System Requirement

CPU - Pentium and above
Memory - 16MB
Sound Card - 16 Bit
OS - Windows 95 / 98 / NT

Useful Tips

+ Pressing 'Shift' while drag-and-dropping songs onto SAP appends the songs to playlist.

+ Time display works just like a seekbar. Click on it and drag your mouse side way.

+ In Auto Hide mode, player appears only when you place your mouse on the desktop corners.

Known Bugs under NT (NT only)

+ Any changes that requires redrawing of the player (such as skin, font or full screen mode changes) may cause "unknown software exception." Simply restart SAP.

+ Drag-and-Drop streaming/downloading support has a severe problem. Do not use it (Do not drag-and-drop internet link onto SAP). If you do, it may cause "memory could not be read" error. When you get this error, delete following keys from the registry. "HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/SAP/DLFILENAME0~3"

+ Player may disappear when you move it quickly. You need to restart SAP.

Version History

Jan. 8, 2000 - SAP 0.9 Beta

• Configuration is almost complete.
• Cool visual plugins
• Drag-and-Drop Streaming support. Simply drag-and-drop link onto SAP.
• Full Screen modes
• Font outline effect

Nov. 1, 1999 - SAP 0.8 Beta

• "Can't find wmaudsdk.dll" bug fixed.
• All the playlist functions work now.
• NT graphic bug fixed.
• Background fading effect added.
• Some DJ features added including repeat, shuffle, experimental ShuffleMaster.
• Other minor bug fixes.

Oct. 10, 1999 - SAP 0.7 Beta

• First release.
• Local version (no streaming support yet).

About Streaming Audio Player (SAP)

SAP is an mp3 player that features easy-to-use animated interface. Behind the fancy animated interface is the powerful mp3 decoder that Soritong is known for. Actually, the mp3 decoding engine of SAP is more advance than that of Soritong because multiple instances of decoding is possible, which allows more advanced playback such as cross-fading (smooth transition between songs) and continous play (no gap between songs).

Features

MP3 playback - Currently SAP can play MP3 (Layer-I,II,III) format. Support for more format is coming soon.

Animated Interface - The unified, animated interface not only looks cool but is also easy to operate.

Multiple Decoding - SAP can decode multiple streams. That allows more advaced playback, such as crossfading (smooth transition between songs) and continous play.

Sound Effects - Equalizer, Crystalizer, Vocal Reducer, Techno Enhancer, Wide Stereo, and Limiter are built into the decoder.

Streaming Support - Streaming support makes it easy to listen to music on the internet. Saving the music that you like to your hard drive is also a snap. It even allows resuming of incomplete download.

Auto Hide Mode - Auto Hide mode is very useful when your desktop is cluttered with windows. Set SAP to "Auto Hide" mode, and it only appears only when you place your mouse cursor on the desktop corners.