Tauon Music Box

If you want to play your best songs without any distractions, the media player you'd need should come without any advanced and complicated features, but it should still offer enough to make your experience as pleasant as possible. An excellent example is Tauon Music Box. This basic media player is ideal for simply playing some music in the background, but if you need to do something more, the software won't disappoint you.

Tauon Music Box is absolutely free and you can have it up and running in no time, on various Windows and Linux versions. It doesn't require any special drivers or codecs and you don't need powerful hardware to run it.

The software has a clean and simple user interface, with easy-to-spot and highly responsive controls. You can just drag your music and drop it onto the main window and double-click a song to start playing it right away. When playing an imported audio file, its metadata will show up on the same window, right next to the playlist. You can switch between different view modes, mark songs as favorites, go to a random track and perform other simple tasks.

A particularly useful feature is the possibility of creating multiple playlists. Each playlist can be compiled on its own tab. You may create blank playlists and add new songs manually, but you can also import the currently playing song or generate smart playlists, in which your tracks will be organized by various criteria. Furthermore, the software lets you export your playlist stats, re-scan tags and transcode everything.

Tauon Music Box's streaming capabilities can come in useful if you want to listen to music from an external source or broadcast it yourself. If you want to listen to a stream, you only need to specify its URL and click a button. What's more, the software provides you with a recording option for online streams. Alternatively, you may connect to a Last.fm account and enjoy what they have to broadcast.

Tauon Music Box lets you enjoy your music without any distractions, but if you want more, it can certainly deliver.