Sonique (media player)

Sonique is a Microsoft Windows freeware audio player (software) capable of handling MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Microsoft Windows Media, audio CDs, and more. It fuses a highly stylized aesthetic with a fluid, windowless interface and fully animated menu systems. Additional functionality includes a basic playlist editor, a variety of unique output visualization modes via plug-ins, and a robust control set featuring pitch, balance and amplification adjustment, as well as a 20-band equalizer with spline-based level adjustment. It supports many audio formats, including MP3, MP2, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, MOD (file format), XM (mod format), Impulse Tracker, ScreamTracker, Audio CD and Windows Media Audio. Even more formats are playable through various plugins, for example AVI. Sonique can also be used to listen to audio streams.

Sonique s look and feel can be completely customized via Skin (computing) [http://skins.sonique.com].

At the time when Sonique still was under development, it was one of the most popular players. The major things that made Sonique famous were its great decoder, audioEnlightment, its freeform Skin (computing), and a powerful equalizer.

=History=

Sonique was originally developed by Media Science, but was later bought by Lycos. When Lycos was bought by Terra Networks, S.A., the original Sonique team was laid off and replaced with a smaller team based out of the Lycos corporate headquarters. Because of an internal shift in priorities, the updated version of Sonique was never completed. A beta version was eventually released, but development seems to have completely stopped now.

=See also=

*List of audio players (software) *Comparison of media players

=External links=

*[http://www.soniquex.com SoniqueX] *[http://www.glop.org/sonique/ The Museum of Sonique] *[http://www.rjamorim.com/rrw/sonique2.html Sonique 2 alpha at ReallyRareWares]