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Sep 06 2010 - funkybebel (beta tester)
anh said :
love your player but please give unicode support for russian :( i must use other players, that sucks, cause billy cant play files with russian letters in name.

You have to rename your collection, sorry.
(i did the same with ethiopan music i have)


Sep 05 2010 - Haploïde
Thanks for your great small music app! :D
I still use Billy daily.

Are you still working on it? Or are you too busy doing other stuff?

I wonder when billy 1.04 gets out of beta-phase :P


Sep 02 2010 - agt
I love your minimalist apps but hate your minimalist approach to updating them :P


Aug 30 2010 - anh
love your player but please give unicode support for russian :( i must use other players, that sucks, cause billy cant play files with russian letters in name.

good job ;)


Aug 19 2010 - sadha
ITs a nice light weight music player. i love it.
can you please add support for WMA files also.
plus some latest binaries to make it more interesting.


Aug 10 2010 - Johnnie G.
Thanks for the great apps. I like your minimalistic approach!
keep the good work.


Jul 22 2010 - Joseph Wilkinson
Beautiful program, one of the best I've ever used in terms of efficiency and functionality. Thanks so much.

I only have one small (small) problem: Billy can play FLAC files, and Billy can scrobble, but Billy seems to have a problem scrobbling FLAC files. Fix that, and I'll drop you a sizeable and well-deserved donation.

Actually I'll donate anyway, but I'd really appreciate FLAC scrobbling. :)


Jul 14 2010 - jesus christ
jesus loves billy. update billy for jesus.


Jul 14 2010 - Ferrous
I absolutely love this player, it's the only program which doesn't crash when adding thousands of tracks to the playlist. If i may suggest some cool ideas, extensions to the exe filepath like -next or -previous while running in single instance mode, so as to control the program from mIRC, or speech recognization software.


Jul 07 2010 - MEDDY
AT LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAST !
A simple and efficient lightweight player that does just what it does. SImply perfect.
No Flourish, No tentacular unneeded feautures.
And FREEµ. As A developer myself, I give a big THANK YOU !


Jul 03 2010 - qphp [at] ebanat.com
Nice Software! Please, add API for Billy.


Jun 24 2010 - Mega
PLEASE! Make some global hotkeys for Billy.. I'd start using it right away!! And what about a Linux port of Billy? Think about it!


Jun 23 2010 - Zandesh [at] gmail.com
Billy is the greatest app ever! For music that is, but I would wish for you to make a MAC version too, as I would prefer that instead of Itunes


Jun 21 2010 - maria
billy is the best music player i have ever used. thank you.


Jun 19 2010 - holyprophetchurch [at] gmail.com
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Jun 18 2010 - Bonov
Though I'm also still a big fan of Foobar2000 which has some very useful features, Billy is a brilliant simple player that does exactly where it's made for...playing music.


Jun 10 2010 - Lee
Tried paypal-ing you but for some reason I can't get the € sign to take in paypal (am viewing webpage from USA).


Jun 08 2010 - AuraAllan
Billy rocks !


May 29 2010 - Ovus
Just gotta say that your software is awesomely perfect. The programs do exactly what they should do, not more, not less. Simplistic, lessistic, awesome. Thank you for your work.


May 28 2010 - Max
Billy won't open files with non-latin characters. Other than that, he's boss.

Thanks


May 16 2010 - Cam
i♥billy=]
i have a 31GB music library and a laptop with 657MB of ram,
billy manages it all like a boss.
way to be billy


May 15 2010 - myman03
rite josef... too bad...
i'm waiting for win 7 version too...


May 14 2010 - Josef
too bad they're no longer being developed. it would be great if we see some win7 taskbar integration at least for billy :D


May 13 2010 - Sven
If only microsoft would understand this. Good job.


May 04 2010 - Tim
Love these programs!

Every feature I was looking for was there without the bloat.


Apr 29 2010 - Dilpreet aka King dilpreetsachdeva [at] gmail.com
Wow!
Phenomenal!
Tell you what..
Its what I have been looking for...
Billy is Great!
Nice work sheepfriends.


Apr 25 2010 - Mandie
Absolutely LOVING Diana ;] what a cute little program<3 So convenient and handy


Apr 23 2010 - Spicky
I am just loving Billy.. what a cute piece...


Apr 20 2010 - Bob
bob barker's post: hahahha


Apr 20 2010 - Bob
(when i press "check connection.")

Has anybody gotten it to work?


Apr 20 2010 - Bob
scrobbling in Billy no longer works!! :((( always says "can not connect to lastfm" for me.


Apr 12 2010 - Kevin
Oh, Sanne responded!
Can you keep us informed on any progress made on this wonderful program? I've been using this for over half a decade now.


Apr 08 2010 - Jigsy
Be nice if Billy showed total amount of time listened to music, but that's about it. :3


Apr 08 2010 - chrishyndman [at] att.net
Loving Billy! Doesn't show up in win+tab, but other than that absolutely no complaints! Keep up the good work!


Apr 06 2010 - Rajneesh C
I dont care to think of another MP3 player than BILLY.

Thank you very much for the slick player. I can even play games with BILLY playing my favorite music!


Apr 05 2010 - Jackman
I use Billy everyday. A million times better than loading up Windows Media Player. Thank you.


Mar 31 2010 - Sanne (author)
The association part is the well known UAC behavior that Vista and 7 has. You should run Billy once as Administrator in order to allow the program write access to this registry part. (Many old (great) programs don't save all settings when run as normal user). It's a bummer write access doesn't cause a proper os dialog automatically. Billy doesn't support custom DPI's. Regards


Mar 29 2010 - funkybebel
to marijn - Mar 26 2010
Weird, for me everything works but the associations that i must make manually.


Mar 26 2010 - marijn
Anyone know if there is an update version of Billy 1.04k for Windows Vista and/or Windows 7? That would be a great help.. The player works, but the characters are only half shown if you put the character size in windows (dpi) larger. Also the additional control functions (which you can program yourself) are disabled.

Thanks in advance


Mar 19 2010 - Maggie
Thanks for Billy!!!!! Using it for 2 years now


Mar 19 2010 - Brian
Leon, ur'e a ignorant troll. Since Billy's lightweight, there's very little about it that needs fixing/improving. I still use Billy on win7 cause i only need to play music and not to have a fancy gui to look at. Billy is timeless while XMplay is fugly & outdated, if you wish for some fancy eyecandy, better use Xion (since Winamp is shit)


Mar 18 2010 - Bianca
Billy is cult :-)


Mar 18 2010 - Leon
@thisproject: Billy is not about features... it's about simplicity and project is not dead


Mar 17 2010 - this project is dead
people, stop using this crappy software. sure it is light, but it is sooooo ugly. and the project is long since dead.
switch to XMPlay. it is just as lean on resources, is still active, and offers far more features than billy ever could.


Mar 15 2010 - Ingmar
Billy is the shit!
Thank you


Mar 06 2010 - Old donator
Hi Devs and users !
Sheepfriend apps are just fantastic.
But like many years ago, they can't allow time to coding without earning money.
So if we (apps users) donate just 5$, it will fasten developing (and if we donate much as expected, maybe he will opensource some apps [I want Billy on linux -_- !!])
Thanks all !


Mar 04 2010 - Daz
Billy is exactly what I've been looking for ever since Winamp got bloated out of all recognition. Lovely program!
Thank you very much.


Mar 03 2010 - Jesse
Thanks for all the work. Billy is my new default music player, and I am amazingly picky.


Mar 02 2010 - Thrasher - 5battaglione [at] gmail.com
Hi Sheep! All the programs you made are fantastic! Minimalistic and extremely functional! The mp3 player changed my life! :P Only one thing doesn't work about it: doesn't recognise russian/polish alphabet, but is in any case the best program! Keep goin!

Thrasher from Italy


Feb 27 2010 - tikkunolom [at] gmail.com
Hi !

Billy is so cool and simple.
It will be my favorite music player!
thanks. :D


Feb 24 2010 - billy luvr
perfect. simple. easy controls. no bloat or BS.
thank you!


Feb 23 2010 - José (from Argentina)
Thanks to all developers! Billy is just what I expect from a mp3 player.
By the way... the project is abandoned or there will be a final release of the actual beta (2008 dated)?


Feb 23 2010 - el.messmari
i really loved your software why have not i came via your site before! whish you best of luck & am useing Natty ,Billy & Diana. hope you guys create a light webbrowser this will be grate! love your work =)


Feb 20 2010 - Chionsas
any chances of opensourcing Billy? :)


Feb 19 2010 - ak209
Billy is AmAzInG! It's perfect, no complaints.


Feb 15 2010 - Papa Speedbird, arild [at] skaatun.com
Most programs work well here, on my computer.
Regards Papa Speedbird,

arild@skaatun.com


Feb 13 2010 - Frostburn
Great stuff! No more winamp, I just wish the shortcuts were customizable, and some way to hide the menu bar so it looks even more minimalistic, also an option to turn off the tray icon, so it stays on the taskbar when minimized.
I would Really appreciate it if you could add that in next version :)

And if it's not too much trouble - track duration next to each list item.


Feb 11 2010 - DarkStar
Billy is an amazing program, great for old computers


Feb 08 2010 - TiZiU
Very nice apps... i love Billy, simple, tiny and fast app. Great job.


Feb 04 2010 - Froop
Hey there, I just want you to know how happy I am with basically all of your programs. They're all just my taste (minimalistic!), yet still do their job.
Hope there will be more to come. :)


Jan 31 2010 - ardiccari
Agree with Paul Gausol, Billy is absolutely fantastic. No more winamp!


Jan 28 2010 - Paul Gausol
I absolutely LOVE Billy. Thank you so for much for this peice of software. It's absolutely perfect. Perhaps a simple customization feature to rearrange or customize some of the buttons in the near future?


Jan 23 2010 - feedmepaper [at] yahoo.com
@Adam23: Thanks! I will check out the new version.

PS: I would have missed your post if not for one spam message I got which seems to have harvested all the mail ids in the guestbook and mentioned it as the source where "she" got my mail id and got interested in "starting a serious relationship". :)


Jan 19 2010 - Zobu
Really like Billy! I used to use Winamp but lately it's become almost as bloated and slow as iTunes, so Billy is an excellent alternative and made just the way I like it - small, fast and light. Good stuff!


Jan 17 2010 - Saudepp
Totally Bullshit... Everything


Jan 15 2010 - CurtJ
If you want Natty to work in Windows 7then right-click the .exe and go to properties, run as an admin, disable visual themes and desktop composition and put it in windows 98 compatibility mode. Start Natty, and set up your email account(s). Check it connects and works, then close the program. Reset all the compatibility options but keep it in windows 98 compatibility mode. Restart the program and minimise it. It should work fine. If you need to change any of the options or prefs you have to go through this process again.

Great little app. Thanks Sheep people.


Jan 15 2010 - Nico
Hi there, is Billy dead? Could you move the code to open-source? The world will benefit you!!!

Greetz, Nico


Jan 14 2010 - Viddie
Billy is the best !! using this soft since first version. open hundred mp3 file only in few second.


Jan 12 2010 - Steve [at] bagofspoons.net
Billy seems to be the music player I wanted for listening at work. I listen to whole albums/directories and use last.fm. I needed something that can hide in the tooltray and respond to the play/pause button on my keyboard. Billy does all that and uses minimal memory. I'm very happy with it so far.

Thanks


Jan 11 2010 - Charlie - Czech Republic
Great piece of software. The only thing I miss is support for .asx files to listen to the internet radio. Thanks for billy!


Jan 08 2010 - Carlos
Greetings from Argentina, I´ve used Billy for a while, it´s a great soft. Thank you for sharing it.


Jan 07 2010 - ngear [at] gvtc.com
(Using this form because the Contact form will not accept my name.)

Recently loaded Billy. Very sweet little program. Hope my donation made it.

I hear development has been suspended, but if you resume, there are a few things which I think might be nice, like:

Drag and drop between multiple instances of Billy (current workaround: cut and paste via keyboard)

Adding file to middle of playlist (current workaround: add file to one Billy window, cut and paste into list in second Billy window)

Display song length option (current workaround show "properties" on each song, or commence play on each song)

Display or calculate total playlength on a selected group of songs (current workaround: convert each to seconds, add up on calculator, convert back to minutes and seconds)

But even if you don't resume development, I'm still grateful for this superb player.

Thanks,
Nick
N-Gear


Jan 07 2010 - Dua|ist
It is somewhat sad to see the development of Billy suspended, but no matter what, it's still the best audio player out there. No, really. It seems even a bit strange that a software so close to perfection in what it does can ever exist.
Just a modern UI support (XP/Vista/7 native controls skinning) and the latest bass libraries — i cannot wish for more. Well, apart from a cross-platform Lazarus-based version, but figure it's just too much to wish. :)
Anyway, I take my hat off. Long live Billy, long live Sheep friends!


Jan 04 2010 - Vineet
I love your applications and website. They're simple, useful, and light — just the way I like it. Keep up the good work!


Jan 03 2010 - l_noogie [at] yahoo.com
Very useful site.


Dec 17 2009 - Djoko
Hi I am from Indonesia
I used billy as a main audio player in our local campus fund gathering.

i hope u create the linux version too
coz everyone love free stuff


Dec 16 2009 - halox32 [at] gmail.com
When will new "Bily" version


Dec 11 2009 - billox
Sorry, I forget: can I change the color of the online radio, insert with command: "File->Add Url" ? Now it's green...
----
Anyway, this is my colors.ini:

[Style]
background_color=#CCCC99
font_name=Verdana
font_size=9
font_bold=0
font_color=#282828
font_color_selected=#FFFFFF
selection_color=#00688B
selection_color_playingitem=#D2691E
playingitem_color=#000080
playingitem_color_selected=#0000FF
playingitem_bold=1
queueditem_color=#FFFF00
shuffleditem_color=#000080


Dec 11 2009 - billox
Hi,
Billy is the best!
Thanks, I love it!

P.S: How do work play "queueditem_color=" ?
I don't know, I tried to change its color, but nothing happen...


Dec 10 2009 - Zaphod
Hi,

I love Billy but the sound corrupts when I switch windows in Windows 7 64-bit. It may be a 32 bit compat. problem. It's another reason why I probably won't use Win 7. I love my Billy. Does anyone have any idea how to solve this? I've downloaded a new driver!


Dec 04 2009 - info [at] tuost.com
Billy is on my MustHave list for sure! Thanks...


Nov 22 2009 - laptopbargain [at] gmail.com
nice site

laptopbargain@gmail.com


Nov 22 2009 - holyprophetchurch [at] gmail.com
sign me up for a newsletter

holyprophetchurch@gmail.com


Nov 20 2009 - detto
I use Billy. I still do, since version 1.03. In this time I switched to Linux and also had my OSX time. Since 2 months I'm back to Windows, and after some searching for a music player fitting my needs in behaviour and simplicity, I'm back at Billy. :)


Nov 15 2009 - evostyk [at] live.co.uk
Sheep are good


Nov 15 2009 - MiniTaurus
Just drop to say hi and thanks for Billy ^^

Still waiting for update here =D


Nov 14 2009 - Valmon
to blayen:

I use Billy BECAUSE OF flac support.. have you tried the latest version (1.04k)?

Cheers,v.


Nov 13 2009 - blayen
LOVE billy but i really miss FLAC support.. :-(


Nov 08 2009 - Hi
a suggestion:

playing files from .rar and .zip files?


Nov 07 2009 - jibberjabber29 [at] googlemail.com
great site


Nov 06 2009 - Abhishek Singh
I love Billy ...So simple...so fast...
i'm using since abt 2 yrs..
Still my fav...
Thanx a lot dude.. :-)


Nov 06 2009 - SOURCE
SOURCE, SOURCE, SOURCE...


Nov 03 2009 - Leslie.Owusu.Appiah [at] gmail.com
Listening to my iTunes downloaded podcasts with Billy. So little overhead. So nice. Thanks :-)


Nov 02 2009 - funkybebel
hi lesmo :)
hope that sanne will come back soon !!!!


Oct 30 2009 - Lesmo16
@Pino:
The font size of the controls (like menu) are not changeable for Billy. It depends on your Windows system settings.
Rightclick on your desktop ...


Oct 27 2009 - Pino
Thank you! @Lesmo16

To create the colors.ini is no problem, I used it in Billy 1.3 before
Is it possible to change the font size of the "controls" and "progress" in Billy 1.4k? for my bad eyes it's difficult to see. I like this player a lot and it would be great if I could change that.


Oct 26 2009 - Lesmo16
@Pino:
1) put the line
ActiveScheme=color.ini
into the [General] section of your Billy.ini
2) put the line
font_size=8
into your color.ini


Oct 26 2009 - Pino
Hello!

In billy 1.4k the color.ini is not effected anymore. How to use color.ini for font size in Billy 1.4k?


Oct 25 2009 - Kristian
I love ur software!. . . U rock!


Oct 17 2009 - Ben
I absolutely love your software. :) All of it.


Oct 16 2009 - Halo halox32 [at] gmail.com
Create setup for Billy 1.04k beta


Oct 15 2009 - Hampus
aweseome billy 1.04b reads m3u playlists but now i can't change songs with tab or the "next" button


Oct 13 2009 - Pure
I try Billy, it simple but very useful. Billy use CPU below 10% (avg 6-8%) on my AMD 2GHz. FANTASTIC!

Thank you for made it cool!
I love it :-D


Oct 12 2009 - spiki
hi guys!
how can i edit BillyMirc to show artist and track length? billy reads songtitle, not id2v1/2 tags..

Thanx!


Oct 12 2009 - Amin fastah [at] gmail.com
Billy is FANTASTIC! i LOVE it it has made me enjoy music again... Itunes and winamp bloatware allways put me off as i'm a resource junkie.


I am having some trouble opening my large music folder and i have even use renamers to rename every folder especially for billy but it doesnt like it... my music folder has 1500 directories on Windows7 32bit.

any advice? please email me at fastah@gmail.com. i will gladly sponser/donate after this is remidied. thanks. amin.


Oct 09 2009 - Hampus
isnt billy able to use m3u playlists? like if i double click a playlist billy gives me a unknown format error


Oct 04 2009 - maria
undoubtedly, the best music player i've ever encountered.


Oct 03 2009 - tim2301agmail.com
I'm using billy for over 3 years now and i love it, quick and easy, the only thing that i miss is a equalizer in billy.

keep up the good work


Sep 25 2009 - prochy007 [at] gmail.com
I love billy! THE BEST music player I have ever tried! But I have a small problem with the beta 1.04k, when I play sth a I open new mp3 file billy doesnt load it and still plays previous one.


Sep 24 2009 - dyi874 [at] gmail.com
Ditto liuton2005's comment: fast and useful!


Sep 13 2009 - liuton2005 [at] yahoo.com
I really like your programs because they are exactly what I want from a PC: fast and useful.


Sep 09 2009 - Fddlstx [at] mail2weird.com
I stumbled across Billy the other day after browsing a list of light weight music players. I have to say that I was blown away and extremely pleased. Billy performance, stability and usability is exactly what I was looking for. It's lean, functional and everything I've been looking for in an audio player. Thank you for your work in making Billy, and I hope that you keep developing your programs! Keep up the good work. Thank you.


Sep 08 2009 - CWILLARD4 [at] triad.rr.com
Hi, Abby, Iam Norma, near Helena. She wants me to see yout blog. And I wish best of everything. Love, Norma Willard


Aug 31 2009 - John
Hi all,

Really want to know how to change color and font in Billy 1.04l? The colors.ini file doesnt work like it used to in 1.03. Really need to do this as text is too small for my screen!


Aug 29 2009 - :...
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Aug 27 2009 - thanks!
Thanks Sanne for this awesome program. I've been using it since 2004 and I recommend it to all my friends. Perfect simplicity.


Aug 26 2009 - Jason
Billy is the best!!!!! Just want to say thanks for a fantastic, fast, lightweight mp3 player that I have been using for years. No flashing lights, no gizmos just a damn good, elegant player. Thanks.


Aug 22 2009 - CreamKreator
Billy is an excellent companion to electric sheep :)


Aug 22 2009 - creamkreator [at] gmail.com
The Natty put my computer in an evil ycle of infinite loop.. Was struggling to stop it :)
Fortunately i managed to get a click in the old x and it halted so i could terminate it from task manager.. It showed me an error during install.


Aug 19 2009 - Nico
rapidshare.com/files/269008351/Billy_1.04l.zip

Please share it and donate the developer !!!

best regards
Nico


Aug 18 2009 - maximum_damage
and yes, Billy IS the best player!

Thank you, Sheep!


Aug 18 2009 - maximum_damage
prev link for billy 1.04l expired
could please somebody reupload it?


Aug 13 2009 - Nico
Dear Developer, i hope you're OK.
It's a pity, that there is no longer development on billy. It's still THE BEST PLAYER i know. PLEASE go on it or make it OPEN SOURCE. The world will donate you for this, i'm sure!

For those who looking for the unofficial billy 1.04l-version...

rapidshare.com/files/266730245/Billy_1.04l.zip.html

Please share it !!!

best regards
Nico


Aug 09 2009 - Alexander
Billy is the best MP3 player for Windows known to humankind. The Kelly calc is just what is needed for quick quotes, I appreciate this as a sales person.


Jul 21 2009 - Please Help - sheepfriends [at] 2009.antispam.de
I enjoy Billy most but Kelly would be very usefull, too - if it would work with W2K properly. It does not display the two digits on the right. Could sombody help me to fix this bug?

(Email works till 14-08-2009)


Jul 19 2009 - april
use billy at work and home. it would be nice to see the current song displayed as a messenger status.


Jul 18 2009 - m
very good player.


Jul 18 2009 - pwcoupets [at] gmail.com
Best mp3 player... very simple, no any useless shit like other mp3 player... VERY GOOD JOB GUYS!!!


Jul 17 2009 - Jakob
The Billy player is quite simply the best mp3-player I have ever used :-)


Jul 17 2009 - concerned
Sanne, are you alright?


Jul 10 2009 - Andy
Just found your site while looking for a superlight mp3 playa. Billy looks great at first glance. Haven't seen so less memory being used in a playa over the last 10 years...

Thanks!


Jul 09 2009 - Murali Krishna K
Great tools ... small and sharp.


Jul 07 2009 - d00d
Great freeware. Thanks very much.


Jul 06 2009 - Bill
Yes, Billy is a great player without great sizes of MBytes (it's only 357 KB!), love it. Make it open source please! For all of us.


Jun 29 2009 - jd
I support that open source request for billy. Awesome prog btw.


Jun 24 2009 - Nate
Please make billy open source. Development appears to have come to a halt on this great software.


Jun 22 2009 - Nucleo
Billy is great.it would be nice if u could add a "enqueue and play" option instead of just enqueing


Jun 21 2009 - Xanza
Used to use EvilPlayer and Foobar2000... Billy kicks so much ass. :) Thanks a ton for the time and the effort!


Jun 20 2009 - WhACKO
Great little friends (apps)!

Please update Billy to use the latest bass library!


Jun 17 2009 - sky.silcox [at] gmail.com
Amazing little apps. So perfectly functional and simple. Thank you so much!


Jun 16 2009 - Jim
Winamp, Windows Media Player, VLC Player---you can have them all. I'll take Billy. (And to "Yo" from May 19--I'll take Windows XP with Billy to my grave if necessary)

It may not be audio perfection to many but, to me, this is about as good as it gets: a Sanmsung Netbook, a headphone-to-RCA cordset, an old Denon amp, 4 Boston Acoustic speakers, cheap Russian mp3s from MP3Panda.com, and, at the helm, guiding everything...BILLY!


Jun 11 2009 - \/\/ishmaster
Hey guys!

Billy is amazing, ultra fast and super efficient!

the others too seem good... and all this free!

way to go guys!


Jun 11 2009 - ben
open source billy, please, I would very much appreciate utf-8 support, thank you


Jun 10 2009 - O.Range
Billy Run on Windows 7 Very Good. Thank you.


Jun 08 2009 - //J.0. --> Berlin/Germany Yeah !!!
Hey, Billy is the perfect music player for my new netbook. Thanks!
Just.....awesome,it's small, easy and....cool ^.^


Jun 06 2009 - Evil Timmy
Thanks for Billy, it's absolutely awesome for playing music in the background when gaming, and even has 95% of the little features that have kept me with Winamp over the years, and a few I haven't seen anywhere else. <3MB memory usage while playing is stunning, too!


Jun 05 2009 - pjh
I am a billy fan
Thanks for the great software !!


May 30 2009 - ivan
hey, thanks for writing these tools, they're really handy. but if you should abandon their development, please open source billy, at least, so other people could continue it. peace out. :)


May 29 2009 - 452
Your program rocks! They are small, easy to identify (icons) and fast to open. Keep going!


May 28 2009 - Tomar Garcia (Spain)
Billy is awesome! Thanks for the player! Just a pity it won't play wma files...
Keyboard shotcuts, file search, simplicity... JUST GREAT!


May 22 2009 - scd
but it's still an awesome peace of software!


May 19 2009 - Yo
when are people going to realise that Billy is deader than A-line flares with pockets in the knees?

Billy is DEAD. Development is DEa. Move on people, go find a better app.


May 14 2009 - fearpower [at] rambler.ru
im fond of billy!
It is fantastic! go on!

Post Scriptum

PLEASE, MAKE POSSIBLE GLOBAL SEEKING FORWARDS/BACKWARDS FOR PREVIOUSLY SET NUMBER OF SECONDS


May 14 2009 - BigUp
Sup! Hey dude if you developed this product I would donate... or if not send me the source code and I'll donate :)

Either way, dont let it RIP!


May 12 2009 - moon.rabbits [at] hotmail.com
i really enjoy billy. i use it more than any other media player.

you should make a virtual cdrom app :D


May 08 2009 - John
Not sure if this is a bug or just a problem with my hardware, but I just upgraded my sound card to an Asus Xonar DX and Billy 1.04k stopped recognising mp3 files. 1.04b still works fine, so there's probably a problem with the latest version that's come in.


May 07 2009 - Gal
Hi, I'm having problems with the 1.04k version. When I play a song, and then click on another song in one of my folder (on Windows), it doesn't open the new song.. Actually, nothing happens. I went the settings, but still..
I'm using Vista x64, but I don't have any problems with the 1.04b version..
Any ideas?


May 02 2009 - agt
can someone repost billy 1.04l ? I recently reformatted and neglected to keep my own copy


Apr 29 2009 - joey
every app is great! thanks!
only problem i have is with natty, it opens my mail tool "scribe" in fullscreen mode :/


Apr 27 2009 - hmff
I use Billy many years , good and fast programma ,better than winamp, go on with it


Apr 23 2009 - Steve
Billy = perfect app!
The only thing missing is a speed control, so you can listen to audio books faster. However Billy is the only audio player I use. Keep it up!


Apr 21 2009 - Dave in ireland
loving billy 1.04k in windows 7, makes the experience so much better.


Apr 21 2009 - Fro
So does Billy 1.04l actually exist? the links in the older posts are all dead :(


Apr 18 2009 - Steve in Oklahoma, USA
Someone below asked how to get colors.ini to work in version 104b. Open billy.ini and under [General], add the line:

ActiveScheme=colors.ini

This is an excellent program. As so many have mentioned, this is exactly what I was looking for. No more waiting for WinAmp to load, no more directory scans, no more difficult to navigate and organize user interface. No more clutter. Billy sounds better too. Billy 104b is outstanding. Thanks.

(For some reason, I can't get 104k to work, but I'll figure it out.)


Apr 15 2009 - dorto
the bes set of apps out there! Love them all! Thanks.


Apr 11 2009 - dukie
just found out about Billy...PERFECT! This program is exactly what i've been looking for! built in sleep timer and all the basics plus its fast as hell! Low mem useage too!

10/10

former winamp user


Apr 10 2009 - mamu
plz add a equalizer...


Apr 10 2009 - gvdwatt [at] gmail.com
billy = brilliant music player

I am glad gHacks featured it, this is precisely what i was looking for


Apr 09 2009 - celyorke
hey, billy its not Dead,

maybe its not contiusly developed, but ive tried many other music players, that claim be lightweight and fast like Billy, but the diference is the concept.

Billy is unique first in philosofy, and then in the technical features.

thats why theres still no new king, to say Billy is dead.


Apr 09 2009 - jakeskyles [at] yahoo.com
i love your website! want to exchange links?

usnewsfeed dot tk


Apr 08 2009 - annonymos123
I've already tried the latest BASS billy crashes and added the AAC_BASS plugin and I renamed it to FLAC_BASS but billy crashes again.


Apr 07 2009 - virus detect
The developer said that the decoder is based on BASS of Un4Seen... according to un4seen website, there are plugins for aac and mp4... somehow there's a way for Billy to decode aac and mp4... <maybe install the aac plugin to Billy's installation folder... what do you guys think!?!


Apr 06 2009 - Sleeping
Hope you'll go on developing Billy
Simply the best :)


Apr 06 2009 - annonymos123
Another vote for AAC (AAC, AAC+, M4A, MP4, eAAC+...), this would make billy best player everrrr!!


Apr 03 2009 - woone
@DEAD, dumper: billy does what it needs to, and well. (i only wish billy worked in OSX now).


Mar 31 2009 - Patrick
I love Billy! Minimize to tray and the global shortcuts do everything i want. No fuss no muss.


Mar 31 2009 - dumper
oh come on people, Billy is just a wrapper around someone else's hard work. The author has not really done much at all.

As DEAD says, XMPlay is a good example of an app written from the ground up that beats Billy in performance/memory usage.


Mar 25 2009 - version
DOUBLE CLICK FILE IN EXPLORER FIX.

filedropper.com/billy104l

Just reposting this file as i noticed the link below is no longer working. I found this to be quite useful when you want to add files to playlist from explorer.


Mar 20 2009 - Tim
I love Billy. It's great to not have to spend 30 seconds waiting for WMP to load my library. Billy does it instantly. I like the simple controls as well. My only request would be to get a Linux port!


Mar 20 2009 - story
Very useful files search engine. myrapida.com is a search engine designed to search files in various file sharing and uploading sites.


Mar 15 2009 - D E A D
Yep, billy is totally DEAD: People, use XMPlay, it has the same memory footprint but is totally skinable, has Last.fm, and plenty more functionality


Mar 14 2009 - Lesmo16
@Xyrax and others:

As Funkkybebel already stated: Billy won't die!
He does know that because he is a beta tester.
So please be patient and wait for the next official release.


Mar 13 2009 - Xyrax
funkkybebel how do you now billy development is not dead ? I'm also using this app ,and I would love to have support for CAD , I even received a reply for that topic from author of this app, but this was so long ago, I asked him about how is it going 2 more times and I didn't have any reply , so any chance in development is like light in dark tunnel for me . So again , how can you be so certain ? share some info if you know something, it would make some people less anxious hopefully. To billy developer" sorry for using this quest book as a forum page, there wont be more responses from me here"


Mar 12 2009 - Billy
WOW. I just found this amazing app. Have to admit the documentation is a little skimpy. Can anyone verify the sequence to start recording..?? (Numpad * ...?) BTW I have the latest beta 104k version...


Mar 10 2009 - Dude
Yeah, I agree. Billy development is DEAD. A shame, hopefully the source code will be published.


Mar 09 2009 - Marcus
i love billy!!!
2 suggestions (or actually one): maybe you can insert eq and crossfading - or support for winamp plugins

best regards
m


Mar 05 2009 - mikemoser [at] lycos.com
I found your site through tucows, I will try your software and get back to you
Thanks


Mar 05 2009 - Peter
OK, ill try beta version and there is fully editable global hotkeys, great. Best player :-)


Mar 05 2009 - Peter
Hallo, Billy is good, but how can i stop playing while Billy is minimized? Reopen to window is frustrated for me, when all other commands are available minimized... :-(


Mar 03 2009 - mamu
plz add a equalizer.. plz plz...


Feb 28 2009 - funkkybebel
@ mE,
Billy is not dead. The author has no time for now, but a beta is actually developped.


Feb 27 2009 - phantom
Hey, what awesome programs you've made.
As a programmer, I can really tell that this is exactly the kind of software I love: simple, functional, lightweight! Keep up the good work =P
Anyway you could publish source code for us to play with?


Feb 25 2009 - billy fan
any hope for a quick contact list app? ;)


Feb 24 2009 - dazey
Billy is fantastic!


Feb 24 2009 - mE
People, it seems that the development of Billy is DEAD.

How about publishing the source code so that someone else can pick up where you left off?


Feb 21 2009 - Someone
Billy is just awesome!

But with version 1.04k there's a bug.

When you set the default action to "append file to playlist", the file will not be appended!

Could you fix this? :)

Cheers


Feb 19 2009 - Ed (Netherlands)
I really love the kind of light-weight programs you develop!
Very cool that Billy can now play FLAC lossless audio! Now it can really replace my WinAmp (as soon as I've converted the APE files to FLAC)!
Kudos! I just made a small donation for your efforts..


Feb 11 2009 - mah
how do i scrobble from billy?


Feb 10 2009 - Goon Laguna
Billy, will you grow up more powerfull than this? i like this software very much


Feb 05 2009 - Pete
I like the Billy music player. It's light weight, and very simple. Thank you.


Jan 26 2009 - Andreas
deviant_two: Billy can read .pls-files. :P
When will the next version of Billy be released?


Jan 22 2009 - deviant_two
i hope billy next evolution is can read PLS or M3U


Jan 21 2009 - Me
I confirm that Billy works on Windows 7 x64


Jan 21 2009 - Me
Confirm that Billy works on Windows7 x64.


Jan 18 2009 - billy [at] kennycosca.com
I really like the name of your MP3 player.


Jan 18 2009 - Axel - Germany
Billy is my fav music player for years! Thanks a lot. Now checking as every year. . and found the new Version with LastFM - great! But the Version here is not playing other lists when it is running. This Version does it all. . www rhodes-tunes.com/misc/billy104l.zip (See below - just search vor "rhodes-tunes")


Jan 07 2009 - Reindert Vanderhaeghen (reindertvdh [at] gmai.com)
Really,
Thank you so much for Billy!
For me it's the best mp3-player I ever had... It's easy to use, easy to add files, very quick to add files and very easy to search songs!
Damn I love the programmers of this sweet program!

Thanks!


Jan 05 2009 - Andreas Fehrm
My color:

[Style] Blue'ness

background_color=#9cc7d1
font_name=Trebuchet MS
font_color=#FFFFFF
font_size=9
font_bold=1
font_color_selected=#FFFFFF
playingitem_color=#46737d
playingitem_bold=1
playingitem_color_selected=#46737d
selection_color=#9cc7d1
selection_color_playingitem=#9cc7d1


Jan 02 2009 - Patrick
Awesome beta. LOVE Last.fm support. Thanks a lot for investing your time in this application.


Jan 02 2009 - Tomas Garcia
Billy is awesome! A great player NO-DOUBT! Global key-hooks are perfect :)

Billy es genial! Un gran reproductor SIN DUDA! Y poder manejarlo todo con el teclado es estupendo!


Dec 30 2008 - Spiki
My colors:

[Style] Spiki
background_color=#000000
font_name=tahoma
font_size=9
font_bold=0
font_color=#333738
font_color_selected=#93AFB9
selection_color=#0f0f0f
selection_color_playingitem=#0f0f0f
playingitem_color=#00FF00
playingitem_color_selected=#00FF00
playingitem_bold=0
queueditem_color=#3399fe
shuffleditem_color=#FF00FF


Dec 29 2008 - Peter
I knew it was there or .. hoped it still would be. Love Billy. Thanks.


Dec 29 2008 - sergius
hi! 2009 is soon...

and... maybe... a new version of billy?))


Dec 28 2008 - Bianca
As times goes by - nothing happens - is billy dying?


Dec 28 2008 - Spiki
Avesome player! =) i just love it!

Keep Rockin'!


Dec 28 2008 - hello [at] afehrm.se
I'd appreciate if you could add my MSN and I could help you with the bugs.

My MSN is "hello@afehrm.se".


Dec 27 2008 - Tiago Medeiros
Love billy! Am using it now!

Btw, check natty cause it has some bugs...

like, when I press add it goes from inactive to active every millisecond


Dec 25 2008 - kenny
merry christmas, sheep friends!!


Dec 15 2008 - jd
Great to see Billy is still being developed...quit using it a long time ago due to lack of ogg/flac support but was pleasantly surprised to find 1.04k had included it. Being an aficionado of minimalistic apps I couldn't pass up making this my default audio player again. Thanks a ton for your work.


Dec 14 2008 - Joseph Wilkinson
Love your work - please don't remove the last.fm scrobbling from "Billy" ;)

The best software is useful and simplistic.


Dec 11 2008 - Me
another change i'd make: don't send the track playing info to last.fm until at least 10 seconds of playing the song has passed. that way, skipping through tracks in an album won't affect the last.fm play count, and only tracks that are actually played will register


Dec 11 2008 - Me
perhaps also a version compiled for 64bit?


Dec 11 2008 - Me
I run Billy on Windows 2008 Server x64.

I'd like to see the unicode support for last.fm. When I play a track by Queensrÿche it is not even registered by last.fm because of the symbols above the letter Y.

Please don't remove any existing features, especially the last.fm one :-)


Dec 11 2008 - Ultraman82
Windows 9X platform will still be supported? :(


Dec 09 2008 - Pipo from Philippines
Damn man! I hear a much better snare drum output than what i get on winamp.

Great sound engine, reliable, fast, and easy to handle. We dont need skins! hehe.


Dec 07 2008 - Chandler
Thanks for the excellent program! I've used Blly for the last year and it is easily one of the greatest music players around. Your philosophy is simplicity and you carry it out extremely well.


Dec 04 2008 - rk_nasa [at] yahoo.com
Its a great application.I have been using Billy since a whole year.I like its simplicity and speed.


Dec 03 2008 - shounak_de [at] hotmail.com
Billy is great. I use it a lot both at work and at home. However, it would be great to have .wma support. All CD rips from wmplayer defaults to .wma files

Appreciate the freeware.
Shounak


Dec 03 2008 - Sanne (author)
Hi all Billy friends.

Development is resuming of Billy to have a new beta release soon.

Please send a prioritized list with new features/bugs/adjustments to my email 3[at]sheepproductions.com with subject "billy list". The smallest detail matter.

The explorer context menu bug and vista support is well known. Unicode and supporting plugins/more audio formats or bass library update isn't something for short term. Skins and EQ will not be implemented. The Last FM thing stays untill I find better alternative.

If you are satisfied with how the latest beta now is, also mail me saying that, since I don't want a bloated app as well. People who are satisfied mostly dont speakup, I am very aware of that :)

Top priorities:
- "Bug free"
- Speed
- Context menu handling
- Vista bugs

State what functions you hardly use as well and functions you mainly use. Also what Windows version you are using.

Thanks all!


Dec 03 2008 - preducer
billy!!! superb app, pls update when u have the time. thanks


Dec 03 2008 - tbone
Nice site, simple and clean.. as your applications are! Keep on..

tb'..


Nov 30 2008 - sun
Billy is best mp3 player I've found to replace winamp. It does all the playing I need with global hotkeys without taking up much memory.


Nov 28 2008 - reciver
Finaly there is someone out there that understands that for a program to be usefull and good it dose not need a team of high payed thinkers, what it needs is a person that understands the need for for everyday use to be "simple"
So from the bottom of my heart Thank you!

/Reciver


Nov 28 2008 - Stefano
Great Playser with a small footprint! Are there any updates planned? (e.q. use of newer BASS DLLs)


Nov 28 2008 - ppridham [at] gmail.com
Holy crap. This is exactly what I've been looking for. I just replaced Foobar2000 with this. And only 2M of RAM being used. Buh bye Foobar!

Thanks! :)


Nov 27 2008 - Jeroen
billy is definitely the best music player ever :D
could you, if it's possible, add bass control to the next version? that way you can control the bass from the PC, instead of running back and forth between the stereo-installation and the PC


Nov 27 2008 - Zlurk
@sidivicius;

I run several flac files just fine.


Nov 26 2008 - sidvicius [at] gmail.com
Please, I love Billy, but I need to support FLAC format!!!! Pleaaaaaassssseeee =)


Nov 25 2008 - funkkybebel
@Volcris,
can you put just a few lines of your m3u file please ?


Nov 25 2008 - Volcris
Hey, I downloaded Billy and I have a problem:
I have a playlist named "2005list9.m3u" and when I try playing a song it says 'File not found <path>'... I created this list using Winamp, by adding a bunch of songs (about 5000), then saving it.


Nov 24 2008 - nathan
Please allow more than 1000 folders to be listed in the "Add folder..." dialog

Error when "Adding folder.."
I click to expand my Music folder then receive an error:
"Billy 1.03" - "Invalid pointer operation" "ok"
After clicking ok, the folder list only shows one folder "-" under music.

It seems to be an issue whenever there are more than 1000 folders to list. I tested with some empty folders.

Too many tries with the add folder, and I get an error when clicking on the "File" menu:
"Billy 1.03" - "Access Violation at address 00402510 in module 'Billy.exe'. Write of address 00000013."

Windows XP, 4 gigs of ram,

I can work around the problem by adding my entire music folder or using Add files... and selecting all the tracks of an album.

Billy is awesome!!!


Nov 23 2008 - Patrick
@Sanne: There have been skins for Google.com for a long time. It's called iGoogle.

And year having to download an mp3-plugin for a mp3 player that would make sense.


Nov 23 2008 - funkkybebel
MP3 Plugin ?

lol sanne, you're right !


Nov 22 2008 - ben
Does Billy not support anything but ANSI filenames?

It doesn't even try to play my unicode files...


Nov 21 2008 - Yeah baby
when the computer is under very heavy load, the audio crackles. is this a known bug?I can reproduce it everytime on my computer by opening a couple of virtual machines.


Nov 21 2008 - Sanne (author)
MP3 plugin? There are some "plugins" for msn and mirc on the billy page.

OT: I just saw that GMail introduced themes/skins... for what? for reading your mail with a nice sunset on the background.. :) call me old fashion but I thought Google was an idealistic no-nonsense company, unbelievable. They can better concentrate on improving their javascript since it's getting slower and slower. Why do all companies change their strong selling points? Next step a custom theme for google.com?


Nov 20 2008 - crosux
Can someone help me how to use the MP3 Plugin fpr Billy plz?
The URL in the Readme.txt is not existing any more =/


Nov 20 2008 - Patrick
I love Billy! Wished it was open source though.


Nov 20 2008 - free_indonesian
a All of my friends are using Billy!!!!!!

The best audio player of the century and centuries ahead!!!

Billy is a-must-installed software in your PC!!!

Thought that Billy was invented by an extra terrestrial for its amazing size and stupendous light-weight burden for PC!!!

Billy rocks!!!!


Nov 18 2008 - daulsighter
unicode support pls! otherwise, awesome piece of software.


Nov 17 2008 - CurtJ
Fantastic software - this is the way all software should be. Thank You.


Nov 15 2008 - Akash
Billy rocks....awesome :)


Nov 11 2008 - salman.kalista [at] gmail.com
always waiting the newest billy..

it's a super duper used on me...

TQ..


Nov 05 2008 - jptng a videotron.ca
Hi Shane ! Back from a long journey. Only to realize that natty doesn't work as it should on vista. Any upgrade to it in sight? I know that you must be on some new project that came along your new job (a long time ago now) but it would be much apreciate if that little utility could follow the latest techno fron uncle Bill. Thanks in advance


Nov 05 2008 - skoh.fley at gmail ddot. com
OMG I just discovered Billy's secret love mode! Pure awesome.


Nov 04 2008 - Lesmo16
@Kenny:
search this guestbook for "Dec 17 2007" without the "".
There you'll find all you need!


Nov 04 2008 - Kenny
I LOVE BILLY. I've been using it for quite some time now, and there is only one feature I can see it's lacking: Perhaps you could implement a feature to make the playlist text larger? It would help when using Billy from the couch :)


Nov 02 2008 - Serg
i'm using billy already for 2 or maybe 3 years... REALLY NICE.
i'm watching for updates carefully :)

Thank you guys!


Oct 29 2008 - Zolt
Thanks for these wonderfull tools.
I just found out about Billy, and it offers everything I am looking for, with no extra bells and whistles. Great tools!


Oct 28 2008 - www.caseytinsley.com
Billy is great, I'm building a lightweight system (P4 2.6ghz - 1GB Ram - GeForce3 - Etc) Trying to get the most speed out of my system by using lightweight software, And Billy is VERY speedy. And at using only 2mb of system resources it's the perfect lightweight mp3 player.


Oct 23 2008 - fgth.fan [at] yahoo.in
Thanks dude....
fgth.fan@yahoo.in


Oct 21 2008 - Frederick
Billy is great, its fast, light and small. Everything a great music player should be. I made a donation, though it was kind of difficult (no english on the initial page). I hope it helps keep Billy around for a long time.


Oct 16 2008 - lovingu1
I want to display the currently playing song in desktop.


Oct 13 2008 - mamu
Plz add equalizes to billy


Oct 12 2008 - RyanUCR
Software is awesome. With the newest test built (haven't tried others), when i double click on an mp3 with billy open, nothing happens. Is it possible for billy to notice when a single instance is open already and do the normal action to the current instance?


Oct 12 2008 - FG
Yet again, Billy saves the day. I seemed to have a software conflict with every music player BUT Billy when it came to running my U3 flash drive as well as playing music. I couldn't play music while the U3 was connected. Billy is the ONLY music player that actually works while the U3 is connected. I've been using Billy for a while now, and it rocks. Thank you! :)


Oct 06 2008 - funkkybebel at gmail.com
If you can't open an mp3 from explorer, try this version :
www rhodes-tunes.com/misc/billy104l.zip


Oct 05 2008 - sam mirshafie
(Wanted to send this as an email, but I can't seem to work out the contact form (I get an error for not typing my name), and sending directly to the info@-email failed.)

Hello,
just wanted to thank you for your wonderful software. I started using Billy on an extremely slow laptop a few years ago, but I still use it for its simplicity and straightforwardness.

It looks to me like 1.0.4 will be much more useful. I especially like that you added global hotkeys and last.fm-support. PLS and stream support was very much needed. The Favorites menu is also gold!

I have a few small suggestions, that I hope you will consider after making the current code stable. Just a thing that would make my interaction with Billy even smoother.

* I would love it if the "Focus Billy"-hotkey could also hide Billy, if Billy is already focused. So it would actually Toggle focus of Billy.

* It would be nice to be able to select several folders at once in the Add folder dialog. That way when you want to create a playlist with a few different artists you could pick them directly with the CTRL key.

* It would also be nice if the Add folder dialog was searchable. Either with a filter that appears on CTRL+F or a static filter box on top of the dialog.

* It's not important for me, but many of my friends see Billy and want to use it, but then end up not using it because they have some M4A files or WMA files. Perhaps these formats could be added as plugins? Some players support Winamp input codecs, maybe that's the way to go?

In any case, I'd like to encourage you to continue development of this great audio player. I've tried many, many different music players of different flavors on Windows, Mac and Linux, and together with mpd Billy is my absolute favorite. It's definitely the best audio player for Windows.

I'd also like to thank you for Kelly, that thing is clean!

All the best
Sam


Oct 04 2008 - frankie.hollywood.fan [at] gmail.com
Billy is very good.. I love it... Please keep it light..
frankie.hollywood.fan@gmail.com


Oct 04 2008 - by_icehole [at] yahoo.com
please add "add to playlist" in right click explorer


Oct 03 2008 - jayleno
>funkkybebel at gmail.com
why do you post it on rapidshare or something


Oct 03 2008 - funkkybebel at gmail.com
Sanne, since there is so much people that fund the open bug when trying to open a mp3 from explorer in your last beta, why don't you give them the L version ?
You gave it to me and it absolutely resolved the problem.

????


Oct 03 2008 - funkkybebel at gmail.com
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"Sep 10 2008 - Lesmo16
Jty wrote: "I hope that can play "wma" files."

I also need WMA, so support ++

That shouldn't be a big deal for Sanne, because BASS.DLL supports WMA with a plugin (almost same as with FLAC)."
-------------------------------------------------
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Sorry but yes, it's a big deal to play around bass library.


Oct 02 2008 - killeqrueen99 [at] gmail.com
Perfect and recomended


Sep 29 2008 - Colin
Hi, Just a feature suggestion for your great lean an mean player.
Search for e.g. Elvis. Select all in find box and presto. Instant temporary playlist.

Just my 2cnts

Rocka Billy!


Sep 28 2008 - Daniel
Billy is the best audio player I've ever laid my hands on.

It's fast, efficient and it doesn't consume a significant amount of computer memory.

Perfect while multi-tasking and playing games.

Thank you so much!

PS. Better than WinAMP and WMP :D


Sep 27 2008 - Max, max.vkozlov [at] gmail.com
Billy is awesome for while playing games and such.


Sep 25 2008 - test
test


Sep 19 2008 - sutaru
I love Billy. I've been using it for years.

I hope theres a song dumper for yahoo lol.


Sep 16 2008 - Kumar
I was looking for some low memory utilizing mp3 player and I got billy.
That's kewl.


Sep 13 2008 - aragorn
Perfect music player.But please dont remove the last.fm support in the 1.05.It really rocks.


Sep 10 2008 - Lesmo16
Jty wrote: "I hope that can play "wma" files."

I also need WMA, so support ++

That shouldn't be a big deal for Sanne, because BASS.DLL supports WMA with a plugin (almost same as with FLAC).


Sep 10 2008 - Jty
Billy was very impress to me.
take a little resouce...

But,, I hope that can play "wma" files.
T.T I have files that all wma files.
But, But, But.
Billy is very good program. must be...

Also, other programs are surprise!


Sep 09 2008 - miro
Perfect piece of software. Any updates coming? Also, emphasis on the "please post your colors.ini files"


Sep 09 2008 - jan
awesome. created yourself and us some great friends there. just the way i like it. simple and working.


Sep 06 2008 - Ender
please post your colors.ini files.


Sep 03 2008 - max
billy is absolutely fantastic- ive always given names to everything, so billy fits right in on my computer. my drives are fred and tom, my printer is steve, and my ipod is george. billy is a welcome addition.

i love how there is absolutely no nonsense--no bloat--with billy. he sits in the background and plays mp3s without strangling my resources.

the only feature i would request is one more global hotkey- a 100% mute in addition to the soft mute. i know i can tweak the soft mute to be 100%, but then i lose the soft mute--and i very much like the soft mute as well.

thank you for billy, hes great.
max


Sep 01 2008 - sylecn
Billy works well under wine in linux, so you can add support linux (use wine).

One problem is billy does not support unicode. If the file name (or directory name) contains non-English character, Billy fails to play(load ) that file(directory).

Hope you can add unicode support.
If you need tests, email me at:
sylecn (at) yahoo (dot) com (dot) cn


Aug 26 2008 - Matthias
Found an Error in v1.04k. When open a new folder, you can't select the subfolder. It only shows a "-". I couldn't reproduce the error. If I can, I sent you a screenshot, and how you can reproduce the error.


Aug 25 2008 - TT
Found an error in v1.04k when trying to open a new music (mp3) file while billy is open, the program ignores it.


Aug 24 2008 - Leon Venables
Still the number one music player on my system..since before Dec '04 (see previous guestbook entry).

Running around 60GB of MP3's (7000+ files)...startup times are instantaneous. No crashes, no glitches!

Something that would be nice would be the ability to edit the colors.ini file, just like in the earlier version of Billy, but 1.04K doesn't appear to read this file :(

Recently got involved in the last.fm site...thanks so much for adding this support in Billy!

As other have said, PLEASE don't stop developing Billy!

Thank you so much for soo many years of easy music pleasure!


Aug 22 2008 - Lare2
Thank you for Billy player, and please, don't let the development slow for it.


Aug 20 2008 - Cool
Billy works perfectly in Windows Server 2008 x64


Aug 20 2008 - Yeah!
Billy is excellent, I just wish it had an option that allowed me to keep it on top of all other windows. apart from that, i don't need any other features in it!

please don't let development die, this is a project that is worth keeping alive.


Aug 19 2008 - Frank Kavold
I just love the Billy player. Together with a read-only playlist file it's the greatest mp3 player ever. And it even worked in Vista64! Well done! :-)


Aug 19 2008 - plik at g m x dot net
Thanks for Billy mp3 player!


Aug 16 2008 - lanvin
billy is awesomeeeee!

any chance of asian language support later ? and .wma perhaps?


Aug 14 2008 - Pipo de C.
Billy is fijn (tm) mist alleen m4a support (voor podcasts)


Aug 12 2008 - Stig Henning
Billy was what I was looking for :) Simple..
Looking at your other programs too.. Looks simple - what we like :)

ps; also making these program without installer would be great too.


Aug 12 2008 - etc
Billy Not Support Korea language
Please update language.


Aug 08 2008 - Adam23
to feedmepaper [at] yahoo.com
check the Billy 1.04k beta version, it handles FLAC playback easily!


Aug 08 2008 - Adam23
to feedmepaper [at] yahoo.com
check the Billy 1.04k beta version, it handles FLAC playback easily!


Aug 08 2008 - Nehx
BEST PLAYER EVER!!! Thanks a lot, i love it ive been using it for years...


Aug 05 2008 - frosch
hi!

i really love billy. its that simple but has all the important features, even if you could tweak some of them a bit. thats what i wanted to suggest - you allready have the option to definde one or more soundfolders - would it be possible to make the favorites lists more dynamic? if there was only the relative path to the definded sound folder stored it would be possible to use the same favorites on multiple systems (if there are the same folder structures and one defines the same sound folders) - would be really great :)

but anyway, billy is already quite the best, so thanks!


Aug 05 2008 - feedmepaper [at] yahoo.com
Hi there,

I have been using Billy ever since it first came out and absolutely love it. It is one of first items to get installed whenever I reinstall a system.

I have one minor feature request. If its possible, can you please add support for flac format in any of the later versions. I am getting addicted to getting lossless audio files and would love it if I can play them straight in billy. Right now I have to rely on the trust ol' vlc player to play them :)

Thanks and good luck with whatever you are doing in life.


Aug 03 2008 - Darkchild Heartly
This player is the best!! Thank you!! :D:D:D


Aug 01 2008 - Lzu
Great! Simple is Beautiful~!


Jul 30 2008 - lubos.ruckl [at] quick.cz
Found a bug in 1.04k:
Dialog "Organize favorites" - HotKeys for Rename and Refresh they are same ("R").
I have problem - I need by Remote (with HotKey) perform refresh.
Please, fix it !
I want improve my plugin for EventGhost.
Thanks for great program Billy !

Pako


Jul 29 2008 - Tom Perry
This is just the sort of player i was looking for. Thanks for making it!


Jul 28 2008 - Simon Diercks
Love Billy - great program, basic but definately satisfiying!

thx to the team


Jul 26 2008 - Roroke
Billy makes my grilfriends old laptop come to life again! Great software, thanks!
Greetings from Belgium.


Jul 25 2008 - Mick
Thanks Johku-and thank you Sanne and team.Exceptional work.


Jul 24 2008 - johku
Mick: see the documentation of Billy: [[ www_sheepfriends_com/?page=billy&subpage=billy_documentation#12 ]] <- download the colors.ini-file. With that file you can change the appearance of Billy.

Thanks to Sanne & co. for this great MP3-player, absolutely amazing work!


Jul 24 2008 - Mick
Could someone please post simple step by step instructions on how to change the Billy font size.Thanks..............Great program .


Jul 22 2008 - MiniTaurus
Billy is great!
Keep it simple =)


Jul 21 2008 - greynor
Hi there! Thanks for the great work on Billy 1.04k - just recommended it on my page. I that this piece of software gets more attention.

Keep up the good work!

Greetings from Germany


Jul 20 2008 - Last fm
In the new beta 1.04k everything is just so nice. And my last.fm works like a charm, no stupid addon needed, just Billy.

I love Billy, I will reccomend the 1.04k version for my friends :-)


Jul 20 2008 - vowels
You rock. Thanks!


Jul 17 2008 - Hampa
hi there i was looking for a light musicplayer when i found your billy and its awsome everything i wanted. but i have one problem.see theres a webradio channel i always listen to and i cant for the love of my life play it in billy but in every other player ive tried it works.i just get \\


Jul 17 2008 - Hampa
hi there i was looking for a light musicplayer when i found your billy and its awsome everything i wanted. but i have one problem.see theres a webradio channel i always listen to and i cant for the love of my life play it in billy but in every other player ive tried it works.i just get an error saying the server is full or cant logon to server.


Jul 15 2008 - Salvo
Mate, you are awesome. Just too good. Keep up the good work.


Jul 14 2008 - Vinay Kiran
Shimmery, glittery and frilly
They did all but music play
I cried day after hopeless day
Then came along Billy
And made the rest look silly


Jul 14 2008 - Vinay Kiran
Shimmery, glittery and frilly
They did all but music play
I cried day after hopeless day
Then came along Billy
And made the rest look silly


Jul 10 2008 - Colin
I LOVE BILLY!!

Finally some software as it is supposed to be. Clean, fast, easy, does what it says on the box.

Keep up the good work!

Colin


Jul 08 2008 - ich
wow Sheepfriends is that what I always was looking for and now I found it.... lightweight, simple interface, sexy.... great job.
Thx for the great programms.


Jul 06 2008 - MoNa
BILLY forever! I've tested many player but BILLY combines (nearly) all i need. THX!

MoNa


Jul 04 2008 - lingga
I very love with billy (mp3 player),, cause it's so simple,,, and very elegant for mp3 player.

billy is very sexy,,

I LOVE
BiLLY,,,

thx aLL


Jun 30 2008 - BigSlim
Hey Sheepfriends! THX for Billy! Best software ever!


Jun 30 2008 - Nhan T. D. N.
The SheepFriends is really great! In those, i like Billy's Music Player much! SHEEPFRIENDS!


Jun 24 2008 - jim
BILLY is my friend. but i wish he would go back to the system tray when i hit ESC! instead, he closes and i can't hear him sing anymore :(


Jun 21 2008 - dam (at) birtija.org
it's so great that you've come up with the time to mess a little with billy again.

i've had an idea for it - and it seams to me that it's the right kind of simple & efficient billy-type feature.

i'm not a programer, so i can't know this, but: is it possible to enable drag&drop? - that way, when you open multiple instances of the player, you can easly arrange playlists without any need for a complex, bullshit-packed, playlist organizers that we can see on winamp and the others.

billy already has playlists (they're great!) and multiple instances - it just needs drag&drop - so you can listen to the whole collection in one billy and drag to another instance with, for example, "my new summer best-of"... and it's way easier than just queuing them (and croping).

anyway, i hope you can maybe use this somehow and thanks again for the ultimate best in mp3 players!

damjan


Jun 21 2008 - alzwded [at] gmail.com
Pretty cool - consider adding a "clear queue" option, and maybe, just maybe, the awesomest thing you could ever do to improve billy, global hotkeys. Anyway, thank you for creating this perfect player - lightweight, simple interface player :) i hope one day i'll create my own lightweight media player that'll suit my needs and won't need to bother other people with my silly ideas :P


Jun 17 2008 - Alemdar Halis / alemdarh [at] msn.com
Hello;

i really liked your products and your philosophy. Now i am a student but one day if i become a rich man, i will hopefully donate not only from my heart but also from my budget :D

thank billy, take care...


Jun 13 2008 - ZhengCode
Billy, I'm very pleased that you still continue improve the best mp3 player on universe.


Jun 11 2008 - post at oyvind dot net
Billy is my favourite player since i found it meany yeas ago.

Found an error in v1.04k when trying to open a new music (mp3) file while billy is open, the program ignores it.


Jun 11 2008 - michael
btw, your regular contact form keeps complaining that i haven't entered my name... this seems to be the only way to contact! :)


Jun 11 2008 - michaelmoore [at] fastmail.fm
i am so glad to see that you have resumed work on billy! a lot of people are happy to see you back! ahem... since you're coding again, i'm sure people are throwing feature requests at you so let me be one of
the crowd. would you mind making a "move" dialog? essentially a hotkey
would pull up a small window where you could select a new destination for the file. the user could select from any number of favorite locations or browse to a new location. once moved, the item should
disappear from the playlist. i would really like to use billy to sort/categorize new music but i can't without a move command. thanks again for the great software - keep up the hard work!

-michael


Jun 08 2008 - Niele
Nice man, new version of Billy.

Cool to see your still updating and improving your Billy Program.

I'm using it for a few years now and dont want anything else anymore.

Keep up the good work :)


Jun 03 2008 - Patrik (Sweden)
Thanks for Billy! An excellent player. And to all of you who want an equalizer...why do you think he made the player in the first place?
// I hate basgrupp!!!


May 29 2008 - jeromy
Thank you for the continuing updates for billy! It is my player of choice.


May 29 2008 - SEXXY!
omg just found billy and was amazed by its performance... just what i was looking for ...

lightweight + gamer = :)


May 27 2008 - nic nicadastro [at] gmail.com
I'm a user and a big fan of Billy since of 2006. For me this is the best player there is. I use the Biily up when I am on Linux (with Wine).
I very much these new features in newer versions. The most liked is that this support Last.fm.
But has a very annoying problem in this beta 1.04k: If I try to open a music with the Windows Explorer (double click on mp3 file) when the player is already open simply is not true at all. Open music by Explorer only works when the player is closed. In the beta version 1.04b there is this bug, it appeared now.
Please fix this bug. Please!

Thank you very much!
Christian Nícolas
(From: São Paulo, Brazil)


May 26 2008 - Sebastian
I enjoy billy!

But as in eery beta, which i am using the 1.04k beta, is somewhat buggy. I wanna tell you guys here about it, so maybe we can find a sollution.

The service for Last. fm does not work allways, sometimes, for no reason, billy just can´t connect to the page.

Also, if i have streams in a playlist, it doesn´t play them. When i click on a link to play, and i have billy as my standard player, it doesn´t react.

Also, some of the key shortcuts does not seem to work in this beta version.

Best regards,

Sebastian


May 24 2008 - Mamu
Plz plz add a equalizer...... Rest is fine with me...... Hats off to all u guys behind Billy......!


May 23 2008 - megal0maniac
yay! billy is awesome. it's pretty much the only program that can play music on my P1 laptop. I actually have a use for the stupid thing :)

Thanks for all your awesome work guys, now all you need to make is something to bypass my school's proxy XD


May 23 2008 - degub
last.fm finally works!! strange!


May 21 2008 - michael
i am so glad to see that you have resumed work on billy! a lot of people are happy to see you back! ahem... since you're coding again, i'm sure people are throwing feature requests at you so let me be one of the crowd. would you mind making a "move" dialog? essentially a hotkey would pull up a small window where you could select a new destination for the file. the user could select from any number of favorite locations or browse to a new location. once moved, the item should disappear from the playlist. i would really like to use billy to sort/categorize new music but i can't without a move command. thanks again for the great software - keep up the hard work!

-michael

P.S. the regular contact form on your site complains that i haven't entered a name even though i have


May 20 2008 - Leudast
Thank you for the this great program. I was just wondering is there anyway to edit window title thingy? Like foobar haves these %artist% - %title% commands. It would be awesome if theres way to customize that.


May 19 2008 - Jake2k
Billy is awsome, been using it for awhile now and I love it. I just wish it would play some more types of audio files.


May 18 2008 - Abhijeet Pathak (pathak.ab [at] gmail.com)
Wow.. thanks... this player is great.. i've been using this player from very long time, but i recently downloaded latest version.. it has a bug that when a file is double-clicked in windows explorer, the Billy window shows up but file isn't get added to play list.... and also there should be an option for assigning a hotkey to minimize or hide billy (there's a hot key for bringing it up...)

All in all a great player,... thanks again..


May 12 2008 - bobmoff
Great clean app! Winamp is so slow and I've been mad at it for that for a long time. But hey! No more! Thanks!


May 07 2008 - russe
to Sanne (author)

Will it ever support wma format?

I hope the unicode version will come soon :)


May 06 2008 - funkkybebel
My colors.ini configuration :

[Style]
background_color=#ECE9D8
font_name=Tahoma
font_size=10
font_bold=0
font_color=#333333
font_color_selected=#FFFFFF
selection_color=#868686
selection_color_playingitem=#343434
playingitem_color=#FF0000
playingitem_color_selected=#BFD6FF
playingitem_bold=0
queueditem_color=#FFC03E
shuffleditem_color=#333399


May 05 2008 - Simon
I must say i love Billy, so simple, no unnecessary functions. Great work. =)

Greetings from Sweden.


Apr 29 2008 - funkkybebel
Is billy compiled under Delphi ?
I think you can either compile it for Linux can't you ?


Apr 28 2008 - Powring
Thanks for your work.

I have a requirement to you in billy. I think Billy is not compiled with the Unicode option. Billy can't open files or directories including some special Asian language such as 栗林みな実. Please compile the Billy in Unicode. Good day.


Apr 28 2008 - yettenet
Good day! Though I recall reading somewhere that you won't support Billy under Linux, it'd be nice if we could do something with it.

I'm trying to run it under Wine and get the following two error messages when trying to play a file:
"Error5 Function CheckFile"
and
"Unknown file format.
Path/to/filename"


Apr 28 2008 - zero-kill
Billy needs a global hot-key option; it's the biggest pitfall in why I don't use it as often. I could probably make a script to do so, but what need for hassle?


Apr 27 2008 - Nivi
i'm using billy, diana and natty regularly
natty's a bit broken but once you have it set up (by using the tab and arrow buttons and trying not to use the mouse) it's very useful


Apr 27 2008 - Djole
I like Billy, and I have best expirience with this music player.
Keep good work in future...
Djole from Serbia, Europe


Apr 23 2008 - Koenig
GRETA!! Simply clever 8)

Keep on working.
Greetings from Hungary!


Apr 23 2008 - recon04 / recon_j [at] hotmail.com
eyo billy is the baddest lil audio player i've seen in a while simple an fast just what i was lookin for thanks :D


Apr 23 2008 - BNS
Thanks for Billy. Makes listening to music a simple pleasure, instead of an exasperating experience. Lightweight & great. I don't have much use for the rest of the apps now, but I'll check them out if I ever do.


Apr 22 2008 - Alle
Great thing, i use it every day!


Apr 20 2008 - derek
it would be nice if the Find dialog remembered the View (filename, full path, or relative path) setting.


Apr 20 2008 - blu_aqua
finally I found someone who understands the meaning of the words "simple" and "lightweight".
Hope someone from nullsoft reads this.
And also please don't start implementing funny addons. If you really have to add functionalities to the program please think about implementing a solid plugin interface module. so everyone can decide what to add and what not to add.
And of course, thanks a lot man!


Apr 20 2008 - jommun [at] gmail.com
As someone said before it would be nice if you could make a last.fm plugin to billy. as it is right now I would rather use my billy since its so much better then winamp. but since I want the music I listens to registered on last.fm I still have to use my slow winamp ;[


Apr 19 2008 - funkkybebel at gmail.com
[Quote]
Apr 14 2008 - Francesco
I'm still unable to launch a file from explorer when Billy is open (with 1.04k)

Francesco, i had the same problem, email me, or tell the author your problem, i'll give you the version that corrects this bug.


Apr 19 2008 - Majorursa
This is great! Finally I found the one and only player. Totally fed up with the bloatware from the others. Man, I wish these big companies would understand this. Donated u deserve it, thanks!


Apr 15 2008 - Hastanar
the last version is great, keep it up!


Apr 15 2008 - Mahesh Thakur - The Great Indian Lion
Your Programme BILLY is just Fantastic. Even a small kid of 4yrs can operate it with ease. My kids stopped using WMP/Winamp longback since I have installed Billy. Great Programme. Keep it up Pal....


Apr 14 2008 - Francesco
I'm still unable to launch a file from explorer when Billy is open (with 1.04k)

Anyway, great program!


Apr 08 2008 - Rik
Great that you keep up the good work. I've been enjoying Billy for years now!


Apr 08 2008 - Anonymous
Billy is the greatest audio player ever. Keep it up man.


Apr 08 2008 - Steven V.T (version)
Just donated. Enjoy your radiohead album. Keep those little updates coming on Billy.


Apr 08 2008 - ahmednawaz81 [at] gmail.com
you are a god among men.
billy, and the rest of the pals are the apps i always have either open, or a quick shortcut away. You don't happen to practice zen buddhism do you? I ask because these apps are elegant simplicity and functionality....very zen.

Now i have a 'date' with Diana :-)


Apr 04 2008 - Tony
are there any parameters for billy. E.g. /play would be usefull :)
Thx for grate player!!!


Apr 04 2008 - David
You're awesome. Thank you so much for these great programs.


Apr 03 2008 - funkkybgebel
sorry i was talking about the K version.


Apr 02 2008 - Lesmo16
[quote="funkkybebel"]
By the way Sanne, thank you for the L beta that works.
(i was unable to launch another file once one already played)
[/quote]
L beta???
I think all users are interested in that beta, so where is the download link?


Apr 01 2008 - funkkybebel
Ok.
Good work !


Apr 01 2008 - Sanne (author)
Thanks, but no this is not difficult, but not wanted concerning the philosophy of Sheep Friends. If there will be a plugin system at all one day, these options may be possible but don't count on it. Current version has problems with Win98. It has been solved, though new version with extra's takes a lil longer than expected (1-2 weeks) due to my daily work. Regards


Apr 01 2008 - funkkybebel
<< Quote:
Mar 25 2008 - Ultraman82
Reverse Playback and changing playing speed (like Goldwave) would be
a nice addition too... ^^>>

The author told me it is difficult to use the bass library and add those features in the actual code.

By the way Sanne, thank you for the L beta that works.
(i was unable to launch another file once one already played)

Thanks.


Mar 31 2008 - fromatoz
cue support: +1
great player!


Mar 30 2008 - Andreas
Billy, best prog ever!


Mar 29 2008 - Zlurk
Derek,

I meant completely. So that it never runs a shuffle history at all.


Mar 28 2008 - Lesmo16
CUE sheet support would be absolutely fantastic!!!
I hadn't the heart to ask about that feature, but now ...
SUPPORT ++


Mar 28 2008 - Sanne (author)
Just polling; any intrest in Native Cue Support?
(support for one big flac file as an album, and a seperate cue file with the track names and positions)

regards


Mar 28 2008 - sCythE
Thanks for the reply Sanne.

Kudos!
I did not check the beta version, it had all the features I wanted. Waiting for it to become final version.

For the feedback, is this the place to tell about the bugs/missing things?
- Organize Favorites needs fix to display all texts properly, bottom text is cut
- Additional Functions F1 need to be fixed to display tabs properly
- Help file is still old one :)

Great work! Keep it up!

Hope CNet guy review Billy again, cause all the reason they said will be gone in next version. Waiting for a 5*


Mar 28 2008 - Derek
Zlurk -
Edit, Tools, Clear shuffle/queue history

Ctrl+Shift+C


Mar 27 2008 - Zlurk
Is it possible to remove the shuffle history function when running shuffle?


Mar 27 2008 - Sanne
Normal shortcuts aren't replaceable. I think it's not a good idea that people can overwrite the most common chosen defaults like pause/play/next. Imagine if everyone had his own shortcut to copy/paste text. Glad there are standards.

In the beta version;
Check out the global hotkeys in the settings, you can bind those keys to requested functions.

Those global keys also work when you're in billy. So that way you can, sort or less, make your own keys, though the defaults also work.


Mar 27 2008 - sCythE
Sanne, Are the hotkeys customizable?

Actually, alt+pause key difficult to press with one hand

there is no global pause, which is also needed....


I want global shortcuts that I can issue with single hand like:
ctrl+alt+z = prev
ctrl +alt+x=play
ctrl+alt+c=pause
ctrl+alt+v=stop
ctrl+alt+b=next
ctrl+alt+q/a=volume up/down

Many Thanks


Mar 25 2008 - Ultraman82
Reverse Playback and changing playing speed (like Goldwave) would be
a nice addition too... ^^


Mar 25 2008 - Sanne (author)
Derek -> Please contact me using the contact form so we can work out this bug. Regards


Mar 25 2008 - derek
this may be the biggest nitpick of them all, but when an odd number of tracks in the playlist are viewable, billy doesn't exactly center the playing item, it is always off in place by one


Mar 24 2008 - Sanne (author)
Galdom & Vinney -> Please contact me using the contact form so we can work out this bug. Regards


Mar 24 2008 - Galdom
Hi Shanne,
Billy 1.04k has a critical bug on my win98 system, the same as Vinney:

Error5 Function Check file. whenever I try to play a file.
After that, a warning message box says: Unknown file format
C:\musicfolder\musicfile.mp3.
I'm restoring Billy 1.04b, it plays all my large mp3 collection.

Thanks for your wonderful gift.


Mar 23 2008 - Zlurk
Thanks for adding the mediabutton functionality. :-)


Mar 22 2008 - Gerrit
Nice, Beautiful, simple to use.
I LOVE BILLY !!!!!


Mar 22 2008 - rezdog
Amazing!


Mar 21 2008 - elchihiro
hey guys,
I started writing out a Linux port to Billy (reimplementation in GTK and Python), if anyone's intrested lemme know here.

btw I'm not a sheepfriends developer, just a guy who likes Billy.


Mar 20 2008 - mamu.ji [at] gmail.com
very good player but can be best if u plz add a equalizer to it... all the best for future


Mar 20 2008 - mamu.ji [at] gmail.com
plz add a equalizer in billy


Mar 20 2008 - Vinney
Hi,
First of all:
Billy is superb! I used the old version for years now. But when I try to use the new version it says: Error5 Function Check file. whenever I try to play a file. After that is says: Unknown file format
C:\my music\...\musicfile.mp3.

It never starts playing a song! It happens with mp3 and wave files, i haven't tried other fileformats.
Is there a solution for this? are there more people with this problem?

grtz.


Mar 20 2008 - sCythE
Just installed Billy
The player just rocks
One of the the best

Winamp and WMP are going out
Keep it up!


Mar 18 2008 - patrick
User of Billy since November 2004. Just found the new version today. LOVE IT. THANKS and PEACE & Prosperity to you and your loved ones. From Los Angeles, California USA.


Mar 16 2008 - Kevin
I love Billy, beats any player anyday. You must be an angel.


Mar 14 2008 - derWalter
JUHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

new billy version YEEEHAAAAAW!!!!!

greets and thanks from good old austria


Mar 11 2008 - Jason
Post your colors.ini file!!!

[Style]
background_color=#000000
font_name=tahoma
font_size=8
font_bold=0
font_color=#00FF00
font_color_selected=#FFFFFF
selection_color=#0000FF
selection_color_playingitem=#0000FF
playingitem_color=#FFFFFF
playingitem_color_selected=#FFFFFF
playingitem_bold=1
queueditem_color=#FF0000
shuffleditem_color=#FF0000


Mar 09 2008 - MOLAM DUB
good work there Sanne, i luv Billy, finally made me load my whole HD of mp3s with ease and im a happy man shuffling thru all the tracks w/o fear of eating resources up. now i just spend alot more time on the pc, cos its so comfy listening to all the music!!

one thing though, the last.fm checkin works but the site says the tags sent cant be recognized. wats the problem here?


Mar 09 2008 - Kevin
Hello, I absolutely love your program, Billy!
I have a few suggestions/bug reports to report.

1) The Play Next Button seems to cut off part of the timer. The link below shows this problem. This did not occur in 1.04b.
hxxp://img136.imageshack.us/img136/292/billyqb0.jpg
(replace xx with tt)
2) Billy is unable to play songs with filenames that uses non-English characters (Japanese characters). I was wondering if you can fix this in the future so that it can read it.

3) Would it be possible for Billy to play midi files in the future?

Once again, great job on the program. I have been using Billy for about 4 years now and I absolutely love it. It's way better than Foobar, Windows Media Player, etc. It does what a player should do, play music. The lack of bloat and how efficient the program is is why I love this program so much. Good job!

~Kevin

PS: Your Contact button on your web page is broken. After you try to send the message, it says you didn't input your name, when it's clearly filled. Also, the email address info@sheepproductions.com seems to reject emails when emailed through Hotmail.

Also, the Guestbook seems not process quotation marks properly, as seen in my last message.


Mar 09 2008 - Kevin
Hello, I absolutely love your program, Billy!
I have a few suggestions/bug reports to report.

1) The


Mar 09 2008 - Kevin
Hello. I emailed you about 2 years ago about an update, and although it's a few years longer than I expected, at least it came. :D


Mar 08 2008 - lewis
If you could enable Billy to recognize characters in different languages, it would make an awesome adjustment.


Mar 07 2008 - maspiers [at] hotmail.com
using Natty - click


Mar 06 2008 - denegibson[at]gmail.com
This page could use pagination in my opinion ;)

Anyway thank you for making Billy, really liking it =D

Unfortunately I've noticed it doesn't seem to handle opening files with foreign characters involved which is a pain (trying to play from a directory with Japanese characters didn't work for me).


Mar 05 2008 - Ben
Great job on the new releases, skoh (below) told me about this last night :D


Mar 03 2008 - skoh.fley [at] gmail.com
Dude way to go with the release! I thought I would be using 1.04b for the rest of my life XP

It actually came right when I started to use Last.fm, so this is awesome! Please if you do get rid of it in 1.05, put it in a plugin!

Way to go! WE LOVE YOU!!


Mar 02 2008 - Kim
You're a genius! Seriously!
I wonder why applications like this (even open source) is really hard to find. I use Billy, Hawk and Kelly every day and I couldn't have been happier.

I will donate lots of money some day. I promise!


Mar 02 2008 - Peter
Nice, nice, nice...
Billy is the best...thx you


Mar 02 2008 - Curt Jackson
Excellent software. Just how it should be.

Thank you Sanne.

Best regards.


Feb 28 2008 - lenny
i just wand to say i love Billy=) it dont eat any memory=)


Feb 28 2008 - Sanne (author)
Thanks all for the Billy feedback the last few days! There are probably some more bugs so just let me know.. documentation file will be updated upcoming week(s) as well.

@Ram: I know CNET's review is quite subjective since it reflects a certain group of users where Billy doesn't fit, the whole ideology is not understood where they complain about the lack of options.. Billy is just made for me & my friends and anyone sharing the same idea's, hence the whole “sheep friends” name. I never had commercial goals, since the quantity of options often reflect on business success. Though the Donating button & GoogleAds on my site are a way to help with costs involved over the years, I do have thought about it for months due to idealism. I think Apple does a great job in giving many options without frustrating a user too much with options, just like Foobar though it's not that easy for middle class comp. users. Word is terrible in dealing with functionality. I am struggling with the lastfm gimmick, since I personally like it, I think the concept of last.fm is very cool, but Billy is an audio player, nothing more. So maybe that functionality has to be there as an extension, as a plugin. I am having my thoughts about this stuff.

Regards


Feb 28 2008 - Victor
You guys spot the bug :) You're amazing, I came to shout it out, but there's no need to.


Feb 27 2008 - Ram
Billy-Nice mp3 player. i have used all kinds of mp3 players....this is as simple as it gets.....i Disagree with the CNET rating....i bet they did not really use the player


Feb 27 2008 - JonUK
I've been using Billy for a few years now and love it's tiny footprint and


Feb 26 2008 - Derek
Xichael - Put this at the bottom of your Billy.ini file:


[Tweak]
minimize_to_tray=0


Feb 26 2008 - Eric
Very nice work on Billy, good to see its still getting updated! It rocks.. Where WMP etc crash on my (to big) music list, billy runs like a charm! Thnx


Feb 26 2008 - Xichael
I love Billy, but I desperately need him to minimize to the taskbar instead of the notification area. I usually keep all my music on shuffle, and it's important for me to be able to glance down and see who's currently playing (all of my mp3's filenames start with the artist's name, which is conveniently displayed on Billy's taskbar button). Please, in Billy's next version, make minimization to the notification area optional, not mandatory... Thank you so much!


Feb 25 2008 - Victor
Great, an update!

No skins please, don't bloat this application.


Feb 25 2008 - Art
Billy is fantastic! Please leave the last.fm support.

And add the skins please.
Just kidding:)


Feb 25 2008 - Jason
I noticed that I didn't have Billy installed on a recently rebuilt machine when surprise surprise there's a new Billy release! Awesome news!!! I think I will donate today!


Feb 24 2008 - woone
Billy: the enemy of bloat.

Thank you thank you thank you.


Feb 23 2008 - G
Wow, what a great surprise there's a Billy update!

Here I was, installing Windows to a new machine, and I remembered I just _have_ to grab Billy on it as well. Arrived here, and whoa, there's a new version waiting!

Thank you, Billy is an essential no-nonsense music player.


Feb 21 2008 - User007
EventGhost - Remote control of Billy
Wiki:
www.eventghost.org/wiki/Main_Page
Download:
www.eventghost.org/downloads/
Forum:
www.eventghost.org/forum/


Feb 20 2008 - Jonas
Wow! This is one of the best pieces of software i've had my hands on! I'm a full-time foobar2000 user, but i just love how simple and yet powerful Billy is.

Flac & last.fm support? I guess i'm gonna have a new addiction.

Thank you so much, Sanne!


Feb 20 2008 - andie
billy is classic stuff dude ... amongst the nicest pieces of software i laid my hands on ever ... very neat ... very light ... with keyboard shortcuts

thanks for the same

also, since i like your concept of software, was wondering which web browser you use?


Feb 19 2008 - Gimp Skool
Thanks for adding FLAC support, well done mate. Have a pink wafer.


Feb 19 2008 - Sanne (author)
Just to make sure I don't create false hope to you guys;

My time is very limited due my daily work so it can take a few months till the new BASS release will be implemented. The unicode release is lots and lots of work, almost a full rewrite and I have to wait for a new Delphi release that can speed up my work, so that probably can take a year or so.

I forgot to mention that I am trying to support replaygain in next release.

Thanks everyone for support


Feb 18 2008 - mama
Billy rocks. Good that Billy is back again...


Feb 18 2008 - Leif Larsson
Yes! It's back, it's back!! Couldn't believe it at first, but the news from Neowin was true!


Feb 18 2008 - johan
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!


Feb 17 2008 - HomiSite
IT IS ALIVE... AGAIN!
Thank you, I am looking forward to a glorious Billy future :-)


Feb 17 2008 - Lare2
Nice to hear and Update is coming for Billy it is an amazing program. Been using it forever since release and even the development stopped all this time nothing came close to the elegant and simple way of billy when playing music files


Feb 17 2008 - Lesmo16
Thanks for the update!

It would be so great if right clicking on a folder would start Billy playing the containing music files.


Feb 15 2008 - Adam23
That is just splendid, thanks!


Feb 15 2008 - Sanne (author)
New update available version i - beta.
- Flac and lastfm support

Next update:
New BASS library, less hangups

Next next update:
Unicode


Feb 12 2008 - widelake
Just two wishes:
- allow to use updated bass.dll
- process unicode file name(eg. Asian 2 byte languages) - Billy can only two types of file name; English and Operating system default language.

Thanks a lot for your and our billy. Billy is so coooooool!


Feb 11 2008 - Vanja
Thank you for Billy. It's amazing.


Feb 10 2008 - bjoern
hey, also wanted to say 'thank you' for billy which i am using for long time now. i still miss the feature to play back simple audio cd's though. or am i so confused to not have found it in all this years? keep it up.
best wishes, bjoern


Feb 08 2008 - Adam23
Hmm, I don't have any problems with opening playlists in Billy. Try to create a new one, or better, create a new one using Billy.


Feb 08 2008 - martyn
ie. C:\Documents and Settings\Martyn\My Documents\My Sounds\Rock

guess this board doesnt play well with quotation marks. sorry for the quad post! :P


Feb 08 2008 - martyn
thanks adam but when i try to open my m3u file (containing the text: hmmm, wont let me post that but it was basically a link to my music folder) using right-click 'open with > billy' it gives an error message 'unrecognised file type'.. works with winamp which is a shame as id like to ditch it for billy


Feb 08 2008 - martyn
thanks adam but when i try to open my m3u file (containing the text:


Feb 08 2008 - martyn
thanks adam but when i try to open my m3u file (containing the text:


Feb 08 2008 - Adam23
to martyn:
Billy recognises m3u, pls and txt playlists.
If you have all your music in one folder without subfolders, just open one of the mp3s and the rest of them will be added into Billy automatically.


Feb 07 2008 - martyn
thank you wiz! i have 1 more question. is it possible to auto refresh my playlist (ie music folder) so that recently added tracks get included in the list.

basically, what i want is a quicklaunch button that'll play my constantly updated music folder with one click. at the moment i use an .m3u file to my music directory and have it so that winamp is opened by default when clicked. this seems overkill.

billy doesnt recognise m3u does it?

thanks in advance!! m


Feb 06 2008 - David
I love this approach to software. Simple and useful! Thanks!


Feb 06 2008 - Wiz
...download billyrun.zip as a 3rd party utility.


Feb 06 2008 - Wiz
@myrtyn

Yes, there it is a way, take a look to the main Billy page and download


Feb 04 2008 - martyn
hi, is there any way to get billy to 'autoplay' when opened?


Feb 01 2008 - joy kabbah /
God is able to do all things , bcus heaven and earth is of him.


Jan 28 2008 - Francesco Pier
Billy is the worlds greatest mp3player. Please please please get some spare time, and make more utillities :-)


Jan 28 2008 - Wohlstandskind
hi
billy is the best player i ever seen =)
but the plugin for msn doesnt work
supports the plugin the latest msn version?

regards


Jan 28 2008 - ums
Thank you for developing and releasing these free tools.


Jan 25 2008 - hackaroto
hi, Ive been using the almighty billy for some years now :D, it's still the best.

I've been wanting to use Natty, but I'm a bit paranoid about my emails user/password floating around unencrypted... any chances of adding TLS or some type of encryption?

Regards from Sendai, Japan.


Jan 24 2008 - spammich [at] gmx.net
is it possible to get the diana source code?


Jan 24 2008 - spammich [at] gmx.net
is it possible to get the


Jan 20 2008 - Mathias Lang
Dear Damien,
thank you very much for writing this program. I am searching now for 6 days for a mp3 player as file browser for my media pc and yours is the only one so far. It exactly matches may needs, no libs, no import, no refresh needed, justs plays. Thank you very much.
Best regards
Mathias Lang in Germany on a rainy Sunday aftrnoon.


Jan 14 2008 - Damien Friend
Billy is my new friend!


Jan 12 2008 - Zlurk [at] timtux.net
I love Billy - but would it be too much to ask for support for certain multimedia keyboards? <_< Good work on the lightweight all-you-need music player anyway. :D


Jan 12 2008 - Enea
nice job,
ty for the cheese


Jan 12 2008 - John
I love this! Great work! You are truly appreciated!


Jan 12 2008 - Jake M
Discovered Billy must be around 2 years ago now ? Still using to this day - Fantastic !


Jan 11 2008 - Jasp
I've been using Billy for a couple of years; absolutely perfect! Quick loading, all the functions you need with no frills.
Cheers!


Jan 10 2008 - nobbers
Billy.

the best thing ive ever used i think!


Jan 10 2008 - david
nice program i've been using it since august last year. love it


Jan 08 2008 - Mark
I think i just replaced winamp 2.91.

One thing... while the player is in the tray you should have hotkeys to switch songs and such.


Jan 07 2008 - Lucy
These programs are really great. I use Abby, Billy, and Diana all the time. Thanks for making them... and for making them free!


Jan 06 2008 - gsc
billy is really cool.Keep up the good work! Updates needed


Jan 02 2008 - Sergey S.
Happi Newe Yeare!
Billy.exe is cool ! Folks need more :)


Jan 02 2008 - Lhazfarg
Happy New Year to All.
I recommend Billy to all my friends, because 4 me it is the best small player.


Dec 30 2007 - Bear Bottoms
Hi. Thank you for your freeware contributions. I like Billy for being the simple but good no nonsense audio player. I have listed it on bearbottoms1.com freeware website thus it has won the Official BearWare Top Freeware Award. Thanks again.


Dec 30 2007 - yerayenrique [at] yahoo.es
hi
im always following all your software particularly amazed by Billy & =
i've been wanting to be able to run Natty for a while now, but i always =
get the same problem which is it starts flashing & won't allow me to do =
anything with it when i open it. I've tried with both Windows Vista &
Windows XP.
Any ideas? Help will be highly appreciated.
Thanks, have a good day!


Dec 29 2007 - Yuri
Greetings from Brazil!
Keep up the good work, Billy is awesome!


Dec 24 2007 - Eric Fretz
Great tools! There is nothing more powerful than a simply useful tool...


Dec 17 2007 - daslkj_gmx_net
 

COLOR MODE FOR 1.04B:
set this on billy.ini:

[General]
ActiveScheme=colors.ini

this will make billy handle colors like 1.03

example for colors.ini:

[Style]
background_color=#fefefe
font_name=Trebuchet MS
font_size=8
font_bold=0
font_color=#444444
font_color_selected=#000000
selection_color=#DDDDBB
selection_color_playingitem=#EEEECC
playingitem_color=#DD0000
playingitem_color_selected=#DD0000
playingitem_bold=0
queueditem_color=#FFC03E
shuffleditem_color=#42478C


 


Dec 16 2007 - Steven (xavice7 gmail . cawm)
I absolutely love these programs! I have a horrible AMD Duron computer running in my room, and these run perfectly and do what I want them to do. Thank you.


Dec 16 2007 - anhadikal [at] gmail.com
hello,

I use Billy, it's great player! Nice job. But I have a problem. Billy not play files with cyrillic names such russian songs with russian filenames. Please fix it :) I think Unicode can fix this ;)


Dec 13 2007 - AScorpio / Scorpio-89 [at] ya.ru
Hi ppl you're doing an awesome job over there. Keep it up, good work!


Dec 12 2007 - marco, GERMANY
No more skinning, customizing, tagging, editing, covering, setting options.... you saved hours of my lifetime :-) and millions of nerve-cells from getting insane. Thank you for this.
Doubleclick and just enjoy your music.
Greets from Germany and a nice Christmas :-)


Dec 09 2007 - dahvn
I love Billy and Kelly, they release my CPU and memory usage, make my work easy and simple. Thank you very much.


Dec 04 2007 - Preetham N from Shimoga, KAR, INDIA
I just love billy...
Its just the way i dreamt of a music player to be; so is my friend Camelus.


Nov 25 2007 - sruti
love the program! thanks!!


Nov 10 2007 - Thestorey
I just found billeh i like him a lot he does what takes other mp3 players in starseconds. Keep up the dandy work. You have hit it right here my man.


Nov 09 2007 - Peter
Billy is superb!

Are you allready develop billy?

Is it possible to get an addon that i can play my .wma songs?


Nov 05 2007 - Andreas
Billy rocks!


Nov 04 2007 - John
Billy is really awesome. I can't use it all the time though, since most my music is in FLAC. Thanks for a great app anyways, maybe it will support for more formats in the future.


Oct 31 2007 - Rob
Billy gives me a headache. Since switching over from Winamp, I no longer have time while starting the program up to go make myself a cup of coffee, and the withdrawal is killing me. I demand you fix this immediately by making Billy waste an additional 3 minutes at startup for caffeine compatibility.


Oct 31 2007 - Chris
AAC support is really needed. I have 4,000 files and they only take up about 3-4gbs.If it was mp3s, I would have triple that. Is there a way Billy can play these files?


Oct 25 2007 - Sanne
Thanks all for comments.

If anyone is interested in billy with lastfm option, drop me a mail. Very early unstable beta(!)


Oct 25 2007 - Metalmanicman
Thank you very much for billy. He is very cool little app. Straightforward & reliable. Fast & efficient. In my tray... For more than 2yrs! Perfect as personal jukebox. Much friendlier than other bloated mediaplayers. I'm not surprised He's popular. You deserve every word of praise here. Thanx again. Excellent work. Most appreciated.


Oct 25 2007 - Dhany
Hey Sheep,.. just want to let you know that Billy is running great in my Vista box. Thank you


Oct 24 2007 - shane
I have billy on www.windsorwebs.co.uk members section/Media players . You score 5out of 5.....not advertising but its good to let people no they done well


Oct 24 2007 - Shane
Billy is a great little programe, is brill for mp3 players in car(using old pc or lap)
Well done.........shame you did not make a shane, tina at least to finish a zelda


Oct 21 2007 - Molok
Hi, love Billy, but there seems to be some problem with the Check for new files function. It doesnt find new files, and when the search is done, it only says 0 new files found in: and only the first subdirectory of one of my main music directories is displayed. Could there be some problem with searching through folders with names containing other than alphanumerics?

There also seem to be some problems with the home page displaying quotation marks ;)


Oct 21 2007 - Molok
Hi, love Billy, but there seems to be some problem with the


Oct 21 2007 - stefano flashato [at] gmail.com
programma stand-alone veramente notevole, semplice e diretto. Siete meravigliosi! you are the best!
stefano, italy


Oct 19 2007 - Jan, janbernyATo2.pl
Thanks for Billy,really like it.I appreciate that I can see songs filenames,not tags.My problem-many songs have file name in Russian alphabet-azbuka.Instead of it I can see only


Oct 19 2007 - Jan
Hi,
thanks for Billy, I really like this player. I appreciate that I can see songs according to their file name and not tags. But I have one very unpleasant problem - some of my songs have file names typed in Russian alphabet - azbuka. Instead of these file names I can see only


Oct 15 2007 - Giger Sheep
In the country from where i come fom the sheep eat people you see so at the moment im hideing in my room while my familey are getting murdered by sheep. please help us straight away please


Oct 15 2007 - Hey
Natty
Joe
&&
Ayden love sheep =]

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Oct 15 2007 - Joe
loves sheep :D:D:D


Oct 15 2007 - Jesus
THis is freakin aswsome


Oct 10 2007 - vinod_jaiswal18 [at] yahoo.co.in
u guys r doing fabulous job..............

i appreciate ur efforts..............!!!!

and thanks for the free wares.............

i have downloaded all and using billy for 15 days and its awesome...................


Oct 10 2007 - Paul
oh the way software should be, small tools that do what you want and work fast. Thankyou for your time and efforts.


Oct 09 2007 - red
I have been using Billy for months. This is a great program and I hope you keep it alive and working with Vista.


Oct 07 2007 - hanseomo
Wow! what a wonderful player i desperately want...thanks!


Oct 06 2007 - pwurp
Hi,
I like Billy a lot! It's the nicest litte-resource-using player I've seen!
I got a problem though, when pointing to my main music folder it says


Oct 05 2007 - billyrocks
I've been using Billy since 2005 — thanks so much for this awesome program.


Oct 04 2007 - woone
Back again to refresh my adulation. Billy (though a little crashy) is simply amazing.


Oct 04 2007 - oct -04-2007!prashant {India}
Dear, I am using Billy since 2004 nothing can beat this coolz stuff. Between times I used many players but nothing couldn' t satisfied me cause I am fond of Billy !
Thanx Brother, keep this project alive.


Oct 03 2007 - John
Thanks for Billy! Its so great! Wow! What a great program.


Oct 01 2007 - ori
billy is absolutely superb. i wonder why the ability to resist implementing unnecessary features is so rare among developers, but at any rate, billy is a nice exception. thanks for m3u support in the latest beta.


Sep 23 2007 - pk dino
Thanks for software that is just what it is!!


Sep 22 2007 - Will
Billy is amazing. I love the global hotkey options, It completely replaced itunes/windows media player for any kind of gaming and listening to music. The minimize to tray is nice to


Sep 19 2007 - Bioret
nice simple programs


Sep 15 2007 - Björn
Billy's great, but as someone said, Last.fm-plug-in would be great.


Sep 11 2007 - hourglass213
just droppin by after some months or almost a year of using billy....thanks for the sheepfriends...


Sep 09 2007 - Emiel
Richard,


Open folder F4
Add folder F3
Add file Ctrl + O

For more, read the Billy documentation page.

Cheers!


Sep 09 2007 - Richard
Can you please add a feature to open folders with Billy (play all mp3s in a folder)? Or maybe just publish the source? :)


Sep 03 2007 - Slayer
Billy gives me a hardon! I love Billy! <3


Aug 29 2007 - Sanne (creator)
Thanks guys for all support. Sorry I can't help you with add-ons. Regards


Aug 23 2007 - German Fella
Thanks for Billy Player - its such a great audio player !!! fast,low cpu and of course FREE !
it would be unbeatable if there would also the possibility of playing playlists...
Greetz from Hamburg/Germany


Aug 22 2007 - CAYUGA
Pequeño GRAN programa!.Demostración de inteligencia,conocimientos y ganas.Muy buen sonido,simplicidad y ...¡freeware!.


Aug 20 2007 - Viktor Varland, viktor [at] varland.se
Hey, I love billy, but the 'playing internet stream at 16KB/s' string is too long.
I thought of switching it with with 'Streaming at 16KB/s' with a hexeditor, but I can't find the string and opening RCData -> TINFO_FORM crashes ResHacker.

Thanks for a great player and Cheers!

p.s '' crashes your guestbook. :(


Aug 20 2007 - Viktor Varland, viktor [at] varland.se
Hey, I love billy, but the


Aug 19 2007 - Georg
Thanks for the great simple software! Best player ever! And Hawk is excellent, too.

Best wishes for you all from Germany


Aug 19 2007 - Koven
Thanks for your hard work and above all for your great software Billy mp3-player. I would have only one suggestion to improve it. Asiatic signs can't be recognized, there are


Aug 14 2007 - K
I love Diana!
where can I find the data file which contains my To-Do list?
Please let me know, Im about to format my HDD.


Aug 13 2007 - RH
I love Billy! :) Best program ever, thanks for your invested time ;)

greetz from germany


Aug 09 2007 - Nick (Ireland)
The Billy program is excellent, being fast and intuitive to use.

Since later versions of the Un4seen Bass sound engine support the common FLAC format, would it be possible to update Billy?


Aug 06 2007 - Stefan (Holland)
Billy has been my nr. 1 mp3 player for almost a year now.. Just had to drop a line; superb work! <3 Billy


Aug 06 2007 - Jewcifer
now i see the top messege about contact form=]


Aug 06 2007 - Jewcifer
Love billy, one maybe two things..

FLAC SUPPORT - been a big shift in the net to flac with the bandwidth growing and all

And if you could hack directinput (aka create a API hook) so i can use billys keyboard features in directinput games, like Gunz the duel. I CAN DREAM CANT I


Aug 02 2007 - TillZ
Billy is perfect! The sound is great.
Please do Kelly standalone too.


Jul 28 2007 - Mr. Swan
Billy is exactly what I've been looking for. I have always been upset with the size and CPU usage of other media players. Billy is so small and compact that the only evidence that he's running is that there is music playing. An absolutely wonderful program. Standalone too!


Jul 24 2007 - unodeaca [at] hotmail.com
I have an old Compaq Deskpro (Pentium III) with almost no memory available. With Billy, I can listen to music with almost no memory usage (3MB). Thank you folks.

Luciano from Patagonia


Jul 22 2007 - Rys
Yeah, I recently noticed that you stopped the work on these.. anyway.. all of them are *extremely* good programs, especially Billy. It fitted to the no-nonsense mp3 player.

again.. cheers to your great work!


Jul 22 2007 - dans
Thank for the audio player. I use ogg audio format for my songs collection.

Great job dude!


Jul 17 2007 - Halm
I am so sad that work has stopped on this software. Happily it is all just so stable and functional that Billy will still be playing my mp3 fifty yrs from now ;)


Jul 15 2007 - Rob
Excellent software mate :)


Jul 12 2007 - Ahmed Nawaz
Thanks for all the great software....billy is my best friend, and when I'm supposed to be organizing my life, Diana steps in and does her thing. Thank you 'Mr Sheep' for such elegantly simple software.


Jul 11 2007 - Veera
Billy -Science of Simplicity yet Pivot of Power... Excellent Work!!


Jul 10 2007 - JrSyel3rd
WeLoveBilly!


Jul 08 2007 - 12xuser
I use Billy to play CDs full of MP3s, organized in directories by album. Works great, exactly what I was looking for.


Jun 29 2007 - Adam23
Please come back to life, Sir. Schaap, update Billy, add FLAC support, make happy a huge flock of your followers :-)


Jun 26 2007 - msystems
if one does NOT try Billy, one will never enjoy its fine usage...Natty and Abby are very handy to me, also. a very kind and gentle software. sincere thanks.


Jun 23 2007 - Jonas
And, where is my SCROLL LOCK button? hehe


Jun 23 2007 - Jonas
How do i change the text in the playlist?


Jun 22 2007 - woone
Billy... so beautiful I want to cry.


Jun 18 2007 - dave - another billy fan!
just imagine if all software was this well written...(cough M$)


Jun 12 2007 - duffogrup
Great little Billy


Jun 11 2007 - Brgabriel [at] sspx.org
Dear Mrs. Schaap, thank you for your work! And thank you for begin so generous as to make them freeware for us poor people. I use Kelly on my computer because it is so simple and it stays on top. God bless you.
Brother Gabriel-Marie


Jun 11 2007 - r1to
tried billy, looked for the newer if any, found other amazing smallapps!!

Thanks 4 da good work man!


Jun 09 2007 - beans



Jun 08 2007 - Dom
It will be perfect if you can add support for wma. Thanks in advance !


Jun 06 2007 - Justin
Excellent applications. Lightweight is certainly the way to go. I hope to see you keeping up to date and making more of these.


Jun 06 2007 - Frank Pettersen
Yet another fan entry. The performance of billy is superb!


Jun 04 2007 - Phoebos
Dommage de s'arrêter là !!!


Jun 02 2007 - h.coenen [at] e-skills.nl
I'm currently looking in making a update to my standalone


May 28 2007 - aqutavia
thanx for sharing billy with us. its great and it was just what i was looking for.


May 23 2007 - :)
Billy is simply AWESOME!!!


May 22 2007 - Nivi
natty is broken >:-(awesome programs though


May 21 2007 - synorgy
These are some of the most useful programs I have found in recent history.

I appreciate the simplicity and clarity of design behind these programs. Billy and Natty are now deeply integrated into my workflow.

Thank you for the time and effort required to create such simple masterpieces.


May 14 2007 - koutsompinas [at] gmail.com
koutsompinas
koutsompinas


May 12 2007 - DaZeD - yannick.rabaut [at] gmail.com
As stated many times before in this guestbook, Billy is simply AWESOME!!!

Too bad it doesn't seem to work with my keyboard though (Logitech Deluxe Access Keyboard)

But that's only a minor problem which can't even be fixed by you I think, so for the rest: only good comments about it ... :)

I can now finally listen to music while playing a game without my FPS dropping to 10 while a song changes xD


May 10 2007 - Draxis
Billy is fantastic, use it all the time now, thanks for sharing it


May 05 2007 - pablotossi
Billy Rocks! dont need reinstall for last 3 years! ziped is the best!


Apr 29 2007 - Andrenext [at] yahoo.com.br
good minimalistic site and cute software!


Apr 26 2007 - Piet
Goed gedaan jongens!


Apr 24 2007 - Leron ITA
Billy is the BEST player ever: simple, light and powerful! ONLY MUSIC!


Apr 22 2007 - Vitaliy G-Thang [at] inbox.lv
Billy rocks!
It will be awesome if users can add commands to player? for example i add


Apr 22 2007 - Vitaliy G-Thang [at] inbox.lv
Billy rocks!
It will be awesome if users can add commands to player? for example i add


Apr 20 2007 - Gessie
Billy rocks. It's my favorite audio player, and I'm trying to get as many to use it as possible. It's not that hard since it's simply awesome.

Bedankt, Sanne.


Apr 18 2007 - Simon
guys i love billy so mutch
hes my best friend!!!!^^
thx a lot :-)


Apr 17 2007 - Dave
Yeah man, these are great programs. Thanks a bunch!


Apr 13 2007 - Fred
Interesting to see that while Foobar and Winamp are still struggling to get gapless playing 100% functional, Billy had it working two years ago! :)


Apr 12 2007 - Dra
Billyyyy!!!.. awsome!


Apr 11 2007 - pcnador [at] gmail.com
you're doing an amazing your billy become my best mp3 player simple fast... realy great
keep it up guys


Apr 09 2007 - Dude
Diana is a really great program. Any chance that the code will be released so development can continue? You can release it on Sourceforge or Google Code, or just host the files here


Apr 09 2007 - rickrusco[at]yahool.com
Billy works great on my PII 266 laptop with only 64MB of RAM. It is simple and FAST.

I also use it on my work computer running from my jumpdrive. The only suggestion I would have is instead of absolute references (i.e. C:\My Music) use indirect references so that when transferring a jump drive from one computer to another, you don't have to reload your folder location.

Thanks for a great player,
Rick


Apr 08 2007 - daniel
dont stop dev!!!!!!! plsssss


Apr 08 2007 - ssk
plz dont quit devlopment


Apr 08 2007 - ssk
billy is amazing


Apr 06 2007 - Acquiro
Billy ... it just is the greatest.
Period.


Apr 06 2007 - Fred de Groot
very nice!!!!!!!!
perhaps tag edit?
(mybe?)


Apr 04 2007 - rthaan[at]hotmail.com
Billy is really good.

What I miss in the list


Apr 04 2007 - Ali
<i>hmm...</i>


Apr 03 2007 - Juke
Oh no!

Please don't quit devolpment or I'll rape something or someone.


Apr 02 2007 - Tobi
I've been using Billy as my primary player since 2005. Too bad you quit development :(


Apr 01 2007 - LADYX
Hi, I use Amsn in Windows, is there a way to show my playing songs in amsn?, help!


Mar 24 2007 - Huggy Bear
Billy is awesome!!

I was looking at posts on PortableApps.com for a small MP3 playing application that would run on a USB thumb drive.

It's a pity its not WMA compatible tho.

Regards

Huggy Bear


Mar 21 2007 - Jarks
A great pity that Billys development don\\\'t continue. I like it so much. So a migrated to DéKiBulle (dekibulle.free.fr). It\\\'s Billy-like, but not the same.


Mar 18 2007 - Tim
Billy Rocks! What it doesn’t have, I don’t need. I wish others; companies and software writers got it. You guys do! It’s so cool managing a large MP3 collection with ease and speed. Nothing comes close. THANKS!!!!!!


Mar 15 2007 - Dtoxic
Can some 1 make a plugin so the songs that are playd show up in Google Talk?
thx :)


Mar 14 2007 - Chris
Billy is by far the best player. No useless buttons/graphics/menus. Just the real thing. Great job :)


Mar 13 2007 - Josh
Billy is a great player...and the keyboard shortcuts are awesome. I can control it from anywhere....try to add a little colorful skin to it.
Anyway..you have done a great job...Cheers


Mar 12 2007 - Daniel
I admire your work, Billy is the best MP3 player EVER.


Mar 12 2007 - George
Billy is fantastic. Great work.

Will the source be released?

I'm interested in finding or creating a very basic web remote control (for use with my PSP and/or Archos 604 Wifi.


Mar 10 2007 - Federico tifef [at] hotmail.com
Billy. excellent. The best player I've never used. The usage of the


Mar 08 2007 - jovatox [at] gmail.com
Billy fantastic program
es un fantastico programa, simple y funcional hace lo que tiene que hacer.


Mar 06 2007 - Martin (hinyew [at] hotmail.com)
I can feel the friendliness from your programs, and of course, the warmth from you. Thanks Sheep!


Mar 05 2007 - skelly831 [saemke [at] gmail.com]
Nice apps!


Feb 27 2007 - ernestoch_cr [at] yahoo.es
Good job. This is a nice idea.
Keep on that.


Feb 26 2007 - Lewis



Feb 24 2007 - BILLY
It is the best player I've ever tryed, but please add the possibility of the dragging (copying/moving) files from the list or add such item to the context menu.
BUNCHERDAK


Feb 23 2007 - Ayfer
Hi,
I like them all.Perfect job.
Thanks all.
Ayfer


Feb 23 2007 - Bob
Hi all!,

Here is another replacement for Billy:
dekibulle.free.fr/index.php?lang=en&u=presentation
It is a small memory footprint directory-style player using the BASS lib, and it is being developed!


Feb 22 2007 - barret
yes I agree with fanatiK

The most important thing is privacy.


Feb 21 2007 - Robbin
This is how software should be ;)!
Billy is great it would be perfect if it would support other media files (like wma and ogg).
Never the less great work!

Volgens mij is het een nederlands(of belgisch?) product, dus ook maar een reactie in het nederlands :)

Super gedaan 'SheepFriends'!
Ga zo door!


Feb 21 2007 - fanatiK
Where is your privacy statement? Do you have a privacy statement for your programs or somewhere on your website? If so please post them here, thank you.


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Feb 17 2007 - schneestrand
please more sheep stuff....


Feb 16 2007 - d_66
billy is way better than any music player! no useless extras, just plain simple but does all what it needs to.


Feb 16 2007 - indra
please support for asian font and more file support!!!


Feb 13 2007 - Keef
Been using Billy at work for 2 years now and have shared it to most of the staff who listen to music at work, its a universal favourite.

Good to see the word has spread and thousands of others loving its simplicity.

Cheers.


Feb 12 2007 - Dutchman
Bill Gates, eat your hart out! See Billy for how software is supposed te be: simple, effective, no useless extra's.


Feb 10 2007 - matthew.hust [at] us.army.mil
Both Billy And Abby is a wonderful program. Fast and simple. My only problem with the sheepfriends products....You guys stopped.


Feb 09 2007 - brofield2 at jellycan com
I would love to extend this to support unicode paths. Please release the source, or contact me privately if you don't want to release the source.


Feb 08 2007 - YERAY
YOU GUYS SHOULD RELASE AN OPERATING SYSTEM, AS SIMPLE & FAST AS YOUR PROGRAMS.


Feb 08 2007 - Antony
Please, release the source-code!!!
I want it on Linux...


Feb 07 2007 - Tiki
Dicovered Billy...exactly what software should be. Thanks! Keep up the great work!


Feb 07 2007 - Billy Lover (Sheep Lover)
Just downloaded Billy to use as a stand-alone portable media player on my USB hard-drive. What a fantasticly well thought-out tool. Has all the features I require but with absolutely no bloat (or goat).

Thank you....


Feb 01 2007 - rahul_kdi [at] yahoo.co.in
i'm late!


Jan 31 2007 - arjunkochhar [at] hotmail.com
you're very talented, dumped all my music players for billy. and loving it!! keep up the good work.


Jan 31 2007 - Jonas
Please support MP3-TAGS, you could add an option if the user want to use MP3-Tags or not, but MP3-Tags are needed!!!


Jan 30 2007 - MikeD
Kudos on your website design. Very slick.


Jan 29 2007 - Björn
last post was broken. just to finish it -

c) possibility to record direct to diskdrive


Jan 29 2007 - Björn
Just got billy and it's fantastic!
Though 3 things I do miss
a) support to add (files from) audio cd
b) record button = red when recording (just pychological


Jan 29 2007 - BiancaC
Thanks for Billy - the best one !!!


Jan 25 2007 - cooool
I want Billy support Japanese. Some characters are broken.


Jan 25 2007 - John Barton jb-at-jbideas - dot - com
You rock. The simplicity and performance is light years ahead in design! Why is it so hard for other people to 'get' this? Oh, and FREE totally rocks. Send me an email if you ever take money cuz I will send you some.


Jan 21 2007 - Jake
Billy is just perfect it plays songs easy. No rating and other shit that is just annoying.


Jan 18 2007 - dAnkur
My roomie told me about Billy.. and I checked out the other tools too... Diana is perfect for me.. Awesome stuff brother..


Jan 18 2007 - fra
really nice
i hope in a better file icon (a sheep?)

great


Jan 16 2007 - Menno - mennow [at] gmail.com
awesome :D

you guys did a really good job :D
i always hated those fancy media players.. so i sticked to winamp oldskool classic skin :D
but this is even better, abolutely lag free when gaming :D

_O_


Jan 16 2007 - Paul Wesley
Hey Guys,
Really an awesome work, specially the Billy one. You have No clue how much help it is to me. Keep up the good work..

paul.wesley@polaris.co.in


Jan 16 2007 - Milamber
well done guys!


Jan 13 2007 - Krag
Great work.
no useless memory hugger bloatware here.
This is all about real programming.


Jan 12 2007 - bacco
really nice, just what i'm searching for.
may be add an autoplay feature when i start it...
italy rulez ;)


Jan 05 2007 - blu_aqua
Billy was a bless from above for my overwhelmed notebook.
Now I can listen to my music while running Eclipse + Oracle + FTP Client + many Browser windows. :-D

Just a thought: I see you don't have time to do updates and stuff, so why don't you release the source code and let the community do the job? You may also continue to retain the copyrights on the software as long as you keep it free.
Ciao from Italy


Dec 30 2006 - falco_car
I have an old P1 133MHz 64MB RAM with a good sound card and surround speakers which I planned to use exclusively as a media player to play MP3's located on a different PC on my home network. I tried all kind of players - they either peaked the processor and produced jerky playback or lacked playlist capabilites. Billy did the job perfectly - constant sound, good drag and drop of folders and queue (playlist) management. Well done guys - you saved an old PC from the scrapheap.


Dec 29 2006 - rws
came back coz i really tried to use Billy, but it has 1 huge shortcoming in my mind - NO PLAY/PAUSE BUTTON, yes keyboard are useful things but i am weak windows user so i like to do things with mouse so a single PLAY/PAUSE button just before the playing time would be awfuully useful. pretty plz. : )


Dec 28 2006 - qhiiyr [at] gmail.com
I reinforce what Mekkah said. If you're too lazy to do steps one through four (it's understandable, we all get lazy), at least do steps five and six so we (the users) can complete the other steps. Heck, you can even do just step six if you want, we can open our own forums for lack of support. I can do that if it's decided upon.

Not to jump ahead, though. Do SOMETHING, man! You've got more users than you might realize waiting here! Don't abandon us; we need you!


Dec 27 2006 - rws
cool page, programs, idea. just like my idea. only i can't program. :P


Dec 20 2006 - Mekkah
What billy needs:
1. UPDATE!!!
2. A Fresh BASS library (Billy still uses 2.0.0.22).
3. Some kind of plugin system (Keeps the minimal UI, yet users can expand.
4. More support for changing colours
5. Users forums for feedback
6. The sourcecode (why keep it, Manne, if you don't care about developing it. let the community help you)


Dec 18 2006 - numero
loving billy since 2006
genialy player, thX men


Dec 17 2006 - peterhantz[at]yahoo.com
Great work pal, i really enjoy billy your other work, pretty cool, keep it up man. I suggest you to let us customize tyhe language, i can help for indonesia laguage, i aint spam man


Dec 16 2006 - Keith
mmm, after iTunes i find this program to be an orgasm of some sorts.

love keith,


Dec 15 2006 - Pete
I don't like sheep.
They are not my friends.
I like Billy.
Any friend of Billy's is a friend of mine.
Sheep are now my friends.

Thanks for great programs! how bout Billy 1.4 coming out of beta, eh?


Dec 14 2006 - Linux.
Oh yeah we definately need billy on linux =9


Dec 14 2006 - kide90 gmail
Billy is the best! i had it on my slow pc. I bought recently new pc and i havent even been thinking to change to anything else =P
you just should add a .wmv support if possible.


Dec 07 2006 - Indy
Billy is the best. No nonsense player in the midst of other nonsense, feature creep players.


Dec 06 2006 - mrbig
Billy is an excellent player. Quick, and easy to use after installation. Winamp is very slow in comparision.


Dec 03 2006 - LH
Billy is a great music player, thanks for creating that :-D


Dec 02 2006 - None
When your will made final release Billy 1.04?


Dec 02 2006 - Koutsompinas giwrgos_[koutsompinas [at] gmail.com]
and it lets you to do do many things..

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www.uop.gr/~tst04014


Dec 01 2006 - lio04
billy is the best player.. THANKS ! fast, small


Dec 01 2006 - shanoi
Thanks a lot. Great player!


Nov 28 2006 - turi
Really good ,many thanks....
no plugin?


Nov 26 2006 - mihkel
best player ever, thnx a lot!


Nov 18 2006 - johanlindblad[a]gmail.com
I have the exact same problem as fuzzy.


Nov 17 2006 - Az - fuzzy [at] fuzzydogslayer.co.uk
Hi, I just wanted to say thanks a lot for creating these wonderful applications, and keep up the good work. =)
However, I seem to be having a problem with Natty - everytime I try and click anything on the application window, it'll rapidly gain/lose focus. And then I'll have to kill it using the task manager.


Nov 17 2006 - ford.pu [at] hotmail.com
I like simple thanks


Nov 11 2006 - Min
Simple Player!
Thanks~
From. Korea


Nov 11 2006 - BillyTux
How about having Billy on linux? its a great application, we need it on linux like right now


Nov 11 2006 - X-man
I know some few ppl have said somethign about linux, but since I found billy on Win32 i loved it, its a lot better than other players, and it's sad that it's not on Linux, why? why?¿ a lot of ppl would Really appreciate it

Please Billy on Linux, Linux, please? onegaishimasu, porfavor, per favore, sil vu plait?

I think the idea by Mutal1sk is great, maybe going open source would be cool, come on! please let us have billy on linux =)


Nov 10 2006 - liljay2k [at] hotmail.com
ok sorry, im an idiot, i used 2 use 1.04beta, n i just realized this is the 1 i like, thanks billy and sheep friends


Nov 10 2006 - liljay2k [at] hotmail.com
UGH, this new billy is drivin me nuts, billy tiny sucks, + in both modes i used to like the play stop pause buttons, what has happened :(-


Nov 06 2006 - Mutal1sk
Great program. im running a low end system and i finally figured out the msn support so im loving it :)
maybe if it isn't updated anymore it could be released under open source if given the go ahead? :P


Nov 06 2006 - Mutal1sk
Great program. im running a low end system and i finally figured out the msn support so im loving it :)
maybe if it isn't updated anymore it could be released under open source if given the go ahead? :P


Nov 04 2006 - vllad
would someone help me ...on how to use the irc song dumper


Nov 04 2006 - godDLL
The big question seems to be –


Nov 02 2006 - saurabh.pachnanda [at] thomson.com
You guys are simply great! Billy is amazing and am sure so are your other softwares. Please do not stop your other projects or any upgrades that you might have planned on future.

Best,
Saurabh


Nov 02 2006 - ©Jadesun
Great apps that don't take up a lot of real estate!!


Oct 30 2006 - www.rezidue.com
Billy is great - wish I could add support for flac, etc. but... Shame the project\\\'s over. regards.


Oct 23 2006 - kiv
Hi Sanne Schaap,
are there any plans for updating Billy, or is this project dead?
Please answer.


Oct 19 2006 - Adam23
2Ben
Unfortunately it seems that nothing is coming :(


Oct 17 2006 - Ben
All of these apps are useful and very lightweight. I use Billy (not as often as I should) and it's amazing. I can't wait to see what's coming next. Keep up the good work!


Oct 16 2006 - Another Billy Replacement
Very interesting Audio Player like Billy:

dekibulle.free.fr/index.php?lang=en


Oct 11 2006 - Ty
I would just like to say thank you :) I play video games on 512 ram so having billy is amazing when it comes to performance, keep up the good work


Oct 11 2006 - Unadrien
It would be real nice if there was a billy-plugin to Last.fm (www.last.fm) the audioscrobbler. =)


Oct 10 2006 - ash [Czech republic]
Thank you for best audio player! :-)


Oct 10 2006 - Bjorn
:) Great slim player, thank you!!


Oct 10 2006 - Kostas Pramatias(emporas [at] gmail.com)
Perfect. It is simple and fast
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www.pramatias.com


Oct 10 2006 - www.ru
sdgfadgsdfgdfg


Oct 07 2006 - Shellm
I love Billy :)
foobar2000 has a lot more features, but i don't really need them often.. so Billy, you're the man!


Oct 05 2006 - Gary
Great player, I used to play my mp3 with Billy version 1.03, but 104b it is just awesome, need no more functionality.


Oct 02 2006 - peter
awesome job on billy m8..I've been looking for such


Oct 01 2006 - mappyg
billy, open source?
bloody awesome, used it for like a year now, but theres a few things id like to fix - one being if you queue a song and then change the name, the queue won't play any more
id also like an option to show just the filename in the tooltip


Sep 30 2006 - Blue
Great Mp3 player
Billy Rules over the competition


Sep 29 2006 - uncle mike
billy is wonderful!!!


Sep 26 2006 - S{pT
I really love billy. Its superb. I am not sure, if you can add graphic equalizer to it. Very basic. It would help. I miss those high frequencies. Else this is the coolest player.


Sep 20 2006 - Billy!
Billy player is just awesome! Lightweight, fast, simple. I like global hotkeys very much. I miss one thing only: control it via FoxyTunes in Firefox, or some kind of small window staying on-top, that would show name, time, etc. of actual playing song. Please vote for Billy on FoxyTunes page: foxytunes.com / Supported players / [vote for it] on the bottom. Thanks!


Sep 19 2006 - Billy
Hey daddy, I want to be updated and upgradec to MAC-OSX incl. a universal MAC-OSX one ofcourse!
your son, Billy


Sep 18 2006 - kynos
I just cursed over all and every sound file player on my system - but wait... wasn't there Billy sitting patiently waiting for its time to come. It has come. Oh and: THANKS for a program that does what i want it to, and exactly and only that - has become a rare thing.


Sep 14 2006 - Jesse
I love your music player 'Billy'

Thanks so much for your great services, you're all great people for designing such a wonderful program!


Sep 04 2006 - Simon ydos.shadowborn [at] gmail.com
Hi, I wonder if it will ever be possible to play your cd's in Billy. At least I would be very happy not having to use winamp or wmp to play my cd's. It would make a lovely piece of work even better! If I'd be answeard I'd be gratefull =)


Sep 04 2006 - Mike
Hiya. I just wanted you to know that I have been using Billy, Abby, and Diana for about a year now, and they are awesome! Thanks!


Aug 28 2006 - lui
thank you very much Sheep for these superb programs, especially Billy.... and to share these stuffs...... wow!!! ur the man!!!


Aug 27 2006 - DDESTOPPELAAR [at] YAHOO.COM
Billy is erg leuk en gebruikt weinig geheugen. Sterke vondst. Davy


Aug 25 2006 - Boso --> ilboso {at} yahoo {dot} com
Thank for Billy!
Very good mplayer!! :)


Aug 20 2006 - femi
thanks for a very versatile yet memory friendly software. now i dont have to load those overbloated media players just to listen to my music. wish u were still actively developing it, and maybe in the future support wma files. not that i care for wma files, but i have quite a few and dont wanna convert to mp3 or ogg so as not to loose quality. overall, great job


Aug 18 2006 - ponk [at] mail.de
Hi Hi Nice sitevisit mine tremadol.blogspot.com/


Aug 17 2006 - Unadrien
Billy is the best musicplayer ive ever seen! But there are still things that can be better:

U have no control over wich list it opens when u start the program. U cant play cd's in it, and niether wma, but thats not really so important. Maybe it's better to not support wma and totally diss it because then it eventually will dissapear maybe. I hate wma, everything that has sth to do with windowsmediaplayer! I love Billy!


Aug 17 2006 - stann
i cant find right words, for your work.
billy is wonderful. best regards


Aug 15 2006 - Mekkah
I can't tell how good Billy works using Ubuntu + Wine, since i never tried it myself. But i have no problem running Foobar2000 using Wine. But as for now i prefer Amarok for my Ubuntu musical needs.


Aug 13 2006 - Adam23
I tried running Billy using wine, it opens, but when trying to play it crashes. I suppose it is the WIN only sound engine.
(Why do you need Billy on Linux?)
Because I get used to it and I like it. I like multiplatform apps also. Under Linux are many great music players, but as I said: Billy rulezz :-)


Aug 13 2006 - Adam23
I tried running Billy using wine, it opens, but when trying to play it crashes. I suppose it is the WIN only sound engine.
(


Aug 07 2006 - coda
found it indeed, loving it :respect:


Aug 05 2006 - babba
coda, it's already possible. Just open Billy and start writing the name of the song that you'd like to listen to. It's kinda similar to the Jump-option of WinAmp, I guess.


Aug 05 2006 - coda
I totaly Love Billy, would be great if the next version was included with a search future to search songs in the playlist.

Great work guys, keep it up (Y)


Aug 05 2006 - asdasd
Why do you need Billy on Linux?
I don't get it...


Aug 03 2006 - Mekkah
I think it's possible to run Billy under Linux, using Wine (winehq.com)


Aug 01 2006 - Frederik de Vree
Prachtige programma's! Vooral Billy is een must-have. Ga zo door!


Jul 31 2006 - jptng [at] videotron.ca
Recently moved from windows to linux. Fortunately my ol' p133 (server)still run win95.
hope one day billy will be translate, so it can be run under linux. Actually the only player that works with no flaws is a pale copy of winamp.
billy.gz why not :-)


Jul 31 2006 - Tóth Gábor (nospam [at] ravasz.hu)
Great things! Thank you for them!
Continue develepment, please!


Jul 29 2006 - Tetragrammaton
Billy is superb, along with all of the other applications.


Jul 28 2006 - pinoguitar [at] gmx.de
Thanks for the reply, I got it! Perfect!!!


Jul 26 2006 - ricewine
i like diana ...but i really need password...


Jul 26 2006 - pinoguitar [at] gmx.de
Hi!
I like Billy a lot. I use the version 1.03 and I don't need more. But there is a small problem with the new displays with higher resolution. The font is to small to read the playlists well. Is it possible to change the font size?

Greetings from Germany, Pino


Jul 25 2006 - Jason Black
Thanx dude!! Billy ROCKS!


Jul 22 2006 - Brian
Awesome site, very clean. Like your apps as well! Thanks!!!!!


Jul 19 2006 - paitandi_jiban [at] rediff.com
please give me one programme in C++ language for the calculator.


Jul 16 2006 - noyan
hi billy

will you continue to develope billy player?


Jul 16 2006 - Jan
Greets from Hamburg, Germany. I like this nice Player, Billy; even with a fast PC it makes sense to use a small and simple player, wich has almost all features, you want.


Jul 15 2006 - h.coenen [at] e-skills.nl
Since I received a couple of questions by mail wether the standalone tray-proggy also works for the new MSN Live : YES.. It does :)

Hopefully Sanne will read the forum soon and include the link on his Billy download page.
And while I'm at it: I also hope he secures this guestbook a bit to reject these freaking annoying bots posting loads of crap. Really REALLY annoying imo, which aint all that humble.


Jul 07 2006 - Osttar
First class!
Excellent forum, added to favorites!!
All the best!


Jul 06 2006 - Brian Beasley
Just downloaded 'Billy' - what a great little program. What a shame you have given up


Jul 06 2006 - suresh
no updates after 1.4b
i love this player......
better switch to linuX........


Jul 06 2006 - Viad22deos
Hi

sad
asd
a
sd
as
G'night


Jul 05 2006 - bloewsa [at] gmail.com
Hello!


Jul 04 2006 - zaphod_019
Billy is the best mp3-player on earth. Thank you...


Jul 02 2006 - minken
fixsome kind of wildcard to the change-filenames function, so you can write like:
0* - Metallica


Jun 30 2006 - Nikita
Hello admin!
You have a very nice web-forum! Good work!
Thanks!


Jun 27 2006 - garry
Not much on my mind worth mentioning, but I don't care. I can't be bothered with anything. Today was a complete loss. Maybe tomorrow.


Jun 27 2006 - Bill
My mind is like a bunch of nothing. I can't be bothered with anything recently. Not much on my mind worth mentioning. What can I say? My life's been generally unremarkable lately.


Jun 27 2006 - Anonymous
<h1>pretexts occluded,illustrating!transporting lentils Westchester confounding Lindbergh </h1>


Jun 26 2006 - Bill
My mind is like a bunch of nothing. I can't be bothered with anything recently. Not much on my mind worth mentioning. What can I say? My life's been generally unremarkable lately.


Jun 26 2006 - Anne.F.32



Jun 25 2006 - Garry
Today was a total loss. I feel like a complete blank. My life's been completely dull these days, but it's not important. Shrug.


Jun 25 2006 - Garry
Today was a total loss. I feel like a complete blank. My life's been completely dull these days, but it's not important. Shrug.


Jun 25 2006 - winkater5
Hi,
Your site is very interesting to me, now I shall be with you.


Jun 24 2006 - John
Today was a total loss, but maybe tomorrow. I guess it doesn't bother me. Pfft. My life's been pretty dull today. Eh.


Jun 24 2006 - Viad21deos
Hi

sad
asd
a
sd
as
G'night


Jun 23 2006 - John
I've just been sitting around waiting for something to happen. I haven't gotten much done lately. More or less nothing noteworthy happening these days. Oh well. It's not important. I haven't been up to anything.


Jun 23 2006 - Hardan
This is a great sight!
Hi, good morning to all of you... Nice Guestbook ;-) !!!
Good content, eautiful design, thank !


Jun 23 2006 - soviel
well... it has been a long time since i started using billy :) i used to use it as a preview player for itunes. but not anymore, my ipod is going to be sold and i am going to be free !

there is only one thing i will miss. i said "i will" because i am switching (from windows to mac os) soon. i think i will miss billy when i'll get my mac
is there an easy way for you to make a mac os version of billy ?

thanks in advance for your reply

ps : by the way, what do you use to make such light programs ?


Jun 22 2006 - David Backham
Very informative site. Thanks.


Jun 22 2006 - Alanson34J
Hi all!


G'night


Jun 22 2006 - Alanson34J
Hi


Bye


Jun 21 2006 - Travel_host
Hello


Bye


Jun 19 2006 - A No Ny Mouse
With all due respect, nikolaskerry, maybe you should go learn some English before coming in here and making business offers to "serious people".
Your spelling mistakes make you look very unserious.

Billy rocks my socks.


Jun 18 2006 - mr-cool001 [at] hotmail.com
i just must say that no site web has helped me more than this one has done.
thanks!


Jun 17 2006 - xtenchsoft
Hi all!


Bye


Jun 16 2006 - Dajah
is there away to change wma type music into Mp3 type music


Jun 12 2006 - Michael Crane michcrane [at] gmail.com
Great site.


Jun 12 2006 - John
I've just been hanging out not getting anything done, but pfft. I've more or less been doing nothing worth mentioning. My life's been basically unremarkable lately. What can I say? Not that it matters. Basically nothing notable going on these days.


Jun 10 2006 - Simis
nice program...both Billy and the program below this message that you can use and send the song you are currently listening to MSN Messenger...much better then Winamp or Media player =) keep up the good work....


Jun 10 2006 - h.coenen [at] e-skills.nl
Ok.. here it is :

browse to www dot e-skills dot nl/files/BillySongDumper.v.0.1.0.0.zip

Portion of the readme :

About
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Billy Song Dumper is nothing more or less than a quick and dirty hack to be able to
display the currently playing song in scripting-enabled application you
use, your own programs when you want the currently playing song in Billy, or as a
way to display the current song in MSN Messenger.
This all ofcourse for the great no nonsense audio player called Billy :)

What can it do ?
----------------
Not that much. It does exactly like described above :
- either it dumps the songname to an ascii-textfile of your choice, or
- it displays the song you are currently listening to in MSN Messenger, or
- both at the same time :)

have fun


Jun 10 2006 - h.coenen [at] e-skills.nl
I see there are several requests for displaying the song in MSN Messenger, so in addition to the DLL I wrote, I'm also gonna make a little application which will reside in the systray to at least do the MSN part and probably as well a kind of dump to a file, so other programs which allow scripting can make use of it as well.

It won't be a true plugin ofcourse since Billy doesn't have a plugin system, so it will be another icon in your systray, but at least I'll make sure the memory footprint and the impact on cpu resources will be very low (I'm aiming less than 1mb memory and 0% cpu @ at a refreshrate of 1 per second).


Jun 09 2006 - Chaosblade at gmail dot com
I was looking for a decent usable audio player on windows vista, While winamp is none of those things, and foobar does not work right now. Billy fills in the need.. awesome player. too bad it has no unicode :}


Jun 09 2006 - wwwgetfunherecom
find sex partner at www.getfunhere.com
It is very very interesting


Jun 08 2006 - Leon
billy is best MP3 player.
Thank you.


Jun 07 2006 - Lohit Kotian
Nice cool software, keep up the good work and God Bless


Jun 04 2006 - Pete (petefish7 [at] ntlworld.com
Thanks useful little programs .


Jun 04 2006 - FMberman [at] aol.com
I've been using Abby for a few months now. Excellent little program. Any chance you'll be adding ounces, litres and grams in the futue? Thanks for the great little program!


May 28 2006 - Heller
Cool site !!!


May 28 2006 - eids [at] yahoo.com
Brilliant. Freaking brilliant. Ian Schwartz.


May 27 2006 - zoidbergslo
Billy player is great. I would be using it full time if it would have playlist support and plugin for last.fm


May 26 2006 - Hello
Evil player is good....i'am moving to....good bye! :) thx for the nice time billy :)


May 23 2006 - wdow [at] gmail.com
Amusing fiction. Drogo.


May 19 2006 - Alberto
there is a mode to display the track in msn like others players? I see the mirc plugin. There's a mode to use it for msn? For me is one of the most missing feature. Thank you


May 18 2006 - Joris Lammers
Joris Lammers loves Billy - and that's not only because my last name. Love the Mute button, which is superb for work


May 18 2006 - Farewell Billy :-(
Well Billy i'm leaving you!

I've moved over to Evil Player, it now has allmost every function of Billy and it Plays every, every audio format!!

Sorry to say that the Evil one did grow up where Billy stayed 'Billy The Kid' !!


May 18 2006 - andrew
BILLY IS AWESOME.


May 15 2006 - Andreas
Billy is THE BEST !!! MP3-Player!!!!!!!!!!!!

Free and easy!

I will thank you for this great Tool!

Thanks! Thanks!........


May 15 2006 - LadyE
Really nice tools, Sanne! Thank you so much!


May 13 2006 - Gianni
Billy è fantastico per gestire enormi quantità di mp3.
Billy c'est un logiciel super pour la gestion des beaoucoup quantitè des mp3
Billy it' fantastic for numerous mp3
grazie


May 12 2006 - Andrea Marchini
Billy is wonderful! I'll spread it round :-)


May 12 2006 - Faith
Oh YEssssss !!! GReat!


May 12 2006 - Alberto (megabit)
Billy is great, it must be developed with new features!! is a great software!


May 12 2006 - Roberto
Fantastico!


May 10 2006 - Kunal
Great website


May 08 2006 - Dick O'Brien Dick [at] GLIRadio.com
I Just Started Using "Billy" Om My Overly Taxed, www.GLIRadio.com
Everything Tried Gobbled Up Too Much Memory, You Have Come Lightyears Ahead, Bt Going "Back To Basics". I Us It On The Air For My Jingles And Dropins. Again. IT's THE Best !


May 07 2006 - yuk
everyone in friends are just so cool and too helpful in the simplest way.


May 06 2006 - Mekkah
Billy is compactible with MusicIP Mixer. It work in a perfect symbiosis it's cool mixing functions. Create mood mixes based upon a acoustic fingerprint & load it into Billy for playback. Wicked!


May 06 2006 - premkumarradhakrishnan [at] yahoo.co.in
hi,


May 01 2006 - longwalk
I ahve enjoyed Billy for some time now and am using Diana as a way to journal a non-diabetic glucose/insuling monitoring study I have started...
jm


Apr 30 2006 - Big Rob
Try 1by1 by the guy who codes mp3direct cut. Same as Billy but gets updates.


Apr 30 2006 - Adam23
If there were a Linux version(port), it would be veery great :)


Apr 30 2006 - bob.corn [at] TempEMail.net
You guys rock!


Apr 27 2006 - Stealth
We Want Open Source Open Source Open Source Open Source.....

Great job btw :)


Apr 27 2006 - Cody
Sheep, you really should open source this stuff. I think tiny apps are the way of the future. Bloatware needs to die!


Apr 26 2006 - Sin_3at3r
My opinion...Billy it's great!

If you put him playing music cd's... will be my only music player!

Thanks and sorry my english


Apr 24 2006 - Ricardo Melro
The graetest because is the smallest!


Apr 23 2006 - bartplomp [at] gmail.com
Billy is the best !!!! this is how software should be! Can jou make for us an operating
system like xp ? ha ha

Be aware that human thankfullness is greater than any price.!

You did a great job!
please copple the billy users to a greater
plan ! and make it commercial. an online event. a dynamic program. open source like.

With kind regards,
Ex sw prgrammer


Apr 22 2006 - jilm [at] aragorn.cz
Billy is really cool. I just can´t find anything what is missing. Fast, easy, small!, shorcuts... just cool, cool, cool. I always hated WMP and other fat client with cluttered design and Billy is the best solution in this sphere. I think there will never be better media player, it´s not possible.


Apr 22 2006 - AbdulKabir
I must confess that I am really impressed with Billy because of its name, simplicity and portability. Well done and I hope you plan to make updates soon.


Apr 21 2006 - Elrond, boyjjung [at] hanmail.net
I'm Korean. It is so moved using Billy.
i've found more light player, I get this program. thank you so much, guys~!


Apr 21 2006 - plsam25v15 [at] yahoo.com
MY NAME IS GEORGE TANCO NATIONALITY SIERRA LEONE. I AM 22YEARS OLD STUDIED MARKETING IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION IN THE UNIVERSITY. PLEASE I HAVE GOOD TIN TO DU SHEAR TO YOU WEN YOU COME BACK OK.? I WETTING FOR YOUR RESPOND


Apr 21 2006 - plsam25v15 [at] yahoo.com
MY NAME IS HOPE ANDJUNIOR ETIMI. NATIONALITY SIERRA LEONE. I AM 22YEARS OLD STUDIED MARKETING IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION IN THE UNIVERSITY.
I LOST MY FATHER YEARS BACK HE DIED DRURING THE POLITICAL CRISIS IN MY COUNTRY.MY LATE FATHER WAS ONE OF THE DIRECTORS UNDER TIJAN KABBAH GOVERNMENT.
MY BROTHER IS 16 YEARS.WE WETTE TO HEAR FROM YOU TO SHEAR MORE ABOUT OUR SELF TO YOU GOD BLESS you, for more bussines


Apr 21 2006 - plsam25v15 [at] yahoo.com
MY NAME IS GEORGE TANCO NATIONALITY SIERRA LEONE. I AM 22YEARS OLD STUDIED MARKETING IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION IN THE UNIVERSITY. PLEASE I HAVE GOOD TIN TO DU SHEAR TO YOU WEN YOU COME BACK OK.? I WETTING FOR YOUR RESPOND


Apr 20 2006 - Sanne (author sheep friends)
Hey guys, I read every single message time to time and try to answer every email. Hope you guys just enjoy the software like it is, since there are no concrete plans for updates like I stated on the home page. Thanks for all support.

Regards


Apr 20 2006 - payatronico [at] yahoo.com.mx
Hawk, es muy bueno.

Excelente programa, yo hice uno parecido en basic pero este esta más bonito, gracias y suerte.

Hawk, is very good.
Excellent program, I made one in basic but this this more beautiful one, thank you and luck.


Apr 20 2006 - Tompe
I love the billy-program! Exactly what I was looking for, thanks!


Apr 20 2006 - j0k
i know the program not shall be all to unsimple, but i think some mp3 tags supporting would be cool.


Apr 19 2006 - jono
wow, it great this idea, if I had money, I would donate to help keep it open, keep up the good work!


Apr 19 2006 - prashanthramu [at] gmail.com
I have always wanted something like Diana for my use. Its a great and simple tool. Kudos to people behind it !


Apr 18 2006 - Mekkah
Quote from jptng: "As far as I remember Sanne was very busy last time he replied to me, he didn't expect to works these apps unless his job leave him some free time to do so It sure looks that his job keep him busy "

That's exactly why the source should be released. So we can help Sanne with his great applications. Or is Sanne planning to develop them commercially? Releasing the source does prevent him from developing does it??

The main concern for me is Billy. And unlike you (or Sanne) i don't think it's in a final state at all. Billy has alot of potential. It's still a beta & yet it's is almost as powerful as Foobar2000 or Winamp. That says alot about the potential.

If you read this Sanne, you have my deepest respect. And i hope the workload won't kill ya'.... :D


Apr 18 2006 - jptng [at] ......
I'm sure Sanna Is resding these post from time to time. He already answered one of my post, but I tell you most of the posts here ,are related to the same topic, wether one's wants to get more bells and whistles, or get the code to improve it, but tell me me Mekkah, if you want the code, that suppose you can developp a reader yourself ,ain't it? then why ask for someone else code. If you can do it, this way you will be able to tailor your apps the way you want. Sanne went trough this adventure in a point in his life, and if he moved on to do something else, it is fair game Billy is a very nice project in its final state. You want more! put yourself to work and write your code, we'll see if you are willing to share your works.
As far as I remember Sanne was very busy last time he replied to me, he didn't expect to works these apps unless his job leave him some free time to do so It sure looks that his job keep him busy ;-))


Apr 15 2006 - leifnadolny [at] yahoo.com
pretty amazing, that billy thingest...
would it be able to play streaming radio I'd throw out every other tool I use.


Apr 14 2006 - Bill :-)
Billy is precies wat ik zocht! kwaliteit in alle eenvoud.

Bedankt!


Apr 14 2006 - Alex / Ultrahex
Whoa,
This stuff is insane
All these programs are pretty wicked,
Im thinking of using Diana for a personal diary or something like that cause that would be pretty cool also.
Don't know why so many other companies suck at making programs.

Thanx Alot
Alex


Apr 11 2006 - Arkkaadio
Billy is by far the best mp3 player.
I hope you'll release an update in the near future.
My wishlist:
1. Support for lyrics plugin like EvilLyrics.
2. Skins/Themes
3. Support for WMA-files.
..just remember to keep it as no nonsense as possible.


Apr 11 2006 - Johnny
Billy is now my permanent mp3 pet!
I love it, I take it everywhere!

Many thx!!!


Apr 11 2006 - arun
Billy is gr8 :)
may be an audioscrobbler plugin for that..


Apr 10 2006 - Big Rob
Does Sanne actually look at these posts..?

Please give us some feedback about your plans for the future of these superb products. You have some big fans here please give us your thoughts.


Apr 09 2006 - Mekkah
But if Sanne doesn't care about developing his projects no more, not even for his friends (or don't have the time), why close down the projects completely, when the public interest (especially Billy's fanbase) is so big? If he releases it under GPL, other people could help out improving it further without Shanne's recognition is lost...


Apr 09 2006 - Mekkah
But if Sanne doesn't care about developing his projects no more, not even for his friends (or don't have the time), why close down the projects completely, when the public interest (especially Billy's fanbase) is so big? If he releases it under GPL, other people could help out improving it further without Shanne's recognition is lost...


Apr 08 2006 - jptng [at] videotron.ca
Natty,Kelly,Billy and the rest are issued from a personal project. I think it is unfair to ask for the codes. If you want to build your own player go ahead but please do not ask for works that were intended for personnal friends in the beginning. These works belong to Shanne and to no other user. Please try to understand. Regards JP


Apr 05 2006 - sho_vidya [at] yahoo.com
I am using kelly,it is superb,but develop double color text background setting for kelly. And please delevop a digital clock with seconds,with background color fully changable and font color and size fully changable and a replace for borigng taskbar clock....bye.


Apr 05 2006 - Legolas
Billy Rocks bigtime.. Would have done better with wma support


Apr 03 2006 - Giacomo
Billy and Diana are exactly the kind of tool that i was looking for... A linux version would be fantastic!


Apr 03 2006 - Elain
Thanks.
The Simplest Tool, EVER!
Love Billy & Diana~!


Apr 02 2006 - mugu/MUGU [at] YAHOO.COM
ALL GUY MAN KEEEEEP OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF


Apr 01 2006 - Dinko Zhekov dinko.zhekov [at] gmail.com
Billy is the best Mp3 player ever !!!!


10/10 !!!


Mar 27 2006 - blue(dot)brutal(at)gmail(dot)com
I just wanted to let you know - I've been looking for something like Kelly for a good long time now. I've kpet the MS calculator in the quick launch bar for a long time, but this, I think, will be much better. Thank you for such a wonderful product.

Oh - and I agree with GeneralTojo - if you discontinue something release the sourcecode, especially if it was freeware to begin with. Free your data, and let others play.


Mar 27 2006 - GeneralTojo
Please, release the source of Billy if you want to discontinue it!!!

Let the project live on....


Mar 25 2006 - endph
cool mp3 player! the soft mute is unique and the shortcut keys are superb! rock on!


Mar 24 2006 - Velepizdun
I like Billy. I tried it for about 10 days - and I discovered a strange bug: it sometimes (5 to 6 times in my case) repeats a part of a song again and again, like old gramophones playing corrupted LPs.


Mar 23 2006 - baChoMp
Billy rocks !!!

Issue, mp3 tags as an optional feature or addition dll download we can drop in the billy directory. this way if you don't want id3 tags, don't install the dll :)

why?

who has tried to play their mp3s off their iPod? all the filenames are numbers !!!!

I use a program called anapod to access my iPod as i loath iTunes. You then tell anapod to play music in any player you want, my choice is Billy !!

unforunately you can tell what track is what until you play it. So hows the above suggestion sit with everyone?


Mar 22 2006 - email
can i get a sheep friend icon that runs around your desktop


Mar 22 2006 - German Fella
must say Billy is best tool for playing mp3s fast and with low cpu, lots of thanks for that !


Mar 21 2006 - Asdet
Billy is a fantastic mp3 player. Easy, simple and with lots of tips.

It would be great to have "hot keys combinations" to change volume or track without enter the program, while you are playing pc games.


Mar 20 2006 - Rab
Great MP3 player (Billy). It is very fast.
Deleting ultility is great to clean MP3 you don´t like from your pc.

You could add a good and useful utility to it.
--> Drag a song and be able to add it on a different playlist

Great BILLY


Mar 20 2006 - dan k
I like everything about sheepfriends. everything is so clean... aaaag I wish everything was this elegantly designed. and the website reflects the simplicity of the programs. mad props.


Mar 20 2006 - ronaldhe [at] pacific.net.sg
Hi! Think Billy is an absolutely brill programme!


Mar 19 2006 - Z
quality stuff...keep it up..all the best


Mar 18 2006 - m
Porque es tanto problema, el poder leer en Castellano.


Mar 17 2006 - mick collins
brilliant stuff
the dogs b***ocks
cheers


Mar 17 2006 - Tom
Thanks for Billy! I was so tired of bloaty applications stealing my file associations, when all I wanted was to be able to hear an MP3 play and have it in the smallest possible window. Thanks!


Mar 16 2006 - zaphod_019
billy is reallythe best auido-playing-software i've ever used
great job
do you publish a new stable version in 2006? the community is waiting :-) ...

personal wishs:
1. the programm should everytime in tray, not only when minimized
2. billy should be able to play audio cds

best wishes


Mar 16 2006 - Thidor
Hi, real great job with Billy. Love it. But there is two things that bother me. I want to change the minimize button and I want to be able to play my real cd's.


Mar 15 2006 - mocobaupres [at] yahoo.es
Buenas referenciaskk pero como bajarlo?


Mar 15 2006 - 615835434
hola


Mar 15 2006 - nameci [at] mobileemail.vodafone.es
hola prueba


Mar 14 2006 - Billy user
I think Billy is a great program! However I do miss wma support and some other details like global hotkey to stop.


Mar 12 2006 - aw
I *love* the concept! Brilliant thinking!

1) Simplicity is elegance! EXCELLENT job!
2) So cute - naming the apps after person's names, and calling the entire thing "friends"

Billy is nice


Mar 10 2006 - MinkeN
Í want to change the minimize button, fix it :D


Mar 09 2006 - Imperial
Billy is excelent, but only suport's mp3, ogg and wav! And wma?


Mar 08 2006 - wilcaza316 [at] hotmail.com
convertir


Mar 08 2006 - wilcaza316 [at] hotmail.com
convertir


Mar 08 2006 - Brian
It's too bad the forum never came back up. Then again, there wasn't much of a reason for it anyway.

Brian


Mar 07 2006 - axo
Sw33t! thnx!


Mar 06 2006 - dsan
sweet. i got Billy and Diana and they are just perfect. no extra fuzz - just whats necessary.


Mar 06 2006 - version
awesome set of programs here. Billy and Natty love being in my tray.


Mar 06 2006 - ATZE from Germany!!
Sheep Friends are the best friends you can have !! Thanks a lot for work!
Best wishes to your Childrens, Billy, Kelly, Abby, Diana, Hawk and Natty !


Mar 05 2006 - urgay
<a href="hmmm">hmmm</a>


Mar 04 2006 - Circa
good job, mate.

i very much enjoy using abby and diana, they are very good programs indeed.

i especially love the billy audio player, i use it just about every time i want to play a music file. thank you.


Mar 03 2006 - Jim
love it


Mar 02 2006 - kiv
Billy is simple&cool.
When schould we expect a new version?r`n`r


Mar 02 2006 - Quinten
i love it,no probs or cheet chat just play GO ON


Mar 01 2006 - vinz
great! i love billy! :) what about playing streams? especially aacplus?


Mar 01 2006 - Mark Jansen
Great site and great software!


Mar 01 2006 - ams
Well done!
Kelly is very nice calculator. Please, improve it more.


Feb 28 2006 - Matt
A wonderful program. I use it all the time at work. Shame there's no Mac equivalent of exactly the same thing. That would be loooovely =)


Feb 27 2006 - scacarsam
A very good player! Thank you !


Feb 27 2006 - Ekumagumma [at] hotmail.com
Gracias


Feb 27 2006 - Ydos
Very good job! Billy is exactly the musicplayer I 've been looking for. But it would be very nice if I wouldn't have to play all my "real" cd's in Windows Media Player. I suggest that you add a "cd-function" in a later verision.


Feb 27 2006 - scrax
fantastik billy!
keep on.


Feb 26 2006 - BillyFan
Billy is simply superb. It kicks the a55 of other heavy players.


Feb 25 2006 - Sandy_24
May we incorporate the fade option in billy...


Feb 25 2006 - Sandy_24
Great player amazing work done....


Feb 25 2006 - Eighty
Britney Spears has made an awful lot of Locust covers. :)


Feb 23 2006 - Gertje
Billy s good! Shuffle makes NO mistakes!
Some players Do!
Tips: for version 1.05 just a simple Save As into wav2mp3 or mp32wav and others...
please keep the output level and colouring standard! Do not add bass and treble colouring.
Thnx!


Feb 22 2006 - nomadmanox
The Billy is excellent! I have used it for more than one year and thank you for your work very much!


Feb 22 2006 - StiffBoard
Finally, I've been waiting and looking for this, thanks a lot.


Feb 22 2006 - MinkeN
I just LOVE Billy, Thx a lot !


Feb 21 2006 - Big Rob
Thanx for Billy. Great little program.

Will it be updated.? if no time maybe open source.?

Don't let it get old and die.


Feb 21 2006 - Sprett
A superb player!!
But is it possible to increase the base volume above 100%? I had to press "volume up" many times to get a decent volume. I will go deaf when I get my first notification about incoming while playing music with Billy


Feb 20 2006 - 4titude
Thanx for your programs! All the best for you.


Feb 19 2006 - sergey
billy rocks.
no bullshit features, no bloatness.
thanks.


Feb 18 2006 - Gen
Wimap crashes on my Pentium IV, Billy has *Never* crashed, and it has only what I need and nothing more. I love billy. Also, The green square icon is for billy reminiscent of the icon on stileproject dot com. Coincidence?


Feb 17 2006 - DocMAX1978 [at] arcor.de
i'm sorry, but i compared winamp and billy on a pentium 3 900mhz:

billy 1.04b: 4,6% CPU
winamp 5: 0,8% CPU

winamp is 83% faster!!!


Feb 16 2006 - Chabaz [at] gmail.com
Hey I love billy - E-mail me if you love billy as well.


Feb 15 2006 - droog [at] gmail.com
729af17fc50ef6b4036388f5266e4b74


Feb 15 2006 - Richard
Wow, I didn't know Britney Spears covered Locust songs... ;)


Feb 15 2006 - neoinlasvegas
Great and ambitious work !!

Carry on ..
Thanks


Feb 08 2006 - Melvin Xavier
I have used a number of popular media players, but found all of them were too big, used a lot of system resources and had unnecessary features and skins. So I looked all over the Internet and found many media players which were better, but not really good. One day I finally donloaded Billy and used it and I knew that I had found my choice.

I hope the program remains tiny and the developer adds new features with care and consideration.

Thank you very much for this sweet media playere.


Feb 08 2006 - Adam23
Well on my P166 48MB RAM, I used Winamp till it went wrong and crashed in about 30 seconds after starting playback :(
then I tried lot of players, but all din't playback well without abrupting..., then I found Billy, thanks ;)


Feb 06 2006 - m.eggermont [at] chello.nl
hoi sanne! jouw adres kwam voorbij in de boekvertalerslijst waar ik deel van uitmaak. Ze vinden vooral abby heel handig, en ik trouwens ook. Leuk! Succes verder, misschien kunnen we je nog 's sponsoren, groetjes, Monique


Feb 05 2006 - platdesign
Well done. I love Billy.


Feb 04 2006 - sisi
marvelous


Feb 01 2006 - Noel
Billy is a godsend. When it comes to my computer, I'm a minimalist. The less CPU and Memory usage, the better. When I came across Billy, it sounded EXACTLY what I was looking for. Having about eight thousand mp3s, all in one directory with no subfolders or huge tags or anything; this is awesome. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!


Feb 01 2006 - Noam
Very nice job, Sanne. :-)

(Y halo thar Sturmrabe.)


Feb 01 2006 - Sturmrabe [at] gmail.com
Hey! great apps!

And if anyone wants to help me ram some DoS or any other attaks up paul calven's ass just drop me an email and I'll help!

JESUS THINKS YOU ARE A TWAT PAUL CALVEN!


Jan 30 2006 - Ad
Less is more.
Billy rulez!.
Goed werk.


Jan 25 2006 - Azzman
Converting currency would be difficult, because the convert rate is a variable, it changes by the day.


Jan 25 2006 - Dude Man
This is excellent I have downloaded all of the programs that you offer, and they are excellent, truly impressive that in this day in age there are still some simple programs out there. Thanks a lot.
Suggestion - Ability to convert currency in Abby! Thanx


Jan 25 2006 - sakartone [at] gmail.com
nice,simply,smooth three words that goes with your softs, dude.
keep them alive
thanks.


Jan 24 2006 - westgote
hi sh33p, is that you?
thanx a lot for that wonderful billy - player..
I just changed the whole thing to an organized design with lots of space, and just then stumbled over that amazing tool. congratulations! and thank u.
tc, west


Jan 23 2006 - johan
er tyk


Jan 22 2006 - Greg, Drummerguy
Billy is frekin sweet i use it all the time, i can play games on my comp and play my large music colection at the same time, i used to get lag on my lap top and old p4 1.8 with winamp. thx alot for making the great piece of software


Jan 21 2006 - Krak
yes! I forgot to mention abby... Great program for everyday use (for those pep's who need this kond of program)... I hope that there is gona be a update with a lot more "dimensions"! Is abby under development or not?


Jan 21 2006 - Radu
i heard that further development of billy has been halted; i didn't understand if that is completely true, but as far as i'm mconcerned, billy reached perfection since 1.3. About loading 1000 songs in a second, it's not true; i have about 10gb of music (about 2200 songs) and they are all loaded in a second or less. excellent audio quality; and let's not forget, there are 5 other programs. i only needed Abby and Natty, and they both perform superb.


Jan 20 2006 - BillyRun[at]gmail.com
Vote for Billy here: foxytunes[dot]org/firefox/voteforplayerStats.php?playe
Votes=17


Jan 20 2006 - Gonzo
Now I\'m back with the way I wanted Billy... Billy\'s the Best!Thanks me


Jan 19 2006 - njiaobi[LTU]
Respect.. no more comments..


Jan 16 2006 - me
right click on the song and select explore.. from the menu or use Ctrl+E


Jan 16 2006 - Gonzo
Hi, I need help here guys...please. I have been using Billy for some time and there was an option were I can click a song and it will open the entire folder, I couldn't seem to do it anymore. I tried looking and fiddling the option, i could not seem to find it. Someone please help me. I love Billy a lot and I just wanted that option back. Thanks!


Jan 14 2006 - Bill Rizer
I love this program. Did you stop updating Billy or did you just delay it?

Please release it as Open Source so that it can be updated.


Jan 14 2006 - j
a very good programs
thay are very lite (i think it is the adjective, i am spanish). i would like all programs were so good, fast, simple and useful.thank you!


Jan 11 2006 - Krak
ok... I see there is a lot of billy's fans... So i tinked about billy spread logo... I created one (one good ;)) and you just need to change color if you like... I Hope that is ok with billy\'s creator!? Because i did not got answer (once at august i think) i didn\'t send mail to the creator and i\'m leting a logo here and then you can inform public is ok that we use billy spread small picture (85X15 pixels with black border (1px))... Here is the logo:
Help billy spread i know that billy is not devoloping enymore but now it\'s very stable (used over 10 PC and work without mistake) and only what is need is to make one final and last installer for billy 1.04 ;)... I hope they will do itbtw sorry on my bad english

for logo go on:

Imageshack and you type the name of the site (imageshack [dot] com) and insert after the name of the site the nest text:

img146/5305/billyplayer3ca.gif

i hope you like it ;)


Jan 10 2006 - fralium [at] gmail.com
Perfect!
no more,no less!i like it!

Thank you!


Jan 08 2006 - Leon
Billy 1.03 prefecto! Under Win98se 1.04b had a few crashes, now on XP all seems well. Great soundcard swapping from within Billy, can play music through M-Audio 24/96 whilst WinXP can have the onboard pants soundcard, Awesome! 1.04b Dont seem to recognise color.ini file :S In all the best audio player in history, except for stanalone seperates HiFi components. Excellente!!!


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Jan 06 2006 - SOUVIK ROY/svkroy [at] yahoo.com
I HAVE BEEN USING BILLY FOR THE PAST ONE YEAR AND IT IS TRULY FANTASTIC. IT IS DIFFERENT BECAUSE IT DISPLAYS THE NAME OF THE MP3 FILES IN THE PLAYLIST AS IT IS FOUND IN THE FOLDER ITSELF. IT DOES NOT DISPLAY THE INTERNAL NAME OF THE MP3 FILE AS IN THE MEDIA PLAYER & OTHERS. I THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART FOR KEEPING IT A FREEWARE.


Jan 04 2006 - cheesypeanut
Billy is pure awesome. Just one suggestion though, how about a line across the playlist screen to separate files in different folders?

It's a bit hard to explain, hope you understand.


Jan 03 2006 - Abhijith.Bhat.N
I really salute to you guys for making such a nice program BILLY AND DIANA, i am using for long time and there is no single bugs. Hats off to you SHEEP


Jan 02 2006 - Jveek
Finally! A player that just plays music efficiently; no bloat, flash or 100 other frikkin plugins!

Don't change a thing !

Thank you !


Jan 02 2006 - Thufir Hawat
Thanks for this very good job. Dear Billy, I love you .....


Jan 01 2006 - blipse
billy is the best player ever! i did change the color of the buttons and that sorta stuff to make it look just a tiny bit nicer, and i cant really explain why it made me uninstall winamp but once you tried it you never go back i guess.. :)


Dec 31 2005 - Necros (from Belarus)
Billy is very nice minimalistic mp3 player. Very good, guys!


Dec 30 2005 - rob`
c'mon! OPEN SOURCE!!!


Dec 29 2005 - NganeLoe
its dead? WHAT?! If the author is reading this, please mate it open source and put it on souceforge!


Dec 29 2005 - NganeLoe
Nice concept! Keep it up! Fast small and speedy... [unistalling winamp]


Dec 28 2005 - gringolocoed [at] yahoo.com
WHAT A CONCEPT! Straightforward, user frinedly software! Just discovered Billy - THANKS ! Great! SIMLY "*'ing" GREAT!


Dec 27 2005 - Dino
toooo bad dead project......
maybe the autor can give it on sourceforge?
a toooo goooood player to bee dead!!!


Dec 26 2005 - Q-Q
Billy is very nice player... Too bad it can't read WMA files...

and too bad it is dead project :(


Dec 25 2005 - AEKTZHS
AEK FC


Dec 25 2005 - Holt
Discovered Billy, Abby, and Kelly today. Cool stuff, thanks.

One feature request for Billy for your consideration: The ability to collapse/expand items in the music list that are in the same directory.


Dec 21 2005 - anna
would be good if we could view m4a format!


Dec 21 2005 - Rick ~ rbrannon [at] plix.com
I just stumbled across "Billy". After I learned how to use it, (which didn't take very long), I'm...I'm just amazed at the Simple Elegance! Real Player...move over.


Dec 20 2005 - sick13 [at] gmail.com
new version? hell.....any new version?
Pleaseeeeee :)


Dec 18 2005 - kinget(at)gmail.com
Great !! d,d
i wanna FullSummaryReport AT Diana
NOT Limit 40 days

Plz Know to me
Convert dianadata.ini Fullreport by TextEditor

thanks


Dec 16 2005 - tarinmahmood [at] yahoo.com
Billy is really nice...
how about viewing favorites in tabs?


Dec 15 2005 - Aaron
Billy is pretty sweet :). I don't suppose there would be a way for it to support WMA or other audio files, no :B?


Dec 15 2005 - Shakespeares
Toll der Player,aber wann gibt es mal eine neue Version?Würde mich freuen!!


Dec 15 2005 - scribtx [at] yahoo.com
I'd pay for billy to continue! I imagine others would gladly pay as well..


Dec 13 2005 - MixFan
Billy could easily be the best mp3 player of the Internet. Actually, Billy shoud be able to read .cue files :/
Maybe in the next version 1.05, who knows ^^


Dec 13 2005 - Quimby
Thanks for Billy, it\'s my favourite music player.. Czech.


Dec 12 2005 - BillyRun[at]gmail.com
I am a big fan of the excellent Billy Music Player!
Because I wanted Billy to autostart with Windows I made a small utility.
I would really like the fast growing Billy fanclub to benefit from this utility.
I asked Sanne to publish it on the website.
Until it is on the website you can mail me if you want a copy.


Dec 11 2005 - Jack
Thanks for Billy. Greetings from Germany.


Dec 05 2005 - Antonio
Una de las mejores aplicaciones que he utilizado, ojalá pudieras continuar con su desarrollo. Gracias desde España, Sheep.


Dec 03 2005 - IrishViking [at] cablespeed.com
While I can't seem to come up with anything original (compliment) than what has been said by others in your guestbood remarks, I will say that I, too, find Billy and (his) family all very unique and helpful. My wife has just downloaded Natty and seems to be having some confusion about getting started (setting up her email programs) I guess indicates that a little HELP GETTING STARTED note would be useful to those few of us with no brains or not enough intuitiveness. All in all... thank you for well done, well appreciated small, simple and useful programs. Rolf


Dec 03 2005 - Blu/mwbrown75 [at] yahoo.com/www.michaelwbrown.blo
spot.com
Just wanted to say this is the absolute coolest project and set of ideas I've ever seen on the net and hope to see it soar in the future and maybe if I can I will someday be able to contribute so good luck and keep it simple, later...
Blu~


Dec 01 2005 - bOmBpArIs
Me LiKEs kELLy tWo................................


Dec 01 2005 - BoMbPaRiS
BILLY ROOOOOOCCCKKKSSSSssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Dec 01 2005 - Johan
Klasse proggy!! Greetings from Ohio


Nov 27 2005 - p.wodehnal [at] arcor.de
hi ,
hab mir heute den Billy runtergeladen, ein
1a Player... Toll..
Grüsse aus Nürnberg


Nov 27 2005 - robgog
Love the Billy player! No fuss, fast, and clean.
Thanks for your generosity!


Nov 25 2005 - soki
audio cd support please :D
everything else, perfect. maybe the icon could be just black instead of green...


Nov 25 2005 - Coder
meant sourceforge.net of course!


Nov 25 2005 - Coder
When will Billy be Open Source?
Lots of programmers are waiting to help you develop your great programs!
As it seems you are not developing them anymore, why not publish on source.net?


Nov 25 2005 - saul_1000 [at] hotmail.com
billy is a grat mp3 player. easy an faster!


Nov 24 2005 - craxs
billy is a nice mp3 player
respect!


Nov 24 2005 - Gyg [at] s
My pendrive says: "Billy is my new litle friend,
but is the BIG ONE !!" ,and I say the same...
thx sheep


Nov 22 2005 - puckthefly
Great player! Thats exactly what i need! VERY THANKS!


Nov 22 2005 - HUSSEiN
Billy is very cool! But i want jump ti file like in winamp


Nov 22 2005 - lover
billy player is wonderfull,waiting for WMA plugin......thx


Nov 21 2005 - to all the new version requesters
"Since this is a non-profit project and my time is limited, the future developement is halted."


Nov 21 2005 - BAZZ
PLease Integrate the NEWEST Bass Library in Billy!!


Nov 21 2005 - yabadabadoo
Nice Player!!!
When will there be a new version?


Nov 20 2005 - p011ux
New ultimate skin for Billy !!!

How to install ? 3 easy steps !

1) Create a file named "theme.ini" and put it in the same directory that the file "billy.exe".

2) Paste this in the file :

[Style] p011ux
background_color=#48484A
font_name=Tahoma
font_size=8
font_bold=1
font_color=#EFA30F
font_color_selected=#4C5844
selection_color=#A0AA95
selection_color_playingitem=#A0AA95
playingitem_color=#FFFF44
playingitem_color_selected=#FFFF44
playingitem_bold=2
queueditem_color=#FFFF44
shuffleditem_color=#6F8064

3) Edit the file named "billy.ini" and add this line under the tag "[General]" :

ActiveScheme=theme.ini


Nov 19 2005 - opivskapunk [at] yahoo.com
i love billy u need to keep up the badass work!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you


Nov 18 2005 - Hijhon
I like BIlly very much!
Thanks!!


Nov 18 2005 - Pokiehl
I only have three words for Billy, simple, fast and efficient !!! I own an old 380XD IBM laptop and this program was just I was looking for. I have tested Billy to the limits on my very limited laptop and it has passed the examination; WMP used to bother me all the time making my sistem crash. Thanks a lot !!!


Nov 17 2005 - Bill Rizer
I love using Billy. Hope that you continue to update it. There's some bugs though like right clicking on the icon and clicking on Previous doesn't work.


Nov 16 2005 - slyph
you guys have some awesome stuff i love it :)


Nov 16 2005 - Michael
awesome site, keep up the good work, google is my best friend for finding this fantastic site, this site is truly fantastic and higly recommended to all.


Nov 15 2005 - Pema
What kind of a retarded person still use .wma in these days? WMA IS CRAP, No one sane uses it. FLAC support would make much better sense.


Nov 12 2005 - aftran495 [at] yahoo.com
Sheep Friends? Little Web.... But I Love It, Baby... Your softwares are absolutely great! No... Hyper Great!!!


Nov 12 2005 - djretard headrtrd [at] netscape.net
billy a great program for my home studio thx


Nov 11 2005 - gtang8(at)163.com
I tried to localize Billy into Chinese, but terrible ASCII codes inside...
Sheep, cool job!!! I love you!


Nov 11 2005 - gtang8(at)163.com
I'm an old Billy lover,
1. how to use MiRC dll file?
2. I have many wma files, but I hate damned WMP, or change to MP3 format, can Billy help me?


Nov 11 2005 - welcometomylife_2011 [at] yahoo.com
toi muon tai chuong trinh nay ve


Nov 10 2005 - .zen
ignore the jackass below


Nov 10 2005 - .zen
Yeah, err, i installed the mp3 player, and now i have this process called: explorer.exe, could anyone tell me if it's harmful? I've used my antivirus programme, and it's not picking it up. Plus, when i end the process, it crashes my computer.


Nov 08 2005 - Rastamaan
hi...
i would like to know if the mp3 spam thing for billy isn't only not working with my mirc (with X-script)


Nov 08 2005 - Roger
Check out the welcome note at the website. Click on the logo


Nov 05 2005 - Hitman
is there anyone who can tell me is there going to be a new version??? please!!!


Nov 04 2005 - nilsandrey - a-t - gmail dot com
I love Billy the player! And that's why have these two suggestions:
-- Ctrl+Space used widely to minimize with the keyboard and causes a pause in Billy.
-- Optionally we want minimizing and don't put Billy in tray but in taskbar. Thus makes easier accessing the application with ALT+TAB. Alternatively you can make it accesible in the ALT+TAB list while isn't visible on the taskbar, and remaining in the systray. Thus, optionally but very necessary. An example of an application who minimize to systray while keeping accesible from the keyboard are TotalCommander from Christian Ghisler.


Nov 03 2005 - Kos
Wow, this is lot's better than that stupid media-player from XP!


Nov 01 2005 - fajansz
very good apps!


Nov 01 2005 - Lukibester
Excellent work, Sheep! Good, solid little programs with no clutter... Love 'em! Thanks heaps!


Oct 31 2005 - Blaize - ladymeba (at) gmail.com
Thankyou Sheep for Billy - he is my new best friend :) I looked everywhere for a small no frills mp3 player - not as easy as it sounds... Works great!


Oct 30 2005 - Joe- raf.joe [at] gmail.com
Hi thanks for making Billy, I appreciate it very much. So without being ungrateful, I was wondering if its possible for Bill to support .wma files? Is there any add-on or codec or something I could install for it to be able to play .wma files?

Cheers
Joe


Oct 29 2005 - Sheep
Thanks all for the compliments, I do read them :) I am not planning a next release. Regards and enjoy


Oct 29 2005 - ralph bluecoat
great stuff!! Love BILLY!! its my favorate music player. keep it up.


Oct 29 2005 - Ray
Hey! I really enjoy using Billy. It's quick and right to the point. I tend to drift from one media player to the next exploring the features. Billy just does what it's told. That's what I like about this player.


Oct 25 2005 - wklijn [at] aaenmaas.nl
Via het boek
164 Gratis softwareprogramma's van de schrijver Victor Peters (uitg. Bruna) kwam ik in aanraking met Billy. In het verleden heb ik veel muziekspelers gebruikt maar was nooit erg tevreden. Billy heeft dit veranderd. Een wondertje in zijn eenvoud en doet perfect wat een muziekspeler moet doen. Ik ben ook onder de indruk van de snelheid van laden. Voor iedereen van harte aan te bevelen.
Sanne en crew, hartelijk bedankt voor dit mooie product.


Oct 24 2005 - peng (fanpengyuan [at] gmail.com)
These stuff are great! Kelly is the only calculator I use. Simple yet powerful.

Thank you.


Oct 20 2005 - AndrewDavisJ [at] hotmail.com
You guys are Great. I mean seriously U guys rock like crazy. I wish i knew about this before now. Anyways Goodluck, Good job and God Bless.


Oct 20 2005 - Steve Brown (evolvedlight.removeme. [at] gmail.com
Scroll lock as the skip button doesent work.... Am i doing it wrong?


Oct 19 2005 - Jim MacLaughlin dataphool [at] hotmail.com
I have used Kelly for a couple of months, its much better than Windows calcullator. I am trying Abby now, I am very impressed.


Oct 18 2005 - Ivan - Italy
Hi! I use Billy since first release 1.03 in 2004 and it's the best mp3 player! Very fast and light! Bye!


Oct 18 2005 - Jake - UK
Billy is exactly what I have ben searching for, updates from my constantly growing library in under a second and shuffles them all about - Fantastic work ! I salute you !


Oct 12 2005 - Billy Fan ?
Another Billy Replacer (Based on Bass library):
Evilplayer - evilplayer.server-host.com


Oct 11 2005 - the flea/ leon_de_flea [at] yahoo.com
I like your products, especially Billy.
do you wish sent me an email?


Oct 10 2005 - Makkelijke Rijder
Very good stuff, I'm impressed with the simplicity with which the programs work.
I am using all of them togteher and the system stays calm and collected...thanks


Oct 09 2005 - YALIN
BILLY IS THE BEST.
I love Winamp and All but the small print and yet extremely to the point functionality cannot be replaced with anything else. Especially now that it plays internet radio, w/o the need to install anything. WOW. Respect!!!


Oct 08 2005 - The Welsh One
Re: Clint_E_Martin [at] comcast.net's request.

I have a copy of the sheep program that i think you are looking for. email me @ welshy_surfer@hotmail.com if ud like a copy of it.


Oct 08 2005 - sick13 [at] cg.yu
The best the one&only Billy :)
but....a new version would be soooo nice :)


Oct 08 2005 - Fredrik Johansson, Sweden
Thanks for Billy! Its exately the app I have been looking for.


Oct 07 2005 - Coder
Where is the Source Code?


Oct 07 2005 - Joanne Halliday nittensjo29 [at] hotmail.co.uk
Lets all have a round of applause please for Billy. He works so Darn hard.


Oct 06 2005 - Sunya...
Nice, Clean....


Oct 04 2005 - Bruce
Billy works so darn nicely with my 14,000+ OGG Vorbis collection. I can't believe it took me this long to find this one. My preferred player now!


Oct 04 2005 - Bali
Billy je super, pouzivam ho vsade kde mozem.


Oct 03 2005 - Jack
Cool site nice light programs!


Oct 01 2005 - Enyedi Szilard
Great little programs, all six of them. I currently use only Billy, though.


Oct 01 2005 - Devil's advocate
billy rulezz!!!!!
keep it alive!


Sep 30 2005 - scribtx [at] yahoo.com
Sanne--

I would gladly pay you to add flac abilities to Billy.


Sep 29 2005 - aripware [at] yahoo.com
so simple but nice, thanks for billy


Sep 27 2005 - ILAMETH
if Billy has wma support will be the perfect audio player..Congratulations


Sep 26 2005 - ikke
yeah!!!!


Sep 24 2005 - .zen
I'd like to see audio CD support.


Sep 23 2005 - g0dDLL
Something a little more relaxed.

[Style]
background_color=#6c6c6c
font_name=Georgia
font_size=10
font_bold=0
font_color=#c6c6c6
font_color_selected=#FFFFFF
selection_color=#868686
selection_color_playingitem=#343434
playingitem_color=#B9D0FF
playingitem_color_selected=#BFD6FF
playingitem_bold=0
queueditem_color=#FFC03E
shuffleditem_color=#a6a6a6


Sep 23 2005 - g0dDLL
thanx 4 billy. keep it alive.


Sep 22 2005 - p011ux
Ultimate color theme:

[Style] pat
background_color=#48484A
font_name=Tahoma
font_size=8
font_bold=1
font_color=#EFA30F
font_color_selected=#4C5844
selection_color=#A0AA95
selection_color_playingitem=#A0AA95
playingitem_color=#FF3300
playingitem_color_selected=#4C5844
playingitem_bold=2
queueditem_color=#FFFF44
shuffleditem_color=#6F8064


Sep 19 2005 - Gonzo
I think it's perfect the way Billy is, I am very happy with it. I can't be too demanding, It's free and it's doing a great job. Glad you have updated. It's got a much better sound. Thanks a million. More power.God Bless


Sep 18 2005 - pretandor
just add more supported filetypes to Billy and language support and it would be perfect


Sep 17 2005 - Kenji
I really love your software, especially Billy the music player, but I can't use all your programs on a regular basis because most of them don't support Japanese, especially Diana.

I hope your programs would support Japanese in the near future, and would be happy to help.

Thanks for the nice software nevertheless!


Sep 16 2005 - J.E. van Enkele
Billy is a super audio player!
But is it still being develped?
I would like to see some more formats being supported, like mp4, ape etc.


Sep 13 2005 - Valentino Rukavicka
yo .. if U tell the true about ... its a great thing... :)


Sep 10 2005 - Clint_E_Martin [at] comcast.net
Greetings,

I am looking for a program of a pet sheep icon. This little sheep would walk around on your computer, eat grass, and do all sorts of funny things. If you know where I might be able to down load this program. please let me know.

Sincerly,

Clint Martin


Sep 08 2005 - Former Billy Fan
Hi All!

Billy once was great but the project is now Dead!
No sign from developer even when repeatedly requested!
I'm done with it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Move over to: 1by1
http://www.mpesch3.de


Sep 07 2005 - Joe
I just want to say its people like you that revive my faith in humanity, and the good the internet can bring out!
Thank you for your time and effort in creating these programs.
Peace


Sep 06 2005 - Otti
Hallo aus Stuttgart, Habe heute Billy auf meinem Pentium 1 Notebook installiert. Es funktioniert wundervoll. Sehr schnelle Playlist - Respekt!!!


Sep 05 2005 - Bily Fan
It's there!!!

http://billy.sourceforge.net/

Have fun!!


Sep 03 2005 - jsnelleman [at] gmail
Thanks Sanne for all your help. I have had it running since you last email 24/7. still skips the odd tune, but it's working fine.. I guess there is hope for an old 486 dx100. It now plays nothing but music in the living room. and the kids can click on any tune they want with out bugg'n me to play on the main computer..
Again thanks for your help.. PS I did say I Love Billy.. Great job.


Sep 03 2005 - irob
thanks:)


Sep 02 2005 - krak
ok the player is very good... Just a few improvements is required!
God job people!


Aug 31 2005 - George Roumeliotis - Corfou
Thanks for Billy docs... It 's the faster program to load music, it 's free and easy to download and it s the only program I 've ever seen that I stop and change my music during I play CounterStrike.


Aug 29 2005 - David Sanguinetti
Well... Before founding Billy, I thought I had to write my own low resource app to hear MP3 while I was working... Thanks for you amazing job. And best of all: It's free.

Please accept my sugestion: On context menu of system tray icon, wouldn't be great if there was our playlist, to quickly change from one music to another that we want to hear best?

Keep up the great job!


Aug 28 2005 - Chabaz [at] gmai.com - Javan
Billy is friggin' amazing; I have been using it for a couple months now, after the switch from iTunes, which I hate..I just use that program to organize my music now (45gigs) and it's all billy from there..

Thank you so much for making this; but It looks as if you have completly abandoned the updating aspect of the whole shebangle.

If anyone has taken bily or it's source code under it's wing, and has implemented any features such as Playlists, EQ, and that's about it actually - or anything else cool to tweak it out..That would be greatly appreciated - just drop me a line; Thanks again!

Chabaz@gmail.com


Aug 25 2005 - Winamp User
Hey I found Billy Yesterday, Good work!!
What it misses is the Winamp Plugin system.
If we can have that any other audio codec will be available!


Aug 25 2005 - The Watcher
> any chance of having an "add playlist" function

Project seems to be dead


Aug 24 2005 - The Welsh One
Great stuff, any chance of having an "add playlist" function so that multiple playlists can be combined without having to create a huge single playlist. Cheers, keep up the amazing work.


Aug 23 2005 - Acosta
I have just update my Billy from 1.03 to version 1.04b. I found what I was looking, and about I wrote in last letter.
Sorry for this! I will be wait ffor next version of Billy. I have download also another programs for your site. I try them at my work at todays jobs and tell you about my felling about them. English is not my first language that I sorry that my last entry in your quest book wasn't perfectly English. Good Luck!!! Acosta


Aug 23 2005 - Acosta
Your program is very good, it plays songs faster than onother player. To this time I was used a Winamp and Foobar 2000. Winamp I am still using to listeninig radio station, and record them, because in your program I don't see it. In your program are only 3 global hotkeys: Soft mute, Next tract and Previous track. I propose to more this global hotkeys about: Stop, Random, Open folder. Think of them. I think that will appear in new version. Without it your program is the best in the world! :-))


Aug 23 2005 - Dino
Any new info? Forum down.....billy project down? come on people....we wand Billy at Sourceforge


Aug 21 2005 - Phil, From Wiltshire - Great Britain
Hello and greetings,
I have only been using Billy for a short period,
and I foresee no reason for the use of another MP3 player, it does exactly what it says, drop a music file in and play.
If only other players could be this simple!!!

Abig well done on this excellent program.


Aug 19 2005 - Pig
Thank you Valli, that was what i was looking for.


Aug 18 2005 - Valli
Config Color Scheme
---------------------
Let's add in a file Billy.ini , in section [General] a line ActiveScheme=colors.ini .Create a file - colors.ini with such maintenance :

[Style] beg
background_color=#efe4d1
font_name=Tahoma
font_size=8
font_bold=1
font_color=#000000
font_color_selected=#ffffff
selection_color=#404040
selection_color_playingitem=#ffffff
playingitem_color=#000000
playingitem_color_selected=#404040
playingitem_bold=1
queueditem_color=#efe4d1
shuffleditem_color=#efe4d1


Aug 18 2005 - billy.sourceforge.com
When is it gonna be?????


Aug 17 2005 - fab
Thank you for being Billy's dad...


Aug 17 2005 - fab
Thank you for being Billy's dad...


Aug 15 2005 - Pig
Does anyone know what line to add to billy.ini to make the colors.ini work in version 1.4b ?

TIA


Aug 15 2005 - Weird
Application Hijacking has been detected
The application: C:Program FilesSheep FriendsBillyBilly.exe try to launch another application: *** to go to remote host www.ubuntulinux.org

excerpt from Sygate personal firewall report.
Could you explain?


Aug 15 2005 - FLAC
flac lover wannabe billy lover..


Aug 14 2005 - goatomatic [at] gmail.com
Good job. Fast and simple. Will there ever be a sheepfriends video player, do you think?


Aug 14 2005 - simplekid
Greeting from China!
Amazing little thins I've ever met!
Now they're all my favorites!
Thanks! Keep on working!


Aug 14 2005 - BuG D
Somebody send Microsoft a decloncking device!


Aug 13 2005 - Jonathan
Nice concept and clean execution. Gudos!


Aug 13 2005 - zoliax [at] konto.pl
BILLY RULE!!!


Aug 13 2005 - Brian
Billy is my PRIMARY and ONLY mp3 player. It is truly better than all others. Keep up the good work!


Aug 12 2005 - Bas
I haven't invited Abby, Diana, Hawk and Kelly over yet but then, the more clones the better! After Billy and Natty, what else could go right!

Thanx mister!


Aug 10 2005 - noam
I think the programs offered on the site are great.
I use Abby and Billy and they both work great for me.


Aug 09 2005 - fred
very nice web page...


Aug 08 2005 - gmail wiht natty?
pop.gmail use port 995

cofiguration con cuentas que no usan el puerto por defecto en natty?


Aug 07 2005 - bob barker
hi my name is bob, and i am a shepherd, and let me tell you, billy was the best i've ever had,


Aug 07 2005 - royozanne [at] gmail.com
Man Billy Rules!


Aug 07 2005 - Nazgoul
Greetings from Greece.
Your Programs are just great.
I juse Billy and Abby on my Desk and USB-Stick.
Have you ever considered programming a Multimedia-Player ?


Aug 06 2005 - Mr Moo
love billy :P , was wondering if you could make
the settings saved in users profiles and not in its program dir , so can be used as non-admin users , thx in advance.


Aug 02 2005 - Billy's would be Man Lover
If I were gay I would make sweet man love to Billy, but i'm not, so all I can do is comment on how much of a wicked sweet program it is! Keep up the good work!


Aug 01 2005 - kiegan [at] gmail.com
HELL YES BILLY!

hmm..think global volume controls could be implemented? beyond that i wouldnt dare want anything more ;o


Jul 31 2005 - Ariana
Kelly just saved me 1 Sq Ft of desk space. Thanks!


Jul 30 2005 - Sokratekk / Germany
Yeah Billy was exactly what i´m looking for! fast and gapless with no nonsense features nobody needs....
please make some more simple stuff!
would be great if you could choose some more default mp3-folders at the same time in Billy.


Jul 28 2005 - anonym
I've been using Winamp, too and found "Billy "coincidentally. Meanwhile I think this small program is one of the best mp3-Players I've ever seen. Thank you for this Software.

(the text may contain grammar faults because I am from Germany ;) )


Jul 28 2005 - !!
Iv been using winamp all my computer life since 1.0,,,, this program billy is amazing thank you for sharing it hope you can improve it in the future! No bloatware = bestware!!


Jul 26 2005 - antoniogh
hey! greetings from mexico, I love billy, it does exactly that I want, without complications, just music!!!! no BIG resources... like uhmm... wina... I don't remember... win... what? wincat? winamiau?? whatever, congratulations for billy!!!


Jul 25 2005 - Henrico
You promised a dedicated Radio Station Billy. Will it ever be published. I cherise the version 0.20, but would like an up to date release.

I want at least to donate, since i love the program and find it worthwhile to pay for it! But how and where?


Jul 20 2005 - C++ Coder
Hi Sanne,

It seems that the Billy Fanclub is growing all the time, but you don't have time to work on the project.
Have you thought about making Billy Open Source?
You can easily create a project at SourceForge and invite other programmers to help you, without losing control!

Please consider this, there is nothing like Billy out there, but at least it has to support more audio formats; maybe a (Winamp compatible) plugin system?

See ya on SourceForge!


Jul 19 2005 - fryske frisbee [at] fryslan friemel froppe boppe
yow kmost van tommy vrage of je de soorskode vrijgaf.. zou het maar doen jone.


Jul 19 2005 - HellFire
Any New Version??? Please Please!!! :)
Greetz


Jul 18 2005 - Just Me
HaHa, Guestbook is now what the Community Forum was!

But anyway Billy we love you!
Can't wait for the new features!!!


Jul 17 2005 - 5N4K3
Nice apps! ^_^
I use Abby Billy and Diana on my usb.
Love the simplistic and lite qualitys of your work.
thanks


Jul 16 2005 - h.coenen [at] e-skills.nl
If u like the dll's that spam the mp3 yar playing in MiRC and miss this functionality in Billy ?

http://www.e-skills.nl/files/BillyMirc.v0.1.rar

there u go.. included a little mircscript which shows how to use it and the dll ofcoz which does the magic.

it's really basic and has no id3v1 or id3v2 tag reading.. it just spams the filename, which oughta be enough for most (if u rename yar mp3's to something sensible :P)

so it's basic but works fine for me personally.

great work on billy - keep it up


Jul 14 2005 - rlore
I happened to know billy, so smart progy.
I hope it's quick support for wma format.
Keep good work!
Thx.


Jul 13 2005 - decoi / jude031 [at] gmail.com
i like sheep friends^^.
veryveryveryveryveryveryvery

Good software..! Thx..


Jul 13 2005 - sutto
i just love not having to use my brain,thankyou.


Jul 12 2005 - cunningham.richie [at] gmail.com
Wow!
The simplicity of Billy is just amazing, I loved it! I do a lot of music downloading and I use WMP10 to play these files. I have a pretty slow computer so it takes a while to get the application started up. Billy is just awesome. Your work is just brilliant!


Jul 12 2005 - fonzinelli.arthur [at] gmail.com
I like sheep friends!!


Jul 11 2005 - hourglass_from_philippines(hourglass213 [at] gmail.com)
u really aim for simplicity sheep....hope u get/build more of it...


Jul 11 2005 - hourglass_from_philippines
sheep...would like to thank u for creating billy...i only got the 1.01 version as for now(getting the new one)..hope that it can play cd..ur key shortcut works very well...and jus one more thing..its FREAKING LIGHT...thanks


Jul 10 2005 - Tguh_From_Indonesia
I Just Wanna Say...
I Love Billy... Becoz It Was So Simple...
Keep The Good Work Guys...


Jul 09 2005 - [at] $#%^%
Wow!
The simplicity of Billy is just amazing, I loved it! I do a lot of music downloading and I use WMP10 to play these files. I have a pretty slow computer so it takes a while to get the application started up. Billy is just awesome. Your work is just brilliant!


Jul 08 2005 - Da Dude
Wishlist: 1. Support for lossless audio (flac, ape, wavpack), 2. Support for colour cusomization, 3. Extended timer (alarm function), 4. Adding playlists to the libary (creating folder with your favorite radio channels), 5, No changing in the interface what so ever.


Jul 06 2005 - jk
hey i have a suggestion for billy: how about a refresh button? I would still use f5 but a little button might be better for some people


Jul 06 2005 - jk
hey great programs....good job


Jul 04 2005 - Anna
THANK YOU SOO MUCH.
now listed on defragmybrain.com :)
luv anna


Jul 04 2005 - ghr44 [at] hotmail.com
A German only want to say :THANK`S-
I think it´s great what you doing.


Jul 01 2005 - Trevor -- email [at] tea99.fsbusiness.co.uk
Billy is a superb, neat prog. I have found Winamp to be faulty lately, causing hiss on my MP3s, and RealPlayer is soooo bloated. Billy makes my MP3s sound great, with minimal overhead. Thanks a lot, sheep. You are now listed on my website, www.walshamweb.co.uk, under Freeware. :)


Jun 30 2005 - Karo
Billy is great.
But it would be nice if he could imitate winamp. Then you can use multimedia-keyboards to control Billy.
(STP player can this for example)

Greetings karo


Jun 30 2005 - iTunes Hater
Who the hell uses WMA, the shittiest of all audio formats (except for AAC/M4A) when you can use MP3 or OGG instead. It would make much more sense of adding support for FLAC or instead.


Jun 30 2005 - fuel2burn
billy is great, but any plans for a c.d. to mp3 or wav ripper yet? or a wav to mp3 converter?


Jun 29 2005 - koolblue
so kooooool player!
thx!


Jun 28 2005 - chaidir
unBillyveble


Jun 26 2005 - donmen donmen [at] 163.com
All of you are best!
I hope Billy mp3 player will have WMA plugin later


Jun 26 2005 - Joseph Freeone - entropy_hunter [at] yahoo.com
I am really thankful for your tiny apps. All of them. Both them and your website show a great taste in simplicity, no heavy memory-consuming addons, only sharp and smart code.


Jun 25 2005 - zoasterboy [at] msn.com
hay i found this site through a link at albinoblacksheep.com. this place is its preety cool. my question is though, who makes all this stuff?the site maker or some other person.


Jun 24 2005 - abhijeet080808 [at] sify.com
Thank you very much for sharing all your wonderful softwares.


Jun 24 2005 - René
Billy...

I got frustrated with the loading times of WinAmp on my old P600 and searched for a freeware fast mp3 player... now I use Billy on all my computers, even on the AMD 64.. because speed rulez.

Thanks for bringing this KISS-solution!

René (Holland)


Jun 23 2005 - entertainerernst
billy is the best music program i ever had.

thx for it

entertainerernst--> Germany


Jun 23 2005 - jptng [at] videotron.ca
Luckily for you, New Brunswick is a small province. Also you should not smoke algae.
Good luck :-)


Jun 20 2005 - Maggie Marie Francis
im from N.B> Canada!!!


Jun 20 2005 - Maggie Marie Francis
hello,... im @ some place and i don't know where i am i need help. can you tell me where i am?! call me or add me:273-9615 is my fone #!! and my addie is mediumdog31@hotmail.com. good buy!!


Jun 20 2005 - ash
i'm from china btw~


Jun 20 2005 - ash
i have thousands of mp3s, so i don't use billy a lot at home. i need a library~
but at work they give me a very old laptop:( billy works perfect here:) thanks!


Jun 20 2005 - moulinrouge1 [at] gmx.de
Vielen Dank,ist zwar etwas schlicht,spielt aber super ab!!!Deutsch währe nicht schlecht!!!
Gruss Gerd


Jun 19 2005 - raist, czech republic
billy is great mp3 player...
and now i have found your other apps.
you have the right vision how to make software!


Jun 17 2005 - Russ
Billy media is great, it's so nice to have a player that runs with so little ram


Jun 16 2005 - woodland
Sorry for being so familiair but... Hugs & kisses for Diana! Diana is juzt what i needed. She is lean (636K when minimized) and the gui is perfect (imho). I love the F9 funcion.


Jun 15 2005 - Gabriel
Any plans Billy to make him able to play mp3 streams?


Jun 15 2005 - Brianne
Hi brianne it me megan chirstian call
me will did not talk much please call
well bi


Jun 15 2005 - trotom
Thank you for famous music player Billy.

Trotom, Czech republic


Jun 15 2005 - Carlos
thanks for your effort on creating this great apps. Specially the calendar one.

greeting from Texas, USA


Jun 14 2005 - Gabriel
All utils are excellent, and also a good thing to have human names...
Tired of load winamp for 20 secs, also hate skins, never used one


Jun 13 2005 - Miranda
I hope that you get your forums back up :p BILLY 4ever!


Jun 13 2005 - dmparker [at] gmail,com
Wow! I need a quick fast MP3 player, a google search brought me to Billy. Then looking around the site I found Diane which is the exact calendar program I needed! Thanks! The only thing I wish it did was minimize to the system tray, but its so fast I can just close and restart it when I need it.

Wonderful programs!


Jun 12 2005 - Marco from Italy
Hi, i'm trying Billy.
Good MP3 player !
I hate skins and MP3 tags too !!!

Greetings from Italy


Jun 11 2005 - jan_baker [at] hotmail.com
Hi Dear Sheep Friends
Thanks very much for the programs! I like what you are doing! All these things are very useful, and you are giving them to us for free! Marvelous! I hope you will have fixed your machine soon without losing everything? Did you not have a backup?
Of course, every one should have a backup of all their work, but....., and it seems to me we are all the same.
Jan Baker


Jun 08 2005 - MyName
This is what I have been looking for THANK YOU!


Jun 07 2005 - sick13 [at] cg.yu
The One&Only!!!! Billy We want a new Version!!!! :)


Jun 07 2005 - Jung Sang Jin (MBowie)
Thanks!! for the best player~!!!


Jun 06 2005 - marchun2005
to see ship friends


Jun 06 2005 - marchun2005
to see sheep friends


Jun 06 2005 - marchun2005
to see sheep friends


Jun 06 2005 - blair303808 [at] yahoo.com
you got some interesting concept of using human name to each programs, very nice. i started to using billy... pretty nice. i guess I will satisfy with this tiny player for making my machine stable


Jun 06 2005 - RonnieSeasons
Dude, cool dat ik je weer effe zag gister!! Till next time, ROCK!!
x.


Jun 05 2005 - John Paul
Billy is the best mp3 player that I ever saw,
its fast, light and very easy to operate,
I load my 4,500 mp3 files in 6 seconds only I recomend Billy for all mp3 lovers!!!


Jun 05 2005 - Bill Rizer
Billy is the best mp3 player ever!
I can't wait for the next version to come out.


Jun 04 2005 - Manar
Billy rocks, it is so great... Small and doesn't hog my computer CPU or freeze up or anything.


Jun 04 2005 - Dave
Thank you very much for this fine Freeware.


Jun 04 2005 - Maheshkumar / goodpeoples [at] rediffmail.com
Dear Kelsey,
I am yet to try your softwares, but from my experience, I have seen that freewares perform better than commercial ones. Best of luck, keep your good job on and on and on.


Jun 04 2005 - Maheshkumar / goodpeoples [at] rediffmail.com
Dear Sheep Friends,
Thanks a lot for such a nice softwares. Call Yourself Bull Friends, Dont Say Sheepishly, Say Bullish


Jun 03 2005 - Robert Ohren
Hi Kelsey! Email me as soon as possible, okay?
Thanks, Amelia


Jun 03 2005 - Nederlander
Billy is too great to just let the project die!
When will you put it in opensource?


May 28 2005 - rommi
Hy,

i used your Billy Audioplayer since 3 months and i`m very surprised about the fantastic sound. I love this player! Thank you very much for this fine Freeware.


May 28 2005 - L
Please, Please Please - no frills video player for us the Fans - Please- U got the talent! Oh please you can you can do it


May 28 2005 - yeray..
billy AMAZING software right now using 1.04 beta lookin forward to see the non-beta

diana is an AMAZING software aswell the rest arent usefull for me..but im sure they are for a lot of ppl....greetings and keep on being the best


May 27 2005 - K.R.
There is only one problem with Billy: no AAC/MP4 support.

In my opinion, Mp3 is out of date and ogg is dead , so it's time to move ahead and do some progress with this beautiful program.


May 27 2005 - Brendan - Evolve IT
You guys rock. Thanks heaps for the best light-weight MP3 player around. Love the new beta.


May 25 2005 - eddie
What's wrong with you people!?!? why should billy have .wma support?? no one sane uses wma and why use a audiocd when you can play it rip it to MP3 or OGG ?? What billy really uses is FLAC, REPLAYGAIN and a better Libary.


May 23 2005 - BinDjin
I am really fond of the sheepfriends software, but I am not very fond of microsofts products at all. My question is as follows: Will the FreeBSD community ever be able to use the products you provide? To see the software in the FreeBSD portstree would make atleast me and probably some more people happy. Is this a possibility?

Thx in advance!
simon [at] bindjin . ws


May 22 2005 - zoliax
MIDI WMA audioCD ;( ;( billy needs them.... ;(


May 22 2005 - Steve (Vancouver)
Kudos to you Sheep- I've been using Billy for months now and it really shines versus Winamp (my previous fave) and too bad that I have to use Winamp for my .ape and .flac files. Thanks for a quality piece of software.


May 20 2005 - jos (vancouver)
Well done. It's nice to find something so elegantly simple. Thanks for sharing.


May 18 2005 - neokrish [at] gmail.com
These nifty utilities are the best i have come across. I was a strong believer that winamp was the best audio player available until they brought winamp5...that was really bad as i have an old computer that could not handle all the unwanted stuff(as far as i was concerned) really hogged my cpu...then i came across Billy..the first question was can it jump from one song to another at my will...my friend showed me how easy that was..i was totally impressed by the efficiency of the program and vowed to get it on my system once i was convinced that it beat Winamp fair and square. Thanks a lot for these..will love them :) I will try my best to convince my friends ( i think i dont need to try hard for sure ) to use this awesome set of utilities..thats it...i am out of adjectives for them...Thanks again! :)


May 14 2005 - jptng [at] videotron.ca
As for the real life goes so Sanne's works does. Apps provided for free truly are a gift to the community. Therefore it should be consider as a present and accepted the way Sanne offered it to us. The man has done a lot recently, should he take a rest?
I think so...

Bless you

JP


May 12 2005 - austin
nice apps.


May 12 2005 - Nils
Heey aan je naam te zien denk ik dat je nederlands of belgisch bent (ik nederlands, flevoland) dit programaatje heb je erg leuk geprogrammeert, ik denk dat dit de snelste mp3 speler met nog genoeg leuke functies ooit is , SUPERVET SANNE!! (hehe love mode, grappig :P) verzonnen


May 12 2005 - dale
i think this is the best player available, bar none. wish it could have .wma support and still be the same player.


May 11 2005 - FJ
Billy is the best player for Windows NT Workstation 4.0
greeting from germany / NRW


May 11 2005 - Joey D
Billy is the best mp3 player hands down. I needed a sleep timer because I can't go to sleep without music. Billy does that without being a memory hog. Thanks man.


May 10 2005 - reflo
billy is top, greeting from germany....


May 09 2005 - R Noordhuis - rnoordhuis [at] gmail.com
Billy is a realy good player.
But I want a crossfader, can you make it?

R Noordhuis


May 09 2005 - Cassius Longinus
I heart Billy! I wish there was .wma support, because it would be all I would use... lol


May 07 2005 - Albert
billy sounds good,very fast, a good programme


May 06 2005 - Billy :)
Wow! Billy is so nice player... wma support would make it even better! :)


May 06 2005 - levitation
elegant site design....bravo


May 05 2005 - audrey
love billy. thank you very much for making listening to music simple again.


May 04 2005 - joeybell [at] gmail.com
and sod off wma...convert yer files to something else...not worth the time with the liscencing...lame lame lame...


May 04 2005 - joeybell [at] gmail.com
billy is the awesome mp3/media player ever...small, succinct, just kick ass...does exactly what is needed...plays music...and well...no bells no whistles no extraneous crap


May 04 2005 - Nick
Hey Sanne,

Billy is echt gewoon ultiem! Super relaxed!


May 04 2005 - Twan S
Hej Sanne

Billy is PERFECT, meer is er niet over te zegge...:-P


May 04 2005 - Sanjuro
Billy is what I've been looking for. Ultra-smple, but works excellent! Thanks!


May 03 2005 - japanese
Thank you for the update about 1.04b. M3u is also very good.


May 02 2005 - kenneth
I love that billy mp3 player .. it totally rocks wonderful!!!!


Apr 28 2005 - Fareed
I want to listen to the song that says: "if you smile, smile big as big as the ocean


Apr 28 2005 - Cole
I love billy, i hate all the bull crap that comes with other mp3 players. Just what ive been looking for. Billy is King


Apr 26 2005 - Brian
i don't think sheep friends is meant to be a professional thing anyway. sheep said it's just something he does in his spare time. if he were getting paid for his wonderful software, maybe i'd understand... but really, i wouldn't expect too much.


Apr 26 2005 - jszania
Billy - so it is possible to make a player without skins. Wow, I'm impressed!

I would only add dates to file listing and 5-seconds sample playing feature.


Apr 26 2005 - ZoNi
Well, this is totaly unprofessional: leting Forum to be down for so long time...

Anyway, Billy is great! ;)


Apr 24 2005 - Troels Jessen (Denmark)
I just wanna to send you my best credits for Billy. It's wonderful! Genious! I'm going to try the new beta now, I'm excited.


Apr 23 2005 - sajith (India)
You've done a wonderful job :)


Apr 23 2005 - zoliax [at] o2.pl
billy need *.wma and *.midi:P


Apr 23 2005 - Jimmy
You guys are absolutely the best :)
Your Billy really helps me a lot
unlike those Winamp, WMP, itunes, etc.
Keep up the good works guys ^^


Apr 20 2005 - Thanasis from Greece
You are the best guys of the NET!! The reason I say this is because all the stuff is very easy to use and has the philosophy for all kind of users even the windows 95 users!!Keep walking...Thank You


Apr 20 2005 - Tyler
Billy is an amazing product. I like the fact that switching tracks is so smooth. =) It is also a very easy and over all fast prgram that takes up virtually no space!
Thanks


Apr 15 2005 - ZoNi
Here is one more link to Billy 1.04beta:
http://www.myfilestash.com/userfiles/zoni/billy_1
04_beta.zip

I agree with DocTriv - "Plz support for newer BASS incl. WMA-Mod..."

I have tried to put new BASS engine, but that "kills" Billy :(

So, I'm back on old Bass engine... and live with hope that Billy will support WMA! :)

Best regards
ZoNi


Apr 13 2005 - DocTriv
Forum is still broken! :-( Have to search very long to find Billy Beta - very nice app!
Plz support for newer BASS incl. WMA-Mod...


Apr 12 2005 - Hugo J.
Just found Billy,hes my new best friend!
Goodbye winamp,wmp and all that junk :)


Apr 12 2005 - Hugo ereira
Just found Billy,hes my new best friend!
Goodbye winamp,wmp and all that junk :)


Apr 12 2005 - Jay
dbPowerAmp converts wma to mp3, easily and fast, great if you still want to use BILLY (great music player) and keep your collection of wma files.


Apr 10 2005 - Pema
What's wrong with the forum? i can't read anything.


Apr 10 2005 - tao [at] yahoo.com
I've looking for a wildest first time experience!!!!!!give this to me!!!!!!WAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!


Apr 10 2005 - luissalazar [at] ifxnw.com.ve
Billy....outstanding MP3 player...thanks a lot and keep up your creativity


Apr 09 2005 - Zevy
Just wanted to say that Billy rocks. Keep up the good work. :)


Apr 08 2005 - ZoNi
What is wrong with Forum?

and, yes - please, add wma support to Billy! :)


Apr 04 2005 - Melko's Sohn
forum seems to be down.

I like the player. But I'd use it much longer if it had some Logitech ITouch support (or if anyone could tell me how to apply it)


Apr 04 2005 - Toneman
Nice player, next step in my minimalistic Windows (came here from nlite forums). Forum is down so i post it here: possible to double click .m3u files so that billy can play an album?

Greetings


Apr 03 2005 - gerald from austria
i love billy! it is much better than all the ugly skin-players! thank you!!!
natty is nice, but will it have imap sometime?


Apr 02 2005 - song2sing [Australia]
No Fuss Player, It's Perfect! Billy U R D Best.


Apr 01 2005 - Laine
I Love Abby!
Being of the generation before metrics, I use Abby all the time. Thank you.


Mar 31 2005 - |B|E|E|R|
Billy is the music player i've been looking for ages! Fast and smooth and doesn't take lots of resources while I'm gaming!
Thanks a million for sharing this fantastic application.


Mar 30 2005 - KOSTYA from RUSSIA
Good player. Only if it will support WMA in general it will be magnificent!!!


Mar 26 2005 - bobbeh
i really like billy, and i find its the best music player ive found, but now it leaves me with a crappy video player... so... maybe can you make a video player?


Mar 24 2005 - Radu radu22m [at] yahoo.com
I first dowloaded Billy cos I liked the name. I have no interest in worshipping it, of course, but I think it is the best and most practical music player available.
Thank u; it is excellent and v. fast (also on poor computers like mine), extremely practical, and lets not forget, FREE.
P.S. Abby is really nice 2.


Mar 24 2005 - ONYEZE NWAGOR GUY -- ONYE_GUY [at] YAHOO.COM
NICE SITE.


Mar 23 2005 - zoliax [at] o2.pl
cool name of soft:D


Mar 23 2005 - Oguz Yilmaz
I know, you do not like mp3tags, however, I wish, I can see tag information instead of filenames. Because I have a number mp3s named cd1-1, cd1-5 ...
Except for this, with Billy I am so happy )


Mar 21 2005 - Yaroslav
Just don't place Billy in front of masses, it is a highly exquisite product, not to mention functionality. Everything seems so damn fine, I can't believe it.

I think - player for certain people, who can appreciate it.

Again, many thanks!


Mar 20 2005 - Adrian Catalan
Billy rulez, is the best audio player! :D
danke...


Mar 18 2005 - nang_dara [at] yahoo.com
I've try Billy and he is very lovely.
Thanks Sheep.


Mar 15 2005 - Androo
I thoroughly enjoy the philosophy of the software here ... free, intuitive, and as simple as you can get without comprimising essential features.

Now, for my feature suggestions:

Billy: Seek 'scrubbing' (i.e. hear the file as you're seeking through it so it's easier to find a certain point in a song).

Diana: The option to keep Diana in the system tray on minimization.

That's it, keep it up :)


Mar 14 2005 - ricewine
very very simple ....nice work.....Umm..billy....please ...plugin...? possible?


Mar 13 2005 - Grand Funk Railroad
billy é o melhor mp3 player que eu ja usei recomendo a todos que escutam mp3, é muito bom, leve, facil de usar, da pra faze tudo usando o billy joga, entra na net da pra faze de tudo e o melhor é que ele nunca da pau e nem precissa ser instalado


Mar 13 2005 - regular s.korea
it's really simple. awesome!!


Mar 10 2005 - michael [at] muellermp.us
I am so very glad I came across your site. My Major complaint, has always been, all I want to do is.... No funny charactors, Just what I wanted. Thank You.


Mar 06 2005 - ilichman
Warm regards from Canada. Kudos for promoting simplicity. Thank you for opening your wonderful tools to the community.

ilichman, a billy user


Mar 05 2005 - razzle
How do you download the converter?


Mar 05 2005 - pablotossi
goooood work with BILLY!!!! CLEAN and FAST!!!!


Mar 02 2005 - nick in Bad Homburg
Billy is fantastic. Lean and clean. Long may it rule.
All we could ever wish for is support of more codecs, so we can stop using those big bloated, unintuitive players...


Mar 02 2005 - ZoNi www.zoniweb.com
Billy is VERY nice player... Unfortunately, it doesn't support wma, which is shame... Although I have only few WMA'a, I think that any modern audio player have to support that file type...

Greetings
ZoNi, Serbia


Mar 01 2005 - oyeolu ngbada/oyeolu [at] yahoo.com
i love your site keep it up


Mar 01 2005 - Lappland
Very good work!


Feb 24 2005 - Lawalx [at] lycos.com
What I like about the player is its simplicity, no additives no preservatives and above all no genetic modification. The one thing I will want is crossfading. Plus can you guys make a video player version of this such wonderful player.

I'll stuck to billy, cant use any other player with same satisfaction.

Nice Work
Lawal...


Feb 22 2005 - Berndt kloburg.at
just switched (again) to billy. Still a perfect app and i love the (for me) new radio support
thanx a very lot and keep on coding!


Feb 21 2005 - julian.porta [at] gmail.com
Billy Rocks!
It´s the player that i´ve allways looking for.

Thanks and keep going on.


Feb 21 2005 - Steve
Billy is a great program. However most more than 3/4 of my music is WMA so I had to ditch Billy for something else. Non the less, it's still great.


Feb 20 2005 - konfetti70 [at] arcor.de
Hallo Freunde,danke für das Programm
"Billy" .Es ist super klein,bringt aber eine
phantastische Musik zu Ohren.Leider kann ich kein Englisch,aber ich wollte nur mal schnell zu diesem Programm etwas sagen,es gefällt mir sehr gut.
Nochmals danke,
Wolfgang.


Feb 17 2005 - omercan [at] mail.nl
You proove it:
even such small programs can be
(if well prorammed) quite usefull!

Well done. We want more......!

Omer from the Netherlands


Feb 16 2005 - Conrad
I'm looking for a fast and clean, preferably pure-text, non-HTML email client with advanced filtering functions and most of all some kind of automatic keyword color-highlighting tool to help you wade through large chunks of text. Any ideas?


Feb 12 2005 - Noel
Ohkay, Billy is the best player out there. Being a minimalist myself, I try and put only the necessities on my computer. Everything runs fast and smooth. Thanks!


Feb 12 2005 - DarKalt
Billy is awesome, without a doubt.


Feb 11 2005 - rohit_bu [at] yahoo.co.in
i love all these tools available by sheepfriends . thanks for their good work.also i want that this group member invent more hady tools ,also related to desktop screen saver, animated wallpaper. wish you best of luck for your future.


Feb 08 2005 - Tommy
Billy is an awesome music player. I like its simplicity and that it can be controlled with the keyboard. Though, I wish it would play WMA's. Anyway, Billy rocks!


Feb 03 2005 - Grammar Nazi
What Mayank said :p


Jan 31 2005 - Mayank
Billy is wonderful !!
i would like to really congratulate the team to produce such an effective and resource friendly media player.


Jan 27 2005 - NyaR
thanks for billy! I was going to ask for customizable global hotkeys on your forum, but i saw the beta you have and its great!

You rock!


Jan 26 2005 - gjwellens [at] yahoo.com
It's very nice and simple to use. Thanks !!!


Jan 25 2005 - Kenny
Thanks for Billy my friend!!
So simple and fast niceeeeeeeee


Jan 22 2005 - MUGU [at] MUGUUUUU.COMMMMMMMMM
PLEASE KEEP OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF


Jan 22 2005 - Patrick
I've been using Winamp 2 for five years. Winamp has the option: "Read tags on Load, Display, or Play."

If you select "Play", Winamp is just as fast as Billy.


Jan 20 2005 - Leandro(ARGENTINA)
Hello: the billy is really fantastic, I want to congratulate them it helps me very much because my computaora is old and with the billy it does not consume resources.
Sorry abaut my english becose i`m argentinian. bye


Jan 18 2005 - Dino sick13 [at] cg.yu
Cool :) add more features :)
Greetz from Montenegro :)


Jan 18 2005 - Shihao
Simple, Easy, Sweet.


Jan 14 2005 - C0BALT
Oh now Billy, Billy don't you lose my mp3's
Cos you're not anywhere that I can find you, oh no...

Ironic how the littlest program on my computer controls the largest amount of files!Awesome little program. 100gigs of MP3\'s!Winamp crashes (I dunno why, it doesn\'t reinstall properly anymore too) and is way to feature heavy.Could I ask / suggest one thing.Add a "directory view side panel on the left, just like windows exploder, completely resizeable, removeable???I got lots of directories!THAT IS ALL


Jan 13 2005 - afdhal_nec [at] yahoo.co.uk
wow...i dont believe you using a name for the software!!....before this..i just using billy's mp3 only...when i go to this site...i saw so many software...good job!!!


Jan 13 2005 - jojo_nixon
YO...Billy is the shit
Loads my 60 Gig of mp3's (10, 000+ files)
in like 10 seconds.
I put the view on sammy style...YES..this is what i need.
And good point about ID3 tags..how often do i use those...um never...who has time to be that organized..
And even supports dynamic enqueing...some players DONT (unbelievable)

thx man
super cool


Jan 12 2005 - g-man
i like billy. he is an alright nice guy.


Jan 07 2005 - Clementine
Billy is adorable, I can't believe how easy and effective it is. I wish Billy was human.
I think it's Creator must be some kind of a Half-God.


Jan 04 2005 - gerlofklaassen [at] hotmail.com
Jan 04 2005 Gerlof
I looked at Tucows for an audioplayer and yours came out as best suitable for me. Because it was easy to understand, quick and I could copy whole folders instead of one file.
Thanks!!!!


Jan 04 2005 - Gertje
Looks like you've gained many friends around the world with Billy. You've really did it this time. Keep the philosophy alive!


Jan 02 2005 - mariano
Billy is so smart,light and verry functional.


Jan 02 2005 - Rick
Abby is a very handy little program,and i find it very usefull in manny ways. thanks friends.


Dec 26 2004 - balestegui [at] gmail.com
Diana is simple but effective. It would be still better if the color of the day that has some text appears in another color (red, for example).

Thanks for your programs and Merry Christmas from Spain.


Dec 21 2004 - Fran.k
Just drop by to express my satisfaction about Billy but find myself impressed by the amount of satisfied people around here. Happy not been marginal for once. Since I got Billy, music play all day long at home. Thanks!


Dec 20 2004 - gringo
hey!!!! I love your proggie billy... is awesome... I hope you can add more file types


Dec 19 2004 - Shafi [at] emailku.com
You Better Try it.....!!!! n thanx 4 good simple program, have a nice.


Dec 09 2004 - Ekelhafter Inselaffe
Used Musicmatch Jukebox for a while - what a NIGHTMARE. BILLY is much better and a lot more stable. Thank you !!!


Dec 07 2004 - computerfreakie_89 [at] hotmail.com
I LOVE BILLY!!!!!! Billy is a GREAT program. It loads faster as WinAmp, and its also simple to use. I have only OGG files on my computer, and Billy can play that. Not windows mediaplayer. WMP sucks!!! And billy... Its just a great program!!! Thnx from Holland, Niels (computerfreakie_89@hotmail.com)


Dec 07 2004 - prince_m2003 [at] yahoo.com
I had download Billy Audio Player few month before, untill now its working very excellent. I think that All Regards goes to team of sheepfriends who creats the software which is very portable and easy to use, its tools are very easy to operate and very very Excellent result of this player. Please inform me when you upload its new version on the site...
Regards
Murad Memon
Sukkur,Sindh , Pakistan.


Dec 07 2004 - sagamore [at] SPAM.NO.MORE.o2.pl
Billy Kicks Ass !
It ate heavyweight Winamp for breakfast.
It knocked down thickskinned fullcoloured many-mouse-clicks shit completely.
That's my surf-the-net buddy !
Keep up the good work, man.
Yet one thing I'd love: a global shortcut to bring the handsome from minimized state.
Peace and beer !

sagamore


Dec 06 2004 - Jason P.
Luv billy thank you


Dec 04 2004 - Leon
The development of 'Billy' is a god send. This program is absolutely amzing, its kicks seven bells out of Media player, that bit of junk thats shipped with MS Windows. Your player is the greatest little bit of programming I've seen yet. I just cant believe the low consumption of it, its practially like its not there, great. My father, who isn't the greatest PC user in the world can work it, I mean, it says something if ppl who cant use computers can use your program, ingeneous, and its that easy to use!
I have started fidling with it, and tweaking, great, its easy to tweak, and yields good results, why cant commercial stuff be this good, that cost money?
I have installed Billy onto my 512mb flash drive, so any pc I use now runs Billy to play media files for me, i dont use anything else!
You have programmed something amazing here. Congratulations, and thank you Sanne.

Yours
Leon


Dec 01 2004 - Guenon
Billy is a magnificent MP3 player. Thank you!


Nov 30 2004 - Bozso
Thx Billy :-)


Nov 30 2004 - Peter Ken
Awesome stuff!

Thanks


Nov 27 2004 - Horny jentina
Yeah man! sheep you kick ass


Nov 26 2004 - John S
Just a note of thanks for natty being such a wonderfull progam..it beats mailwasher an all the rest when you have a ton of spam


Nov 25 2004 - finnish sheepfriend- fan
Billy is simply the best mp3 player!
Abby is avesome too, very handy sometimes.


Nov 25 2004 - dayavanth [at] yahoo.com
Hi,

I just installed Abby and it's wonderful!!

So i don't have to the get the neurons in my brains knotted trying to figure it out anymore;)

But when's Anny, Patty, Shelly and the rest coming up????;)

Hope you and your friends r still working on them!!

Wish you the world !!

Keep the software happening....

Dayavanth.


Nov 24 2004 - sickboy
sheep is the best!


Nov 23 2004 - Risky Long
Abby - Finally an application that is simple and of ease to use.


Nov 23 2004 - Teemu Kiiskilä (aeroflot[AT]murha.net)
Billy is GREAT!
A "media library"-kind of thing, that would keep a track of what files I have played, would be extremily fabulous.
A txt file of some sort with filenames and "ratings" or "times played", which would load only when asked.


Nov 23 2004 - Mercedez
geweldig! wat goed gemaakt ook zeg!


Nov 23 2004 - Luyt
Schitterend! Mooie, elegante, simpele interface ook!


Nov 19 2004 - josec
Muy bueno el reproductor de musica Billy. Era algo que necesitaba y que buscaba hace rato en internet. Buen trabajo.


Nov 18 2004 - chandra
good work billy.


Nov 14 2004 - JAZ
Billy is awesome


Nov 14 2004 - Urshik [at] hotmail.ru
When download Billy


Nov 13 2004 - carbonseven
billy is great simple program... love to see more of these programs... others are not really usefull to me : )


Nov 13 2004 - anonymous and cagey
billy and abby are great simple programs, wish windows had been developed with the same philosopy. :)


Nov 12 2004 - GreenEveryday [at] aol.com
Are you guys making updates on Billy because i really like this. It's very quick and plus I like the gap eliminator...thanks!


Nov 10 2004 - sumit3d [at] yahoo.com
Hey! you people are really great. I will not use any other Mp3 player from now.

::BILLY::RULES::


Nov 02 2004 - Ray Barron
Hey really impressed with your MP3 player, have been looking for a small quick one for agess and yours easily comes out top. keep up the good work dude


Oct 28 2004 - Jay in Philly
Great programs! I love billy. it is exactly what i nedded. just somthing that plays music in the background without eating alot of resorces. i just let it play, need no frils. thank you very much for wrinting this program1


Oct 27 2004 - Sheep
Thank you all for the kind words! Appreciated


Oct 27 2004 - Jesse - jsanabria [at] bantra.com.pe
Buen trabajo, la verdad es que acabo de desinstalar el Winamp y el Media player y no los echo de menos :)
Gracias por la simplicidad
Billy para presidente!! :)


Oct 22 2004 - Peggy
wow sanne, dat ctrl space is echt wel handig! En ik moet lachen om al je tips die je geeft als je een handeling doet. Super nog steeds! Ben weer terug!! Het was super. Alles goed?


Oct 22 2004 - Rija, r.rasolofonirina [at] fanamby.org.mg
thank you for simplicity,
and generosity!


Oct 20 2004 - David Miao
Billy, My favorite all the time...but when will sorting option be added?


Oct 20 2004 - mojsej [at] lycos.com
SUPER!!!!
Thanks. I was searching for such a thing.
Simple Thaks without other non-sense.


Oct 19 2004 - squegie [at] sqbnet.net
Winamp, media player, and ultra player bomb out when i try to load up one of my mp3 cds. Billy loads the directory in a split-second, which is truly amazing. I'm still playing with it, but I think I'm in love with it. When I get some time, I'll try and figure out how the streaming works because it's not immediately obvious. If anything, I wouldn't mind seeing this ported to linux/xwindows if it can retain the low-footprint feature.


Oct 17 2004 - chaiyasit49 [at] yahoo.com
Your software is good keep on working


Oct 16 2004 - Frits
Billy is one of the very few MP3/OGG players that will run flawlessly on an old Pentium 200MMX. Besides that, I'm impressed, and touched, by the no-frills look and feel of the program. This is great.


Oct 14 2004 - Magzdar
Billy is a very nice program without the useless thrashy function!
My compliments. I love simply apps.
Go on this way!!!
Magzdar


Oct 14 2004 - super_ideas [at] hotmail.com
I download Billy and its too good i love it and i daily listen mp3 from my computer on Billy
Nice Work please when you complete its update version so kindly inform me
regards
raja murad memon from Pakistan


Oct 12 2004 - user
Billy is the audio-player I have searched for years.
No registry settings, tiny, very cool, stream support and more than fast. I love it. Thx for such a great job !


Oct 10 2004 - Emiel & Sheep
I love you guys so much!!


Oct 08 2004 - Raymond.Diep [at] gmail.com
Billy is awesome, thanks.


Oct 03 2004 - Raimis
very cool soft, i like billi and other utilities. It's small, fast, simple and very functional... good sound quality... please make global hotkeys... thanks a lot of


Oct 02 2004 - Paulo - Brazil
Two Thumbs Up!


Oct 01 2004 - Clive H
Billy your just what I've been looking for, simplicity and useability. Great.


Oct 01 2004 - Andres - Spain
thanks for Billy!


Sep 28 2004 - FF^_^
Nice work.
I love Billy----------so so so so so so so so much.


Sep 27 2004 - Ali Lemus
Great stuff, I must admit I was also attracted by youre "killer app" billy, love simplicity, and now I've dl other products (hawk and natty) thx!!!


Sep 25 2004 - Brian bst2006 [at] goplano.net
I love using Billy. It is the most efficient player I've ever used and I'd love for it to stay that way.

Brian


Sep 24 2004 - Tim
Billy has to be the best mp3 player - fact!

Don't bow down to pressure and add skins and the like!


Sep 20 2004 - kumar
man, some of the big guys should take lessons from u. less is more...

keep up the good work, and thanks!


Sep 19 2004 - Bar
You got it... simplicity is the best thing!, keep everything plain, you deserve the credit dude :)


Sep 15 2004 - Jeroen
Very nice programs, thanks a lot.


Sep 14 2004 - yatie & pyan
i agree thats no need tag reading. i love it simple.


Sep 14 2004 - pyan & yatie
firstly i thought billy is same like other *crap* unpopular mp3 player. but, actually it is different n great!


Sep 14 2004 - kucingmillenium [at] yahoo.com
love it! billy is cool


Sep 11 2004 - Steve
Nice, i like billy lots!


Sep 09 2004 - Jo
YO, your apps rocks.
is therw a new version of billy in the making? if so, would it be posible to get an optioal tag reading?`

from Norway with love


Sep 09 2004 - mihirbijur [at] rediffmail.com
a unique site,appreciate the simplicity and the user friendly nature of ur programs..thank you,
Cheers.


Sep 08 2004 - cyreald
thank you heaps for this Billy sheep... a total musi lovers "must have"!!!!
when read the description on downloads.com, i almost cried... finaly an alternative to winamp that would fit ME... thank you again!!! merci!!! cyril


Sep 06 2004 - DirtyBear oozeart [at] gazeta.pl
Billi is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gooooooood work:]]]]]]....yea...


Sep 06 2004 - ghost
Billy great!! thanks


Sep 01 2004 - Jeffrey
Billy is perfect. I love simplicity. I'm ready to donate.


Aug 31 2004 - Kedar
The best MP3 player in market no nonsense player just plays music and doesnt hang your machine for the sake of Plugins and blah
whats more its free too
Grreat work guys!


Aug 31 2004 - tony
please don't use
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTBilly - MP3 File
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTBilly - OGG File
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTBilly - WAV File

comeback Billy tiny mode!!


Aug 30 2004 - japanese
Billy is good. :-)


Aug 28 2004 - chem (PEI, Canada)
Wow, now I *do* believe in love at first sight. Bells and whistles are cool until you realize how much they complicate everything. =P I want to hear the music man, not look at a pretty player. Tags - I don't miss them. My file names all include artist/title anyway. Yay! Thanks a bunch. =)


Aug 25 2004 - l'Ours
Billy is THE mp3 killer app !

I would just suggest to see mp3 tag directly in info window.


Aug 25 2004 - BillyLovah
Wow! Billy is amazing! It's the second-best thing that ever happened to me! (The first-best thing is Billy Ross.) And I just LUV the name! And Billy's sister Abby is cute too, though.


Aug 25 2004 - Brant
Hey i've had billy for ages. but recently had to format so redownloading now. But it is the best mp3 player ever. Just what i need, with no more annoying features that i dont use.


Aug 24 2004 - webvalz [at] hotmail.com
Great performance and highly reliable.


Aug 24 2004 - Shane
Billy MP3 Player.

"light bulb on - light bulb off, light bulb on - light bulb off, light bulb on - light bulb off, light bulb on - light bulb off........ Billy = simple, clean and to the point.


Aug 23 2004 - Roeland
I heard of this program at a bus stop while mucking around with media player. It'll be so much easier just playing some songs now.. cheers


Aug 19 2004 - Robert en Maurits
Hey Sheep, alles goed?!
Nice programs, we're fond of Billy. We love Billy. He's so fast. And keeps on working. Thank you for Billy. Billy brought us happiness. Keep up the Billy-work. Your Billy-mates. Robert and Maurits


Aug 18 2004 - Henrick
I am an enthusiastic Billy lover from the first hour. Now i miss the internet radio in the latest versions. Is there a separate Radio-Billy coming up? Great programs anyway!


Aug 18 2004 - tenyque
Thank you for Billy, a breath of fresh air in quality and simplicity. Add internet radio it will be perfect!


Aug 18 2004 - dzaryat [at] plasa.com
how to download Digi mode


Aug 17 2004 - Simon NZ
Keep up the good work. Saw your converter in Netguide and then saw your other stuff - thanks.


Aug 14 2004 - David (from Portugal)
great site and thanks for Billy player


Aug 14 2004 - baillie79
Will reccomend to everybody I know!!!!
Great work!


Aug 11 2004 - rafalp
Billy is a great playar. This is what I needed. No skins and other shit


Aug 10 2004 - mode08
good to see some free, quality software. collection of small apps, good idea, keep up the good work. brilliant work on Billy!


Aug 10 2004 - brianauten [at] usa.net
Love the Billy program. I have been so sick and tired of windows media player and any other mp3 player because all I ever do is wait for all the "extra" junk to load. They are bloated with 1000 things I never use because they think they need to have everything in it. But Billy is the perfect ticket for me. I just want quick easy access to a player. I love the keyboard controls. Thanks. Good work. Thanks for making it free. I will recommend it to everyone I know.


Aug 09 2004 - johnnybug
Natty is the fastest and best email app ive ever used compared to mailwasher and mailinspector plus a couple of others. Thx so very much for this exremelly usefull app.considering i get over 100 spams a day.


Aug 08 2004 - billy idol
absolutely fabulous


Aug 08 2004 - 5577777
eat shit


Aug 08 2004 - 68 49689
rrirtu


Aug 08 2004 - Pallokallo
colors.ini /,,/ great


Aug 08 2004 - NoT
Yeah! Billy is brilliant mp3-player!!! I love it!! Much better than some Winamp etc. Good work!


Aug 07 2004 - jackman
Damn... I can´t edit playlist background color. ;[. My eyes dont like white color


Aug 07 2004 - sybren [at] dralys.com
Billy is just the audioplayer i searched for, easy en with all the functional functions.

Thanks voor developing it :D


Aug 04 2004 - Tsar
Fantastic job man~

Billy is the lightest mp3 playing proggy on my comp now. No crap, no hassles no truckload of cheezy graphics and they work as good as any out there.

Thanks for providing these crapfree appz...

Best of luck dude/s
You guys rawk ~


Aug 03 2004 - Peggy - Holland
Not only a great guy, but also great sofware!!!! Now I have the chance to say thank you in the official sheepfriends guestbook. How cool is that. And also a great website...hihi.

Let's start a revolution!!!

Billy for president!!!


Aug 03 2004 - zenG
Billy is the champ!


Aug 03 2004 - Ozchi
Billy is best!


Aug 02 2004 - webmaster [at] barkada.tk
Billy...
simply the B E S T!.. mp3player.


Aug 02 2004 - makhan380 [at] hotmail.com
Thanks for Kelly.


Jul 31 2004 - Valery
Billy is the BEST player!!!
Ñïàñèáî çà Billy , êëàññíûé ìèíè ïëååð.


Jul 27 2004 - Vick
Great website, really refreshing, simple and sweat and awesome programs!! You guys are great!! i use ur programs everyday, kudos to everyone at sheep friends :)


Jul 27 2004 - jptng [at] videotron.ca
finally something easy to work with, without bells and whistles. easy on computer resource. There's no chances you press the wrong button :-) the only improvement would be to have it on a multiple language platform
and please, the UI is perfect don't use graphic. when something works you don't fix it he he

JP


Jul 23 2004 - Rayman (Phoenix, AZ)
How about setting up someplace where you can get donations?


Jul 23 2004 - Rayman (Phoenix, AZ)
What a wonderful assortment of unobtrusive applications! After years of using Winamp, I now use Billy. (I've also created a ton of Billy converts, as well. :O) Thank You! Fantastic Job!


Jul 22 2004 - Mjäk
Im sorry, when will the next Billy version be released?


Jul 17 2004 - Jeremy Flores--flores [at] mit.edu
Billy is an AWESOME audio player. You guys rock!


Jul 17 2004 - Sharique Azam
Hi Guys, Billy Is The Best MP3/WAV Player, I've ever had.... Its Great ...


Jul 15 2004 - Peter
I've just discovered Billy and it seems great! Much nicer interface than Windows Media Player etc.



Jul 15 2004 - JAZ (Quebec, Canada)
These Applications are the best i have ever seen, you guy(s) should be proud of yourselves.

thanks


Jul 13 2004 - kurt
Billy is 1°

foobar2000 2°

Billy is the BEST player


Jul 11 2004 - oldpiano
Billy is the BEST player..


Jul 11 2004 - cshajkur
The best things in life are free and you have proved that again with your product.!


Jul 09 2004 - Emiel
Vette shit ouwe!


Jul 04 2004 - hans
hey man , your little programme rocks like hell! Alltrough a skin would be nice:)


Jul 04 2004 - Nelson (British Columbia)
Billy is the best audio player I've ever had. Great for gamers :)

Thanks!


Jul 01 2004 - Ken
Thanks for the nice stuff.


Jun 28 2004 - Robert Lee (Hong Kong)
Nice and clean-cut website. Nice and clean-cut programs, too. Well done.