Free all-in-one multimedia player
Esmas Player is a truly multimedia application that provides the user with almost any tool they may need to enjoy image, music and video files on the computer.
The program’s interface is suspiciously similar to that of iTunes, which makes us wonder why is it that developers weren’t able to come up with a more original design. Similarities to iTunes don’t end here, though: as you’ll see, you can organize your library, play your favorite songs, edit tags, listen to podcasts, synchronize contents with your portable music device and even buy music online. Some people may find this resemblance somewhat uncomfortable – like a cheap imitation – but it’s also a way to make the program look familiar and be easy to use from the very beginning.
Leaving comparisons aside, Esmas Player goes a step forward and also enables you to organize photos and videos, and also features extended functionality such as a disc burner, a DVD player and support for online TV channels and radio stations. During our tests, however, I had the impression that some of its functions were not properly implemented or at least not as easy to use as I expected. Also, though the program’s language can be set to English, both the installer and documentation haven’t been translated from Spanish yet.
In all, Esmas Player works fine as an all-in-one multimedia organizer, but it still needs some improvements in usability – as well as adding the necessary distance between iTunes and itself in order to avoid odious comparisons.
At first sight, Esmas Player seems to be very similar to iTunes, both in interface design and functionalities. But Esmas goes beyond the music library and player capabilities and offers a bunch of extra tools with which you can perform almost any multimedia-related task.
You’ll be able to decode videos, burn discs, synchronize portable devices, create playlists, play DVDs, load Internet streaming TV channels and radio stations, access podcasts and digital magazines and even buy music online.
In short, if you like having everything under a single interface, then Esmas Player is definitely for you.
