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Monday, June 27, 2005

Trashing the Sonique

So...after being a Sonique user for quite some time, I finally decided to remove it.
For those of you who don't know, Sonique is a media player and it has really great features. Easy to use with most of the features of an ordinary media player such as Winamp, it's really great. Some of its skins are even better than Winamp's. Its got 3 modes - a standard "Full" mode, a "medium" mode, plus a really cute, minimalistic Winshade mode.
So, if Sonique is so great, you must be wondering why I removed it after all. Well, for one thing, Sonique hasn't gone under any development since long back in 2003, it isn't fully featured and most plugins don't work properly. Plus, I was eagerly waiting for Sonique 2 (it's got an awesome Mantis graphics engine), but it's still Beta. Sonique bug reporting system has gone stagnant (basically like everything else related to Sonique and it doesn't fit my needs - simply destroys precious disk space.
However, I have included some screenshots of Sonique (just in case you like it). Here they are:


Sonique's Default Skin - Full Mode



Skin: Lain - Min mode




Skin: ChainZ - Mid Mode

You can download Sonique from the Sonique website: Sonique Web [New Window]
Besides the skins available on Sonique Web, you can get more from [Customize.org]

2 Comments:

Blogger arjun said...

Hey the skins look pretty good!!!!

1:16 am

 
Blogger blog.sahil.me said...

yup...sonique is famous for its skins!

1:48 am

 

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