XingSound is an MP2 and WAV audio player for Win16 created by Xing Technology Corporation. It is as minimalist as can get, not even pause is implemented. Its only functions are "Open", "Play", "Stop" and "Repeat".

The oldest version available here is dated 1993 - that makes it the most ancient software featured at ReallyRareWares to this date (before XingSound, the oldest program here was Sonarc). Considering that in 1993 most of us were still using 286s and 386s, Xing also added to their player the option of half and quarter quality playback, similar to an option available to this day in MP3 players.

Decoding quality is unfortunately bad because the versions here are free demos featuring a low-precision decoder that is mono-only. If you happen to have the full version lying around in some old floppy disk please get in touch! For MP2 playback pretty much any other player offers higher accuracy (but, alas, I do not know of any other MP2 player that works on Win 3.1).


Date: 1995-02-15
Version: ?
Interface: Graphical
Platform: Win16
Download: mpgaudio2.exe - 114kB

Date: 1993-07-23
Version: 1.0
Interface: Graphical
Platform: Win16
Download: mpgaudio1.exe - 107kB

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Years later Xing created the XingMP3 player, a companion for their MP3 encoder and CD ripper (AudioCatalyst). It is way better looking than its predecessor and was distributed for free, but is not very featureful: it has a playlist manager and panning control, but no equalizer, no tagging, no native support for formats other than MP2/3.

You can still visit the XingMP3 player page at the Internet Archive.


Date: 1999-08-06
Version: 1.0.1
Interface: Graphical
Platform: Win32
Download: mp3p101.exe - 2.105kB
Kindly contributed by Zachary Jelesoff