The fastest, lightest music player you've ever seen
Boom is a quick, simple, hassle-free music player, developed by the creators of foobar2000.
If you’re looking for a really minimalist audio player, you’ve come to the right place. Boom doesn’t require installation and automatically reads and plays the audio files on your computer, no matter which folder they’re stored in. The program works with all popular formats and delivers high-quality audio.
Being so simple, Boom doesn’t include any extra features or configuration options. All you get is the standard playback controls, plus filters to list your music by genre, artist, album, folder and more.
Boom is the perfect app for those of you who love simple, fast audio players. If you need more features, you better turn to other alternative players like Winamp or AIMP.
Boom is a fast, minimalist audio player with no extra features that does exactly what it says on the tin.
New and improved about-box dialogVarious bug fixes
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New and improved about-box dialogVarious bug fixes
User reviews about Boom
by AuralVirus
If you listen to music a lot or barely at all, this is 1 of, or the only audio player for you, especially if you have no need for playlists and just wish to play a folder or files in a folder on your computer with near to zero of a learning curve making it the easiest actual audio player second only to Windows 7 preview option or in Windows 10 using a small app called "Quickview" which resembles the removed Preview tool..
If you have 100's of thousands of tracks even albums but just wish to preview or not open or add to a playlist to listen to a freshly acquired collection of audio files (aka an album) then you too should have this as your quick and easy go to player, it plays, as far as i know, everything (no doubt there's a file format it doesn't play, I've not found one yet and it's probably not worth having if it's that difficult to play.
If the con's are unacceptable look to XMP, VUPlayer, Winyl, MPCH, Ocean Audio, Elisa & Resonic, all excellent yet easy to use players with more features than Boom. Some have playlist options, not all have portable versions, a few support visualisers, some tagging, all have dark themes or can have their colours changed, and a few work similarly to Boom without the con. I recommend them all, they all have a use, some more than others, at some point during my time listening to music.
Pro's
Near zero learning curve, plays & displays your audio files as they appear in their folder and are titled.
It displays 100's & 100's of folders just as fast as windows explorer (possibly faster).
re-sizeable window capable of displaying a handful of foldered files or 100's, limited only by your monitors size.
It has play, stop & a volume control.
Portable so perfect for a thumbdrive app collection.
Con's
No cue file support & thus No ability to forward through a single audio file made of multiple tracks/songs. You simply have to play the entire file to get to the tune you wish to hear with the only "fix" to "crop" the audio file into individual songs.tracks. (using a tool such as audacity). More