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Ots Turntables

I like trying out different media players. One rather awesome audio player is called Ots Turntables. Ots Turntables, as the name suggests has two turntables, kinda like a DJ and you can load songs into a playlist, play them in the turntables, etc. It has pretty good record scratching abilities and other DJ features if that interests you.

What I like is it has a great sounding dynamics processor which includes Ots Labs' own Automatic Gain Control and a great compressor. What this means is that when you play a bunch of songs in a row all from different sources they will play at the same volume level. It also makes songs louder and more in your face (like on the radio), if that is what you want.

Ots Turntables also has a really good mechanism to blend songs together, it is smart enough to take in account songs that start or stop abruptly or smoothly and coordinates the fading efforts accordingly.

The application is usually to be paid for, but Ots Labs also released a free version, which works the same, except you do not have total control over the dynamics processor, you can only choose the presets. It also intermittently inserts a "station identification" as I like to think of it: it says "bleep blip bloop-bloop Ots Audio." every once in a while.

Ots Turntables plays mp3s and wavs. It also plays its own format, .ots which is mp3, but it can include more than one song, like you could have a whole album in one .ots file, which is handy for people who like to organize it that way, and you can still just play one song from the album using Ots products.

You can also download for free (I think they might come with the Turntables download, but I am not sure) the applications Ots Studio Professional, which allows you to edit the .ots files meta data. You can include mp3 tag info, manual fade in/out data for each song as well as album cover art within the ots file.

Ots Labs also has a completely free CD player called Ots CD Scratch that is basically the same (has two turntables and the great dynamics processor) only it plays CDs only, and you can actually fine tune the dynamics processor.

Overall I am really impressed with Ots Labs products, and I hope you are too!

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