SK Sound Recorder Tool

The new SK Sound Recorder Tool is an extremely handy to use, one-click voice recording tool that lets you record your sound through microphone and save it as a .wav file. Here's a simple tutorial about it.

• Go to Tools menu and select SK Recorder from it.
• As you can see, there are not much controls in this window since it does most of the work automatically for you. All you have to do is to select the device which you wish to use for recording(default device will be automatically selected if you don't select manually).

• Now press Start recording button and the microphone will become active.

• After you are done with recording, click Stop button. The Save as and Discard buttons will become active. Click Save as to save the newly recorded sound as a .wav file or click Discard in order to discard it from the memory.

Options screenshots

Two equalizers

• In order to maximize the bigger equalizer, double click on it or alternatively click the Stretch button.
• If your screen settings are set to 120 DPI instead of the default 96 DPI, you can change the player's default layout settings from Options window.
  

SKMP Visualizations

The EQ Mode

Dynamic Skyscrapers

The Pixel Shower

Bass meter

Jumping bars

Frequency Spectrum

Oscilloscope

Media Library

Your new SKMP (Portable) contains a supreme media library that has many significant features which make it unique and different from all other media players.

Let us go through a quick tutorial about the media library. I will tell you how to make a new collection of your own.

• Open your new SKMP and click on Media Library at the bottom left.

• The Media Library window will thus open. You can see a lot of controls in it. Here are some brief details regarding them.

• Now, type a new collection title of your own choice (e.g., My collection) in the box on the top left and hit New collection or Search in case that you want to search the given collection in the media library.
  
• Your collection title will be added to the collections in the media library. Scroll down to locate it. Once you locate it, right click on it and click Add tracks to this title.

• Once you have added as many tracks to the collection as you want, right click on each track to inspect its properties menu.

• Everytime you play a track using SKMP (Portable), it will automatically be added in the media library under the ~~ automatic tracks ~~ collection.

• You can also add tracks directly from the history or from the current playlist into the media library. Right click on the target track, select Add to Media Library and a small window will appear. Select the collection title or specify a new collection title under which you want to store this track. Click Add to finish the job. Here is a small video tutorial that tells you how to do it.

• If you enter a collection title that already exists in the media library and click on New Collection, the media library will search the existing collection and bring it to front instead of making a duplicate collection.

Long Lyrics feature of the new SKMP (Portable)

Long Lyrics is another amazing new feature that makes SKMP a unique media player. Mostly, the songs of genre Rap, hip hop, R & B, Metal, Hard Rock etc have quite long lyrics. By default, Windows does not allow lyrics beyond a certain length limit (1600 bytes approximately) to be written in the properties of the media file. However your new SKMP covers this with the new and improved SK Lyrics Viewer. All you have to do is copy the lyrics contents of any song in a text file and place the path to that text file in the "lyrics" space in the properties of that file. (This feature works only with MP3 file format right now.) This way, you can link lyrics to the mp3 file no matter how large they are!

SKMP (Portable)

The new SKMP is a powerful portable media player that meets your requirements more than any other media player (including wmp!). The key features are as follows:

• Crystal clear and amazing sound quality!
  
• Playback speed alteration supported without any sound distortion!
  
• Sleak design with crystal clear buttons and text!
  
• Extremely low memory utilization that makes it stand out alone proudly among all the other media players available in the market!

Memory usage while minimized

Memory usage while maximized

• Plays all the common media file formats.
• Records your live conversation in the form of .wav files. (The SK Recorder is a handy to use, ONE CLICK recording tool that supports automatic microphone configuration and is integrated in the SKMP (Portable). ( Read Details )
• Provides 3 different handles to the system volume control directly on the main window.
• 7 Brilliant dynamic visualizations are built-in with fully customizable features and sensitivity level. ( View screenshots )
• 2 equalizers that run simultaneously giving the media player a stunning look. ( View screenshot )
• Amazingly simple keyboard interface that lets you give keyboard commands just through single button instead of pressing Ctrl or Shift keys along with it. For example, L for Play, P for Pause/Resume, R for repeat(this) and A for repeat(all) etc.
• Your new SKMP (Portable) includes a built-in Lyrics Viewer with Long Lyrics feature enabled! ( Read Details )

• A redesigned drag/drop list item feature that carries a faded image of the track which is being dragged/dropped with the mouse pointer.
• 11 different colour schemes have been built-into the new SKMP.
  
• Redesigned Options menu lets you take full control over all the features. ( View screenshots )
• A settings LOCK feature is introduced with the help of which you can Lock all the settings after making appropriate changes.

• Smart animation features of dialog boxes have been built into the player that give it a professional look.
  
• Includes a comprehensive media library with automatic tracks logging capability. ( Read Details )
• An automatic and fully customizable Favourites feature is included in the new SKMP (Portable). You can add tracks to your favourites yourself, delete tracks, export your favourites as playlist, and load them into the current playlist by ONLY pressing the F key! Can things be simpler than this?

• You can add any track from the current playlist/history/favourites to the media library under the collection title of your choice in just one click! Yes, in just one click! ( Read Details )
  
• Includes a detailed history feature whose control is in the Options window. You can clear it anytime you want.

• The Options, Media Library and Favourites are password protected therefore nobody can see what you have been watching as well as nobody can change/delete/edit your custom media library collections or the SKMP settings or your favourites without authorizing himself.
  

Password being set

Password required to open media library / options / favourites

• For portability purposes, SKMP (Portable) supports a very handy feature through which you can export all the settings in the form of a file which can be imported later on instead of customizing everything from the beginning.

• View/Change the media file properties such as Title, Artist name, Collection, Track #, year, Genre and comments directly from the player instead of doing it locally. Right click the track in current playlist/favourites/history/media library and click File Info.

• Schedule Windows Shutdown is a brand new and fully configurable feature introduced in the latest build of SKMP (Portable). Now your SKMP can automatically turn off your computer after the current playlist playback finishes or alternatively you can explicitely set a shutdown timer.

Windows is now set to be shut down automatically after 5 hours. The countdown has begun.

• The new SKMP (Portable) can hide in the system tray area while you continue working and enjoying your favourite music.

A soft popup message is given everytime a new track is played.

Moreover you have full access to all the features of the media player through the tray popup menu. Right click on the system tray icon to open this menu. Double click the system tray icon to remove it and get the main window of SKMP back again.

• Download the compressed setup file
  
• Download the compressed stand alone folder build

If you need any help regarding any aspect or have any query to make / bug to report then you can post it in the comments underneath.