4am Music Console 1.7: Overview
4am Music Console allows you to effectively browse your hard drive based CD/Music collection with a simple interface. This is especially good for HTPC (home theater personal computer) users where navigation is the key to a happy household. 4am Music Console can be setup to communicate effectively with your favorite music/media player thus integrating it with your player. For more information on how to use 4am Music Console view the help file that come can be found here.

Features - Summary

• Browse your hard drive based CD collection, based on folders/directories
• Use custom resolution display (included are common 16:9 skins)
• Completely modifiable skin structure, create your own layout of buttons and text, your own sizes for each button etc...
• Use ANY type of files with 4am Music Console (you control the file extensions to be searched.)
• Launch individual files into the default player
• launch the whole folder using a command line setup
• add files to playlist (based on command line directive)
• Edit the playlist (can now be used with the embedded player and Winamp)
• Display cover art
• Display thumbnail view of all CD's
• Display Artist, Album, Date, and Genre information for each CD.
• Auto read ID3 tag information from MP3's to generate above display.
• Sort CD List display by Artist Name, Album Name, Date, or Genre.
• Search/Jump to key points in your CD collection (section A, B etc... or if sorted by Genre jump to different Genre's from the pull-down list)
• Hot Key support for every command
• Embedded Player as well as support for external players (including full support for Winamp version 2.x)
• easy to use setup program
• built in visualizations (excellent for use on plasma screens)
• Playlist support
• Command line support (so you can specify the playlist to load, and the root directory from which to load music)
• Resume playstate/playlist support (exit the player and when it reloads it can continue where it left off maintaining it's playstate and playlist.)
• NEW in 1.7: Album Browser
  

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4am Music Console 1.7 is completely free for use, this is not a trial version. However it is under alpha release, please read the information below before using:

This program is in beta development, meaning that it is still under development, but has gone through quite a bit of testing in our development cycle. This program is free to use, however Overnight Technologies will not provide technical support. Using this program is also to be done under the user's own discretion, Overnight Technologies is not responsible for any harm to your computer due to the usage of 4am Music Console. By using this program you are agreeing to these terms.

• Windows 98 SE, Windows Me, Windows NT4, Windows 2000, or Windows XP
• 64 MB of free available system RAM
• 4 MB of available disk space
• IMPORTANT: 4am music console requires Microsoft® Windows Media Player™ Series 9 OR later to be installed on your computer.
• http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/default.asp
• If you have any problems with this version, please download version 1.6.

Please follow the download link found at the right.