If you type "Xion Media Player" into google, you will lots of download sites.

For those who are experiencing download problems with Xion. I have tried and easily downloaded Xion from the r2 Studios website http://xion.r2.com.au/ with all possible web browsers,

IE (6 and 7), Mozilla Firefox (v. 1.5.0.7), Netscape (v. 8.1) and Opera (v. 9.01 Build 8552) using a pc with Windows Xp Professional.

All downloaded installers worked just fine and installed correctely with no hassles or problems. After installation, running the small software was a breeze with no crashes (yet), no weird bugs (yet).

One thing I DEFINITELY DON'T like is the "simple playlist"/"simple library". It is really way too "simple" with info about the track and the singer all together in a messy list.

Other than that, the skinning easy is really cool as it can be a first step for those interested in skinning, sound quality is good and clear.

We shall see if the project goes far with the program itself, the skins and the add-ins...

Time will tell.

I like it

well I hate to say it but I did the google thing and the direct link thing and every single download was a crash after installing and running and even rebooting and then running so I guess I will not get to have the fun everyone else is going to have or is already having. Good luck to you guys!!! Maybe that I will try again on my next wipe and reload!

Speedy

huh. I'm using FF, just downloaded newest build from Link

AppName: xion.exe AppVer: 1.0.0.58 ModName: unknown
ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 616c6975

Here is the error code^^

Man this sucks Ireally wanted to play with this

Speedy

ok i downloaded it and it keeps on crashing and i cant figure out why can anyone help

Downloaded fine, installed fine, loaded fine, audio quality = no difference.

To me, foobar and Xion sound the exact same. I have replygain, and a bunch of configured settings in foobar however. But all that configuration is a given if you plan to use foobar... Out of the box, Xion is pretty nice . It uses almost 20 MB of memory for me tho . Foobar is a small 4 MB.

I'll stick with foobar, but thanks for the link. Nice little program ^__^.

My system info (without all the bells and whistles of software list) :

Computer Type ACPI Multiprocessor PC
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
Internet Explorer 7.0.5700.6
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Computer Name
User Name
Logon Domain
Date / Time 2006-09-26 / 00:06

Motherboard:
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4 630, 3000 MHz (15 x 200)
Motherboard Name Asus P5AD2-E Premium (3 PCI, 2 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Dual Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394)
Motherboard Chipset Intel Alderwood i925XE
System Memory 2048 MB (DDR2-533 DDR2 SDRAM)
BIOS Type AMI (03/23/05)

Display:
Video Adapter Radeon X1900 GT Secondary (256 MB)
Video Adapter Radeon X1900 GT (256 MB)
3D Accelerator ATI Radeon X1900 GT (R580)
Monitor Model DELL 2407WFP

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter C-Media CMI9880 @ Intel 82801FB ICH6 - High Definition Audio Controller [B-2]
Audio Adapter Creative SB Live! 24-bit (SB0410) Sound Card

Storage:
IDE Controller Intel(R) 82801FB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 2652
IDE Controller Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 266F
Storage Controller ITE IT8211 ATA/ATAPI Controller
Storage Controller Silicon Image SiI 3114 SoftRaid 5 Controller
Storage Controller VAXSCSI Controller
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive Generic Flash HS-CF USB Device (117 MB, USB)
Disk Drive Generic Flash HS-COMBO USB Device
Disk Drive ST3400832AS (400 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA)
Disk Drive ST3400832AS (400 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA)
Disk Drive ST3750640AS (750 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II)
Disk Drive USB2.0 CardReader CF RW USB Device
Disk Drive USB2.0 CardReader Combo USB Device
Optical Drive HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8525B SCSI CdRom Device (52x/32x/52x CD-RW)
Optical Drive HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8164B (16x/52x DVD-ROM)
Optical Drive KA2711H PQV908H SCSI CdRom Device
Optical Drive PLEXTOR DVDR PX-716AL (DVD+R9:6x, DVD+RW:16x/8x, DVD-RW:16x/4x, DVD-ROM:16x, CD:48x/24x/48x DVD+RW/DVD-RW)
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Input:
Keyboard Logitech PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse Logitech HID-compliant G5 Laser Mouse

Network:
Network Adapter Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (X 2)

DMI:
DMI BIOS Vendor American Megatrends Inc.
DMI BIOS Version 1005.002
DMI Motherboard Manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC.
DMI Motherboard Product P5AD2-E-Premium
DMI Motherboard Version Rev 1.xx

Ok, this is a lot of info but when you have problems installing software, it might be a good idea to give out some info about your system (OS, Ram, Processor and so on) so that somebody can help you out to figure your problems..

I installed this Xion in 5 different computers and one of those computers has Window Vista RC 1 (Build 5600) : while other players game me a hard time on Vista (consider the same WMP 11 crashes all the time on Vista !!!), this installed and played really smooth on all systems)...

Hi all!

Sorry that some of you are experiencing problems downloading a running Xion Audio Player, hopefully I can help you out.

It shouldn't matter which browser you use, in fact I use FireFox all the time and not IE and the link seems to be working fine. It's possible that the server is under a bit of pressure with all of the recent downloads so it might be worthwhile hitting download again.

As for the crashes, I'm not sure what would be causing this. It is possible that drivers are causing the issue, so if you could ensure you have the latest sound drivers for your card installed, then we can cross that off the list.

The official Xion forum can be found at http://xion.r2.com.au/community/ . If you are still experiencing crashes after updating to the latest Sound Drivers, then please come by and let me know so that I can work with you to fix the crash.

I'm glad that you are all enjoying Xion and in response to LoveSensualityDevotion, yes I do plan to upgrade those components in the future. I will be releasing a component SDK which will also open up the field for component developers to create new and fantastic components.

Hope to see some great skins from you all!

Warm regards,
Cliff

r2 Studios
http://www.r2.com.au/
http://xion.r2.com.au/

Hi Cliff, Can we upload skins to the official Xion site, or just DeviantArt? If you let me know how to get them on the official site I will send some over. Thanks for a great skinning system, has it been used in any other applications? Did you develop it, and if so how did you make the player use .PSD files?, I'm fascinated by this!

The idea of skinning with PSD's is excellent, however this player just isn't doing it for me at all. the Library and Playlist menu's aren't very informative at all, unlike Foobar2000. My computer isn't the newest, but it does run at 1.5Ghz and whenever a move a window around or close a window the music hangs/skips in Xion which sucks. Another issue for me is that when you display the Xion player itself, everything else in teh background freezes and you can't control any of it unless you minimize the Xion player. Terrible! Why is it like that? I've already made a skin for it and it works almost perfectly. Still some adjustments to make on that. When it isn't skipping/hanging it sounds excellent, but I'll continue to use Foobar.

Hi BoXXi,

Yes you can send them to me using the Contact page. Just choose 'Skin Submission' from the drop down box and attach your skin file.

Thanks for the great feedback on the skinning system

No it hasn't been used in any other applications. Yes, I developed it from scratch for use with Xion. To figure out the PSD file format, I managed to find some old version 3.0 publicly released file format documents and from there I just figured out the rest by trial and error.

All up the development of Xion has taken about 4 years of my spare time development. The skin system taking up the most time.

I coded Xion in pure Win32 using C++.

Cliff

Hi FordGT,

Another issue for me is that when you display the Xion player itself, everything else in teh background freezes and you can't control any of it unless you minimize the Xion player

Which version of Windows are you using?

Did you see my response to your forum post on the Xion forums?

Cliff

its a bit buggy but otherwise its pretty coo! i got the skin with the wobbly speakers and it is so cute! looking forward to creating a skinning for it in PS, what a great concept that is! I can't wait for stardock to implement PS formats for skins too