JetAudio is a shareware media player application for Microsoft Windows and Android released in 1997 which offers playback options for a wide range of multimedia file formats. JetAudio offers functions such as music and video playback, metadata editing, CD ripping and burning, data conversion, sound recording, and Internet radio broadcasting. It also includes numerous sound effects. The commercial “Plus VX” version of the application includes unlocked sound enhancement algorithms and a wide range of file format support, as well as the ability to transcode more than 30 seconds of video files.

Interface

JetAudio’s user interface is similar to earlier versions of Winamp in that it features separate windows for: playback, playlist and music library. Like Winamp, JetAudio can be minimized to a toolbar ( “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:

Features

File format support

JetAudio supports all major audio and video file formats, including or audio: MP3, AAC, FLAC and Ogg Vorbis, Monkey’s Audio, True Audio, Musepack and WavPack For video it supports the following formats: H.264, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, MPEG-1, WMV and Ogg Theora.

Sound effects and enhancements

JetAudio features a number of built-in sound effects, including:

Music visualization

Like many other media player applications, JetAudio offers the option of displaying an animated visualization synchronized with music: 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. 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 Winamp plug-ins.

Other features

JetAudio also offers the following additional features:

JetAudio for Android

On May 24, 2012, “JetAudio for Android,” mobile version was released. Initially, the app included the same BBE sound effects found in the desktop version of JetAudio, but these were removed in version 1.0.2 on June 8, 2012.

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 BBE 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 include:

JetAudio 8.1 Preview

The JetAudio 8.1 Preview was released for download on the JetAudio Forums on November 16, 2011. New features introduced in the Preview include:

JetAudio for Android

The Android version of JetAudio was released on May 24, 2012.

JetVideo

On May 2, 2011, 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 K-Lite Codec Pack) for some of its data decoding.