JetAudio (sometimes stylized as “jetAudio”) is a shareware media player program for Microsoft Windows and Android which offers advanced playback options for a wide range of multimedia file formats.
Initially released in 1997,JetAudio is one of the oldest extant media players for the Windows platform.
Apart from music and video playback, JetAudio offers functions such as metadata editing, CD ripping and burning, data conversion, sound recording and Internet radio broadcasting. It also includes numerous sound effects. The commercial “Plus VX” version of the program includes unlocked BBE sound enhancement algorithms and a wider file format support, as well as the ability to transcode more than 30 seconds of video files.
A copy of JetAudio is supplied on a mini CD with every MP3 player produced by Cowon, the Korean consumer electronics manufacturer responsible for the development of the program.
Features
File format support:
JetAudio supports all major audio and video file formats, including MP3, AAC, FLAC and Ogg Vorbis for audio, and H.264, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, MPEG-1, WMV and Ogg Theora for video. It also supports several less common “audiophile” formats such as Monkey’s Audio, True Audio, Musepack and WavPack.
Sound effects and enhancements:
JetAudio features a wide array of built-in sound effects, including:
A 10-band non-parametric equalization filter
BBE (exciter) and BBE ViVA (spatializer) sound effects
“X-Bass” and “X-Surround”
“Wide”
Reverb
Time stretching
Pitch change
A variety of unusual special effects, including:
“Flange”
“Invert Flange”
“Robot 1”
“Robot 2”
“Slow chorus”
“Phase shift”
“Invert Phase Shift”
Music visualization:
Like many other media player programs, JetAudio offers the option of displaying an animated visualization synchronized with the music. JetAudio comes with three visualization plugins pre-installed: PixelTrip, Space and Synesthesia. Additional visualization plugins can be downloaded from e.g. Geisswerks, SoundSpectrum and morphyre.com.
Lyric support:
JetAudio has the ability to display both synchronized and unsynchronized lyrics to the music using several different methods. Lyrics are displayed in the dedicated Lyrics Viewer window (accessible by pressing the “Show Lyric” button above the timer module in the Main Window), along with the album art of the file and optionally a spectrum visualization (accessible by clicking the menu button in the top left corner, selecting “Sound/Visualization” and then “Internal Spectrum Viewer ON/OFF”).
Below are listed the different methods to display lyrics in JetAudio 8.0.17:
Look up the lyrics in the Leo’s Lyrics or CIX Lyrics databases:
Press the “Load Lyric Files” button at the bottom of the Lyrics Window and select either “Search Lyric from CIX Lyrics” or “Search Lyric from Leo’s LDB”. If a match is found in the database, the lyrics will be downloaded and displayed in the Lyrics Viewer.
It is a known error that JetAudio is unable to connect to Leo’s Lyrics database to download lyrics. As of version 8.0.17, this problem has yet to be solved.
Place a text file in the same directory as the music file:
The simplest alternative is to place a text file (*.txt) containing the lyrics in the same directory as the song. The text file needs to have exactly the same file name as the song. The lyrics will then be displayed in the Lyrics Viewer when the song is played.
Place a lyric file in the same directory as the music file:
This will yield lyrics that are synchronized to the music, as most lyric files contain timecodes in addition to the lyric text.
JetAudio uses Cowon’s proprietary lyric tag format rather than the standard Lyrics3v2. As such, files tagged with the Lyrics3 format are not compatible with the lyric viewing function of JetAudio, and conversely, applications supporting Lyrics3 tags will not be able to display lyrics for files tagged with JetAudio.
Use Lyric Maker or iAUDIO LDB Manager to write lyric data to your files:
Use the “Lyric Maker” utility that comes bundled with JetAudio to write timecoded lyric data to your files. Alternatively, you can use the iAUDIO LDB Manager application intended for use with Cowon’s portable media players.
Plugins:
JetAudio supports most Winamp plug-ins.
Other features:
JetAudio offers several unique features such as bookmarking the current position in a song, looping a section of a song, a dropdown on-screen display with configurable content (much like the one found in AIMP3) and a configurable “sleep timer” for shutting down the computer after a set period of playback (among other options).
