Forget all the other audio players ! If you care about sound quality rather than looks, then this is the ultimate player ;)

Apollo is perhaps best recognized by its playlist oriented interface. Playlists can be created and modified with standard Windows methods such as drag'n'drop and context menus.

The main playlist will be shown as a tree, which may contain nested playlists. This makes it possible to have multiple playlist files open at once, yet having the possibility to handle them as separate entities.

The playlist system will retrieve ID3 and ID3v2 tag information for not only MP3 files but for all supported formats. Based on the tag information — along with common track properties — it is possible to create random entries into playlists.

This means that instead of inserting a track into your playlist, you can insert an entry which sets conditions for the track to be played. When the player encounters such an entry while playing the playlist, it picks the track to be played randomly according to the conditions.

These so called advanced playlists along with the continuous playback and crossfading make Apollo a considerable choice for some more demanding tasks. There are, for instance, some dance clubs and radio stations that are based on Apollo.

Here are some key features of "Apollo":

- Completely free of charge
- Full HTML documentation
- Plug-in based support for different file formats
- Ships with high quality MPEG-1/2 audio layer 2/3 and RIFF WAV PCM/ADPCM decoders
- Support for Winamp visualization, DSP and general purpose plug-ins
- Internet streaming
- Realtime 16-band graphic equalizer for all file formats
- Accurate adjustable pause between tracks (gapless play also supported)
- Crossfading between tracks (also with DirectSound and WAV output)
- Built-in playlist (PLS/M3U/AAP) editor with drag & drop capabilities
- Apollo Advanced Playlist support
- Support for ID3 and ID3v2 tags
- Standard Wave Out and DirectSound support
- Decode to WAV file