Audion (software)

Audion (software)

Infobox Software
name = Audion



caption = Player window using the default Smoothface theme.
developer = Panic
latest_release_version = 3.0.2
latest_release_date =
latest_preview_version =
latest_preview_date =
operating_system = Mac OS X, Mac OS 9
platform =
genre = Audio player
license =
website = [http://www.panic.com/audion/ Panic.com/audion/]

Audion is an audio player by Panic. It was originally a commercial program, but with the advent of Apple's iTunes, development was halted and it was released as freeware.

Design

One of the features of Audion that set it apart from its rivals, particularly SoundJam, was its beautiful user-interface, which featured transparency through a process that mimicked the functionality of alpha channels.

History

Cabel Sasser has written that he and Steven Frank had one goal with Audion: "we wanted to listen to our music CDs on our computers while we worked, and we wanted it to be stylish."http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/ The True Story of Audion]

Audion was originally conceived as one piece in a set of small applications to be called PanicPack, but time constraints led to the release of Audion 1.0 as standalone application on August 16, 1999.

Audion was known for its excellent MP3 decoder, which is reputed to produce sound with superior fidelity. Sasser said this was an accident, and that he and Frank have no idea how they achieved this.

Audion was retired on November 11, 2004. [http://www2.jeffcroft.com/blog/2004/nov/11/farewell-audion/ Farewell Audion]

ee also

* Comparison of media players

References


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