Right now, I’m just working on my demo for our new Sharepoint site that is going live, and I was playing around with Windows Media Player when I remembered how good my old music player used to be.

That’s when I decided to look it up, and see what ever happened to the program that was always overshadowed by the monstrosity that was WinAmp and Windows Media Player.

It appears that a couple of years ago, Lycos (yes, they do still exist) ended production of the cool little player and relinked the Sonique site to their attempt at a music site.

Some of the things that made Sonique so nice were the Freeform skins and its support for a vast amount of file types, including the Open Source OGG Vorbis. Back then, there were fears about the intentions of the owner of the MP3 patents, so most of my music was transcoded to Vorbis.  Unfortunately, not many commercial players support Vorbis tracks, so I was stuck going back to MP3.

Another cool feature was the ability to play around with the pitch and timing of a song.  Nothing beats making Britney Spears into a chipmunk.

If you want to play around with this neat little player, you can find some of the old versions at The Museum of Sonique