Zinf:Free Audio Player for Linux and Windows

Jul 7, 2010 by Shivendu Madhava

Zinf is an open source audio player that is built for both Linux and Windows. The player has a good-looking interface and is really easy to use. It was a project that was based on FreeAMP, the open source answer to Winamp. You can get a whole range of themes from www.zinf.org/themes.php.

It also supports SHOUTcast or Icecast streaming audio, Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV, Audio CDs, PLS or M3U playlists, a skinnable interface, and more. It does not play video, so forget about it if you’re looking for a complete media player.

One of its best features is the fact that it can save SHOUTcast/Icecast streams to your hard drive. Of course you need to make sure you’re not breaking any laws by doing so, but you can save free streams with no license limitations—and with SHOUTcast, you’re not going to have any trouble finding such streams.

One bad thing is that it does not have an equaliser, which is good for those who really want to hear their music as-is, but terrible
for those who like to tweak the output settings.

Overall, if you’re looking for a no-frills player, which uses as little of your system resources as possible, and gives you all the basic functionality you need when playing back audio, this is your best bet.

The minimum system requirements should make those with older computers very happy:

Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, Linux 2.x, Pentium 100 MHz, 32 MB RAM

Download:http://www.zinf.org/