AIMP is an audio player that handles local files, network storage, cloud folders, internet radio, and podcasts in one library. It adds a 20-band equalizer, sound effects, a tag editor, and a multi-threaded audio converter.
AIMP is an audio player that also functions as a library manager and file utility. You build a music library from local folders, NAS shares, or connected cloud accounts, and AIMP indexes tags, artwork, and listening statistics so tracks can be browsed, rated, and grouped into smart playlists. Playback supports cue sheets, the common lossless and lossy formats, and internet radio that can be captured to disk while it plays. Editing tools sit beside the player: a tag editor for groups of files, a scheduler for timed actions, and a converter that re-encodes audio or imports discs without leaving the application.
The interface side of AIMP is unusually adjustable for a player. Layouts can be rearranged, skins from a public catalog change the entire look, and separate multi-user profiles keep each person's library, playlists, and settings apart on a shared machine. Global hotkeys control playback from anywhere, the display scales cleanly on high-resolution screens, and the interface is available in many languages. Anyone moving across from a long-standing player such as Winamp tends to notice the extra utility first: album art and lyrics views are built in, listening history feeds ratings automatically, and the same window holds a tag editor, a converter, and a task scheduler rather than leaving them to separate utilities.
AIMP's practical advantage is that it consolidates jobs that usually need three or four programs. The library indexes tags, artwork, and play history, then turns that data into ratings and smart playlists that filter and group without manual curation. The 20-band equalizer and the bundled effects — reverb, chorus, flanger, pitch, tempo, echo, bass boost, enhancer, and voice removal — reshape playback in real time, while peak normalization and ReplayGain keep volume consistent between albums and prevent the loudness jumps that ruin long listening sessions. Cue sheets are read and written, so single-file album rips stay correctly split and labelled, and the chapter editor rebuilds cue files for large recordings. The converter encodes to FLAC, MP3, OGG, Opus, WavPack, Musepack, WMA, and other formats across multiple threads, accepts external command-line encoders, and can produce a cue sheet while it works. Internet radio can be recorded in lossless or lossy formats, and the scheduler handles timed tasks such as recording a show, fading the volume, or shutting the machine down when a job finishes.
Key capabilities and highlights.
AIMP plays MP3, AAC, FLAC, Opus, OGG Vorbis, APE, WavPack, Musepack, WMA, MIDI, tracker modules, and DSD files, reads cue sheets, and streams internet radio. Sources can be local folders, network shares, podcasts, or connected cloud accounts including Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and WebDAV storage.
The library indexes tags, artwork, and listening statistics, building ratings and automatic marks as tracks are played. Smart playlists filter and group that database or pull content from selected folders, so views such as recently added, most played, or unrated albums stay current without manual upkeep.
A 20-band equalizer with custom presets per output device sits alongside reverb, chorus, flanger, pitch, tempo, echo, bass boost, enhancer, and voice remover effects. Peak normalization and ReplayGain level volume between tracks and albums, and a silence remover trims dead air from recordings during playback.
Tags in ID3v1, ID3v2, APE, Vorbis, WMA, and M4A formats can be edited across a whole selection, filled automatically from filenames, renumbered, transliterated, or switched between letter cases. ReplayGain and BPM values can be calculated in the same dialog, and a chapter editor rebuilds cue data for long files.
The converter encodes to FLAC, MP3, OGG, Opus, WavPack, Musepack, WMA, and WAV, and can call external command-line encoders for anything else. Three modes cover single files, a folder into a single file, or everything into one result, with cue sheet generation and an optional shutdown when the batch completes.
Audio CDs can be imported directly into the library in a chosen format, and cue sheet files are read on playback and written on conversion, keeping single-file album rips split, numbered, and labelled correctly. That avoids the usual round trip through a separate ripping program and tag editor.
Radio stations can be browsed and played, with the option to capture a stream to MP3, FLAC, OGG, WAV, WavPack, WMA, or APE while listening, or to save it untouched. Podcast subscriptions appear in the same library as music, so new episodes download alongside the albums they sit next to.
Skins from a public catalog restyle the player, multi-user profiles keep separate libraries on one machine, and hotkeys can be bound locally or globally for playback control from any application. The scheduler runs tasks by timer or event, including timed recording, volume fading, sleep, and shutdown, with an alarm clock that can wake the computer.
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Common questions about AIMP.
AIMP plays local audio files and streams, organizes a music library, and includes tools for editing tags, converting formats, importing audio CDs, recording internet radio, and scheduling playback tasks. It suits listeners who want player, library, and file utilities in one place instead of several separate programs.
It covers MP3, AAC with M4A and M4B files, AC3, FLAC, Opus, OGG Vorbis, APE, WavPack, Musepack, TAK, TTA, WMA, WAV, AIFF, MIDI, DSD files, and tracker modules such as MOD, S3M, XM, and IT. Cue sheets are supported, so a single large file with an accompanying cue can be browsed as separate tracks.
Yes. The built-in converter encodes to FLAC, MP3, OGG, Opus, WavPack, Musepack, WMA, and WAV using multiple threads, and it can call external command-line encoders for other formats. An audio CD grabber imports disc tracks into the library, and conversion can generate a cue sheet for the output.
It does. Radio stations can be streamed and, if wanted, captured to a lossless or lossy file while playing, or saved without re-encoding. Podcast subscriptions are managed inside the library alongside music, so episodes can be streamed or downloaded to the same place as the rest of the collection.
Yes. The tag editor accepts ID3v1 and ID3v2, APE, Vorbis, WMA, and M4A tags, and changes can be applied to a whole group of selected files at once. It can also fill fields from filenames, renumber tracks automatically, transliterate text, and calculate ReplayGain or BPM values during the same operation.
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