FreeAmp Main Window

Display Area

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The display area of FreeAmp shows the title of the track, the bitrate, the sample rate, and the stereo mode of the track during playback.

By clicking on the time indicator, you can toggle between the current time in the track and the remaining time.

FreeAmp supports files created using CBR and VBR encoding methods. If the file was created using VBR, FreeAmp displays VBR.

Help opens the Help topics for FreeAmp.

Minimize FreeAmp places FreeAmp on your Window’s taskbar.

Quit FreeAmp closes FreeAmp.

Volume controls the playback volume. Moving the Volume Control slider to the right increases the volume. Moving the Volume Control slider to the left decreases the volume. Note: The Volume slider is only available when an MP3 file is loaded.

Seek moves the playback position in the track. The left position represents the beginning of the track. The right position represents the end of the track. As you move the slider, the playback position time is indicated on the FreeAmp main window. Note: Seeking is unavailable when playing HTTP and RTP streams.

Buttons

My Music opens the Music Browser to create a collection of your music and to create modify Playlists.

Options opens the FreeAmp Preferences dialog to set General, Themes, Streaming, Plugins, and Advanced settings and to view the About FreeAmp information.

Normal/Random Play randomizes the playback of tracks in the currently playing Playlist. It does not change the order of tracks in the saved Playlist. Clicking the Normal/Random Play icon again resets the playback of tracks to the original normal position.

Repeat sets the playback repeat mode. Each time you click the Repeat button, it toggles from Repeat none, Repeat current track, or Repeat all.

Repeat none plays all tracks in the Playlist and then stops.

Repeat current track repeats only the current track.

Repeat all continues playback on all tracks until you stop playback.

Prev stops playback of the current track and begins playback of the previous track in the Playlist.

Play/Pause the Current Track plays or pauses playback of the current track. Clicking the Pause button during playback pauses playback of the track. Clicking the Play button after pausing resumes playback from the exact location where Pause was selected.

Stop the Current Track stops playback of the current track. When Play is selected again, playback starts from the beginning of the track.