JetAudio is a

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for

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and

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that offers advanced playback options for a wide range of

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s. Initially released in 1998, JetAudio is one of the oldest extant media players for the Windows platform. Apart from music and video playback, JetAudio offers functions such as metadata editing, CD ripping and burning,

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and

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. It also includes numerous

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s. The commercial “Plus VX” version of the application includes unlocked

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and a wider file format support, as well as the ability to

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more than 30 seconds of video files. With over 30 million total downloads, JetAudio Basic is the most downloaded application in the “music management software” category on CNET Download.com. A copy of JetAudio is supplied on a

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with every

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produced by Cowon, the

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consumer electronics manufacturer responsible for the development of the application.

Interface

JetAudio’s

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has similarities to that of (earlier versions of)

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in that it features separate windows for e.g. playback, playlist and music library. Like Winamp, JetAudio can also be minimized to a

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(what Winamp calls “Windowshade Mode”) by pressing the “Toolbar Mode ON/OFF” button in the upper right portion of the Main Window. The interface includes a 10-band spectrum visualization which doubles as an equalizer. Different implementations of this spectrum visualization can be found in the Main Window, the Media Center, the Video Window, the Lyrics Viewer and the External Spectrum Viewer.

Windows

The JetAudio interface comprises the following windows: * The Main Window * The Media Center * The Video Window * The Lyrics Viewer * The External Spectrum Viewer

Skins

JetAudio comes with a number of pre-installed skins: “Default Gunmetal Grey”, “Default Silver”, “Default Silver Mini” and an older version of “Default Silver” with a

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-style volume control. In addition to these, there are four skins that display the Main Window as a bar. Users are able to create their own skins using the JetAudio Skin Development Kit (SDK) available for download from the JetAudio website. Some skins apply to every part of the user interface (including the Main Window, Media Center, Video Window, Playlist Window and Lyrics Window), while others (especially older skins) may only affect the Main Window.

Features

File format support

JetAudio supports all major audio and video

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, including

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, AAC,

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and Ogg Vorbis for audio, and H.264,

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MPEG-2 MPEG-2 (a.k.a. H.222/H.262 as was defined by the ITU) is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information". It describes a combination of lossy video compression and lossy audio data compression methods, w ...

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, WMV and

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for video. It also supports several less common “audiophile” formats such as

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, True Audio, Musepack and

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Sound effects and enhancements

JetAudio features a wide array of built-in

s, including: * A 10-band non-parametric equalization filter *

( exciter) and BBE ViVA (spatializer) sound effects * “X-Bass” and “X-Surround” * “Wide” *

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* Pitch change * A variety of other special effects, including: ** “

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” ** “Invert Flange” ** “Robot 1” ** “Robot 2” ** “Slow chorus” ** “

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” ** “Invert Phase Shift”

Music visualization

Like many other media player applications, JetAudio offers the option of displaying an animated visualization synchronized with the music. JetAudio comes with three visualization plugins pre-installed: MilkDrop, PixelTrip, Space and Synesthesia. Additional visualization plugins can be downloaded from external providers.

Lyric support

JetAudio has the ability to display both synchronized and unsynchronized lyrics to the music using several different methods. Lyrics are displayed in the dedicated Lyrics Viewer window, along with the album art of the file and optionally a spectrum visualization.

Plugins

JetAudio supports most

plug-ins.

Other features

JetAudio offers several other features such as bookmarking the current position in a song, looping a section of a song, a dropdown on-screen display with configurable content and a configurable “sleep timer” for shutting down the computer after a set period of playback (among other options).

JetAudio for Android

On , the highly anticipated mobile version of JetAudio, “JetAudio for

,” was released. Initially, the app included the same

sound effects found in the desktop version of JetAudio, but these were quietly removed with the release of version 1.0.2, likely due to licensing issues. Cowon has made no official statement on the matter. The app has been praised for its user interface, with one reviewer citing it as “arguably one of the best and most user-friendly that we’ve seen on an Android device”. Like its desktop counterpart, JetAudio for Android is available as a free, “Basic” version and a paid “Plus” version. Apart from removing the advertising banners present in the Basic version, the Plus version doubles the number of bands available in the built-in equalizer, as well as adds the ability to display unsynchronized lyrics to the music.

History

JetAudio was first released in July 1997.

JetAudio 4

JetAudio 4’s graphical user interface was designed to look like a high-powered stereo rack and installed with an on-screen equalizer and remote control.

JetAudio 5

JetAudio 5, released in 2002, saw a major overhaul of the entire user interface and added support for skins.

JetAudio 6

JetAudio 6 was released in 2004.

JetAudio 7

JetAudio 7 (now also known as Cowon Media Center) was the first version of JetAudio to include

sound enhancement algorithms. The Consumers' Institute of New Zealand evaluated the Basic version and remarked that it “doesn’t have a plug-in for Firefox compatibility”, but judged the range of video and audio file formats supported as “good”.

JetAudio 8

JetAudio 8 is the first version of JetAudio to be fully compatible with Windows 7. Some of the new features in JetAudio 8 are: * Conversion support for FLV & MKV files * Enhanced skins * DXVA subtitle support * New file association method for Windows Vista and Windows 7 *

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option for video conversion

JetAudio 8.1 Preview

The JetAudio 8.1 Preview was released for download on the JetAudio Forums on . New features introduced in the Preview include: * Menus of MC/Playlist were changed * Playcount column added in MC * Convert Path : change path of files in media library/playlist (useful when move files to different drive/computer) * Convert ID3 tag : change ID3 tag charset to unicode * Modify file path when export to PLS/M3U * List with Thumbnail mode for MC/Playlist * Pause while converting audio

JetAudio for Android

The

version of JetAudio was released on .

JetVideo

On , Cowon announced the release of JetVideo, a media player program with features which partially overlap with those of JetAudio. Like JetAudio, it relies on external codecs (such as those included in the

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) for some of its data decoding.

References

* Francesco Caccavella (8 January 2006),
Sul web con voce e musica Come creare una radio online
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* רוני שני,
JetAudio 6 Basic JetAudio 6 Basic
' (review),

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, 15 May 2005

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Interface

Windows

Skins

Features

File format support

Sound effects and enhancements

Music visualization

Lyric support

Plugins

Other features

JetAudio for Android

History

JetAudio 4

JetAudio 5

JetAudio 6

JetAudio 7

JetAudio 8

JetAudio 8.1 Preview

JetAudio for Android

JetVideo

See also

References

External links