Songster finds, queues and plays songs and playlists of music you have on your computer.  It will create, with one button click, titled, clickable buttons of all your playlists.

It launches a freeware version of Winamp to play the MP3 music which is downloaded with Songster and installed with the setup program.    More importantly and usefully, Songster will find specific songs or artists for you to play and queue them in a pull down menu.    Individual songs may be played interchangeably with the playlists. 

  Click the arrow for a Songster Demo!

     How to create the playlist buttons?  Navigate to your playlist folder and click the gold, 'CD Player' button once to create buttons for all of your Winamp playlists in that folder.   They will be sorted and labelled for you.   Click one to start playing music.  (You only have to click the gold button to update after  adding or deleting playlists.)

•     A search box below the silver, "Play a Song" button lets you search for any song or artist in your songs folder.   Enter a few characters of what you're searching for and click the search box down arrow to see all the matches you found.   Select a song and click the silver "Play a Song" buttonbar to play it.
  

•     Play one song while searching for another.  Just one click of  "The "Play a Song" button will both stop whatever is being played and play the song queued in the search box.    Clicking  a playlist button will do the same.   Switch back and forth.  Queue songs like a DJ. 
  

• Songster will remember where your playlists are so the next time you start the program, you won't have to find your playlists and your playlist buttons will appear automatically.   Click and play.    If you add or delete a playlist, click the gold button bar to update the playlist buttons.
  

• You do not have to keep Songster in view to hear the music.   You can either minimize it or close it completely since the music is actually being played by Winamp.   Start Songster again to find, play or change music.   It is very easy to use!
  

• Songster does not install itself in your system registry.  This means you can move it around and copy it, as long as you do so in it's original, distributed form.  And if you already have a version of Winamp that you like, no problem.   Go to FILE --> SETUP in Songster and navigate to your Winamp version.
  

• Songster has several background colors for you to choose from.  Showing is the 'tope'.  And you can supply your own background skins for the program if you want to.  Songster selects its background picture from two jpg files, "Back1.jpg" and "Back2.jpg".  Replace either or both of these pictures with your own.
   

      Disclaimer:   I am a professional programmer who developed this software for my own personal use to find and play songs on my computer easily.   I am simply sharing it with anyone who may be interested and find it useful.  It is not for sale at the moment or is to be sold by anyone else.  Nor is it guaranteed or supported in any way although there may be improvements and updates from time to time.  There are no known bugs at this time and it will run on Windows 95, 98, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.  It displays best at a monitor setting of 800x600 pixels, which is full screen, or 1024x768.  

       To download:   The download contains everything you need to run Songster except the MP3 music files themselves.  It is a self-extracting zip file that will unpack 3 files to your computer.  One of those files will be a setup.exe file for you to install Songster.  

       To RUN:   Songster, along with Winamp and all the necessary support files, take up about 2 meg of hard disk space - less than that of one MP3 song.  Once installed, find the file 'SONGSTER.EXE'.  Right-click and drag to a blank area of your desktop.  Pick 'Create a Shortcut' when asked.  To run, just double-click the shortcut icon you just made.  Navigate to your where your playlists are so you can see them in the playlist window, then click the gold 'CDPlayer' bar and you're in business.  To play a particular song instead of a CD, navigate to your songs folder (if different from your playlists folder), click one and play it.  (Check the 'HELP' menus for illustrated instructions if you need them.)
 
     (version 2.0 - 03/04/2007)
 
E-mail: jmkyle@hotmail.com  (Use subject line: 'Songster')