Editing Quintessential Player

{{Short description|Freeware media player for Microsoft Windows}}
{{Infobox software
| name = Quintessential Player
| logo = 
| screenshot = Quintessential Media Player version 5.0 screenshot.jpg
| screenshot size = 250px
| caption = Quintessential Media Player version 5.0
| developer = Paul Quinn (Quinnware)
| discontinued = yes
| released = ?
| programming language = ?
| operating system = [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]
| language = ?
| genre = [[media player (application software)|Media player]]
| license = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]
| website = [http://www.quinnware.com/ www.quinnware.com]
}}

'''Quintessential Player''' (also called '''QMP''' and formerly '''QCD''') was a freeware, multi-format [[media player (application software)|media player]] developed by Paul Quinn.

Quintessential Player began life in 1997 as a CD-only player for Windows, when it was known as Quintessential CD Player (hence the 'QCD' moniker associated with the player). Over the years, Quintessential Player gained support for playing [[MP3]]s and other audio formats, video playback, and an optional media library was added to the player. This latter addition gave rise to the use of the name Quintessential Media Player, or QMP for short. [[PC World (magazine)|PC World Magazine]] named Quintessential Player as one of their choices for 'Best Media Player',<ref>[http://www.pcworld.com/article/114687/best_of_the_web.html PC World Best of the Web list]</ref> and it was also selected for inclusion in the Pricelessware list of best freeware.<ref>[http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2006/PL2006MULTIMEDIA.php Pricelessware list of best free multimedia software]</ref>

It was the only way of submitting [[Metadata#Digital music|audio metadata]] (on CD tracks, artists, etc. as created by a [[tag editor]]) to [[Gracenote]]'s [[CDDB|CD database]] other than [[iTunes]], and was still listed as such even in 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=Support - How To Submit a CD (QMP) |url=http://support.gracenote.com/articles/Public_FAQ/How-To-Submit-a-CD-QMP/ |website=support.gracenote.com |publisher=GraceNote |access-date=19 January 2019}}</ref>

==Features==
Quintessential Player natively supported:

*[[MP3]], [[Ogg]], [[WAV]], and [[CD]] Playback
*Video Playback with the aid of External [[Codecs]]
*Full Speed [[CD]] [[Ripping]]
*[[MP3]] [[data compression|Encoding]]
*[[Streaming media|Streaming Audio]]
*[[ID3|Tag Editing]]
*[[Gracenote]] [[CDDB]]
*[[Crossfade (audio engineering)|Crossfading]] & [[Equalization (audio)|EQ]]
*Multiple [[Music visualization|Visualizations]]
*[[Skin (computing)|Skins]] and [[Plug-in (computing)|Plugins]]

A wide range of audio formats playable via the use of ''plugins'', [[Last.fm#Audioscrobbler plugin|Audioscrobbler support]] (also supplied via a plugin) and many more [[Skin (computing)|skins]] allowing the customization of the players interface were obtainable from the Quinnware<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170407032821/http://www.quinnware.com/ Quinnware]</ref> site.

Quintessential Player also had fully functional [[Microsoft Windows profile|Windows profile]] support and did not require administrator user access to run properly.

==See also==
*[[Comparison of audio player software]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170407032821/http://www.quinnware.com/ Quintessential Player Website] (archived copy from April 2017, last valid version)
*[http://sourceforge.net/projects/qplugins/ Quintessential Player plug-ins at Sourceforge.net]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090518123734/http://qwiki.toejob.org/index.php Quintessential Player Wiki] (archive)
*[http://wikiwiki.jp/qmp/ Quintessential Player Wiki (Japanese)]

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[[Category:Windows media players]]
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