full library and other many cool stuff I am ready to discover..