Hokrain is a lightweight and portable audio player which supports a very large number of audio formats. Despite its small size of less than a megabyte, Hokrain offers a lot of useful features, modern looking interface and on top of all that it’s portable. There’s no need for installation, you can run it from a USB flash drive.
Screenshot above shows us the interface of this free audio player. You can switch through folders where you have your music collection stored using the file browser on the left. Playlist is located right next to it. At the top we have the standard address bar, very simple menu and processor usage indicator. Bottom of the interface holds song, artist, album information and playback controls. All the way down below you get a waveform analyzer which is activated when songs start playing.
Key Features of this Portable Audio Player are:
- Support formats like MP3, WMA, OGG, MPA, MP, FLAC, KAR, MPP, etc.
- Lightweight audio player, it’s less than 1 megabyte in size.
- Portable, to use it simply download and click on the executable.
- Quickly create custom playlists from the file browser.
- Assign keyboard hotkeys to control playback, playlist, etc.
- Shell integration, add Open with Hokrain option to right-click menus.
- Free and simple to use with a modern looking interface.
Popular music players like Winamp are starting to get more and more features, which is great but only if you have newer PC, which has the hardware that can keep up with the increasing demand for resources that modern audio players require. Those who are on older computers will have problems, because using these types of audio players can seriously slow down your system. That’s exactly where Hokrain can help out.
How to Listen to Audio Tracks with Hokrain?
First thing which you need to do is use the file browser on the left in order to navigate to the folder where your music collection is stored. To add music to the playlist on the right, you’re gonna have to drag and drop files. Songs can be added individually, or you can add entire folders at once.
Once that you’ve added songs to the playlist, clicking on them will of course start the playback. If ID3 tags are properly filled out, song information will be displayed down below and the waveform analyzer will get activated. Use the Shuffle button above the playlist to toggle shuffle on or off.
To additionally tweak settings, simply click on the Settings button at the top of the interface, next to Shuffle. There you can change hotkeys, themes, OSD behavior and pretty much every other feature that this free audio player has to offer.
Conclusion:
Size of Hokrain is amazing. With just 1MB in size you would think that you’ll get a very simple audio player, but it’s actually very feature rich. During music playback this free audio player uses less than 5MB of RAM and practically zero CPU power. If you have an older PC or even newer and you just want to save resources, then this is the tool for you. Free download.
You may also try some other free audio players like: Audacious, Exaile, and Amarok.
