Musikcube 1.0
Posted: June 20th, 2008 | Filed under: Software | Tags: Media Player, Music, SoftwareOverall this lil speed demon was by far the fastest. It added music fast, loads fast, and It uses the least amount of system resources.
I love the fact that it minimizes to the tray by default. No addons needed, I hate my music players taking up a space on the taskbar, I have enough other stuff there, I don’t need more.
Another small thing that I really liked is that one song quitly fades into another so you are never without music, so now there is no sudden changes from one sound to another.
On to the UI. Its very, very simple, and it takes all of about 10 seconds to figure out, which is a good thing. However its really old looking, especially for vista. A simple new theme or style would greatly help this software out.
Another bad thing is that I don’t think this software was completely ready for vista. I ran into quite a few bugs, and it crashed a couple to many times.
My Suggestions
Stabilize it. This is one of those programs I will go back and try in about 6 months to a year to see if they have fixed it. I surely hope so because little guy has lots of potential to be an excellent lightweight media player.
Rating: 6/10
Summary of Musikcube
- Simple installation.
- By far the fastest to add music to library.
- Fastest to load.
- Nice song transitions.
- Minimize to tray by default.
- Very clean and simple User Interface.
- However Not very visually appealing.
- Does not take advantage of vista’s file ratings.
- displays popup showing the new song being played.
- Very low amount of used resources.
- Not stable on vista.
