Basic Playback
Opening a single file
To open a single file, go to File → Open menu. The application shows a standard open file dialog where you can select a file for playback. If the file is supported, the file is automatically added to a current playlist to its last position, and the playback is initialized. The recently open files are listed in the File menu for quick access:
Playback controls
To control playback, you should use the following buttons:
From left to right, they are:
- Stop
- Switch to previous file
- Switch to previous frame
- Play
- Switch to next frame
- Switch to next file.
When the playback is in Play state, the frame-by-frame navigation is not available, and the corresponding buttons become fast navigation forward and backward for 10 seconds:
Also, you can control playback with a context menu in the preview area:
- Play – starts playback. When playback is running, the item is Pause.
- Stop – stops playback.
- Previous – switches playback to the previous item
- Next - switches playback to the next file
- Speed – adjusts playback speed. Available values are: 0.25x, 0.5x, 1.0x, 1.5x, 2.0x, and 4.0x
- Audio Track – selects an audio track for playback
- Zoom – sets a zoom level for preview. Available values are: Default, 150%, 200%, 250%.
Navigating with the timeline bar
Above the playback control buttons, there is a timeline slider that indicates the actual playback position. You can seek the playback by clicking on the target position of the slider.
The actual playback position timecode is illustrated in the timecode area:
The control is editable, so you can seek a target timecode position by typing a timecode value in the control and pressing Enter on your keyboard. Once seek operation is done, the playback switches to Pause state.
Volume control
You can control the overall volume with the Volume slider, and the Mute/Unmute button at its left.
Below the control all available audio tracks are listed. You can enable or disable audio from a given track by checking or unchecking a corresponding checkbox, e.g. “Track 2”.
Audio Meters
With the Show/hide Audio meter button (Shift+A hotkey), you can check audio of your source files.
The control displays volume gain from all enabled channels for each frame. By default, Audio Meters are located at the right side of the player, but you can drag it to any desired position.
Working with Playlists
You can arrange files into playlists with n.Player. By default, opening a file with File → Open, the player adds it to a playlist.
You can open all files in a folder. For this, use File → Open Folder… menu. The player opens a dialog box where you can select a folder. Once selected, all supported media files from the folder are added to the player’s playlist.
Playlist Management
You can manage the playlist with the Playlist menu:
- Save Playlist to File… – saves the current playlist configuration to a local file for future use.
- Load Playlist… – loads a playlist configuration from a selected file.
- Hide Playlist – hides the playlist panel from the user interface when it is visible. Otherwise, the menu item is Show Playlist, and it shows the playlist panel on the user interface.
- Hide Metadata - hides the metadata panel from the user interface in case it is visible. Otherwise, the menu item is Show Metadata, and it shows the metadata panel on the user interface.
- Clear Playlist – clears the current playlist from all files.
Additional control is available in a context menu of Playlist panel:
- Add File… – adds a selected file to the playlist.
- Save Playlist – saves the current playlist to a local file.
- Clear Playlist – clears the current playlist from all the files.
- Remove Selected – removes the selected item from the playlist.
- Open Containing Folder – opens File Explorer with a location of the selected item.
Loop Playback Control
You can control loop playback with the following button
It has 3 states:
Default playback, no loop enabled,
Loop the entire playlist,
Loop a current item.